Patents by Inventor Paul Jonathan Quelch
Paul Jonathan Quelch 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: 7788523Abstract: A method and apparatus for relating a device name to a physical location of a device (202) on a network is provided. The network may be a serial loop network, for example a Fibre Channel Arbitrated Loop network. The network includes a plurality of devices (202) on or connected to the network (201) and a control device (205) with control over at least one of the devices (202). Each device (202) has a check output (204) independent of the network (201) with connection means (206) to a control device (205). The method includes the step of sending a device name from the check output (204) of a device (202) to the control device (205). The check output (204) of a device (202) is also connected to an external indication means for indicating the failure of the device (202).Type: GrantFiled: February 14, 2008Date of Patent: August 31, 2010Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Reginald Beer, Paul Nicholas Cashman, Paul Hooton, Ian David Judd, Robert Frank Maddock, Neil Morris, Robert Bruce Nicholson, Paul Jonathan Quelch, Barry Douglas White
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Publication number: 20100204935Abstract: According to one general embodiment of the present invention, there is provided a computer program product for reducing incidence of errors in connections between a power consumer apparatus operable to draw a load and a power supply apparatus capable of varying the power supplied, the computer program product comprising: a computer readable storage medium having computer readable program code embodied therewith, the computer readable program code comprising: computer readable program code configured to generate at the power consumer apparatus an identifiable pattern in a load to be drawn from a power supply connection to a power supply apparatus; and computer readable program code configured to monitor at the power consumer apparatus for a change in the load corresponding to the pattern, the monitoring being performed across a signal connection to the power supply apparatus; wherein a positive result of the monitoring indicates a correct configuration. Additional embodiments are also presented.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 23, 2010Publication date: August 12, 2010Applicant: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Steven John Hyatt, Ian David Judd, Robert Bruce Nicholson, Paul Jonathan Quelch, Stephen Arthur Randle, William James Scales
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Patent number: 7398415Abstract: A method and apparatus for relating a device name to a physical location of a device (202) on a network is provided. The network may be a serial loop network, for example a Fibre Channel Arbitrated Loop network. The network includes a plurality of devices (202) on or connected to the network (201) and a control device (205) with control over at least one of the devices (202). Each device (202) has a check output (204) independent of the network (201) with connection means (206) to a control device (205). The method includes the step of sending a device name from the check output (204) of a device (202) to the control device (205). The check output (204) of a device (202) is also connected to an external indication means for indicating the failure of the device (202).Type: GrantFiled: November 8, 2002Date of Patent: July 8, 2008Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Reginald Beer, Paul Nicholas Cashman, Paul Hooton, Ian David Judd, Robert Frank Maddock, Neil Morris, Robert Bruce Nicholson, Paul Jonathan Quelch, Barry Douglas White
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Publication number: 20080155096Abstract: A method and apparatus for relating a device name to a physical location of a device (202) on a network is provided. The network may be a serial loop network, for example a Fibre Channel Arbitrated Loop network. The network includes a plurality of devices (202) on or connected to the network (201) and a control device (205) with control over at least one of the devices (202). Each device (202) has a check output (204) independent of the network (201) with connection means (206) to a control device (205). The method includes the step of sending a device name from the check output (204) of a device (202) to the control device (205). The check output (204) of a device (202) is also connected to an external indication means for indicating the failure of the device (202).Type: ApplicationFiled: February 14, 2008Publication date: June 26, 2008Inventors: Reginald Beer, Paul Nicholas Cashman, Paul Hooton, Ian David Judd, Robert Frank Maddock, Neil Morris, Robert Bruce Nicholson, Paul Jonathan Quelch, Barry Douglas Whyte
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Patent number: 7266462Abstract: A system, method and computer program for configuring power supply apparatus to supply a voltage optimized to tolerate a range about a nominal operating voltage of a device comprises a tester to test and communicate to a comparator a present utility voltage value. The comparator compares the present utility voltage with a present nominal operating voltage of the device. A configurator responds to the present utility voltage falling within an upper half of a first range having a centre point higher than the present nominal operating voltage and lower than an upper out-of-tolerance voltage of the device or within a lower half of a second range having a centre point lower than the present nominal operating voltage and higher than a lower out-of-tolerance voltage of the device, by configuring the power supply apparatus to supply a voltage respectively within the first range or the second range.Type: GrantFiled: February 10, 2005Date of Patent: September 4, 2007Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventor: Paul Jonathan Quelch
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Patent number: 6882943Abstract: A system, method and computer program for configuring power supply apparatus to supply a voltage optimized to tolerate a range about a nominal operating voltage of a device comprises a tester to test and communicate to a comparator a present utility voltage value. The comparator compares the present utility voltage with a present nominal operating voltage of the device. A configurator responds to the present utility voltage falling within an upper half of a first range having a centre point higher than the present nominal operating voltage and lower than an upper out-of-tolerance voltage of the device or within a lower half of a second range having a centre point lower than the present nominal operating voltage and higher than a lower out-of-tolerance voltage of the device, by configuring the power supply apparatus to supply a voltage respectively within the first range or the second range.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2003Date of Patent: April 19, 2005Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventor: Paul Jonathan Quelch
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Publication number: 20030140277Abstract: A method and apparatus for relating a device name to a physical location of a device (202) on a network is provided. The network may be a serial loop network, for example a Fibre Channel Arbitrated Loop network. The network includes a plurality of devices (202) on or connected to the network (201) and a control device (205) with control over at least one of the devices (202). Each device (202) has a check output (204) independent of the network (201) with connection means (206) to a control device (205). The method includes the step of sending a device name from the check output (204) of a device (202) to the control device (205). The check output (204) of a device (202) is also connected to an external indication means for indicating the failure of the device (202).Type: ApplicationFiled: November 8, 2002Publication date: July 24, 2003Applicant: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Reginald Beer, Paul Nicholas Cashman, Paul Hooton, Ian David Judd, Robert Frank Maddock, Neil Morris, Robert Bruce Nicholson, Paul Jonathan Quelch, Barry Douglas White
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Publication number: 20030140099Abstract: A method and apparatus are provided for hard address conflict resolution for enclosures in a loop network (200). The loop network (200) has: a loop (202); a host means (201) on or connected to the loop (202); a plurality of devices (207) on or connected to the loop (202); and at least one enclosure containing one or more devices (207). Each device (207) has an address means. Each enclosure has an enclosure control device (208) with control over devices (207) in that enclosure. Each enclosure control device (208) has an address means. The method includes, at the start up of the loop network (200), setting the address means of the enclosure control devices (208) to a default value. Each device (207) is then entered in the loop (202) in a reset state in which only the enclosure control devices (208) and the host means (201) are active in the loop (202).Type: ApplicationFiled: November 8, 2002Publication date: July 24, 2003Applicant: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Reginald Beer, Paul Nicholas Cashman, Paul Hooton, Ian David Judd, Robert Frank Maddock, Neil Morris, Robert Bruce Nicholson, Paul Jonathan Quelch, Barry Douglas White