MARK ALAN JOHNSON
Pilots at 2 St, San Jose, CA

2008023, Oct 2, 2008

Mar 29, 2007

11/693206

Joe S. Hsu - San Jose CA, US
Mark C. Johnson - San Jose CA, US
Hugh W. McDevitt - San Jose CA, US

INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION - Armonk NY

G01R 31/08

370216

Systems and methods for verifying recovery from intermittent hardware faults. Exemplary embodiments include a method for verifying recovery from intermittent hardware faults, the method including generating an error in a computer interface by forcing a hardware fault after setting an error injection enable control bit in a register coupled to the computer interface, detecting an error in a hardware checker coupled to the computer interface which asserts an error interrupt signal resetting the error injection enable control bit when the error interrupt signal and a hardware reset control bit coupled to the computer interface are both active, disabling error forcing when the error injection enable control bit is reset, and executing an error recovery and logging procedure in the computer interface.

5845072, Dec 1, 1998

May 5, 1997

8/850284

Damon W. Finney - San Jose CA
Wen-Jei Ho - Saratoga CA
Mark C. Johnson - San Jose CA
Donald J. Lang - Cupertino CA

International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY

G06F 1300

39520038

A common macro interface between chips that have design features in common and communicate with each other. The common macro interface (CMI) uses VHDL (VHSIC Hardware Description Language) which is the industry standard hardware design language. A common protocol is provided to resolve communication problems and comprises four signals: request; acknowledge request; data acknowledge, and read/write. A freeway system within the interfaces facilitates parallel and pipelining processes and an arbiter (also called a scheduler) is placed in front of every slave resource to control the traffic independently and to avoid traffic collisions from locking the freeway. The freeway is unique for each integrated circuit. Accordingly, macros may be moved from chip to chip without requiring complete system modifications and the effort involved in designing macros common to several chips may be shared.

7437593, Oct 14, 2008

Jul 14, 2003

10/619816

Mark C. Johnson - San Jose CA, US
Bitwoded Okbay - Gilroy CA, US
Andrew Moy - San Jose CA, US

International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY

G06F 11/00

714 2, 714 42, 714 52, 714776, 370463

An apparatus, system, and method are provided for managing errors in prefetched data. The apparatus, system, and method identify prefetched data that contains an uncorrectable error. In addition, the apparatus, system, and method initiate an error recovery process only for prefetched data that is actually used by a requesting device, module, or application. The apparatus includes a prefetch module that prefetches data packets, a validation module that determines whether a prefetched data packet contains an uncorrectable error, a transfer module that transfers prefetched data packets to a requester, and an error recovery module that selectively initiates error recovery for those data packets that contain an uncorrectable error and are actually transferred to the requester.

5642478, Jun 24, 1997

Dec 29, 1994

8/366185

Chin-Huang Chen - San Jose CA
Mark C. Johnson - San Jose CA
Donald John Lang - Cupertino CA

International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY

G06F 1108

39518321

A dedicated debugging facility for tracing hardware and software faults in a distributed digital system. An event data capture circuit is integrated into each processing node in a distributed multinode system for capturing event data within each node under software control. The captured event data is stored in one of a plurality of variable-length trace data buffers in the node processor memory space for analysis or transfer. These dedicated trace data acquisition circuits provide continuously available trace data for the hardware and software functions within each node. Each variable-length trace data entry is stored in the trace data buffers according to a format of this invention that permits collection and assembly of trace data entries from throughout the distributed multinode system to debug local hardware or software and to debug internodal interconnection hardware and software.

6106625, Aug 22, 2000

Feb 13, 1998

9/023852

Keith Koai - Los Gatos CA
Mark Johnson - San Jose CA
Mei Chang - Saratoga CA
Lawrence Chung Lei - Milpitas CA

Applied Materials, Inc. - Santa Clara CA

C23C 1600

118715

A plasma reaction chamber particularly configured for chemical vapor deposition of titanium nitride with a TDMAT precursor, the deposition including a plasma step. Gas is injected from a gas cavity in a showerhead electrode assembly through a large number of showerhead holes into the processing region over the wafer. The showerhead electrode is capable of being RF energized to create a plasma of a gas in the processing region. The showerhead electrode and other parts of the assembly are cooled by a cooling plate disposed above the gas cavity and connected to a rim of the showerhead electrode. A convolute water-cooling channel is formed in the cooling plate having a small cross section and numerous bends so as to create turbulent flow, thus aiding thermal transfer. The water cooling plate is connected to the showerhead electrode across a large horizontal interface, thus also aiding thermal flow. An edge ring assembly is positioned in a peripheral recess at the top of heater pedestal supporting the wafer next to the processing region.

6176930, Jan 23, 2001

Mar 4, 1999

9/262756

Keith K. Koai - Los Gatos CA
Tung-Ching Tseng - Sunnyvale CA
James J. Chen - San Jose CA
Mark S. Johnson - San Jose CA
John Schmitt - Sunnyvale CA
Sean Li - Sunnyvale CA

Applied Materials, Inc. - Santa Clara CA

C23C 1600

118715

An apparatus and method for controlling a flow of process material to a deposition chamber. The apparatus comprises an injector valve, disposed between the process material source and the deposition chamber. The injector valve controls the flow of precursor material by repeatedly opening and closing the injector valve with a predetermined duty cycle. The apparatus further comprises an evaporator coupled to the injector valve for evaporating the precursor.

2013003, Feb 14, 2013

Oct 16, 2012

13/653357

Mark V. Johnson - San Jose CA, US

A01K 45/00, B23P 23/00

119 695, 294011

A multilevel birdbath consists of a main body that has a concave, contoured inside surface and an exterior lower surface, the main body further has a flat rim surrounding the concave inside surface and the concave inside surface optionally has stepped areas fluctuating in height and a sloping portion such that the stepped areas would create different depths of the multilevel birdbath which can accommodate and attract birds of different sizes and species.

D669230, Oct 16, 2012

Oct 18, 2010

29/377189

Mark V. Johnson - San Jose CA, US

3007

D30123