Patent ID: 8214837

Claim:
A host computing system comprising: a main partition including an operating system; a second partition including a digital video recorder; a plurality of computing system resources accessible by the operating system in the main partition and the digital video recorder in the second partition, the plurality of computing system resources including at least one of processor resources and memory resources; and a basic input-output system (BIOS) comprising a scheduler to (i) dedicate a first portion of the plurality of computing system resources to the operating system in the main partition, (ii) dedicate a second portion of the plurality of computing system resources to the digital video recorder in the second partition, (iii) determine initiation of recording by the digital video recorder, (iv) temporarily reallocate at least one segment of the first portion of the plurality of dedicated computing system resources from the operating system in the main partition to the digital video recorder in the second partition, and (v) release the temporarily reallocated computing system resources from the second partition back to the operating system in the main partition in response to the digital video recorder in the second partition no longer needing the temporarily reallocated computing system resources.