Patents by Inventor Dan Avida

Dan Avida 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: 20240236159
    Abstract: Methods, apparatuses, and/or articles of manufacture may be implemented to establish an audio and/or video stream from one or more control/management computing devices utilizing an electronic communications network. The method may further include subdividing, by the instructor computing platform, the plurality of participant computing platforms into one or more virtual groups, in which a first virtual group of the one or more virtual groups acquires the audio and/or video stream and exclusively shares the audio and/or video stream generated by the one or more participants of the first virtual group between or among members of the first virtual group.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2023
    Publication date: July 11, 2024
    Inventors: Dan Avida, Serge Plotkin, Antony Maria Joseph Peter, Daphne Koller, Maya Rika Koller Avida
  • Publication number: 20240137396
    Abstract: Methods, apparatuses, and/or articles of manufacture may be implemented to establish an audio and/or video stream from one or more control/management computing devices utilizing an electronic communications network. The method may further include subdividing, by the instructor computing platform, the plurality of participant computing platforms into one or more virtual groups, in which a first virtual group of the one or more virtual groups acquires the audio and/or video stream and exclusively shares the audio and/or video stream generated by the one or more participants of the first virtual group between or among members of the first virtual group.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2023
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Inventors: Dan Avida, Serge Plotkin, Antony Maria Joseph Peter, Daphne Koller, Maya Rika Koller Avida
  • Patent number: 11792239
    Abstract: Methods, apparatuses, and/or articles of manufacture may be implemented to establish an audio and/or video stream from one or more control/management computing devices utilizing an electronic communications network. The method may further include subdividing, by the instructor computing platform, the plurality of participant computing platforms into one or more virtual groups, in which a first virtual group of the one or more virtual groups acquires the audio and/or video stream and exclusively shares the audio and/or video stream generated by the one or more participants of the first virtual group between or among members of the first virtual group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: Engageli, Inc.
    Inventors: Dan Avida, Serge Plotkin, Antony Maria Joseph Peter, Daphne Koller, Maya Rika Koller Avida
  • Publication number: 20220014568
    Abstract: Methods, apparatuses, and/or articles of manufacture may be implemented to establish an audio and/or video stream from one or more control/management computing devices utilizing an electronic communications network. The method may further include subdividing, by the instructor computing platform, the plurality of participant computing platforms into one or more virtual groups, in which a first virtual group of the one or more virtual groups acquires the audio and/or video stream and exclusively shares the audio and/or video stream generated by the one or more participants of the first virtual group between or among members of the first virtual group.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 6, 2021
    Publication date: January 13, 2022
    Inventors: Dan Avida, Serge Plotkin, Antony Maria Joseph Peter, Daphne Koller, Maya Rika Koller Avida
  • Patent number: 8423780
    Abstract: The presently preferred embodiment of the invention provides an encryption based security system for network storage that separates the ability to access storage from the ability to access the stored data. This is achieved by keeping all the data encrypted on the storage devices. Logically, the invention comprises a device that has two network interfaces: one is a clear text network interface that connects to one or more clients, and the other is a secure network interface that is connected to one or more persistent storage servers. Functionally, each network interface supports multiple network nodes. That is, the clear text network interface supports multiple client machines, and the secure network interface supports one or more storage servers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2013
    Assignee: NetApp, Inc.
    Inventors: Serge Plotkin, Dan Avida
  • Patent number: 8335915
    Abstract: The presently preferred embodiment of the invention provides an encryption based security system for network storage that separates the ability to access storage from the ability to access the stored data. This is achieved by keeping all the data encrypted on the storage devices. Logically, the invention comprises a device that has two network interfaces: one is a clear text network interface that connects to one or more clients, and the other is a secure network interface that is connected to one or more persistent storage servers. Functionally, each network interface supports multiple network nodes. That is, the clear text network interface supports multiple client machines, and the secure network interface supports one or more storage servers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2002
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2012
    Assignee: NetApp, Inc.
    Inventors: Serge Plotkin, Dan Avida
  • Patent number: 7944936
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for connecting a plurality of computing devices, e.g. web servers, database servers, etc., to a plurality of storage devices, such as disks, disk arrays, tapes, etc., by using a stream-oriented (circuit oriented) switch that has high throughput, but that requires non-negligible time for reconfiguration is disclosed. An example of such stream-oriented switch is an optical switch. The system decodes the requests from the computing devices and uses this information to create circuits, e.g. optical paths in embodiments where the stream-oriented switch is an optical switch, through the stream-oriented switch. The system uses these circuits to route traffic between the computing devices and the storage devices. Buffering of data and control in the device memory is used to improve overall throughput and reduce the time spent on reconfigurations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2011
    Assignee: NetApp, Inc.
    Inventors: Dan Avida, Serge Plotkin
  • Publication number: 20060233170
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for connecting a plurality of computing devices, e.g. web servers, database servers, etc., to a plurality of storage devices, such as disks, disk arrays, tapes, etc., by using a stream-oriented (circuit oriented) switch that has high throughput, but that requires non-negligible time for reconfiguration is disclosed. An example of such stream-oriented switch is an optical switch. The preferred embodiment comprises a plurality of communication ports for connection to servers, and a plurality of ports for connection to storage devices. The system decodes the requests from the computing devices and uses this information to create circuits, e.g. optical paths in embodiments where the stream-oriented switch is an optical switch, through the stream-oriented switch. The system uses these circuits to route traffic between the computing devices and the storage devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2006
    Publication date: October 19, 2006
    Inventors: Dan Avida, Serge Plotkin
  • Patent number: 7069375
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for connecting a plurality of computing devices, e.g. web servers, database servers, etc., to a plurality of storage devices, such as disks, disk arrays, tapes, etc., by using a stream-oriented (circuit oriented) switch that has high throughput, but that requires non-negligible time for reconfiguration is disclosed. An example of such stream-oriented switch is an optical switch. The preferred embodiment comprises a plurality of communication ports for connection to servers, and plurality of ports for connection to storage devices. The system decodes the requests from the computing devices and uses this information to create circuits, e.g. optical paths in embodiments where the stream-oriented switch is an optical switch, through the stream-oriented switch. The system uses these circuits to route traffic between the computing devices and the storage devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2002
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2006
    Assignee: Decru, Inc.
    Inventors: Dan Avida, Serge Plotkin
  • Publication number: 20060136735
    Abstract: The presently preferred embodiment of the invention provides an encryption based security system for network storage that separates the ability to access storage from the ability to access the stored data. This is achieved by keeping all the data encrypted on the storage devices. Logically, the invention comprises a device that has two network interfaces: one is a clear text network interface that connects to one or more clients, and the other is a secure network interface that is connected to one or more persistent storage servers. Functionally, each network interface supports multiple network nodes. That is, the clear text network interface supports multiple client machines, and the secure network interface supports one or more storage servers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 7, 2006
    Publication date: June 22, 2006
    Inventors: Serge Plotkin, Dan Avida
  • Publication number: 20040158623
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for connecting a plurality of computing devices (14), e.g. web servers, database servers, etc., to a plurality of storage devices (16), such as disks, disk arrays, tapes, etc., by using a stream-oriented (circuit oriented) switch (12) that has high throughput, but that requires non-negligible time for reconfiguration is disclosed. An example of such stream-oriented switch is an optical switch (11). The preferred embodiment comprises a plurality of communication ports for connection to servers, and plurality of ports for connection to storage devices. The system decodes the requests from the computing devices and uses this information to create circuits, e.g. optical paths in embodiments where the stream-oriented switch (12) is an optical switch (11), through the stream-oriented switch (12). The system uses these circuits to route traffic between the computing devices (14) and the storage devices (16).
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2003
    Publication date: August 12, 2004
    Inventors: Dan Avida, Serge Plotkin
  • Publication number: 20040153642
    Abstract: The presently preferred embodiment of the invention provides an encryption based security system for network storage that separates the ability to access storage from the ability to access the stored data. This is achieved by keeping all the data encrypted on the storage devices. Logically, the invention comprises a device that has two network interfaces: one is a clear text network interface that connects to one or more clients, and the other is a secure network interface that is connected to one or more persistent storage servers. Functionally, each network interface supports multiple network nodes. That is, the clear text network interface supports multiple client machines, and the secure network interface supports one or more storage servers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 17, 2003
    Publication date: August 5, 2004
    Inventors: Serge Plotkin, Dan Avida
  • Patent number: 6348978
    Abstract: A method and system are provided for converting image data between planar format and a chunky format. A barrel shifter sorts the image bytes by color plane for output to a plurality of memory cells. Two addresses of each memory cell are not interconnected and function as a set of selection lines, whose binary values determine the number of positions that the data stored in the memory cells are shifted in response to the action of the barrel shifter. The sorted bytes are stored according to color format in the remaining, interconnected addresses of the memory cells. When the barrel shifter does not shift the bytes in a word, cyan bytes are stored in the memory cells. When the barrel shifter shifts the word one byte position, magenta bytes are output to the memory cells. Yellow and black bytes, respectively, are output for shifts of two bytes and three bytes, respectively. Each color plane is therefore stored in a separate memory cell and the chunky format data are converted to a planar format.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 1997
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2002
    Assignee: Electronics for Imaging, Inc.
    Inventors: Marc Blumer, Dan Avida
  • Patent number: 6116707
    Abstract: A robotic plotting system 10 is provided, in which a robotic plotter 18 having a printhead 18 is placed on a substantially flat horizontal surface 23, upon a recording medium 22, and is directed across the medium 22 by ranging signals 16 transmitted to the printhead 18 from the periphery of the recording medium 22. In one embodiment, the robotic printhead 18 includes a motorized drive mechanism 26, 28 that propels it across the surface of the recording medium 22 in a controlled manner, for example using microwave control signals 16. Thus, a user can place a piece of paper 22 of any size on a flat surface 23 such as a table or floor, and the printhead 18 is propelled across the surface 23 and is directed by signals 16 beamed between the printhead 18 and a control mechanism 14. In this manner, a large-surface-area plotting system 10 is provided in the form of a small hand-held device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 1997
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2000
    Assignee: Electronics for Imaging, Inc.
    Inventor: Dan Avida