Electrical computers and digital processing systems: virtual mac – Virtual machine task or process management
Reexamination Certificate
2004-12-17
2010-06-08
An, Meng-Ai (Department: 2195)
Electrical computers and digital processing systems: virtual mac
Virtual machine task or process management
C715S700000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07735081
ABSTRACT:
A method, apparatus and system for transparently unifying virtual machines (“VMs”) is disclosed. An embodiment of the present invention enables a user to interact with various applications on a VM host while unaware of the VM structure on the VM host. The user may be presented with a unified desktop interface representing a composite and/or unified view of the VM host. Via this unified desktop interface, the user may perform all necessary commands and/or receive output. Invisible to the user, the unified desktop interface represents a unification console. The unification console may be an independent component (e.g., an enhanced VM) and/or a subset of a virtual machine manager (“VMM”) component on the VM host. In either situation, the unification console may, alone and/or in conjunction with the VMM, route and/or redirect and/or transform and/or filter the user's commands to the appropriate applications and redirect and/or copy and/or transform and/or filter the output from the applications to be displayed in the unified desktop interface.
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Knauerhase Robert C.
Robinson Scott H.
Tewari Vijay
An Meng-Ai
Blakely , Sokoloff, Taylor & Zafman LLP
Intel Corporation
Zhe Mengyao
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