Patents by Inventor Patrick A. Barrett

Patrick A. Barrett 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).

  • Accessing vendor-specific drivers for configuring and accessing a self-virtualizing input/output device
    Patent number: 8839240
    Abstract: A vendor independent interface is provided between a hypervisor and an adjunct partition associated with a self-virtualizing IO resource to effectively abstract away vendor-specific interface details for the self-virtualizing IO resource and its adjunct partition. By doing so, vendor-specific implementation details may be isolated from the configuration and management functionality in a hypervisor, thus minimizing the changes to vendor specific firmware in order to manage new or revised self-virtualizing IO resources.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 16, 2014
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Patrick A. Barrett, Charles S. Graham, Andrew T. Koch, Bryan M. Logan, Kyle A. Lucke
  • VIRTUALIZATION OF VENDOR SPECIFIC CONFIGURATION AND MANAGEMENT OF SELF-VIRTUALIZING INPUT/OUTPUT DEVICE
    Publication number: 20120137288
    Abstract: A vendor independent interface is provided between a hypervisor and an adjunct partition associated with a self-virtualizing IO resource to effectively abstract away vendor-specific interface details for the self-virtualizing IO resource and its adjunct partition. By doing so, vendor-specific implementation details may be isolated from the configuration and management functionality in a hypervisor, thus minimizing the changes to vendor specific firmware in order to manage new or revised self-virtualizing IO resources.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2010
    Publication date: May 31, 2012
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Patrick A. Barrett, Charles S. Graham, Andrew T. Koch, Bryan M. Logan, Kyle A. Lucke