Patents by Inventor Aaron A. Mcbride

Aaron A. Mcbride 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).

  • Modifying a shared resource
    Patent number: 6917950
    Abstract: Providing shared resources includes receiving modified data that is modified from a data field of a source version of a collection of data and other data of the source version of the collection of data, determining if the other data differs from current data included in a current version of a collection of data that corresponds to the other data, and if the other data does not differ, including the modified data in the current data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2001
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2005
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Aaron A. Mcbride, David B. Watson, Dale E. Burr
  • Displaying characters on a dot-matrix display
    Patent number: 6795074
    Abstract: Displaying characters on a dot-matrix display includes characters for display on a display device and an array of pixel boxes for displaying the characters, where each of the characters is justified against one side of the pixel box included in the array of pixel boxes and occupies a standard width of four pixels in the pixel box.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2000
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2004
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Aaron A. McBride, Michelle R. Metcalf
  • Method and apparatus for default factory image restoration of a system
    Patent number: 6748553
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for restoring a system including a hard drive having a main logical disk and a recovery local disk, to a pristine state. The method comprises installing a copy of the master boot record onto the main logical drive of the hard drive and installing operating system information from the recovery drive to the main drive. The method further comprises setting the master boot record to boot from the main local drive, and rebooting the system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2000
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2004
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Aaron A. McBride, Matthew A. Schnoor
  • Providing shared resources
    Publication number: 20020091721
    Abstract: Providing shared resources includes receiving modified data that is modified from a data field of a source version of a collection of data and other data of the source version of the collection of data, determining if the other data differs from current data included in a current version of a collection of data that corresponds to the other data, and if the other data does not differ, including the modified data in the current data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 10, 2001
    Publication date: July 11, 2002
    Inventors: Aaron A. Mcbride, David B. Watson, Dale E. Burr
  • Method and apparatus for default factory image restoration of a system
    Publication number: 20020083367
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for restoring a system including a hard drive having a main logical disk and a recovery local disk, to a pristine state. The method comprises installing a copy of the master boot record onto the main logical drive of the hard drive and installing operating system information from the recovery drive to the main drive. The method further comprises setting the master boot record to boot from the main local drive, and rebooting the system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2000
    Publication date: June 27, 2002
    Inventors: Aaron A. McBride, Matthew A. Schnoor