Patents by Inventor Michael Burrill Phillips

Michael Burrill Phillips 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).

  • Concurrent patch to logical partition manager of a logically partitioned system
    Patent number: 6421679
    Abstract: A method of replacing a current version of a program module with a replacement version of the module concurrently with the execution of the program on a computer system. For each entry point within the current version of said module to which the program may make address reference, a corresponding entry point within the replacement version of the module is determined. While execution of the program is suspended, each address reference in the program to an entry point within the current version of the module is replaced with an address reference to the corresponding entry point within the replacement version of the module. Execution of the program is resumed when each address reference to the current module has been replaced with one to the replacement module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 1995
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2002
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Karen Udy Chang, Roger Eldred Hough, Jeffrey Paul Kubala, Steven Messinger, Michael Burrill Phillips, Ira Glenn Siegel