Patents by Inventor Christopher Atkinson
Christopher Atkinson 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: 11924045Abstract: A system, method, and computer-readable medium are disclosed for performing a data center connectivity management operation. The connectivity management operation includes: providing a plurality of data center assets with a respective plurality of data center asset client modules; establishing a connection between the respective plurality of data center asset client modules and a connectivity management system, the connectivity management system comprising a connectivity management system aggregator; discovering interrelationships of the plurality of data center assets; and, generating a topological map of the plurality of data center assets based upon the interrelationships of the plurality of data center assets.Type: GrantFiled: July 27, 2022Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Inventors: Sudhir V. Shetty, Christopher Atkinson, Eric Williams, Damon G. Earley, Dominique Prunier, Susan E. Young
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Patent number: 11924285Abstract: A system, method, and computer-readable medium are disclosed for performing a data center connectivity management operation. The connectivity management operation includes: providing a data center asset with a connectivity management system client; establishing a secure communication channel between the connectivity management system client and a connectivity management system; exchanging information between the connectivity management system client and the connectivity management system via the secure communication channel between the connectivity management system client and the connectivity management system, the information including a provisioning request; and, providing provisioning information to the data center asset via the secure communication channel.Type: GrantFiled: April 28, 2022Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: Dell Products L.P.Inventors: Elie A. Jreij, Eric Williams, Dominique Prunier, Michael E. Brown, Kirk Frey, Sudhir V. Shetty, Christopher Atkinson
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Publication number: 20240040001Abstract: A system, method, and computer-readable medium are disclosed for performing a data center connectivity management operation. The connectivity management operation includes: providing a data center asset with a data center asset client module, the data center asset client module including an endpoint extension; providing an endpoint with a data center asset client extension; establishing a connection between the data center asset client module and a connectivity management system, the connectivity management system comprising a connectivity management system aggregator; and, communicating between the endpoint and the connectivity management system via the data center asset client extension.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 27, 2022Publication date: February 1, 2024Applicant: Dell Products L.P.Inventors: Christopher Atkinson, Eric Williams, Damon G. Earley, Dominique Prunier
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Publication number: 20240039795Abstract: A system, method, and computer-readable medium for performing a data center connectivity management operation. The connectivity management operation includes: providing a data center asset with and an embedded data center asset client module; establishing a connection between the embedded data center asset client module and a connectivity management system, the connectivity management system comprising a connectivity management system aggregator; and, communicating between the embedded data center asset client module and the connectivity management system.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 28, 2022Publication date: February 1, 2024Applicant: Dell Products L.P.Inventors: Elie A. Jreij, Dominique Prunier, Eric Williams, Sudhir V. Shetty, Christopher Atkinson, Tommi Salli, Michael E. Brown
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Publication number: 20240037053Abstract: A system, method, and computer-readable medium for performing a data center connectivity management operation. The connectivity management operation includes: providing a data center asset with an embedded data center asset client module and a passthrough device; establishing a secure communication channel between the embedded data center asset client module and a connectivity management system; exchanging information between the embedded data center asset client module and the connectivity management system via the secure communication channel between the connectivity management system client and the connectivity management system, the information including an operating system image; and, provisioning an operating system to the data center asset via the embedded data center asset client module and the passthrough device.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 29, 2022Publication date: February 1, 2024Applicant: Dell Products L.P.Inventors: Christopher Atkinson, Eric Williams, Michael E. Brown, Jason Shaw
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Publication number: 20240039794Abstract: A system, method, and computer-readable medium are disclosed for performing a data center connectivity management operation. The connectivity management operation includes: providing a data center asset with a data center asset client module and an embedded data center asset client module; establishing a secure communication channel between the connectivity management system client and a connectivity management system; exchanging information between the connectivity management system client and the connectivity management system via the secure communication channel between the connectivity management system client and the connectivity management system, the information including a data center asset client module authentication request; authenticating the data center asset client module in response to the data center asset module authentication request; and, configuring software in the data center asset in response to authentication of the data center asset client module.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 28, 2022Publication date: February 1, 2024Applicant: Dell Products L.P.Inventors: Dominique Prunier, Christopher Atkinson, Eric Williams, Damon G. Earley, Elie A. Jreij, Susan E. Young
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Publication number: 20240039793Abstract: A system, method, and computer-readable medium are disclosed for performing a data center connectivity management operation. The connectivity management operation includes: providing a plurality of data center assets with a respective plurality of data center asset client modules; establishing a connection between the respective plurality of data center asset client modules and a connectivity management system, the connectivity management system comprising a connectivity management system aggregator; discovering interrelationships of the plurality of data center assets; and, generating a topological map of the plurality of data center assets based upon the interrelationships of the plurality of data center assets.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 27, 2022Publication date: February 1, 2024Applicant: Dell Products L.P.Inventors: Sudhir V. Shetty, Christopher Atkinson, Eric Williams, Damon G. Earley, Dominique Prunier, Susan E. Young
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Publication number: 20230350985Abstract: A system, method, and computer-readable medium for performing a communications management operation.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 28, 2022Publication date: November 2, 2023Applicant: Dell Products L.P.Inventors: Kirk Frey, Tommi Salli, Dominique Prunier, Christopher Atkinson, Sudhir V. Shetty, Elie A. Jreij, Eric Williams
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Publication number: 20230354036Abstract: A system, method, and computer-readable medium are disclosed for performing a data center connectivity management operation. The connectivity management operation includes: establishing a secure communication channel between a connectivity management system client and a connectivity management system; exchanging information between the connectivity management system client and the connectivity management system via the secure communication channel between the connectivity management system client and the connectivity management system, the information including a provisioning request, the provisioning request being generated by the baseboard management controller; and, providing provisioning information to the data center asset via the secure communication channel.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 28, 2022Publication date: November 2, 2023Applicant: Dell Products L.P.Inventors: Elie A. Jreij, Eric Williams, Dominique Prunier, Michael E. Brown, Kirk Frey, Sudhir V. Shetty, Christopher Atkinson
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Publication number: 20230353641Abstract: A system, method, and computer-readable medium are disclosed for performing a data center connectivity management operation. The connectivity management operation includes: providing a data center asset with a connectivity management system client; establishing a secure communication channel between the connectivity management system client and a connectivity management system; exchanging information between the connectivity management system client and the connectivity management system via the secure communication channel between the connectivity management system client and the connectivity management system, the information including a provisioning request; and, providing provisioning information to the data center asset via the secure communication channel.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 28, 2022Publication date: November 2, 2023Applicant: Dell Products L.P.Inventors: Elie A. Jreij, Eric Williams, Dominique Prunier, Michael E. Brown, Kirk Frey, Sudhir V. Shetty, Christopher Atkinson
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Publication number: 20230354019Abstract: A system, method, and computer-readable medium for performing a data center connectivity management operation. The connectivity management operation includes: providing a data center asset with a data center asset client module; establishing a connection between a mobile device application and a connectivity management system; submitting a request to the connectivity management system via the mobile device application to establish connectivity with the data center asset client module; establishing a connection between the data center asset client module and the connectivity management system based upon the request; and, exchanging information between the data center asset client module and the data connectivity management system via the secure communication channel between the data center asset client module and the connectivity management system.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 27, 2022Publication date: November 2, 2023Applicant: Dell Products L.P.Inventors: Sudhir V. Shetty, Elie A. Jreij, Christopher Atkinson, Eric Williams, Kirk Frey, Michael E. Brown, Dominique Prunier
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Publication number: 20230344800Abstract: A system, method, and computer-readable medium are disclosed for performing a data center connectivity management operation. The connectivity management operation includes: providing a data center asset with a data center asset client module; establishing a connection between an end user device browser and a connectivity management system, the connectivity management system comprising a connectivity management system aggregator; submitting a request to the connectivity management system via the end user device browser to establish connectivity with the data center asset client module; establishing a connection between the data center asset client module and the connectivity management system based upon the request; and, exchanging information between the data center asset client module and the data connectivity management system via the secure communication channel between the data center asset client module and the connectivity management system aggregator.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 26, 2022Publication date: October 26, 2023Applicant: Dell Products L.P.Inventors: Christopher Atkinson, Elie A. Jreij, Dominique Prunier, Eric Williams, Michael E. Brown
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Publication number: 20160160787Abstract: A controller for controlling an internal combustion engine of a vehicle is disclosed. The controller includes at least one real-time dynamic computational model of at least a part of the internal combustion engine, at least one offline optimized set-point as a first input to the computational model, at least one physical engine sensor input as a second input to the computational model, and a real-time optimizer configured to adjust at least one engine control signal on the basis of at least one output of the computational model in such a way that a deviation from a set-point is at least decreased.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 3, 2015Publication date: June 9, 2016Applicant: Daimler AGInventors: Marc C. Allain, Peter Attema, Christopher Atkinson
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Patent number: 8977364Abstract: An external, head worn electrical nerve stimulation device, including a power source and a head band configured to fit around a patient's head, the patient's head including a front portion, a rear portion opposite the front portion, a first lateral side, and a second lateral side opposite the first lateral side. The device further includes a plurality of electrical electrodes circumferentially disposed along the head band, wherein the plurality of electrodes contacts each of the front portion, the rear portion, the first lateral side, and the second lateral side. The plurality of electrical electrodes is configured to stimulate, with electrical current, at least one of the greater occipital nerve, the lesser occipital nerve, the supraorbital nerve, the supratrochlear nerve, zygomatotemporal nerve, and the auriculotemporal nerve when the electrodes are energized by the power source.Type: GrantFiled: May 2, 2013Date of Patent: March 10, 2015Inventors: Ioannis Mihail Skaribas, Christopher Atkinson Durst
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Publication number: 20130296967Abstract: An external, head worn electrical nerve stimulation device, including a power source and a head band configured to fit around a patient's head, the patient's head including a front portion, a rear portion opposite the front portion, a first lateral side, and a second lateral side opposite the first lateral side. The device further includes a plurality of electrical electrodes circumferentially disposed along the head band, wherein the plurality of electrodes contacts each of the front portion, the rear portion, the first lateral side, and the second lateral side. The plurality of electrical electrodes is configured to stimulate, with electrical current, at least one of the greater occipital nerve, the lesser occipital nerve, the supraorbital nerve, the supratrochlear nerve, zygomatotemporal nerve, and the auriculotemporal nerve when the electrodes are energized by the power source.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 2, 2013Publication date: November 7, 2013Inventors: Ioannis Mihail Skaribas, Christopher Atkinson Durst
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Publication number: 20060107654Abstract: A transmural catalysis device allows for conversion of NOx into N2 in internal combustion engine exhaust. A reducing gas is delivered into exhaust tubes through a plurality of pores or channels in the walls of the exhaust tubes either continuously or periodically. Also disclosed are methods using the device for reduction of NOx and automotive vehicles comprising the device.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 15, 2005Publication date: May 25, 2006Applicant: West Virginia UniversityInventors: Nigel Clark, Christopher Atkinson
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Patent number: 6586967Abstract: An integrated circuit device 1 such as a current sensor includes a circuit configuration 3 which is driven from supply rails (P1, P2) at a given operational voltage. The integrated circuit device 1 includes control circuitry (R1, T1) responsive to an enabling signal from a micro-controller 2 applied to pin P8 to ensure that data supplied at pin P7 to the micro-controller is at a voltage compatible with a running voltage of the micro-controller 2 that is different from that of the device 1. No pin to receive a rail voltage corresponding to the running voltage for the micro-controller 2 is needed for the integrated circuit device 1.Type: GrantFiled: November 28, 2001Date of Patent: July 1, 2003Assignee: Nokia CorporationInventor: Christopher Atkinson
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Publication number: 20020093371Abstract: An integrated circuit device 1 such as a current sensor includes a circuit configuration 3 which is driven from supply rails (P1, P2) at a given operational voltage. An external data connection P7 is arranged to supply data to a controlling micro-controller 2 that operates at a running voltage different from the voltage for the device 1. An enable connection (6) couples an enabling signal from the micro-controller 2 at its running voltage to pin P8 on the device 1. In response, the circuit configuration 3 supplies data for the micro-controller 2, to the data pin P7. The integrated circuit device 1 includes control circuitry (R1, T1) responsive to the enabling signal applied to pin P8 to ensure that the data supplied at pin P7 is at a voltage compatible with the running voltage of the micro-controller 2. No pin to receive a rail voltage corresponding to the running voltage for the micro-controller 2 is needed for the integrated circuit device 1.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 28, 2001Publication date: July 18, 2002Inventor: Christopher Atkinson
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Patent number: 4934295Abstract: A sailing boat with an A-shaped mast pivotally connected to the topside of the cabin and sloping forwardly from the connection points. A backstay holds the mast in its inclined operating position. The jib and the mainsail are furling sails and are attached to forestays connected between the forward portion of the vessel and the mast.Type: GrantFiled: December 8, 1987Date of Patent: June 19, 1990Inventors: Christopher Atkinson, Peter C. Sewell, Karl L. Hamson