Patents by Inventor Lawrence White

Lawrence White 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: 20050108041
    Abstract: The present invention comprises systems and methods for tracking sales dead information. In one aspect, the invention comprises a system for tracking lead information related to a representative selling network, comprising: (a) means for acquiring and storing lead data relating to leads of a representative selling network; (b) means for registration of a member of the representative selling network; (c) means for enabling the member to search, tag, or be assigned the lead data; (d) means for enabling the member to post activity data relating to the leads; and (e) means for preparing reports based on the lead data and the activity data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 22, 2004
    Publication date: May 19, 2005
    Inventor: Lawrence White
  • Publication number: 20040223034
    Abstract: A fluid ejection device having storage and methods of forming and using such fluid ejection devices are described. In one embodiment, a substrate comprises multiple heater resistors supported thereby, and configured for ejecting fluid onto a medium. One storage structure is supported by the substrate and configured to store data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 9, 2003
    Publication date: November 11, 2004
    Inventors: James A. Feinn, Lawrence White, Satya Prakash, Donald W. Schulte, Terry McMahon, Adam L. Ghozeil
  • Patent number: 6715019
    Abstract: A communication system has multiple communication buses and multiple bus controller cards each supplying at least two independent channels of communication between one or more hosts and the communication buses. One of the controller cards is designated as a primary controller card for managing the communication buses and resetting the communication buses such that if a controller card is inserted to or removed from the system then the buses are reset.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2001
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2004
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Anthony J Benson, James Lawrence White, Dovard K Howard
  • Patent number: 6675242
    Abstract: A communication system with a plurality of interface slots includes control logic for determining and designating the status of one or more controller cards inserted in one of the slots such that: a controller card is designated as the primary card if it is inserted in an interface slot while the other slots are empty; a controller card in an interface slot with primary status retains its primary status while other controller cards are added or removed from the system; a controller card in an interface slot with a non-primary status assumes primary status if the controller card with non-primary status is plugged in a slot that after a power interruption is designated as the slot to assume primary status, or the controller card with primary status is removed from the system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2001
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2004
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Anthony J Benson, James Lawrence White, Dovard K Howard
  • Patent number: 6567879
    Abstract: A device includes a first SCSI bus, a second SCSI bus, a first bus controller slot, a second bus controller slot and a bus controller in one of the first bus controller slot and the second bus controller slot. The bus controller includes reset circuitry for generating a SCSI bus reset signal. The SCSI bus reset signal being used to reset the first SCSI bus when the bus controller is in the first bus controller slot and the first SCSI bus is isolated from the second SCSI bus. The SCSI bus reset signal being used to reset the second SCSI bus when the bus controller is in the second bus controller slot and the first SCSI bus is isolated from the second SCSI bus. The SCSI bus reset signal is to reset both the first SCSI bus and the second SCSI bus when the first SCSI bus and the second SCSI bus are bridged and one of the following conditions is met: the bus controller is in the first bus controller slot, or the bus controller is in the second bus controller slot and the first bus controller slot is empty.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2000
    Date of Patent: May 20, 2003
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Anthony Joseph Benson, James Lawrence White
  • Patent number: 6517358
    Abstract: Method and system for enhancing the reliability of an available storage subsystem. Data storage units are equipped with a number of I/O controller-card adaptors that mate with complementary adaptors affixed to a number of redundant I/O controller cards. The data storage devices plug directly into I/O controller cards and receive all data, control signals, and power equally from the I/O controller cards, eliminating the need for a midplane circuit card.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2000
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2003
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Company
    Inventors: James J. DeBlanc, David Dickey, James Lawrence White
  • Publication number: 20030004703
    Abstract: Briefly, in accordance with one embodiment of the invention, a computer-implemented method for localizing a markup language document includes: identifying at least one token within a document and identifying a localizable string within the token. Creating a first file including a translation of the localizable string and a second file including the non-localizable data from the document. The first file and second file are then merged.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2001
    Publication date: January 2, 2003
    Inventors: Arvind Prabhakar, Lawrence White, Kenneth Ebbs
  • Publication number: 20020184424
    Abstract: A communication system with a plurality of interface slots includes control logic for determining and designating the status of one or more controller cards inserted in one of the slots such that: a controller card is designated as the primary card if it is inserted in an interface slot while the other slots are empty; a controller card in an interface slot with primary status retains its primary status while other controller cards are added or removed from the system; a controller card in an interface slot with a non-primary status assumes primary status if the controller card with non-primary status is plugged in a slot that after a power interruption is designated as the slot to assume primary status, or the controller card with primary status is removed from the system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2001
    Publication date: December 5, 2002
    Inventors: Anthony J. Benson, James Lawrence White, Dovard K. Howard
  • Patent number: 6477139
    Abstract: A method and system for facilitating reliable and fault-tolerant operation of a multi-peripheral-device enclosure for use in high-availability computer systems by redundant interconnection of redundant processors within the multi-peripheral-device enclosure. The redundant interconnection removes a potential single point of failure, and allows the redundant processors to share in control of other components within the multi-peripheral-device enclosure. The multi-peripheral-device enclosure can recover from failure of all but one of the redundant processors, as well as failure in all but one of the redundant busses used to interconnect the two processors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 1998
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2002
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Company
    Inventors: Timothy M. Anderson, William G. Hooper, III, James Lawrence White
  • Publication number: 20020071192
    Abstract: Method and system for enhancing the reliability of an available storage subsystem. Data storage units are equipped with a number of I/O controller-card adaptors that mate with complementary adaptors affixed to a number of redundant I/O controller cards. The data storage devices plug directly into I/O controller cards and receive all data, control signals, and power equally from the I/O controller cards, eliminating the need for a midplane circuit card.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2000
    Publication date: June 13, 2002
    Inventors: James Jon DeBlanc, David Dickey, James Lawrence White
  • Patent number: 6379868
    Abstract: A lithographic apparatus and process that utilizes dark-field imaging of mask features to introduce an image of those features into an energy sensitive resist material is disclosed. Dark field imaging is accomplished by utilizing off-axis illumination in combination with one or more masks. The zero-order off-axis illumination is lost from the system and is not captured from the downstream imaging optics. The mask or mask contains both lithographic features and non-imaged features. The non-imaged features are too small to be resolved by the imaging optics used to introduce the image into the energy sensitive material. The lithographic features and non-imaged features associated with a particular pattern feature are either present on the same mask, or decoupled where the non-imaged features are on one mask and the lithographic features are on a second mask.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 1999
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2002
    Assignee: Agere Systems Guardian Corp.
    Inventor: Donald Lawrence White
  • Patent number: 6042995
    Abstract: A lithographic process for semiconductor device fabrication is disclosed. In the process a patterned mask having a multilayer film formed on a substrate is illuminated by extreme ultraviolet (EUV) radiation and the radiation reflected from the pattern mask is directed onto a layer of energy sensitive material formed on a substrate. The image of the pattern on the mask is thus introduced into the energy sensitive material. The image is then developed and transferred into the underlying substrate. The multilayer film is inspected for defects by applying a layer of energy-sensitive film (called the inspection film) in proximity to the multilayer film and exposing the energy-sensitive material to EUV radiation. The thickness of the multilayer film is such that a portion of the EUV radiation is transmitted through the inspection film, reflected from the multilayer film and back into the inspection film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 1997
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2000
    Assignee: Lucent Technologies Inc.
    Inventor: Donald Lawrence White
  • Patent number: 5654540
    Abstract: Remote positioning to submicron accuracy is based on comparison of two interference gratings, the first of constant phase, and the second segmented. Positioning corresponds with equal segment-by-segment overlap of an image of one grating superimposed on the other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 1995
    Date of Patent: August 5, 1997
    Inventors: Stuart Stanton, Donald Lawrence White, George Gustave Zipfel, Jr.
  • Patent number: 3998639
    Abstract: In IC fabrication, feature size accuracy is monitored by making a test pattern composed of grating lines in proximity to two reference patterns. With the proper feature size, the test pattern will visually appear to have a shade of grey intermediate that of the two reference patterns. Too small a feature size will make the test pattern lighter, while too large a feature size will make it appear darker.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 1974
    Date of Patent: December 21, 1976
    Assignee: Bell Telephone Laboratories, Incorporated
    Inventors: Martin Feldman, Donald Lawrence White
  • Patent number: 3963354
    Abstract: In an automated inspection procedure, corresponding elements from all the patterns lying along a row of a replicated-pattern mask or wafer are successively imaged onto a storage medium in an interleaved way. At the completion of an inspection cycle, sets of corresponding elements from all the patterns in the row are respectively arrayed in the storage medium in a side-by-side fashion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 1975
    Date of Patent: June 15, 1976
    Assignee: Bell Telephone Laboratories, Incorporated
    Inventors: Martin Feldman, Donald Lawrence White