Patents by Inventor Bobby Jim Kowalski

Bobby Jim Kowalski 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).

  • Expandable fluid cooling structure
    Patent number: 8534347
    Abstract: A connector system is provided. The system includes a substantially circular interconnecting hub, and a plurality of circuit board bays configured substantially radially around the substantially circular interconnecting hub. Each circuit board bay has a plurality of aligned connectors configured to receive a circuit board. The interconnecting circuit hub has, for each individual circuit board bay, a direct data pathway connecting the individual circuit board bay to all remaining circuit board bays of the plurality of circuit board bays. Each of the plurality of circuit board bays can directly communicate through the interconnecting hub with each of the remaining circuit boards bays.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2013
    Assignee: General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Ronald R. Denny, Bobby Jim Kowalski, James T. Seward, Michael P. Ebsen, Thomas Rosenthal, William J. Leinberger, Jeffery Stagg Young, Andrew D. Josephson
  • System and method for managing addresses in a computing system
    Patent number: 8037259
    Abstract: A method for retrieving and managing addresses is provided. The steps may include of receiving, at a first buffer of m buffers, a request for an address; obtaining the address from a corresponding first register of the m registers; sending the address, received by said obtaining, to a destination; storing the address, received by the obtaining, in the first buffer; and clearing the contents of a second buffer of the m buffers, in response to any of said receiving, obtaining or storing, without clearing the contents of said first buffer, wherein m is a positive integer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2011
    Assignee: General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: William J. Leinberger, Bobby Jim Kowalski, Ronald R. Denny
  • Expandable fluid cooling structure
    Publication number: 20110168375
    Abstract: A connector system is provided. The system includes a substantially circular interconnecting hub, and a plurality of circuit board bays configured substantially radially around the substantially circular interconnecting hub. Each circuit board bay has a plurality of aligned connectors configured to receive a circuit board. The interconnecting circuit hub has, for each individual circuit board bay, a direct data pathway connecting the individual circuit board bay to all remaining circuit board bays of the plurality of circuit board bays. Each of the plurality of circuit board bays can directly communicate through the interconnecting hub with each of the remaining circuit boards bays.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2010
    Publication date: July 14, 2011
    Applicant: General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems, Inc .
    Inventors: Bobby Jim Kowalski, Ronald R. Denny, James T. Seward, Michael P. Ebsen, Thomas Rosenthal, William J. Leinberger, Andrew D. Josephson, Jeffery Stagg Young
  • System and method for interconnecting circuit boards
    Patent number: 7819667
    Abstract: A connector system is provided. The system includes a substantially circular interconnecting hub, and a plurality of circuit board bays configured substantially radially around the substantially circular interconnecting hub. Each circuit board bay has a plurality of aligned connectors configured to receive a circuit board. The interconnecting circuit hub has, for each individual circuit board bay, a direct data pathway connecting the individual circuit board bay to all remaining circuit board bays of the plurality of circuit board bays. Each of the plurality of circuit board bays can directly communicate through the interconnecting hub with each of the remaining circuit boards bays.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2010
    Assignee: General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Bobby Jim Kowalski, Ronald R. Denny, James T. Seward, Michael P. Ebsen, Thomas Rosenthal, William J. Leinberger, Andrew D. Josephson, Jeffery Stagg Young
  • Method and apparatus for a federation control plane in an orthogonal system
    Patent number: 7802046
    Abstract: A method of and architecture for controlling board elements in an orthogonal system architecture is provided. The method and architecture preferably utilize an internal bus architecture between control boards, such that a first control board can access board elements in its stack via I/O on a second control board and the second control board can access board elements in its stack via I/O on the first control board. Most preferably the internal bus architecture is a HyperTransport bus architecture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2010
    Assignee: General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Bobby Jim Kowalski, Ronald R. Denny
  • System and method for interconnecting circuit boards
    Publication number: 20090149039
    Abstract: A connector system is provided. The system includes a substantially circular interconnecting hub, and a plurality of circuit board bays configured substantially radially around the substantially circular interconnecting hub. Each circuit board bay has a plurality of aligned connectors configured to receive a circuit board. The interconnecting circuit hub has, for each individual circuit board bay, a direct data pathway connecting the individual circuit board bay to all remaining circuit board bays of the plurality of circuit board bays. Each of the plurality of circuit board bays can directly communicate through the interconnecting hub with each of the remaining circuit boards bays.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2008
    Publication date: June 11, 2009
    Applicant: General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems, Inc
    Inventors: Bobby Jim Kowalski, Ronald R. Denny, James T. Seward, Michael P. Ebsen, Thomas Rosenthal, William J. Leinberger, Andrew D. Josephson, Jeffery Stagg Young
  • System and method for managing addresses in a computing system
    Publication number: 20080301390
    Abstract: A method for retrieving and managing addresses is provided. The steps may include of receiving, at a first buffer of m buffers, a request for an address; obtaining the address from a corresponding first register of the m registers; sending the address, received by said obtaining, to a destination; storing the address, received by the obtaining, in the first buffer; and clearing the contents of a second buffer of the m buffers, in response to any of said receiving, obtaining or storing, without clearing the contents of said first buffer, wherein m is a positive integer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 2, 2008
    Publication date: December 4, 2008
    Applicant: General Dynamics Information Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: William J. Leinberger, Bobby Jim Kowalski, Ronald R. Denny
  • Method and apparatus for a federation control plane in an orthogonal system
    Publication number: 20080276031
    Abstract: A method of and architecture for controlling board elements in an orthogonal system architecture is provided. The method and architecture preferably utilize an internal bus architecture between control boards, such that a first control board can access board elements in its stack via I/O on a second control board and the second control board can access board elements in its stack via I/O on the first control board. Most preferably the internal bus architecture is a HyperTransport bus architecture.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 7, 2008
    Publication date: November 6, 2008
    Applicant: General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Bobby Jim Kowalski, Ronald R. Denny