Patents by Inventor Gerhard Buckler

Gerhard Buckler 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).

  • Method and system to recover a failed flash of a blade service processor in a server chassis
    Publication number: 20050182851
    Abstract: A method and system for recovering a server blade, in a multiple server blade computer, that is lost during a flash update operation on a service processor in the server blade. Because of the flash update failure, the lost server blade is unaware of its location on a management pathway, which in an exemplary form may be a midplane or a bus, which connects the server blade and a management module in a server blade chassis. The lost server blade puts a signal on the management pathway indicating that the flash failed. The signal is put on a special channel reserved for such messages. The management module receives the signal, and then determines which of the multiple server blades are lost due to the flash update failure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 12, 2004
    Publication date: August 18, 2005
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corp.
    Inventors: Gerhard Buckler, Jeffery Franke, Donald Johnson, Carl Morrell, David Woodham