ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,282,791, issued on April 22, was assigned to Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP (Spring, Texas).
"Virtualized I/O" was invented by Leon Dang (San Jose, Calif.), Keith Reynolds (Issaquah, Wash.) and Isaac R. Nassi (Los Gatos, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Distributed I/O virtualization includes receiving, at a first physical node in a plurality of physical nodes, an indication of a request to transfer data from an I/O device on the first physical node to a set of guest physical addresses. An operating system is executing collectively across the plurality of physical nodes. It further includes writing data from the I/O device...