Patents by Inventor Kevin M. Wolf

Kevin M. Wolf 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).

  • Automatic alignment of write requests in virtualization systems
    Patent number: 8566512
    Abstract: A method and system for automatically aligning the location of a write request of a guest operating system (OS) to a storage boundary of a computer system that hosts the guest OS. The computer system detects an indication of misalignment between a partition of the guest OS and a storage boundary in data storage. In response to the indication, the computer system shifts the partition by a number of bytes to align a starting location of the partition to the storage boundary, and shift locations of subsequent data access requests of the guest OS by the same number of bytes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2013
    Assignee: Red Hat Israel, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kevin M. Wolf, Dor Laor
  • Automatic Alignment of Write Requests in Virtualization Systems
    Publication number: 20120151115
    Abstract: A method and system for automatically aligning the location of a write request of a guest operating system (OS) to a storage boundary of a computer system that hosts the guest OS. The computer system detects an indication of misalignment between a partition of the guest OS and a storage boundary in data storage. In response to the indication, the computer system shifts the partition by a number of bytes to align a starting location of the partition to the storage boundary, and shift locations of subsequent data access requests of the guest OS by the same number of bytes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2010
    Publication date: June 14, 2012
    Applicant: Red Hat Israel, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kevin M. Wolf, Dor Laor