Intel Corporation

Robert Conrad Knauerhase

Michael Man-Hak Tso

Scott H Robinson

Nikhil M Deshpande

Vijay Tewari

Mic Bowman

Bikram Singh Bakshi

Robert W Adams

David W Aucsmith

Paul Brett

Michael E Deisher

Rita H Wouhaybi

Radia Joy Perlman

Justin E Gottschlich

Uttam K Sengupta

Sebastian Schoenberg

Joshua B Fryman

Gilles A Pokam

Shiliang Hu

David Alfred Romrell

John Whitley Richardson

Rolf Kassa

Thomas Gerard Willis

Nicholas P Carter

Dzung D Tran

Rajesh P Banginwar

James C Stanley

Abhay A Dharmadhikari

Shivani A Sud

Du V Nguyen

Jin Jing

Seshadri Sathyanarayan

Daniel Joshua Gillespie

Aditya Agrawal

Seshardi Sathyanarayan

Damien Macielinski

Thomas G Willis

A processor is described comprising memory access conflict detection circuitry to identify a conflict pertaining to a transaction being executed by a thread that believes it has locked information within a memory. The processor also includes logging circuitry to construct and report out a packet if the memory access conflict detection circuitry identifies a conflict that causes the transaction to be aborted.

Processor with transactional capability and logging circuitry to report transactional operations

Methods and systems may provide for obtaining a query image of a scene, wherein the query image includes embedded information and represents the scene at a time of capture. The embedded information may include location data and perspective data. Additionally, user input may be received, wherein the user input identifies a different time than the time of capture. A time-shifted image of the scene may be obtained based on the user input and the embedded information in the query image. Crowd sources and/or other public information sources may also be used to obtain the time-shifted image. In one example, the time-shifted image represents the scene at the different time.

Time-shifting image service

A virtual environment manager ('VEM') simplifies the usability of virtual machines and provides users with an enhanced design for creating and/or for managing virtual machines ('VMs'). For example, a user can select description information and management information to be included in descriptors and according to which a VEM will create and manage various VM environments for various host environments. The VEM automatically creates the VM environments and host environments by sending descriptor description information and data files associated with the description information to virtual machine monitors (VMMs), which create the VM environments according to the description information. A VEM at each host may manage VM environments executed by the VMM, according to the descriptor management information. Thus, a set of descriptors to create and manage a set of VMs for a home computer may be easily modified by a user to create and manage a set of VMs for a work or laptop computer.

Virtual environment manager for creating and managing virtual machine environments

In some embodiments, a client computer includes a memory, a client presence program adapted to be located in the memory, and a processor. The processor is coupled to the memory and is adapted to execute the client presence program to receive provider presence information from an instant messaging (IM) server and to store the provider presence information in the memory. The provider presence information includes at least a provider status for at least one service provider.

Provider presence information

A system implements dishonest policies for managing unauthorized access requests. The system includes memory management hardware to store a set of dishonest policy bits, each dishonest policy bit that is configured to a predetermined value indicating disallowed access for one of a set of memory ranges. When a processor receives an access request for a location in a memory range to which access is not allowed as indicated by a set dishonest policy bit, the processor returns a false indication according to a dishonest policy that the requested access has been performed.

Method and apparatus for dishonest hardware policies

Systems and methods for transporting physical objects from real physical life into virtual worlds. Briefly stated, the method includes receiving characteristic and structure data from an object constructed in the real world. The characteristic and structure data is obtained from the object using a plurality of sensors placed in the vicinity of the object to sense the characteristics and structure of the object. The characteristic and structure data of the object is used to produce code necessary to create an equivalent representation of the object in a virtual world.

Systems and methods for transporting physical objects from real physical life into virtual worlds

A method, apparatus and system for improving usability of virtual machines is described. A console module on a VM host may continuously monitor incoming data (e.g., files and/or attachments) and make automatic determinations regarding how and/or whether to intercept, route, redirect and/or deliver the data (e.g., where to store files, when and/or whether to deliver the files, execute the files, etc.). Additionally, in one embodiment, a unification console may be provided to enhance the usability of the VM host. The unification console enables the user to view the VM host via a unified desktop interface while handling the underlying switching and/or interactions between VMs.

Method, apparatus and system for enhancing the usability of virtual machines

A method, system, and apparatus are provided for virtual machine management. According to one embodiment, processor state information associated with a processor is evaluated, and the processor state information is used to manage one or more virtual machines.

Virtual machine management using processor state information

A traditional registry, such as a global UDDI server, is not designed to accommodate transitory devices, e.g., devices that may frequently attach and detach from a network, often-times without warning, such as virtual machines offering or desiring services that are periodically instantiated and then suspended or destroyed. To accommodate such transitory devices, a dynamic resource/service registry may be implemented that leverages lower-level protocols or state to determine appropriate registry updates to keep the registry state consistent with currently-active virtual machines. For example, a virtual machine monitor (VMM) may track creation and suspension or deletion of a virtual machine (VM), and resources advertised by the VM, where the VMM appropriately adds or removes registry entries for the VM as the state of the VM changes or provides hooks (e.g. notifications) or other instrumentation based on said state or protocols to enable other associated modules or agents (e.g. management modules or the registry) to take appropriate actions.

Dynamic service registry for virtual machines

A Registry, such as a UDDI registry, dynamically manages (e.g. filters and/or re-orders) answers to service queries by Service Consumers based at least on one or more of the individual states/status of Service Providers, the collective service environment state, and policies employed by the environment. The Registry may be configured to infer operational state/status about a Service Provider, such as impending unavailability due to very low battery reserves, and to remove providers from the registry if determined to be unavailable. The Registry may be configured to associate a shelf-life with a provider registration based on characteristics of the Service Provider, or based on past experience with the Service Provider. Such dynamic management allows the Registry to implement intelligent task distribution and load balancing between Service Providers, and to insulate Service Providers on fragile platforms (e.g. notebooks, handhelds, etc.) that may otherwise be overwhelmed by offering themselves as a traditional provider.

Management and arbitration of mobile service discovery

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.

Method, apparatus and system for transparent unification of virtual machines

Embodiments of the invention include an access policy enforcement system for a system that provides services to other devices. As a service-providing device changes environments, or mobile states, access to the device's services is automatically and transparently limited or expanded. One aspect of the access policy determines the particular state in which the service-providing device is operating. Another aspect uses the determined state to dictate which services will be available to other devices.

System for device-access policy enforcement

Methods and apparatuses for providing service availability information to a waiting customer using the customer's wireless device are generally introduced herein.

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Portland, OR, United States of America

Robert Conrad Knauerhase