Patents by Inventor Steven David Turner

Steven David Turner 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: 9898311
    Abstract: A bootloader detects that an operating system of a computing device has finished booting. In response to detecting with the bootloader that the operating system of the computing device has finished booting, installation of software on the computing device except for particular educational software is disabled. The particular educational software is determined not to be installed on the computing device. In response to determining that educational software is not installed on the computing device, the particular educational software is installed. After installing the particular educational software, a boot sequence of the computing device is modified so that the particular educational software is executed after the operating system has finished booting. The bootloader is disabled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2018
    Assignee: AMPLIFY EDUCATION HOLDING, INC.
    Inventors: Joshua Hartmann, Christopher Scott Rooney, Nilesh Shah, Praful J. Todkar, Steven David Turner