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Application appliance enabling operating system and applications to run from a CDROM by determining local configuration and license status

  • US 6,681,324 B1
  • Filed: 09/07/2000
  • Issued: 01/20/2004
  • Est. Priority Date: 09/07/2000
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A method of configuring a machine, having a non-volatile storage medium interface and a local hard drive, for execution of an application process from a removable non-volatile storage medium, the method comprising:

  • first loading into the machine, from a removable non-volatile storage medium in communication with the non-volatile storage medium interface, an operating system environment, accessing the local hard drive to determine if the machine has a signature indicating that the machine had been configured previously, in response to a determination that the machine was not previously configured, establishing a network connection to a server to access configuration files for use by at least one of the operating system environment and the application process, second loading from the removable non-volatile storage medium, a local file system onto the local hard drive, based on the accessed configuration files, and executing the application process from the removable non-volatile storage medium.

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