Patents by Inventor Joyce Metevier

Joyce Metevier 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).

  • Embedded control and monitoring of hard disk drives in an information handling system
    Patent number: 6957288
    Abstract: The need for a SAF-TE processor embedded on a SCSI backplane of a hot-swap hard disk drive enclosure is eliminated by utilizing the functionality of a RAID on motherboard (ROMB) controller and an Embedded Server Management (ESM) interface already present in an information handling system. Only sensors and input-output (I/O) registers remain on the SCSI backplane as required. The SCSI backplane I/O is split between the ESM and ROMB according to functional requirements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2003
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2005
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Joyce Metevier, Ahsan Habib, Arnold T. Schnell
  • Embedded control and monitoring of hard disk drives in an information handling system
    Publication number: 20040177182
    Abstract: The need for a SAF-TE processor embedded on a SCSI backplane of a hot-swap hard disk drive enclosure is eliminated by utilizing the functionality of a RAID on motherboard (ROMB) controller and an Embedded Server Management (ESM) interface already present in an information handling system. Only sensors and input-output (I/O) registers remain on the SCSI backplane as required. The SCSI backplane I/O is split between the ESM and ROMB according to functional requirements.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2003
    Publication date: September 9, 2004
    Applicant: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Joyce Metevier, Ahsan Habib, Arnold T. Schnell