Inventor · Salt Point, NY, US

Charles E. Shapley

15Patents
10h-index
45Co-inventors
68Inventor score

Filing activity: Sep 4, 1991 → Dec 30, 2009

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US5452455A Asynchronous command support for shared channels for a computer complex having multiple operating systems Physics 83 Expired
US5257379A Establishing synchronization of hardware and software I/O configuration definitions Physics 81 Expired
US7177961B2 Managing access, by operating system images of a computing environment, of input/output resources of the computing environment Physics 63 Expired
US6996638B2 Method, system and program products for enhancing input/output processing for operating system images of a computing environment Physics 51 Expired
US7127599B2 Managing configurations of input/output system images of an input/output subsystem, wherein a configuration is modified without restarting the input/output subsystem to effect a modification Electricity 44 Expired
US7130938B2 Method, system and program products for identifying communications adapters of a computing environment Physics 42 Expired
US7174550B2 Sharing communications adapters across a plurality of input/output subsystem images Physics 41 Expired
US7277968B2 Managing sets of input/output communications subadapters of an input/output subsystem Physics 35 Expired
US7587531B2 Multiple logical input/output subsystem facility Physics 34 Active
US5712974A Method and apparatus for controlling the configuration definitions in a data processing system with a plurality of processors Physics 20 Expired
US7290070B2 Multiple logical input/output subsystem facility Physics 9 Expired
US7149821B2 Predictably defining input/output configurations for environments employing fabrics Physics 5 Expired
US7826386B2 Facilitating the configuring of communications environments Electricity 4 Active
US7911971B2 Mapping tool for configuring communications environments Electricity 3 Active
US6785747B2 Method and system for flexible channel path identifier assignment Physics 2 Expired

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