Patents by Inventor Christopher D. Kral

Christopher D. Kral 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).

  • Patent number: 8291415
    Abstract: Apparatuses, methods, and systems for paging instructions for a virtualization engine to local storage. An apparatus includes a processor, a physical device controller, a virtualization engine, system memory, and local storage. The physical device controller is to be shared by a plurality of virtual machines created by a virtual machine monitor installed on a processor. The virtualization engine is to represent the physical device controller as a plurality of virtual device controllers available to be allocated to the plurality of virtual machines. The local storage is separate from the physical memory to store instructions transferred from the system memory for execution by the virtualization engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2012
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Zohar Bogin, Suryaprasad Kareenahalli, Rajeev K. Nalawadi, Christopher D. Kral
  • Publication number: 20100169885
    Abstract: Embodiments of apparatuses, methods, and systems for paging instructions for a virtualization engine to local storage are disclosed. In one embodiment, an apparatus includes a processor, a physical device controller, a virtualization engine, system memory, and local storage. The physical device controller is to be shared by a plurality of virtual machines created by a virtual machine monitor installed on a processor. The virtualization engine is to represent the physical device controller as a plurality of virtual device controllers available to be allocated to the plurality of virtual machines. The local storage is separate from the physical memory to store instructions transferred from the system memory for execution by the virtualization engine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 31, 2008
    Publication date: July 1, 2010
    Inventors: Zohar Bogin, Suryaprasad Kareenahalli, Rajeev K. Nalawadi, Christopher D. Kral