Patents by Inventor Yoshimasa Kondou

Yoshimasa Kondou 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 automatically setting the internal and external port configuration of a computer system
    Patent number: 5535415
    Abstract: A method of configuring a computer system having internal and corresponding external ports, includes determining the designation of each port present in the system as being either primary, secondary, or disabled. The designations of the physically present ports are used to update the contents of a non-volatile memory. Prior to updating the non-volatile memory, a read operation is performed on the non-volatile memory. If the non-volatile memory presently reflects the status of the physically present ports, the updating of the non-volatile memory is bypassed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 1993
    Date of Patent: July 9, 1996
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshimasa Kondou, Masaaki Hanaoka, Shinji Nakamura, Fumiaki Doi
  • System and method for the automatic setting of a computer system's I/O configuration
    Patent number: 5247682
    Abstract: A method of configuring a computer system having internal and external Serial Input/Output (SIO) ports, includes determining the designation of each SIO port present in the system as being either primary, secondary, or disabled. The designations of the physically present SIO ports are used to update the contents of a non-volatile memory. Prior to updating the non-volatile memory, a read operation is performed on the non-volatile memory. If the non-volatile memory presently reflects the status of the physically present SIO ports, the updating of the non-volatile memory is bypassed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 1991
    Date of Patent: September 21, 1993
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshimasa Kondou, Masaaki Hanaoka, Shinji Nakamura, Fumiaki Doi