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).
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Publication number: 20240028677Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: June 5, 2023Publication date: January 25, 2024Inventors: Colton Malone Crawford, Steven White, Ben Chavez, Frank Basso
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Patent number: 11698951Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: May 10, 2021Date of Patent: July 11, 2023Assignee: Vapor IO Inc.Inventors: Colton Malone Crawford, Steven White, Ben Chavez, Frank Basso
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Publication number: 20230090416Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: September 29, 2022Publication date: March 23, 2023Inventor: Colton Malone Crawford
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Patent number: 11490299Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: February 4, 2021Date of Patent: November 1, 2022Assignee: Vapor IO Inc.Inventor: Colton Malone Crawford
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Patent number: 11431559Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: October 30, 2017Date of Patent: August 30, 2022Assignee: Vapor IO Inc.Inventor: Colton Malone Crawford
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Patent number: 11166206Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: April 28, 2020Date of Patent: November 2, 2021Assignee: Vapor IO Inc.Inventor: Colton Malone Crawford
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Publication number: 20210334344Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: May 10, 2021Publication date: October 28, 2021Inventors: Colton Malone Crawford, Steven White, Ben Chavez, Frank Basso
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Publication number: 20210185573Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: February 4, 2021Publication date: June 17, 2021Inventor: Colton Malone Crawford
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Patent number: 11030285Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: December 4, 2018Date of Patent: June 8, 2021Assignee: Vapor IO Inc.Inventors: Colton Malone Crawford, Steven White, Ben Chavez, Frank Basso
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Patent number: 10945166Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: August 20, 2019Date of Patent: March 9, 2021Assignee: Vapor IO Inc.Inventor: Colton Malone Crawford
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Publication number: 20210042400Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: October 28, 2020Publication date: February 11, 2021Inventors: Colton Malone Crawford, Steven White, Ben Chavez, Frank Basso
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Patent number: 10911297Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: August 22, 2018Date of Patent: February 2, 2021Assignee: Vapor IO Inc.Inventors: Colton Malone Crawford, Steven White
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Patent number: 10853460Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: December 4, 2018Date of Patent: December 1, 2020Assignee: Vapor IO Inc.Inventors: Colton Malone Crawford, Steven White, Ben Chavez, Frank Basso
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Patent number: 10817398Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: January 6, 2017Date of Patent: October 27, 2020Assignee: Vapor IO Inc.Inventors: Andrew Brian Cencini, Steven White, Colton Malone Crawford
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Publication number: 20200260349Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: April 28, 2020Publication date: August 13, 2020Inventor: Colton Malone Crawford
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Patent number: 10674411Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: June 11, 2019Date of Patent: June 2, 2020Assignee: Vapor IO Inc.Inventor: Colton Malone Crawford
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Publication number: 20190373521Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: August 20, 2019Publication date: December 5, 2019Inventor: Colton Malone Crawford
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Patent number: 10455743Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: November 28, 2016Date of Patent: October 22, 2019Assignee: Vapor IO Inc.Inventor: Colton Malone Crawford
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Publication number: 20190297544Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: June 11, 2019Publication date: September 26, 2019Inventor: Colton Malone Crawford
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Patent number: 10362517Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: January 29, 2018Date of Patent: July 23, 2019Assignee: Vapor IO Inc.Inventor: Colton Malone Crawford