Patents by Inventor Brian Dudley Silverman

Brian Dudley Silverman 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).

  • Using a systems network architecture logical unit activation request unit as a dynamic configuration definition in a gateway
    Patent number: 6389465
    Abstract: An improved method and system for initializing the logical units (LUs) in a Gateway between an SNA network having a mainframe host computer and another network. An activation procedure derives the Table of Boundary LUs on the mainframe host computer by noting the device logical unit numbers within the set of ‘Activate Logical Unit’ (ACTLU) SNA Request Units. If the mainframe host computer includes an LU in its Table of Boundary LUs, then the activation procedure creates a corresponding LU in the Gateway. The activation procedure also marks each of the created LUs in the Gateway as active. The newly created LUs are then added to the resource pool of LUs available to the network. Additional aspects include a method for assigning a logical unit type to an LU based upon whether a Bind request is received from the mainframe host computer within a certain amount of time after sending a positive sense code to the mainframe host computer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2000
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2002
    Assignee: Attachmate Corporation
    Inventors: Mitchell Owen Peterson, Brian Dudley Silverman
  • Using a systems network architecture logical unit activation request unit as a dynamic configuration definition in a gateway
    Patent number: 6173319
    Abstract: An improved method and system for initializing the logical units (LUs) in a Gateway between an SNA network having a mainframe host computer and another network. An activation procedure derives the Table of Boundary LUs on the mainframe host computer by noting the device logical unit numbers within the set of ‘Activate Logical Unit’ (ACTLU) SNA Request Units. If the mainframe host computer includes an LU in its Table of Boundary LUs, then the activation procedure creates a corresponding LU in the Gateway. The activation procedure also marks each of the created LUs in the Gateway as active. The newly created LUs are then added to the resource pool of LUs available to the network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 1998
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2001
    Assignee: Attachmate Corporation
    Inventors: Mitchell Owen Peterson, Brian Dudley Silverman
  • Using a systems network architecture logical unit activation request unit as a dynamic configuration definition in a gateway
    Patent number: 6173321
    Abstract: An improved method and system for initializing the logical units (LUs) in a Gateway between an SNA network having a mainframe host computer and another network. An activation procedure derives the Table of Boundary LUs on the mainframe host computer by noting the device logical unit numbers within the set of ‘Activate Logical Unit’ (ACTLU) SNA Request Units. If the mainframe host computer includes an LU in its Table of Boundary LUs, then the activation procedure creates a corresponding LU in the Gateway. The activation procedure also marks each of the created LUs in the Gateway as active. The newly created LUs are then added to the resource pool of LUs available to the network. Additional aspects include a method for assigning a logical unit type to an LU based upon whether a Bind request is received from the mainframe host computer within a certain amount of time after sending a positive sense code to the mainframe host computer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 1999
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2001
    Assignee: Attachmate Corporation
    Inventors: Mitchell Owen Peterson, Brian Dudley Silverman