Patents by Inventor Benard C. Drerup

Benard C. Drerup 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).

  • Publication number: 20100217905
    Abstract: A synchronization optimized queuing method and device to minimize software/hardware interaction in network interface hardware during an end-of-initiative process, including network adapter queue implementations for network interface hardware for optimized communication in a computer system. An end-of-initiative procedure to ensure that the network interface hardware has received an interrupt enable and to recheck the interrupt queue is unnecessary in the present invention.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2009
    Publication date: August 26, 2010
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Lakshminarayana Arimilli, Claude Basso, Piyush Chaudhary, Benard C. Drerup, Jody B. Joyner, Jan-Bernd Themann, Christoph Raisch, Colin B. Verrilli