Patents by Inventor Cullen E. Bash

Cullen E. Bash 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).

  • DISTRIBUTION OF COOLING RESOURCES USING HIERARCHICALLY IDENTIFIED COOLING MICROGRIDS
    Publication number: 20110270464
    Abstract: In a method for distributing cooling resources to a plurality of locations using a plurality of hierarchically identified cooling microgrids, conditions detected at the plurality of locations are received. Each level of the hierarchically identified cooling microgrids is a plurality of resource actuators configured to vary distribution of the cooling resources. Settings for the plurality of resource actuators in each of the levels in the cooling microgrid hierarchy that substantially maintain conditions at the plurality of locations within predetermined ranges are determined using a processor, while substantially optimizing at least one measure of performance associated with supplying the cooling resources to the plurality of locations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 29, 2010
    Publication date: November 3, 2011
    Inventors: Manish Marwah, Ratnesh Kumar Sharma, Amip J. Shah, Thomas W. Christian, Cullen E. Bash, Zhikui Wang, Chandrakant Patel
  • Managing power and performance
    Patent number: 8051156
    Abstract: A method for integrating information technology (IT) data with non-IT data, comprising: first identifying a non-IT network for accessing non-IT data, second identifying an IT network from which to access the non-IT data from the non-IT network, first determining that the non-IT network is accessible via at least one interface based on Object Linking and Embedding for Process Control (OPC) for accessing at least one device in the non-IT network, second determining that the IT network includes an architecture for Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) or Web Based Enterprise Management (WBEM) for managing at least one device in the IT network, and providing the IT network with access to data of the at least one device in the non-IT network by accessing the at least one OPC-based interface via either the SNMP-capable architecture or the WBEM architecture of the IT network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2011
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Ratnesh Sharma, Cullen E. Bash, Chandrakant Patel, Chih C. Shih
  • CONTROLLED COOLING OF A DATA CENTER
    Publication number: 20110263193
    Abstract: A device for sensing at least one environmental condition in a data center. The device includes a chassis, a propelling mechanism, a power supply, a steering mechanism, and a controller supported on the chassis. The chassis also supports at least one environmental condition sensor and is operable to travel through the data center and sense at least one environmental condition at various locations throughout the data center.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2011
    Publication date: October 27, 2011
    Inventors: Chandrakant D. Patel, Ratnesh K. Sharma, Cullen E. Bash, Abdlmonem H. Beitelmal
  • ELECTRONIC COMPONENT HAVING A MOVABLE LOUVER
    Publication number: 20110235272
    Abstract: An electronic component includes a housing having an inlet section, a mid-section, and an outlet section, mounting components for mounting the housing within an electronics cabinet, at least one movable louver positioned in at least one of the inlet section, the mid-section, and the outlet section, an actuator configured to manipulate the at least one movable louver to vary a volume flowrate of airflow through the housing, and a controller configured to operate the actuator to one of substantially maintain an environmental condition change from the inlet to the outlet within a predetermined range and substantially restrict airflow through the housing when the electronic component is in a relatively low operational state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2010
    Publication date: September 29, 2011
    Inventors: Cullen E. BASH, Henry C. Coles, Shailesh N. Joshi
  • Energy efficient CRAC unit operation
    Patent number: 8019477
    Abstract: A method for controlling one or more computer room air conditioning (CRAC) units configured to receive return air for energy efficient operation. In the method, the temperature of the air returned (Trat) into the one or more CRAC units is detected. It is determined whether the Trat is within a predetermined setpoint temperature range and at least one operation of the one or more CRAC units is reduced in response to the Trat being within the predetermined setpoint temperature range to thereby increase the efficiencies of the one or more CRAC units.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2004
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2011
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Cullen E. Bash, Ratnesh K. Sharma, Abdlmonem Beitelmal
  • Control of vent tiles correlated with a rack
    Patent number: 7995339
    Abstract: In a method of controlling vent tiles, the vent tiles are initially correlated with at least one rack. A vent tile family (VTF) of the at least one rack is determined, where the VTF includes vent tiles that have at least a predefined level of influence over the at least one rack as determined by the correlation between the vent tiles and the at least one rack. In addition, a vent control family (VCF) from the vent tiles in the VTF is identified, where the VCF includes vent tiles having an associated at least one rack whose inlet condition is outside of a predefined threshold. Moreover, the vent tiles in the VCF are controlled on a weighted basis determined by the correlation between the vent tiles and the at least one rack.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2011
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Cullen E. Bash, Chandrakant D. Patel, Ratnesh K. Sharma, Abdlmonem Beitelmal
  • Performing Zone-Based Workload Scheduling According To Environmental Conditions
    Publication number: 20110161968
    Abstract: To perform zone-based workload scheduling according to environmental conditions in a system having electronic devices, indicators of cooling efficiencies of the electronic devices in corresponding zones are aggregated to form aggregated indicators for respective zones, where the zones include respective subsets of electronic devices. Workload is assigned to the electronic devices according to the aggregated indicators.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2008
    Publication date: June 30, 2011
    Applicant: HEWLETT-PACKARD DEVELOPMENT COMPANY, L.P.
    Inventors: Cullen E. Bash, George H. Forman
  • SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR COOLING AN ELECTRONIC DEVICE
    Publication number: 20110127024
    Abstract: A system for cooling an electronic device having a heat-generating component includes a passive cooling device having a cooling ability designed to expire after a predetermined amount of heat is absorbed from the heat-generating component and an active cooling device configured to at least one of dissipate heat generated by the heat-generating component and cool the passive cooling device, when the active cooling device is activated. The system also includes a controller configured to activate the active cooling device after a determination that a predetermined threshold condition has occurred, wherein the predetermined threshold condition is selected to occur after the passive cooling device cooling ability has substantially expired, to thereby substantially minimize power consumption of the active cooling device in cooling the heat-generating component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 9, 2011
    Publication date: June 2, 2011
    Inventors: Chandrakant Patel, Cullen E. Bash, Ratnesh K. Sharma
  • REFRIGERATION SYSTEM WITH PARALLEL EVAPORATORS AND VARIABLE SPEED COMPRESSOR
    Publication number: 20110120156
    Abstract: A refrigeration system for controlling airflow around an air-cooled heat generating device having a plurality of components includes a refrigerant line split into second refrigerant lines, which are arranged in a parallel configuration with respect to each other. Evaporators are positioned along the second refrigerant lines and in the path of airflow supplied into the components or airflow exhausted from the components. The refrigeration system further includes a variable speed compressor and a controller for controlling the speed of the variable speed compressor. Furthermore, the refrigeration system includes a temperature sensor configured to transmit signals related to a detected temperature to the controller, and the controller is configured to vary the speed of the variable speed compressor based upon the detected temperature.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2011
    Publication date: May 26, 2011
    Inventors: Cullen E. Bash, Abdlmonem H. Beitelmal, Ratnesh K. Sharma, Chandrakant D. Patel
  • APPARATUS STATE DETERMINATION METHOD AND SYSTEM
    Publication number: 20110125452
    Abstract: In a method for determining a state of an apparatus, detected temperatures are received from a plurality of sensors and are compared to at least one preset condition. The state of the apparatus is determined based upon the comparison.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2011
    Publication date: May 26, 2011
    Inventors: Cullen E. Bash, Ratnesh Sharma
  • Cooling Medium Distribution Over A Network Of Passages
    Publication number: 20110112694
    Abstract: A system for managing distribution of a cooling medium includes a sensor configured to detect a condition, a first agent configured to receive the detected condition and to determine whether a characteristic of the cooling medium controlled via a first actuator is to be manipulated based upon the detected condition. The system also includes a second agent configured to receive at least one of the detected condition and the flow manipulation determination of the first actuator and to determine whether a characteristic of the cooling medium controlled by a second actuator is to be manipulated based upon the at least one of the detected condition and the characteristic manipulation determination of the first actuator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2008
    Publication date: May 12, 2011
    Inventors: Cullen E. Bash, Chandrakant Patel, Ratnesh Kumar Sharma, Amip J. Shah
  • AUTOMATED DESIGN OF AN IT INFRASTRUCTURE
    Publication number: 20110106501
    Abstract: A method for automated design of an IT infrastructure, includes a) identifying IT equipment to support services to be provided to meet one or more user requirements; b) identifying one or more auxiliary infrastructures to meet requirements of the identified computer equipment; c) synthesizing the IT equipment and the one or more auxiliary infrastructures to generate a candidate design; d) analyzing one or more operating characteristics of the candidate design; e) repeating steps a)-d) on at least one additional candidate design that differs from the candidate design generated at step c); and f) storing at least one of the candidate design and the at least one additional candidate design.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2009
    Publication date: May 5, 2011
    Inventors: Thomas W. Christian, Yuan Chen, Chih C. Shih, Ratnesh Kumar Sharma, Christopher Edward Hoover, Manish Marwah, Amip J. Shah, Chandrakant Patel, Cullen E. Bash, Daniel Juergen Gmach
  • DETERMINING REGIONS OF INFLUENCE OF FLUID MOVING DEVICES
    Publication number: 20110106751
    Abstract: A method for determining regions of influence of a plurality of fluid moving devices in an infrastructure is provided. In the method, a plurality of clusters are generated, with each of the plurality of clusters containing a representation of fluid supply data pertaining to a fluid moving device and one or more of the plurality of sensors based upon collected sensor and fluid supply data. In addition, regions of influence of each of the plurality of fluid moving devices are identified from an analysis of the generated clusters.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2009
    Publication date: May 5, 2011
    Inventors: Ratnesh Kumar Sharma, Manish Marwah, Cullen E. Bash
  • Optimizing Fluid Flow Distribution In A Structure
    Publication number: 20110101116
    Abstract: In a method for determining a substantially optimized fluid flow distribution in a structure configured to be cooled by a fluid moving device, an indication to activate the fluid moving device according to a reference temperature setpoint of a plurality of sensors is outputted. In addition, conditions detected in multiple areas of the structure with the plurality of sensors are received, a master sensor among the plurality of sensors based upon the detected conditions is identified; and a master reference temperature setpoint for the master sensor that substantially optimizes fluid flow distribution in the structure based upon conditions detected by the plurality of sensors in response to changes in a characteristic of fluid flow supplied to the plurality of sensors is determined.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2008
    Publication date: May 5, 2011
    Inventors: Cullen E. Bash, Abdlmonem Beitelmal, Ratnesh Kumar Sharma
  • MANIPULATING ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS IN AN INFRASTRUCTURE
    Publication number: 20110106314
    Abstract: In a method for manipulating environmental conditions in an infrastructure containing one or more adaptive vent tiles, correlations between opening levels of the one or more adaptive vent tiles and an environmental condition at one or more heat dissipating devices are identified. In addition, one or more environmental conditions at locations proximate to or within the one or more heat dissipating devices are received and errors between the received one or more environmental conditions and one or more reference environmental conditions are identified. Moreover, opening levels for the one or more adaptive vent tiles are determined based upon the identified correlations and errors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2009
    Publication date: May 5, 2011
    Inventors: Abdlmonem Beitelmal, Alan A. McReynolds, Cullen E. Bash, Carlos J. Fellx, Christopher Edward Hoover, Zhikui Wang
  • Infrastructure System Management Based Upon Evaluated Reliability
    Publication number: 20110099043
    Abstract: In a method of managing a structure having an infrastructure system, a plurality of candidate components configured to provide redundancy to the infrastructure system are identified. Reliability levels of the structure are evaluated with a plurality of different combinations of candidate components. In addition, the structure is managed based upon the evaluated reliability levels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2008
    Publication date: April 28, 2011
    Inventors: Ratnesh Kumar Sharma, Chih C. Shih, Cullen E. Bash, Amip J. Shah, Chandrakant Patel
  • SUPPLYING A RESOURCE TO AN ENTITY FROM A RESOURCE ACTUATOR
    Publication number: 20110093128
    Abstract: In a method for supplying a resource to an entity from a resource actuator, a plurality of physics-based models pertaining to the resource actuator and the entity are developed, a condition detected at the entity is received, feedback control on a resource demand of the entity employed based upon the detected condition, feed forward control on the resource demand of the entity is employed based upon the detected condition and the plurality of physics-based models, a constraint optimization problem having an objective function and at least one constraint using the plurality of physics-based models is formulated, a solution to the constraint optimization problem is determined, in which the solution provides the actuator setting, and the resource actuator is set to the actuator setting to supply the entity with the resource from the resource actuator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2009
    Publication date: April 21, 2011
    Inventors: Zhikui Wang, Cullen E. Bash, Niraj Tolia, Manish Marwah, Parthasarathy Ranganathan, Shailesh N. Joshi, Andrew James Phelan
  • System and method for cooling an electronic device
    Patent number: 7903409
    Abstract: A system for cooling an electronic device having a heat-generating component includes a passive cooling device having a cooling ability designed to expire after a predetermined amount of heat is absorbed from the heat-generating component and an active cooling device configured to at least one of dissipate heat generated by the heat-generating component and cool the passive cooling device, when the active cooling device is activated. The system also includes a controller configured to activate the active cooling device after a determination that a predetermined threshold condition has occurred, wherein the predetermined threshold condition is selected to occur after the passive cooling device cooling ability has substantially expired, to thereby substantially minimize power consumption of the active cooling device in cooling the heat-generating component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2011
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Chandrakant Patel, Cullen E. Bash, Ratnesh K. Sharma
  • Apparatus state determination method and system
    Patent number: 7901131
    Abstract: In a method for determining a state of an apparatus, detected temperatures are received from a plurality of sensors and are compared to at least one preset condition. The state of the apparatus is determined based upon the comparison.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2011
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Cullen E. Bash, Ratnesh Sharma
  • Refrigeration system with parallel evaporators and variable speed compressor
    Patent number: 7895854
    Abstract: A refrigeration system for controlling airflow around an air-cooled heat generating device having a plurality of components includes a refrigerant line split into second refrigerant lines, which are arranged in a parallel configuration with respect to each other. Evaporators are positioned along the second refrigerant lines and in the path of airflow supplied into the components or airflow exhausted from the components. The refrigeration system further includes a variable speed compressor and a controller for controlling the speed of the variable speed compressor. Furthermore, the refrigeration system includes a temperature sensor configured to transmit signals related to a detected temperature to the controller, and the controller is configured to vary the speed of the variable speed compressor based upon the detected temperature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2011
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Cullen E. Bash, Abdlmonem H. Beitelmal, Ratnesh K. Sharma, Chandrakant D. Patel