Patents by Inventor Darin Jon Perrigo

Darin Jon Perrigo 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 and method for initializing a multinode multiprocessor computer system
    Patent number: 5938765
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for initializing a shared-memory, multinode multiprocessor computer system. The nodes in the multiprocessor computer system separately and independently run standard PC-based BIOS routines in parallel for initialization of the nodes. These BIOS routines set addresses of hardware components on each node as though the nodes are in a single-node environment. After completion of BIOS, the addresses of the hardware components are reprogrammed to conform with the multinode environment. A master processor then takes control to boot the operating system on the multinode environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 1997
    Date of Patent: August 17, 1999
    Assignee: Sequent Computer Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Kenneth Frank Dove, Darin Jon Perrigo, Robert Bruce Gage