Patents by Inventor Kenneth Alexander McKethan

Kenneth Alexander McKethan 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: 8539358
    Abstract: Methods and computer program products for tracking rescheduled meetings on an electronic calendar. When a meeting is rescheduled from a first time to a second time, the visual appearance of the meeting notice for the first time is altered. A link that changes the calendar page to the page showing the second time is provided on the page corresponding to the first time, so that the user may move conveniently to the rescheduled meeting notice. The meeting notice at the second time may be provided with a link that changes the calendar page to the page showing the first time, so that the user may move conveniently to the meeting notice as originally scheduled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2004
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2013
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventor: Kenneth Alexander McKethan, Jr.
  • Patent number: 7457113
    Abstract: A heat extraction system is provided for a laptop computer that comprises a system unit that includes a set of heat sources and a video display unit that is movably attached to the system unit. The laptop computer has air inlets and air outlets that allow air to flow into the system unit, over the heat sources forming heated air, and exhaust the heated air. The laptop computer has a set of tubes, which have an inlet and an outlet, located behind a video display in the video display unit and an air connection from the air outlets to each inlet in the tubes. The set of tubes are formed such that heated air passing through a constriction in the set of tubes changes in velocity and pressure in order to satisfy the conservation of flow rate. Thus, heat produced by the heat sources is extracted from the laptop computer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 25, 2008
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: David Bruce Kumhyr, Kenneth Alexander McKethan, Jr., Ragunathan Srinivasan
  • Publication number: 20080089023
    Abstract: A heat extraction system is provided for a laptop computer that comprises a system unit that includes a set of heat sources and a video display unit that is movably attached to the system unit. The laptop computer has air inlets and air outlets that allow air to flow into the system unit, over the heat sources forming heated air, and exhaust the heated air. The laptop computer has a set of tubes, which have an inlet and an outlet, located behind a video display in the video display unit and an air connection from the air outlets to each inlet in the tubes. The set of tubes are formed such that heated air passing through a constriction in the set of tubes changes in velocity and pressure in order to satisfy the conservation of flow rate. Thus, heat produced by the heat sources is extracted from the laptop computer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2006
    Publication date: April 17, 2008
    Inventors: David Bruce Kumhyr, Kenneth Alexander McKethan, Ragunathan Srinivasan
  • Publication number: 20050278632
    Abstract: Methods and computer program products for tracking rescheduled meetings on an electronic calendar. When a meeting is rescheduled from a first time to a second time, the visual appearance of the meeting notice for the first time is altered. A link that changes the calendar page to the page showing the second time is provided on the page corresponding to the first time, so that the user may move conveniently to the rescheduled meeting notice. The meeting notice at the second time may be provided with a link that changes the calendar page to the page showing the first time, so that the user may move conveniently to the meeting notice as originally scheduled.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 9, 2004
    Publication date: December 15, 2005
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventor: Kenneth Alexander McKethan