Pre-Grant Publication Number: 20070118658
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Prior Art Detail
Summary / Description
| Summary / Description | US6928542 provides for detecting various OS's on a PDA and displaying them in a menu for user selection. Includes a POST step. |
Basic Information
| Type of Prior Art | Issued Patents - US |
| Country | United States of America |
| Patent/Application # | US6928542 |
| Kind Code | United States (US) - United STATES Patent - A |
| Patentee Name | Inventec Corporation |
| Relevant Pages, Columns, or Lines | Abstract, claims |
| URL | http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/... |
| Filing Date | November 15, 2001 |
| Additional Information | Provides for a menu during a boot sequence, changing diagnositc steps, and STOP. |
Notes / To Do
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Excerpt
Excerpt Abstract: "A method and system for starting a multiple PDA OS through a menu is disclosed. The invention mainly modifies the BIOS booting procedure in a notebook PC installed with multiple OS's. After the notebook PC is turned on, the multiple OS's are detected. These multiple OS's, including a PDA OS and a normal notebook PC basic OS (such as the Windows OS), are displayed on a menu. By ignoring some hardware diagnostic steps during the BIOS booting procedure and only performing hardware diagnoses for those input devices that support menu manipulations, the starting speed of the laptop can be accelerated. The user can thus start any OS by clicking the desired item in the OS menu." |
Relevance
Claims
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A computer system, comprising:
a processor;
a basic input/output system (BIOS) including logic instructions which, when executed by the processor, configure the processor to:
initiate power on self test (POST) processing in the basic input/output system of a computing device;
present one or more management alert formats in a user interface;
receive a selection signal from the user interface identifying one of the management alert formats presented in the user interface; and
configure a device coupled to the computing system with the identified management alert format.
Relevance
Provides for a menu display of various OS's found on a computer during boot process.
Provides for a menu display of various OS's found on a computer during boot process.
Claim Chart
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