Patents by Inventor Winters Zhang

Winters Zhang 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).

  • Patent number: 8239585
    Abstract: Systems and methods are described herein to provide for improved hardware device connectivity. Other embodiments include apparatus and system for receiving messages from an operating system and sending messages to one or more hardware devices. Further embodiments include methods for receiving messages from an operating system regarding operations on a hardware device and responding to those messages. Other embodiments include methods for receiving interrupt messages and mapping those interrupt messages to hardware devices. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2012
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Brett Wang, Minqiang Wu, Winters Zhang, Hongbing Zhang
  • Publication number: 20090300230
    Abstract: Systems and methods are described herein to provide for improved hardware device connectivity. Other embodiments include apparatus and system for receiving messages from an operating system and sending messages to one or more hardware devices. Further embodiments include methods for receiving messages from an operating system regarding operations on a hardware device and responding to those messages. Other embodiments include methods for receiving interrupt messages and mapping those interrupt messages to hardware devices. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2005
    Publication date: December 3, 2009
    Inventors: Brett Wang, Minqiang Wu, Winters Zhang, Hongbing Zhang
  • Publication number: 20080147909
    Abstract: Machine-readable media, methods, apparatus and system are described. In some embodiments, a host platform may receive a first USB command from a client platform, wherein the first USB command notifies the host platform that a USB device is plugged into the client platform. The host platform may further create a virtual USB device as a virtualization of the USB device in response to the first USB command, and may establish a USB device driver in response to the creation of the virtual USB device. The USB device driver may control the USB device in the client platform.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2006
    Publication date: June 19, 2008
    Inventors: Winters Zhang, Hongbing Zhang, Thomas Wang, Minqiang Wu