Daniel Frank Moertl

Peripheral component interconnect (PCI) architecture having hot-plugging capability for a data-processing system

Interrupt and message batching apparatus and method

System for determining adapter interrupt status where interrupt is sent to host after operating status stored in register is shadowed to host memory

System for dynamically configuring I/O device adapters where a function configuration register contains ready/not ready flags corresponding to each I/O device adapter

Apparatus and Method for Communicating with a Memory Registration Enabled Adapter Using Cached Address Translations

Directory rebuild method and apparatus for maintaining and rebuilding directory information for compressed data on direct access storage device (DASD)

Method and apparatus for correlating computer system device physical location with logical address

Concurrent maintenance for PCI based DASD subsystem with concurrent maintenance message being communicated between SPCN (system power control network) and I/O adapter using PCI bridge

Message transport mechanisms and methods

Storage method and hierarchical padding structure for direct access storage device (DASD) data compression