Did You Know...
...that the inventor of the electric motor was a blacksmith named Thomas Davenport? Described as "a brilliantly unsuccessful inventor", Davenport invented the first rotary electric motor. In 1836 he headed out -- on foot -- from his Vermont home to file a patent application at the Patent Office in Washington, D.C. By the time he got there, he had squandered away his money and couldn't afford the $30 filing fee so he turned around and went home. When he later mailed in his application with money he'd raised, the Patent office was destroyed in a fire. He did finally get credit for his invention on Feb. 5, 1837.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6336152 | Method for automatically configuring devices including a network adapter without manual intervention and without prior configuration information A system for configuring a network adapter of a computer without user intervention. Device information for the devices of the computer, including each network adapter, is collected to uniquely identify the devices and to describe the device characteristic... | 01/01/2002 |
| 6279032 | Method and system for quorum resource arbitration in a server cluster A method and system for selecting a set of systems (nodes) for a server cluster from at least two non-communicating sets of systems. A persistent storage device with cluster configuration information therein is provided as a quorum resource. Using an arbi... | 08/21/2001 |
| 6178529 | Method and system for resource monitoring of disparate resources in a server cluster A method and system in a server cluster for monitoring and controlling a resource object, such as a physical device or application. A cluster service connects to a resource monitoring component to control and monitor the health of one or more resource obj... | 01/23/2001 |
| 6003097 | System for automatically configuring a network adapter without manual intervention by using a registry data structure maintained within a computer system memory A system for configuring a network adapter of a computer without user intervention. Device information for the devices of the computer, including each network adapter, is collected to uniquely identify the devices and to describe the device characteristic... | 12/14/1999 |
| 5881252 | Method and apparatus for automatically configuring circuit cards in a computer system A method and apparatus for automatically configuring circuit cards used in a computer system. The present invention includes a method and apparatus that enables the circuit cards to be automatically configured during system boot up without any user interv... | 03/09/1999 |
| 5819107 | Method for managing the assignment of device drivers in a computer system A system for managing the assignment of device drivers to devices of a computer system. The computer system can maintain device-related information for a primary device and for devices that are "compatible" with the primary device. This device information... | 10/06/1998 |
| 5809329 | System for managing the configuration of a computer system A system for managing the configuration of devices of a computer system. Device information is obtained to uniquely identify each device and to describe the device characteristics associated with device operation. To obtain device information, a particula... | 09/15/1998 |
| 5793979 | System for allocating the resources of a computer system A system for allocating resources for use by devices of a computer system. A possible configuration of elements of a resource is obtained. This possible configuration defines the resource elements that are appropriate for operating the devices within the ... | 08/11/1998 |
| 5787246 | System for configuring devices for a computer system A system for configuring devices of a computer system without user intervention. Device information for each of the devices is collected to uniquely identify the devices and to describe the device characteristics associated with the operation of devices w... | 07/28/1998 |
| 5768542 | Method and apparatus for automatically configuring circuit cards in a computer system A method and apparatus for automatically configuring circuit cards used in a computer system. The present invention includes a method and apparatus that enables the circuit cards to be automatically configured during system boot up without any user interv... | 06/16/1998 |
| 5708814 | Method and apparatus for reducing the rate of interrupts by generating a single interrupt for a group of events A peripheral device interrupt controller maintains a count of pending interrupt events for a peripheral device up to a preset limit and times a preset delay interval from a first pending interrupt event or last interrupt servicing before asserting an inte... | 01/13/1998 |
| 5655148 | Method for automatically configuring devices including a network adapter without manual intervention and without prior configuration information A system for configuring a network adapter of a computer without user intervention. Device information for the devices of the computer, including each network adapter, is collected to uniquely identify the devices and to describe the device characteristic... | 08/05/1997 |
