Patents by Inventor Norman Ehsan Shafa

Norman Ehsan Shafa 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).

  • System and method for dynamically performing resource reconfiguration in a logically partitioned data processing system
    Patent number: 5659786
    Abstract: A dynamic reconfiguration request for a change in a system's physical configuration is transmitted from a configuration controller to a hypervisor controlling operating systems executing in one or more partitions of the system. The hypervisor translates the physical reconfiguration request into a request for reconfiguration of logical resources known to the operating systems, first verifying it against an installation policy, and passes the requests to the operating systems in the partitions. The operating systems perform logical reconfiguration, then request physical reconfiguration of the hypervisor. The hypervisor initiates the physical reconfiguration through the configuration controller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 1995
    Date of Patent: August 19, 1997
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Jonel George, Beth Anne Glendening, Paul Gregory Greenstein, Roger Eldred Hough, Jeffrey Paul Kubala, John Ted Rodell, Norman Ehsan Shafa, David Emmett Stucki