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Self-contained application disk for automatically launching application software or starting devices and peripherals

  • US 6,529,992 B1
  • Filed: 07/26/1999
  • Issued: 03/04/2003
  • Est. Priority Date: 07/26/1999
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A computer-readable medium containing instructions to be automatically executed by a computing device without the need for user intervention when the computing device is coupled to a media drive that receives said computer-readable medium, said instructions comprising:

  • configuring said computing device in accordance with a task disk control file contained on said computer-readable media;

    launching a participating application in accordance with information in said task disk control file;

    monitoring events in said media drive and said participating application until execution of said participating software application is detected to be completed or terminated; and

    thereafter saving certain data files to a predetermined location specified in said task disk control file;

    deleting temporary files;

    unconfiguring said computing device; and

    disconnecting said computer-readable media from said media drive.

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