Patents by Inventor Kevin Mark

Kevin Mark 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).

  • System, method, and module for reducing power states for storage devices and associated logical volumes
    Patent number: 7793042
    Abstract: A system, method, and module for reducing power states for storage devices and associated logical volumes are disclosed. In one form, a method of altering an operating state of a storage device can include detecting a request to access a first logical volume over an interval. The method can also include determining an association of a storage device to the first logical volume. The method can further include determining if the storage device is operably associated with a second logical volume, and altering an operating state of the storage device in response to detecting the request and determining the association with the second logical volume.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2010
    Assignee: Dell Products, LP
    Inventors: Drue Reeves, Eric Endebrock, Kevin Marks
  • Method and Apparatus for Sensing
    Publication number: 20100219845
    Abstract: An apparatus for sensing a change in capacitance of a sensing electrode to a system ground, such as that which may be used to form a touch sensor, with the sensing electrode forming touch sensitive surface is arranged to include a sleep mode of operation. The apparatus includes a sample capacitor having a first terminal coupled to the sensing electrode, and a second terminal coupled to a voltage measurement circuit. The voltage measurement circuit is arranged in operation to determine a voltage at the second terminal of the sample capacitor. A voltage biasing arrangement is arranged under the control of a controller to apply a biasing voltage or the system ground to the first terminal or the second terminal of the sample capacitor in accordance with a measurement cycle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2009
    Publication date: September 2, 2010
    Applicant: ATMEL CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kevin Mark Easter
  • System and method of managing power consumption of communication interfaces and attached devices
    Patent number: 7743269
    Abstract: A system and method of managing power consumption of communication interfaces and attached devices is disclosed. In one form of the disclosure, a communication module can include a communication interface operable to receive link utilization information of a plurality of communication channels of the communication interface. The communication module can also include a processor operable to determine a percent utilization of the plurality of communication channels using the link utilization information. The processor can also be operable to initiate issuing a power management request of at least one of the plurality of communication channels in response to comparing the percentage of link utilization to a threshold level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2010
    Assignee: Dell Products, LP
    Inventors: Kevin Marks, Gary Kotzur
  • MOLDED ORTHOMODE TRANSDUCER
    Publication number: 20100141543
    Abstract: In an exemplary embodiment, a dual-band four-port orthomode transducer (OMT) is molded or cast. The OMT may be external to a transceiver housing or included as an integrated portion of the transceiver housing or a drop-in module. In an exemplary embodiment, a four-port OMT is formed from two pieces, the two pieces having a joint adjacent to or aligned to the axis of the common port. In an exemplary embodiment, the OMT is substantially planar and formed of a split-block embodiment. The two OMT pieces are joined and held together with a plurality of discrete fasteners. Furthermore, the OMT is configured to switch polarizations. The polarization switching is initiated using a remote signal and can facilitate load balancing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2009
    Publication date: June 10, 2010
    Applicant: VIASAT, INC.
    Inventors: Sharad Vinodrai Parekh, Kevin Mark Skinner, Donald Lawson Runyon, David Mark Kokotoff
  • STANDALONE DATA STORAGE DEVICE ELECTROMAGNETIC INTERFERENCE TEST SETUP AND PROCEDURE
    Publication number: 20100138705
    Abstract: A system for operating a data storage device having a plurality of sectors and at least one port, each port having a transmitter and a receiver, is disclosed. In one embodiment the system includes coupling at least one of the transmitters to at least one of the receivers, providing power to the data storage device, detecting that the transmitter is coupled to the receiver, and executing code for exercising the data storage device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 2, 2010
    Publication date: June 3, 2010
    Applicant: DELL PRODUCTS L.P.
    Inventors: Charles Jarboe, Robert Clausen, Jeffrey C. Hailey, Mark Lindholm, Kevin Marks, Raymond McCormick
  • System and Method for Providing Data Integrity
    Publication number: 20100131773
    Abstract: Systems and methods for providing data integrity for stored data are disclosed. A method may include, in connection with the receipt of a read command at a storage resource, reading a data block from the storage resource, the data block including a data field, a data integrity field indicating the integrity the data field, and an encryption indicator field indicating whether the data block is encrypted with a current cryptographic key for the storage resource. The method may further include determining whether the data field is encrypted with the current cryptographic key based at least on the encryption indicator field. The method may additionally include returning at least a portion of the data block in reply to the read command in response to determining that the data field is encrypted with a cryptographic key other than the current cryptographic key.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 25, 2008
    Publication date: May 27, 2010
    Applicant: DELL PRODUCTS L.P.
    Inventors: Jacob Cherian, Kevin Marks
  • Standalone data storage device electromagnetic interference test setup and procedure
    Patent number: 7716540
    Abstract: A data storage device includes a plurality of sectors and a port, the port having a transmitter and a receiver. In one embodiment a method includes coupling the transmitter to receiver, providing power to the data storage device, detecting that the transmitter is coupled to the receiver, and executing code for exercising the data storage device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2010
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Charles Jarboe, Robert Clausen, Jeffrey C. Hailey, Mark Lindholm, Kevin Marks, Raymond McCormick
  • System and Method for Management of Remotely Shared Data
    Publication number: 20100070631
    Abstract: Systems and methods for reducing latency on a remotely-booted information handling system are disclosed. A method for access and management of remote data may include receiving from a host a standard input-output instruction including a persistent image update (PIU) parameter indicating a request by the host to access a shared computer-readable medium storing an image shared by the host and one or more other hosts. The method may further include determining a value of the PIU parameter and determining whether to allow the host to access the shared computer readable medium based at least on the value of the PIU parameter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2008
    Publication date: March 18, 2010
    Applicant: DELL PRODUCTS L.P.
    Inventors: Jacob Cherian, Kevin Marks
  • Integrated water supply system for multi-floor buildings
    Publication number: 20100000745
    Abstract: The water supply system integrates fire and domestic supplies for a multi-floor building. A vertical ring main (11) supplies water to a network of pipes (50) on each floor. Each network includes multiple horizontal ring mains that supply water to both the sprinklers (S) and domestic fixtures (F) for a particular dwelling. Each floor also has a fire hydrant connected (16) to the vertical ring main. A single pump can be used for each vertical ring main.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 12, 2005
    Publication date: January 7, 2010
    Inventor: Kevin Mark Monk
  • Intravenous stand
    Patent number: 7641158
    Abstract: A portable intravenous stand comprising: (a) a base including a plurality of wheels; (b) a plurality of vertical supports extending from the base; (c) a plurality of cross-members mounted to the plurality of vertical supports to maintain the vertical supports in relative position to one another; and (d) an intravenous retainer loop mounted to at least one of the plurality of vertical supports.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2010
    Assignee: Children's Hospital Medical Center
    Inventor: Kevin Mark Ferguson
  • Using SAS address zoning to add/replace hot spares to RAID set
    Patent number: 7644304
    Abstract: Certain ones of a plurality of SAS hard disk drives are assigned to different SAS zones using a SAS zoning expander(s). A processor and SAS RAID controller have access to only those SAS hard disk drives assigned to the same zone(s) as the processor and SAS RAID controller. Each SAS RAID controller determines when a RAID hard disk drive in its zone fails, and then notifies the RAID hard disk drive failure to a service enclosure processor (SEP) of the SAS zoning expander. The SEP re-allocates an available hot-spare hard disk drive to the zone of the failed RAID hard disk drive. When the SAS RAID controller detects that a functional hard disk drive is now available in its zone, the RAID image is rebuilt using the zone reassigned hot-spare hard disk drive that then becomes one of the RAID hard disk drives of that zone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2010
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Gary B. Kotzur, Kevin Marks
  • COLOR SELECTION INTERFACE FOR AMBIENT LIGHTING
    Publication number: 20090290326
    Abstract: A color selection interface and a method for selectively modulating a color output of a lighting system, wherein the color selection interface provides control of the color output of the lighting system and a real-time color feedback to a user is disclosed. The color selection interface includes a user interface having a rotary encoder adapted to transmit an encoder output representing a direction of rotation of the rotary encoder, wherein the user interface provides a direct control of an initiation, a stopping, and a morphing speed of a color morphing mode, and a controller in electrical communication with the light source and the user interface, wherein the controller is adapted to receive the encoder output and control the color output of the lighting system in response to the encoder output.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 22, 2008
    Publication date: November 26, 2009
    Inventors: Kevin Mark Tiedje, Matthew Mark Mikolajczak
  • Systems and Methods for Managing Power for Data Storage Devices
    Publication number: 20090207520
    Abstract: An information handling system may include a processor, a tape drive coupled to the processor, and a cache control module. The cache control module may be configured to receive a request from the processor for the tape drive; determine whether the tape drive is powered off; determine whether the tape drive needs to be powered on to process the request; and respond to the request on behalf of the tape drive if it is determined that (a) the tape drive is powered off and (b) the tape drive does not need to be powered on to process the request.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2008
    Publication date: August 20, 2009
    Applicant: DELL PRODUCTS L.P.
    Inventors: Richard Golasky, Kevin Marks
  • System and Method For Reducing Latency On Remotely-Booted Information Handling Systems
    Publication number: 20090080663
    Abstract: Systems and methods for reducing latency on a remotely-booted information handling system are disclosed. A method may include remotely booting an information handling system having a local storage resource. The method may also include establishing, at the start of a session, an encryption key for the local storage resource for use during the session. Additionally, the method may include using the encryption key to encrypt data written to the local storage resource during the session. The method may further include permanently disabling access to the encrypted data written to the local storage resource at the end of the session.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2007
    Publication date: March 26, 2009
    Applicant: DELL PRODUCTS L.P.
    Inventors: Jacob Cherian, Kevin Marks
  • Providing host information to devices in multi SCSI transport protocols
    Patent number: 7447788
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and data structures are provided for identifying host information at a physical layer of an information handling system. The method includes issuing a command from a host computer and sending a host information command to a device. The command may be issued in a first transport protocol. The host information command may include a host identifier identifying the host that issued the command and a tag identifying a reissued command, the reissued command including the command reissued in a second transport protocol.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2004
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2008
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Ali Ahmed, Kevin Marks, Ahmad H. Tawil
  • Method for zoning data storage network using SAS addressing
    Patent number: 7437462
    Abstract: A method of zoning a fabric-attached (SAS) storage network. For each target attached to an expander, the expander maintains a list of SAS addresses of initiator devices that are permitted access to that's ports target devices. Configuration and management of zones may be accomplished using a management application, such as those using the SMP command protocol.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 14, 2008
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Kevin Marks, Gary Kotzur
  • METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR REGISTERING A PHYSICAL SPACE TO IMAGE SPACE
    Publication number: 20080242978
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for registering physical space to image space is disclosed. The system allows for determining fiducial markers as pixels or voxels in image data. The system can correlate and register the determined fiducial points with fiducial markers in physical space.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2007
    Publication date: October 2, 2008
    Applicant: Medtronic Navigation, Inc.
    Inventors: David Simon, Amir Ghanei, Kevin Mark, Andrew Lajoie, Geoffrey M. Ruckel
  • Trailer Lighting, Control and Signaling Circuits Tester
    Publication number: 20080231285
    Abstract: An electronic circuit tester is disclosed which is utilized for the testing and troubleshooting of the various lighting, control and signaling circuits required in the towing of a trailer, vehicle or other conveyance. The tester generally comprises an enclosure, which may be included as a part of a wiring harness connector, or separately attached to a wiring harness connector by means of electrical wiring. The testing circuit includes a plurality of input lines, logic means, and an alerting means. The testing circuits cause a distinct alert to be produced in response to each distinct test of the trailer device driving circuits of the vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2007
    Publication date: September 25, 2008
    Inventor: Kevin Mark Curtis
  • Bottle
    Patent number: D580268
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2008
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Hector Roman, Kevin Mark Moss, Juan Jose Bonilla
  • Bottle with cap
    Patent number: D595138
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2009
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Gregory Churchill Ames, Matthew Joshua Brewer, Jason Paul Lawless, Richard Lawrence Horstman, Kevin Mark Moss, Glen V. Walter, David Gerard Harting, Douglas Arthur Marsden, Anna Magdalena Engström, Mark A. Nichols