Patents by Inventor Paul Wayne Hunter

Paul Wayne Hunter 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).

  • Multi-node network with internode switching performed within processor nodes, each node separately processing data and control messages
    Patent number: 5675736
    Abstract: A distributed data processing system includes a plurality of nodes interconnected by bidirectional communication links. Each node includes a control message line for handling of control messages and a control memory for storing the control messages. Each node further includes data message line for handling of data messages and a data memory for storing the data messages. A processor in the node causes the data message line to queue and dispatch data messages from the data memory and the control message line to queue and dispatch control messages from the control memory. Each node includes N bidirectional communication links enabling the node to have at least twice as much input/output bandwidth as the control message line and data message line, combined. An input/output switch includes a routing processor and is coupled between the N bidirectional communication links, the data message line and control message line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 1996
    Date of Patent: October 7, 1997
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: James Thomas Brady, Damon W. Finney, Michael Howard Hartung, Paul Wayne Hunter, Michael Anthony Ko, Donald J. Lang, Noah R. Mendelsohn, Jaishankar Moothedath Menon, David Ronald Nowlen