Patents Examined by Michael Wilser
  • Patent number: 7369981
    Abstract: The present invention provides at least a method and system for forecasting computer capacity. With respect to the present invention, performance data and information related to transactions collected from computing devices are used to calculate correlations. A usage factor is calculated to determine the computer's theoretical maximum capacity without a long manual analysis of large volumes of data and extensive testing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2004
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2008
    Assignee: Sprint Communications Company L.P.
    Inventors: Dean Lee Saghier, Richard Michael Wyett, Jianzhou Chen
  • Patent number: 7360221
    Abstract: A method and system that prepares a task for being swapped out from processor utilization that is executing on a computer with multiple processors that each support multiple streams. The task has one or more teams of threads, where each team represents threads executing on a single processor. The task designates, for each stream that is executing a thread, one stream as a team master stream and one stream as a task master stream. For each team master stream, the task notifies the operating system that the team is ready to be swapped out when each other thread of the team has saved its state and has quit its stream. Finally, for the task master stream, the task notifies the operating system that the task is ready to be swapped when it has saved its state and each other team has notified that it is ready to be swapped out.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2003
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2008
    Assignee: Cray Inc.
    Inventors: Gail A. Alverson, Charles David Callahan, II, Susan L. Coatney, Brian D. Koblenz, Richard D. Korry, Burton J. Smith
  • Patent number: 7340387
    Abstract: A control rod driving simulator has a control rod driving unit having a plurality of coil members vertically mounted therein, a control rod mounted vertically movably through the centers of the coil members, a cart having a reserve tank storing cooling water, a cooling fan for air-cooling the coil members and a control unit for controlling an operation of the cooling fan, a box containing a part of the control rod and a checking unit for checking the vertical movement of the control rod. When the simulator is connected to an actual control rod driving mechanism and a wave profile of current flowing in the coil members of the control rod driving unit is measured, a same wave profile of current as when it is connected to an actual control rod driving mechanism provided to a reactor core can be obtained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2004
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2008
    Assignee: Doosan Heavy Industries & Construction Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chae-Ho Nam, Jung-Surk Sur, Chang-Ho Cho
  • Patent number: 7305335
    Abstract: Disclosed is a permanent recloser simulator feature for use in a single-pole trip capable recloser control. The permanent recloser simulator feature includes a first logic circuit capable of enabling and disabling operation of the permanent recloser simulator feature in response to receipt of a binary logic signal, and a second logic circuit coupled to the first logic circuit where the second logic circuit is configured to provide an indication of a status of a first pole to a logic engine of the single-pole trip capable recloser control. The permanent recloser simulator feature may further include a third logic circuit associated with a second pole, and a fourth logic circuit associated with a third pole where both are coupled to the first logic circuit. Disabling means of the first logic circuit allow the first, second, third and fourth logic circuit to permanently reside in logic of the recloser control.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2004
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2007
    Assignee: Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories, Inc.
    Inventor: James T. (Ted) Warren