Patents by Inventor Ming-Yang Shao

Ming-Yang Shao has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 8230211
    Abstract: A BIOS (Basic Input/Output System) setting method is disclosed, which is applicable to a computer equipped with a MEMORY a CMOS RAM (Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor Random Access Memory), and a BIOS-ROM (Basic Input/Output System Read-Only Memory) storing a first setting document. The BIOS setting method includes: providing a setting interface to allow a user to perform settings so as to form a second setting document; storing the second setting document in the BIOS-ROM; and loading the first and second setting documents to the MEMORY during a POST (Power On Self Test) process of the computer; saving the first setting document, or alternatively revising the first setting document and/or combining the first setting document with the second setting document according to the second setting document if loaded, so as to form a third setting document; and loading the third setting document to the CMOS RAM to perform a system initialization according to the third setting document.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2012
    Assignee: Inventec Corporation
    Inventors: Ming-Yang Shao, Guo-Juan Xin, Yin Deng, Zhong-Ying Ou, Lai Kong, Eric Chiou
  • Publication number: 20100205423
    Abstract: The invention provides a Basic Input/Output System (BIOS), a computer device and a method for recovering the BIOS. The BIOS includes a first boot block, a second boot block and a main BIOS block. The computer device includes a control chip disposed therein and said BIOS. When the programs in the first boot block and the main BIOS block are damaged, the second boot block can be selected so as for the BIOS to boot from the second boot block. Meanwhile, a recovery module of the second boot block can be utilized to recover the first boot block and/or the main BIOS block.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 8, 2009
    Publication date: August 12, 2010
    Applicant: INVENTEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ming-Yang Shao, Lai Kong, Yin Deng, Guo-Juan Xin, Zhong-Ying Qu, Eric Chiou
  • Publication number: 20100205598
    Abstract: The invention provides a method for installing an operating system in a computer having a plurality of hard disks. The method includes: establishing a BBS table in a fixed address space of a memory for recording a default boot sequence of the hard disks via a BIOS memory; setting the default boot sequence of the hard disks so as to form an actual boot sequence; and interchanging, in boot sequential order, a hard disk among the hard disks which have the highest boot priority in the default boot sequence and that of a hard disk having the highest boot priority in the actual boot sequence, such that the operating system is installed in the hard disk having the highest boot priority in the actual boot sequence, thereby improving the booting efficiency of the computer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2009
    Publication date: August 12, 2010
    Applicant: Inventec Corporation
    Inventors: Ming-Yang Shao, Lai Kong, Jin Mao, Guo-Juan Xin, Eric Chiou
  • Publication number: 20100205422
    Abstract: A BIOS (Basic Input/Output System) setting method is disclosed, which is applicable to a computer equipped with a MEMORY a CMOS RAM (Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor Random Access Memory), and a BIOS-ROM (Basic Input/Output System Read-Only Memory) storing a first setting document. The BIOS setting method includes: providing a setting interface to allow a user to perform settings so as to form a second setting document; storing the second setting document in the BIOS-ROM; and loading the first and second setting documents to the MEMORY during a POST (Power On Self Test) process of the computer; saving the first setting document, or alternatively revising the first setting document and/or combining the first setting document with the second setting document according to the second setting document if loaded, so as to form a third setting document; and loading the third setting document to the CMOS RAM to perform a system initialization according to the third setting document.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2009
    Publication date: August 12, 2010
    Applicant: INVENTEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ming-yang Shao, Guo-juan Xin, Yin Deng, Zhong-ying Ou, Lai Kong, Eric Chiou