Method for destroying virtual resources in a logically...

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2005-02-25

2009-06-02

Nguyen, Tanh Q (Department: 2182)

Electrical computers and digital data processing systems: input/

Input/output data processing

Peripheral configuration

C710S062000, C710S063000, C710S064000, C710S072000, C710S104000, C718S001000, C718S104000, C719S319000, C719S324000, C713S100000, C711S001000, C711S006000, C711S202000, C711S203000, C711S206000, C711S207000, C711S208000, C711S209000

Reexamination Certificate

active

07543084

ABSTRACT:
A method for directly destroying one or more virtual resources that reside within a physical adapter and that are associated with a virtual host. Specifically, the present invention is directed to a mechanism for sharing conventional Peripheral Component Interconnect (PCI) I/O adapters, PCI-X I/O adapters, PCI-Express I/O adapters, and, in general, any I/O adapter that uses a memory mapped I/O interface for host to adapter communications.

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