Virtual devices in a reliable distributed computing system
US10509662B1 · kind B1 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Nov 25, 2014 |
| Grant date | Dec 17, 2019 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Nov 25, 2034 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG06F2009/45595
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
Providing differing degrees of reliability or security for distinct devices within a reliable distributed system. Allowing virtual machines to operate in a reliable distributed system without either exposing the actual available devices to guest operating systems, or requiring the guest OS to maintain, or to maintain information about, reliability or security. Methods are responsive to a hierarchy of possible reliability or security failures, to guard more carefully against simultaneous failures of reliability or breaches of security, without additional work or delay. Functions invoked by the user that relate to reliability and security are hidden, so the user can specify a degree of reliability or security without having to implement those requirements themselves. Providing a uniform set of resources available to all users, separating out those individual resources that are allocated to particular users, and emulating particular devices at the request of those particular users. Users do not have access to “real” devices the distributed system can use, only “virtual” devices presented by the distributed system, where those virtual devices have properties similar, but not necessaril…
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