Patents by Inventor Patrick A. Thompson
Patrick A. Thompson 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: 20080059644Abstract: A method and system to exchange information between computer applications are provided. The system may include a source operating system, a destination operating system and an offload stack, all residing on the device. The source operating system and the destination operating system appear to users as distinct network entities. The offload stack may be configured to function as an intermediate network device for the source operating system. The offload stack, in one embodiment, comprises a back end to receive a message from the source operating system to the destination operating system, an analyzer to determine that the destination operating system resides on the device and a cut though socket module to process the message such that a network layer of the offload stack is bypassed.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 31, 2006Publication date: March 6, 2008Inventors: Mark A. Bakke, David Patrick Thompson, Timothy J. Kuik, Paul Harry Gleichauf
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Publication number: 20080007561Abstract: An apparatus includes a central processing unit having an output to provide a status indicator, a graphics controller having an output coupleable to a display interface, a cache comprising a plurality of cache lines, and memory controller having an input to receive the status indicator. The memory controller is configured to disable allocation of cache lines of the cache for cache misses for data requests from the graphics controller in response to the status indicator indicating the central processing unit is in an active mode. The memory controller further is configured to enable allocation of cache lines of the cache for cache misses for data requests from the graphics controller in response to the status indicator indicating the central processing unit is in an idle mode.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 7, 2006Publication date: January 10, 2008Applicant: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.Inventor: Stephen Patrick Thompson
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Publication number: 20070244444Abstract: The present invention is directed to determining, without repeated calculation by an operator, the volume of a non-solid composition remaining in the barrel of a syringe after discharge of a dose of the composition. The present invention provides a syringe barrel, and a plunger having a dose volume scale disposed along the longitudinal axis and orientated such that the numeric values increase in the direction from the proximal end of the plunger towards the discharge end. The dosage syringe also comprises an adjustable dose selector that may be moved to a volume mark of the scale corresponding to a desired dose to be delivered. The dose syringe barrel further comprises an indicator means that may be an opening in the barrel directly above the dose volume scale such that, when the plunger is in a fully retracted position, the window shows the volume of the full capacity of the syringe barrel and when the plunger is depressed, will show the remaining volume in the syringe.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 12, 2007Publication date: October 18, 2007Inventors: Benjamin Guelker, Patrick Thompson
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Patent number: 7281062Abstract: A storage router having an internet protocol (IP) port for coupling to a network supporting IP packets, a fibre channel port for coupling to a fibre channel network to a plurality of storage devices, and a SCSI router having an iSCSI interface that extracts SCSI command and data information from packets received through the IP port, wherein the SCSI router passes the extracted SCSI command and data information to the fiber channel port. Some embodiments further include a session to an information-handling system. The session supports a target-only mapping (wherein a source-specified target value is replaced by a mapped target value that is then passed by the SCSI router toward a first storage device and its LUNs), or target-and-LUN mapping (wherein source-specified target and LUN information is replaced by mapped target-and LUN information such as a loop-ID and LUN combination, a WWPN and LUN combination, or a WWNN).Type: GrantFiled: April 22, 2002Date of Patent: October 9, 2007Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.Inventors: Timothy J. Kuik, David Patrick Thompson, Mark A. Bakke, Clayton Stuart Haapala, Stephen P. De Groote, Craig A. Johnson
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Publication number: 20070120101Abstract: The present invention comprises a fire resistant wood product and method of manufacture thereof. In one embodiment, the fire resistant wood product comprises a resin and a fire retardant composition, wherein the resin comprises an isocyanate and the fire retardant composition comprises a boron containing compound.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 17, 2006Publication date: May 31, 2007Inventor: Patrick Thompson
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Publication number: 20070075026Abstract: The present invention relates to a telecommunications termination panel with a tray pivotably mounted within the front opening of a housing. The tray pivots about a hinge located adjacent one of the sides of the housing and includes a raised floor. The raised floor of the tray cooperates with the side adjacent the hinge and a bottom of the housing to define a cable path from a rear cable access port to an opening on the tray adjacent the hinge. The tray includes a plurality of connection locations and cable management structures to direct a telecommunications cable from the cable access port to a rear of the connection locations without violating bend radius rules. The tray may also include a temporary cable holder to assist in pulling cables through the rear opening into the housing. The present invention further relates to a telecommunications equipment rack with a termination panel with such a pivoting tray mounted to the rack.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 21, 2006Publication date: April 5, 2007Applicant: ADC Telecommunications, Inc.Inventors: Clinton Knudsen, Patrick Thompson
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Patent number: 7188194Abstract: A storage router having an internet protocol (IP) port for coupling to a network supporting IP packets, a fibre channel port for coupling to a fibre channel network to a plurality of storage devices, and a SCSI router having an iSCSI interface that extracts SCSI command and data information from packets received through the IP port, wherein the SCSI router passes the extracted SCSI command and data information to the fiber channel port. Some embodiments further include a session to an information-handling system. The session supports a target-only mapping (wherein a source-specified target value is replaced by a mapped target value that is then passed by the SCSI router toward a first storage device and its LUNs), or target-and-LUN mapping (wherein source-specified target and LUN information is replaced by mapped target-and LUN information such as a loop-ID and LUN combination, a WWPN and LUN combination, or a WWNN).Type: GrantFiled: April 22, 2002Date of Patent: March 6, 2007Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.Inventors: Timothy J. Kuik, David Patrick Thompson, Mark A. Bakke, Clayton Stuart Haapala, Stephen P. De Groote, Craig A. Johnson
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Patent number: 7165258Abstract: A system and method for accessing Storage Area Networks over an IP network. A SCSI request is generated and encapsulated in one or more IP packets. The encapsulated SCSI request is routed over an IP network and received by a storage router. The storage router extracts the SCSI request from the one or more IP packets and routes the extracted SCSI request through a virtual SCSI router to the storage area network.Type: GrantFiled: April 22, 2002Date of Patent: January 16, 2007Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.Inventors: Timothy J. Kuik, David Patrick Thompson, Mark A. Bakke, Clayton Stuart Haapala, Stephen P. De Groote, Craig A. Johnson, James D. Muchow
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Patent number: 7090084Abstract: The present invention relates to a telecommunications termination panel with a tray pivotably mounted within the front opening of a housing. The tray pivots about a hinge located adjacent one of the sides of the housing and includes a raised floor. The raised floor of the tray cooperates with the side adjacent the hinge and a bottom of the housing to define a cable path from a rear cable access port to an opening on the tray adjacent the hinge. The tray includes a plurality of connection locations and cable management structures to direct a telecommunications cable from the cable access port to a rear of the connection locations without violating bend radius rules. The tray may also include a temporary cable holder to assist in pulling cables through the rear opening into the housing. The present invention further relates to a telecommunications equipment rack with a termination panel with such a pivoting tray mounted to the rack.Type: GrantFiled: January 6, 2006Date of Patent: August 15, 2006Assignee: ADC Telecommunications, Inc.Inventors: Clinton M. Knudsen, Patrick Thompson
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Patent number: 7086539Abstract: A telecommunications termination panel with a tray pivotably mounted within the front opening of a housing. The tray pivots about a hinge located adjacent one of the sides of the housing and includes a raised floor. The raised floor of the tray cooperates with the side adjacent the hinge and a bottom of the housing to define a cable path from a rear cable access port to an opening on the tray adjacent the hinge. The tray includes a plurality of connection locations and cable management structures to direct a telecommunications cable from the cable access port to a rear of the connection locations without violating bend radius rules. The tray may also include a temporary cable holder to assist in pulling cables through the rear opening into the housing.Type: GrantFiled: October 21, 2002Date of Patent: August 8, 2006Assignee: ADC Telecommunications, Inc.Inventors: Clinton M. Knudsen, Patrick Thompson
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Publication number: 20060118497Abstract: The present invention relates to a telecommunications termination panel with a tray pivotably mounted within the front opening of a housing. The tray pivots about a hinge located adjacent one of the sides of the housing and includes a raised floor. The raised floor of the tray cooperates with the side adjacent the hinge and a bottom of the housing to define a cable path from a rear cable access port to an opening on the tray adjacent the hinge. The tray includes a plurality of connection locations and cable management structures to direct a telecommunications cable from the cable access port to a rear of the connection locations without violating bend radius rules. The tray may also include a temporary cable holder to assist in pulling cables through the rear opening into the housing. The present invention further relates to a telecommunications equipment rack with a termination panel with such a pivoting tray mounted to the rack.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 6, 2006Publication date: June 8, 2006Applicant: ADC Telecommunications, Inc.Inventors: Clinton Knudsen, Patrick Thompson
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Publication number: 20060110518Abstract: This invention is directed toward a new snack food made from Parmesan cheese, and a method of making the same. The invention teaches a baking process by which Parmesan cheese is baked within a specific temperature range for a specified period of time. The resulting product can then be eaten as al low-fat snack, or molded into plates, bowls and other eating dishes, thereby creating edible dishes from which other food can be eaten.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 23, 2004Publication date: May 25, 2006Inventor: Patrick Thompson
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Publication number: 20060086205Abstract: Molybdenum metal powder, and method for production thereof. Molybdenum metal powder has surface-area-to-mass-ratios in a range of between about 1.0 meters2/gram (m2/g) and about 3.0 m2/g, as determined by BET analysis, in combination with a particle size wherein at least 30% of the particles have a particle size larger than a size +100 standard Tyler mesh sieve. In addition, molybdenum metal powder 10 may be further distinguished by flowability in a range of between about 29 seconds/50 grams (s/50 g) and about 64 s/50 g, as determined by a Hall Flowmeter. A method of producing molybdenum powder may comprise providing a supply of ammonium molybdate, heating the ammonium molybdate at an initial temperature in the presence of a reducing gas to produce an intermediate product, and heating the intermediate product at a final temperature in the presence of the reducing gas, producing molybdenum metal powder.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 21, 2004Publication date: April 27, 2006Inventors: Loyal Johnson, Sunil Jha, Carl Cox, Patrick Thompson
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Patent number: 7020655Abstract: A database schema includes database classes that represent various database objects (e.g., tables, views, etc.) and user classes that represent users and roles of the database. The database schema also has permission classes that represent permissions of the users/roles with respect to the database objects. The permission classes are modeled in the database schema as associations between database classes and user classes.Type: GrantFiled: October 15, 2004Date of Patent: March 28, 2006Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Raxit A. Kagalwala, John Patrick Thompson
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Patent number: 6961730Abstract: Described herein is a schema extension of the Common Information Model (CIM), designed to model manageable aspects of a database server such as a Structure Query Language (SQL) server. The database schema contains a data file class that represents files associated with databases. The operating system also has a data file class, representing files that are managed by the operating system. An association is defined between the two data file classes, allowing queries to navigate between the database schema and the operating system schema.Type: GrantFiled: February 20, 2001Date of Patent: November 1, 2005Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Raxit A. Kagalwala, John Patrick Thompson
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Publication number: 20050152992Abstract: The claimed invention involves a novel preparation comprising a dispersion of wax and silver particles that is effective for reducing bacteria on surfaces. The surface preparation according to the present invention comprises particles of silver dispersed in wax. A method for making the surface preparation according to the present invention includes combining a supply of wax with a supply of silver particles.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 13, 2004Publication date: July 14, 2005Inventors: Loyal Johnson, Patrick Thompson
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Patent number: 6895461Abstract: A storage router and method for creating a first session to a first information-handling system on a first network supporting IP packets, the network having a plurality of information-handling systems, creating a second session to the first information-handling system on a second network supporting IP packets, supporting iSCSI operations in the first session through an internet protocol (IP) port coupled to the first network, supporting management operations in the second session through an internet protocol (IP) port coupled to the second network, wherein the first and second sessions use a common IP layer, and preventing iSCSI operations from using the second network.Type: GrantFiled: April 22, 2002Date of Patent: May 17, 2005Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.Inventor: David Patrick Thompson
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Publication number: 20050100301Abstract: A fiber optic telecommunications frame is provided including panels having front and rear termination locations, the panels positioned on left and right sides of the frame. The frame includes vertical access for the rear cables. The frame further includes left and right vertical cable guides for the front patch cables. The frame further includes cable storage spools for the patch cables. The frame includes a horizontal passage linking the left and right panels and the cable guides. A portion of the frame defines splice tray holders and a central passage from the splice tray holders to the rear sides of the left and right panels. From a front of each panel, access to a rear of the panel is provided by the hinged panels. Alternatively, the panels can form connector modules with front termination locations and rear connection locations for connecting to the rear cables. The modules can house couplers, such as splitters, combiners, and wave division multiplexers.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 15, 2004Publication date: May 12, 2005Applicant: ADC Telecommunications, Inc.Inventors: James Solheid, Patrick Thompson, John Henderson, Curtis Puetz
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Patent number: 6810400Abstract: A database schema includes database classes that represent various database objects (e.g., tables, views, etc.) and user classes that represent users and roles of the database. The database schema also has permission classes that represent permissions of the users/roles with respect to the database objects. The permission classes are modeled in the database schema as associations between database classes and user classes.Type: GrantFiled: February 20, 2001Date of Patent: October 26, 2004Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Raxit A. Kagalwala, John Patrick Thompson
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Patent number: 6767314Abstract: The present invention provides a collapsible exercise apparatus, generally comprising a riser assembly, a carriage assembly, riser assembly support means, and peripheral attachments. The riser assembly further comprises a pair of parallel riser members and the carriage assembly further comprises a riser-engaging end. The riser-engaging end is received between the riser members in a carriage assembly-receiving track. The user may thus selectively incline the carriage assembly in the carriage assembly-receiving track in this operational state for exerting muscular effort against varying degrees of the user's own body weight resistance to achieve some level of physical activity or as part of an otherwise regular exercise regimen. To enable easy horizontal transferability, for example, during shipping or when not in use, the carriage assembly is easily nested within the carriage assembly-receiving track. Additionally, no tools are required to assemble or collapse the exercise apparatus.Type: GrantFiled: September 20, 2002Date of Patent: July 27, 2004Inventor: Patrick A. Thompson