Patents by Inventor Bill Gay
Bill Gay 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).
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Patent number: 8904362Abstract: An apparatus may include a network interface to facilitate communication with a second apparatus, and one or more machine-readable media with instructions executable by one or more processors to perform facilitating accessing a windows application resident on the second apparatus without executing locally the windows application resident on the second apparatus. An apparatus may facilitate providing windowing functionality to permit use of a windows application resident on the apparatus without requiring more than windowing information of the windows application to be provided. An apparatus may facilitate providing windowing information for display. An apparatus may facilitate provision of windowing information associated with a program executable on the apparatus configured to run a multi-user operating system, the program resident on the apparatus. One or more non-transitory machine-readable media are also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: December 9, 2011Date of Patent: December 2, 2014Assignee: Wyse Technology L.L.C.Inventors: Randy Buswell, Bill Gay, Sui M. Lam, David Stone
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Publication number: 20120089769Abstract: An apparatus may include a network interface to facilitate communication with a second apparatus, and one or more machine-readable media with instructions executable by one or more processors to perform facilitating accessing a windows application resident on the second apparatus without executing locally the windows application resident on the second apparatus. An apparatus may facilitate providing windowing functionality to permit use of a windows application resident on the apparatus without requiring more than windowing information of the windows application to be provided. An apparatus may facilitate providing windowing information for display. An apparatus may facilitate provision of windowing information associated with a program executable on the apparatus configured to run a multi-user operating system, the program resident on the apparatus. One or more non-transitory machine-readable media are also disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 9, 2011Publication date: April 12, 2012Applicant: WYSE TECHNOLOGY INC.Inventors: Randy Buswell, Bill Gay, Sui M. Lam, David Stone
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Patent number: 8079021Abstract: A video display terminal capable of operating with a graphical user interface such as Windows provides windowing functionality to permit use of popular applications programs resident on a server, without requiring more than application data to be transmitted from the server, and keyboard and mouse information to be transmitted from a terminal to the server. A terminal for communicating with a server includes a network interface for communicating with a server and a processor coupled to the network interface for operating with the network interface and for accessing a windows application resident on the server without executing locally the windows application resident on the server. The processor provides windowing functionality to permit use of a windows application resident on the server without requiring more than windowing information of the windows application to be transmitted from the server, wherein the windowing information includes application data.Type: GrantFiled: April 19, 2006Date of Patent: December 13, 2011Assignee: WYSE Technology Inc.Inventors: Randy Buswell, Bill Gay, Sui M. Lam, David Stone
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Patent number: 7720672Abstract: A video display terminal capable of operating with a graphical user interface such as Windows provides windowing functionality to permit use of popular applications programs resident on a server, without requiring more than application data to be transmitted from the server, and keyboard and mouse information to be transmitted from the terminal to the server. The terminal includes processing means, not fully compatible with personal computer BIOS or disk operating systems and incapable of executing windowing applications locally, adapted to receive windowing information supplied by programs executing on a remotely located application server. The terminal also includes a display for the windowing information supplied by programs executing on the remotely located application server. The invention provides FTP and SNMP capabilities along with a number of user interface enhancements, DHCP and SNMP enhancements. File information is transferred to and from the terminal using a communications protocol.Type: GrantFiled: September 21, 1999Date of Patent: May 18, 2010Assignee: Wyse Technology Inc.Inventors: Randy Buswell, Bill Gay, Sui M. Lam, David Stone
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Publication number: 20070016721Abstract: A method and system for reducing the time for initializing a non-volatile memory device, such as flash memory, at power-up that takes advantage of the fact that many file systems are designed to perform sequential writes within a block of data units. The method and system includes, in one aspect, reading the last page of a block, determining the logical sector number of the page and generating a mapping table for that block by allocating the logical sector number to the last page and respectively allocating to each remaining page sequentially decreasing logical sector numbers. When not all sectors in the block are consecutive, mapping table information is built by reading only one page from each chain of consecutive sectors. In another aspect, a “deleted sector(s) present” flag is used in the last page of each block to determine whether the block contains deleted sectors, in which case the initialization procedure generally reads all sectors in the block.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 18, 2005Publication date: January 18, 2007Inventor: Bill Gay
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Publication number: 20060282253Abstract: A video display terminal capable of operating with a graphical user interface such as Windows provides windowing functionality to permit use of popular applications programs resident on a server, without requiring more than application data to be transmitted from the server, and keyboard and mouse information to be transmitted from a terminal to the server. A terminal for communicating with a server includes a network interface for communicating with a server and a processor coupled to the network interface for operating with the network interface and for accessing a windows application resident on the server without executing locally the windows application resident on the server. The processor provides windowing functionality to permit use of a windows application resident on the server without requiring more than windowing information of the windows application to be transmitted from the server, wherein the windowing information includes application data.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 19, 2006Publication date: December 14, 2006Applicant: Wyse Technology, Inc.Inventors: Randy Buswell, Bill Gay, Sui Lam, David Stone
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Patent number: 6836885Abstract: A video display terminal capable of operating with a graphical user interface such as Windows provides windowing functionality to permit use of popular applications programs resident on a server, without requiring more than application data to be transmitted from the server, and keyboard and mouse information to be transmitted from a terminal to the server. The terminal includes processing means, not fully compatible with personal computer BIOS or disk operating systems and incapable of executing windowing applications locally, adapted to receive windowing information supplied by programs executing on a remotely located application server. The terminal also includes a display for windowing information supplied by programs executing on the remotely located application server. The invention provides FTP and SNMP capabilities along with a number of user interface enhancements, DHCP and SHMP enhancements. File information is transferred to and from the terminal using a communications protocol.Type: GrantFiled: September 21, 1999Date of Patent: December 28, 2004Assignee: Wyse Technology Inc.Inventors: Randy Buswell, Fred Waibel, Bill Gay, Sui M. Lam, Bach Le, David Stone
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Patent number: 5918039Abstract: A video display terminal capable of operating with a graphical user interface such as Windows.RTM. provides windowing functionality to permit use of popular applications programs resident on a server, without requiring more than application data to be transmitted from the server, and keyboard and mouse information to be transmitted from the terminal to the server. In addition, a method for updating terminal operating characteristics over a communications link from a host is disclosed. Finally, method and apparatus are disclosed for implementing multiple personalities within a terminal and switching among such personalities.Type: GrantFiled: December 29, 1995Date of Patent: June 29, 1999Assignee: Wyse Technology, Inc.Inventors: Randy Buswell, Carol A. Fox, Bill Gay, Sui M. Lam, Curtis Schwebke, Yih-Shyoun Wey