Patents by Inventor Prabhakar Krishnaswami

Prabhakar Krishnaswami 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 for automatic hardware identification and configuration where instance values are unique within the computer system and resource requirement conflicts are resolved by modifying resource settings
    Patent number: 5974474
    Abstract: An automatic identification system in a computer system having a plurality of hardware instances located on hardware devices in the computer system. The computer system includes a plurality of physical slots each configured to receive a hardware device and referenced by a slot number. The system comprises means for assigning a hardware instance value to each of the plurality of hardware instances, the hardware instance value being unique within the computer system when two or more of the plurality of physical slots are assigned a slot number that is not unique within the computer system. Advantageously, the hardware instance value is unique within the computer system when two or more of the plurality of hardware instances are located on one of the hardware devices or when one or more of the hardware devices is installed in an expansion chassis coupled to the computer system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 1997
    Date of Patent: October 26, 1999
    Assignee: Novell, Inc.
    Inventors: Rey R. Furner, Prabhakar Krishnaswami, Jeffrey A. Nordin, Michael E. Rex, Mark Dakins, Karl G. Jorgensen