Patents by Inventor Scott Michael Carter

Scott Michael Carter 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).

  • Virtual hot plugging of devices and virtual devices
    Patent number: 8301818
    Abstract: A device list is created for an operating system and/or a virtualized operating system. A bus node is created for each bus. Interface nodes are created as child nodes of the respective bus and a status indicator indicates whether a device connected to the interface is accessible. A device node is created for the device connected to the interface. Virtualized interface nodes are created as child nodes of the device node for each virtual device included in the device and a status indicator indicates whether the respective virtual device is accessible. Then, devices and/or virtual devices may be added and/or removed utilizing the list. After a device and/or virtualized device has been removed for one operating system and/or virtualized operating system, it may then be added to another. In this way, devices and/or virtualized devices can be virtually hot plugged without physically connecting and/or disconnecting devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2012
    Assignee: Oracle America, Inc.
    Inventors: Yong Colin Zou, Wesley Shao, Govinda Tatti, Scott Michael Carter
  • VIRTUAL HOT PLUGGING OF DEVICES AND VIRTUAL DEVICES
    Publication number: 20110145815
    Abstract: A device list is created for an operating system and/or a virtualized operating system. A bus node is created for each bus. Interface nodes are created as child nodes of the respective bus and a status indicator indicates whether a device connected to the interface is accessible. A device node is created for the device connected to the interface. Virtualized interface nodes are created as child nodes of the device node for each virtual device included in the device and a status indicator indicates whether the respective virtual device is accessible. Then, devices and/or virtual devices may be added and/or removed utilizing the list. After a device and/or virtualized device has been removed for one operating system and/or virtualized operating system, it may then be added to another. In this way, devices and/or virtualized devices can be virtually hot plugged without physically connecting and/or disconnecting devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2009
    Publication date: June 16, 2011
    Applicant: Sun Microsystems, Inc.
    Inventors: Yong Colin Zou, Wesley Shao, Govinda Tatti, Scott Michael Carter