Patents by Inventor Eddie T. Hall

Eddie T. Hall 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).

  • Partitioned multiprocessor programming system
    Patent number: 4564903
    Abstract: The disclosure provides a unique multiprocessing (MP) method for executing on plural CPUs of the MP a uniprocessor system (UPS) program not written to run on a MP system. Separate copies of the UPS are provided in the shared main storage (MS) of the MP. A hypervisor type of control program (called a partitioned multiprocessing system, PMP) uses the MP method to enable simultaneous execution of the plural copies of a UPS on different CPUs of the MP as UPS guest virtual machines. PMP can dedicate any CPU to the sole execution of a particular copy of UPS. The copies of the UPS run on the different CPUs independently of each other, but they may share I/O devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 1983
    Date of Patent: January 14, 1986
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Richard R. Guyette, Eddie T. Hall, Allan S. Meritt, Stephen R. Newson, Casper A. Scalzi, Glenn W. Sears, Jr.