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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 26, 2025
Filed:
Apr. 02, 2024
Sonicwall Inc., Milpitas, CA (US);
SONICWALL INC., Milpitas, CA (US);
Abstract
Methods and apparatus consistent with the present disclosure may be used in environments where multiple different virtual sets of program instructions are executed by shared computing resources. These methods may allow actions associated with a first set of virtual software to be paused to allow a second set of virtual software to be executed by the shared computing resources. In certain instances, methods and apparatus consistent with the present disclosure may manage the operation of one or more sets of virtual software at a point in time. Apparatus consistent with the present disclosure may include a memory and one or more processors that execute instructions out of the memory. At certain points in time, a processors of a computing system may pause a virtual process while allowing instructions associated with another virtual process to be executed.