US Patent Issued on April 21 for "Automated network boot image server detection and selection" (American, Romanian, Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,608,214, issued on April 21.

"Automated network boot image server detection and selection" was invented by Alexandru Cozma (Bucharest, Romania), Jeffery J Van Heuklon (Rochester, Minn.), Fred Allison Bower III (Durham, N.C.) and Li Jun Gu (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer program product and method include the operations of loading an iPXE client that is stored in firmware, transmitting a query over a wide area network to a DNS server that requests the location of iPXE boot image servers that store a boot image for use by the computer, and receiving a DNS SRV record from the DNS server. The DNS SRV record identifies an...