1223 results about "Virtual device" patented technology

An apparatus, method and system are disclosed for visually constructing and rapidly delivering distributed applications. The system includes a virtual appliance apparatus and a composite appliance apparatus, as well as a system for virtualizing hardware resources and for provisioning, executing and scaling distributed applications.

Systems and methods for time series data error detection, correction, and transformation may detect gaps and anomalies in time series data, such as from a meter device, and may correct the gaps and adjust the anomalies prior to long-term record storage. Data forecasting may be used to correct the errors in the time series data. The error corrected data may be regarded as an actual set of time series data and become a base data set against which additional heuristic projections are generated. In addition, the time series data may be transformed into any number of physical and virtual device hierarchies that represent the underlying data source configurations, and may then be stored in an analytical database for further analysis. The hierarchies may be irregular and may change over time.

A system for write forwarding in a storage environment employing distributed virtualization includes a first and a second storage server providing access to a first and a second physical storage device, respectively, a virtual device server and a virtual device client. The virtual device server may be configured to aggregate storage in the first and second physical storage device into a virtual storage device and make the virtual storage device accessible to the virtual device client for I/O operations. An update requested by the virtual device client may require a first physical write operation at the first physical storage device and a second physical write operation at the second physical device. The virtual device client may be configured to send an update request to the first storage server, rather than to both the first and the second storage servers. The first storage server may respond to the update request by starting the first physical write operation, and forwarding a request for the second physical write operation to the second storage server.

This disclosure describes a system for Single Root I/O Virtualization (SR-IOV) pass-thru for network packet processing via a virtualized environment of a device. The system includes a device comprising a virtualized environment and a plurality of virtual machines having a virtual network interface for receiving and transmitting network packets. A driver for the physical network interface of the device creates a plurality of virtual devices corresponding to the physical network interface, which appear as a Peripheral Component

Interconnect (PCI) device to the virtualized environment. A virtual device of the plurality of virtual devices is assigned via the virtualized environment to each virtual machine of the plurality of virtual machines. The virtual machine uses the virtual device assigned to the virtual machine, to receive and transmit network packets via the physical network interface of the device.

Techniques are disclosed for controlling and managing virtual machines and other such virtual systems. VM execution approval is based on compliance with policies controlling various aspects of VM. The techniques can be employed to benefit all virtual environments, such as virtual machines, virtual appliances, and virtual applications. For ease of discussion herein, assume that a virtual machine (VM) represents each of these environments. In one particular embodiment, a systems management partition (SMP) is created inside the VM to provide a persistent and resilient storage for management information (e.g., logical and physical VM metadata). The SMP can also be used as a staging area for installing additional content or agentry on the VM when the VM is executed. Remote storage of management information can also be used. The VM management information can then be made available for pre-execution processing, including policy-based compliance testing.

A technique efficiently creates and serves a backup data set on a backup filer located at a remote site from a primary filer by essentially moving an entire operating environment of a primary data set to the backup filer. The primary filer is organized into one or more virtual filers (vfilers), one of which (the primary vfiler) is configured to serve data, such as the primary data set, for a client. In the event that the primary filer or primary vfiler becomes unavailable, the technique may be implemented as a disaster recovery or data migration sequence to enable efficient instantiation of a backup vfiler to serve the backup data set for the client.

A peripheral device of a host computer includes a microcontroller and two virtual devices. The first virtual device passes, to the microcontroller, commands of a first command set from any user of the host computer and preferably also commands of a second command set from only privileged users of the host computer. The second virtual device passes, to the microcontroller, commands of the second set from any user of the host computer. In one physical implementation of the invention, the two virtual devices are implemented as separate physical devices, and the second device is connected to an interface to the host computer only if the user is not privileged. In another physical implementation of the invention, the two virtual devices are implemented in a common physical device, and a sector of a memory of the peripheral device is reserved for handling commands of the second set from non-privileged users.

A system used with a virtual device inputs or transfers information to a companion device, and includes two optical systems OS1, OS2. In a structured-light embodiment, OS1 emits a fan beam plane of optical energy parallel to and above the virtual device. When a user-object penetrates the beam plane of interest, OS2 registers the event. Triangulation methods can locate the virtual contact, and transfer user-intended information to the companion system. In a non-structured active light embodiment, OS1 is preferably a digital camera whose field of view defines the plane of interest, which is illuminated by an active source of optical energy. Preferably the active source, OS1, and OS2 operate synchronously to reduce effects of ambient light. A non-structured passive light embodiment is similar except the source of optical energy is ambient light. A subtraction technique preferably enhances the signal/noise ratio. The companion device may in fact house the present invention.

A system that produces a dynamic haptic effect and generates a drive signal that includes a gesture signal and a real or virtual device sensor signal. The haptic effect is modified dynamically based on both the gesture signal and the real or virtual device sensor signal such as from an accelerometer or gyroscope, or by a signal created from processing data such as still images, video or sound. The haptic effect may optionally be modified dynamically by using the gesture signal and the real or virtual device sensor signal and a physical model, or may optionally be applied concurrently to multiple devices which are connected via a communication link. The haptic effect may optionally be encoded into a data file on a first device. The data file is then communicated to a second device and the haptic effect is read from the data file and applied to the second device.

Systems and methods for restoring file system objects from image level backups of servers. The method receives a selection of an image level backup of a source, file system object(s) to be restored, and restoration parameters identifying a destination. The method initializes and attaches a virtual storage to a virtual appliance and an associated hypervisor. The method stores virtual storage data changes resulting from the file system object restoration in changes storage. The method preserves file system object information, wherein the file system object information corresponds to the source operating system (OS) and file system. The method preserves file system object information such as permissions and ownership through business logic that ensures that the file system object information for restored file system object(s) on the destination match file system object information from the source, even when the method operates on a host running a different OS than the source server.

High availability computer system and fault correction method. If a fault occurs in the current-system physical device allocated to the current-system virtual device of the virtual server, the virtualization mechanism of the physical server configures, for the standby-system virtual device of the virtual server, the standby-system physical device, as a physical device which is used at a high priority, and the virtualization mechanism distributes the request issued from the standby-system virtual device of another virtual server to a standby-system physical device, but, when such a standby-system physical device does not exist, the virtualization mechanism distributes the request to a standby-system physical device configured for high priority usage.

In a client/server architecture system, a device management system having the function of safely sharing a device without compromising user convenience is provided. The device is coupled to a terminal that the user uses or a hub coupled to a network. A device management manager having a device driver function and communication function installed on the terminal or the like, a virtual device manager having a device driver function and communication function installed on the server, and an authentication server that manages access permission for the device allow the device to be virtually available as in the case of the device directly coupled to the server while managing the access to the device.

Systems, methods, apparatus and software can configure, support, and make use of a coordinator virtual device to determine which node or nodes of a cluster should be ejected from the cluster as a result of a cluster partition or other error event. Fencing software operating on the cluster nodes monitors the cluster for a cluster partition (split-brain) event, and when such an event occurs, software on the nodes attempts to gain control of the coordinator virtual device. A node that succeeds in gaining control of the coordinator virtual device survives. Nodes failing to gain control of the coordinator virtual device remove themselves or are removed from the cluster. The coordinator virtual device can be established by a virtual device configuration server which provides coordinator virtual device access to cluster nodes acting as virtual device configuration clients.

Fitting a sound processing device for an individual is automated using a computer. Fitting and customisation is carried out using natural sounds without specialised audiometric equipment or audiological expertise. Software for this purpose is downloaded from an internet portal. The computer plays back acoustic signals, and obtains user input reflecting the user's perceptions of the acoustic signals, from which a hearing map is derived, representing the user's hearing. An algorithm updates the device fitting based on the hearing map. Also provided is pre-sale virtual device fitting, whereby a virtual signal processing path is established in the computer, reflecting a signal processing function of a sound processing device of interest to the user. An algorithm updates parameters of the virtual processing path, based on the hearing map. Audio signals passed through the virtual processing path are played back to the user, giving the user an acoustic indication of future device performance.

A method and apparatus for providing cross-platform hardware support for a computing platform are described herein. In one embodiment, an example of a computing system includes, but is not limited to, at least one physical hardware device, a host operating system (HOS), a virtual platform running on the HOS including a virtual operating system (VOS) and at least one virtual hardware device associated with a device type of the physical hardware device, a virtual device driver included in the VOS to control the at least one virtual hardware device, and a mechanism to synchronize the at least one virtual hardware device with the at least one physical hardware device through a direct use of at least one device driver library on the HOS. Other methods and apparatuses are also described.

A trunk in a network file server includes at least two communications ports. The trunk is created by combining the communications ports into a single virtual device and assigning ownership of the communications ports to the virtual device. A failsafe network device including at least two trunks, with each trunk coupled to different switches can be created by creating a third virtual device. Ownership of a first virtual device including communication ports coupled to a first switch and a second virtual device including communication ports coupled to a second switch is assigned to the third virtual device.