Patents by Inventor Colton Malone Crawford

Colton Malone Crawford 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).

  • Publication number: 20240028677
    Abstract: Provided is a rack, comprising: a plurality of rack units; and a plurality of lockers each housing a different respective subset of the rack units, wherein respective lockers among the plurality comprise: a first respective barrier disposed between a respective pair of the rack units; a second respective barrier disposed between another respective pair of the rack units; a third respective barrier that is orthogonal to the first barrier and the second barrier, the third respective barrier being moveably or removably coupled to the rack; a respective volume configured to receive one or more computing devices; and a respective lock configured to secure the third respective barrier to the rack in the closed position when in a locked state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 5, 2023
    Publication date: January 25, 2024
    Inventors: Colton Malone Crawford, Steven White, Ben Chavez, Frank Basso
  • Patent number: 11698951
    Abstract: Provided is a rack, comprising: a plurality of rack units; and a plurality of lockers each housing a different respective subset of the rack units, wherein respective lockers among the plurality comprise: a first respective barrier disposed between a respective pair of the rack units; a second respective barrier disposed between another respective pair of the rack units; a third respective barrier that is orthogonal to the first barrier and the second barrier, the third respective barrier being moveably or removeably coupled to the rack; a respective volume configured to receive one or more computing devices; and a respective lock configured to secure the third respective barrier to the rack in the closed position when in a locked state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2023
    Assignee: Vapor IO Inc.
    Inventors: Colton Malone Crawford, Steven White, Ben Chavez, Frank Basso
  • Publication number: 20230090416
    Abstract: Provided is a process including: advertising a plurality of values corresponding to computing components to peer nodes of a peer-to-peer network; storing the plurality of values in a tamper-evident, distributed ledger; determining a target data center in the distributed computing environment, wherein the target data center performs computations based on data sent from a mobile computing device, and wherein the target data center executes a peer node of the peer-to-peer network; determining a network path that is linked to the target data center based on a distance to the target data center; and transferring a packet from the target data center, wherein the packet traverses the network path and comprises one or more computation results from the target data center.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2022
    Publication date: March 23, 2023
    Inventor: Colton Malone Crawford
  • Patent number: 11490299
    Abstract: Provided is a process including: advertising a plurality of values corresponding to computing components to peer nodes of a peer-to-peer network; storing the plurality of values in a tamper-evident, distributed ledger; determining a target data center in the distributed computing environment, wherein the target data center performs computations based on data sent from a mobile computing device, and wherein the target data center executes a peer node of the peer-to-peer network; determining a network path that is linked to the target data center based on a distance to the target data center; and transferring a packet from the target data center, wherein the packet traverses the network path and comprises one or more computation results from the target data center.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: Vapor IO Inc.
    Inventor: Colton Malone Crawford
  • Patent number: 11431559
    Abstract: Provided is a process for cooling a datacenter chamber having racks configured to hold arrays of rack-mounted computing devices, the process including: directing a cooling fluid, at a first temperature and a first pressure from an outer radius of circularly arranged racks through the racks and components within the racks; passing the cooling fluid to an interior chamber of the datacenter chamber at a second temperature and a second pressure; and directing the cooling fluid upward to exit the interior chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: Vapor IO Inc.
    Inventor: Colton Malone Crawford
  • Patent number: 11166206
    Abstract: Provided is a process, medium, or system including using block chain as a distributed routing environment for routing data between edge-based data centers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: Vapor IO Inc.
    Inventor: Colton Malone Crawford
  • Publication number: 20210334344
    Abstract: Provided is a rack, comprising: a plurality of rack units; and a plurality of lockers each housing a different respective subset of the rack units, wherein respective lockers among the plurality comprise: a first respective barrier disposed between a respective pair of the rack units; a second respective barrier disposed between another respective pair of the rack units; a third respective barrier that is orthogonal to the first barrier and the second barrier, the third respective barrier being moveably or removeably coupled to the rack; a respective volume configured to receive one or more computing devices; and a respective lock configured to secure the third respective barrier to the rack in the closed position when in a locked state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2021
    Publication date: October 28, 2021
    Inventors: Colton Malone Crawford, Steven White, Ben Chavez, Frank Basso
  • Publication number: 20210185573
    Abstract: Provided is a process including: advertising a plurality of values corresponding to computing components to peer nodes of a peer-to-peer network; storing the plurality of values in a tamper-evident, distributed ledger; determining a target data center in the distributed computing environment, wherein the target data center performs computations based on data sent from a mobile computing device, and wherein the target data center executes a peer node of the peer-to-peer network; determining a network path that is linked to the target data center based on a distance to the target data center; and transferring a packet from the target data center, wherein the packet traverses the network path and comprises one or more computation results from the target data center.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2021
    Publication date: June 17, 2021
    Inventor: Colton Malone Crawford
  • Patent number: 11030285
    Abstract: Provided is a rack, comprising: a plurality of rack units; and a plurality of lockers each housing a different respective subset of the rack units, wherein respective lockers among the plurality comprise: a first respective barrier disposed between a respective pair of the rack units; a second respective barrier disposed between another respective pair of the rack units; a third respective barrier that is orthogonal to the first barrier and the second barrier, the third respective barrier being moveably or removeably coupled to the rack; a respective volume configured to receive one or more computing devices; and a respective lock configured to secure the third respective barrier to the rack in the closed position when in a locked state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignee: Vapor IO Inc.
    Inventors: Colton Malone Crawford, Steven White, Ben Chavez, Frank Basso
  • Patent number: 10945166
    Abstract: Provided is a process including: advertising a plurality of values corresponding to computing components to peer nodes of a peer-to-peer network; storing the plurality of values in a tamper-evident, distributed ledger; determining a target data center in the distributed computing environment, wherein the target data center performs computations based on data sent from a mobile computing device, and wherein the target data center executes a peer node of the peer-to-peer network; determining a network path that is linked to the target data center based on a distance to the target data center; and transferring a packet from the target data center, wherein the packet traverses the network path and comprises one or more computation results from the target data center.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Assignee: Vapor IO Inc.
    Inventor: Colton Malone Crawford
  • Publication number: 20210042400
    Abstract: Provided is a modular datacenter having a moveable rack assembly configured to selectively provide access to rack-mounted computing devices, with access barriers selectively providing access to rack-mounted computing devices within an exposed rack or portion of a rack or device mounted thereon, safety interlocks controlling when the rack assembly moves, and space-efficient thermal management systems.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2020
    Publication date: February 11, 2021
    Inventors: Colton Malone Crawford, Steven White, Ben Chavez, Frank Basso
  • Patent number: 10911297
    Abstract: Provided is a QSFP+ patch panel, comprising: a circuit board; a plurality of pairs of QSFP+ sockets connected to one another via conductive traces of the circuit board; and one or more microcontrollers coupled to at least two of the conductive traces of each pair of QSFP+ sockets. The one or more microcontrollers comprise memory storing instructions that when executed cause the one or more microcontrollers to perform operations comprising: obtaining configuration settings for the QSFP+ sockets; and configuring connections of the QSFP+ sockets based on the configuration settings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: Vapor IO Inc.
    Inventors: Colton Malone Crawford, Steven White
  • Patent number: 10853460
    Abstract: Provided is a modular datacenter having a moveable rack assembly configured to selectively provide access to rack-mounted computing devices, with access barriers selectively providing access to rack-mounted computing devices within an exposed rack or portion of a rack or device mounted thereon, safety interlocks controlling when the rack assembly moves, and space-efficient thermal management systems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2020
    Assignee: Vapor IO Inc.
    Inventors: Colton Malone Crawford, Steven White, Ben Chavez, Frank Basso
  • Patent number: 10817398
    Abstract: Provided is an external secondary computing device configured to monitor or control a rack-mounted computing device independently of whether the rack-mounted computing device is operating or is turned off via a low-pin-count motherboard bus independently of a baseboard management controller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Assignee: Vapor IO Inc.
    Inventors: Andrew Brian Cencini, Steven White, Colton Malone Crawford
  • Publication number: 20200260349
    Abstract: Provided is a process, medium, or system including using block chain as a distributed routing environment for routing data between edge-based data centers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2020
    Publication date: August 13, 2020
    Inventor: Colton Malone Crawford
  • Patent number: 10674411
    Abstract: Provided is a process, medium, or system including using block chain as a distributed routing environment for contract based handoff to route streaming data to edge-based data centers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2020
    Assignee: Vapor IO Inc.
    Inventor: Colton Malone Crawford
  • Publication number: 20190373521
    Abstract: Provided is a process including: advertising a plurality of values corresponding to computing components to peer nodes of a peer-to-peer network; storing the plurality of values in a tamper-evident, distributed ledger; determining a target data center in the distributed computing environment, wherein the target data center performs computations based on data sent from a mobile computing device, and wherein the target data center executes a peer node of the peer-to-peer network; determining a network path that is linked to the target data center based on a distance to the target data center; and transferring a packet from the target data center, wherein the packet traverses the network path and comprises one or more computation results from the target data center.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 20, 2019
    Publication date: December 5, 2019
    Inventor: Colton Malone Crawford
  • Patent number: 10455743
    Abstract: Provided is a datacenter chamber having racks configured to hold arrays of rack-mounted computing devices. The datacenter chamber comprises three or more racks, each rack having a plurality of receptacles configured to hold a computing device; a chassis configured to secure each of the racks in spaced relation relative to one another, wherein the chassis is configured to secure the racks facing outward from an interior chamber defined by a back-side of the racks, and wherein the chassis is configured to position the racks facing at least three different directions; and an integrated cooling system configured to drive a cooling fluid along computing devices mounted in the racks and through the interior chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2019
    Assignee: Vapor IO Inc.
    Inventor: Colton Malone Crawford
  • Publication number: 20190297544
    Abstract: Provided is a process, medium, or system including using block chain as a distributed routing environment for contract based handoff to route streaming data to edge-based data centers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 11, 2019
    Publication date: September 26, 2019
    Inventor: Colton Malone Crawford
  • Patent number: 10362517
    Abstract: Provided is a process, medium, or system including using block chain as a distributed routing environment for contract based handoff to route streaming data to edge-based data centers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2019
    Assignee: Vapor IO Inc.
    Inventor: Colton Malone Crawford