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Assignee: Nextio Inc.


Location: Austin, TX
No. of patents: 13

NumberTitleIssue Date
8032659Method and apparatus for a shared I/O network interface controller
A network interface controller is provided which is shareable by a plurality of operating system domains (OSDs) within their load-store architecture. The controller includes local resources for corresponding to the OSDs, and global resources corresponding to both th...
10/04/2011
7782893Method and apparatus for shared I/O in a load/store fabric
An apparatus and method is provided for allowing I/O devices to be shared and/or partitioned among a plurality of processing complexes within the load/store fabric of each of the processing complexes without requiring modification to the operating system or driver s...
08/24/2010
7706372Method and apparatus for shared I/O in a load/store fabric
An apparatus and method is provided for allowing I/O devices to be shared and/or partitioned among a plurality of processing complexes within the load/store fabric of each of the processing complexes without requiring modification to the operating system or driver s...
04/27/2010
7620066Method and apparatus for shared I/O in a load/store fabric
An apparatus and method is provided for allowing I/O devices to be shared and/or partitioned among a plurality of processing complexes within the load/store fabric of each of the processing complexes without requiring modification to the operating system or driver s...
11/17/2009
7620064Method and apparatus for shared I/O in a load/store fabric
An apparatus and method is provided for allowing I/O devices to be shared and/or partitioned among a plurality of processing complexes within the load/store fabric of each of the processing complexes without requiring modification to the operating system or driver s...
11/17/2009
7617333Fibre channel controller shareable by a plurality of operating system domains within a load-store architecture
A Fibre Channel (FC) controller shareable by a plurality of operating system domains (OSDs) within a load-store architecture is disclosed. The controller has a FC port that obtains a plurality of FC port identifiers for association with respective ones of the OSDs. ...
11/10/2009
7512717Fibre channel controller shareable by a plurality of operating system domains within a load-store architecture
A Fiber Channel (FC) controller shareable by a plurality of operating system domains (OSDs) within a load-store architecture is disclosed. The controller includes a plurality of control/status register (CSR) banks. A respective one of the CSR banks is used by each O...
03/31/2009
7502370Network controller for obtaining a plurality of network port identifiers in response to load-store transactions from a corresponding plurality of operating system domains within a load-store architecture
A controller shareable by a plurality of operating system domains (OSDs) for communication on a network is disclosed. The controller includes a port for coupling to the network. The port transceives packets with the network for each of the plurality of OSDs. The con...
03/10/2009
7493416Fibre channel controller shareable by a plurality of operating system domains within a load-store architecture
A Fibre Channel controller shareable by a plurality of operating system domains (OSDs) is disclosed. The controller includes a programming interface, located within a system load-store memory map of each OSD by which the OSDs request the controller to perform I/O op...
02/17/2009
7457906Method and apparatus for shared I/O in a load/store fabric
An apparatus and method is provided for allowing I/O devices to be shared and/or partitioned among a plurality of processing complexes within the load/store fabric of each of the processing complexes without requiring modification to the operating system or driver s...
11/25/2008
7219183Switching apparatus and method for providing shared I/O within a load-store fabric
An apparatus and method for sharing I/O devices. The apparatus has a first plurality of I/O ports, a second I/O port, and core logic. The first plurality is coupled to a plurality of operating system domains through a load-store fabric. Each of the first plurality r...
05/15/2007
7188209Apparatus and method for sharing I/O endpoints within a load store fabric by encapsulation of domain information in transaction layer packets
An apparatus having a first plurality of I/O ports, a second I/O port, and core logic. The first plurality of I/O ports is coupled to a plurality of operating system domains (OSDs) through a load-store fabric, each routing transactions between the plurality of OSDs ...
03/06/2007
7174413Switching apparatus and method for providing shared I/O within a load-store fabric
A method enabling I/O devices to be shared among multiple operating system domains, including first communicating with each of the operating system domains according to a protocol that provides exclusively for a single system domain ithin the load-store fabric; and ...
02/06/2007
 
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