Patents by Inventor Vishal Mehrotra

Vishal Mehrotra 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).

  • Measuring an operating system's boot duration
    Patent number: 7516317
    Abstract: Techniques for measuring an operating system's boot duration are provided. The techniques include adding a startup application to an operating system's list of startup applications, determining when the startup application was invoked, and calculating a boot duration for the operating system. The techniques further include loading a log file containing indications of system activity occurring during a boot process, identifying a time interval having a peak system activity, identifying another time interval having a fraction of the peak system activity, and indicating that the boot process completes at a time during the second time interval.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2009
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Shridhar Diwan, Vishal Mehrotra, Jay Herbison
  • Measuring an operating system's boot duration
    Publication number: 20070162732
    Abstract: Techniques for measuring an operating system's boot duration are provided. The techniques include adding a startup application to an operating system's list of startup applications, determining when the startup application was invoked, and calculating a boot duration for the operating system. The techniques further include loading a log file containing indications of system activity occurring during a boot process, identifying a time interval having a peak system activity, identifying another time interval having a fraction of the peak system activity, and indicating that the boot process completes at a time during the second time interval.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2005
    Publication date: July 12, 2007
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Shridhar Diwan, Vishal Mehrotra, Jay Herbison