Patents by Inventor Vito W. Russo

Vito W. Russo 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: 4635186
    Abstract: A uniprocessor if formed on plural independently controlled chips each including a primary instruction driven controller and a secondary error driven self-sequencing controller. Each instruction is supplied in parallel to each primary controller which generates an EXIT signal, as it completes execution, to a common external EXIT line. Hardware monitors the local EXIT signal and the common EXIT line state and activates the secondary controller, when a mismatch is detected, to set an on-chip reset predominant error latch driving a common external ERROR line, an ERROR-state on which also sets the latches and activates any inactive secondary controller to drive its chip to a first predetermined state and to reset its latch. When no ERROR signal remains, the secondary controllers cycle in synchronism through an ERROR routine, exiting to instruction control.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 1983
    Date of Patent: January 6, 1987
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Price W. Oman, Mark A. Rinaldi, Vito W. Russo, Gregory Salyer