Patents by Inventor Bruce K. Gillespie

Bruce K. Gillespie 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).

  • Multi-processor scheduling kernel
    Patent number: 6269391
    Abstract: A scheduling kernel provides fair share scheduling of several virtual machines by a multi-processor scheduling module scheduling the virtual machines across the several processors of the multi-processor. A virtual machine scheduling module schedules threads of a virtual machine, and provides an independent scheduling policy for a virtual machine. Execution exclusion sets may be created and enforced by an execution exclusion set module to limit execution to a single thread at a time out of any particular execution exclusion set of threads.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 1997
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2001
    Assignee: Novell, Inc.
    Inventor: Bruce K. Gillespie