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US 2006/0080672 A1Published application
Operating system independent agent
AssigneeIntel Corporation
InventorsCarey Smith, Howard Herbert
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Abstract
Described is a computing platform comprising a host processing system to host an operating system, a communication adapter to transmit data to or and receive data from a data transmission medium, and a non-volatile storage. The computing platform may also comprise an agent executable independently of the operating system to enable read-only or read/write access to at least a portion of the non-volatile storage.
Claims34
A computing platform comprising:
- a host processing system comprising a central processing unit to host an operating system;
- a communication adapter to at least one of transmit data to and receive data from a data transmission medium;
- a non-volatile storage;
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- an agent executable independently of the operating system to enable at least one of read-only and read/write access to at least a portion of the non-volatile storage device by an external process in response to requests received at the communication adapter.
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A method comprising:
- hosting an operating system on a computing platform, the computing platform comprising a non-volatile storage and a communication adapter;
- receiving a message from an external process at the communication adapter on a data transmission medium;
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- at least one of read-only and read/write accessing at least a portion of the non-volatile storage in response to the received message independently of the operating system.
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A computing platform comprising:
- a host processing system comprising a central processing unit to host an operating system;
- a non-volatile storage;
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- an agent executable independently of the operating system capable of allocating a portion of the non-volatile storage, the agent comprising logic to allocate to an instance of an application program access rights to at least a sub portion of the allocatable portion up to a predetermined maximum size associated with the application program.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.