Patents by Inventor George Bean
George Bean 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).
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Patent number: 8275959Abstract: A redundant data storage system is provided comprising a first controller with top-level control of a first memory space and a second controller with top-level control of a second memory space different than the first memory space. The system is adapted for asynchronously reflectively writing state information by the first controller to the second memory space; alternatively the system is adapted for asynchronously reflectively writing state information by the second controller to the first memory space. A method is provided for operating the redundant data storage system by resolving any inconsistency between the existing state information and a modified state information associated with a state information change request, and for switching control in the redundant data storage system between the controllers.Type: GrantFiled: August 23, 2010Date of Patent: September 25, 2012Assignee: Seagate Technology LLCInventors: Ayman Mohammad Ghanem, Robert George Bean
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Patent number: 8112679Abstract: Apparatus and associated method that stores first metadata only at the same addressable storage location of a computer readable medium as that where associated first user data is stored, and afterward satisfies a read request for the first user data by retrieving the first user data from the addressable location of the computer readable medium where the first metadata is stored if the first metadata has a first value, and by reconstructing the first user data from other metadata stored at another addressable location of the computer readable medium than where the first metadata is stored if the first metadata has a second value.Type: GrantFiled: November 25, 2009Date of Patent: February 7, 2012Assignee: Seagate Technology LLCInventors: Robert George Bean, Clark Edward Lubbers, Randy L. Roberson
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Patent number: 7882271Abstract: An apparatus and associated method are provided for performing a storage transaction associated with a network I/O command by employing an ASIC having an interconnect selectively coupling a plurality of dedicated purpose function controllers in the ASIC to a policy processor via a list manager in the ASIC communicating on a peripheral device bus to which the policy processor is connected.Type: GrantFiled: July 30, 2007Date of Patent: February 1, 2011Assignee: Seagate Technology LLCInventors: Clark Edward Lubbers, Robert George Bean, Randy L. Roberson
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Publication number: 20100325480Abstract: A redundant data storage system is provided comprising a first controller with top-level control of a first memory space and a second controller with top-level control of a second memory space different than the first memory space. The system is adapted for asynchronously reflectively writing state information by the first controller to the second memory space; alternatively the system is adapted for asynchronously reflectively writing state information by the second controller to the first memory space. A method is provided for operating the redundant data storage system by resolving any inconsistency between the existing state information and a modified state information associated with a state information change request, and for switching control in the redundant data storage system between the controllers.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 23, 2010Publication date: December 23, 2010Applicant: SEAGATE TECHNOLOGY LLCInventors: Ayman Mohammad Ghanem, Robert George Bean
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Publication number: 20100131706Abstract: Apparatus and associated method that stores first metadata only at the same addressable storage location of a computer readable medium as that where associated first user data is stored, and afterward satisfies a read request for the first user data by retrieving the first user data from the addressable location of the computer readable medium where the first metadata is stored if the first metadata has a first value, and by reconstructing the first user data from other metadata stored at another addressable location of the computer readable medium than where the first metadata is stored if the first metadata has a second value.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 25, 2009Publication date: May 27, 2010Applicant: SEAGATE TECHNOLOGY, LLCInventors: Robert George Bean, Clark EDWARD Lubbers, Randy L. Roberson
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Patent number: 7707362Abstract: A method is provided for storing and retrieving data in a network-attached data storage device by a cooperatively multitasking real time operating system configured to execute datapath routines and a general purpose operating system kernel configured to communicate with the network.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2005Date of Patent: April 27, 2010Assignee: Seagate Technology LLCInventors: Robert George Bean, Clark Edward Lubbers, Robert Brinham Trace
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Patent number: 7526684Abstract: A data storage subsystem in a distributed storage system having a plurality of predictive failure analyzing data storage devices. The subsystem furthermore has a circuit that is responsive to a predicted failure indication by a data storage device in relation to predetermined rules stored in memory for deterministically initiating a preventive recovery either by a data recovery procedure in the data storage device or by a fault tolerance storage arrangement in the subsystem.Type: GrantFiled: January 21, 2005Date of Patent: April 28, 2009Assignee: Seagate Technology LLCInventors: Bruce Allen Bicknell, Mark Allen Gaertner, Paul William Burnett, Robert John German, Robert George Bean
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Publication number: 20090037608Abstract: An apparatus and associated method are provided for performing a storage transaction associated with a network I/O command by employing an ASIC having an interconnect selectively coupling a plurality of dedicated purpose function controllers in the ASIC to a policy processor via a list manager in the ASIC communicating on a peripheral device bus to which the policy processor is connected.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 30, 2007Publication date: February 5, 2009Applicant: SEAGATE TECHNOLOGY LLCInventors: Clark Edward Lubbers, Robert George Bean, Randy L. Roberson
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Patent number: 6814413Abstract: An improved hydraulically assisted braking and steering system of a vehicle having a hydraulic pump communicating with a hydraulic steering assist device and including a hydraulic brake assist device coupled in series between the pump and the steering assist device includes the provision of a flow splitter which operates to reduce the interdependence of the hydraulic brake and steering assist devices on the flow of fluid from the pump. The flow splitter communicates with the outlet of the pump and the inlet of the brake assist device and is operative when the back pressure from the brake assist device exceeds a predetermined control value to divert a fraction of the flow of fluid around the brake assist device directly to the steering assist device, thereby providing sufficient flow to operate both the brake and steering assist devices within their normal design limits, rather than having the brake assist device starve the steering assist device when under heavy load.Type: GrantFiled: May 28, 2002Date of Patent: November 9, 2004Assignee: Delphi Technologies, Inc.Inventors: James Leroy Davison, Henry George Bean, Johnny M. Paris, Michael Alan Johnson
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Publication number: 20020180258Abstract: An improved hydraulically assisted braking and steering system of a vehicle having a hydraulic pump communicating with a hydraulic steering assist device and including a hydraulic brake assist device coupled in series between the pump and the steering assist device includes the provision of a flow splitter which operates to reduce the interdependence of the hydraulic brake and steering assist devices on the flow of fluid from the pump. The flow splitter communicates with the outlet of the pump and the inlet of the brake assist device and is operative when the back pressure from the brake assist device exceeds a predetermined control value to divert a fraction of the flow of fluid around the brake assist device directly to the steering assist device, thereby providing sufficient flow to operate both the brake and steering assist devices within their normal design limits, rather than having the brake assist device starve the steering assist device when under heavy load.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 28, 2002Publication date: December 5, 2002Applicant: Delphi Technologies, Inc.Inventors: James Leroy Davison, Henry George Bean, Johnny M. Paris, Michael Alan Johnson
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Patent number: 4528782Abstract: An angular blasting nozzle having a replaceable section that substantially exclusively intercepts and turns abrasive flow from an inlet flow path to an obtuse outlet flow path. The nozzle is conveniently formed of a pair of mating, rectangular, prismatic sections which are well suited for fabrication from long-wearing materials such as tungsten carbide.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 1982Date of Patent: July 16, 1985Assignee: The Johnson Rubber CompanyInventor: George Bean