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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 12, 2016
Filed:
Jan. 04, 2013
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Shaun David Cox, Kirkland, WA (US);
Fehim Soner Terek, Bellevue, WA (US);
Jinsong Yu, Bellevue, WA (US);
Christopher Wellington Brumme, Mercer Island, WA (US);
Gregory Michael Neverov, Seattle, WA (US);
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
Communicating between an application and a hardware device. A method includes an application writing data to host physical memory using an application view of the memory. The method further includes mapping the data in the physical memory to a hardware driver view, usable by a hardware driver, without needing to copy the data to a different physical storage location. The method further includes mapping the data to a hardware accessible view accessible by a hardware device without needing to copy the data to a different physical storage location.