Patents by Inventor Clive Jeffrey HALL

Clive Jeffrey HALL has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Profile based fan control for an unmanageable component in a computing system
    Patent number: 9760071
    Abstract: An unmanageable component may be any component in a computing system that does not expose a temperature sensor thereby preventing the component's temperature from being monitored. The embodiments described herein control a fan using settings that decrease the likelihood that an unmanageable component will overheat. Before a user-selected fan profile is used to control the fan, a power system management uses safeguarding profiles to mitigate the risk of overheating the unmanageable components in the computing system when selecting a fan profile. Stated differently, the power management system ensures the computing system does not use the user-selected profile to operate a fan if that profile may cause an unmanageable component to overheat.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2017
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Sayantan Bhattacharyya, Chitkala Sethuraman, Clive Jeffrey Hall
  • PROFILE BASED FAN CONTROL FOR COMPUTING DEVICES
    Publication number: 20160050789
    Abstract: An unmanageable component may be any component in a computing system that does not expose a temperature sensor thereby preventing the component's temperature from being monitored. The embodiments described herein control a fan using settings that decrease the likelihood that an unmanageable component will overheat. Before a user-selected fan profile is used to control the fan, a power system management uses safeguarding profiles to mitigate the risk of overheating the unmanageable components in the computing system when selecting a fan profile. Stated differently, the power management system ensures the computing system does not use the user-selected profile to operate a fan if that profile may cause an unmanageable component to overheat.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2014
    Publication date: February 18, 2016
    Inventors: Sayantan BHATTACHARYYA, Chitkala SETHURAMAN, Clive Jeffrey HALL