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Steven M. Thurber

IBM: 131 patents #359 of 70,183Top 1%
Texas: #259 of 125,132 inventorsTop 1%
Overall (All Time): #8,308 of 4,157,543Top 1%
131 Patents All Time

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Showing 76–100 of 131 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDate
7103789 Method, system, and product for indicating power status of field replaceable units George Henry Ahrens, Ronald S. Wesely 2006-09-05
7099955 End node partitioning using LMC for a system area network Thomas A. Gregg, Gregory F. Pfister, Renato J. Recio 2006-08-29
7076570 Method and apparatus for managing service indicator lights in a logically partitioned computer system George Henry Ahrens, Curtis S. Eide 2006-07-11
6990528 System area network of end-to-end context via reliable datagram domains Danny Marvin Neal, Renato J. Recio 2006-01-24
6981025 Method and apparatus for ensuring scalable mastership during initialization of a system area network Giles R. Frazier, Danny Marvin Neal, Gregory F. Pfister, Dono Van-Mierop 2005-12-27
6973510 DMA windowing in an LPAR environment using device arbitration level to allow multiple IOAs per terminal bridge Richard Louis Arndt, Danny Marvin Neal 2005-12-06
6941350 Method and apparatus for reliably choosing a master network manager during initialization of a network computing system Giles R. Frazier, Gregory F. Pfister, Dono Van-Mierop 2005-09-06
6931471 Method, apparatus, and computer program product for migrating data subject to access by input/output devices Richard Louis Arndt, Luke Matthew Browning, Bruce Mealey 2005-08-16
6851059 Method and system for choosing a queue protection key that is tamper-proof from an application Gregory F. Pfister, Renato J. Recio, Danny Marvin Neal 2005-02-01
6823404 DMA windowing in an LPAR environment using device arbitration level to allow multiple IOAs per terminal bridge Richard Louis Arndt, Danny Marvin Neal 2004-11-23
6748559 Method and system for reliably defining and determining timeout values in unreliable datagrams Gregory F. Pfister, Giles R. Frazier, Danny Marvin Neal 2004-06-08
6718422 Enhanced bus arbiter utilizing variable priority and fairness Richard Allen Kelley, Danny Marvin Neal 2004-04-06
6715011 PCI/PCI-X bus bridge with performance monitor Pat Allen Buckland, Daniel Marvin Neal 2004-03-30
6687240 Transaction routing system Daniel F. Moertl, Danny Marvin Neal, Adalberto G. Yanes 2004-02-03
6654818 DMA access authorization for 64-bit I/O adapters on PCI bus 2003-11-25
6643727 Isolation of I/O bus errors to a single partition in an LPAR environment Richard Louis Arndt 2003-11-04
6636947 Coherency for DMA read cached data Danny Marvin Neal 2003-10-21
6629162 System, method, and product in a logically partitioned system for prohibiting I/O adapters from accessing memory assigned to other partitions during DMA Richard Louis Arndt 2003-09-30
6581129 Intelligent PCI/PCI-X host bridge Pat Allen Buckland, Daniel F. Moertl, Danny Marvin Neal, Scott M. Willenborg, Curtis C. Wollbrink +1 more 2003-06-17
6523140 Computer system error recovery and fault isolation Richard Louis Arndt, Danny Marvin Neal 2003-02-18
6493779 Method and system for interrupt handling using device pipelined packet transfers Guy L. Guthrie, Richard Allen Kelley, Danny Marvin Neal 2002-12-10
6480917 Device arbitration including peer-to-peer access arbitration Daniel F. Moertl, Danny Marvin Neal, Adalberto G. Yanes 2002-11-12
6480923 Information routing for transfer buffers Daniel F. Moertl, Danny Marvin Neal, Adalberto G. Yanes 2002-11-12
6457077 System for executing a current information transfer request even when current information transfer request exceeds current available capacity of a transit buffer Richard Allen Kelley, Danny Marvin Neal, Adalberto G. Yanes 2002-09-24
6421756 Buffer assignment for bridges Richard Allen Kelley, Danny Marvin Neal 2002-07-16