Patents by Inventor Bruce A. Holmes

Bruce A. Holmes 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: 8730957
    Abstract: A system and method of enabling a transparent Ethernet switch are disclosed. According to an aspect, a network switch is disclosed. The network switch can include a plurality of physical ports configured to communicate data via a network. The network switch can further include a memory configured to store a first forwarding database, and a plurality of aggregate zone entries within the first forwarding database. The aggregate zone entries can also include a port identifier of first port of the plurality of physical ports to be used as a transparent port within a first aggregate zone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 20, 2014
    Assignee: Dell Products, LP
    Inventors: Hendrich M. Hernandez, Robert L. Winter, Bruce A. Holmes, Michael J. Roberts
  • Patent number: 8473590
    Abstract: A system and method is disclosed for configuring a network device. The system and method involves a network device that includes an external button for toggling the device between a managed mode and an unmanaged mode. When the device is toggled to a managed mode, an Internet Protocol (IP) address is temporarily assigned to the device and the device may be remotely configured. After configuration, the device can be returned to an unmanaged state, and the IP address assigned to the device is cleared. During the period that the device is in a managed state, an external indicator on the device is turned on to confirm that the device is in a managed state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2013
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Bruce A. Holmes, Joseph D. DeNiro, Joseph B. Farrell, Travis L. Hart, Jr., Mohana R. Mullapudi
  • Publication number: 20120182989
    Abstract: A system and method of enabling a transparent Ethernet switch are disclosed. According to an aspect, a network switch is disclosed. The network switch can include a plurality of physical ports configured to communicate data via a network. The network switch can further include a memory configured to store a first forwarding database, and a plurality of aggregate zone entries within the first forwarding database. The aggregate zone entries can also include a port identifier of first port of the plurality of physical ports to be used as a transparent port within a first aggregate zone.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2012
    Publication date: July 19, 2012
    Applicant: DELL PRODUCTS, LP
    Inventors: Hendrich M. Hernandez, Robert L. Winter, Bruce A. Holmes, Michael J. Roberts
  • Patent number: 8165119
    Abstract: A system and method of enabling a transparent Ethernet switch are disclosed. According to an aspect, a network switch is disclosed. The network switch can include a plurality of physical ports configured to communicate data via a network. The network switch can further include a memory configured to store a first forwarding database, and a plurality of aggregate zone entries within the first forwarding database. The aggregate zone entries can also include a port identifier of first port of the plurality of physical ports to be used as a transparent port within a first aggregate zone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2012
    Assignee: Dell Products, LP
    Inventors: Hendrich M. Hernandez, Robert L. Winter, Bruce A. Holmes, Michael J. Roberts
  • Publication number: 20090323553
    Abstract: A system and method of enabling a transparent Ethernet switch are disclosed. According to an aspect, a network switch is disclosed. The network switch can include a plurality of physical ports configured to communicate data via a network. The network switch can further include a memory configured to store a first forwarding database, and a plurality of aggregate zone entries within the first forwarding database. The aggregate zone entries can also include a port identifier of first port of the plurality of physical ports to be used as a transparent port within a first aggregate zone.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2008
    Publication date: December 31, 2009
    Applicant: DELL PRODUCTS, LP
    Inventors: Hendrich M. Hernandez, Robert L. Winter, Bruce A. Holmes, Michael J. Roberts
  • Publication number: 20070274239
    Abstract: A method for automatically detecting a port configuration mismatch between a switch and its peer switch comprises listening, by the switch, to its peer switch's advertisement of its duplex setting, generating a warning notification in response to the peer switch advertising as capable of only operating at half duplex and the switch being set to an auto-negotiate setting, and transmitting the warning notification to a user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 26, 2006
    Publication date: November 29, 2007
    Applicant: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Cuong T. Nguyen, Joseph D. DeNiro, Joseph Burton Farrell, Bruce A. Holmes, Mohana R. Mullapudi
  • Patent number: 6458759
    Abstract: The present invention describes compositions of biologically active surfactant proteins SP-B and SP-C of high purity and high-yield methods for isolating SP-B and SP-C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 1999
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2002
    Assignee: Ony, Inc.
    Inventors: Edmund A. Egan, Lynn M. Hlavaty, Bruce A. Holm
  • Patent number: 6366238
    Abstract: A modular beamformer system for providing signals to at least two radiating elements of a phased array antenna is provided. The system includes a right-hand circular polarization beamformer module and a left-hand circular polarization beamformer module. The left and right circular polarization beamformer modules are coupled to two radiating elements. Each beamformer module includes two groups of beamforming circuitry, one per radiating element. At least one feeder line extends from each beamforming circuitry and is coupled to one of the radiating elements to transmit an output of each beamforming circuitry.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2002
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventors: Walter R. DeMore, Bruce A. Holmes, Martin Nunez
  • Patent number: 6249439
    Abstract: A millimeter wave multilayer phased array assembly has a multilayer board consisting of several laminated printed wiring boards (PWBs) and a frame having a waveguide input and waveguide output. The PWBs are made of a high frequency laminate material and have a pattern of metalization to perform varying electronic tasks. These tasks include electrical interconnection, RF signal transmission, DC current routing and DC signal routing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 1999
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2001
    Assignee: Hughes Electronics Corporation
    Inventors: Walter R. DeMore, Richard A. Holloway, Bruce A. Holmes, Benjamin T. Johnson, Dale A. Londre, Lloyd Y. Nakamura
  • Patent number: 6129934
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the method of using a composition of matter that maintains the biophysical and physiological characteristics of natural surfactant, including the rapid and spontaneous adsorption of dilute suspensions to an air-liquid interface; the generation of low surface tension (<2.1 mN/m) at a surface area compression of 50% by the pulsating bubble method of Enhorning; and the restoration of greater than 75% of the lost volume of a surfactant deficient lung as determined by the method of Bermel. The material is produced by adding disaturated phospholipid to the extract of surface active material obtained by lavage of the air space of the lungs of animals. The material contains 90-96% phospholipid, 0-6% cholesterol, and 1-3% protein. Greater than 99% of the protein is lung surfactant apoproteins B & C. A sterile pharmaceutical preparation of the surface active material can be used for treating diseases caused by deficiency or dysfunction or natural lung surfactant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 1995
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2000
    Assignee: ONY, Inc.
    Inventors: Edmund A. Egan, Bruce A. Holm, William H. Ferguson
  • Patent number: 6020307
    Abstract: The present invention describes compositions of biologically active surfactant proteins SP-B and SP-C of high purity and high-yield methods for isolating SP-B and SP-C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 1997
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2000
    Assignee: ONY, Inc.
    Inventors: Edmund A. Egan, Lynn M. Hiavaty, Bruce A. Holm