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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:
Apr. 20, 2004

Filed:

Apr. 22, 1999
Applicant:
Inventors:

Darrell Rex Pett, Elko, NV (US);

Lewis Rossland Carlson, Salt Lake City, UT (US);

Dennis Charles Gassman, Salt Lake City, UT (US);

Assignee:

Unisys Corporation, Blue Bell, PA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/455 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/455 ;
Abstract

An adapter program couples a legacy operating system to a driver program of an I/O channel which has an incompatible interface to a native operating system. The adapter program includes a translator which receives legacy control structures from the legacy operating system that represents a legacy I/O instruction. The adapter program also includes an interface to the driver program which simulates the native operating system interface. The adapter program further includes an emulator for performing the I/O instruction by interacting with the driver program thru the simulated native operating system interface.


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