Patents by Inventor Erik Kyle

Erik Kyle 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).

  • Apparatus and method for detecting the presence of a floppy drive by reading a general purpose input prior to reading a floppy drive controller
    Patent number: 7313680
    Abstract: One of the ground pins on a conventional floppy drive host connector is coupled to an input of a computer system and to a supply potential via a pull-up resistor. When a floppy drive is connected to the floppy drive host connector, the pin is pulled to ground by virtue of the ground connections within the floppy drive device. When a floppy drive is not connected to the floppy drive host connector, the pin remains at the supply potential. BIOS firmware or another system within the computer may detect the presence of the floppy drive by simply reading the value of the input.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2004
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2007
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Erik Kyle, Greg P. Ziarnik
  • Apparatus and method for detecting the presence of a floppy drive
    Publication number: 20050257091
    Abstract: One of the ground pins on a conventional floppy drive host connector is coupled to an input of a computer system and to a supply potential via a pull-up resistor. When a floppy drive is connected to the floppy drive host connector, the pin is pulled to ground by virtue of the ground connections within the floppy drive device. When a floppy drive is not connected to the floppy drive host connector, the pin remains at the supply potential. BIOS firmware or another system within the computer may detect the presence of the floppy drive by simply reading the value of the input.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2004
    Publication date: November 17, 2005
    Inventors: Erik Kyle, Greg Ziarnik