Patents by Inventor Michael B. Condor

Michael B. Condor 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: 20240114668
    Abstract: Examples of the disclosure include a method comprising receiving information-technology-device information indicative of IT equipment and including information-technology-device-location information and temperature information; determining, based on the information-technology-device information, an IT-equipment-cooling assessment; receiving cooling-unit information indicative of air output by the IT equipment to the cooling units and/or provided by the cooling units to the IT equipment; determining, based on the cooling-unit information, a cooling-airflow-return effectiveness indicative of how effectively the cooling units capture air output by the IT equipment and/or a cooling-airflow-supply effectiveness indicative of how effectively the cooling units provide air to the IT equipment; and displaying a simulation display depicting the IT equipment, an effectiveness indicator for the cooling-airflow-return effectiveness and/or the cooling-airflow-supply effectiveness, and a respective IT indicator for each IT-
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2023
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Inventors: James William VanGilder, Michael B. Condor
  • Patent number: 11812590
    Abstract: According to at least one aspect of the present disclosure, an information-technology-design system is provided comprising at least one processor coupled to at least one memory, wherein the at least one processor is configured to receive information-technology-device information indicative of a plurality of information-technology devices in a space, the information-technology-device information including information-technology-device-location information, temperature information, and capture-index information, determine, based on the information-technology-device information, a containment type of the plurality of information-technology devices, select, based on the containment type, at least a portion of the capture-index information, determine, based on the information-technology-device-location information, the temperature information, and the at least the portion of the capture-index information, a respective cooling-performance assessment for each information-technology device of the plurality of informa
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC IT CORPORATION
    Inventors: James William VanGilder, Michael B. Condor
  • Publication number: 20230189474
    Abstract: A system for determining and displaying air temperature, pressure, or velocity in an information technology (IT) room including an IT equipment rack. The system comprises a processor configured to receive a model of a layout of equipment within an IT room, define a primary computational grid including base grid cells with dimensions having a first ratio, define a set of computational grid origin offsets for the model, determine a hybrid computational grid having base grid cells, an origin offset selected from among the set of computational grid origin offsets, and a variable grid for the model associated with the computational grid origin offset having a lowest penalty score, perform a computational fluid dynamics analysis of the model utilizing the hybrid computational grid, and provide a display in a graphical user interface illustrating one or more of air temperatures, air pressures, or airflow velocities within the IT room.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2022
    Publication date: June 15, 2023
    Inventors: James William VanGilder, Wei Tian, Michael B. Condor
  • Publication number: 20220183191
    Abstract: According to at least one aspect of the present disclosure, an information-technology-design system is provided comprising at least one processor coupled to at least one memory, wherein the at least one processor is configured to receive information-technology-device information indicative of a plurality of information-technology devices in a space, the information-technology-device information including information-technology-device-location information, temperature information, and capture-index information, determine, based on the information-technology-device information, a containment type of the plurality of information-technology devices, select, based on the containment type, at least a portion of the capture-index information, determine, based on the information-technology-device-location information, the temperature information, and the at least the portion of the capture-index information, a respective cooling-performance assessment for each information-technology device of the plurality of informa
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2021
    Publication date: June 9, 2022
    Inventors: James William VanGilder, Michael B. Condor
  • Publication number: 20220137805
    Abstract: Methods and systems for designing a liquid cooled IT room architecture for an IT room include receiving a design parameter, responsive to a user input, corresponding to at least one equipment rack in the IT room, determining a dielectric fluid return temperature Thin in the architecture based on an energy balance equation and a heat exchange equation, and responsive to receiving the design parameter and determining the dielectric fluid return temperature, dynamically calculating and displaying at least one of a surface temperature of at least one immersion-cooled equipment rack cooled by the architecture or an amount of required room cooling power per a unit of area of the IT room.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2021
    Publication date: May 5, 2022
    Inventors: James William VanGilder, Stuart Michael Sheehan, Michael B. Condor
  • Patent number: 11188214
    Abstract: Methods and systems for designing liquid cooled IT room architectures for an IT room using a graphical user interface include simultaneously displaying a configuration region and a results region in the graphical user interface, receiving a design parameter responsive to a user input of one of a plurality of user-selectable graphical user interface elements, determining a dielectric fluid return temperature based on an energy balance equation and a heat exchange equation, and responsive to receiving the design parameter and determining the dielectric fluid return temperature, dynamically displaying in the results region at least one of a first graph representing an amount of required room cooling power per a unit of area of the IT room or a second graph representing a surface temperature of at least one immersion-cooled equipment rack cooled by the architecture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC IT CORPORATION
    Inventors: James William VanGilder, Stuart Michael Sheehan, Michael B. Condor
  • Publication number: 20210303145
    Abstract: Methods and systems for designing liquid cooled IT room architectures for an IT room using a graphical user interface include simultaneously displaying a configuration region and a results region in the graphical user interface, receiving a design parameter responsive to a user input of one of a plurality of user-selectable graphical user interface elements, determining a dielectric fluid return temperature based on an energy balance equation and a heat exchange equation, and responsive to receiving the design parameter and determining the dielectric fluid return temperature, dynamically displaying in the results region at least one of a first graph representing an amount of required room cooling power per a unit of area of the IT room or a second graph representing a surface temperature of at least one immersion-cooled equipment rack cooled by the architecture.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2021
    Publication date: September 30, 2021
    Inventors: James William VanGilder, Stuart Michael Sheehan, Michael B. Condor
  • Patent number: 9373246
    Abstract: Methods and system for consolidating alarms using a data center monitoring appliance are provided. The method includes receiving at least one alarm from an physical infrastructure device via the network, determining that the at least one alarm is subject to a consolidation filter, the consolidation filter specifying characteristics of a consolidated alarm and generating the consolidated alarm according to the characteristics specified in the consolidation filter. The system includes a network interface, a memory and a controller coupled to the network interface and the memory and configured to receive at least one alarm from an physical infrastructure device via the network interface, determine that the at least one alarm is subject to a consolidation filter, the consolidation filter specifying characteristics of a consolidated alarm and generate the consolidated alarm according to the characteristics specified in the consolidation filter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2016
    Assignee: SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC IT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Adam M. Fiske, Katie M. Hargraves, Michael B. Condor
  • Publication number: 20110187488
    Abstract: Methods and system for consolidating alarms using a data center monitoring appliance are provided. The method includes receiving at least one alarm from an physical infrastructure device via the network, determining that the at least one alarm is subject to a consolidation filter, the consolidation filter specifying characteristics of a consolidated alarm and generating the consolidated alarm according to the characteristics specified in the consolidation filter. The system includes a network interface, a memory and a controller coupled to the network interface and the memory and configured to receive at least one alarm from an physical infrastructure device via the network interface, determine that the at least one alarm is subject to a consolidation filter, the consolidation filter specifying characteristics of a consolidated alarm and generate the consolidated alarm according to the characteristics specified in the consolidation filter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2010
    Publication date: August 4, 2011
    Applicant: AMERICAN POWER CONVERSION CORPORATION
    Inventors: Adam M. Fiske, Katie M. Hargraves, Michael B. Condor