Lourdes M Gee, 491296 Peregrine Way, Weston, FL 33327

7756049, Jul 13, 2010

Aug 11, 2004

10/915791

James Chien-Chiung Chen - Tucson AZ, US
Lourdes Magally Gee - Tucson AZ, US
Olympia Gluck - Haifa, IL
Richard Alan Schaeffer - Antioch CA, US
David Brent Schreiber - Tucson AZ, US
William Henry Travis - Tucson AZ, US
Gabriel G. Walder - K. Haim, IL

International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY

H04L 12/26
H04L 12/54

370252, 370428

An apparatus, system, and method are provided for controlling link status changes across multiple independent control modules. The apparatus includes a copy services module configured to control multiple link adapters, each configured to establish multiple communication links between a source and a target storage device. The adapter transmits a link status change notification to the copy services module and starts a timer upon transmitting the link status change notification. The copy services module simultaneously processes link status change notifications from a plurality of communication links. The system includes a communications network and a plurality of storage devices having the above described apparatus. The method includes controlling a plurality of link adapters configured to establish multiple communication links between storage devices, transmitting a link status change notification, starting a timer upon transmitting the link status change notification, and simultaneously processing link status change notifications from a plurality of communication links.

7761734, Jul 20, 2010

Apr 13, 2007

11/735295

Earle Ellsworth - Benson AZ, US
Lourdes Magally Gee - Tucson AZ, US
Jason James Graves - Tucson AZ, US
Kevan D. Holdaway - Tucson AZ, US
David Michael Morton - Tucson AZ, US
Nhu Thanh Nguyen - Tucson AZ, US

International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY

G06F 11/00

714 6, 714 15

Provided are techniques for restoring firmware. A first programmable hardware device determines that a second programmable hardware device needs a valid firmware image, retrieves a copy of the valid firmware image from an external memory, and sends the valid firmware image to the second programmable hardware device via a private communication link, wherein the private communication link enables private communication between the first programmable hardware device and the second programmable hardware device. The second programmable hardware device restores existing firmware using the valid firmware image.

7761735, Jul 20, 2010

Apr 13, 2007

11/735305

Earle Ellsworth - Benson AZ, US
Lourdes Magally Gee - Tucson AZ, US
Jason James Graves - Tucson AZ, US
Kevan D. Holdaway - Tucson AZ, US
David Michael Morton - Tucson AZ, US
Nhu Thanh Nguyen - Tucson AZ, US

International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY

G06F 11/00

714 6, 714 15

Provided are techniques for restoring firmware. A first programmable hardware device determines that a second programmable hardware device needs a valid firmware image, retrieves a copy of the valid firmware image from an external memory, and sends the valid firmware image to the second programmable hardware device via a private communication link, wherein the private communication link enables private communication between the first programmable hardware device and the second programmable hardware device. The second programmable hardware device restores existing firmware using the valid firmware image.

8291268, Oct 16, 2012

Apr 2, 2009

12/417519

Jorge Daniel Acuna - Vail AZ, US
Lourdes Magnally Gee - Tucson AZ, US
Jason James Graves - Tucson AZ, US
Kevan D. Holdaway - Raleigh NC, US
Nhu Thanh Nguyen - Houston TX, US

International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY

G06F 11/00

714 48, 714 37

A method to provide an alert notification and a reconcile action to a client computing system, the alert notification being responsive to an error condition in a target computing system, and the reconcile action being responsive to the alert notification, wherein the method supplies a client computing system and a target computing system, wherein the target computing system is in communication with the client computing system. The method further forms an alert notification responsive to an error condition detected in the target computing system, and generates a reconcile action responsive to the alert notification. The method provides the alert notification and the reconcile action to the client computing system. The client computing system returns a selected reconcile action, which is implemented by the target computing system, wherein that implementing step is performed without logging into said target computing system.

8341444, Dec 25, 2012

Feb 11, 2008

12/028901

Deanna Brown - Queen Creek AZ, US
Lourdes M. Gee - Tucson AZ, US
Nhu T. Nguyen - Tuscon AZ, US
Evan T. Webster - Sahuarita AZ, US

International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY

G06F 1/32

713323

A method for minimizing power consumption in a computer server is provided. Collected data for an event is compared with an entry in a power consumption table. A power reduction mechanism is triggered if the collected data and the entry are within a specified range. The power consumption table is updated with the collected data if the collected data and the entry are not within the specified range.

8392904, Mar 5, 2013

Mar 12, 2009

12/403276

Melissa Jorgette Garcia - Tucson AZ, US
Lourdes Magally Gee - Tucson AZ, US
Kavitha Gudapati - Austin TX, US
Andrew Gary Hourselt - Tucson AZ, US

International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY

G06F 9/44

717168, 717170, 717172

An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for efficiently collecting code updates. The apparatus includes a generation module that identifies sites that provide code updates based on information about the computing system and its components that is already stored in the system. A supplement module identifies additional sites by monitoring Internet traffic on the computing system and looking for certain keywords, patterns, and regular expressions in visited sites. The user may also manually enter sites to supplement the sites automatically identified by the generation module and the supplement module. A monitor module monitors the identified sites for changes and determines when a new code update is available. A notification module notifies the user of the code updates when the monitor module determines that they have become available. The apparatus may also include a download module that automatically downloads new code updates for the user to install.

2005011, May 26, 2005

Nov 20, 2003

10/718420

Brian Corcoran - Oro Valley AZ, US
Lourdes Gee - Tucson AZ, US
Matthew Kalos - Tucson AZ, US
Ricardo Padilla - Tucson AZ, US

G06F017/00

70710300R

An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for communicating binary data using a self-descriptive binary data structure. The binary data structure also may be referred to as a microcode reconstruct and boot (MRB) image. The binary data structure includes a plurality of data segments, a target data set, and a data structure descriptor. Each of the data segments has a data segment header and data field. The target data set is stored within the data field and may be an executable. The data structure descriptor is descriptive of the binary data structure and identifies the location of the target data set within the data field. The binary data structure is self-descriptive in that the location of an individual target data set may be identified by the data structure descriptor.

2008016, Jul 10, 2008

Jan 4, 2007

11/619984

Lourdes Magally Gee - Tucson AZ, US
Jason James Graves - Tucson AZ, US
Kevan D. Holdaway - Tucson AZ, US
David Michael Morton - Tucson AZ, US
Ivan Ronald Olguin - Tucson AZ, US

International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY

G06F 9/44

717173

A method is disclosed to update multiple devices disposed in a computing system comprising a plurality of devices. The method receives a request to perform a firmware image update for a plurality of designated target devices, where each of those designated target devices comprises a first firmware image, and where the request comprises a second firmware image. The method uploads the second firmware image to a shared memory device, where each of the designated target devices is in communication with that shared memory device, and broadcasts an update command to each of the plurality of devices. The method determines the device state of each of the designated target devices, and if each of the designated target devices reports either an operational device state or an error device state, then the method reports that the firmware update is complete.