Patents by Inventor Jeremy Paul Cahill

Jeremy Paul Cahill 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).

  • Watchdog timer using a high precision event timer
    Patent number: 7689875
    Abstract: A system and method for detecting and handling errors in a computer system are disclosed. The invention is configurable to permit selecting of timelength or time out values, assigned interrupts to be generated and error recover procedures so that failures of system events can be promptly detected and recovered from. The watchdog timer is started with a timelength or time out value and generates an interrupt (i.e., is triggered) if the period of time set as the timelength passes without receiving a reset. The watchdog timer interface interacts and controls the hardware based timer to obtain this watchdog timer functionality. The hardware based timer is generally a high precision timer that exists in hardware architecture for a computer system and is usable by system software. The watchdog timer interface controls and sets various parameters and/or registers of the hardware based timer in order to provide the desired functionality of a watchdog timer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2002
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2010
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Jeremy Paul Cahill, Eric Frank Nelson
  • System and method to facilitate native use of small form factor devices
    Patent number: 7454530
    Abstract: A system and method to facilitate communication between an associated bus, such as employs a standard bus protocol, and a connector to which a removable SFF device can be attached. A desired operating mode is selected based on the device attached at the connector, such as either to pass the protocol between the bus and device generally unchanged or to implement suitable protocol conversion for such communication. Thus, by configuring the SFF device to appear as device currently supported by the bus, the SFF device can operate at the connector with native operating system support.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2004
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2008
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Jeremy Paul Cahill, Andrew John Thornton, Jonathan Vines Smith
  • System and method to facilitate native use of small form factor devices
    Patent number: 6871244
    Abstract: A system and method to facilitate communication between an associated bus, such as employs a standard bus protocol, and a connector to which a removable SFF device can be attached. A desired operating mode is selected based on the device attached at the connector, such as either to pass the protocol between the bus and device generally unchanged or to implement suitable protocol conversion for such communication. Thus, by configuring the SFF device to appear as device currently supported by the bus, the SFF device can operate at the connector with native operating system support.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2002
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2005
    Assignee: Microsoft Corp.
    Inventors: Jeremy Paul Cahill, Andrew John Thornton, Jonathan Vines Smith
  • Watchdog timer using a high precision event timer
    Publication number: 20030204792
    Abstract: A system and method for detecting and handling errors in a computer system are disclosed. The invention is configurable to permit selecting of timelength or time out values, assigned interrupts to be generated and error recover procedures so that failures of system events can be promptly detected and recovered from. The watchdog timer is started with a timelength or time out value and generates an interrupt (i.e., is triggered) if the period of time set as the timelength passes without receiving a reset. The watchdog timer interface interacts and controls the hardware based timer to obtain this watchdog timer functionality. The hardware based timer is generally a high precision timer that exists in hardware architecture for a computer system and is usable by system software. The watchdog timer interface controls and sets various parameters and/or registers of the hardware based timer in order to provide the desired functionality of a watchdog timer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2002
    Publication date: October 30, 2003
    Inventors: Jeremy Paul Cahill, Eric Frank Nelson