Patents by Inventor Benn Lee Schreiber

Benn Lee Schreiber 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 and apparatus for configuring a computer system
    Patent number: 5822565
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for configuring a computer system is presented. Underlying system software communicates information to a configuration utility. The information identifies a particular operating system that executes in the computer system. Using this information, the configuration utility formulates configuration filenames and retrieves data from the configuration files describing system resources, system device requirements, and operating system constraints. The configuration utility performs the system configuration by allocating system resources to system devices in accordance with the operating system constraints and system device requirements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 1997
    Date of Patent: October 13, 1998
    Assignee: Digital Equipment Corporation
    Inventors: John Anthony DeRosa, Jr., Benn Lee Schreiber, Peter Chapman Hayden, Scott Wade Apgar
  • Computer network providing transparent operation on a compute server and associated method
    Patent number: 5787281
    Abstract: A method is provided for executing an application on a compute server of a computer network or other computer system that includes the compute server and at least one client system. The client system makes a remote procedure call to the compute server, and the remote procedure call is transported by the computer network or computer system from the client system to the compute server. Execution of the client program that made the remote procedure call is suspended until the compute reserver returns the results of executing the remote procedure call. After the compute server begins processing the remote procedure call it may determine that additional information is needed from the client system to process the remote procedure call. In that case, the compute server initiates a remote procedure callback to the client system to request the required additional information, and that remote procedure callback is transported back to the client system by the computer network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 1995
    Date of Patent: July 28, 1998
    Assignee: Digital Equipment Corporation
    Inventors: Benn Lee Schreiber, Robert Bismuth, Claire Rae Cockcroft, Mark Charles Ozur, Dennis Joseph Doherty
  • Method and apparatus for configuring a computer system
    Patent number: 5713009
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for configuring a computer system is presented. Underlying system software communicates information to a configuration utility. The information identifies a particular operating system that executes in the computer system. Using this information, the configuration utility formulates configuration filenames and retrieves data from the configuration files describing system resources, system device requirements, and operating system constraints. The configuration utility performs the system configuration by allocating system resources to system devices in accordance with the operating system constraints and system device requirements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 1995
    Date of Patent: January 27, 1998
    Assignee: Digital Equipment Corporation
    Inventors: John Anthony DeRosa, Jr., Benn Lee Schreiber, Peter Chapman Hayden, Scott Wade Apgar