Patents by Inventor Brian Pruett
Brian Pruett 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: 10884212Abstract: A device for rearranging optical fibers has a proximal and distal end. The ends have openings therein to allow optical fibers to pass therethrough. The openings in the distal end have a width that is less than twice the optical fiber's diameter. Dividers separate the distal end openings and have a projection that narrows the distal openings to prevent the optical fibers from accidentally moving out of the openings. A lid is also provided to assist with organization and compression of the optical fibers.Type: GrantFiled: June 5, 2020Date of Patent: January 5, 2021Assignee: US Conec, LtdInventors: Craig M. Conrad, Darrell R. Childers, Brian J. Gimbel, Brian Pruett, Myron W. Yount
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Publication number: 20200301089Abstract: A device for rearranging optical fibers has a proximal and distal end. The ends have openings therein to allow optical fibers to pass therethrough. The openings in the distal end have a width that is less than twice the optical fiber's diameter. Dividers separate the distal end openings and have a projection that narrows the distal openings to prevent the optical fibers from accidentally moving out of the openings. A lid is also provided to assist with organization and compression of the optical fibers.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 5, 2020Publication date: September 24, 2020Inventors: Craig M. Conrad, Darrell R. Childers, Brian J. Gimbel, Brian Pruett, Myron W. Yount
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Patent number: 10684438Abstract: A device for rearranging optical fibers has a proximal and distal ends. The ends have openings therein to allow optical fibers to pass therethrough. The openings in the distal end have a width that is less than twice the optical fiber's diameter. Dividers separate the distal end openings and have a projection that narrows the distal openings to prevent the optical fibers from accidentally moving out of the openings. A lid is also provided to assist with organization and compression of the optical fibers.Type: GrantFiled: July 26, 2018Date of Patent: June 16, 2020Assignee: US Conec, Ltd.Inventors: Craig M. Conrad, Darrell R. Childers, Brian J. Gimbel, Brian Pruett, Myron W. Yount
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Publication number: 20180341080Abstract: A device for rearranging optical fibers has a proximal and distal ends. The ends have openings therein to allow optical fibers to pass therethrough. The openings in the distal end have a width that is less than twice the optical fiber's diameter. Dividers separate the distal end openings and have a projection that narrows the distal openings to prevent the optical fibers from accidentally moving out of the openings. A lid is also provided to assist with organization and compression of the optical fibers.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 26, 2018Publication date: November 29, 2018Applicant: US Conec, Ltd.Inventors: Craig M. Conrad, Darrell R. Childers, Brian J. Gimbel, Brian Pruett, Myron W. Yount
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Patent number: 10042137Abstract: A device for rearranging optical fibers has a proximal and distal ends. The ends have openings therein to allow optical fibers to pass therethrough. The openings in the distal end have a width that is less than twice the optical fiber's diameter. Dividers separate the distal end openings and have a projection that narrows the distal openings to prevent the optical fibers from accidentally moving out of the openings. A lid is also provided to assist with organization and compression of the optical fibers.Type: GrantFiled: August 15, 2016Date of Patent: August 7, 2018Assignee: US Conec, LtdInventors: Craig M. Conrad, Darrell R. Childers, Brian J. Gimbel, Brian Pruett, Myron W. Yount
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Publication number: 20170045700Abstract: A device for rearranging optical fibers has a proximal and distal ends. The ends have openings therein to allow optical fibers to pass therethrough. The openings in the distal end have a width that is less than twice the optical fiber's diameter. Dividers separate the distal end openings and have a projection that narrows the distal openings to prevent the optical fibers from accidentally moving out of the openings. A lid is also provided to assist with organization and compression of the optical fibers.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 15, 2016Publication date: February 16, 2017Inventors: Craig M. Conrad, Darrell R. Childers, Brian J. Gimbel, Brian Pruett, Myron W. Yount
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Patent number: 7870241Abstract: Power and redundancy management policies are applied individually to the tiers of redundant servers of an application service such that power is reduced while maintaining a high level of system availability. Servers which are determined to be relatively inactive are moved to a free pool. Certain servers of the free pool are maintained in a hot standby state, while others are powered-off or set to operate in a low power mode. During times of high load, the servers in the hot standby state can be provisioned quickly into the application service.Type: GrantFiled: November 27, 2002Date of Patent: January 11, 2011Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Ofer Biran, Richard Edwin Harper, Srirama Mandyam Krishnakumar, Kenneth Bruce MacKenzie, Gregory Brian Pruett, Ben-Ami Yassour
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Publication number: 20080263185Abstract: A method and system for automatically configuring devices in a network is disclosed. A network management software application is provided that enables a user to associate policy settings with physical locations in the network. During an operational mode of the network management application, the application automatically detects when a network device is plugged into the network, and determines a location of the device in the network. The device is then automatically configured based on the policy settings associated with the corresponding location.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 19, 2008Publication date: October 23, 2008Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: James William ANDERSON, Allan Daisley, Gregory Brian Pruett, Elena Schneider, Ethan Joshua Sommer
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Publication number: 20080263668Abstract: A system in which a networked device automatically evaluates hacker attack notification information and, based thereon, selects and executes responses to the attack. The notification may include information such as the address of the infected system, identification of the specific worm, and a list of vulnerable applications and operating systems. The evaluation is based on factors including criticality and vulnerability of applications running on the system and connectivity of the device. A variety of automatic responses can be selected, including notification of network administration, shutdown of the device or services running on the device, updating and activation of anti-virus software, and selective handling of data sent from the address of the suspect network device. The selection of responses can occur automatically based on rules input during setup or by intervention of network administration.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 8, 2008Publication date: October 23, 2008Applicant: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Simon C. Chu, Steven W. Hunter, William Joseph Piazza, Gregory Brian Pruett
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Patent number: 7418730Abstract: A system in which a networked device automatically evaluates hacker attack notification information and, based thereon, selects and executes responses to the attack. The notification may include information such as the address of the infected system, identification of the specific worm, and a list of vulnerable applications and operating systems. The evaluation is based on factors including criticality and vulnerability of applications running on the system and connectivity of the device. A variety of automatic responses can be selected, including notification of network administration, shutdown of the device or services running on the device, updating and activation of anti-virus software, and selective handling of data sent from the address of the suspect network device. The selection of responses can occur automatically based on rules input during setup or by intervention of network administration.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 2002Date of Patent: August 26, 2008Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Simon C. Chu, Steven W. Hunter, William Joseph Piazza, Gregory Brian Pruett
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Patent number: 7415519Abstract: This invention is useful in a networked system with densely packaged servers or server blades. The servers are connected to a system management network, a communication network and an image server. A management module attached to the system management network and a network switch monitors and controls network booting from an image server on the communication network to prevent over commitment of network and image server resources in order to avoid a boot storm. The management module collects system information and calculates the number of servers or clients the networked system can boot at any one instant of time without burdening the system. The management module logic controls booting via the system management network and service processor elements, which can block server booting and release servers to boot when other servers have completed their boot process.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2002Date of Patent: August 19, 2008Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.Inventors: Antonio Abbondanzio, William W. Buchanan, Jr., Simon Chu, Gregory William Dake, Stephen Woodrow Murphrey, William Joseph Piazza, Gregory Brian Pruett, David Benson Rhoades
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Patent number: 7269630Abstract: A method, system and computer program product for automatically switching remote shared devices in a dense server environment. A device driver in a server blade may be configured to receive a request to access a shared device from the server blade and issue a query to a service processor as to whether the requested shared device is being accessed. If the requested shared device is not being accessed by the requesting server blade, then the device driver may wait to receive a response from the service processor indicating that the requested shared device is available. Once the requested shared device is available, the service processor may connect the requested shared device with the requesting server blade. The request to access the requested shared device may then be transferred to the requested shared device by the device driver.Type: GrantFiled: October 17, 2001Date of Patent: September 11, 2007Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Antonio Abbondanzio, Thomas Charles Burke, Gregory William Dake, William Gavin Holland, William Joseph Piazza, Gregory Brian Pruett, David B. Rhoades
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Remote power control in a multi-node, partitioned data processing system via network interface cards
Patent number: 7251736Abstract: A system and method for remote power control across multiple distinct nodes of a logically coherent data processing system where each node has the design of a traditional standalone SMP server. The system is partitioned into two or more static partitions. Remote power control for the partition is achieved using a modified wake-on-LAN implementation in which magic packet filters on each NIC in the partition are modified to enable remote, partition-wide restart by a magic packet that is recognized by or common to all of the nodes. In one embodiment the wake-on-LAN filters of each NIC in the partition recognize and respond to magic packets addressed to any of the NIC's in the partition. In another embodiment, the wake-on-LAN filters of each NIC in the partition are modified to respond to a universal magic packet.Type: GrantFiled: June 25, 2003Date of Patent: July 31, 2007Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Richard Alan Dayan, Gregory Brian Pruett, David B. Rhoades -
Patent number: 7243347Abstract: A data processing method and system according to the present invention in which a mass storage device (DASD) of a data processing system is partitioned to include a service partition. The service partition includes the current versions of peripheral device firmware, any BIOS extensions, and device drivers. During a system boot, the boot code will compare the firmware versions of all the peripheral devices against the archived firmware versions stored in the service partition. If a mismatch is detected, the system boot will typically force an update of the peripheral device firmware to the level that is known to be good. Any such firmware updates are recorded in a log that is accessible to system management applications. Any revisions to firmware may be imaged into the service partition so that the revised version will be incorporated into the peripheral device itself during the next subsequent system boot.Type: GrantFiled: June 21, 2002Date of Patent: July 10, 2007Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Rodney Wendell Palmer, Gregory Brian Pruett, David Benson Rhoades, Ileana Vila
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Patent number: 7194659Abstract: Aspects for detection and correction of entrance into an improper master boot record (MBR) state in a computer system are described. The aspects include providing a proxy MBR at a predetermined location on a storage device of a computer system to provide a proxy MBR. The proxy MBR is then utilized during a restart operation. An original MBR maintained at an original location on the storage device is then utilized during a reboot operation when the utilization of the proxy MBR is unsuccessful.Type: GrantFiled: December 10, 2002Date of Patent: March 20, 2007Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: William W. Buchanan, Jr., Simon C. Chu, Peter Thomas Donovan, Benjamin Russell Grimes, Gregory Brian Pruett, David B. Rhoades, Paul Brian Tippet
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Patent number: 7194619Abstract: A method, system and computer program product for remotely booting devices. A deployment server may remotely transmit authentication parameter(s), e.g., public key, secret key, to a service unit configured to establish a private connection between server blades and the deployment server. The service unit may remotely install the authentication parameter(s) onto the server blade(s) to be booted by either the deployment server or another boot server. By the service unit remotely installing the authentication parameter(s) onto the server blade(s), the need to manually install them during each network boot operation may be alleviated. By remotely transmitting authentication parameter(s) instead of manually installing them on the devices to be booted during each network boot operation, the deployment server may be able to generate unique authentication parameter(s), e.g., public/private key pair, secret key, for each network boot operation thereby substantially reducing the exposure to replay attacks.Type: GrantFiled: March 26, 2002Date of Patent: March 20, 2007Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Antonio Abbondanzio, Simon C. Chu, Gregory William Dake, Michael David Day, II, William Joseph Piazza, Gregory Brian Pruett, David B. Rhoades
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Patent number: 7013385Abstract: A system for storing and configuring CMOS setting information remotely in a sewer blade environment includes a management module having includes persistent storage containing a table of CMOS setting information for each server blade. Each server blade includes boot block software that executes when the blade is booted. The boot block software initiates communication with the management module and retrieves its CMOS settings from the table. Thus, CMOS settings for a particular blade location remain unchanged each time a blade is replaced or upgraded. The management module and saver blades may implement a programming interface tat includes command abstractions for each CMOS setting. The management module sends command abstractions to each sewer blade during the CMOS configuration process. The server blade interprets the commands and maps the commands to specific CMOS bit addresses thereby making the specific CMOS implementation employed by any server blade transparent to the management module.Type: GrantFiled: June 4, 2002Date of Patent: March 14, 2006Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Antonio Abbondanzio, Gregory William Dake, William Joseph Piazza, Gregory Brian Pruett, David B. Rhoades
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Patent number: 6968414Abstract: A system for monitoring server blades includes a cabinet having a plurality of racks configured to receive a server blade. The server blade includes one or more microprocessors, memory, and a service processor all interconnected via one or more busses. The system includes a management blade to monitor the local service processors. Upon installation, a new blade identifies itself to the management blade by its physical slot position within the cabinet. In response to a reset, the local blade service processor determines from a tamper latch whether the blade has been removed from the chassis since the last power-on event. If the tamper latch is broken, the local service processor informs the management blade and resets the tamper latch. The local service processor of each blade may send a periodic heartbeat to the management blade, which monitors for loss of the heartbeat signal to determine when a blade is removed.Type: GrantFiled: December 4, 2001Date of Patent: November 22, 2005Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Antonio Abbondanzio, Gregory William Dake, Gregory Brian Pruett, David B. Rhoades
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Patent number: 6966006Abstract: A method and system for adaptively implementing a disk drive startup sequence for a disk drive array. Prior to a next disk drive spin-up sequence a currently available power supply resource capacity and a startup metric of each of the array disk drives are determined. Each of the disk drives are scheduled into designated startup groups as a function of both the determined currently available power supply resource capacity and the determined startup metric. The scheduling of disk drives into designated startup groups includes determining an activation sequence timing schedule for each of the disk drives. The activation sequence timing schedule determines the relative times at which spindle motors for each of said plurality of disk drives will be activated as a function of the determined startup metric for each of the disk drives and the available power supply resource capacity as reduced by the steady state power requirements of each of the startup groups.Type: GrantFiled: May 9, 2002Date of Patent: November 15, 2005Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Joaquin Fernando Pacheco, William Joseph Piazza, Gregory Brian Pruett, David B. Rhoades, Linda Ann Riedle
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Patent number: 6931568Abstract: A system and method for determining an active service processor from two or more redundant service processors in the system. The system typically includes two management modules and at least one managed subsystem such as a server blade. Each management module includes a service processor and control logic. The control logic is configured to receive various status signals from the service processor and to generate a control signal based thereon. The control signal is provided, via an interconnect plane, to determination logic on each managed subsystem. The determination logic receives a control signal from each management module and generates a switch signal based on the state of the control signals. The switch signal controls switching logic configured to receive bus signals from the service processors on each management module. Based on the control signal, one of the service processor bus signals is provided to managed instrumentation on the managed subsystem.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2002Date of Patent: August 16, 2005Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Antonio Abbondanzio, Gregory William Dake, Dhruv Manmohandas Desai, Benjamin Russell Grimes, William Joseph Piazza, Gregory Brian Pruett, David B. Rhoades