American Megatrends Assigned Two Patents

Performing on-demand data write through based on virtual machine types
American Megatrends, Inc., Norcross, GA, has been assigned a patent (9,886,387) developed by Subramanian, Lokeshraj, Mathews, Santhosh Samuel, Chennai, India, Ayanam, Varadachari Sudan, Suwanee, GA, and Gnanasekaran, Jayachandran, Duluth, GA, for a “method and system for performing on-demand data write through based on virtual machine types.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “Certain aspects of the present disclosure relates to a system having a virtual desktop server, (VDS). In operation, the VDS is configured to: create a random access memory, (RAM) disk in a memory, partition the RAM disk into a two partitions, one for caching first data received from instances of pooled virtual machines, VMs, and the other for caching second data received from personalized VMs, create a data store in a storage device, including two portions for preserving the first data and the second data respectively, and perform a plurality of data write through operations based on VM types. The write through cache operations may include: disabling data write through for the first data, and enabling the data write through for the second data.”

The patent application was filed on January 30, 2015 (14/610,262).

Validating functionality of backplane controller chips
American Megatrends, Inc., Norcross, GA, has been assigned a patent (9,886,335) developed by Abraham, Shibu, Duluth, GA, and Dhandapani, Kayalvizhi, Suwanee, GA, for “techniques for validating functionality of backplane controller chips.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “Present disclosure relates to a system for validating target backplane controller chips. The system includes a backplane controller chip validation board. In certain embodiments, the backplane controller chip validation board includes: (a) a program/verify/validate controller chip, (b) one or more backplane controller chip sockets for installing one or more target backplane controller chips, and (c) a backplane simulator. The program/verify/validate controller chip includes backplane controller chip firmware verification software, a USB interface, and a software storage. The backplane simulator is used to simulate functions of drives, LEDs, and other devices of a backplane for verifying all functions of target backplane controller chips. The backplane controller chip validation board is in communication with a host computer, and the host computer has a user interface, a backplane controller chip validation software, a USB interface, and a software storage to store backplane controller chip firmware.”

The patent application was filed on October 7, 2013 (14/047,093).