Patents by Inventor Jerry Plouffe

Jerry Plouffe 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).

  • Distributed virtual machine monitor for managing multiple virtual resources across multiple physical nodes
    Patent number: 8776050
    Abstract: A management capability is provided for a virtual computing platform. In one example, this platform allows interconnected physical resources such as processors, memory, network interfaces and storage interfaces to be abstracted and mapped to virtual resources (e.g., virtual mainframes, virtual partitions). Virtual resources contained in a virtual partition can be assembled into virtual servers that execute a guest operating system (e.g., Linux). In one example, the abstraction is unique in that any resource is available to any virtual server regardless of the physical boundaries that separate the resources. For example, any number of physical processors or any amount of physical memory can be used by a virtual server even if these resources span different nodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2004
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2014
    Assignee: Oracle International Corporation
    Inventors: Jerry Plouffe, Scott H. Davis, Alexander D. Vasilevsky, Benjamin J. Thomas, III, Steven S. Noyes, Tom Hazel
  • System and method for managing virtual servers
    Publication number: 20050120160
    Abstract: A management capability is provided for a virtual computing platform. In one example, this platform allows interconnected physical resources such as processors, memory, network interfaces and storage interfaces to be abstracted and mapped to virtual resources (e.g., virtual mainframes, virtual partitions). Virtual resources contained in a virtual partition can be assembled into virtual servers that execute a guest operating system (e.g., Linux). In one example, the abstraction is unique in that any resource is available to any virtual server regardless of the physical boundaries that separate the resources. For example, any number of physical processors or any amount of physical memory can be used by a virtual server even if these resources span different nodes. A virtual computing platform is provided that allows for the creation, deletion, modification, control (e.g., start, stop, suspend, resume) and status (i.e.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2004
    Publication date: June 2, 2005
    Inventors: Jerry Plouffe, Scott Davis, Alexander Vasilevsky, Benjamin Thomas, Steven Noyes, Tom Hazel