Patents Examined by Tanh Q Nguyen
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Patent number: 11416051Abstract: A service module may detect a power shutdown of an information handling system. In response a service processor may monitor incoming network traffic at a network port and at a universal serial bus port, and if the incoming network traffic includes a power control command directed to the information handling system, then execute the power control command.Type: GrantFiled: December 5, 2019Date of Patent: August 16, 2022Assignee: Dell Products L.P.Inventors: Deepaganesh Paulraj, Vinod Parackal Saby, Ankit Singh, Robin Mathew
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Patent number: 11416442Abstract: An integrated circuit includes a memory configured to store a plurality of functions; a mapping interface configured to perform a mapping from a received first signal to a first function of the plurality of functions; and a state machine configured to, in response to said mapping, execute the first function; wherein the integrated circuit is arranged to, in dependence on the execution of the first function at the state machine, modify said mapping between the first signal and the first function so as to re-map the first signal to a second function of the plurality of functions such that, on receiving a subsequent first signal, the state machine is configured to execute the second function.Type: GrantFiled: December 28, 2020Date of Patent: August 16, 2022Assignee: Imagination Technologies LimitedInventors: Bert Hindle, Ben Fletcher
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Patent number: 11404094Abstract: An apparatus is provided, where the apparatus includes a first transistor coupled between a supply node and an output node; a resistor and a second transistor coupled in series between the output node and a ground terminal; a circuitry to receive data, and to output a first control signal and a second control signal to respectively control the first transistor and the second transistor, wherein an output signal at the output node is indicative of the data, and wherein the first transistor is a N-type transistor.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2018Date of Patent: August 2, 2022Assignee: Intel CorporationInventors: Harishankar Sridharan, Karthik Tyamgondlu
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Patent number: 11372434Abstract: A power regulator is applied to regulate a work frequency of a central processing unit and the power regulator comprises a power resister, a voltage amplifier and an analog-to-digital converter. The power resister is coupled to a load to generate a first voltage. The voltage amplifier is coupled to the power resister to output a second voltage. The analog-to-digital converter is coupled to the voltage amplifier, converts the second voltage into a control signal and transmits the control signal to the central processing unit. The control signal is switched between a first level and a second level according to a value of the second voltage.Type: GrantFiled: November 22, 2019Date of Patent: June 28, 2022Assignee: GIGA-BYTE TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventors: Wen Hua Yu, Wen An Yang
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Patent number: 11360788Abstract: A configuration control transfer (“CCT”) system controls the transferring of control of configuration information of a device from a current configuration source to a target configuration source. A CCT server of the CCT system may send a request for the configuration information of the device where the configuration information of the device currently under control of the at least one first configuration source. The CCT server may also receive the requested configuration information, determine whether the second configuration source is able to support the configuration information of the first configuration source, and based at least on a determination that the second configuration source is able to support the configuration information, request that the device transfer control of the configuration information from the first configuration source to the second configuration source to unenroll the device with the first configuration source and enroll the device with the second configuration source.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2020Date of Patent: June 14, 2022Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Tanvir Ahmed, Peter J. Kaufman, Shayak Lahiri, John Chadwell Spaith, Janani Vasudevan, Dennis Edward Flanagan
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Patent number: 11307869Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer programs for receiving, by an information handling system firmware driver, a request for a feature associated with information handling system firmware, the feature stored in a baseboard management controller; determining a transfer size associated with the feature; identifying a plurality of connectivity points, each of the plurality of connectivity points communicatively coupling the information handling system firmware driver to the baseboard management controller, and each of the plurality of connectivity points associated with a bandwidth; selecting a transport route from the plurality of connectivity points based in part on the transfer size associated with the feature; and in response to selecting the transport route: transmitting the request for the feature to the baseboard management controller via the transport route; receiving the feature from the baseboard management controller via the transport route; and providing the feature to the information handling system firmType: GrantFiled: July 10, 2019Date of Patent: April 19, 2022Assignee: Dell Products L.P.Inventors: William Carl Edwards, III, Sankara Rao Gara, Aniruddha Suresh Herekar
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Patent number: 11288077Abstract: An example printer includes a non-transitory computer-readable medium. The printer also includes a boot engine communicatively coupled to the non-transitory computer-readable medium. The boot engine is to load a boot image into a first portion of the non-transitory computer-readable medium. The boot image includes data from an operational state of an operating system. The printer includes a configuration engine. The configuration engine is to program a second portion of the non-transitory computer-readable medium while the boot engine is loading the boot image.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2017Date of Patent: March 29, 2022Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.Inventors: Bartley Mark Hirst, Brian C Mayer, Hernan Ildefonso Gutierrez-Vazquez
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Patent number: 11237612Abstract: A technique to provide power management for multiple dice. The technique provides for determining for each respective die of the multiple dice, power consumption for operating each respective die; and generating a respective signal from each respective die that corresponds to the power consumption of each respective die. The technique further provides for converting each respective signal to a respective analog voltage to drive a common node; and utilizing a charge storage device coupled to the common node to accumulate the respective analog voltages from the dice, where the accumulated voltage indicates total power consumption of the dice.Type: GrantFiled: August 22, 2019Date of Patent: February 1, 2022Assignee: MICRON TECHNOLOGY, INC.Inventors: Jonathan S. Parry, Stephen L. Miller, Liang Yu
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Patent number: 11209885Abstract: An information processing apparatus capable of operating by switching between a first power mode and a second power mode with less power consumption than the first power mode is provided. The apparatus comprises a plurality of processors and a plurality of memories provided in correspondence with the plurality of processors, and controls power supplied to the plurality of processors and the corresponding plurality of memories. When operating in the second power mode, each of the plurality of memories stores a program to be loaded by a corresponding processor of the memory, and when one of the plurality of processors and the corresponding memory operate, power supply to processors and memories other than the one processor and the corresponding memory is limited.Type: GrantFiled: September 6, 2017Date of Patent: December 28, 2021Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Masanori Fukada
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Patent number: 11204637Abstract: A method and a gateway system for enabling adaptive power management. The gateway system is powered by a rechargeable battery that is coupled with a solar power source. A location reading indicating a location of the gateway system is transmitted at a first time. A solar profile is received from a management server. The solar profile indicates a measure of power expected to be generated at the location during an interval of time that occurs after the first time by the solar power source. The gateway system determines based on a current battery level of the rechargeable battery and the solar profile an optimal power usage plan for the gateway system and operates according to the optimal power usage plan during the interval of time.Type: GrantFiled: March 5, 2021Date of Patent: December 21, 2021Assignee: Samsara Networks Inc.Inventors: Brian Tuan, Kavya U. Joshi, James Michael Rowson, Justin J. Delegard, James Austin Duffield, Kong Kee Poon, Christian Peter Almer, John Bicket
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Patent number: 11188485Abstract: A memory system includes a first memory comprising at least one first code region; a second memory comprising at least one second code region; and a control unit configured to perform a first operation by executing a first code loaded to the first code region, and perform a second operation by executing a second code loaded to the second code region. The control unit performs a swap operation on the first code and the second code, based on a swap condition.Type: GrantFiled: July 16, 2018Date of Patent: November 30, 2021Assignee: SK hynix Inc.Inventor: Jeen Park
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Patent number: 11188137Abstract: A slave communication apparatus including a clock recovering section that recovers a clock signal from a transmission signal having a first signal value when the clock is a first level, a second signal value when the clock is a second level and data has a first data value, and a third signal value between the first and second signal values when the clock is the second level and the data has a second data value; and a data recovering section that recovers the data, wherein the data recovering section sets the data threshold value to be a first setting value between the second and third signal values in response to the recovered data having the second data value, and sets the data threshold value to be a second setting value between the first and third signal values in response to the recovered data having the first data value.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2019Date of Patent: November 30, 2021Assignee: FUJI ELECTRIC CO., LTD.Inventor: Masashi Akahane
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Patent number: 11182259Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for determining a configuration operable by a configurable electronic device. The device receives a second configuration and a predefined parameter. The device archives a first configuration in the non-transitory computer readable storage medium. The device applies the second configuration and then determine whether the predefined parameter is satisfied. When the predefined parameters are satisfied, the device maintains to apply the second configuration. When the predefined parameter is not satisfied, the device retrieves the first configuration and applies the first configuration.Type: GrantFiled: September 7, 2017Date of Patent: November 23, 2021Assignee: Pismo Labs Technology LimitedInventors: Mohammad Ashiq-ul Haque, Chung Lai Chan, Ka Wai Chan
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Patent number: 11182323Abstract: A touch detection system in accordance with one embodiment of the invention can include a circuit for converting a capacitance to a digital value. The touch detection system can include first and second communication interface circuits for enabling a first and second communication protocols, respectively. Furthermore, the touch detection system can include a detector circuit coupled to the first communication interface circuit and the second communication interface circuit. The detector circuit can be for automatically detecting a factor that indicates automatically enabling the first communication interface circuit and automatically disabling the second communication interface circuit. The detector circuit can be for detecting a coupling of a pin of the first communication interface circuit that is not used by the second communication interface circuit.Type: GrantFiled: May 14, 2020Date of Patent: November 23, 2021Assignee: Cypress Semiconductor CorporationInventor: David G. Wright
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Patent number: 11151225Abstract: Systems and methods for enabling license management in pre-boot environments are described. In some embodiments, a method may include: loading, by a Basic System Input/Output (BIOS) of an Information Handling System (IHS), prior to the booting of any Operating System (OS) by the IHS, a license manager Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) driver; and executing, by the BIOS, a command received from a component or device coupled to the IHS following a license management protocol provided by the UEFI driver, where the command is to obtain or verify license data.Type: GrantFiled: February 17, 2016Date of Patent: October 19, 2021Assignee: Dell Products, L.P.Inventors: Satyajit Dipakbhai Desai, Sanjeev Dambal, Krishna P. Mohan, Sruthi Reddy Mothukupally, Mark W. Shutt, Wayne R. Weilnau
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Patent number: 11112852Abstract: A system includes storage devices storing data units. Each data unit is stored on one of the storage devices. The system includes a processor, and a non-transitory computer-readable data storage medium storing computer-executable code. The processor executes the code to correlate workloads to the data units with respect to which of the workloads access which of the data units, and when the workloads access the data units. The processor executes the code to when the workloads access the data units and/or and on which of the storage devices the data units are stored, so that at given times the data units stored on a subset of the storage devices are not being accessed by any workload. The processor executes the code to, during each given time, power off the subset of the storage devices storing the data units that are not being accessed by any workload to conserve power.Type: GrantFiled: November 27, 2018Date of Patent: September 7, 2021Assignee: LENOVO Enterprise Solutions (Singapore) PTE. LTD.Inventors: Gary David Cudak, John Scott Crowe, Jennifer J. Lee-Baron, Jason A. Matteson, Nathan J. Peterson, Amy Leigh Rose, Bryan L. Young
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Patent number: 11106270Abstract: In one example, a printer with parallel/serial operational sequencing includes an engine control unit and an image processor unit each coupled to a set of sub-systems. A network unit is coupled to the image processor unit to monitor network packets while the engine control unit, the set of sub-systems, and the image processor unit are in sleep states. When a first predetermined packet is received, the network unit signals with a first modulation signal that the image processor unit is to awaken first before the image processor unit determines whether to awaken the engine control unit and any of the set of sub-systems. When a second predetermined packet is received, the network unit signals with a second modulation signal that the image processor unit, the engine control unit, and a portion of the set of sub-systems are to awaken at the same time.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2017Date of Patent: August 31, 2021Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.Inventors: Brian C Mayer, Mark Hirst
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Patent number: 11099628Abstract: An apparatus is provided, where the apparatus includes a plurality of components, wherein an individual component has a corresponding throttling priority of a plurality of throttling priorities. The apparatus further includes logic to selectively throttle one or more of the plurality of components. In an example, an order in which the one or more of the plurality of components are to be throttled may be based on the plurality of throttling priorities.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2018Date of Patent: August 24, 2021Assignee: Intel CorporationInventors: Avinash Ananthakrishnan, Jeremy Shrall
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Patent number: 11073885Abstract: A battery architecture for variable loads and output topologies in an information handling system (IHS) is described. In some embodiments, an IHS may include an embedded controller (EC) and a memory coupled to the EC, the memory having program instructions stored thereon that, upon execution, cause the EC to: determine a characteristic of a battery coupled to the IHS, and select a scalar factor of a buck-boost converter coupled to an output of the battery in response to the characteristic.Type: GrantFiled: July 25, 2017Date of Patent: July 27, 2021Assignee: Dell Products, L.P.Inventors: Andrew Thomas Sultenfuss, Mitch Anthony Markow
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Patent number: 11068017Abstract: The disclosed embodiments relate to a memory system that generates a multiplied timing signal from a reference timing signal. During operation, the system receives a reference timing signal. Next, the system produces a multiplied timing signal from the reference timing signal by generating a burst comprising multiple timing events for each timing event in the reference timing signal, wherein consecutive timing events in each burst of timing events are separated by a bit time. Then, as the reference clock frequency changes, the interval between bursts of timing events changes while the bit time remains substantially constant.Type: GrantFiled: January 5, 2018Date of Patent: July 20, 2021Assignee: Rambus Inc.Inventor: Frederick A. Ware