DR. WILLIAM E PLYLER, MD
Medical Practice at Sunset Blvd, Cayce-West Columbia, SC

6014714, Jan 11, 2000

Jun 16, 1997

8/874451

William Wyche Plyler - Charlotte NC
Randolph Scot Kolvick - Harrisburg NC
Eric Allan Billheimer - Charlotte NC

International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY

G06F 1314, G06F 300

710 8

An adapter card which includes a non volatile memory for containing configuration parameters for establishing one of a plurality of configurations for the adapter card, as well as a pair of mapping bits which define the selected configuration. A default configuration is provided which places the adapter card in the legacy configuration during an initial system power up. The default mode also enables the adapter card to listen for a plug and play initialization key sequence, and switch the card configuration to a plug and play configuration. A companion utilities program permits access to the EEPROM for establishing a new set of configuration parameters in the EEPROM, and to change the mapping bits.

6292848, Sep 18, 2001

Sep 16, 1999

9/398008

William Wyche Plyler - Charlotte NC
Randolph Scot Kolvick - Harrisburg NC
Eric Allan Billheimer - Charlotte NC

International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY

G06F 1310

710 8

An adapter card which includes a non volatile memory for containing configuration parameters for establishing one of a plurality of configurations for the adapter card, as well as a pair of mapping bits which define the selected configuration. A default configuration is provided which places the adapter card in the legacy configuration during an initial system power up. The default mode also enables the adapter card to listen for a plug and play initialization key sequence, and switch the card configuration to a plug and play configuration. A companion utilities program permits access to the EEPROM for establishing a new set of configuration parameters in the EEPROM, and to change the mapping bits.

6049881, Apr 11, 2000

May 8, 1998

9/075357

Lloyd H. Massman - Raleigh NC
William W. Plyler - Charlotte NC

International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY

G06F 118

713300

A power adapter for powering a remote device for use with a portable computer. The power adapter has a first plug for connecting to a data port of the portable computer and for sourcing power from the data port. Also provided is a power converter electrically connected to the first plug for regulating the sourced power from the data port and outputting a power requirement to the remote device. Lastly, a second plug electrically connected to the power converter for connection to the remote device and delivery of the outputted power requirement thereto is provided. Also provided is a portable computer system which utilizes the power adapter of the present invention. The portable computer system comprises a portable computer having a data port, a remote device for use with the portable computer, and the power adapter of the present invention for powering the remote device through the data port. In a preferred embodiment of the power adapter, the remote device is a cordless telephone transceiver and the power is sourced from a mouse port of the portable computer.

6138242, Oct 24, 2000

Oct 29, 1999

9/430070

Lloyd H. Massman - Raleigh NC
William W. Plyler - Charlotte NC

International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY

G06F 118

713300

A power adapter for powering a remote device for use with a portable computer. The power adapter has a first plug for connecting to a data port of the portable computer and for sourcing power from the data port. Also provided is a power converter electrically connected to the first plug for regulating the sourced power from the data port and outputting a power requirement to the remote device. Lastly, a second plug electrically connected to the power converter for connection to the remote device and delivery of the outputted power requirement thereto is provided. Also provided is a portable computer system which utilizes the power adapter of the present invention. The portable computer system comprises a portable computer having a data port, a remote device for use with the portable computer, and the power adapter of the present invention for powering the remote device through the data port. In a preferred embodiment of the power adapter, the remote device is a cordless telephone transceiver and the power is sourced from a mouse port of the portable computer.

5875350, Feb 23, 1999

Apr 21, 1997

8/843764

Charles McLees Comp - Rochester MN
Gregory Albert Dancker - Rochester MN
William Van Durrett - Harrisburg NC
Harvey Gene Kiel - Rochester MN
William Wyche Plyler - Charlotte NC
John Elliott Walker - York SC

International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY

G06F 1314

395831

A controller and a properly equipped peripheral device of a computer system easily exchange messages having a compressed data format. Both the controller and the peripheral device are configured to communicate using a predefined basic command set employing a predefined communications format. The controller first verifies that the peripheral device supports a second predefined communications format in addition to the first predefined communications format. Compared to the first format, the second format utilizes messages with greater compression, i. e. , an optimized bit stream ("OBS"). The controller next sends the peripheral device a number of commands, including a command of the basic command set accompanied by an OBS enable code. In the case of a write operation, the controller also sends the peripheral device an encoded dataset having the second predefined communications format and representing an underlying unencoded dataset. Although the basic command alone would alert the peripheral device to the transmission of uncompressed data, the presence of the OBS enable code signals a compressed dataset.