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Eric R. Kern

IBM: 90 patents #680 of 70,183Top 1%
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107
Patents All Time

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 76–100 of 107 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDate
6925557 Method and system for a clean system booting process Daryl Cromer, Joseph Wayne Freeman, Steven Dale Goodman, Randall Scott Springfield 2005-08-02
6912663 Method and system for securing a personal computer bus Richard A. Dayan 2005-06-28
6832262 Method and system for disguising a computer system's identity on a network by disguising the system's MAC address Daryl Cromer, Richard A. Dayan, Randall Scott Springfield, Joseph Wayne Freeman, Robert D. Johnson +1 more 2004-12-14
6742027 Data processing system and method for permitting a server to remotely disable a client computer system's input device Daryl Cromer, Richard A. Dayan, Dhruv M. Desai, Brandon Jon Ellison, Randall Scott Springfield 2004-05-25
6718464 Method and system for customizing a client computer system configuration for a current user using BIOS settings downloaded from a server Daryl Cromer, Howard Locker, David B. Rhoades, James Peter Ward 2004-04-06
6701349 Data processing system and method for prohibiting unauthorized modification of transmission priority levels Daryl Cromer, Brandon Jon Ellison, Howard Locker, Andy Lloyd Trotter, James Peter Ward 2004-03-02
6687744 Data processing system and method for permitting a server computer system to function as a virtual keyboard to a client computer system Daryl Cromer, Richard A. Dayan, Brandon Jon Ellison, Robert D. Johnson, Randall Scott Springfield 2004-02-03
6622178 Method and apparatus for activating a computer system in response to a stimulus from a universal serial bus peripheral Thomas C. Burke, Richard A. Dayan, Daryl Cromer 2003-09-16
6609207 Data processing system and method for securing a docking station and its portable PC Daryl Cromer, Brandon Jon Ellison, Howard Locker, Randall Scott Springfield, James Peter Ward 2003-08-19
6601174 Data processing system and method for permitting a server to remotely provide a client computer system's settings password to the client Daryl Cromer, Richard A. Dayan, Brandon Jon Ellison, Randall Scott Springfield 2003-07-29
6567920 Data processing system and method for authentication of devices external to a secure network utilizing client identifier Daryl Cromer, Dhruv M. Desai, Brandon Jon Ellison, Howard Locker, Andy Lloyd Trotter +1 more 2003-05-20
6532497 Separately powered network interface for reporting the activity states of a network connected client Daryl Cromer, Brandon Jon Ellison, Gregory W. Kilmer, Howard Locker, Randall Scott Springfield +1 more 2003-03-11
6526507 Data processing system and method for waking a client only in response to receipt of an authenticated Wake-on-LAN packet Daryl Cromer, Brandon Jon Ellison, Howard Locker 2003-02-25
6493104 Data processing system and method for permitting a computer to automatically detect a presence of and establish a communications link with a printer Daryl Cromer, Richard A. Dayan, Brandon Jon Ellison, Howard Locker, James Peter Ward 2002-12-10
6480972 Data processing system and method for permitting a server to remotely perform diagnostics on a malfunctioning client computer system Daryl Cromer, Brandon Jon Ellison, Howard Locker, Randall Scott Springfield, James Peter Ward 2002-11-12
6466994 Method and system for programming a system board using a peripheral controller Thomas C. Burke, Richard A. Dayan 2002-10-15
6415324 Data processing system and method for permitting a client computer system to temporarily prohibit remote management Daryl Cromer, Brandon Jon Ellison, Robert D. Johnson, Randall Scott Springfield 2002-07-02
6412025 Apparatus and method for automatic configuration of a personal computer system when reconnected to a network Richard Wayne Cheston, Daryl Cromer, Dhruv M. Desai, Brandon Jon Ellison, Howard Locker +2 more 2002-06-25
6397249 Data processing system and method for determining a physical location of a client computer system Daryl Cromer, Brandon Jon Ellison, Gregory W. Kilmer, James Peter Ward, Howard Locker 2002-05-28
6353854 Automatic reconfiguration system for change in management servers having protocol destination addresses Daryl Cromer, Brandon J. Ellison, Howard Locker, James Peter Ward 2002-03-05
6334150 Data processing system and method for remotely disabling a client computer system Daryl Cromer, Brandon Jon Ellison, Randall Scott Springfield 2001-12-25
6334147 Data processing system and method for remotely accessing a client computer systems's individual initialization settings while the client is powered off Daryl Cromer, Brandon Jon Ellison, Randall Scott Springfield, Howard Locker 2001-12-25
6314455 Data processing system and method for permitting a server to remotely initiate a client's boot block recovery Daryl Cromer, Brandon Jon Ellison, Howard Locker, Randall Scott Springfield 2001-11-06
6304900 Data processing system and method for permitting a server computer system to remotely modify operation of a client system's network hardware Daryl Cromer, Brandon Jon Ellison, Robert D. Johnson, Howard Locker, Randall Scott Springfield 2001-10-16
6282643 Computer system having flash memory BIOS which can be accessed remotely while protected mode operating system is running Daryl Cromer, Brandon Jon Ellison, Howard Locker, Randall Scott Springfield 2001-08-28