Patent ID: 7555568
Filing Date: 2009-06-30
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. An apparatus for operating a host computer from a portable data storage medium containing a portable operating system, the apparatus comprising: a first set of instructions in the portable operating system in the portable data storage medium to generate an operating environment for the host computer utilizing a host computer's O/S-dependent and O/S-specific hardware profile if the portable data storage medium is operatively connected to the host computer, wherein the host computer's O/S-dependent and O/S-specific hardware profile is first loaded to the host computer by the host computer and wherein the host computer's O/S-dependent and O/S-specific hardware profile is neither transferred nor impressed onto the portable operating system in the portable data storage medium; and the host computer's O/S-dependent and O/S-specific hardware profile containing O/S-dependent and O/S-specific hardware device and characteristic information, wherein the first set of instructions in the portable operating system on the portable data storage medium can access a designated location of the host computer's O/S-dependent and O/S-specific hardware profile in a separate storage medium of the host computer and wherein the host computer's O/S-dependent and O/S-specific hardware profile is neither transferred nor impressed onto the portable operating system in the portable data storage medium.