Patents by Inventor R. Andrew Bailey

R. Andrew Bailey 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).

  • Method and apparatus for remote installation of an operating system over a network connection
    Patent number: 6963981
    Abstract: A method for remote installation of a target operating system is carried out on a machine operating a source operating system. In one embodiment, it is presumed that the source operating system was booted from a first bootable region of a storage associated with the machine. According to the method, a copy of the source operating system together with the target operating system are delivered to the machine and stored in a second bootable region of the storage. The copy of the source operating system may be stored in a first partition of the second bootable region of the storage, and the target operating system may be stored in a second partition of the second bootable region. A boot loader is then configured to boot the copy of the source operating system from the second bootable region of the storage. The machine is then re-booted. At this point, the machine is still running the source operating system, although in this case that operating system was booted from the second bootable region of the storage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2002
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2005
    Assignee: Akamai Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: R. Andrew Bailey, Leonard T. Giambrone