Patents by Inventor Peter Rudolf Keller

Peter Rudolf Keller 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).

  • Autonomic configuration of port speeds of components connected to an interconnection cable
    Patent number: 7254652
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method and computer program product for reading an encoded cable speed/length value contained within an interconnection cable to set the interconnection speed of two or more components connected by the interconnection cable within a computing environment. This method detects changes to the cable connections within the I/O fabric of the computing environment, and autonomically reconfigures the connected components to enable the interconnected devices to communicate at the maximum effective bandwidth, based on the length of the interconnection cables utilized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2007
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Gary Dean Anderson, David Alan Bailey, Peter Rudolf Keller, Diane Lacey Knipfer