Patent ID: 9465623
Filing Date: 2016-10-11
CPC Classification: G06F,H04L

Claim Text:
1. An apparatus comprising: means for receiving and handling an input/output (I/O) request of a Microsoft Windows operating system, the Microsoft Windows operating system to be executed by a multi-core processor of a computer, the Microsoft Windows operating system being different from a first operating system with which the means for receiving and handling is associated; means for reporting a number of processing units of the computer to the Microsoft Windows operating system as being available that is different from a total actual number of processing units of the computer, each processing unit of the computer comprising a processor core, the number of the processing units of the computer to be reported to the Microsoft Windows operating system being user changeable; the first operating system to share data of the first operating system with the Microsoft Windows operating system, wherein a portion of memory allocated to the first operating system is hidden from the Microsoft Windows operating system.