Patents by Inventor Christopher Hillier

Christopher Hillier 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: 12413424
    Abstract: Examples disclosed herein relate to systems and methods for assigning an identifier to a node-based system. For example, systems and methods may: discover the plurality of nodes; determine a node of the plurality of nodes to be a controller node: authenticate, at a management component of the controller node, a respective identifier associated with each node of the plurality of nodes; and based on the authentication, assign a complex identifier to a complex comprising the plurality of nodes, wherein the complex identifier comprises the identifier associated with the controller node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2025
    Assignee: Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP
    Inventors: Kenneth Geer, Shiva R. Dasari, Christopher Hillier, Thomas Laffey
  • Publication number: 20250240298
    Abstract: Examples described herein relate to configuring access to management interface of a storage system. Examples may obtain network adapter information of the host devices coupled to the storage system using credentials of a management controller of the host devices. Examples may create an allow-list or deny-list containing the network adapter information of the host devices. Examples may allow or deny connections to the management interface from the host devices based on the allow-list or deny-list. Examples may allow dynamic updating of the allow-list and deny-list based on a change in a network adapter of the host device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 7, 2025
    Publication date: July 24, 2025
    Inventors: Christopher Hillier, Curtis C. Ballard, Luis E. Luciani, Jr.
  • Patent number: 12316636
    Abstract: Examples described herein relate to configuring access to management interface of a storage system. Examples may obtain network adapter information of the host devices coupled to the storage system using credentials of a management controller of the host devices. Examples may create an allow-list or deny-list containing the network adapter information of the host devices. Examples may allow or deny connections to the management interface from the host devices based on the allow-list or deny-list. Examples may allow dynamic updating of the allow-list and deny-list based on a change in a network adapter of the host device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2025
    Assignee: Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP
    Inventors: Christopher Hillier, Curtis C. Ballard, Luis E. Luciani, Jr.
  • Publication number: 20230135502
    Abstract: Examples described herein relate to configuring access to management interface of a storage system. Examples may obtain network adapter information of the host devices coupled to the storage system using credentials of a management controller of the host devices. Examples may create an allow-list or deny-list containing the network adapter information of the host devices. Examples may allow or deny connections to the management interface from the host devices based on the allow-list or deny-list. Examples may allow dynamic updating of the allow-list and deny-list based on a change in a network adapter of the host device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2021
    Publication date: May 4, 2023
    Inventors: Christopher HILLIER, Curtis C. BALLARD, Luis E. Luciani, JR.
  • Publication number: 20220353093
    Abstract: Examples disclosed herein relate to systems and methods for assigning an identifier to a node-based system. For example, systems and methods may: discover the plurality of nodes; determine a node of the plurality of nodes to be a controller node: authenticate, at a management component of the controller node, a respective identifier associated with each node of the plurality of nodes; and based on the authentication, assign a complex identifier to a complex comprising the plurality of nodes, wherein the complex identifier comprises the identifier associated with the controller node.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2021
    Publication date: November 3, 2022
    Inventors: Kenneth GEER, Shiva R. DASARI, Christopher HILLIER, Thomas LAFFEY
  • Publication number: 20040039266
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an apparatus and to a method for the measurement of dimensions of biological structures. In particular, but not exclusively, the invention relates to the measurement of changes over time in the physical dimensions of tubular biological structures such as blood vessels in response to stimuli such as hormones, agonists, potential drugs. The method may be used in determining the effect of a gene.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2003
    Publication date: February 26, 2004
    Inventors: Christopher Hillier, David Cameron Bunton, Paul Coats, Peter Richard Smith