Patents by Inventor Antonio Abbondonzio

Antonio Abbondonzio 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).

  • System for assigning snoop levels to snooper modules and selectively invoking snooper modules having specified relation to a selected snoop level for hardware detection
    Patent number: 5909593
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for detecting adapter cards and associated resources in an information handling system is disclosed. Snoop levels for controlling execution of one or more snooper software modules which detect adapter cards and associated resources and for controlling allocation of resources to the snooper software modules are provided. Each snoop level allows for varying degrees of resource allocation. Snoop levels are selected in response to whether any adapter cards have been removed from or added to the computer system, thereby restricting the amount of snooping which occurs to limit the risk of resource conflicts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 1996
    Date of Patent: June 1, 1999
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Antonio Abbondonzio, Jon Alan Grimm