Patents by Inventor Wayne Allan Britson

Wayne Allan Britson 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 for fast system recovery via degraded reboot
    Patent number: 7886192
    Abstract: A system and method for fast system recovery that bypasses diagnostic routines by disconnecting failed hardware from the system before rebooting. Failed hardware and hardware that will be affected by removal of the failed hardware of the system are disconnected from the system. The system is restarted, and because the failed hardware is disconnected, diagnostic routines may safely be eliminated from the reboot process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2011
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Gary Dean Anderson, Sheldon Ray Bailey, Wayne Allan Britson, Alongkorn Kitamorn, Michael Alan Kobler
  • Initialization after a power interruption
    Patent number: 7657730
    Abstract: In response to the start of an initialization sequence at a service processor, if power to a main processor was interrupted at a most-recent time that an operating system executed on the main processor, power to the main processor is turned on, the operating system is started executing on the main processor, data from the non-volatile memory of the service processor is provided to the operating system, and the service processor is reset, which restarts the initialization sequence. If the power to the main processor was not interrupted at the most-recent time that the operating system executed on the main processor, and if the operating system is currently executing on the main processor, a monitoring function is started in the service processor, which monitors for errors at a computer system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2010
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Salim Ahmed Agha, Gary Dean Anderson, Wayne Allan Britson, Brent William Jacobs, William Thomas Truskowski
  • Method for Fast System Recovery via Degraded Reboot
    Publication number: 20080256388
    Abstract: A system and method for fast system recovery that bypasses diagnostic routines by disconnecting failed hardware from the system before rebooting. Failed hardware and hardware that will be affected by removal of the failed hardware of the system are disconnected from the system. The system is restarted, and because the failed hardware is disconnected, diagnostic routines may safely be eliminated from the reboot process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2008
    Publication date: October 16, 2008
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Gary Dean Anderson, Sheldon Ray Bailey, Wayne Allan Britson, Alongkorn Kitamorn, Michael Alan Kobler
  • Method for fast system recovery via degraded reboot
    Patent number: 7415634
    Abstract: A system and method for fast system recovery that bypasses diagnostic routines by disconnecting failed hardware from the system before rebooting. Failed hardware and hardware that will be affected by removal of the failed hardware of the system are disconnected from the system. The system is restarted, and because the failed hardware is disconnected, diagnostic routines may safely be eliminated from the reboot process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 19, 2008
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Gary Dean Anderson, Sheldon Ray Bailey, Wayne Allan Britson, Alongkorn Kitamorn, Michael Alan Kobler
  • Initialization After a Power Interruption
    Publication number: 20080010445
    Abstract: In response to the start of an initialization sequence at a service processor, if power to a main processor was interrupted at a most-recent time that an operating system executed on the main processor, power to the main processor is turned on, the operating system is started executing on the main processor, data from the non-volatile memory of the service processor is provided to the operating system, and the service processor is reset, which restarts the initialization sequence. If the power to the main processor was not interrupted at the most-recent time that the operating system executed on the main processor, and if the operating system is currently executing on the main processor, a monitoring function is started in the service processor, which monitors for errors at a computer system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2006
    Publication date: January 10, 2008
    Inventors: Salim Ahmed Agha, Gary Dean Anderson, Wayne Allan Britson, Brent William Jacobs, William Thomas Truskowski
  • Method and apparatus for enhancing system clock availability
    Patent number: 7171580
    Abstract: A method, apparatus, and computer instructions in a data processing system for managing clocks. The functionality of clock sources in the data processing system is verified to identify a set of valid clock sources in response to beginning an initial load process. Hardware is initialized in the data processing system using a valid clock source from the set of valid clock sources.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2003
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2007
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Sheldon Ray Bailey, Wayne Allan Britson, Alongkorn Kitamorn, Michael Alan Kobler