Inventor · disambiguated record
Ralph M. Begun
Also filed as: BEGUN RALPH M · BEGUN RALPH MURRAY
25 granted patents·2 pending applications·1,208 citations·filing 1988–2011
97Inventor score
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27 records- 0196US5878256AMethod and apparatus for providing updated firmware in a data processing systemIBM·Filed 1991·Granted Mar 2, 1999·271 cites·6 claims
- 0294US8032745B2Authentication of I2C bus transactionsIBM·Filed 2005·Granted Oct 4, 2011·47 cites·13 claims
- 0391US5826075AAutomated programmable fireware store for a personal computer systemIBM·Filed 1991·Granted Oct 20, 1998·170 cites·23 claims
- 0491US5459842ASystem for combining data from multiple CPU write requests via buffers and using read-modify-write operation to write the combined data to the memoryIBM·Filed 1992·Granted Oct 17, 1995·182 cites·17 claims
- 0582US5802393AComputer system for detecting and accessing BIOS ROM on local bus peripheral bus or expansion busIBM·Filed 1997·Granted Sep 1, 1998·87 cites·3 claims
- 0680US5375084ASelectable interface between memory controller and memory simmsIBM·Filed 1993·Granted Dec 20, 1994·84 cites·7 claims
- 0778US7948196B2Plurality of configurable independent compute nodes sharing a fan assemblyIBM·Filed 2008·Granted May 24, 2011·17 cites·25 claims
- 0873US7487222B2System management architecture for multi-node computer systemIBM·Filed 2005·Granted Feb 3, 2009·6 cites·18 claims
- 0973US5146582AData processing system with means to convert burst operations into memory pipelined operationsIBM·Filed 1989·Granted Sep 8, 1992·47 cites·3 claims
- 1072US7707290B2Securing leased resources on a computerIBM·Filed 2006·Granted Apr 27, 2010·7 cites·14 claims
- 1172US5680556AComputer system and method of operation thereof wherein a BIOS ROM can be selectively locatable on diffeent busesIBM·Filed 1996·Granted Oct 21, 1997·52 cites·6 claims
- 1270US5125084AControl of pipelined operation in a microcomputer system employing dynamic bus sizing with 80386 processor and 82385 cache controllerIBM·Filed 1988·Granted Jun 23, 1992·41 cites·9 claims
- 1369US5045998AMethod and apparatus for selectively posting write cycles using the 82385 cache controllerIBM·Filed 1989·Granted Sep 3, 1991·39 cites·6 claims
- 1460US7984312B2System and method for interchangeably powering single or multiple motherboardsIBM·Filed 2007·Granted Jul 19, 2011·2 cites·18 claims
- 1558US5109506AMicrocomputer system including a microprocessor reset circuitIBM·Filed 1989·Granted Apr 28, 1992·23 cites·5 claims
- 1657US5175826ADelayed cache write enable circuit for a dual bus microcomputer system with an 80386 and 82385IBM·Filed 1988·Granted Dec 29, 1992·24 cites·3 claims
- 1753US5170481AMicroprocessor hold and lock circuitryIBM·Filed 1989·Granted Dec 8, 1992·19 cites·16 claims
- 1852US5381541AComputer system having planar board with single interrupt controller and processor card with plural processors and interrupt directorIBM·Filed 1993·Granted Jan 10, 1995·25 cites·6 claims
- 1949US8028069B2Structure for securing leased resources on a computerIBM·Filed 2008·Granted Sep 27, 2011·0 cites·11 claims
- 2048US5327545AData processing apparatus for selectively posting write cycles using the 82385 cache controllerIBM·Filed 1991·Granted Jul 5, 1994·19 cites·7 claims
- 2147US5307482AComputer, non-maskable interrupt trace routine overrideIBM·Filed 1992·Granted Apr 26, 1994·18 cites·20 claims
- 2245US5884094AComputer system for detecting and accessing BIOS ROM on the local or peripheral busIBM·Filed 1998·Granted Mar 16, 1999·14 cites·3 claims
- 2345US2005196124A1Automated topology detection in a data processing systemIBM·Filed 2004·Application pending·0 cites
- 2441US2003055969A1System and method for performing power management on a distributed systemIBM·Filed 2001·Application pending·0 cites
- 2537US8819484B2Dynamically reconfiguring a primary processor identity within a multi-processor socket serverBEGUN RALPH M·Filed 2011·Granted Aug 26, 2014·0 cites·17 claims
- 2636US5450559AMicrocomputer system employing address offset mechanism to increase the supported cache memory capacityIBM·Filed 1991·Granted Sep 12, 1995·7 cites·14 claims
- 2736US5182809ADual bus microcomputer system with programmable control of lock functionIBM·Filed 1989·Granted Jan 26, 1993·7 cites·4 claims
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