Patents by Inventor Kevin Allen

Kevin Allen 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).

  • Publication number: 20180026863
    Abstract: An integrated storage/SAN monitoring and control system includes a storage device, a switch device associated with an API, and a management system. The switch device receives storage device information from the storage device via an API call using the API, and transmits the storage device information and switch device information to the management system via an API call using the API. The management system receives the storage device information and the switch device information from the switch device, determines storage device control instruction(s) and switch device control instruction(s) using the storage device information and the switch device information, and transmits the storage device control instruction(s) and switch device control instruction(s) to the switch device via an API call using the API. The switch device then executes the switch device instruction and transmits the storage device instruction to the storage device for execution via an API call using the API.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 21, 2016
    Publication date: January 25, 2018
    Inventors: Kevin Allen Hughes, Sean Trevor McGinnis
  • Publication number: 20170353383
    Abstract: A network flow management system includes controllers that are each coupled to a subset of switch devices, and a flow management server system that is coupled to each of the controllers. The flow management server system collects first-level flow information for the switch devices from the controllers, and filters and structures the first-level flow information to generate second-level flow information. The flow management server system then analyzes the second-level flow information based on current flow operation policies that are configured to cause the switch devices to perform first flow operations and, in response, determines flow operation policy changes. The flow management server system then distributes updated flow operation policies that includes the flow operation policy changes to each of the controllers, where the updated flow operation policies cause the switch devices to perform second flow operation that are different than the first flow operations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2016
    Publication date: December 7, 2017
    Inventors: Kevin Allen Hughes, Rabah S. Hamdi
  • Publication number: 20170324234
    Abstract: A system including a sump having an inner volume and a junction box coupled to the sump. The junction box has a body defining an inner volume, and also has a first inlet and a second inlet, wherein each inlet is in fluid communication with the inner volume of the body. The junction box further has a first outlet and a second outlet, wherein each outlet is in fluid communication with the inner volume of the body such that a first wire is positionable in the first inlet and the first outlet and a second wire is positioned in the second inlet and the second outlet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 21, 2017
    Publication date: November 9, 2017
    Applicant: OPW Fueling Containment Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel Christopher Long, Kevin Allen Webster, Charles J. Liebal, JR., Daniel Lee Boyle, Wolfgang Emmanuel Sanyer, Glenn Michael Eckart, Kristopher A. Kane
  • Publication number: 20170313979
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to compositions comprising human preprimitive streak cells and/or human mesendoderm cells as well as methods for their production. Additionally, disclosed herein are methods of identifying factors useful in the further differentiation of preprimitive streak and mesendoderm cell types.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2017
    Publication date: November 2, 2017
    Applicant: ViaCyte, Inc.
    Inventors: Kevin Allen D'Amour, Alan D. Agulnick, Susan Eliazer, Evert Kroon, Emmanuel E. Baetge
  • Patent number: 9799000
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a system and method of predicting sale transaction conversion rate of an item operates through a search of information in response to a query over a network. The item can be included in a category of items. Information for other relevant items of the category is available through network query and historical data, among others. Respective information for the other items of the category is available to the method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2017
    Assignee: VAST.COM, INC.
    Inventors: Komal Singh Sethi, Milos Milinko Tatarevic, Aleksandar Milutin Bradic, Kevin Allen Laws
  • Publication number: 20170302739
    Abstract: An Ethernet SAN system includes an initiator device and a target device coupled together by an Ethernet fabric that includes a plurality of Ethernet switch devices. The Ethernet switch devices exchange L2 FIP domain exchange multicast frames that include domain information associated with each of the Ethernet switch devices. That domain information is then used to exchange L2 FIP path exchange multicast frames that include path information associated with each of the Ethernet switch devices. That path information is then used to calculate path costs associated with at least some of the Ethernet switch devices. Those path costs are then used to exchange L2 FIP device exchange unicast frames that include device information associated with the initiator device and the target device. The Ethernet switch devices then transmit data between the initiator device and the target device based on the device information and the path costs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 19, 2016
    Publication date: October 19, 2017
    Inventors: Kevin Allen Hughes, Joseph LaSalle White, Jason Garth Pearce
  • Publication number: 20170235611
    Abstract: Embodiments are directed towards push signaling to run jobs on available servers. Users may provide jobs or job instructions to a job control node. Job control node may determine one or more available job target nodes from among a plurality of managed nodes associated with the job control node. The job target nodes may be determined based on information included in the provided job instructions. If there are available job target nodes, the job control node may provide the job instructions to each available job target node. Further, the job control node may receive communications from one or more available job target nodes that indicates that the job target node is prepared and ready to execute the received job instructions. Next, the job control node may issue a job start command that triggers the prepared job target nodes to begin executing the provided job instructions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2017
    Publication date: August 17, 2017
    Inventors: Mark Andrew Anderson, Christopher James Brown, Kevin Allen Smith, John Braden Keiser
  • Patent number: 9732318
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to compositions comprising human preprimitive streak cells and/or human mesendoderm cells as well as methods for their production. Additionally, disclosed herein are methods of identifying factors useful in the further differentiation of preprimitive streak and mesendoderm cell types.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2017
    Assignee: ViaCyte, Inc.
    Inventors: Kevin Allen D'Amour, Alan D. Agulnick, Susan Eliazar, Evert Kroon, Emmanuel E. Baetge
  • Patent number: 9736242
    Abstract: A Fiber Channel (FC) switch system includes a server IHS and a storage IHS that each communicate using an FC protocol. A switch IHS couples the server IHS to the storage IHS. A first converter in the switch IHS receives first FC data traffic from the server IHS and converts it to first FC over Ethernet (FCoE) data traffic. A protocol processing engine in the switch IHS is coupled to the first converter and receives the first FCoE data traffic from the first converter and processes it to provide second FCoE data traffic for delivery to the storage IHS. A second converter in the switch IHS is coupled to the protocol processing engine and the storage IHS and receives the second FCoE data traffic from the protocol processing engine, converts it to second FC data traffic, and sends the second FC data traffic to the storage IHS.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2017
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Jeffrey S. Kirk, Jason Garth Pearce, Kevin Allen Hughes
  • Publication number: 20170216365
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are reagent-cell complexes comprising one or more definitive endoderm cells. Also described herein are compositions for detecting definitive endoderm. Method of enriching, isolating and/or purifying definitive endoderm cells are also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2017
    Publication date: August 3, 2017
    Applicant: ViaCyte, Inc.
    Inventors: Kevin Allen D'Amour, Alan D. Agulnick, Emmanuel Edward Baetge
  • Publication number: 20170183623
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to compositions comprising human preprimitive streak cells and/or human mesendoderm cells as well as methods for their production. Additionally, disclosed herein are methods of identifying factors useful in the further differentiation of preprimitive streak and mesendoderm cell types.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2011
    Publication date: June 29, 2017
    Inventors: Kevin Allen D'Amour, Alan D. Agulnick, Susan Eliazer, Evert Kroon, Emmanuel E. Baetge
  • Publication number: 20170159011
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are cell cultures comprising definitive endoderm cells and methods of producing the same. Also disclosed herein are cell populations comprising substantially purified definitive endoderm cells as well as methods for enriching, isolating and purifying definitive endoderm cells from other cell types.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2017
    Publication date: June 8, 2017
    Applicant: ViaCyte, Inc.
    Inventors: Kevin Allen D'Amour, Alan D. Agulnick, Emmanuel E. Baetge
  • Patent number: 9667753
    Abstract: An information handling system (IHS) network includes a server IHS and a Fiber Channel (FC) switch IHS that are each directly connected a FC gateway. The FC gateway is configured to establish communication with the FC switch IHS. The FC gateway then receives one of an FCoE Initialization Protocol (FIP) fabric login message and a FIP fabric discovery message from the server IHS and, in response, provides a FCoE fabric discovery message and converts the FCoE fabric discovery message to an FC fabric discovery message that is provided to the FC switch IHS. The FC gateway also receive a FC fabric discovery accept message from the FC switch IHS, converts the FC fabric discovery accept message to an FCoE fabric discovery accept message, and provides one of a FIP fabric login accept message and a FIP fabric discovery accept message to the server IHS.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2017
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: T. Bryan Varble, Jeffrey S. Kirk, Jason Garth Pearce, Kevin Allen Hughes
  • Patent number: 9667540
    Abstract: An FCoE forwarding system includes a non-FCoE-enabled networking device coupled between a source device and an FC device and including a plurality of L3 forwarding tables. The non-FCoE-enabled networking device receives a first communication from the source device and determines that the first communication includes a first FCoE frame. The non-FCoE-enabled networking device then retrieves first data from a first standard IP frame location in the first FCoE frame, second data from a second standard IP frame location in the first FCoE frame, and third data from a third standard IP frame location in the first FCoE frame, and uses the first data to reference a first L3 forwarding table of the plurality of L3 forwarding tables. The first non-FCoE-enabled networking device then uses the first L3 forwarding table with the second data and the third data to forward the first FCoE frame on to the FC device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2017
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Kevin Allen Hughes, Jason Garth Pearce
  • Patent number: 9632995
    Abstract: Assisting a user to navigate through a performance of a task, the task including a plurality of sub-tasks. Two or more of the sub-tasks are serially presented on a graphical user interface. Each of the two or more sub-tasks is displayed in a respective area of the graphical user interface. For each of the two or more sub-tasks, the user is enabled to perform the sub-task by entering information into the respective area of the sub-task as the sub-task is presented. While the two or more sub-tasks are being presented, a sub-task list of items is displayed to the user on the graphical user interface. Each item represents a respective one of the plurality of sub-tasks. Displaying the sub-task list includes displaying, within at least one of the items, information corresponding to the sub-task represented by the at least one item.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2003
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2017
    Assignee: EXTREME NETWORKS, INC.
    Inventors: Brian Stanley Locke, Gail M. Breck, David Alexander Brousseau, Ronald S. Fitzpatrick, Jr., Paul Playdon, Kiet H. Tran, Kevin Allen White
  • Patent number: 9605243
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are reagent-cell complexes comprising one or more definitive endoderm cells. Also described herein are compositions for detecting definitive endoderm. Method of enriching, isolating and/or purifying definitive endoderm cells are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2017
    Assignee: ViaCyte, Inc.
    Inventors: Kevin Allen D'Amour, Alan D. Agulnick, Emmanuel Edward Baetge
  • Publication number: 20170085474
    Abstract: An FCoE forwarding system includes a non-FCoE-enabled networking device coupled between a source device and an FC device and including a plurality of L3 forwarding tables. The non-FCoE-enabled networking device receives a first communication from the source device and determines that the first communication includes a first FCoE frame. The non-FCoE-enabled networking device then retrieves first data from a first standard IP frame location in the first FCoE frame, second data from a second standard IP frame location in the first FCoE frame, and third data from a third standard IP frame location in the first FCoE frame, and uses the first data to reference a first L3 forwarding table of the plurality of L3 forwarding tables. The first non-FCoE-enabled networking device then uses the first L3 forwarding table with the second data and the third data to forward the first FCoE frame on to the FC device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2015
    Publication date: March 23, 2017
    Inventors: Kevin Allen Hughes, Jason Garth Pearce
  • Publication number: 20170060598
    Abstract: A managed boot process system includes a management device coupled to a networking device through a network. The networking device includes a storage system with an assured boot image, a plurality of runtime images, and a plurality of session data, and a memory system having boot instructions. A processing system in the networking device stores the plurality of session details in the storage system during a management session with the management device and prior to a reboot. The processing system then performs a reboot and executes the boot instructions to load the assured boot image. The networking device then uses the session details to restart the management session without reauthorization subsequent to loading the assured boot image and prior to loading a runtime image. The networking device then provides a graphical user interface over the network to the management device and uses it to receive a management instruction for execution.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 2, 2015
    Publication date: March 2, 2017
    Inventors: Kevin Allen Hughes, Jason Garth Pearce
  • Patent number: 9584361
    Abstract: Embodiments are directed towards push signaling to run jobs on available servers. Users may provide jobs or job instructions to a job control node. Job control node may determine one or more available job target nodes from among a plurality of managed nodes associated with the job control node. The job target nodes may be determined based on information included in the provided job instructions. If there are available job target nodes, the job control node may provide the job instructions to each available job target node. Further, the job control node may receive communications from one or more available job target nodes that indicates that the job target node is prepared and ready to execute the received job instructions. Next, the job control node may issue a job start command that triggers the prepared job target nodes to begin executing the provided job instructions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2017
    Assignee: Chef Software Inc.
    Inventors: Mark Andrew Anderson, Christopher James Brown, Kevin Allen Smith, John Braden Keiser
  • Publication number: 20170029769
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are cell cultures comprising PDX1-positive endoderm cells and methods of producing the same. Also disclosed herein are cell populations comprising substantially purified PDX1-positive endoderm cells as well as methods for enriching, isolating and purifying, PDX1-positive endoderm cells to other cell types. Methods of identifying differentiation factors capable of promoting the differentiation of endoderm cells, such as PDX1-positive foregut endoderm cells and PDX1-negative definitive endoderm cells, are also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2015
    Publication date: February 2, 2017
    Applicant: ViaCyte, Inc.
    Inventors: Kevin Allen D'Amour, Alan D. Agulnick, Susan Eliazer, Emmanuel E. Baetge