Patents by Inventor Joachim Fenkes
Joachim Fenkes 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).
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Patent number: 9774546Abstract: Method to perform an operation comprising, receiving a login request from an endpoint connected to first physical port of a first switch module of a distributed network switch, wherein the distributed network switch comprises a plurality of switch modules, wherein each switch module comprises a plurality of ASICs, responsive to the login request, storing, in a FCDF database, an entry comprising an identifier of the first physical port and a unique identifier of the endpoint, and responsive to receiving, from a cFCF, a zoning update comprising the unique identifier of the endpoint and an FCID for the endpoint, storing the FCID in the FCDF database entry for the endpoint, identifying a first ASIC, of the plurality of ASICs of the first switch module, connected to the first physical port, and updating a zoning table of the first ASIC to include the zoning update.Type: GrantFiled: September 9, 2014Date of Patent: September 26, 2017Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Joachim Fenkes, Henry J. May, Christoph Raisch, Stefan Roscher, Alexander Schmidt, Daniel Sentler
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Patent number: 9432754Abstract: Techniques are provided for distributing a fabric name to switching elements of a distributed switch configured to forward Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) frames. A distributed switch membership distributed (DMFD) message is transmitted that includes names of all switching elements in the distributed switch, and further includes a fabric descriptor that contains the fabric name.Type: GrantFiled: November 12, 2013Date of Patent: August 30, 2016Assignee: GLOBALFOUNDRIES INC.Inventors: Joachim Fenkes, Roger G. Hathorn, Sriharsha Jayanarayana, Henry J. May, Daniel Sentler, Sudheer R. Yelanduru
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Patent number: 9426546Abstract: Techniques are provided for distributing a fabric name to switching elements of a distributed switch configured to forward Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) frames. A distributed switch membership distributed (DMFD) message is transmitted that includes names of all switching elements in the distributed switch, and further includes a fabric descriptor that contains the fabric name.Type: GrantFiled: October 21, 2013Date of Patent: August 23, 2016Assignee: GLOBAL FOUNDRIES INC.Inventors: Joachim Fenkes, Roger G. Hathorn, Sriharsha Jayanarayana, Henry J. May, Daniel Sentler, Sudheer R. Yelanduru
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Patent number: 9401873Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer program products to perform an operation comprising, receiving a login request from an endpoint connected to first physical port of a first switch module of a distributed network switch, wherein the distributed network switch comprises a plurality of switch modules, wherein each switch module comprises a plurality of ASICs, responsive to the login request, storing, in a FCDF database, an entry comprising an identifier of the first physical port and a unique identifier of the endpoint, and responsive to receiving, from a cFCF, a zoning update comprising the unique identifier of the endpoint and an FCID for the endpoint, storing the FCID in the FCDF database entry for the endpoint, identifying a first ASIC, of the plurality of ASICs of the first switch module, connected to the first physical port, and updating a zoning table of the first ASIC to include the zoning update.Type: GrantFiled: May 14, 2014Date of Patent: July 26, 2016Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Joachim Fenkes, Henry J. May, Christoph Raisch, Stefan Roscher, Alexander Schmidt, Daniel Sentler
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Publication number: 20150334017Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer program products to perform an operation comprising, receiving a login request from an endpoint connected to first physical port of a first switch module of a distributed network switch, wherein the distributed network switch comprises a plurality of switch modules, wherein each switch module comprises a plurality of ASICs, responsive to the login request, storing, in a FCDF database, an entry comprising an identifier of the first physical port and a unique identifier of the endpoint, and responsive to receiving, from a cFCF, a zoning update comprising the unique identifier of the endpoint and an FCID for the endpoint, storing the FCID in the FCDF database entry for the endpoint, identifying a first ASIC, of the plurality of ASICs of the first switch module, connected to the first physical port, and updating a zoning table of the first ASIC to include the zoning update.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 14, 2014Publication date: November 19, 2015Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Joachim FENKES, Henry J. MAY, Christoph RAISCH, Stefan ROSCHER, Alexander SCHMIDT, Daniel SENTLER
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Publication number: 20150334053Abstract: Method to perform an operation comprising, receiving a login request from an endpoint connected to first physical port of a first switch module of a distributed network switch, wherein the distributed network switch comprises a plurality of switch modules, wherein each switch module comprises a plurality of ASICs, responsive to the login request, storing, in a FCDF database, an entry comprising an identifier of the first physical port and a unique identifier of the endpoint, and responsive to receiving, from a cFCF, a zoning update comprising the unique identifier of the endpoint and an FCID for the endpoint, storing the FCID in the FCDF database entry for the endpoint, identifying a first ASIC, of the plurality of ASICs of the first switch module, connected to the first physical port, and updating a zoning table of the first ASIC to include the zoning update.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 9, 2014Publication date: November 19, 2015Inventors: Joachim FENKES, Henry J. MAY, Christoph RAISCH, Stefan ROSCHER, Alexander SCHMIDT, Daniel SENTLER
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Publication number: 20150110122Abstract: Techniques are provided for distributing a fabric name to switching elements of a distributed switch configured to forward Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) frames. A distributed switch membership distributed (DMFD) message is transmitted that includes names of all switching elements in the distributed switch, and further includes a fabric descriptor that contains the fabric name.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 21, 2013Publication date: April 23, 2015Applicant: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Joachim FENKES, Roger G. HATHORN, Sriharsha JAYANARAYANA, Henry J. MAY, Daniel SENTLER, Sudheer R. YELANDURU
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Publication number: 20150110487Abstract: Techniques are provided for distributing a fabric name to switching elements of a distributed switch configured to forward Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) frames. A distributed switch membership distributed (DMFD) message is transmitted that includes names of all switching elements in the distributed switch, and further includes a fabric descriptor that contains the fabric name.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 12, 2013Publication date: April 23, 2015Applicant: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Joachim FENKES, Roger G. HATHORN, Sriharsha JAYANARAYANA, Henry J. MAY, Daniel SENTLER, Sudheer R. YELANDURU
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Patent number: 7546565Abstract: A method implemented as a computer program product for comparing two designs of electronic circuits, wherein the design representations comprise several hierarchically related sheets. The method comprises the steps of (a) identifying corresponding top-sheets of the first hierarchy level in the design versions; (b) generating a list of all sub-sheets for each top-sheet and comparing the lists to identify added, removed and common sheets of the corresponding top-sheets; (c) defining the common sheets as corresponding top-sheets of a next hierarchy level; and (d) repeating steps (a)-(c) until at least one of the top-sheets does not comprise any sub-sheet.Type: GrantFiled: January 11, 2007Date of Patent: June 9, 2009Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Joachim Fenkes, Wilhelm Haller, Tobias Werner, Alexander Woerner
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Publication number: 20080172640Abstract: A method for comparing two designs of electronic circuits, especially for comparing different versions of a design for an electronic circuit, wherein the design representations comprise several hierarchically related sheets. The method comprises the steps of: a) analyzing the hierarchies of said design versions to identify added, removed and common sheets; b) determining differences between common sheets to identify modified sheets; and c) visualizing the combined hierarchies of said design versions wherein added, removed and modified sheets are marked.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 11, 2007Publication date: July 17, 2008Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Joachim Fenkes, Wilhelm Haller, Tobias Werner, Alexander Woerner
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Publication number: 20080016437Abstract: A computer-implemented method and program product of modifying and presenting document data (150). Sub-elements (180) of document elements (TA) are marked as “fixed” elements. When the document data is presented in a visible document area of a computer program processing the document, the fixed elements are presented as long as their associated document elements are presented at least partially. An example for a document element is a table (TA), and its sub-elements can be table headers (180), table rows, and table columns. The associated data used for the presentation are called sliding table headers (430), sliding rows, and sliding columns.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 22, 2007Publication date: January 17, 2008Inventors: Joachim Fenkes, Gerhard Hellner, Tobias Warner, Pascal Witte