Patents by Inventor Mark Edward Shaw
Mark Edward Shaw 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).
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Patent number: 11812587Abstract: The description relates to cooling electronic components, such as computing devices. One example includes a rack defining a volume and multiple sealed chassis modules removably fluidly coupled to a two-phase condenser tank via a vapor coupler and a liquid coupler. Individual sealed chassis modules can contain one or more electronic components immersed in two-phase coolant that when heated by operation of the electronic components experiences a phase change from a liquid phase to a gas phase and travels to the two-phase condenser tank via the vapor coupler and is cooled in the two-phase condenser tank until experiencing a phase change back into the liquid phase. Individual sealed chassis modules can be decoupled from the two-phase condenser tank without releasing two-phase coolant and an entirety of the multiple sealed chassis modules and the condenser tank are contained in the volume of the rack.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2021Date of Patent: November 7, 2023Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Douglas Patrick Kelley, Alexis Grace Schubert, Craig Steven Ranta, Kathryn Oseen-Senda, Dennis Trieu, Mark Edward Shaw
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Publication number: 20230254997Abstract: A computer system with thermal management includes a boiler tank and a first computer component on a substrate in the boiler tank. A cooling fluid is positioned in the boiler tank and covering the first computer component. The boiler tank has a length, width, and height where the length and width of the boiler tank define a tank area that is no more than 50% larger than the substrate area.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 24, 2021Publication date: August 10, 2023Inventors: Mark Edward SHAW, Husam Atallah ALISSA, Robert Jason LANKSTON, Brandon Aaron RUBENSTEIN
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Publication number: 20230136452Abstract: The discussion relates to disaggregated computing. One example can monitor multiple two-phase liquid immersion tanks. Individual two-phase liquid immersion tanks can contain multiple components of a single type of component type. The example can receive requests for virtual machines and allocate sets of components from individual two-phase liquid immersion tanks to work together to support the virtual machines requests.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 30, 2022Publication date: May 4, 2023Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Husam A. Alissa, Ioannis Manousakis, Christian L. Belady, Marcus Felipe Fontoura, Ricardo G. Bianchini, Winston Allen Saunders, Mark Edward Shaw
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Patent number: 11567548Abstract: The discussion relates to disaggregated computing. One example can monitor multiple two-phase liquid immersion tanks. Individual two-phase liquid immersion tanks can contain multiple components of a single type of component type. The example can receive requests for virtual machines and allocate sets of components from individual two-phase liquid immersion tanks to work together to support the virtual machines requests.Type: GrantFiled: June 14, 2022Date of Patent: January 31, 2023Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Husam A. Alissa, Ioannis Manousakis, Christian L. Belady, Marcus Felipe Fontoura, Ricardo G. Bianchini, Winston Allen Saunders, Mark Edward Shaw
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Publication number: 20220354026Abstract: The description relates to cooling electronic components, such as computing devices. One example includes a rack defining a volume and multiple sealed chassis modules removably fluidly coupled to a two-phase condenser tank via a vapor coupler and a liquid coupler. Individual sealed chassis modules can contain one or more electronic components immersed in two-phase coolant that when heated by operation of the electronic components experiences a phase change from a liquid phase to a gas phase and travels to the two-phase condenser tank via the vapor coupler and is cooled in the two-phase condenser tank until experiencing a phase change back into the liquid phase. Individual sealed chassis modules can be decoupled from the two-phase condenser tank without releasing two-phase coolant and an entirety of the multiple sealed chassis modules and the condenser tank are contained in the volume of the rack.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 28, 2021Publication date: November 3, 2022Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Douglas Patrick KELLEY, Alexis Grace SCHUBERT, Craig Steven RANTA, Kathryn OSEEN-SENDA, Dennis TRIEU, Mark Edward SHAW
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Publication number: 20220308643Abstract: The discussion relates to disaggregated computing. One example can monitor multiple two-phase liquid immersion tanks. Individual two-phase liquid immersion tanks can contain multiple components of a single type of component type. The example can receive requests for virtual machines and allocate sets of components from individual two-phase liquid immersion tanks to work together to support the virtual machines requests.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 14, 2022Publication date: September 29, 2022Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Husam A. Alissa, Ioannis Manousakis, Christian L. Belady, Marcus Felipe Fontoura, Ricardo G. Bianchini, Winston Allen Saunders, Mark Edward Shaw
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Patent number: 11392184Abstract: The discussion relates to disaggregated computing. One example can monitor multiple two-phase liquid immersion tanks. Individual two-phase liquid immersion tanks can contain multiple components of a single type of component type. The example can receive requests for virtual machines and allocate sets of components from individual two-phase liquid immersion tanks to work together to support the virtual machines requests.Type: GrantFiled: September 25, 2020Date of Patent: July 19, 2022Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Husam A. Alissa, Ioannis Manousakis, Christian L. Belady, Marcus Felipe Fontoura, Ricardo G. Bianchini, Winston Allen Saunders, Mark Edward Shaw
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Publication number: 20220201902Abstract: Techniques for controlling cooling of electronic components in computing facilities are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, a method includes detecting a pressure drop of a coolant flowing across multiple servers in an enclosure between the inlet and outlet manifolds and a supply temperature of the coolant at the inlet manifold. The method further includes automatically adjust operations of the pump to maintain the calculated pressure drop at or near a pressure-drop setpoint while automatically adjusting operations of the air mover to maintain the supply temperature at or near a temperature setpoint.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 23, 2020Publication date: June 23, 2022Inventors: Mark Edward Shaw, Husam Atallah Alissa, Brandon Rubenstein, Robert Jason Lankston, II, Christian Belady, Bharath Ramakrishnan
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Publication number: 20220100241Abstract: The discussion relates to disaggregated computing. One example can monitor multiple two-phase liquid immersion tanks. Individual two-phase liquid immersion tanks can contain multiple components of a single type of component type. The example can receive requests for virtual machines and allocate sets of components from individual two-phase liquid immersion tanks to work together to support the virtual machines requests.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 25, 2020Publication date: March 31, 2022Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Husam A. Alissa, Ioannis Manousakis, Christian L. Belady, Marcus Felipe Fontoura, Ricardo G. Bianchini, Winston Allen Saunders, Mark Edward Shaw
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Patent number: 10028401Abstract: Rack configurations provide increased storage device density without compromising cooling or immediate device availability. A device rack has a frame including posts which define an interior containing system board(s) with electronic device connectors. The system board is fixed relative to the frame, and the rack is devoid of sliding rails and cable management arms for the devices, thereby reducing rack weight and mechanical complexity. A vertical plenum within the rack between loaded system boards carries cooling air for the devices and may also permit use of a service robot to install or replace hot-pluggable hard disk drives or other devices, which can be arranged in columns. As one objective measure of the increased density provided, a connector density is at least a specified number of hundreds of mechanically and electronically releasably connectable electronic device connectors per cubic meter within the rack.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2015Date of Patent: July 17, 2018Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Mark Edward Shaw, Wilson V. Vu, Martha Geoghegan Peterson, Hien A. Thai, Eric C. Peterson
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Publication number: 20170181306Abstract: Rack configurations provide increased storage device density without compromising cooling or immediate device availability. A device rack has a frame including posts which define an interior containing system board(s) with electronic device connectors. The system board is fixed relative to the frame, and the rack is devoid of sliding rails and cable management arms for the devices, thereby reducing rack weight and mechanical complexity. A vertical plenum within the rack between loaded system boards carries cooling air for the devices and may also permit use of a service robot to install or replace hot-pluggable hard disk drives or other devices, which can be arranged in columns. As one objective measure of the increased density provided, a connector density is at least a specified number of hundreds of mechanically and electronically releasably connectable electronic device connectors per cubic meter within the rack.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 18, 2015Publication date: June 22, 2017Inventors: Mark Edward SHAW, Wilson V. VU, Martha Geoghegan PETERSON, Hien A. THAI, Eric C. PETERSON
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Patent number: 9131618Abstract: Various technologies described herein pertain to racking equipment in a data center. A modular equipment rack system can include an upper track, a lower track, a vertical support, a power and network distribution unit, and a tray. The upper track and the lower track can respectively include incrementally spaced mounting locations at which the vertical support and the power and network distribution unit can be attachable. The tray can be attachable to the vertical support and the power and network distribution unit when the vertical support is attached to the upper track at a first upper mounting location and attached to the lower track at a corresponding first lower mounting location, and the power and network distribution unit is attached to the upper track at a second upper mounting location and attached to the lower track at a corresponding second lower mounting location.Type: GrantFiled: October 11, 2013Date of Patent: September 8, 2015Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Eric C. Peterson, Shaun L. Harris, Mark Edward Shaw, Matthew Allen Faist, Christian L. Belady, Darren Shakib
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Patent number: 8898246Abstract: A computing device having partitions, and a method of communicating between partitions, are disclosed wherein at least one partition comprises: at least one register substantially always accessible to other partitions and capable of defining an address area; at least one address area that may be accessible to other partitions and is capable of being defined by the at least one register; and address areas other than the at least one accessible address area that are not accessible to other partitions. A method of processing interrupts comprising receiving an interrupt, assessing the origin of the interrupt, accepting, rejecting, or further assessing the interrupt, depending on its origin, when further assessing the interrupt, accepting or rejecting the interrupt depending on its contents, and forwarding accepted interrupts but not rejected interrupts to a target processor, and a device carrying out that method are also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: July 29, 2004Date of Patent: November 25, 2014Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.Inventors: Gary Belgrave Gostin, Larry N. McMahan, Michael A. Schroeder, Craig W. Warner, Richard W. Adkisson, Huai-Ter Victor Chong, David M. Binford, Mark Edward Shaw, Joe P. Cowan, Thierry Fevrier, Arad Rostampour
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Publication number: 20140173157Abstract: Computing unit enclosures are often configured to connect units (e.g., server racks or trays) with a wired network. Because the network type may vary (e.g., Ethernet, InfiniBand, and Fibre Channel), such enclosures often provide network resources connecting each unit with each supported network type. However, such architectures may present inefficiencies such as unused network resources, and may constrain network support for the units to a small set of supported network types. Presented herein are enclosure architectures enabling flexible and efficient network support by including a backplane comprising a backplane bus that exchanges data between the units and a network adapter using an expansion bus protocol, such as PCI-Express.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 14, 2012Publication date: June 19, 2014Applicant: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Mark Edward Shaw, Kushagra V. Vaid, David A. Maltz, Parantap Lahiri
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Publication number: 20140036452Abstract: Various technologies described herein pertain to racking equipment in a data center. A modular equipment rack system can include an upper track, a lower track, a vertical support, a power and network distribution unit, and a tray. The upper track and the lower track can respectively include incrementally spaced mounting locations at which the vertical support and the power and network distribution unit can be attachable. The tray can be attachable to the vertical support and the power and network distribution unit when the vertical support is attached to the upper track at a first upper mounting location and attached to the lower track at a corresponding first lower mounting location, and the power and network distribution unit is attached to the upper track at a second upper mounting location and attached to the lower track at a corresponding second lower mounting location.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 11, 2013Publication date: February 6, 2014Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATIONInventors: Eric C. Peterson, Shaun L. Harris, Mark Edward Shaw, Matthew Allen Faist, Christian L. Belady, Darren Shakib
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Publication number: 20130340458Abstract: Water for data center uses is generated from the ambient air by a water generator that cools air below its dew point, thereby causing the water in such air to precipitate out. The water generator is powered by renewable energy sources that provide a sufficient amount of energy over an extended period of time, despite temporary interruptions. Heated air from the data center is exhausted so as to absorb moisture from the ambient air, with such heated air being capable of holding a greater amount of moisture, and is then directed through the water generator, thereby enabling the water generator to generate a greater amount of water. The level of water available is monitored and the water generator utilizes on-demand power sources to generate a greater amount of water so as to avoid emptying water storage units.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 22, 2012Publication date: December 26, 2013Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATIONInventors: Mark Edward Shaw, Sean M. James
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Patent number: 8582302Abstract: Various technologies described herein pertain to racking equipment in a data center. A modular equipment rack system can include an upper track, a lower track, a vertical support, a power and network distribution unit, and a tray. The upper track and the lower track can respectively include incrementally spaced mounting locations at which the vertical support and the power and network distribution unit can be attachable. The tray can be attachable to the vertical support and the power and network distribution unit when the vertical support is attached to the upper track at a first upper mounting location and attached to the lower track at a corresponding first lower mounting location, and the power and network distribution unit is attached to the upper track at a second upper mounting location and attached to the lower track at a corresponding second lower mounting location.Type: GrantFiled: November 15, 2011Date of Patent: November 12, 2013Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Eric C. Peterson, Shaun L. Harris, Mark Edward Shaw, Matthew Allen Faist, Christian L. Belady, Darren Shakib
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Patent number: 8549186Abstract: A system for sharing a device across a plurality of operating systems is provided. The system includes a sharable bit in the namespace for identifying whether the device is sharable. The system further includes one or more operating systems that are adapted to recognize the sharable bit.Type: GrantFiled: February 17, 2005Date of Patent: October 1, 2013Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.Inventors: Bradley G. Culter, Mark Edward Shaw
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Publication number: 20130120941Abstract: Various technologies described herein pertain to racking equipment in a data center. A modular equipment rack system can include an upper track, a lower track, a vertical support, a power and network distribution unit, and a tray. The upper track and the lower track can respectively include incrementally spaced mounting locations at which the vertical support and the power and network distribution unit can be attachable. The tray can be attachable to the vertical support and the power and network distribution unit when the vertical support is attached to the upper track at a first upper mounting location and attached to the lower track at a corresponding first lower mounting location, and the power and network distribution unit is attached to the upper track at a second upper mounting location and attached to the lower track at a corresponding second lower mounting location.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 15, 2011Publication date: May 16, 2013Applicant: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Eric C. Peterson, Shaun L. Harris, Mark Edward Shaw, Matthew Allen Faist, Christian L. Belady, Darren Shakib
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Patent number: 7624213Abstract: A data communications architecture employing serializers and deserializers that reduces data communications latency. In an illustrative implementation, the data communications architecture communicates data across communications links. The architecture maintains various mechanisms to promote data communications speed and to avoid communication link down time. These mechanisms perform the functions including but not limited to generating processing debug information, processing link identification information, injecting errors across communications links and performing error detection.Type: GrantFiled: February 11, 2005Date of Patent: November 24, 2009Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.Inventors: Gregg Bernard Lesartre, Mark Edward Shaw