Electrical computers and digital data processing systems: input/ – Intrasystem connection – Bus interface architecture
Reexamination Certificate
2007-02-06
2007-02-06
Ray, Gopal C. (Department: 2111)
Electrical computers and digital data processing systems: input/
Intrasystem connection
Bus interface architecture
C710S105000, C710S313000, C710S316000, C370S351000, C370S357000
Reexamination Certificate
active
11278417
ABSTRACT:
A method enabling I/O devices to be shared among multiple operating system domains, including first communicating with each of the operating system domains according to a protocol that provides exclusively for a single system domain ithin the load-store fabric; and second communicating with the shared I/O endpoint according to a variant of the protocol to enable the shared I/O endpoint to associate a prescribed operation with a corresponding one of the independent operating system domains. The second communicating includes encapsulating an OS domain header within a transaction layer packet that otherwise comports with the protocol, wherein the value of the OS domain header designates the corresponding one of the operating system domains; and via core logic within a swithching apparatus, mapping the independent operating system domains to the shared I/O endpoint.
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Khan Asif
Pagan Annette
Pekkala Richard E.
Pettey Christopher J.
Utley Robert Haskell
Huffman James W.
Huffman Richard K.
Nextio Inc.
Ray Gopal C.
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