Patents by Inventor Curtis Edwards

Curtis Edwards 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).

  • Publication number: 20150047040
    Abstract: Embodiments presented herein describe a method for processing streams of data of one or more networked computer systems. According to one embodiment of the present disclosure, an ordered stream of normalized vectors corresponding to information security data obtained from one or more sensors monitoring a computer network is received. A neuro-linguistic model of the information security data is generated by clustering the ordered stream of vectors and assigning a letter to each cluster, outputting an ordered sequence of letters based on a mapping of the ordered stream of normalized vectors to the clusters, building a dictionary of words from of the ordered output of letters, outputting an ordered stream of words based on the ordered output of letters, and generating a plurality of phrases based on the ordered output of words.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 11, 2014
    Publication date: February 12, 2015
    Inventors: Wesley Kenneth COBB, Ming-Jung SEOW, Curtis Edward COLE, JR., Cody Shay FALCON, Benjamin A. KONOSKY, Charles Richard MORGAN, Aaron POFFENBERGER, Thong Toan NGUYEN
  • Patent number: 8888295
    Abstract: An apparatus projecting or displaying images to a viewer. The apparatus or Pepper's ghost system projects or displays an image stream onto a reflective element with a first surface receiving and reflecting a portion of light associated with the image stream to the viewer and a second surface opposite the first surface. The apparatus includes a cleaning assembly including an air supply providing a volume of flowing air and an ionizing mechanism for receiving the flowing air and outputting an ionized air flow. The ionized air flow is directed over the second surface of the reflective element. The reflective element is positioned at a non-vertical display angle. An outlet of the cleaning assembly is positioned adjacent an upper edge of the reflective element, and the ionized air flow is output from nozzles as laminar air flow with a flow rate chosen to mitigate dust collection on the upper second surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2014
    Assignee: Disney Enterprises, Inc.
    Inventors: Curtis Edwards, Thomas LaDuke, Daniel Beaumont
  • Publication number: 20140002800
    Abstract: An apparatus projecting or displaying images to a viewer. The apparatus or Pepper's ghost system projects or displays an image stream onto a reflective element with a first surface receiving and reflecting a portion of light associated with the image stream to the viewer and a second surface opposite the first surface. The apparatus includes a cleaning assembly including an air supply providing a volume of flowing air and an ionizing mechanism for receiving the flowing air and outputting an ionized air flow. The ionized air flow is directed over the second surface of the reflective element. The reflective element is positioned at a non-vertical display angle. An outlet of the cleaning assembly is positioned adjacent an upper edge of the reflective element, and the ionized air flow is output from nozzles as laminar air flow with a flow rate chosen to mitigate dust collection on the upper second surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 2, 2012
    Publication date: January 2, 2014
    Applicant: DISNEY ENTERPRISES, INC
    Inventors: Curtis Edwards, Thomas LaDuke, Daniel Beaumont
  • Patent number: 8019939
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus to detect a data mining process are presented. In one embodiment the method comprising monitoring access of a process to a resource and classifying if the process is a data mining process based on at least one of a plurality of monitored values, such as an access rate, an eviction rate, and an I/O consumption value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2011
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Curtis Edward Jutzi, Dale Juenemann
  • Patent number: 7882509
    Abstract: The persistent binding of STP SAS addresses to SATA devices is disclosed so that SATA devices can be moved to different insertion points (ports) within a SAS expander and still properly receive I/O requests. When a SATA device is inserted into the SAS expander, it is interrogated to obtain information about the attached device. This information may be combined using a hashing function to obtain a unique ID for the SATA device. A table can be used to assign a STP SAS address to the Phy connected to the device based in the unique ID. In this manner, the same STP SAS address will be assigned to the Phy connected to a particular SATA device, regardless of where the device is connected to the SAS expander.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2011
    Assignee: Emulex Design & Manufacturing Corporation
    Inventors: Marc Timothy Jones, Curtis Edward Nottberg, Kevin Dale Bowman
  • Patent number: 7743178
    Abstract: A system for enabling SATA drives to be utilized in FC SANs is disclosed. To send data to a SATA drive over a FC SAN, a host sends SCSI commands encapsulated in FC frames over a standard FC link to a Fibre Channel Attached SATA Tunneling (FAST) RAID controller, where the SCSI commands are de-encapsulated from the FC frames and translated to SATA FISs. The SATA FISs are thereafter encapsulated into FC frames. The IOC that performs these functions is referred to as a FAST IOC. The SATA-encapsulated FC frames are sent to multiple disk drive enclosures over another standard FC link. The FC frames are de-encapsulated by FAST switches in disk drive enclosures to retrieve the SATA FISs, and the SATA FISs are sent to the SATA drives over a SATA connection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2005
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2010
    Assignee: Emulex Design & Manufacturing Corporation
    Inventors: Bruce Gregory Warren, Curtis Edward Nottberg, Carl Joseph Mies, Kevin Dale Bowman, Noumaan Ahmed Shah, Gary Lynn Franco
  • Publication number: 20090300280
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus to detect a data mining process are presented. In one embodiment the method comprising monitoring access of a process to a resource and classifying if the process is a data mining process based on at least one of a plurality of monitored values, such as an access rate, an eviction rate, and an I/O consumption value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 2, 2008
    Publication date: December 3, 2009
    Inventors: Curtis Edward Jutzi, Dale Juenemann
  • Publication number: 20090007155
    Abstract: The persistent binding of STP SAS addresses to SATA devices is disclosed so that SATA devices can be moved to different insertion points (ports) within a SAS expander and still properly receive I/O requests. When a SATA device is inserted into the SAS expander, it is interrogated to obtain information about the attached device. This information may be combined using a hashing function to obtain a unique ID for the SATA device. A table can be used to assign a STP SAS address to the Phy connected to the device based in the unique ID. In this manner, the same STP SAS address will be assigned to the Phy connected to a particular SATA device, regardless of where the device is connected to the SAS expander.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2007
    Publication date: January 1, 2009
    Applicant: Emulex Design & Manufacturing Corporation
    Inventors: Marc Timothy Jones, Curtis Edward Nottberg, Kevin Dale Bowman
  • Patent number: 7370326
    Abstract: A prerequisite-based scheduler is disclosed which takes into account system resource prerequisites for execution. Tasks are only scheduled when they can successfully run to completion and therefore a task, once dispatched, is guaranteed not to become blocked. In a prerequisite table, tasks are identified horizontally, and resources needed for the tasks are identified vertically. At the bottom of the table is the system state, which represents the current state of all resources in the system. If a Boolean AND operation is applied to the task prerequisite row and the system state, and if the result is the same as the prerequisite row, then the task is dispatchable. In one embodiment of the present invention, the prerequisite based scheduler (dispatcher) walks through the prerequisite table from top to bottom until a task is found whose prerequisites are satisfied by the system state. Once found, this task is dispatched.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2004
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2008
    Assignee: Emulex Design & Manufacturing Corporation
    Inventors: Marc Timothy Jones, Curtis Edward Nottberg, Samuel Burk Siewert
  • Patent number: 7297037
    Abstract: A ceramic discharge chamber for a lamp, according to an exemplary embodiment of the invention, comprises a first member which includes a leg portion and a transition portion, wherein the leg portion and the transition portion are integrally formed as one piece from a ceramic material, and a second member which includes a body portion, wherein the body portion is bonded to the transition portion of the first member. The ceramic discharge chamber can be formed by injection molding a ceramic material to form the first member, the first member forming a first portion of the ceramic discharge chamber; and bonding the first member to a second member which forms a second portion of the ceramic discharge chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2004
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2007
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Venkat Subramaniam Venkataramani, Charles David Greskovich, Curtis Edward Scott, James Anthony Brewer
  • Patent number: 7127534
    Abstract: A method for managing read and write data congestion in a system for executing write and read data commands and having a buffer pool of blocks for temporarily storing read and write data is disclosed. Management of the buffer pool and the initiation of read and write commands ensures that free blocks are available to temporarily store read data arriving at a host bus adapter (HBA). If the currently available blocks would be substantially consumed by the total outstanding inbound read data requested, no more write data commands will be initiated. As inbound read data is received into the buffer pool and subsequently transferred out of the buffer pool to the initiator device, the blocks in the buffer pool are freed up. When the read data transfer is completed and sufficient buffer resources have been freed up, read and write data commands may resume.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2003
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2006
    Assignee: Emulex Design & Manufacturing Corporation
    Inventors: Thomas Patrick Jackson, Curtis Edward Nottberg, David Robert Wiley, Marc Timothy Jones
  • Patent number: 7063586
    Abstract: A discharge chamber for a lamp, the discharge chamber comprising a monolithic ceramic article having a main body defining an arc chamber and generally opposed leg members defining openings which may accommodate an electrode or electrode lead through. A method of making a ceramic discharge chamber comprising the steps of forming a mixture comprised of ceramic powder and a binder and injecting the mixture into a die and around a mold to form at least a main body of the discharge chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2003
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2006
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Curtis Edward Scott, Jack M. Strok, Douglas Seredich
  • Publication number: 20040267982
    Abstract: A method for managing read and write data congestion in a system for executing write and read data commands and having a buffer pool of blocks for temporarily storing read and write data is disclosed. Management of the buffer pool and the initiation of read and write commands ensures that free blocks are available to temporarily store read data arriving at a host bus adapter (HBA). If the currently available blocks would be substantially consumed by the total outstanding inbound read data requested, no more write data commands will be initiated. As inbound read data is received into the buffer pool and subsequently transferred out of the buffer pool to the initiator device, the blocks in the buffer pool are freed up. When the read data transfer is completed and sufficient buffer resources have been freed up, read and write data commands may resume.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2003
    Publication date: December 30, 2004
    Applicant: EMULEX CORPORATION
    Inventors: Thomas Patrick Jackson, Curtis Edward Nottberg, David Robert Wiley, Marc Timothy Jones
  • Publication number: 20040256994
    Abstract: A ceramic discharge chamber for a lamp, according to an exemplary embodiment of the invention, comprises a first member which includes a leg portion and a transition portion, wherein the leg portion and the transition portion are integrally formed as one piece from a ceramic material, and a second member which includes a body portion, wherein the body portion is bonded to the transition portion of the first member. The ceramic discharge chamber can be formed by injection molding a ceramic material to form the first member, the first member forming a first portion of the ceramic discharge chamber; and bonding the first member to a second member which forms a second portion of the ceramic discharge chamber. The members which form the ceramic discharge chamber can greatly facilitate assembly of the discharge chamber, because the discharge chamber can be constructed with only one or two bonds between the members.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 18, 2004
    Publication date: December 23, 2004
    Inventors: Venkat Subramaniam Venkataramani, Charles David Greskovich, Curtis Edward Scott, James Anthony Brewer
  • Patent number: 6791266
    Abstract: A ceramic discharge chamber for a lamp, according to an exemplary embodiment of the invention, comprises a first member which includes a leg portion and a transition portion, wherein the leg portion and the transition portion are integrally formed as one piece from a ceramic material, and a second member which includes a body portion, wherein the body portion is bonded to the transition portion of the first member. The ceramic discharge chamber can be formed by injection molding a ceramic material to form the first member, the first member forming a first portion of the ceramic discharge chamber; and bonding the first member to a second member which forms a second portion of the ceramic discharge chamber. The members which form the ceramic discharge chamber can greatly facilitate assembly of the discharge chamber, because the discharge chamber can be constructed with only one or two bonds between the members.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2003
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2004
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Venkat Subramaniam Venkataramani, Charles David Greskovich, Curtis Edward Scott, James Anthony Brewer
  • Publication number: 20040113557
    Abstract: A discharge chamber for a lamp, the discharge chamber comprising a monolithic ceramic article having a main body defining an arc chamber and generally opposed leg members defining openings which may accommodate an electrode or electrode lead through. A method of making a ceramic discharge chamber comprising the steps of forming a mixture comprised of ceramic powder and a binder and injecting said mixture into a die and around a mold to form at least a main body of said discharge chamber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 24, 2003
    Publication date: June 17, 2004
    Inventors: Curtis Edward Scott, Jack M. Strok, Douglas Seredich
  • Patent number: 6741013
    Abstract: An electric lamp (100) including a sealed light-transmissive lamp envelope (105) having an interior space, a base fixed to the outer envelope (105), a non-insulated main conductor wire (160) within the outer envelope and connected to the base (110) at one end, a light source (140) capable of generating light within the outer envelope (105), a shroud (145) surrounding the light source (140) and mounted adjacent the non-insulated main conductor wire (160), and a first center support. The light source (140) has first and second ends. The first end is electrically coupled to the non-insulated main conductor wire (160), and the second end is coupled to a stem lead (180). The first center support (150) supports the shroud (145) and the light source (140) and mechanically couples the shroud (145) and the light source (140) to the non-insulated main conductor wire (160).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2000
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2004
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: James Thomas Dakin, Mark Elton Duffy, Curtis Edward Scott
  • Patent number: 6679961
    Abstract: A method of making a component of a ceramic discharge chamber comprising the steps of forming a ceramic composition including an aluminum powder, a binder and a grain growth inhibitor. The alumina powder has a tap density greater than 1.0 gram per cc. The ceramic composition is then die pressed to form a component preform. Next, the component preform is heated to remove at least a substantial portion of the binder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2001
    Date of Patent: January 20, 2004
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Frederick W. Dynys, Curtis Edward Scott
  • Patent number: 6639362
    Abstract: An arc discharge vessel having electrodes disposed therein, a fill within the discharge vessel wherein the arc discharge vessel is comprised of alumina including the following dopants in parts per million: 50≦MgO≦1500; 100≦HFO2 ≦1500; 0≦ZrO2≦700; 0≦Y2O3≦300; 0≦Sc2O3≦1000; 0≦Dy2O3≦1000; 0≦Tb2O3≦1000; with the proviso that at least 5 ppm Y2O3, Sc2O3, Dy2O3, Tb2O3, or mixtures thereof is included.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2000
    Date of Patent: October 28, 2003
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Curtis Edward Scott, Jack M. Strok, Charles D. Greskovich
  • Publication number: 20030173902
    Abstract: A ceramic discharge chamber for a lamp, according to an exemplary embodiment of the invention, comprises a first member which includes a leg portion and a transition portion, wherein the leg portion and the transition portion are integrally formed as one piece from a ceramic material, and a second member which includes a body portion, wherein the body portion is bonded to the transition portion of the first member. The ceramic discharge chamber can be formed by injection molding a ceramic material to form the first member, the first member forming a first portion of the ceramic discharge chamber; and bonding the first member to a second member which forms a second portion of the ceramic discharge chamber. The members which form the ceramic discharge chamber can greatly facilitate assembly of the discharge chamber, because the discharge chamber can be constructed with only one or two bonds between the members.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 7, 2003
    Publication date: September 18, 2003
    Inventors: Venkat Subramaniam Venkataramani, Charles David Greskovich, Curtis Edward Scott, James Anthony Brewer