Patents by Inventor Donald Hudson, Jr.

Donald Hudson, Jr. 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).

  • Mechanism by which devices on unforeseen platform variants may be supported without re-release of core platform kernel software
    Patent number: 6618767
    Abstract: The present invention provides a means to support new and modified platforms without the need to modify the system software kernel. The invention uses an approach referred to as Platform Service Agents (PSAs). The PSA works with the bus manager of the system software for that platform variant and modifies the system resources as needed. The PSA isolates specifics of the platform, so that the bus manager need not be modified. Because the PSAs themselves are outside of the kernel, are downloadable, and easily created for platform variants, new platforms can be supported without modification or re-release of the system software kernel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 1998
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2003
    Assignee: Sun Microsystems, Inc.
    Inventors: Gregory Slaughter, Donald Hudson, Jr., Thomas Saulpaugh, Yuh-Yen Yeh, Bernard Traversat