Patents by Inventor Gary E. Jackson

Gary E. Jackson 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).

  • Apparatus for a host central processor with associated controller to capture a selected one of a number of memory units via path control commands
    Patent number: 5630169
    Abstract: A pair of data processing systems, each of the data processing system having a host central processor and an associated controller including memory, both of the data processing systems to be cooperatively associated with a number of disk drive memory units, each of the disk drive memory unit coupled to both said controllers. Either one of the host central processors can appropriate any one of the disk drive memory units as a selected disk drive memory unit by propagating path-control-data to the memory in both of the controllers and in the selected disk drive memory unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 1996
    Date of Patent: May 13, 1997
    Assignee: Unisys Corporation
    Inventor: Gary E. Jackson
  • Method for a host central processor and its associated controller to capture the selected one of a number of memory units via path control commands
    Patent number: 5504926
    Abstract: A pair of data processing systems, each of the data processing system having a host central processor and an associated controller including memory, both of the data processing systems to be cooperatively associated with a number of disk drive memory units, each of the disk drive memory unit coupled to both said controllers. Either one of the host central processors can appropriate any one of the disk drive memory units as a selected disk drive memory unit by propagating path-control-data to the memory in both of the controllers arid in the selected disk drive memory unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 1992
    Date of Patent: April 2, 1996
    Assignee: Unisys Corporation
    Inventor: Gary E. Jackson