Patents by Inventor Michael S. Cirulli

Michael S. Cirulli 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).

  • Facilitating input/output processing of one or more guest processing systems
    Patent number: 8099274
    Abstract: An article of manufacture, method and system are provided for facilitating input/output (I/O) processing of at least one guest processing system. The article of manufacture includes at least one computer-usable medium having computer-readable program code logic to facilitate the I/O processing of the at least one guest processing system. The computer-readable program code logic when executing performing the following: emulating on a native system an I/O architecture for the at least one guest processing system, the emulating including: providing multiple device managers for a plurality of I/O devices of the I/O architecture; providing at least one communications adapter process interfacing the multiple device managers to the at least one network driver process; and wherein the multiple device managers translate I/O messages in at least one guest processing system format to messages in native system format for processing by the at least one communications adapter process, thereby facilitating I/O processing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2012
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Theodore J. Bohizic, Richard T. Brandle, Ping T. Chan, Michael S. Cirulli, Paul M. Gioquindo, Ying-Yeung Li, Stephen R. Valley
  • FACILITATING INPUT/OUTPUT PROCESSING OF ONE OR MORE GUEST PROCESSING SYSTEMS
    Publication number: 20080243465
    Abstract: An article of manufacture, method and system are provided for facilitating input/output (I/O) processing of at least one guest processing system. The article of manufacture includes at least one computer-usable medium having computer-readable program code logic to facilitate the I/O processing of the at least one guest processing system. The computer-readable program code logic when executing performing the following: emulating on a native system an I/O architecture for the at least one guest processing system, the emulating including: providing multiple device managers for a plurality of I/O devices of the I/O architecture; providing at least one communications adapter process interfacing the multiple device managers to the at least one network driver process; and wherein the multiple device managers translate I/O messages in at least one guest processing system format to messages in native system format for processing by the at least one communications adapter process, thereby facilitating I/O processing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2007
    Publication date: October 2, 2008
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Theodore J. Bohizic, Richard T. Brandle, Ping T. Chan, Michael S. Cirulli, Paul M. Gioquindo, Ying-Yeung Li, Stephen R. Valley