Patents by Inventor Ruby Y. Pan-Ratzlaff

Ruby Y. Pan-Ratzlaff 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).

  • User transparent system using any one of a family of processors in a single socket
    Patent number: 5835750
    Abstract: A digital computer system having a socket capable of accepting any one of a family of processors, the family being defined as those processors having commonality of their respective basic input/output system code. Each processor has assigned pins for conducting specified signals, the pins engaging the socket. There is dissimilarity between at least two of the processors of correspondence where at least one of the specified signals, of one of the processors, is assigned to a different pin from the other processors. When such dissimilarity is present, the signal is redirected to the appropriate designated pin for the particular type of processor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 1996
    Date of Patent: November 10, 1998
    Assignee: Dell USA, L.P.
    Inventor: Ruby Y. Pan-Ratzlaff