They are all listed here, but my favorite is: 7,017,037, Apparatus and method to decrease boot time and hibernate awaken time of a computer system utilizing disk spin-up-time, granted to Michael R. Fortin and Cenk Ergan and assigned to Microsoft. It describes dynamically using flash memory to store as much configuration data as can be read out during the disk spin-up when the system is rebooted or reawakened.
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