US Patent Issued to VMware on March 4 for "Polling regulation for storage input/output in a computer system" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,242,398, issued on March 4, was assigned to VMware LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Polling regulation for storage input/output in a computer system" was invented by Ran Peng (Beijing), Wenchao Cui (Beijing), Yu Zhao (Beijing), Yang Bai (Beijing) and Ruilin Tian (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example method of input/output (IO) between system software executing in a computer and a storage device includes: sending, from the system software, IO commands to the storage device; handling, by the system software, IO completion messages from the storage device in an interrupt mode; determining, while processing the IO commands, a first va...