Patents by Inventor Brian Gerard Holthaus

Brian Gerard Holthaus 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: 20090327562
    Abstract: A method and apparatus are provided for implementing bus interface calibration to improve bus interface initialization time in a system. Bus interface calibration is performed and average calibration values are saved. At bus interface initialization time, checking for saved calibration values is performed. The saved calibration values are used and tested. When the saved calibration values pass the test, then the saved calibration values are used for system operation without performing any training steps.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2008
    Publication date: December 31, 2009
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Mark David Bellows, Brian Patrick Burgess, John Dennis Folkerts, Roger John Gravrok, Brian Gerard Holthaus, Murali N. Iyer, Christopher James Martin, Timothy Gerald Robeck, Dennis J. Spathis
  • Patent number: 6721839
    Abstract: A method and apparatus are provided for mapping multiple address spaces into a single bus, such as a single peripheral component interconnect (PCI) bus. The single bus is coupled to a first processor complex and a second processor complex. An original address of a memory access is shifted to a unique address space for each originator/target of an operation. The shifted address is used on the single bus. Then the shifted address is shifted back to the original address for completing the operation on a destination bus. The original address of a memory access is shifted to a unique address space for each originator/target of an operation using a respective predefined value (+X1, +X2, or +X3) for shifting the original address above a predefined boundary for each originator/target of the operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2000
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2004
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Ellen Marie Bauman, David Lee Dosch, Charles Scott Graham, Brian Gerard Holthaus, Daniel Robert Lipps, Daniel Frank Moertl, Paul Edward Movall, Daniel Paul Wetzel
  • Patent number: 6351819
    Abstract: An adapter node is provided for use in adapting internal system enclosure services to a system power control network to thereby provide remote power control, diagnostics, and logical-to-physical correlation information, through the system power control network. The adapter node is for use in one computer of a plurality of different types of computers, having a respective internal system enclosure services low-level communication path. The power control network has a plurality of nodes, one of the nodes being a control node. The adapter node includes a substrate having electrical contacts adapted to plug to a system bus in the one computer. The substrate further has at least one system enclosure services interface connection to connect to the internal system enclosure services low-level communication path in the one computer. The adapter node further has a system power control network interface connection for connecting to the system power control network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 1999
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2002
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Neil Clair Berglund, Ronald Leroy Billau, David Lee Dosch, Brian Gerard Holthaus, Thomas James Osten, Frederick Joseph Ziecina