Patents Assigned to Hewlett-Packard Development Company
  • Printing fluid container
    Patent number: 8075117
    Abstract: A printing-fluid container includes a reservoir having a leading surface with an outer perimeter. Redundant interface elements are recessed from the leading surface interior the outer perimeter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2011
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Charlie Steinmetz, Daniel W. Petersen, Curt Gonzales, Peter G. Hwang, Lisa M. Hanson
  • Thermal management system having thermoelectric modules
    Patent number: 8074456
    Abstract: A thermal management system includes a first thermoelectric module, a second thermoelectric module, and a heat exchanger. The heat exchanger has a pipe having a first section, a second section and an intermediate section arranged between the first section and the second section. The intermediate section maintains the first section and the second section in spaced apart planes and the first thermoelectric module is thermally attached to the first section and the second thermoelectric module is thermally attached to the second section. The first thermoelectric module is spaced apart from the second thermoelectric module to enable fluid to flow between the first thermoelectric module and the second thermoelectric module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2011
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Amip J. Shah, Cullen E. Bash, Christopher Gregory Malone
  • Inkjet ink set
    Patent number: 8075122
    Abstract: An inkjet ink set includes eleven colored inks and a surface enhancing ink. The eleven colored inks include a magenta ink, a light magenta ink, a yellow ink, a cyan ink, a light cyan ink, a medium gray ink, a light gray ink, a photo black ink, a red ink, a green ink, and a blue ink. The surface enhancing ink is configured to enhance gloss of an image formed with at least one of the eleven colored inks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2011
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Shunqiong Yue, Peter C. Morris, Anne M. Kelly-Rowley, Zeying Ma, David Mahli, Howard A. Doumaux, Gregg A Lane, John M Gardner
  • Scalable computing system for managing annotations
    Patent number: 8078958
    Abstract: A scalable computing system for managing annotations is capable of handling requests for annotations to millions of documents a day. The computing system consists of multiple tiers of servers. A tier I server indicates whether there are annotations associated with a content source. A tier II server indexes the annotations. A tier III server stores the body of the annotation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2011
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company
    Inventors: Scott C Cottrille, Yoram Yaacovi, Antony Halim
  • Provisioning of a service environment using web services
    Patent number: 8078704
    Abstract: To perform service provisioning in an infrastructure, a provisioning system receives a request to provision a service environment for an application. In response to the request, the provisioning system employs web services to configure resources of the infrastructure for the application. The provisioning system defines interactions between the web services, and provides the service environment based on the configuring performed by the web services.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2011
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventor: M. Brian Lee
  • Method and process for employing a retired workforce
    Patent number: 8078546
    Abstract: A method, system, and computer program product for assembling a project team is provided. In one embodiment potential team members, such as, for example, retirees from a company, with appropriate qualifications are notified of a project for which team members are needed. The potential team members are identified based on information contained in a database of potential team members. Along with the notification of the project, the potential team members receive a request for bids. The entity then receives a bid from a responding potential team member and compares the bid to bid acceptance criteria. If the bid meets bid acceptance criteria, a bid acceptance is sent to the responding potential team member and the responding potential team member is notified of other members of the project team.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2011
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Jeffery R. Coulter, Thomas L. Hill
  • Method and system for migrating memory segments
    Patent number: 8078818
    Abstract: A system comprises a plurality of nodes coupled together via a switching device. Each node comprises a processor coupled to a memory. Migration logic in the switching device is configured to migrate segments of each memory to the switching device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2011
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: William J. Walker, Paras A. Shah, James K. Yu, Kenneth Jansen, Vasileios Balabanos, Andrew D. Olsen, Phillip M. Jones
  • LATCH SYSTEM
    Publication number: 20110299233
    Abstract: A latch system employs momentum exchange impact damping. A latch is slicleably arranged within a housing so that the latch can slide between a latch position and a release position. A damper spring urges a damper against a wedge of the latch. When a mechanical impact urges said latch toward the release position, the latch wedge impacts the damper so as to exchange momentum from the latch to the damper so that the latch remains in the latch position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2009
    Publication date: December 8, 2011
    Applicant: HEWLETT-PACKARD DEVELOPMENT COMPANY, L.P.
    Inventor: Kwang Ho Kim
  • FORMING A VISIBLE LABEL ON AN OPTICAL DISC
    Publication number: 20110299376
    Abstract: A system, method, and medium for forming a visible label on an optical disc. Label data for a label track of the disc is received into a buffer of a disc drive. The label data is analyzed to identify the label track. A surface contour of the disc is mapped only near the label track. Focus actuator signals for the label track are derived using the surface contour. The label track is marked, with a laser of the disc drive, according to the label data while the laser is focusing the focus actuator signals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2009
    Publication date: December 8, 2011
    Applicant: HEWLETT-PACKARD DEVELOPMENT COMPANY, L.P.
    Inventors: Donald B. Ouchida, Timothy Wagner
  • Performing Administrative Tasks Associated with a Network-Attached Storage System at a Client
    Publication number: 20110302280
    Abstract: Installer code is received from a network-attached storage (NAS) system at a client device. The installer code executing at the client device performs a selected subset of administrative tasks at the client device, where the administrative tasks are tasks associated with the NAS system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 2, 2008
    Publication date: December 8, 2011
    Applicant: Hewlett-Packard Development Company LP
    Inventors: Charles Martin McJilton, Paul Michael Cesario, Matthew D. Haines, Eric Peferson
  • Printing-fluid container
    Patent number: 8070274
    Abstract: A printing-fluid container includes a printing-fluid reservoir configured to hold printing fluid. A printing-fluid interface is configured to output printing fluid from the printing-fluid reservoir and an air-interface is configured to regulate an operating pressure within the printing-fluid reservoir.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2011
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Charlie Steinmetz, Curt Gonzales
  • Authorization for device interaction with a remote service
    Patent number: 8070059
    Abstract: A method for authorizing device interaction includes requesting, from a connected device, authorization data from a remote service. At the connected device, authorization data is received and then passed with an authorization prompt to a user interface device. From the connected device, a user interface device response to the prompt is passed to the remote service. At the connected device, authorization setting data is received and stored. The authorization setting data has a value determined according to the user interface device response and is useable by the connected device to determine authorization for subsequent connected device interaction with the remote service.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2011
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventor: Shell S. Simpson
  • Method and apparatus for visual silent alarm indicator
    Patent number: 8072344
    Abstract: An apparatus and method thereof wherein a portable computer system or personal digital assistant generates a visual signal in response to an occurrence of a programmed event. For example, the portable computer system can use a light emitting diode to visually signal an alarm at a specified time. The visual signal can be varied in order to indicate the type of event associated with the alarm. In one implementation, the visual signal blinks at a particular rate depending on the type of event. In another implementation, the visual signal blinks a prescribed number of times or according to a particular pattern depending on the type of event. When enabled, the visual signal is generated in lieu of an audible signal, thus providing to the user a silent alarm that does not disturb other people in proximity, such as in a meeting, a theater, or some other gathering.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2011
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Michael Cortopassi, Eric Fuhs, Wayne Hile, Thomas Robinson, Edward Endejan
  • Systems and methods for controlling instruction throughput
    Patent number: 8074057
    Abstract: Systems and methods for controlling instruction throughput are disclosed. One embodiment of a system may comprise a comparator that determines a difference value in an actual instructions per clock cycle throughput and a target instructions per clock cycle throughput setting, and a throttle control that sums a plurality of difference values to determine an average difference value over a plurality of clock cycles and adjusts the actual instructions per clock cycle throughput based on the average difference value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2011
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventor: Kevin Altair Hurd
  • Method and system for output flow control in network multiplexers
    Patent number: 8072884
    Abstract: A method and system for initiating selective flow control within a network multiplexer. Each port of a network multiplexer is associated with high and low threshold values, as well as a list of indications of ports that have requested the port to initiate flow control and a list of indications of ports which the port has requested to initiate flow control. A port that, by queuing a message descriptor to the transmit queue of a destination port, causes the number of message descriptors queued to the transmit queue of a destination port to equal or exceed its high threshold, is flow controlled by the destination port. When the number of message descriptors queued to the transmit queue of a destination port that previously equaled or exceeded the high threshold falls below the low threshold, all ports flow controlled by the destination ports are released from flow control.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2003
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2011
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Bruce W. Melvin, Robert L. Faulk, Jr.
  • Method and communication device for interference cancellation in a cellular TDMA communication system
    Patent number: 8073088
    Abstract: A system and method for interference cancellation of received data via a communication channel in a cellular communication system having corresponding channel impulse response coefficients. Linear filtering of the received data is performed and thereafter a non-linear detection is executed to get detected data by non-linear signal processing. Filter coefficients are determined for linear pre-filtering of the received data to suppress non-Gaussian interference. The pre-filtered data is further processed by non-linear detection to get detected data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2011
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Sabah Badri-Hoeher, Peter Adam Hoeher, Claudiu Krakowski, Wen Xu
  • Document creation system and related methods
    Patent number: 8074169
    Abstract: A method of creating a document comprises obtaining a plurality of content-elements that it is desired to print on the document; considering one or more perimeters into which the obtained content-elements are to be placed; attempting to arrange the or each considered perimeter on the document; adjusting the dimensions of one or more perimeters such that the perimeters can be placed on the document; re-arranging the content-elements within a perimeter according to pre-determined rules as the dimensions are adjusted; and generating the document created by the method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2011
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventor: Helen Balinsky
  • Relating to telephone communications
    Patent number: 8073120
    Abstract: According to one aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method, in a telecommunication system, of establishing a connection between a calling terminal and a called terminal, the called terminal having an associated presence status, the connection establishment being initiated by a connection establishment request sent by the calling terminal, comprising: obtaining, in response to the connection establishment request, the presence status associated with the called terminal; and supplying the obtained presence status to the calling terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2011
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Xavier Peuziat, Philippe Wieczorek, Marc Brandt, Galina Guyot, Senthil-Kumar Ananda Ganesan
  • Method and system for displaying information on installed units
    Patent number: 8074065
    Abstract: An exemplary embodiment of the present invention provides a method for providing information about units installed in a computing device. The method includes identifying an installed unit prior to an initialization of an operating system and obtaining information about the installed unit, wherein the information comprises a regulatory identification number, a manufacturer's logo, or a combination thereof. The method also includes receiving a request to provide information about the installed unit and providing the information about the installed unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2011
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Isaac Lagnado, David A. Wissel, Walter R. Overcash
  • Connector device with surface feature
    Patent number: D650334
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2011
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventor: Yoshimichi Matsuoka