Patent 7353377 was granted and assigned to Intel on April, 2008 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
In one embodiment, the present invention includes a method of initializing a system without a basic input/output system (BIOS) to vector to a memory dedicated to a network controller, requesting the BIOS from a remote source using code stored in the memory, and storing the BIOS in a volatile memory of the system.