Patents by Inventor David S. Comay
David S. Comay has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Patent number: 8954686Abstract: A method of implementing virtualization involves an improved approach to resource management. A virtualizing subsystem is capable of creating separate environments that logically isolate applications from each other. Some of the separate environments share physical resources including physical memory. When a separate environment is configured, properties for the separate environment are defined. Configuring a separate environment may include specifying a physical memory usage cap for the separate environment. A global resource capping background service enforces physical memory caps on any separate environments that have specified physical memory caps.Type: GrantFiled: June 19, 2007Date of Patent: February 10, 2015Assignee: Oracle America, Inc.Inventors: Gerald A. Jelinek, Daniel B. Price, David S. Comay, Stephen Frances Lawrence
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Patent number: 8122452Abstract: A method of implementing virtualization involves an improved approach to virtual memory management. An operating system includes a kernel, a resource control framework, a virtual memory subsystem, and a virtualization subsystem. The virtualization subsystem is capable of creating separate environments that logically isolate applications from each other. The virtual memory subsystem utilizes swap space to manage a backing store for anonymous memory. The separate environments share physical resources including swap space. When a separate environment is configured, properties are defined. Configuring a separate environment may include specifying a swap cap that specifies a maximum amount of swap space usable by the separate environment. The resource control framework includes a swap cap resource control. The swap cap resource control is enforced by the kernel such that during operation of the separate environment, the kernel enforces the swap cap specified when the separate environment was configured.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2007Date of Patent: February 21, 2012Assignee: Oracle America, Inc.Inventors: Gerald A. Jelinek, Daniel B. Price, David S. Comay, Stephen Frances Lawrence
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Patent number: 8112749Abstract: A method of implementing virtualization involves dynamic, temporary resource pools. A virtualizing subsystem is capable of partitioning a plurality of physical resources to create resource pools. The virtualizing subsystem is further capable of creating separate environments that logically isolate applications from each other, and assigning a created separate environment to a created resource pool. A separate environment is configured by defining properties of the separate environment. Configuring the separate environment includes specifying at least one resource pool attribute. When the separate environment is started, a temporary resource pool is created from available physical resources and the separate environment is assigned to the temporary resource pool. The temporary resource pool is created in accordance with the at least one resource pool attribute specified when the separate environment was configured. The temporary resource pool may be destroyed when the separate environment is shutdown.Type: GrantFiled: June 19, 2007Date of Patent: February 7, 2012Assignee: Oracle America, Inc.Inventors: Gerald A. Jelinek, Daniel B. Price, David S. Comay, Stephen Frances Lawrence
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Patent number: 7567985Abstract: A mechanism is disclosed for implementing a sparse file system for an operating system partition. In one implementation, a non-global partition is created within a global operating system environment. A file system is then established for the non-global partition. This file system may comprise one or more virtual directories, which reference other directories. Referencing other directories in this manner makes it is possible to avoid having to copy all of the files used by processes running in the non-global partition into the file system. As a result, storage and other system resources can be saved.Type: GrantFiled: January 28, 2004Date of Patent: July 28, 2009Assignee: Sun Microsystems, Inc.Inventors: David S. Comay, Andrew G. Tucker, Tim P. Marsland
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Publication number: 20090007126Abstract: A method of implementing virtualization involves an improved approach to virtual memory management. An operating system includes a kernel, a resource control framework, a virtual memory subsystem, and a virtualization subsystem. The virtualization subsystem is capable of creating separate environments that logically isolate applications from each other. The virtual memory subsystem utilizes swap space to manage a backing store for anonymous memory. The separate environments share physical resources including swap space. When a separate environment is configured, properties are defined. Configuring a separate environment may include specifying a swap cap that specifies a maximum amount of swap space usable by the separate environment. The resource control framework includes a swap cap resource control. The swap cap resource control is enforced by the kernel such that during operation of the separate environment, the kernel enforces the swap cap specified when the separate environment was configured.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 29, 2007Publication date: January 1, 2009Applicant: SUN MICROSYSTEMS, INC.Inventors: Gerald A. Jelinek, Daniel B. Price, David S. Comay, Stephen Frances Lawrence
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Publication number: 20080320474Abstract: A method of implementing virtualization involves dynamic, temporary resource pools. A virtualizing subsystem is capable of partitioning a plurality of physical resources to create resource pools. The virtualizing subsystem is further capable of creating separate environments that logically isolate applications from each other, and assigning a created separate environment to a created resource pool. A separate environment is configured by defining properties of the separate environment. Configuring the separate environment includes specifying at least one resource pool attribute. When the separate environment is started, a temporary resource pool is created from available physical resources and the separate environment is assigned to the temporary resource pool. The temporary resource pool is created in accordance with the at least one resource pool attribute specified when the separate environment was configured. The temporary resource pool may be destroyed when the separate environment is shutdown.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 19, 2007Publication date: December 25, 2008Applicant: SUN MICROSYSTEMS, INC.Inventors: Gerald A. Jelinek, Daniel B. Price, David S. Comay, Stephen Frances Lawrence
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Publication number: 20080320242Abstract: A method of implementing virtualization involves an improved approach to resource management. A virtualizing subsystem is capable of creating separate environments that logically isolate applications from each other. Some of the separate environments share physical resources including physical memory. When a separate environment is configured, properties for the separate environment are defined. Configuring a separate environment may include specifying a physical memory usage cap for the separate environment. A global resource capping background service enforces physical memory caps on any separate environments that have specified physical memory caps.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 19, 2007Publication date: December 25, 2008Applicant: SUN MICROSYSTEMS, INC.Inventors: Gerald A. Jelinek, Daniel B. Price, David S. Comay, Stephen Frances Lawrence
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Patent number: 7437556Abstract: In accordance with one embodiment of the present invention, there is provided a mechanism for managing and controlling global visibility of resources in zones within an operating system controlled by a single kernel instance. Embodiments enable isolation and virtualization of processes within a single image of an operating system, without requiring implementation of hardware support (such as the introduction of an additional privilege level) to isolate privileged programs, and without multiple instances of an operating system or operating system kernel for some applications.Type: GrantFiled: January 21, 2004Date of Patent: October 14, 2008Assignee: Sun Microsystems, Inc.Inventors: Andrew G. Tucker, John T. Beck, David S. Comay, Andrew D. Gabriel, Ozgur C. Leonard, Daniel B. Price