Patents by Inventor Mark A. Rinaldi

Mark A. Rinaldi 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: 9015501
    Abstract: A design structure embodied in a machine readable storage medium for designing, manufacturing, and/or testing a design, for allocating processing functions between a primary processor and a secondary processor is disclosed. A primary processor is provided that performs routine processing duties, including execution of application program code, while the secondary processor is in a sleep state. When the load on the primary processor is deemed to be excessive, the secondary processor is awakened from a sleep state and assigned to perform processing functions that would otherwise need to be performed by the primary processor. If temperatures in the system rise above a threshold, the secondary processor is returned to the sleep state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2015
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Timothy W. Gee, Mark A. Rinaldi
  • Patent number: 8806228
    Abstract: Systems, methods and media for allocating processing functions between a primary processor and a secondary processor are disclosed. In one embodiment, a primary processor performs routine processing duties, including execution of application program code, while the secondary processor is in a sleep state. When the load on the primary processor is deemed to be excessive, the secondary processor is awakened from a sleep state and assigned to perform processing functions that would otherwise need to be performed by the primary processor. If temperatures in the system rise above a threshold, the secondary processor is returned to the sleep state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2014
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Timothy W. Gee, Mark A. Rinaldi
  • Patent number: 8347378
    Abstract: An improved solution for authenticating a user seeking to manage a computer system is provided according to aspects of the invention. A user seeking to perform out-of-band management of the computer system can provide a set of credentials to a service processor, which in turn provides them to the computer system for authentication. Additionally, a user seeking to perform in-band management of the computer system can provide a set of credentials to a management agent executing on the computer system for authentication. In either case, the computer system can authenticate the set of credentials, e.g., using an operating system interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2013
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Aaron E. Merkin, Mark A. Rinaldi
  • Publication number: 20080244227
    Abstract: A design structure embodied in a machine readable storage medium for designing, manufacturing, and/or testing a design, for allocating processing functions between a primary processor and a secondary processor is disclosed. A primary processor is provided that performs routine processing duties, including execution of application program code, while the secondary processor is in a sleep state. When the load on the primary processor is deemed to be excessive, the secondary processor is awakened from a sleep state and assigned to perform processing functions that would otherwise need to be performed by the primary processor. If temperatures in the system rise above a threshold, the secondary processor is returned to the sleep state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2008
    Publication date: October 2, 2008
    Inventors: TIMOTHY W. GEE, Mark A. Rinaldi
  • Publication number: 20080141350
    Abstract: An improved solution for authenticating a user seeking to manage a computer system is provided according to aspects of the invention. A user seeking to perform out-of-band management of the computer system can provide a set of credentials to a service processor, which in turn provides them to the computer system for authentication. Additionally, a user seeking to perform in-band management of the computer system can provide a set of credentials to a management agent executing on the computer system for authentication. In either case, the computer system can authenticate the set of credentials, e.g., using an operating system interface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2006
    Publication date: June 12, 2008
    Inventors: Aaron E. Merkin, Mark A. Rinaldi
  • Publication number: 20080016374
    Abstract: Systems, methods and media for allocating processing functions between a primary processor and a secondary processor are disclosed. In one embodiment, a primary processor performs routine processing duties, including execution of application program code, while the secondary processor is in a sleep state. When the load on the primary processor is deemed to be excessive, the secondary processor is awakened from a sleep state and assigned to perform processing functions that would otherwise need to be performed by the primary processor. If temperatures in the system rise above a threshold, the secondary processor is returned to the sleep state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2006
    Publication date: January 17, 2008
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Timothy W. Gee, Mark A. Rinaldi
  • Patent number: 7260487
    Abstract: A histogram difference method and system for power/performance measurement and management has low data storage requirements while supporting multiple monitoring applications having different update rates. Histogram data for power usage and/or performance mode is collected at a predetermined rate and the histogram data is read out at periodic intervals by the monitoring applications. The monitoring applications subtract the histogram data from previously read histogram data set to determine a interval difference histogram. The minimum and maximum values for the interval are the lowest-valued and highest-valued bin in the interval difference histogram that have a count greater than zero. The average value for the interval is the mean of the interval difference histogram. A conservative bound of the maximum and minimum values for a system can be determined by adding the values of the maximum and minimum values determined for each subsystem in the system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2007
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Thomas M. Brey, Charles R. Lefurgy, Mark A. Rinaldi, Malcolm S. Ware
  • Patent number: 4876644
    Abstract: A processor adapted for parallel and/or pipelined interconnection with other like processors. An arithmetic logic unit has associated with it an output FIFO register stack having output data lines capable of parallel connection with the output data lines of other such processors, such output stack being loadable with a predetermined neutral value such that when the neutral value is present at their output data lines it permits the data present at the output lines of another such processor connected in parallel therewith to control the output data bus. The invention eliminates the need to have control over several such processors connected in parallel and/or pipelined configuration by way of external arbitration logic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 1989
    Date of Patent: October 24, 1989
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corp.
    Inventors: David W. Nuechterlein, Mark A. Rinaldi
  • Patent number: 4635186
    Abstract: A uniprocessor if formed on plural independently controlled chips each including a primary instruction driven controller and a secondary error driven self-sequencing controller. Each instruction is supplied in parallel to each primary controller which generates an EXIT signal, as it completes execution, to a common external EXIT line. Hardware monitors the local EXIT signal and the common EXIT line state and activates the secondary controller, when a mismatch is detected, to set an on-chip reset predominant error latch driving a common external ERROR line, an ERROR-state on which also sets the latches and activates any inactive secondary controller to drive its chip to a first predetermined state and to reset its latch. When no ERROR signal remains, the secondary controllers cycle in synchronism through an ERROR routine, exiting to instruction control.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 1983
    Date of Patent: January 6, 1987
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Price W. Oman, Mark A. Rinaldi, Vito W. Russo, Gregory Salyer