Network terminal operated by downloadable operating system and operating method thereof
AssigneenComputing Inc.
InventorsYoung-Gil Song, Klaus Maier
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Abstract
A network terminal operated by a downloadable operating system is provided. In the network terminal, a power supply supplies a power to an element of the network terminal, a nonvolatile storage medium stores a basic input/output system (BIOS) that automatically operates upon the supplying of the power, a controller is initialized by the operation of the BIOS in order to enable a connection between the network terminal and a host computer and to enable a download of a terminal operating system (OS) from the host computer to the network terminal, and a volatile storage medium stores the terminal OS downloaded from the host computer.
Claims18
A network terminal operated by a downloadable operating system, comprising:
- a power supply for supplying a power to an element of the network terminal;
- a nonvolatile storage medium for storing a basic input/output system (BIOS) that automatically operates upon the supplying of the power;
- a controller to be initialized by the operation of the BIOS in order to enable a connection between the network terminal and a host computer and a download of a terminal operating system (OS) from the host computer to the network terminal;
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- a volatile storage medium for storing the terminal OS downloaded from the host computer.
A method of operating a network terminal with a downloadable operating system, comprising the steps of:
- supplying a power to a network terminal;
- checking the network terminal and initializing a controller of the network terminal by using a BIOS of the network terminal that is automatically executed upon the supplying of the power;
- connecting the network terminal with a host computer through a network and downloading a terminal OS from the host computer to the network terminal, under control of the initialized controller;
- storing the downloaded terminal OS in a volatile storage medium;
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- performing a network terminal user's manipulation at the host computer and transmitting a corresponding result from the host computer to the network terminal.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.