Patents by Inventor David Gallant

David Gallant 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: 20100145483
    Abstract: An assembly for an appliance is disclosed. The assembly includes a Human-Machine Interface (HMI) including an input component having a portion accessible to a user, and a display component to indicate information to the user, the display component being operatively connected to the input component. The assembly further includes a liquid barrier covering the HMI.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2008
    Publication date: June 10, 2010
    Inventors: Michael Paul MCGONAGLE, Philip Ames Barber, William Byron Wiggins, Jay Andrew Broniak, Michael David Gallant, Jeffrey Bruce Moore
  • Patent number: 7598849
    Abstract: A heads-up speed sensing display and control system for apprising an operator of the risk of operating a vehicle at various speeds has a risk indicator display with a plurality of illuminable elements, such as three different colored LEDs, illuminable in a plurality of patterns, each of the plurality of patterns having a predetermined correlation to vehicle speed, such as green for safe, yellow for caution and red for hazardous. A speed sensor, such as a Hall-effect device is coupled to a driven element of the vehicle, like a speedometer cable, and causes the speed sensor to generate a signal indicative of vehicle speed. A control unit receives the speed signal and selects an illumination pattern to indicate the risk of operation at the speed the vehicle is then traveling. The display may be wired or wireless and be attached to a windshield, face guard or helmet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2009
    Inventors: David Gallant, Randy Oliver
  • Publication number: 20090107479
    Abstract: In an embodiment, a wall oven has a cooking cavity surrounded by a baffled cavity. The wall oven has a door for restricting access to the cooking cavity. A control cavity has a front surface maintaining controls for operation of the wall oven. An exhaust fan is in flow communication with the control cavity and the baffled cavity for directing air from the control cavity and the baffled cavity into an exhaust cavity. An air divider separates the control cavity from the exhaust cavity. A method for cooling a control panel of a wall oven is also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2007
    Publication date: April 30, 2009
    Inventors: James ARMSTRONG, Michael David GALLANT, William Henry GROSS, William L. HOLBROOK, William Byron WIGGINS
  • Publication number: 20080157952
    Abstract: A heads-up speed sensing display and control system for apprising an operator of the risk of operating a vehicle at various speeds has a risk indicator display with a plurality of illuminable elements, such as three different colored LEDs, illuminable in a plurality of patterns, each of the plurality of patterns having a predetermined correlation to vehicle speed, such as green for safe, yellow for caution and red for hazardous. A speed sensor, such as a Hall-effect device is coupled to a driven element of the vehicle, like a speedometer cable, and causes the speed sensor to generate a signal indicative of vehicle speed. A control unit receives the speed signal and selects an illumination pattern to indicate the risk of operation at the speed the vehicle is then traveling. The display may be wired or wireless and be attached to a windshield, face guard or helmet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2007
    Publication date: July 3, 2008
    Inventors: David Gallant, Randy Oliver
  • Patent number: 7327239
    Abstract: A heads-up speed sensing display and control system for apprising an operator of the risk of operating a vehicle at various speeds has a risk indicator display with a plurality of illuminable elements, such as three different colored LEDs, illuminable in a plurality of patterns, each of the plurality of patterns having a predetermined correlation to vehicle speed, such as green for safe, yellow for caution and red for hazardous. A speed sensor, such as a Hall-effect device is coupled to a driven element of the vehicle, like a speedometer cable, and causes the speed sensor to generate a signal indicative of vehicle speed. A control unit receives the speed signal and selects an illumination pattern to indicate the risk of operation at the speed the vehicle is then traveling. The display may be wired or wireless and be attached to a windshield, face guard or helmet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2005
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2008
    Assignee: InVision Systems, LLC
    Inventors: David Gallant, Randy Oliver
  • Publication number: 20070073633
    Abstract: Methods and systems for managing user access to a storage system storage controller are provided. In particular, user login requirements and permissions are administered, and individual user and external user interface pairs are tracked, through a user table and a session table established as part of the storage system controller. The external user interfaces may be interconnected to the storage system controller through different networks and/or protocols. Notification of events to external interfaces is performed as part of a task running on the storage system controller. In particular, an event notification manager determines whether notification of an event should be provided in connection with active sessions, with the result that the storage system controller only sends notification of events that have not previously been reported to a user and external interface pair.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2005
    Publication date: March 29, 2007
    Inventors: David Gallant, Paul Ashmore
  • Publication number: 20070067466
    Abstract: Methods and systems for managing user access to a storage system controller are provided. In particular, user login requirements and permissions are administered, and individual user and external user interface pairs are tracked, through a user table and a session table established as part of the storage system controller. The external user interfaces may be interconnected to the storage system controller through different networks and/or protocols. User authentication and access levels are established with reference to a user table, while sessions for different user and external interface pairs are maintained in the session table.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2005
    Publication date: March 22, 2007
    Inventors: David Gallant, Paul Ashmore
  • Publication number: 20070027989
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for managing a community of storage resource devices are provided. Management of each storage resource device within a community may be performed through a connection established between an administrator computer and a proxy storage resource device established over an out-of-band network. The proxy storage resource device may collect information related to other members of the community of storage resource devices, and provide such information to the administrator computer. The administrator computer may also obtain information from, and provide commands to, members of the community of storage resource devices through the proxy storage resource device. Information between members of a community of storage resource devices may exchange information using an in-band network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2005
    Publication date: February 1, 2007
    Inventor: David Gallant
  • Patent number: 7076500
    Abstract: A method for improving performance through selective file caching is disclosed. The caching policy of a client's browser cache is set to cache all files. Web page files that reference a dynamic file include JavaScript code that mangles the dynamic filename, such that a reference by the web page file to the dynamic file is unique each time a browser, processes the web page file. In one embodiment, the filename is mangled by appending to it a known string followed by a 12-digit timestamp. Consequently, the mangled filename misses in the cache, forcing the browser to fetch the dynamic file from the web server. The web server recognizes the filename is in the mangled format, regenerates the original filename, and returns the file to the client. Static filenames are not mangled; hence, they are satisfied from the browser cache. The method also works to selectively defeat network caching.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2003
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2006
    Inventors: David Gallant, Rex Vedder
  • Publication number: 20060028330
    Abstract: A heads-up speed sensing display and control system for apprising an operator of the risk of operating a vehicle at various speeds has a risk indicator display with a plurality of illuminable elements, such as three different colored LEDs, illuminable in a plurality of patterns, each of the plurality of patterns having a predetermined correlation to vehicle speed, such as green for safe, yellow for caution and red for hazardous. A speed sensor, such as a Hall-effect device is coupled to a driven element of the vehicle, like a speedometer cable, and causes the speed sensor to generate a signal indicative of vehicle speed. A control unit receives the speed signal and selects an illumination pattern to indicate the risk of operation at the speed the vehicle is then traveling. The display may be wired or wireless and be attached to a windshield, face guard or helmet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2005
    Publication date: February 9, 2006
    Inventors: David Gallant, Randy Oliver
  • Publication number: 20040267702
    Abstract: A method for improving performance through selective file caching is disclosed. The caching policy of a client's browser cache is set to cache all files. Web page files that reference a dynamic file include JavaScript code that mangles the dynamic filename, such that a reference by the web page file to the dynamic file is unique each time a browser, processes the web page file. In one embodiment, the filename is mangled by appending to it a known string followed by a 12-digit timestamp. Consequently, the mangled filename misses in the cache, forcing the browser to fetch the dynamic file from the web server. The web server recognizes the filename is in the mangled format, regenerates the original filename, and returns the file to the client. Static filenames are not mangled; hence, they are satisfied from the browser cache. The method also works to selectively defeat network caching.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2003
    Publication date: December 30, 2004
    Applicant: Chaparral Network Storage, Inc.
    Inventors: David Gallant, Rex Vedder
  • Patent number: 6092775
    Abstract: A beverage cup holder can be adjustably positioned alongside a front seat of an automotive vehicle, to hold a beverage container in an accessible position near a person seated on the front seat. The beverage cup holder comprises a cup-gripper mechanism for stabilizing various size cups in the holder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 1997
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2000
    Inventor: David Gallant
  • Patent number: 5195667
    Abstract: A device for suspending T-shaped tools from a belt, toolbox, wall, or other mount, comprising a flat attachment material and a rotating holder body which secures the tool while allowing the tool to be inserted and removed from different angles. In order to ensure that the holder body stays in a useful position, its swing is limited by two stops which act as brakes and are affixed so as to protrude perpendicularly from the attachment material. The invention is designed so that after the tool is inserted into the holder, the head of the tool remains secured by the cantilevering action of a spring-loaded clip against a dead-lock arm extending downwards from the holder body. The opposite end of the tool rests on an L-shaped extending at right angles from the attachment material. The tool is removed by the natural motion of grasping the handle and swinging upwards. This results in the tool being held in an immediately usable manner as it is withdrawn from the holder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 1991
    Date of Patent: March 23, 1993
    Inventor: David Gallant