Patents by Inventor Deborah J. Ogden

Deborah J. Ogden 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).

  • Creation of temporary virtual machine clones of multiple operating systems
    Publication number: 20080104588
    Abstract: An embodiment of the invention provides an apparatus and method for creating operating systems for Virtual Machines. The apparatus and method perform acts including: cloning a guest operating system (OS) that is supported in a first Virtual Machine in order to create a cloned guest OS, and performing maintenance on the cloned guest OS, wherein the cloned guest OS is booted in a second Virtual Machine before performing maintenance on the cloned guest OS, or wherein maintenance is performed on the cloned guest OS and the cloned guest OS is then booted in the second Virtual Machine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2006
    Publication date: May 1, 2008
    Inventors: Michael J. Barber, Deborah J. Ogden, Alan Aspinwall, Judy Wathen, Ian A. Elliot, Robert Campbell