International Business Machines Corporation

Benjamin J Lyndgaard

Edward Joseph Seminaro

David P Graybill

Wayne A Barringer

Diyanesh B Chinnakkonda

Ay Vang

John Francis Mullen

Trevor J Richert

Eric James Mckeever

An assembly includes: a server rack; first side and second side outer rails attached to the rack and positionally fixed relative to the rack; a support device attached to the rack adjacent to a rear of the rack; a computer network switch having a port side positioned adjacent to the rear of the rack; and first side and second side inner rails attached to the network switch and positionally fixed relative to the network switch, the inner rails being slidably attached to the outer rails. The network switch is movable between a retracted position and an extended position, and the support device is located such that the support device physically blocks the network switch from being removed from the rear of the server rack.

Network switch mounting system

A method, system, and computer program product for a faster identification of available reference designators (ARDs) in a design automation system. An ARD utility detects a selection of one or more selected component types for placement on a circuit schematic. A list containing one or more unavailable reference designators (URDs) is sorted through to identify one or more ARDs from the list of URDs. A list of ARDs is then generated, from which a pre-determined portion of ARDs are reserved. The reserved list of ARDs is then outputted for selection by a user.

Method for fast identification of available reference designators in a design automation system

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Rochester, MN, United States of America

Benjamin J Lyndgaard