Patents by Inventor Richard W. M. Jones

Richard W. M. Jones 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).

  • Cross-hypervisor virtual machine conversion
    Patent number: 11080082
    Abstract: Cross-hypervisor virtual machine conversion. A set of disk images that define a source virtual machine (VM) in a source host computing environment is determined. For each respective disk image, a corresponding overlay image that references the respective disk image is generated. The overlay image that corresponds to a boot disk image is altered to enable a target VM process to be booted from the overlay image on a target host computing device that utilizes a second type of hypervisor. A target VM process that boots from the overlay image that corresponds to the boot disk image is initiated, and the target VM process is configured to access the set of disk images indirectly via the corresponding overlay images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: Red Hat, Inc.
    Inventors: Martin Kletzander, Richard W. M. Jones
  • CROSS-HYPERVISOR VIRTUAL MACHINE CONVERSION
    Publication number: 20210034401
    Abstract: Cross-hypervisor virtual machine conversion. A set of disk images that define a source virtual machine (VM) in a source host computing environment is determined. For each respective disk image, a corresponding overlay image that references the respective disk image is generated. The overlay image that corresponds to a boot disk image is altered to enable a target VM process to be booted from the overlay image on a target host computing device that utilizes a second type of hypervisor. A target VM process that boots from the overlay image that corresponds to the boot disk image is initiated, and the target VM process is configured to access the set of disk images indirectly via the corresponding overlay images.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 2, 2019
    Publication date: February 4, 2021
    Inventors: Martin Kletzander, Richard W. M. Jones