Patents by Inventor Aaron E. Taylor

Aaron E. Taylor has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Verification of hardware configuration
    Patent number: 8930904
    Abstract: A method for verifying an input/output (I/O) hardware configuration is provided. Data from an input/output data set (IOCDS) is extracted for building a verification command. The IOCDS contains hardware requirements that define at least software devices associated with a logical control unit (LCU). The verification command is processed. The verification command includes a software device address range associated with a logical control unit (LCU) of the I/O hardware. The LCU utilizes a first logical path. The software device address range utilizing the first logical path is compared with an existing software device address range utilizing at least one additional logical path. The verification command is accepted if the software device address range and the existing software device address range match.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2015
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Juan A. Coronado, Roger G. Hathorn, Dinh H. Le, Daniel J. Perkin, Adelaide M. Richards, Aaron E. Taylor
  • Method to recover from a boot device failure during reboot or system IPL
    Patent number: 7861117
    Abstract: A method of automatic recovery from a boot device failure and an initial program load (IPL) failure of an operating system (OS) comprises: receiving and complying with a user selected option of an action upon an event of a boot device failure and an IPL failure. The user selected option may consist of taking the action of attempting an auto reboot of the server with the selected boot device and continuing the reboot attempts using the reduced priority boot devices from the bootlist until detection of a boot success, or taking no action allowing for manual user intervention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2010
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Juan A. Coronado, Aaron E. Taylor, Christina A. Lara, David W. Sharik, Justin D. Suess, Phu Nguyen, Richard Cunningham, Adote A. Tounou
  • METHOD TO RECOVER FROM A BOOT DEVICE FAILURE DURING REBOOT OR SYSTEM IPL
    Publication number: 20090327813
    Abstract: A method of automatic recovery from a boot device failure and an initial program load (IPL) failure of an operating system (OS) comprises: receiving and complying with a user selected option of an action upon an event of a boot device failure and an IPL failure. The user selected option may consist of taking the action of attempting an auto reboot of the server with the selected boot device and continuing the reboot attempts using the reduced priority boot devices from the bootlist until detection of a boot success, or taking no action allowing for manual user intervention.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2008
    Publication date: December 31, 2009
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Juan A. Coronado, Aaron E. Taylor, Christina A. Lara, David W. Sharik, Justin D. Suess, Phu Nguyen, Richard Cunningham, Adote A. Tounou