Patents by Inventor Michael Myrah

Michael Myrah 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).

  • Patent number: 9847673
    Abstract: To prevent overloading of a shared secondary power feed, active transfer switches are controlled to switch discrete hardware from the shared secondary to a corresponding primary power feed, even if such a primary is currently nonoperational thereby resulting in deactivation of such hardware. A threshold amount of power draw from the shared secondary is established, such as to ensure that failure of a single primary can be accommodated, and active transfer switches are controlled so as to prevent such a threshold from being exceeded. Alternatively, or in addition, active transfer switches are controlled such that they, in the event of an interruption in the power being provided by the primary power feed, either switch to the shared secondary or, in accordance with the aforementioned control, do not switch despite the interruption in power.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2017
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Matthew Eason, Michael Myrah
  • Patent number: 9832088
    Abstract: Power monitoring in a server set that has a shared power supply system that includes multiple power supply unit sets that each provide power to the server set. A controller monitors power usage of the server set, and evaluates the monitored power usage against the power supply capability of each of the power supply unit sets. Based on the evaluation, the controller can detect when a particular power supply unit set is no longer capable of solely providing all of the power that the server set is consuming or anticipated to consume, and then reduce power accordingly so that the particular power supply unit set could provide such power.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2017
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Michael Myrah, Matthew Jeremiah Eason
  • Publication number: 20170040837
    Abstract: To prevent overloading of a shared secondary power feed, active transfer switches are controlled to switch discrete hardware from the shared secondary to a corresponding primary power feed, even if such a primary is currently nonoperational thereby resulting in deactivation of such hardware. A threshold amount of power draw from the shared secondary is established, such as to ensure that failure of a single primary can be accommodated, and active transfer switches are controlled so as to prevent such a threshold from being exceeded. Alternatively, or in addition, active transfer switches are controlled such that they, in the event of an interruption in the power being provided by the primary power feed, either switch to the shared secondary or, in accordance with the aforementioned control, do not switch despite the interruption in power.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 6, 2015
    Publication date: February 9, 2017
    Inventors: Matthew Eason, Michael Myrah
  • Publication number: 20160094426
    Abstract: Power monitoring in a server set that has a shared power supply system that includes multiple power supply unit sets that each provide power to the server set. A controller monitors power usage of the server set, and evaluates the monitored power usage against the power supply capability of each of the power supply unit sets. Based on the evaluation, the controller can detect when a particular power supply unit set is no longer capable of solely providing all of the power that the server set is consuming or anticipated to consume, and then reduce power accordingly so that the particular power supply unit set could provide such power.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2014
    Publication date: March 31, 2016
    Inventors: Michael Myrah, Matthew Jeremiah Eason
  • Publication number: 20070101058
    Abstract: A storage unit comprising a plurality of storage devices and a user input/output (“I/O”) device coupled to the plurality of storage devices and adapted for exclusive use with the storage unit. The I/O device is used to create a Redundant Array of Independent Disks (“RAID”) configuration. The plurality of storage devices are configured in accordance with the RAID configuration.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2005
    Publication date: May 3, 2007
    Inventors: Keith Kinnan, Brian Corell, Michael Myrah, William Kilcoyne, Eng Lim