Patents by Inventor Muppirala Kumar

Muppirala Kumar 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).

  • Publication number: 20060075204
    Abstract: The present invention relates to methods for managing memory. More particularly, but not exclusively, the present invention relates to methods for managing memory across a plurality of partitions. A first method is disclosed which allocates memory across a plurality of partitions and includes the steps of: establishing a pool of free memory 27; allocating some of the free memory 30 to a target partition when required; identifying memory 40 within one or more source partitions to replace the allocated free memory; cleaning 42 the identified memory; and adding the cleaned memory to the pool 50. A second method for allocating memory across a plurality of partitions is also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2005
    Publication date: April 6, 2006
    Inventor: Muppirala Kumar
  • Publication number: 20060069835
    Abstract: A method is provided of managing hardware triggered hotplug operations of one or more input/output (I/O) cards of a computer system. The method comprises receiving hardware triggers, each of which relates to a hotplug operation to be carried out on an I/O card associated with a card slot, placing the hardware triggers in a queue, and processing the queue of hardware triggers. The method further comprises processing one or more of said hardware triggers. This comprises analysing a hardware trigger to determine the card slot to which said hardware trigger relates, and consulting a hotplug operation policy to determine whether hotplug operations are enabled for said card slot. If hotplug operations are not enabled for said card slot, this further comprises ignoring said hardware trigger, and if hotplug operations are enabled for said card slot, this further comprise querying said slot to determine whether it contains a card.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2004
    Publication date: March 30, 2006
    Inventors: Paulose Arackal, Harish K., Suresh Venkatasubbaiah, Muppirala Kumar, Michael Wisner, Jean-Marc Eurin, Ryan Houdek, Shoba Iyer, Anand Ananthabhotia, Adiseshan Muthugopalakrishnan, Chetham Seshadri, David Caswell, Bahudhanam Prasad, Harish Babu
  • Publication number: 20060047921
    Abstract: A method and apparatus is disclosed for managing storage used by a processor when processing instructions in which an estimate of register usage for program procedures or functions is generated and used to control the storage of the register bank in memory.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 1, 2005
    Publication date: March 2, 2006
    Inventor: Muppirala Kumar