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Intel Assigned Patent
[August 23, 2012]

Intel Assigned Patent


(Targeted News Service Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) By Targeted News Service ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 23 -- Intel, Santa Clara, Calif., has been Assigned a patent (8,249,853) developed by four co-inventors for "exposing device features in partitioned environment." The co-inventors are Jeff Jackson, Newberg, Ore., Rinat Rappoport, Haifa, Israel, Sergei Gofman, Haifa, Israel, and Michael D. Kinney, Olympia, Wash.



The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "An embodiment of the present invention is a technique to process an input/output (I/O) transaction. An emulated device driver in a guest partition interacts with a virtual machine (VM) manager in processing an input/output (I/O) transaction on behalf of an application via an operating system (OS). The I/O transaction is between the application and a device. A device emulator in a service partition communicatively coupled to the emulated device driver interacts with the VM manager in processing the I/O transaction on behalf of a device specific driver via the OS. The device specific driver interfaces to the device." The patent application was filed on March 31, 2006 (11/395,822). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=82,49,853&OS=82,49,853&RS=82,49,853 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi.

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