US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Feb. 17 for "Identification and management of remote boot operating systems" (Arizona, New York, North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,554,510, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Identification and management of remote boot operating systems" was invented by Louie A. Dickens (Tucson, Ariz.), Tara Astigarraga (Fairport, N.Y.), Maunik Patel (Tucson, Ariz.), Jimmy Pazhoor John (Cary, N.C.) and Kieron Dirk Anthony Hinds (Poughkeepsie, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, according to one approach, includes: sending multiple different operating system commands to hosts connected to a SAN. Information received in response from the hosts is compared against known operating system command results, and historical re...