Patents by Inventor Frederick Joseph Ziecina

Frederick Joseph Ziecina 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).

  • Patent number: 6351819
    Abstract: An adapter node is provided for use in adapting internal system enclosure services to a system power control network to thereby provide remote power control, diagnostics, and logical-to-physical correlation information, through the system power control network. The adapter node is for use in one computer of a plurality of different types of computers, having a respective internal system enclosure services low-level communication path. The power control network has a plurality of nodes, one of the nodes being a control node. The adapter node includes a substrate having electrical contacts adapted to plug to a system bus in the one computer. The substrate further has at least one system enclosure services interface connection to connect to the internal system enclosure services low-level communication path in the one computer. The adapter node further has a system power control network interface connection for connecting to the system power control network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 1999
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2002
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Neil Clair Berglund, Ronald Leroy Billau, David Lee Dosch, Brian Gerard Holthaus, Thomas James Osten, Frederick Joseph Ziecina