Patents by Inventor William Alexander, III

William Alexander, III 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).

  • System and method for preventing wake on LAN to protect expansion cards
    Patent number: 7234013
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention include a method for providing protected swapping of a peripheral component in a computer system. The method comprises determining a position of a first mechanical retention latch wherein the first mechanical retention latch has an open position and a closed position and is configured to communicatively couple to a computer expansion card slot. Provided the first mechanical retention latch is in the open position, the method further includes filtering power management events and preventing the computer system from powering up. Provided the first mechanical retention latch is in the closed position, allowing the computer system to accept power management events.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2003
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2007
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Richard Ortiz, Roy Tsuchida, Walter William Alexander, III, Jerry Huang
  • Control word register renaming
    Patent number: 6779103
    Abstract: A control word register, which is specified in a load control word instruction, is renamed and mapped into one of a plurality of physical control word registers. The renaming is performed by a rename logic, which allows for more than one physical control word register to be available for an instruction specifying a given logical control word register.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2000
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2004
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: William Alexander, III, Darrell D. Boggs, Mehul Dave