CMS Products Assigned Patent

CMS Products Inc, Costa Mesa, CA, has been assigned a patent (8,918,630) developed by Streuter Gary, San Clemente, CA, Deetz Randell, and Burke Kenneth, Costa Mesa, CA, for a “system, apparatus, and method for initiating a reboot of a personal computer system by pressing a button on an attached storage device and causing the operating system on the attached storage device to be booted.”

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “Controlling a boot operation form an alternate operating system by pressing a single predetermined key or simultaneously pressing a set of unique keys on the keyboard which causes the computer system to reboot using the operating system on an attached drive to be booted. The user can recover operational use of their computer system when the internal system drive suffers a software application or operating system failure. An attached storage device containing a bootable operating system, an application program in the host computer that can detect the pressing of a single or set of unique keys on the keyboard which will then cause the application to process boot files and force a reboot of the operating system with the attached storage device as the boot device.“

The patent application was filed on December 15, 2010 (12/968,626)