The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document.
The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 01, 2006
Filed:
Mar. 13, 2003
Troy David Armstrong, Rochester, MN (US);
William Joseph Armstrong, Rochester, MN (US);
Curtis Shannon Eide, Rochester, MN (US);
Gregory Michael Nordstrom, Pine Island, MN (US);
Troy David Armstrong, Rochester, MN (US);
William Joseph Armstrong, Rochester, MN (US);
Curtis Shannon Eide, Rochester, MN (US);
Gregory Michael Nordstrom, Pine Island, MN (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A resource and partition manager includes a power on/power off mechanism that is used to assure a hardware resource is powered down when control of the resource is removed from a logical partition, and to assure the hardware resource is powered up when control of the hardware resource is transferred to a logical partition. In the alternative, the resource and partition manager may simply place the hardware resource in a power on reset state when the hardware resource is transferred to a logical partition. In this manner, when made available to a partition, the hardware resource is in a power-on reset state, which is the state typically expected by the logical partition.