Patents by Inventor James M. Mann

James M. Mann 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).

  • Patent number: 10353816
    Abstract: A system includes a non-volatile memory to store a page cache that contains pages of data allocated by an operating system, the pages in the page cache being persistent across a power cycle of the system. The page cache is located in a specified region of the non-volatile memory and is to store the pages of data without tagging a memory region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2019
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Christian Perone, Diego Rahn Medaglia, Joao Claudio Ambrosi, James M Mann, Craig Walrath
  • Patent number: 10325600
    Abstract: Examples disclosed herein provide the ability to identify the location of an individual within a room by using a combination of microphone arrays and voice pattern matching. In one example, a computing device may extract a voice detected by microphones of a microphone array located in a room, perform voice pattern matching to identify an individual associated with the extracted voice, and determine a location of the individual in the room based on an intensity of the voice detected individually by the microphones of the microphone array.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2019
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: James M Mann, Harold Merkel, Silas Morris
  • Patent number: 10303501
    Abstract: A computing system and a method of handling a system management request. The computing system includes a virtual high-privilege mode in a trusted domain managed by the virtual machine monitor. The virtual high-privilege mode handles the system management request.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2019
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Valiuddin Y Ali, Jose Paulo Xavier Pires, James M Mann, Boris Balacheff, Chris I Dalton
  • Publication number: 20190150487
    Abstract: A stabilized flour, such as stabilized whole grain wheat flour, exhibiting unexpectedly superior extended shelf life and superior biscuit baking functionality, may be produced with or without heating to inhibit lipase by subjecting whole grains or a bran and germ fraction or component to treatment with a lipase inhibitor, such as an acid or green tea extract. Treatment with the lipase inhibitor may be performed during tempering of the whole grains or berries or during hydration of the bran and germ fraction or component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2019
    Publication date: May 23, 2019
    Inventors: Bin Zhao, Ning Zhou, Timothy S. Hansen, Michael A. Duffin, Domenico R. Cassone, Diane L. Gannon, Lynn C. Haynes, James M. Manns, Jeanny E. Zimeri, Peter Worfolk, Anthony Pracek
  • Patent number: 10230728
    Abstract: An environment manager in a computer executes multiple environments concurrently. A user management framework (UMF) virtual machine on the computer runs an authentication domain that supports user profile management of the multiple environments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2019
    Assignee: HEWLETT-PACKARD DEVELOPMENT COMPANY, L.P.
    Inventors: Jose Paulo Pires, Valiuddin Y. Ali, Boris Balacheff, James M. Mann, Eduardo Moschetta
  • Patent number: 10212958
    Abstract: A stabilized flour, such as stabilized whole grain wheat flour, exhibiting unexpectedly superior extended shelf life and superior biscuit baking functionality, may be produced with or without heating to inhibit lipase by subjecting whole grains or a bran and germ fraction or component to treatment with a lipase inhibitor, such as an acid or green tea extract. Treatment with the lipase inhibitor may be performed during tempering of the whole grains or berries or during hydration of the bran and germ fraction or component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2019
    Assignee: Intercontinental Great Brands LLC
    Inventors: Bin Zhao, Ning Zhou, Timothy S. Hansen, Michael A. Duffin, Domenico R. Cassone, Diane L. Gannon, Lynn C. Haynes, James M. Manns, Jeanny E. Zimeri, Peter Worfolk, Anthony Pracek
  • Publication number: 20190058588
    Abstract: An example non-transitory computer-readable medium includes instructions that, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to receive a request for data. The instructions also cause the processor to determine a region containing the data based on the metadata. The instructions cause the processor to traverse a tree in the metadata to determine key generation information relating a decryption key for the region to a root key.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 21, 2016
    Publication date: February 21, 2019
    Applicant: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Liqun Chen, Boris Balacheff, Fraser Dickin, Taciano Perez, Wagston Staehler, Craig Walrath, James M Mann
  • Patent number: 10162645
    Abstract: A virtual basic input output system can be selected from different virtual basic input output systems. The selection of the virtual basic input output system is by a controller and the selection can be based on information about a software stack.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2018
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventor: James M. Mann
  • Patent number: 10089472
    Abstract: An event data structure is stored in a non-volatile memory that is electrically isolated from a bus accessible by a processor. In response to an event relating to operation of a controller that is separate from the processor, the controller adds event data for the event into an entry of the event data structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2018
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Jeffrey Kevin Jeansonne, Valiuddin Y Ali, James M Mann
  • Publication number: 20180196748
    Abstract: A system includes a non-volatile memory to store a page cache that contains pages of data allocated by an operating system, the pages in the page cache being persistent across a power cycle of the system. The page cache is located in a specified region of the non-volatile memory and is to store the pages of data without tagging a memory region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2015
    Publication date: July 12, 2018
    Inventors: JOAO CLAUDIO AMBROSI, JAMES M MANN, CRAIG WALRATH, Christian PERONE, Diego Rahn MEDAGLIA
  • Patent number: 10015447
    Abstract: Examples disclosed herein provide the ability for remote participants in a collaborative workspace to hear and view specified participants in a conference room. In on example, a computing device may receive streams of content from devices located in a room, and receive requests from users. As an example, each user request is for accessing a subset of the streams of content. For each user request, the computing device may join the requested subset of the streams of content into a single multimedia stream, and transmit each single multimedia stream to respective users.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2018
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: James M Mann, Charles J Stancil, Robin T Castell
  • Patent number: 10013559
    Abstract: A secure communication channel is established between a virtual trusted runtime basic input output system (BIOS) and a virtual machine that includes a virtual BIOS. The virtual trusted runtime BIOS communicates with the virtual machine according to a web-based protocol over the secure communication channel using a secure socket layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2018
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Valiuddin Y. Ali, Jose Paulo Xavier Pires, James M. Mann, Boris Balacheff, Chris I. Dalton
  • Patent number: 9985394
    Abstract: In some examples, a sink device includes a port comprising a power contact and data contacts, the port having a profile to engage with a flat connector in any of plural orientations of the flat connector, where the data contacts are to electrically connect to data contacts of the flat connector. A switching circuit comprises switches to apply polarity processing to signals corresponding to the data contacts to produce output data signals at a target data polarity regardless of the orientation of the flat connector when connected to the port.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2018
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Lee Warren Atkinson, James M. Mann
  • Patent number: 9909229
    Abstract: A method of synthesizing rubidium uranium fluoride crystals. The method includes combining uranium-based feedstock with a mineralizer solution that includes a rubidium fluoride. The feedstock and mineralizer solution are pressurized and a thermal gradient applied thereto such that a first portion of the feedstock and the mineralizer solution is heated to a temperature that is greater than a temperature of a second portion of the feedstock and the mineralizer solution. Uranium nutrient enters the mineralizer solution from the feedstock in the first portion and uranium nutrient precipitates to spontaneously form crystals in the second portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2018
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force
    Inventors: James M Mann, Eric Hunt
  • Patent number: 9903041
    Abstract: A method of synthesizing uranium dioxide crystals. The method of synthesizing includes combining a uranium-based feedstock with a mineralizer solution. The uranium-based feedstock is selected from uranium dioxide, uranium tetrafluoride, uranium tetrachloride, triuranium octoxide, and uranium trioxide. The feedstock and mineralizer solution are pressurized, and then a thermal gradient is applied thereto such that a first portion of the feedstock and the mineralizer solution is heated to a temperature that is greater than a temperature of a second portion of the feedstock and the mineralizer solution. The uranium nutrient enters the mineralizer solution from the feedstock in the first portion and uranium nutrient precipitates to spontaneously form crystals in the second portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2018
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force
    Inventors: James M Mann, Joseph Kolis, Eric Hunt
  • Publication number: 20180011772
    Abstract: Example implementations relate to peripheral device operation. For example, a peripheral device may include a processor. The processor may detect that a computing device is in communication with the peripheral device and send peripheral device information to the computing device. The peripheral device information may specify characteristics associated with the peripheral device including a purpose, capability, and context of the peripheral device. The processor may receive operational data from the computing device, where the operational data may be based on the peripheral device information and may indicate a manner of operating the peripheral device. The processor may perform an operation based on the operational data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2015
    Publication date: January 11, 2018
    Inventors: JEREMY MEYER, JAMES M MANN, MADHU SUD ATHREYA
  • Publication number: 20180013982
    Abstract: Examples disclosed herein provide the ability for remote participants in a collaborative workspace to hear and view specified participants in a conference room. In on example, a computing device may receive streams of content from devices located in a room, and receive requests from users. As an example, each user request is for accessing a subset of the streams of content. For each user request, the computing device may join the requested subset of the streams of content into a single multimedia stream, and transmit each single multimedia stream to respective users.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2015
    Publication date: January 11, 2018
    Inventors: JAMES M MANN, CHARLES J STANCIL, ROBIN T CASTELL
  • Publication number: 20180005632
    Abstract: Examples disclosed herein provide the ability to identify the location of an individual within a room by using a combination of microphone arrays and voice pattern matching. In one example, a computing device may extract a voice detected by microphones of a microphone array located in a room, perform voice pattern matching to identify an individual associated with the extracted voice, and determine a location of the individual in the room based on an intensity of the voice detected individually by the microphones of the microphone array.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2015
    Publication date: January 4, 2018
    Inventors: JAMES M MANN, HAROLD MERKEL, SILAS MORRIS
  • Patent number: 9858062
    Abstract: An electronic device has a plurality of virtualized environments. Selection of an application of an application store is received, and a virtualized environment is identified for installing the application selected from the application store.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2018
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventor: James M Mann
  • Publication number: 20170324572
    Abstract: Examples disclosed herein relate to a conference call host. Examples include to establishing, by a first computing system, a first secure connection to a second computing system via a wireless network in response to receiving a secure connection request from the second computing system; the first computing system and the second computing system are in physical proximity to each other. Examples include to provide an operating system session to the second computing system through the secure connection while the first computing system and the second computing system remain in physical proximity to each other; the operating system is stored on and executable by the first computing system. Examples include to provide a connection to a conferencing platform to the second computing system via the first secure connection, the conference call at least among the first computing system, the second computing system, and a remote user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2014
    Publication date: November 9, 2017
    Inventors: Kent E Biggs, Yolanda Rivas, Robert C Brooks, Richard E Hodges, Harold Merkel, James M Mann, Lorri L Jefferson, Derek Labron Everett, Thomas Bonola