Patent ID: 6170045
Filing Date: 2001-01-02
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
An article of manufacture comprising: at least one computer useable medium having computer readable program code means embodied therein for causing cross-system data piping, the computer readable program code means in said article of manufacture comprising: computer readable program code means for causing a computer to effect writing data, by a writer of a first system, to a pipe located within an external shared memory, said first system having a first operating system image and said external shared memory having processing capabilities, wherein said first operating system image manages one or more hardware resources through allocation and deallocation of said one or more hardware resources; and computer readable program code means for causing a computer to effect reading data from said pipe by a reader of a second system, wherein said second system has a second operating system image, said second operating system image managing one or more hardware resources through allocation and deallocation of said one or more hardware resources, and wherein said external shared memory is coupled to said first system and said second system such that said pipe is separate from said first and second systems.