Patents by Inventor Srinivas R. Kamepalli

Srinivas R. Kamepalli 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).

  • Patent number: 6647434
    Abstract: A system for individually disabling a function of a multifunction device located on a computer bus of a computer system. In one example, the multifunction device is located on a computer bus conforming to a PCI local bus standard and the multifunction device is a PCI compliant device. The multifunction device includes at least one register that stores configuration information regarding which functions are disabled. In response to a bus command addressed to a function, the configuration information is read to determine whether the function is disabled. The configuration information may be stored in the device dependent region of a configuration register space associated with each function. A function can be enabled or disabled by changing the configuration information stored in the multifunction device. Writes to change the configuration information may be made during a computer system BIOS startup routine or may be made by utilizing a configuration utility of the computer system's operating system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 1999
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2003
    Assignee: Dell USA, L.P.
    Inventor: Srinivas R. Kamepalli