Associating heartbeat data with access to shared resources of a computer system

TAN Yuen-Lin, S Vaghani, D Stancevic… - US Patent …, 2013 - Google Patents
A method, system and program code for implementing distributed locks to be maintained
through the use of on disk heartbeats. An instance of a node need only maintain a single …

Impeding progress of malicious guest software

D Budko, X Chen, O Horovitz… - US Patent 8,763,115, 2014 - Google Patents
BACKGROUND The Vulnerability of computer systems, configurations, Software, information
codings and protocols to unauthorized access or use is problematic. In general, these …

Remote network access via virtual machine

R Seliger, G Hartz, E Fontana, D Fusari - US Patent 9,392,078, 2016 - Google Patents
A virtual machine project manager creates a generic, ie, not user-specific, virtual machine
image file. Copies of this image file may be distributed to one or more users, each of whom …

Maintaining synchronization of virtual machine image differences across server and host computers

G Hartz, E Fontana, D Fusari - US Patent 9,213,513, 2015 - Google Patents
(57) ABSTRACT A virtual printer driver or proxy printer driver executed by a virtual machine
communicates with a real printer driver executed by a host computer to enable application …

Monitoring execution of guest code in a virtual machine

D Budko, X Chen, O Horovitz… - US Patent …, 2013 - Google Patents
In addition, this application is related to the following commonly-owned, co-pending US
Patent Applications:(1) 12/051,516, filed Mar. 19, 2008, entitled “IMPEDING PROGRESS OF …

Common scheduling and synchronization primitives

PJ McCann, CM Gould, JA Brown - US Patent 8,387,075, 2013 - Google Patents
Described are techniques for executing code performing one or more operations
corresponding to scheduling and synchro nization primitives. During execution of the code …

Seamless integration and installation of non-native application into native operating system

AV Grechishkin, AB Koryakin, NN Dobrovolskiy… - US Patent …, 2011 - Google Patents
Accordingly, the present invention is related to a system, method and computer program
product for seamless integra tion of non-native applications into a host OS that Substan tially …

Networked programmable logic service provider

RM Johnson, N BShara, MS Wilson - US Patent 11,115,293, 2021 - Google Patents
Methods and apparatus are disclosed for programming reconfigurable logic devices such as
FPGAs in a networked server environment. In one example, a system hosting a network …

Providing multiple concurrent access to a file system

DJ Scales, SB Vaghani - US Patent 8,489,636, 2013 - Google Patents
Multiple computers are connected to a data storage unit that includes a file system, which
further includes multiple data entities, including files, directories and the file system itself …

Intermediate host integrated circuit between virtual machine instance and customer programmable logic

MB Davis, A Khan, CJ Pettey, E Izenberg… - US Patent …, 2021 - Google Patents
A multi-tenant environment is described with configurable hardware logic (eg, a Field
Programmable Gate Array (FPGA)) positioned on a host server computer. For …