The obscurity of the company filing the claim is one of the things that's wrong with the current U.S. patent system. Whomever they are, they haven't existed fo

The obscurity of the company filing the claim is one of the things that's wrong with the current U.S. patent system. Whomever they are, they haven't existed for very long and they obviously don't have any actual engineers working on things like computer boot processes. As far as I can tell they're just a bunch of guys with a checkbook and some lawyers who bought a patent much like any other speculative investment that could pay off.