Joseph E Bolan, 69207 Ketrick Ct, Cary, NC 27519

6647480, Nov 11, 2003

Mar 31, 2000

09/540452

Joseph E. Bolan - Morrisville NC
Michael D. Washburn - Johnson City NY

International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY

G06F 1300

711170, 711154, 709203, 709247

Data stored in a block of first memory is updated over a LAN. The block is larger than the unused part of a second memory. After compressing the data it is transferred over a LAN to a device where the first and second memory are located. The data is decompressed in increments smaller than the unused part of the second memory and then written to the first memory.

7574534, Aug 11, 2009

May 23, 2006

11/419988

Joseph E. Bolan - Cary NC, US
Robert K. Christner - Raleigh NC, US
Simon C. Chu - Chapel Hill NC, US
Peter T. Donovan - Cary NC, US
Eric R. Kern - Chapel Hill NC, US

International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY

G06F 3/00
G06F 9/00

710 15, 710 8, 710 10, 713 1, 713 2

Identifying an operating system running on a computer system. In one aspect of the invention, an enumeration pattern is collected, the enumeration pattern describing an enumeration of a device that has been performed between the device and the operating system running on a host computer system. The type of the operating system running on the host computer system is identified based on the collected enumeration pattern.

7779276, Aug 17, 2010

Mar 5, 2007

11/681818

Joseph Edward Bolan - Cary NC, US
Keith Manders Campbell - Cary NC, US
Vijay Kumar - Cary NC, US
Malcolm Scott Ware - Austin TX, US

International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY

G06F 1/00
G06F 1/32
G06F 15/177
G06F 15/76

713300, 713320, 709220, 712 13

Systems and methods are provided for managing power in a processing system. In one embodiment, a target system having a plurality of electronic devices is operated within a net power limit. A local controller detects power consumption for each device, and communicates the power consumption to a power management module. The power management module dynamically apportions the net power limit among the devices, and communicates the apportioned power limit for each device back to the associated local controller. Each local controller enforces the apportioned power limit to an associated device on behalf of the power management module.

7809993, Oct 5, 2010

Jan 17, 2006

11/333137

Joseph Edward Bolan - Cary NC, US
Darren Christopher Douglas - Tucson AZ, US
Jason James Graves - Tucson AZ, US
Shah Mohammad Rezaul Islam - Tucson AZ, US
Lei Liu - Tucson AZ, US
Yoshihiko Terashita - Yamato, JP

International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY

G06F 11/00

714 48

An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for receiving digital instructions at devices or controllers sharing an identity. A first controller receives a digital instruction instance over a communications medium. The digital instruction instance may be a firmware instance. The first controller has ownership of the communications medium and shares the communications medium and a common identity with a second controller. An ownership module transfers ownership of the communications medium from the first controller to the second controller. The ownership module may transfer ownership in response to the first controller successfully receiving the digital instruction instance. A request module requests a retransmission of the digital instruction instance, and may request the retransmission in response to the transfer of ownership of the communications medium. The second controller receives the retransmitted digital instruction instance in response to the retransmission request.

8024606, Sep 20, 2011

Aug 21, 2009

12/545585

Joseph E. Bolan - Cary NC, US
Vijay Kumar - Cary NC, US

International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY

G06F 11/00

714 22, 714 14, 713300

Power restoration to blade servers including maintaining a list of blade server identifications and a value of power saving for each capped blade server; identifying losing power to the capped blade servers; restoring power to the previously capped blade servers in order of the values of power savings.

8190774, May 29, 2012

Dec 14, 2007

11/957203

Joseph E. Bolan - Cary NC, US
Gregory W. Dake - Durham NC, US
Scott N. Dunham - Raleigh NC, US
Martin J. Tross - Haifa IL, US
Theodore B. Vojnovich - Cary NC, US
Ben-Ami Yassour - Haifa IL, US

International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY

G06F 15/16

709245, 709221

Methods, apparatus, and products for managing virtual addresses of blade servers in a data center are disclosed that include storing by a blade server management module (‘BSMM’), in non-volatile memory of a blade server, a parameter block, the parameter block including one or more virtual addresses for communications adapters of the blade server and one or more action identifiers, each action identifier representing a type of address modification; detecting, by a basic input-output system (‘BIOS’) module of the blade server upon powering on the blade server, the parameter block; and modifying, by the BIOS module of the blade server in dependence upon the one or more action identifiers of the parameter block, an address of at least one communications adapter of the blade server.

8194661, Jun 5, 2012

Sep 30, 2009

12/570663

Joseph E. Bolan - Cary NC, US
Keith M. Campbell - Cary NC, US
Phuong T. Nguyen - Cary NC, US
Norman C. Strole - Raleigh NC, US

International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY

H04L 12/28
H04L 12/56
H04L 12/54
H04J 3/26
G06F 15/16
G06F 15/173

370390, 370392, 37039552, 370401, 370428, 370432, 709230, 709238

Autoconfiguration of an IPv6 component in a segmented network including receiving an IPv6 packet; determining whether the received IPv6 packet is a router advertisement or a router solicitation; if the received IPv6 packet is a router advertisement, then retrieving through an out-of-band link a MAC address for the IPv6 component, removing a MAC address of a sending router, inserting in the packet instead an internal MAC address for forwarding packets to the IPv6 component, removing a multicast destination MAC address, inserting in the packet the destination MAC address of the IPv6 component, and forwarding the packet to the IPv6 component as a unicast message; if the received IPv6 packet is a router solicitation, then removing the MAC address of the sending IPv6 component, inserting in the packet instead an external MAC address for forwarding packets to the router, and forwarding the packet to the router as a multicast message.

8200800, Jun 12, 2012

Mar 12, 2009

12/402879

Joseph E. Bolan - Cary NC, US
James R. Goffena - Chapel Hill NC, US
Sumeet Kochar - Apex NC, US
Adam L. Soderlund - Bahama NC, US

International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY

G06F 15/173

709223

Remotely administering a server, the server including non-volatile memory upon which is disposed one or more digital images representing the server, the server also including one or more components each of which includes non-volatile memory in which is disposed one or more digital images representing the component, where the server is connected for data communications to a management module, and remotely administering the server includes: retrieving, by the management module from the server, the digital images representing the server and the digital images representing the installed components; generating, by the management module with the digital images representing the server and the digital images representing the installed components, a graphical representation of the server with the installed components; and presenting, by the management module to a user through a GUI, the graphical representation of the server with the installed components.