Patents by Inventor Dean T. Huang

Dean T. Huang 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).

  • Host independent peripheral controller with on-board firmware
    Patent number: 5933652
    Abstract: A particular, appropriate BIOS extension image is selected from a potential set of multiple images for use in initializing a peripheral adapter. To enable proper selection, the peripheral adapter includes a firmware image of a BIOS extension that is storable on the peripheral adapter. The firmware image includes a nominal identifier of a BIOS extension and a set of one or more firmware markers that are compliant with the valid identification of the BIOS extension by a first predetermined host computer and that ensures that the firmware image is identifiable by a second predetermined host computer as being invalid. By specific selection of the firmware markers, these markers can be used to uniquely enable a predetermined one of the host processors to appropriately execute an appropriate BIOS extension image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 1996
    Date of Patent: August 3, 1999
    Assignee: Advanced System Products, Inc.
    Inventors: Karl C. Chen, Dean T. Huang