US Patent Issued to Dell Products on May 20 for "Para-virtualized drivers to prevent non-internet protocol hypervisor hypercall denial of service attacks" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,306,949, issued on May 20, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Para-virtualized drivers to prevent non-internet protocol hypervisor hypercall denial of service attacks" was invented by Ankit Singh (Bangalore, India), Sumanth Vidyadhara (Bangalore, India) and Shrikant Hallur (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In response to reception of a hypercall addition request, a virtual machine receives a public key. Based on the public key, the virtual machine determines whether the hypercall addition request is valid. In response to the hypercall being valid, the virtual machine adds a hypercall associated with the...