US Patent 7941599 IT automation appliance imaging system and method

Patent 7941599 was granted and assigned to Kace networks on May, 2011 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.

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Patent

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Current Assignee

Kace networks

Patent Jurisdiction

United States Patent and Trademark Office

Patent Number

7941599

Date of Patent

May 10, 2011

Patent Application Number

12021143

Date Filed

January 28, 2008

Patent Primary Examiner

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Shawn X Gu

Patent abstract

A system, method, and computer program product for harvesting an image from a local disk of a managed endpoint to an image library is provided. In an embodiment of the method for harvesting an image, a managed endpoint is provided with a boot image that causes the endpoint to instantiate a RAM disk and execute the boot image from the RAM disk. The boot image is used to harvest an image by determining data on a local disk of the managed endpoint to be included in the image that are not already stored in the image library. In one embodiment, this is done by comparing hashes calculated on the data on the local disk to hashes of data in the image library. The data not already stored in the image library are then copied to the image library.