Patents by Inventor Andrew Butcher

Andrew Butcher 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).

  • Patent number: 11269715
    Abstract: In accordance with embodiments of the present disclosure, an information handling system may include a processor, a memory communicatively coupled to the processor and comprising a plurality of non-volatile memories, and a failure analysis module comprising a program of instructions, the failure analysis module configured to, when read and executed by the processor, set a predictive failure threshold for each of the plurality of non-volatile memories based at least on functional parameters of such non-volatile memory, and adapt the predictive failure threshold for each of the plurality of non-volatile memories based at least on health status parameters of such non-volatile memory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Vijay Bharat Nijhawan, Wade Andrew Butcher, Vadhiraj Sankaranarayanan
  • Publication number: 20220065471
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an air treatment method and a system (1a-1f) arranged for treating an air flow (3) to be entered into a semiconductor clean room. Said air flow (3) comprises at least one vapour phase compound, and wherein the air flow (3) is subjected to at least one first treatment process arranged for reducing the concentration of the at least one vapour phase compound in the treated air flow below a predefined threshold, and wherein said first treatment process comprises subjecting the air flow to at least one photooxidation step.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2019
    Publication date: March 3, 2022
    Inventors: Thomas Rosenørn, Jonas Ingemar, Andrew Butcher, Cecilie Litske Carstens
  • Patent number: 11253817
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method and a system for the treatment of exhaust gas from industrial processes comprising at least the following consecutive steps: a) passing an exhaust gas comprising volatile organic compounds (VOCs) and/or amines through a catalytic zone at elevated temperatures, said catalytic zone comprises a deNOx-catalyst and an oxidation catalyst thereby providing a first treated gas stream, and b) subjecting the first treated gas stream to ultraviolet radiation in order cause photooxidation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: XPURIS GMBH
    Inventors: Thomas Rosenørn, Andrew Butcher, Kenth Wrist Jensen, Michael Gallus
  • Patent number: 11210172
    Abstract: An information handling system includes a processor complex and a baseboard management controller (BMC). The processor complex provides boot status information in response to a system boot process of the processor complex. The BMC receives first boot status information from the processor complex in response to a first system boot process, compares the first boot status information to baseline status information to determine first boot status difference information, compares the first boot status difference information to baseline boot status difference information to determine that the information handling system experienced an anomaly during the first system boot process, and sends an alert that indicates that the first system boot process experienced the anomaly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Timothy M. Lambert, Andrew Butcher, Anh Luong
  • Patent number: 11200185
    Abstract: In one or more embodiments, one or more systems, methods, and/or processes may configure multiple link registers, of a first semiconductor package of an information handling system (IHS), that configure an input/output (I/O) communication fabric of the first semiconductor package to route communications of multiple components of the first semiconductor package to multiple inter-processor communication link interfaces; may communicate with a second semiconductor package of the IHS via the multiple inter-processor communication link interfaces; may determine that a link utilization value of multiple link utilization values is at or above a threshold value; and may configure a link register of the multiple link registers, associated with the at least one component of the multiple components, that configures the I/O communication fabric to route communications of the at least one component of the multiple components to a second inter-processor communication link interface of the multiple inter-processor communica
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2021
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Stuart Allen Berke, Wade Andrew Butcher
  • Patent number: 11164401
    Abstract: A vehicle system includes a vehicle component with a component temperature sensor, and a fluid circuit in fluid communication with the component and with a fluid temperature sensor. A controller is in communication with the component sensor and the fluid sensor. The controller is configured to, in response to a temperature difference between the component sensor and the fluid sensor being greater than a predetermined threshold value, output a flag or a diagnostic code indicative of a fluid level in the fluid circuit. A vehicle diagnostic method and a vehicle are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Justin Carmen Campanaro, Nathaniel Patrick O'Brien, Jonathan Andrew Butcher, Brian Szwejkowski, Carol Louise Okubo
  • Publication number: 20210263751
    Abstract: Computing clusters can be automatically configured according to some aspects described herein. For example, a system can receive configuration datasets from instantiated objects in a management cluster. The configuration datasets can be for configuring target objects in managed clusters, where the managed clusters are separate from the management cluster. The system can then configure the target objects within each of the managed clusters based on the configuration datasets.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2020
    Publication date: August 26, 2021
    Inventors: Thomas Wiest, Andrew Butcher, Cesar Wong, Joel Diaz
  • Patent number: 11068038
    Abstract: An information handling system includes a current detector module and a baseboard management controller (BMC). The current detector module is configured to detect current slew-rate for an element of the information handling system, to determine that the current slew-rate is greater than a current slew-rate threshold, and to provide an indication that the current slew-rate is greater than the current slew-rate threshold on a communication interface. The BMC may enter an item into a log of the information handling system in response to receiving an indication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Inventors: Mark A. Muccini, Wade Andrew Butcher, John Erven Jenne
  • Patent number: 11012407
    Abstract: In one or more embodiments, an information handling system (IHS) may receive, from another IHS via a first network, a dynamic host configuration protocol discovery request, provide, via the first network, a first Internet protocol version four (IPv4) address to the other IHS, and associate a first Internet protocol version six (IPv6) address. The IHS may receive a domain name service (DNS) lookup request from the first information handling system, provide a multicast DNS (mDNS) request, based at least on logical name information from the DNS lookup request, to a second network, and receive a mDNS response that includes a second IPv6 address associated with the logical name information from the DNS lookup request. In response to receiving the mDNS response, the IHS may configure at least one network address translation configuration that associates that associates the second IPv6 address and a second IPv4 address.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Lee E. Ballard, Wade Andrew Butcher
  • Patent number: 11011876
    Abstract: Remote management of network interface peripheral cards uses physical pin reassignment and a dedicated management network. One or more physical pins in a connector may be dynamically redefined from an interface protocol to a different interface protocol. The dynamic redefinition allows existing input/output signals to be routed to the pins to provide remote management features.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Andrew Butcher, Timothy M. Lambert, Lee Eric Ballard
  • Publication number: 20210124636
    Abstract: An information handling system includes a first memory to store firmware core data for a peripheral device. A second memory includes a video framebuffer portion and a firmware core data portion. In response to a firmware exception within the peripheral device, the second memory receives the firmware core data. A baseboard management controller communicates with the peripheral device and with the second memory. The baseboard management controller queries the peripheral device for firmware storage capabilities of the peripheral device, and notifies a user of the information handling system that a firmware crash of the peripheral device has occurred. In response to the firmware crash of the peripheral device, the baseboard management controller receives the firmware core data from the peripheral device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2019
    Publication date: April 29, 2021
    Inventors: Andrew Butcher, Lee Eric Ballard
  • Patent number: 10990562
    Abstract: An information handling system includes processors disposed in sockets, and interconnect links providing point-to-point links between the sockets. One of the processors determines an arrangement of the processors, memories and the interconnect links, and determines a value for each of the processors, each of the memories, and each of the interconnect links. The processor calculates interconnect link bandwidth values for each of the interconnect links based at least in part on the determined value and the arrangement of the processors, the memories and the interconnect links. The processor also populates an interconnect bandwidth table using the interconnect link bandwidth values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2021
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Andrew Butcher, Stuart Allen Berke
  • Publication number: 20210113963
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method and a system for the treatment of exhaust gas from industrial processes comprising at least the following consecutive steps: a) passing an exhaust gas comprising volatile organic compounds (VOCs) and/or amines through a catalytic zone at elevated temperatures, said catalytic zone comprises a deNOx-catalyst and an oxidation catalyst thereby providing a first treated gas stream, and b) subjecting the first treated gas stream to ultraviolet radiation in order cause photooxidation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2019
    Publication date: April 22, 2021
    Inventors: Thomas ROSENØRN, Andrew BUTCHER, Kenth WRIST JENSEN, Michael GALLUS
  • Publication number: 20210117266
    Abstract: An information handling system includes a first memory with a video framebuffer, which in turn includes a regular video framebuffer and a diagnostic video framebuffer. Detected errors within the information handling system are stored within the diagnostic video framebuffer. In response to the error log data being stored within the diagnostic video framebuffer, a processing unit provides a notification signal. In response to the notification signal, a baseboard management controller reads the error log data from the diagnostic framebuffer, and stores the error log data in a second memory of the baseboard management controller.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2019
    Publication date: April 22, 2021
    Inventor: Andrew Butcher
  • Publication number: 20210109582
    Abstract: An information handling system includes a power supply and a baseboard management controller (BMC). The power supply includes an input power monitor module and a communication interface. The input power monitor module is configured to detect a total harmonic distortion (THD) on a power input to the power supply, to determine that the THD is greater than a THD threshold, and to provide an indication that the THD is greater than the THD threshold on the communication interface. The BMC is coupled to the communication interface, and is configured to receive the first indication and to enter an item into a log of the information handling system in response to receiving the indication.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 10, 2019
    Publication date: April 15, 2021
    Inventors: Mark A. Muccini, John Erven Jenne, Wayne Kenneth Cook, Wade Andrew Butcher
  • Publication number: 20210089106
    Abstract: An information handling system includes a current detector module and a baseboard management controller (BMC). The current detector module is configured to detect current slew-rate for an element of the information handling system, to determine that the current slew-rate is greater than a current slew-rate threshold, and to provide an indication that the current slew-rate is greater than the current slew-rate threshold on a communication interface. The BMC may enter an item into a log of the information handling system in response to receiving an indication.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2019
    Publication date: March 25, 2021
    Inventors: Mark A. Muccini, Wade Andrew Butcher, John Erven Jenne
  • Publication number: 20210081234
    Abstract: An information handling system includes a first processor core that receives a first System Management Interrupt (SMI) event, and synchronizes entry into a System Management Mode (SMM) with second and third processor cores. In response to the first, second, and third processor cores being in the SMM, the first processor executes a first SMI handler to service the first SMI. While the first, second, and third processor core are in the SMM, the second processor core monitors for a high priority SMI event. In response to a detection of the high priority SMI event, the second processor core executes a second SMI handler to service the high priority SMI event.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2019
    Publication date: March 18, 2021
    Inventors: Wei Liu, Quy Ngoc Hoang, Wade Andrew Butcher, Mark W. Shutt
  • Publication number: 20210072145
    Abstract: An information handling system includes first and second lines of a differential pair. A baseboard management controller (BMC) periodically determines a resistance of the first line and a resistance of the second line. If the first resistance is substantially equal to the second resistance, then the BMC provides a corrosion signal to a remote diagnostic system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 5, 2019
    Publication date: March 11, 2021
    Inventors: Joseph Danny King, Wade Andrew Butcher, Sandor Farkas
  • Patent number: 10924435
    Abstract: A system includes servers that are connected in series, and a top of rack (TOR) switch having a first TOR switch port and a second TOR switch port that are connected to a first end and a second end, respectively, of the series connected servers. A multi chassis link aggregation group may be established on the first TOR switch port and the second TOR switch port to transform the series connected servers into a single logical channel. A highest media access control address is determined from the servers to represent the single logical channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Assignee: Dell Products, L.P.
    Inventors: Lee Eric Ballard, Wade Andrew Butcher
  • Patent number: 10916326
    Abstract: An information handling system includes a processor and memory devices that each include a voltage regulator configured to be enabled by a command from the processor. The processor boots the information handling system, including providing the command to the memory devices, and detects that one of the memory devices failed to boot. The processor determines that it is unknown whether the failing memory device is the first memory device or the second memory device. In response, the processor determines which one of the memory devices failed to boot, by rebooting the information handling system, providing a command to a selected one of the memory devices, and determining whether or not the selected one of the memory devices failed to boot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2021
    Assignee: Dell Products, L.P.
    Inventors: Richard L. Holmberg, Jr., Jordan Chin, Wade Andrew Butcher