Patents by Inventor Thomas Dean Christopherson

Thomas Dean Christopherson 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).

  • Method, system and program for sharing the ability to set configuration parameters in a network environment
    Patent number: 6934853
    Abstract: Provided is a method, system, program, and data structures method, system, program, and data structures for configuring a client computer connected to a network, wherein a remote computer is capable of communicating with the client computer over the network. Sets of configuration parameters are stored in a non-volatile storage unit. The sets of configuration parameters instruct at least one program how to initialize operational parameters and load programs into the client computer memory during a power on. For each set of configuration parameters, a token is stored in the non-volatile storage unit indicating access rights to the set of configuration parameters. The token specifies whether management entities running on the remote computer and client computer can access the set of configuration parameters for that token.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2001
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2005
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Thomas Dean Christopherson, Pernell James Dykes, Scott Hammersley, Harvey Gene Kiel, Christopher John Lankow, Raymond Francis Romon, Timothy James Slavin
  • Method, system and program for sharing the ability to set configuration parameters in a network environment
    Publication number: 20020095595
    Abstract: Provided is a method, system, program, and data structures method, system, program, and data structures for configuring a client computer connected to a network, wherein a remote computer is capable of communicating with the client computer over the network. Sets of configuration parameters are stored in a non-volatile storage unit. The sets of configuration parameters instruct at least one program how to initialize operational parameters and load programs into the client computer memory during a power on. For each set of configuration parameters, a token is stored in the non-volatile storage unit indicating access rights to the set of configuration parameters. The token specifies whether management entities running on the remote computer and client computer can access the set of configuration parameters for that token.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 18, 2001
    Publication date: July 18, 2002
    Inventors: Thomas Dean Christopherson, Pernell James Dykes, Scott Hammersley, Harvey Gene Kiel, Christopher John Lankow, Raymond Francis Romon, Timothy James Slavin