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Tom Yaryan
Researcher at Microsoft
Publications - 10
Citations - 589
Tom Yaryan is an academic researcher from Microsoft. The author has contributed to research in topics: Installation & Software. The author has an hindex of 8, co-authored 10 publications receiving 589 citations.
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Method and system for creating and employing an operating system having selected functionality
Ryan Burkhardt,Harikrishnan Seetharaman,Tom Yaryan,Richard Bond,Shetty Vijesh,Vijayachandran Jayaseelan +5 more
TL;DR: In this article, a system and method of creating and employing an operating system (OS) image having selected functionality is described, where a user, such as an original equipment manufacturer (OEM) of personal computers (PCs) or an information technology professional, selects a set of OS components from a plurality of available in an installation OS image.
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Dynamic software update
TL;DR: In this article, a system and method for dynamically updating software on one or more installation media for installation on at least one destination machine is presented, where the software to be installed includes application programs and operating system software.
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System and method for manipulating offline software
TL;DR: In this paper, a software driver executing on a computer accesses and modifies target software while the target software is in an offline state, allowing installation and configuration of an operating system and/or associated application programs.
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Automatic computer program customization based on a user information store
Ryan Burkhardt,Tom Yaryan,Seetharaman Harikrishnnan,Donald J Mcnamara,David J. D'Souza,Nicholas R. Legget,David Scott Johnson,Seung-Yup Chai +7 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a user information store is defined as a unified store that is accessible by multiple programs including the operating system, and new information or information changes can be made available to multiple programs by the user adding (or changing) the information only once.
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Image-based software installation
TL;DR: In this paper, a system and method for copying a run-time image independent of computer context from a source computerreadable medium to one or more target computer-readable media of a target computer is described.