Patents by Inventor DWAYNE G. MCCONNELL

DWAYNE G. MCCONNELL 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).

  • Concurrent maintenance of an input/output adapter backing a virtual network interface controller
    Patent number: 10732991
    Abstract: Concurrent maintenance of an input/output (I/O) adapter backing a virtual network interface connection (VNIC) including receiving, by a hardware management console (HMC), a request to disconnect the I/O adapter from a computing system, wherein the computing system comprises a logical partition and virtual I/O server; instructing, by the HMC over a communications link, the virtual I/O server to deconfigure and remove the server VNIC driver; determining, by the HMC, that a replacement I/O adapter is installed on the computing system; and in response to determining that the replacement I/O adapter is installed on the computing system, instructing, by the HMC over the communications link, the virtual I/O server to add and configure a replacement server VNIC driver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2020
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Curtis S. Eide, Dwayne G. McConnell, Xiaohan Qin
  • CONCURRENT MAINTENANCE OF AN INPUT/OUTPUT ADAPTER BACKING A VIRTUAL NETWORK INTERFACE CONTROLLER
    Publication number: 20200057655
    Abstract: Concurrent maintenance of an input/output (I/O) adapter backing a virtual network interface connection (VNIC) including receiving, by a hardware management console (HMC), a request to disconnect the I/O adapter from a computing system, wherein the computing system comprises a logical partition and virtual I/O server; instructing, by the HMC over a communications link, the virtual I/O server to deconfigure and remove the server VNIC driver; determining, by the HMC, that a replacement I/O adapter is installed on the computing system; and in response to determining that the replacement I/O adapter is installed on the computing system, instructing, by the HMC over the communications link, the virtual I/O server to add and configure a replacement server VNIC driver.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2019
    Publication date: February 20, 2020
    Inventors: CURTIS S. EIDE, DWAYNE G. MCCONNELL, XIAOHAN QIN
  • Concurrent maintenance of an input/output adapter backing a virtual network interface controller
    Patent number: 10545771
    Abstract: Concurrent maintenance of an input/output (I/O) adapter backing a virtual network interface connection (VNIC) including receiving, by a hardware management console (HMC), a request to disconnect the I/O adapter from a computing system, wherein the computing system comprises a logical partition and virtual I/O server; instructing, by the HMC over a communications link, the virtual I/O server to deconfigure and remove the server VNIC driver; determining, by the HMC, that a replacement I/O adapter is installed on the computing system; and in response to determining that the replacement I/O adapter is installed on the computing system, instructing, by the HMC over the communications link, the virtual I/O server to add and configure a replacement server VNIC driver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2020
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Curtis S. Eide, Dwayne G. McConnell, Xiaohan Qin
  • CONCURRENT MAINTENANCE OF AN INPUT/OUTPUT ADAPTER BACKING A VIRTUAL NETWORK INTERFACE CONTROLLER
    Publication number: 20180157496
    Abstract: Concurrent maintenance of an input/output (I/O) adapter backing a virtual network interface connection (VNIC) including receiving, by a hardware management console (HMC), a request to disconnect the I/O adapter from a computing system, wherein the computing system comprises a logical partition and virtual I/O server; instructing, by the HMC over a communications link, the virtual I/O server to deconfigure and remove the server VNIC driver; determining, by the HMC, that a replacement I/O adapter is installed on the computing system; and in response to determining that the replacement I/O adapter is installed on the computing system, instructing, by the HMC over the communications link, the virtual I/O server to add and configure a replacement server VNIC driver.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2017
    Publication date: June 7, 2018
    Inventors: CURTIS S. EIDE, DWAYNE G. MCCONNELL, XIAOHAN QIN