Patents by Inventor Anthony A. Klein

Anthony A. Klein 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).

  • Publication number: 20240085963
    Abstract: An information handling system polls telemetry data from sensors associated with a central processing unit, and determines current offsets for each one of the sensors based on the telemetry data. The system may also determine a domain current offset associated with a calibration domain, determine a voltage regulator offset based on the domain current offset, and adjust power provided by the voltage regulator to the central processing unit based on the voltage regulator offset.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2022
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Inventors: Craig Anthony Klein, Doug E. Messick, John Erven Jenne
  • Publication number: 20240057667
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is an assembly for an aerosol provision device for heating aerosol-generating material to volatilize at least one component of the aerosol-generating material. The assembly can include a heating zone for receiving aerosol-generating material to be heated, a structure, and at least one continuous electrically conductive path supported by the structure and configured to perform a first function of detecting temperature of the heating zone on the basis of an electrical resistance of the at least one path and/or a second function of heating the heating zone by resistance heating. The at least one path extends along at least two distinct portions of the structure. The at least one path can include a multiplicity of turns within each of the at least two distinct portions of the structure. The at least two distinct portions of the structure are offset from each other by a gap which is substantially free of the at least one path.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 7, 2022
    Publication date: February 22, 2024
    Inventors: Thomas Paul BLANDINO, Keith George BEIDELMAN, Anthony KLEIN, Kevin MOONEY, Johan SOMMARSTROM, Guy Arthur DURHAM
  • Patent number: 11822418
    Abstract: Methods and systems for power management are disclosed. The disclosed methods and system for power management may reduce the likelihood of a data processing system failing to meet power budget or other types of goals regarding power consumption, use, and/or provisioning. To reduce the likelihood of the data processing system failing to meet power related goals, the data processing system may include two power managers. An integrated power manager may manage power consumption based on a current-based, fast changing representation of the quantity of power being supplied by the power supplies. In contrast, a system power manager may manage power consumption based on digital representations of the power supplied by the power supplies, which may refresh the digital representations less quickly than the rate at which the analog current based representation is refreshed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Douglas Evan Messick, Craig Anthony Klein
  • Publication number: 20230333527
    Abstract: An information handling system includes a power supply and a baseboard management controller. The power supply determines a first maximum output power level, determines that an environmental condition of the power supply has changed, determines a second maximum output power level different from the first maximum output power level based upon the changed environmental condition, and stores the second maximum output power level to a first register of the power supply. The baseboard management controller sets a power level demanded by a load of the information handling system to be within the first maximum output power level, reads the first register, and sets the power level demanded by the load to be within the second maximum output power level in response to reading the register.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2022
    Publication date: October 19, 2023
    Inventors: Craig Anthony Klein, Wayne Kenneth Cook
  • Publication number: 20230315183
    Abstract: A power management system includes a power infrastructure having power infrastructure components that couple computing devices to power source(s), and a power management subsystem coupled to the computing devices. The power management subsystem identifies power requirement information for each of the computing devices and power transmission limitation information for the power infrastructure components, and determines a power infrastructure architecture that identifies how the power infrastructure components couple the computing devices to the power source(s). The power management subsystem then uses the power requirement information, the power transmission limitation information, and the power infrastructure architecture to generate and provide a respective input current limit to each of the computing devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2023
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Inventors: Douglas Evan Messick, Craig Anthony Klein, John Erven Jenne
  • Publication number: 20230168731
    Abstract: Methods and systems for power management are disclosed. The disclosed methods and system for power management may reduce the likelihood of a data processing system failing to meet power budget or other types of goals regarding power consumption, use, and/or provisioning. To reduce the likelihood of the data processing system failing to meet power related goals, the data processing system may include two power managers. An integrated power manager may manage power consumption based on a current-based, fast changing representation of the quantity of power being supplied by the power supplies. In contrast, a system power manager may manage power consumption based on digital representations of the power supplied by the power supplies, which may refresh the digital representations less quickly than the rate at which the analog current based representation is refreshed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2021
    Publication date: June 1, 2023
    Inventors: DOUGLAS EVAN MESSICK, CRAIG ANTHONY KLEIN
  • Publication number: 20230142337
    Abstract: A power management system includes a first power grid coupled to a first circuit breaker, and a first power distribution unit coupled to the first circuit breaker. A server device includes server components, and at least one first power supply unit coupled to the first power distribution unit. A power management subsystem in the server device is coupled to the server components and the at least one first power supply unit. The power management subsystem monitors a first input current draw of each first power supply unit, and determines whether the first input current draw exceeds a first input current limit that is based on the first circuit breaker. In response the first input current draw exceeding the first input current limit, the power management subsystem throttles the server components to reduce the first input current draw below the first input current limit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2022
    Publication date: May 11, 2023
    Inventors: John Erven Jenne, Craig Anthony Klein, Mark A. Muccini, Dit Charoen
  • Publication number: 20230103633
    Abstract: Methods and systems for power management are disclosed. The disclosed power management may facilitate the use of different components that may have different electrical current capacity limitations. The current capacity limitations may be based on, for example, physical limitations of the components, regulatory limitations, organizational limitations, and/or other considerations. It may not be desirable to exceed the current capacity limitations. By implementing the disclosed power management methods, systems, and/or devices, operation of devices may be less likely to result in the current drawn through devices such as power cables exceeding the current capacity limitations even while other devices operably connected to the cables do not have such current capacity limitations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 6, 2021
    Publication date: April 6, 2023
    Inventors: GEOFFREY ALLEN DILLON, CRAIG ANTHONY KLEIN
  • Patent number: 11520396
    Abstract: A power management system includes a first power grid coupled to a first circuit breaker, and a first power distribution unit coupled to the first circuit breaker. A server device includes server components, and at least one first power supply unit coupled to the first power distribution unit. A power management subsystem in the server device is coupled to the server components and the at least one first power supply unit. The power management subsystem monitors a first input current draw of each first power supply unit, and determines whether the first input current draw exceeds a first input current limit that is based on the first circuit breaker. In response the first input current draw exceeding the first input current limit, the power management subsystem throttles the server components to reduce the first input current draw below the first input current limit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: John Erven Jenne, Craig Anthony Klein, Mark A. Muccini, Dit Charoen
  • Patent number: 11086390
    Abstract: An information handling system has power supply units (PSUs), each of which includes an input over current warning (OCW) setting that provides a reference for an amount of an input current drawn by a corresponding workload. Each of the PSUs sends an interrupt to a baseboard management controller (BMC) when the amount of the input current drawn by the corresponding workload exceeds the corresponding configured input OCW setting. In response to the received interrupt, the BMC requests an adjustment to the corresponding workload.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Wayne Kenneth Cook, Craig Anthony Klein
  • Publication number: 20210141441
    Abstract: An information handling system has power supply units (PSUs), each of which includes an input over current warning (OCW) setting that provides a reference for an amount of an input current drawn by a corresponding workload. Each of the PSUs sends an interrupt to a baseboard management controller (BMC) when the amount of the input current drawn by the corresponding workload exceeds the corresponding configured input OCW setting. In response to the received interrupt, the BMC requests an adjustment to the corresponding workload.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2019
    Publication date: May 13, 2021
    Inventors: Wayne Kenneth Cook, Craig Anthony Klein
  • Publication number: 20210064112
    Abstract: A power management system includes a first power grid coupled to a first circuit breaker, and a first power distribution unit coupled to the first circuit breaker. A server device includes server components, and at least one first power supply unit coupled to the first power distribution unit. A power management subsystem in the server device is coupled to the server components and the at least one first power supply unit. The power management subsystem monitors a first input current draw of each first power supply unit, and determines whether the first input current draw exceeds a first input current limit that is based on the first circuit breaker. In response the first input current draw exceeding the first input current limit, the power management subsystem throttles the server components to reduce the first input current draw below the first input current limit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 17, 2020
    Publication date: March 4, 2021
    Inventors: John Erven Jenne, Craig Anthony Klein, Mark A. Muccini, Dit Charoen
  • Patent number: 10936037
    Abstract: A multi-power rail PSU includes a first power rail coupled to first PSUs, and a second power rail coupled to second PSUs. A controller subsystem receives a request to enable the first power rail and the second power rail and, in response, enables one of the first PSUs to transmit power to the first power rail, and enables one of the second PSUs to transmit power to the second power rail. The controller subsystem then performs respective PSU mismatch checks on the first PSUs and the second PSUs, and identifies compatible first PSUs for the first power rail, and compatible second PSUs for the second power rail. The controller subsystem then enables transmission of power to the first power rail from the compatible first PSUs, and enables transmission of power to the second power rail from the compatible second PSUs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Craig Anthony Klein, John Erven Jenne
  • Patent number: 10852804
    Abstract: A power management system includes a first power grid coupled to a first circuit breaker, and a first power distribution unit coupled to the first circuit breaker. A server device includes server components, and at least one first power supply unit coupled to the first power distribution unit. A power management subsystem in the server device is coupled to the server components and the at least one first power supply unit. The power management subsystem monitors a first input current draw of each first power supply unit, and determines whether the first input current draw exceeds a first input current limit that is based on the first circuit breaker. In response the first input current draw exceeding the first input current limit, the power management subsystem throttles the server components to reduce the first input current draw below the first input current limit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2020
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: John Erven Jenne, Craig Anthony Klein, Mark A. Muccini, Dit Charoen
  • Patent number: 10740089
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer programs encoded on computer storage medium, for determining that an update of the PSU firmware is received for a plurality of PSUs of a data center; determining that an update priority flag indicates unthrottled operation of the data center, and in response: determining that a number of PSUs of the data center is greater than a minimum number of PSUs for the unthrottled operation of the data center, and in response, applying the update to each of the PSUs; determining that the number of PSUs of the data center is less than the minimum number of PSUs for the unthrottled operation of the data center, and in response: adjusting a power capacity and maximum current state of the data center, and after adjusting the power capacity and the maximum current state of the data center, applying the update to each of the PSUs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2020
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Ravi Shekhar Singh, Vaishnavi Suchindran, Craig Anthony Klein, Venkata Nagesh Babu Doddapaneni
  • Publication number: 20200142465
    Abstract: A power management system includes a first power grid coupled to a first circuit breaker, and a first power distribution unit coupled to the first circuit breaker. A server device includes server components, and at least one first power supply unit coupled to the first power distribution unit. A power management subsystem in the server device is coupled to the server components and the at least one first power supply unit. The power management subsystem monitors a first input current draw of each first power supply unit, and determines whether the first input current draw exceeds a first input current limit that is based on the first circuit breaker. In response the first input current draw exceeding the first input current limit, the power management subsystem throttles the server components to reduce the first input current draw below the first input current limit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 2, 2018
    Publication date: May 7, 2020
    Inventors: John Erven Jenne, Craig Anthony Klein, Mark A. Muccini, Dit Charoen
  • Patent number: 10620692
    Abstract: In one or more embodiments, one or more systems, processes, and/or methods may determine first power supply units associated with a first power supply grid of power supply grids that are configured to provide power to information handling systems (IHSs) and second power supply units associated with a second power supply grid of the power supply grids; may determine that the power supply grids are configured for grid redundancy; may determine that a number of operational power supply units of the first power supply units meets a minimum number of operational power supply units to provide power to the IHSs; may determine that a number of operational power supply units of the second power supply units not the minimum number of operational power supply units; and may suppress an alert of at least one of the second power supply units that is not operational to provide power to the IHSs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2020
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Douglas Evan Messick, Aaron Michael Rhinehart, Craig Anthony Klein
  • Publication number: 20200042074
    Abstract: In one or more embodiments, one or more systems, processes, and/or methods may determine first power supply units associated with a first power supply grid of power supply grids that are configured to provide power to information handling systems (IHSs) and second power supply units associated with a second power supply grid of the power supply grids; may determine that the power supply grids are configured for grid redundancy; may determine that a number of operational power supply units of the first power supply units meets a minimum number of operational power supply units to provide power to the IHSs; may determine that a number of operational power supply units of the second power supply units not the minimum number of operational power supply units; and may suppress an alert of at least one of the second power supply units that is not operational to provide power to the IHSs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2018
    Publication date: February 6, 2020
    Inventors: Douglas Evan Messick, Aaron Michael Rhinehart, Craig Anthony Klein
  • Patent number: 10296711
    Abstract: A system, method and computer program product for archiving image, audio, and text data with metadata encapsulation in a client-server storage library is described. The server receives and holds the images, audio, or text to be archived in an image, audio or text logical partition which includes a directory of the images, audio, or text. The information is encapsulated in a metadata wrapper and stored in the library as a closed image, audio, or text file along with a closed copy of the directory. The closed image, audio, or text directory is also stored in the client. The images may be encapsulated in MXF, DICOM, Tape Archive (TAR) or GZIP formats. The storage library may have magnetic tapes, magnetic disks or optical disks as storage media.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Allen Keith Bates, Louie Arthur Dickens, Timothy A. Johnson, Craig Anthony Klein, Yun Mou, Stephen Leonard Schwartz, Anna W. Topol, Daniel James Winarski
  • Publication number: 20190073015
    Abstract: A multi-power rail PSU includes a first power rail coupled to first PSUs, and a second power rail coupled to second PSUs. A controller subsystem receives a request to enable the first power rail and the second power rail and, in response, enables one of the first PSUs to transmit power to the first power rail, and enables one of the second PSUs to transmit power to the second power rail. The controller subsystem then performs respective PSU mismatch checks on the first PSUs and the second PSUs, and identifies compatible first PSUs for the first power rail, and compatible second PSUs for the second power rail. The controller subsystem then enables transmission of power to the first power rail from the compatible first PSUs, and enables transmission of power to the second power rail from the compatible second PSUs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 2, 2018
    Publication date: March 7, 2019
    Inventors: Craig Anthony Klein, John Erven Jenne