Patents by Inventor Daniel Joseph Strauss

Daniel Joseph Strauss 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 apparatus for allocating use of an access device between host and guest operating systems
    Patent number: 6966062
    Abstract: A method, apparatus and article of manufacture for allocating use of an access device between a host operating system and a guest operating system. In one embodiment, a source of the received request to use the access device is determined as either the host operating system or the guest operating system. A determination of whether the host or guest operating system has a key for the access device is performed. The key enables either the host operating system or the guest operating system to use the access device. A determination of whether the received request is an altering request to change a state of the access device or a passive request to read the access device is also performed. The processing of the request from the host and guest operating systems is similar except when the request is an altering request and neither the host operating system nor the guest operating system has the key.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2001
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2005
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Leon Edward Gregg, Daniel Joseph Strauss, Andrew Thomas Tauferner, James Lawrence Tilbury
  • Method and apparatus for allocating use of an access device between host and guest operating systems
    Publication number: 20020156934
    Abstract: A method, apparatus and article of manufacture for allocating use of an access device between a host operating system and a guest operating system. In one embodiment, a source of the received request to use the access device is determined as either the host operating system or the guest operating system. A determination of whether the host or guest operating system has a key for the access device is performed. The key enables either the host operating system or the guest operating system to use the access device. A determination of whether the received request is altering request to change a state of the access device or a passive request to read the access device is also performed. The processing of the request from the host and guest operating systems is similar except when the request is an altering request and neither the guest operating system nor the guest operating system has the key.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 20, 2001
    Publication date: October 24, 2002
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Leon Edward Gregg, Daniel Joseph Strauss, Andrew Thomas Tauferner, James Lawrence Tilbury