Electrical computers and digital data processing systems: input/ – Intrasystem connection – System configuring
Patent
1998-01-30
2000-10-31
Etienne, Ario
Electrical computers and digital data processing systems: input/
Intrasystem connection
System configuring
710241, 710 8, 713 1, G06F 1300
Patent
active
061417122
ABSTRACT:
When an expansion card is installed in a computer system using a computer viewer, an object is created by the computer viewer to represent the card. The computer viewer uses the card object to examine the card for I/O functions present on the card and to obtain resource requirements for each function. The resource requirements are also provided to a resource conflict resolver object which attempts to assign resources to each I/O function on the cards. If the resource conflict resolver is successful in assigning resource to each I/O function, then the resource assignments are also stored in objects. The computer viewer then uses the card objects to store the resource objects in a persistent storage. During a later system boot operation, the booting system creates bus and card recognizer objects which identify expansion buses and cards present in the system and retrieve the function resource objects from the persistent storage to represent each expansion card.
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Andert Glenn P.
Sudhakaran E. U.
Etienne Ario
Object Technology Licensing Corporation
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