US Patent Issued to Western Digital Technologies on Aug. 12 for "Resource allocation in virtualized environments" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,386,648, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Western Digital Technologies Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Resource allocation in virtualized environments" was invented by Marjan Radi (San Jose, Calif.) and Dejan Vucinic (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A node includes a shared memory for a distributed memory system. A Virtual Switch (VS) controller establishes different flows of packets between at least one Virtual Machine (VM) running at the node and one or more other VMs running at the node or at another node. Requests to access the shared memory are queued in submission queues in a kernel space and processed requests are queu...