Patent ID: 9513892
Filing Date: 2016-12-06
CPC Classification: G06F,H04L

Claim Text:
1. A method for copying an operating system of a source computer to at least one target computer for execution by the at least one target computer, said source computer comprising a first persistent storage device in which the operating system is stored and a second persistent storage device, the method comprising: storing on said first persistent storage device a file corresponding to and containing one or more settings of the operating system; loading a version of the operating system into random access memory (RAM); executing the version of the operating system in RAM without the version of the operating system in RAM accessing the operating system on the first persistent storage device; copying from said first persistent storage device to said second persistent storage device an image of said operating system and the corresponding file; deploying from said second persistent storage device of said source computer to the at least one target computer said operating system image and said corresponding file, wherein deploying comprises: configuring said source computer as a file hosting service; receiving from the at least one target computer a request to download said operating system; transferring to the at least one requesting target computer said image of said operating system and said copy of said file; and spawning an operation to search for additional download requests while another operation continues transferring to the at least one requesting target computer.