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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 07, 2017
Filed:
Nov. 13, 2014
Applicants:
Wim J. Rouwet, Austin, TX (US);
Fares Bagh, Austin, TX (US);
Inventors:
Wim J. Rouwet, Austin, TX (US);
Fares Bagh, Austin, TX (US);
Assignee:
NSP USA, Inc., Austin, TX (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/455 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/45558 (2013.01); G06F 2009/4557 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method and apparatus are provided for migrating one or more hardware devices () associated with a virtual machine () from a source machine () to a destination machine () by capturing, formatting, storing, and transferring hardware context information from the hardware device(s) at the source machine during the virtual machine migration process using a defined handshake protocol at each associated hardware driver () to capture the hardware context information from an associated hardware device () being migrated.