Patents by Inventor HOWARD JEFFRE LOCKER

HOWARD JEFFRE LOCKER 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).

  • VIRTUAL USB COMMUNICATIONS PORT
    Publication number: 20080181236
    Abstract: A method and system for accessing a remote real communication port (“COM port”) from a server blade in a server blade chassis by creating a virtual COM port in the server blade. A basic input/output system (BIOS) controller monitors an internal COM port in the server blade for communication traffic. Upon detecting the communication traffic, the BIOS controller reroutes the traffic to a virtual USB COM port created by the BIOS controller chipset. The virtual USB COM port directs the communication traffic to an internal universal serial bus (USB) device in the server blade. The USB device then forwards the traffic to an Ethernet media access controller (MAC) input/output (I/O) on a sideband channel to a remote system, which passes the communication traffic to a real COM port in the remote system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 3, 2008
    Publication date: July 31, 2008
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: DARYL CARVIS CROMER, BRANDON JOHN ELLISON, ERIC RICHARD KERN, HOWARD JEFFRE LOCKER, EDWARD STANELY SUFFERN