Patents by Inventor Chirstopher A. Vick

Chirstopher A. Vick 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).

  • METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PERFORMING I/O OPERATIONS USING A HYPERVISOR
    Publication number: 20090089815
    Abstract: A method for installing a device driver for a device in a guest domain, that includes obtaining a first device driver for the device by a hypervisor, installing, by the hypervisor, the first device driver into memory allocated to the guest domain, and notifying an operating system in the guest domain of the first device driver after installing the device driver, wherein the operating system communicates with the device using the first device driver.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2007
    Publication date: April 2, 2009
    Applicant: Sun Microsystems, Inc.
    Inventors: Olaf Manczak, Chirstopher A. Vick, Michael H. Paleczny