Patents by Inventor Stephen T Havert

Stephen T Havert 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).

  • Disk drive having a protected partition configured to load an operating system for performing a user-selected function
    Patent number: 7024549
    Abstract: A system for configuring, loading and executing an operating system for performing a user-selected function is disclosed. The system includes a disk drive including: a host-accessible user partition; a host-inaccessible hidden partition independent of the host-accessible user partition; and a disk controller. The user partition includes: a user partition address range; a host-selected operating system; and a host-selected master boot record. The host-inaccessible hidden partition includes: a hidden partition address range outside the user partition address range; an application program for allowing a user to select a function to perform and configuring, loading and executing an operating system to perform the selected function; and a drive-selected boot record for loading and executing the application program that allows the user to select a function and configures, loads and executes an operating system for performing the function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2006
    Assignee: Western Digital Ventures, Inc.
    Inventors: Vu V. Luu, Stephen T Havert, Matthew W. Milne