Patents by Inventor William R. Babbitt, Jr.

William R. Babbitt, Jr. 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).

  • Information packet communication with virtual objects
    Patent number: 8726363
    Abstract: Modules and methods that provide virtual device communication via information packets addressed to the virtual devices. Virtual devices aggregate capabilities of target devices and represent the aggregate as an operational device to remote systems. Physical device elements and virtual devices contained within modules are able to communicate and cooperate over extended distances in a peer-to-peer fashion via a virtual bus tunnel offering addressing and data transport functionality. Such modules and methods can be combined with disk drives to form RAID-like storage structures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2014
    Assignee: Rateze Remote MGMT, L.L.C.
    Inventors: Charles William Frank, Thomas Earl Ludwig, William R. Babbitt, Jr., Mark Adams, Nicholas James Witchey
  • Information packet communication with virtual objects
    Patent number: 8387132
    Abstract: Modules and methods that provide virtual device communication via information packets addressed to the virtual devices. Virtual devices aggregate capabilities of target devices and represent the aggregate as an operational device to remote systems. Physical device elements and virtual devices contained within modules are able to communicate and cooperate over extended distances in a peer-to-peer fashion via a virtual bus tunnel offering addressing and data transport functionality. Such modules and methods can be combined with disk drives to form RAID-like storage structures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2013
    Assignee: Rateze Remote Mgmt. L.L.C.
    Inventors: Charles William Frank, Thomas Earl Ludwig, William R. Babbitt, Jr., Mark Adams, Nicholas James Witchey
  • INFORMATION PACKET COMMUNICATION WITH VIRTUAL OBJECTS
    Publication number: 20120195315
    Abstract: Modules and methods that provide virtual device communication via information packets addressed to the virtual devices. Virtual devices aggregate capabilities of target devices and represent the aggregate as an operational device to remote systems. Physical device elements and virtual devices contained within modules are able to communicate and cooperate over extended distances in a peer-to-peer fashion via a virtual bus tunnel offering addressing and data transport functionality. Such modules and methods can be combined with disk drives to form RAID-like storage structures.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2012
    Publication date: August 2, 2012
    Applicant: RATEZE REMOTE MGMT. L.L.C.
    Inventors: Charles William Frank, Thomas Earl Ludwig, William R. Babbitt, JR., Mark Adams, Nicholas James Witchey
  • Accelerator module
    Patent number: 7742473
    Abstract: Stateless storage accelerator modules comprise network interfaces and filter functions that enable the accelerated processing of stateless protocols associated with network storage. Filter functions examine packets received over the network interface according to contexts associated with the destination of the packets. Contexts are found quickly through a fast look-up to ensure high performance of the over all system. The contexts comprise information associated with storage areas including addresses associated with the storage areas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2005
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2010
    Inventors: Mark Adams, William R. Babbitt, Jr., Rochak Sharma
  • VIRTUAL DEVICES AND VIRTUAL BUS TUNNELS, MODULES AND METHODS
    Publication number: 20100095023
    Abstract: Modules and methods that provide virtual device communication via information packets addressed to the virtual devices. Virtual devices aggregate capabilities of target devices and represent the aggregate as an operational device to remote systems. Physical device elements and virtual devices contained within modules are able to communicate and cooperate over extended distances in a peer-to-peer fashion via a virtual bus tunnel offering addressing and data transport functionality. Such modules and methods can be combined with disk drives to form RAID-like storage structures.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 6, 2009
    Publication date: April 15, 2010
    Applicant: RATEZE REMOTE MGMT L.L.C.
    Inventors: Charles William Frank, Thomas Earl Ludwig, William R. Babbitt, JR., Mark Adams, Nicholas James Witchey
  • Virtual devices and virtual bus tunnels, modules and methods
    Patent number: 7620981
    Abstract: Modules and methods that provide virtual device communication via information packets addressed to the virtual devices. Virtual devices aggregate capabilities of target devices and represent the aggregate as an operational device to remote systems. Physical device elements and virtual devices contained within modules are able to communicate and cooperate over extended distances in a peer-to-peer fashion via a virtual bus tunnel offering addressing and data transport functionality. Such modules and methods can be combined with disk drives to form RAID-like storage structures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2009
    Inventors: Charles William Frank, Thomas Earl Ludwig, William R. Babbitt, Jr., Mark Adams, Nicholas James Witchey