Patents by Inventor Shaw Cheng Chuang

Shaw Cheng Chuang 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).

  • Method and system for providing device drivers in a virtualization system
    Patent number: 7840790
    Abstract: In a virtualization computer system, a method and system that does not exclusively allocate I/O devices, for example, storage and networking devices, to a commodity operating system (COS) when mainly used for booting the virtualization system. Those I/O devices needed by the COS are accessed via virtual machine kernel drivers, thereby giving the COS the benefits of operation derived from features in the virtual machine kernel that is provided for these I/O devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2010
    Assignee: VMware, Inc.
    Inventors: Vishnu Mohan Sekhar, Greg Hutchins, Shaw Cheng Chuang