Patents by Inventor Paul Maylon Smith

Paul Maylon Smith 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).

  • Method and system for controlling a power on sequence in response to monitoring respective components of a computer system with multiple CPU sockets to determine proper functionality
    Patent number: 6615360
    Abstract: A method of controlling the power-on of a computer system by providing a plurality of monitor lines interconnected with respective components of the computer system, monitoring the lines using a control circuit in response to a power-on reset signal, and executing a system power-on sequence in response to a determination by the control circuit that the components of the computer system are functioning properly. If the computer system has a plurality of CPU slots, the control circuit determines if a CPUs or terminator cartridges is plugged into the CPU slots, and determines that a properly matched CPU has been installed into the system, and that multiple CPUs contain compatible power supply requirements. Finally, the control circuit can determine that a power regulator is functioning properly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2000
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2003
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Kamran Amini, Robert Joseph Evans, Henry Gaines McMillan, Robert Matthew Piper, Michael Leo Scollard, Paul Maylon Smith