US PATENT SUBCLASS 713 / 2
.~ Loading initialization program (e.g., booting, rebooting, warm booting, remote booting, BIOS, initial program load (IPL), bootstrapping)

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713 /   HD   ELECTRICAL COMPUTERS AND DIGITAL PROCESSING SYSTEMS: SUPPORT

1  DF  DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING SYSTEM INITIALIZATION OR CONFIGURATION (E.G., INITIALIZING, SET UP, CONFIGURATION, OR RESETTING) {1}
2.~ Loading initialization program (e.g., booting, rebooting, warm booting, remote booting, BIOS, initial program load (IPL), bootstrapping)

DEFINITION

Classification: 713/2

Loading initialization program (e.g., booting, rebooting, warm booting, remote booting, BIOS, initial program load (IPL), bootstrapping):

(under subclass 1) Subject matter comprising means or steps for booting a computer or digital data processing system.

(1) Note. This subclass includes initial program load (IPL), bootstrap, re-booting/resetting, loading an updated BIOS, and warm/cold booting. These events typically occur automatically in the computer system at power on reset or after a warm boot or warm restart and include reading memory locations. Memory accessing and control, per se, and address formation, per se, however, are classified elsewhere.

(2) Note. For the purpose of this definition it should be understood that transferring an operating system into memory may involve the use of a secondary loader program.

SEE OR SEARCH CLASS

711, Electrical Computers and Digital Processing Systems,

100+, for storage accessing and control, subclasses 170+ for memory space allocation or memo configuring, and subclasses 200+ for address formation.

714, Electrical Computers and Digital Processing Systems-Error Detection/Correction and Fault Detection /Recovery, 36, for power-on self test (POST).