Patents by Inventor Edward R. Holley, III

Edward R. Holley, III 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).

  • Method, system and program product for facilitating hotplugging of multiple adapters into a system bus and transparently optimizing configuration of the system bus
    Patent number: 6954813
    Abstract: A facility is provided for hotplugging multiple adapters into a system having a bus with a plurality of adapter receiving hotplug slots. The facility includes connecting multiple hotplug adapters to multiple hotplug slots of the bus, and automatically determining a bus speed for the bus that the multiple hotplug slots and the multiple hotplug adapters connected thereto support. The automatically determining is transparent to a user of the system making the hotplug adapter connections and is independent of an order of connection of the multiple hotplug adapters to the multiple hotplug slots.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2002
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2005
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Edward R. Holley, III, Koichi Kii, Ryuji Orita, Christopher C. Ruggles