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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Oct. 03, 2023

Filed:

Oct. 22, 2019
Applicant:

Vmware, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);

Inventors:

Ravindra Kumar, San Jose, CA (US);

Yogendra Baldev Bhasin, Fremont, CA (US);

Kevin Scott Christopher, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Petr Vandrovec, Cupertino, CA (US);

Ming Hua Zhou, Issaquah, WA (US);

Assignee:

VMWare, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/455 (2018.01); G06F 9/54 (2006.01); H04L 9/40 (2022.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/547 (2013.01); G06F 9/45558 (2013.01); H04L 63/10 (2013.01); G06F 2009/45587 (2013.01);
Abstract

Disclosed are various embodiments for providing content to virtual machines. A request for content can be received, wherein the request originates from a virtual machine hosted by the computing device, comprises a unique identifier for the content, and is received from the virtual machine through an inter-process communication mechanism. The unique identifier can be validated. Content can then be retrieved using the unique identifier. A copy of the content can then be provided to the virtual machine in response to validation of the unique identifier, the content being provided to the virtual machine through the inter-process communication mechanism.


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