Patents by Inventor Dickie K. Woo

Dickie K. Woo 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 which matches a received sequence of channel commands to sequence defining rules for predictively optimizing peripheral subsystem operations
    Patent number: 5060142
    Abstract: A state of operation is established in accordance with rules for a peripheral subsystem which enables reduced channel time for executing ensuing related channel commands of the same channel program. In a peripheral data-storage subsystem, a set of rules of operation are established. Each rule sets forth a predetermined set of sequences of channel commands during any chain of channel commands (channel program) which predict ensuing channel operations in channel program currently being executed. Once any rule is satisfied, a state of operation is established in the subsystem for responding to ensuing channel commands in the same channel program and which relate to the channel commands set forth in the rules. So long as such related ensuing channel commands continue or until the end of the channel program the state of operation is maintained in the subsystem.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 1988
    Date of Patent: October 22, 1991
    Inventors: Moothedath J. Menon, Dickie K. Woo