Patents by Inventor Lee Nelson

Lee Nelson 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: 20090096823
    Abstract: A method of compensating for changes in drop mass of drop emitted by at least one ink jet of an ink jet imaging device is provided. The method comprises identifying a drop placement position on an image receiving member of an ink jet imaging device for at least one ink jet of a print head. The identified drop placement position for the at least one ink jet is compared to a default drop placement position for the at least one ink jet to determine a difference in drop placement position. A drive signal for the at least one ink jet is then adjusted in accordance with the difference in drop placement position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2007
    Publication date: April 16, 2009
    Applicant: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: Russell J. Watt, Matthew Hudson Dixon, Lisa Marie Schmidt, Jeff Lee Nelson
  • Publication number: 20090031097
    Abstract: Embodiments include methods, apparatus, and systems for creating backups in storage systems. One embodiment includes a method that uses a background process to asynchronously copy data from a production virtual disk (vdisk) to a two-tier mirrorclone on a backup disk in a storage system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2007
    Publication date: January 29, 2009
    Inventor: Lee Nelson
  • Patent number: 7472307
    Abstract: Exemplary storage network architectures, data architectures, and methods for creating and using snapdifference files in storage networks are described. One exemplary method may be implemented in a processor in a storage network. The method comprises detecting a failure in a source volume, and in response to the failure: terminating communication with one or more applications that generate I/O requests to the source volume; refreshing the source volume; copying a backup data set to the source volume, and while the backup data set is being copied: activating a new snapdifference file; restarting communication with one or more applications that generate I/O requests to the source volume; and recording I/O operations to the source volume in the snapdifference file.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2004
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2008
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Rodger Daniels, Lee Nelson, Andrew Dallmann
  • Patent number: 7467268
    Abstract: Exemplary storage network architectures, data architectures, and methods for data restore operation are disclosed. In one embodiment, a storage device comprises a processor, a memory module communicatively connected to the processor, and logic instructions in the memory module which, when executed by the processor, configure the processor to receive a signal that identifies a source volume and a first target snapshot that represents a point in time copy of the source volume, update metadata to define an restore relationship between the first target snapshot and the source volume, execute a background copy process between the first target snapshot and the source volume, and manage input/output operations during the background copy process to permit input/output operations to the source volume during the background copy process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 16, 2008
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Aaron Lindemann, Xia Xu, Rodger Daniels, Lee Nelson
  • Publication number: 20080254054
    Abstract: A composition and methods of production are described including fungal material, a solid substrate and a biopolymer composition. The composition is described as being stable when stored for at least 7 months and also reduces dust losses normally attributed to fungal compositions. Uses are described for the composition including pest and weed treatments.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 11, 2006
    Publication date: October 16, 2008
    Applicant: Encoate Holdings Limited
    Inventors: Trevor Antony Jackson, Jayanthis Swaminathan, Travis Robert Glare, Tracey Lee Nelson
  • Patent number: 7381633
    Abstract: A method of making a patterned metal oxide film includes jetting a sol-gel solution on a substrate. The sol-gel solution is dried to form a gel layer on the substrate. Portions of the gel layer are irradiated to pattern the gel layer and to form exposed portions. Irradiation causes the exposed portions of the gel layer to become at least one of substantially condensed to an oxide, substantially densified, substantially cured, and combinations thereof. The unexposed portions of the gel layer are removed, thereby forming the patterned metal oxide film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2005
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2008
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: John O. Thompson, Curt Lee Nelson, David Punsalan
  • Patent number: 7324534
    Abstract: The invention is a system for interfacing a GR-303 system with a broadband system. The broadband system can be an ATM system. The invention can process the GR-303 signaling to select ATM connections and then interwork the GR-303 connections with the selected ATM connections. The invention can interwork GR-303 signaling and SS7 signaling. The invention can also process SS7 signaling to select GR-303 connections and then interwork ATM connections with the selected GR-303 connections.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2003
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2008
    Assignee: Sprint Communications Company L.P.
    Inventors: Joseph S. Christie, legal representative, Jean M. Christie, legal representative, Michael Joseph Gardner, Tracy Lee Nelson, William Lyle Wiley, Albert Daniel DuRee, Joseph Michael Christie, deceased
  • Patent number: 7305530
    Abstract: Exemplary storage network architectures, data architectures, and methods for creating and using snapdifference files in storage networks are described. One exemplary method may be implemented in a processor in a storage network. The method comprises receiving a request to execute a snapclone operation; generating, in response to the received service request, a snapclone copy of a source disk volume contemporaneous with the generation of the snapclone file, opening a first snapdifference file; and recording I/O operations to the source disk volume in the snapdifference file. The methods described herein may be embodied as logic instructions on a computer-readable medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2004
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2007
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Rodger Daniels, Lee Nelson, Andrew Dallmann
  • Patent number: 7291380
    Abstract: A method of plating a substrate including coating a substrate surface, laser-treating a region of the coated surface, and plating the region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2004
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2007
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Peter S. Nyholm, Curt Lee Nelson, Niranjan Thirukkovalur, Paul McClelland
  • Patent number: 7289511
    Abstract: A system and method provide enhanced services for a call that is transported from a communication device through an asynchronous transfer mode system. The call has user communications in asynchronous transfer mode cells and call signaling. A signaling processor receives the call signaling and processes the call signaling to determine a connection to a service platform. The signaling processor transports a processor control message designating the selected connection. An asynchronous transfer mode interworking unit receives the user communications from the communication device and the processor control message from the signaling processor. The asynchronous transfer mode interworking unit converts the user communications from the asynchronous transfer mode cells to a format compatible with the service platform and dynamically transports the user communications to the service platform in real time. The service platform processes the user communications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2003
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2007
    Assignee: Sprint Communications Company L.P.
    Inventors: Joseph S. Christie, legal representative, Jean M. Christie, legal representative, Tracy Lee Nelson, Joseph Michael Christie, deceased
  • Publication number: 20070245104
    Abstract: Exemplary storage network architectures, data architectures, and methods for data restore operation are disclosed. In one embodiment, a storage device comprises a processor, a memory module communicatively connected to the processor, and logic instructions in the memory module which, when executed by the processor, configure the processor to receive a signal that identifies a source volume and a first target snapshot that represents a point in time copy of the source volume, update metadata to define an restore relationship between the first target snapshot and the source volume, execute a background copy process between the first target snapshot and the source volume, and manage input/output operations during the background copy process to permit input/output operations to the source volume during the background copy process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 14, 2006
    Publication date: October 18, 2007
    Inventors: Aaron Lindemann, Xia Xu, Rodger Daniels, Lee Nelson
  • Patent number: 7239644
    Abstract: The invention is a system for modifying the VPI/VCIs in ATM cells transferred between two ATM systems on a call-by-call basis. A signaling processor receives signaling for the call and selects a new VPI/VCI for the call. The signaling processor generates a control message that identifies the old and new VPI/VCIs and transfers the control message to an ATM gateway. The ATM gateway modifies the old VPI/VCI in the ATM cells to the new VPI/VCI.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2003
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2007
    Assignee: Sprint Communications Company L.P.
    Inventors: Joseph Michael Christie, deceased, Joseph S. Christie, legal representative, Jean M. Christie, legal representative, Albert Daniel Duree, Michael Joseph Gardner, Tracy Lee Nelson, William Lyle Wiley
  • Patent number: 7106750
    Abstract: A system to interworking a call between a plurality of networks having different formats. The system has a GR-303 system, an integrated services digital network system, a service platform, and an asynchronous transfer mode system. The system has a signaling processor that is adapted to receive the call signaling and to process the call signaling to select a connection to one of the GR-303 system, the integrated services digital network system, the service platform, or the asynchronous transfer mode system. The signaling processor thereby selects the corresponding system on the connection. The signaling processor transports a control message identifying the selected connection. An interworking unit receives the user communications and the control message. The interworking unit converts the user communications from the format in which it was received to the format that is compatible with the selected system. The user communications are then transported on the selected connection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 1999
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2006
    Assignee: Sprint Communications Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Joseph S. Christie, Jean M. Christie, Michael Joseph Gardner, William Lyle Wiley, Albert Daniel DuRee, Tracy Lee Nelson, Joseph Michael Christie
  • Publication number: 20060107085
    Abstract: Exemplary storage network architectures, data architectures, and methods for creating and using snapdifference files in storage networks are described. One exemplary method may be implemented in a processor in a storage network. The method comprises detecting a failure in a source volume, and in response to the failure: terminating communication with one or more applications that generate I/O requests to the source volume; refreshing the source volume; copying a backup data set to the source volume, and while the backup data set is being copied: activating a new snapdifference file; restarting communication with one or more applications that generate I/O requests to the source volume; and recording I/O operations to the source volume in the snapdifference file.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 2, 2004
    Publication date: May 18, 2006
    Inventors: Rodger Daniels, Lee Nelson, Andrew Dallmann
  • Publication number: 20060106893
    Abstract: Exemplary storage network architectures, data architectures, and methods for performing backup operations in storage networks are described. One exemplary method may be implemented in a processor in a storage network. The method comprises generating a snapclone of a source volume at a first point in time; contemporaneously activating a first snapdifference file logically linked to the snapclone; recording I/O operations that change a data set in the source volume to the first snapdifference file; closing the first snapdifference file; generating a backup copy of the snapclone at a second point in time, after the first point in time; and generating a backup copy of the first snapdifference file at a third point in time, after the second point in time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 2, 2004
    Publication date: May 18, 2006
    Inventors: Rodger Daniels, Lee Nelson, Andrew Dallmann
  • Publication number: 20060095695
    Abstract: Exemplary storage network architectures, data architectures, and methods for creating and using snapdifference files in storage networks are described. One exemplary method may be implemented in a processor in a storage network. The method comprises receiving a request to execute a snapclone operation; generating, in response to the received service request, a snapclone copy of a source disk volume contemporaneous with the generation of the snapclone file, opening a first snapdifference file; and recording I/O operations to the source disk volume in the snapdifference file. The methods described herein may be embodied as logic instructions on a computer-readable medium.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 2, 2004
    Publication date: May 4, 2006
    Inventors: Rodger Daniels, Lee Nelson, Andrew Dallmann
  • Patent number: 6999463
    Abstract: A communication system is disclosed comprised of a signaling processor and an interworking system. The signaling processor receives a call setup message including a called number, processes the called number to transmit a query, receives a response message responsive to the query that includes number portability information for the called number, processes the number portability information to select an identifier for routing, and transmits a control message that identifies the identifier. The interworking system receives a user communication and the control message, converts the user communication into communications that include the identifier, and transfers the communications that include the identifier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2003
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2006
    Assignee: Sprint Communications Company L.P.
    Inventors: Joseph Michael Christie, deceased, Joseph S. Christie, legal representative, Jean M. Christie, legal representative, Michael Joseph Gardner, Albert Daniel DuRee, William Lyle Wiley, Tracy Lee Nelson
  • Publication number: 20050240584
    Abstract: A method of protecting data includes distributing data across a plurality of snapshots of a parent logical unit (LUN) when data of the parent LUN diverges from the snapshots.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 21, 2004
    Publication date: October 27, 2005
    Applicant: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Brian Patterson, Lee Nelson
  • Publication number: 20050167260
    Abstract: A reactor for reactive co-conversion of heavy hydrocarbons and hydrocarbon gases and includes a dielectric barrier discharge plasma cell having a pair of electrodes separated by a dielectric material and passageway therebetween. An inlet is provided for feeding heavy hydrocarbons and other reactive materials to the passageway of the discharge plasma cell, and an outlet is provided for discharging reaction products from the reactor. A packed bed catalyst may optionally be used in the reactor to increase efficiency of conversion. The reactor can be modified to allow use of a variety of light sources for providing ultraviolet light within the discharge plasma cell. Methods for upgrading heavy hydrocarbons are also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 3, 2005
    Publication date: August 4, 2005
    Inventors: Peter Kong, Lee Nelson, Brent Detering
  • Patent number: 6904060
    Abstract: A system and method to detect a call trigger during a call without requiring a service platform to remain connected to the call. A first communication device transmits a call having call signaling and user communications. A signaling processor receives the call signaling from the first communication device and selects a connection to a second communication device. An interworking unit receives the user communications from the first communication device and converts the user communications from a time division multiplex format to asynchronous transfer mode cells that identify a selected connection to the second communication device and transports the user communications to the second communication device. The interworking unit detects a call trigger in the user communications. The interworking unit transmits call trigger data to the signaling processor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2001
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2005
    Assignee: Sprint Communications Company L.P.
    Inventors: Tracy Lee Nelson, William Lyle Wiley, Albert Daniel DuRee