1. An information handling system, in which hardware is partitioned through the IO system, comprising:
a CPU system having a number of hardware partitions;
a memory system having the same number of hardware partitions;
a IO system having the same number of hardware partitions, and having at least one IO device;
wherein each IO device has a hardware context, comprising one or more memory storage elements, in each partition;
wherein the IO system is connected to the CPU system by means of a PCI Express bus; and
wherein partitioning of the IO system is performed by using at least part of the requester ID portion of a PCI Express packet header to map an IO device to the context of a desired partition.
2. The system of claim 1, wherein each hardware context comprises at least one register.
3. The system of claim 1, wherein the CPU system comprises a single partitioned CPU.
4. The system of claim 1, wherein the CPU system comprises multiple CPUs.
5. The system of claim 1, wherein the CPU system comprises multiple server CPUs.
6. The system of claim 1, wherein the CPU system has a northbridge for handling communications via the PCI Express bus.
7. The system of claim 1, wherein the CPU is programmed to define a control structure for partition selection.
8. The system of claim 7, wherein the control structure is implemented with a hypervisor function of the CPU.
9. A method of partitioning an information handling system having at least a CPU system, memory system, and IO system, such that hardware is partitioned through the IO system, comprising:
partitioning a CPU system into hardware partitions;
partitioning the memory system into hardware partitions;
partitioning the IO system into hardware partitions;
wherein the IO system has at least one IO device;
wherein each IO device has a hardware context, comprising one or more memory storage elements, in each partition;
wherein the IO system is connected to the CPU system by means of a PCI Express bus; and
wherein partitioning of the IO system is performed by using at least part of the requester ID portion of a PCI Express packet header to map an IO device to the context of a desired partition.
10. The method of claim 9, wherein each hardware context comprises at least one control register.
11. The method of claim 9, wherein the CPU system comprises a single partitioned CPU.
12. The method of claim 9, wherein the CPU system comprises multiple CPUs.
13. The method of claim 9, wherein the CPU system comprises multiple server CPUs.
14. The method of claim 9, wherein the CPU system has a northbridge for handling communications via the PCI Express bus.
15. The method of claim 9, further comprising programming the CPU to define a control structure for partition selection.
16. The method of claim 15, wherein the control structure is implemented with a hypervisor function of the CPU.
The claims below are in addition to those above.
All refrences to claim(s) which appear below refer to the numbering after this setence.
1. A medical device for treating body tissue of a patient comprising:
(a) an elongated member having a proximal end and a distal end;
(b) an expandable assembly disposed at the distal end of the elongated member, wherein the expandable assembly is capable of changing from a retracted position to an expanded position and the expandable assembly comprises a plurality of wire elements and wherein each wire element has a first end and a second end; and
(c) a patch having two opposing surfaces; wherein one of the opposing surfaces comprises an adhesive material and a biologically active material; wherein the other opposing surface is disposed upon at least one of the wire elements, and wherein the wire elements are arranged in a basket-like configuration when the expandable assembly is in the expanded position and wherein both ends of at least one wire element is connected to the distal end of the elongated member.
2. The medical device of claim 1 wherein at least two wire elements have midpoints between the ends of the wire elements and wherein the medical device further comprises a hub which connects the midpoints.
3. The medical device of claim 1 which further comprises a sheath being sized to slidably receive the elongated member and expandable assembly in its retracted position.
4. The medical device of claim 1 which further comprises an expansion mechanism for expanding the expandable assembly.
5. The medical device of claim 1 wherein the expandable assembly comprises about three or more wire elements.
6. The medical device of claim 5 wherein the expandable assembly comprises up to about twenty wire elements.
7. The medical device of claim 1 wherein each of the wire elements are of approximately equal lengths.
8. The medical device of claim 1 wherein each of the wire elements are approximately evenly spaced.
9. The medical device of claim 1 wherein the patch comprises a material selected from the group consisting of natural polymers, synthetic polymers, metals and biological fabric.
10. The medical device of claim 1 wherein the patch is circular in shape.
11. The medical device of claim 1 wherein the thickness of the patch is about 10 micron to about 1 mm.
12. The medical device of claim 1 wherein one side of the patch is substantially impermeable.
13. The medical device of claim 1 wherein the biologically active material comprises at least one of cells, genetic materials or drugs.
14. The medical device of claim 13 wherein the cells comprise at least one of endothelial progenitor cells, stem cells, cardiomyocytes, skeletal myoblasts or transformed cells.
15. The medical device of claim 13 wherein the genetic materials are nucleic acid molecules encoding proteins comprising at least one of FGF, FGF-1, FGF-2, EMGF or VEGF.
16. The medical device of claim 13 wherein the drugs comprise at least one of estrogen, estradiol, estriol, dioxin, captopril or enalopril.
17. The medical device of claim 1 wherein the opposing surface of the patch which comprises an adhesive material further comprises carbowax.
18. The medical device of claim 1 wherein the adhesive material is a bioadhesive material comprising at least one of hydrogels, fibrin glue, cyanoacrylates, gelatin-resorcinol formaldehyde-glutaraldehyde, synthetic gums or natural gums.
19. A medical device for treating body tissue of a patient comprising:
(a) an elongated member having a proximal end and a distal end:
(b) an expandable assembly disposed at and connected to the distal end of the elongated member, wherein the expandable assembly is capable of changing from a retracted position to an expanded position and the expandable assembly comprises a plurality of wire elements and wherein each wire element has a first end and a second end; and
(c) a patch having two opposing surfaces; wherein one of the opposing surfaces comprises an adhesive material and a biologically active material; wherein the other opposing surface is disposed upon at least one of the wire elements; and wherein the wire elements are arranged in a basket-like configuration when the expandable assembly is in the expanded position and the first end of the wire element is connected to the distal end of the elongated member and the second end of the wire is connected to the elongated member at a point more proximal than the first end of the wire element.
20. A medical device for treating body tissue of a patient comprising:
(a) an elongated member having a proximal end and a distal end;
(b) an expandable assembly disposed at and connected to the distal end of the elongated member, wherein the expandable assembly is capable of changing from a retracted position to an expanded position and the expandable assembly comprises a plurality of wire elements and wherein each wire element has a first end and a second end; and
(c) a patch having two opposing surfaces; wherein one of the opposing surfaces comprises an adhesive material and a biologically active material; wherein the other opposing surface is disposed upon at least one of the wire elements, and wherein a penetrating element is disposed at the distal end of the elongated member.
21. The medical device of claim 20 wherein the wire elements are arranged in a basket-like configuration when the expandable assembly is in the expanded position and at least one end of at least one wire element is connected to the distal end of the elongated member.