Patents by Inventor Thao Van Dang

Thao Van Dang 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: 5249206
    Abstract: A quad oscillator fault-tolerant clock system for a computer complex comprises two clock sources at each of two computer locations, which are coupled by two duplex links. Each clock source supplies its own clock signal to the other clock source at the same location as well as to the clock sources at the other location over one of the duplex links coupling the two locations. Each clock source continually measures the phase difference between its clock signal and each of the other three clock signals. Periodically, the propagation delay for each link is calculated by taking the average of the phase differences measured by the clock sources driving the two ends of that link. These calculated propagation delays are supplied to each individual clock source, which corrects the phase differences measured by it for the propagation delays.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 1989
    Date of Patent: September 28, 1993
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Lawrence H. Appelbaum, Thao Van Dang, William A. Moorman, Thomas B. Smith, III