Patents by Inventor Paul Cyr

Paul Cyr 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: 9304802
    Abstract: With N_Port ID Virtualization (NPIV), a managed system can be configured so that multiple logical partitions (LPARs) can access independent physical storage through the same physical fiber channel adapter. An NPIV client recovery component of a virtualization management component, such as a Power Hypervisor (pHYP), provides the emulation mapping between server and client virtual fiber channel adapters. The pHYP also provides a mechanism that prevents client partition crashes when the NPIV server (e.g., a VIOS logical partition) goes down. When the NPIV server is rebooted or powers down, the pHYP handles the client LPARs to avoid a crash by removing processing resources from the client logical partition. Thereby, the client logical partition is prevented from attempting to access a root volume group in physical storage via the NPIV server. The pHYP allocates processor resources to the client LPAR when the NPIV server is again available for I/O processing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2016
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Michael Paul Cyr, James A. Pafumi, Veena Ganti, Vasu Vallabhaneni
  • Patent number: 9231223
    Abstract: The present invention provides of a three-dimensional bicontinuous heterostructure, a method of producing same, and the application of this structure towards the realization of photodetecting and photovoltaic devices working in the visible and the near-infrared. The three-dimensional bicontinuous heterostructure includes two interpenetrating layers which are spatially continuous, they are include only protrusions or peninsulas, and no islands. The method of producing the three-dimensional biocontinuous heterostructure relies on forming an essentially planar continuous bottom layer of a first material; forming a layer of this first material on top of the bottom layer which is textured to produce protrusions for subsequent interpenetration with a second material, coating this second material onto this structure; and forming a final coating with the second material that ensures that only the second material is contacted by subsequent layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2016
    Assignee: InVisage Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Edward Sargent, Steven Ashworth McDonald, Shiguo Zhang, Larissa Levina, Gerasimos Konstantatos, Paul Cyr
  • Patent number: 9100443
    Abstract: A first Virtual Input/Output Server (VIOS) of a VIOS cluster performs the functions of: generating, at a sending daemon of the first VIOS, a send message that is to be transmitted to a receiving daemon at a second VIOS; in response to completion of the generating of the send message, forwarding the send message to a sending virtual small computer systems interface (vscsi) kernel extension (VKE) via a system call interface; and in response to the sending VKE receiving the send message from the sending daemon, forwarding the send message to one or more second VIOSes within the VIOS cluster utilizing a kcluster interface. The sending VKE parses at least one of a message header and a sub-header of the send message; and responsive to detection of a broadcast setting for the send message, the VKE forwards the send message to all nodes within the cluster via a cluster broadcast.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2015
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Carl Duane Bender, Michael Paul Cyr, Morgan Jeffrey Rosas, Vasu Vallabhaneni
  • Publication number: 20130316630
    Abstract: A tool includes a holder configured to couple to a dual-sided chemical mechanical planarization (CMP) pad conditioner. The holder has a magnetic material, a first magnetic field strength (H1) at a first face, and a second magnetic field strength (H2) at a second face opposite the first face. The first magnetic field strength (H1) is different than the second magnetic field strength (H2).
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 3, 2013
    Publication date: November 28, 2013
    Inventors: Michael ROTHENBERG, Taewook HWANG, Paul CYR, Rachel Z. PYTEL, Ramanujam VEDANTHAM, Srinivasan RAMANATH
  • Publication number: 20130244366
    Abstract: The present invention provides of a three-dimensional bicontinuous heterostructure, a method of producing same, and the application of this structure towards the realization of photodetecting and photovoltaic devices working in the visible and the near-infrared. The three-dimensional bicontinuous heterostructure includes two interpenetrating layers which are spatially continuous, they are include only protrusions or peninsulas, and no islands. The method of producing the three-dimensional biocontinuous heterostructure relies on forming an essentially planar continuous bottom layer of a first material; forming a layer of this first material on top of the bottom layer which is textured to produce protrusions for subsequent interpenetration with a second material, coating this second material onto this structure; and forming a final coating with the second material that ensures that only the second material is contacted by subsequent layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 6, 2013
    Publication date: September 19, 2013
    Applicant: InVisage Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Edward Sargent, Steven Ashworth McDonald, Shiguo Zhang, Larissa Levina, Gerasimos Konstantatos, Paul Cyr
  • Patent number: 8450138
    Abstract: Provided herein are embodiments of a three-dimensional bicontinuous heterostructure, a method of producing same, and the application of this structure. The three-dimensional bicontinuous heterostructure includes two interpenetrating layers which are spatially continuous, include only protrusions or peninsulas, and have no islands. The method of producing the three-dimensional bicontinuous heterostructure includes forming an essentially planar continuous bottom layer of a first material; forming a layer of this first material on top of the bottom layer that is textured to produce protrusions for subsequent interpenetration with a second material, coating this second material onto this structure, and forming a coating with the second material that ensures that only the second material is contacted by subsequent layer. One of the materials includes visible and/or infrared-absorbing semiconducting quantum dot nanoparticles, and one of materials is a hole conductor and the other is an electron conductor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2013
    Assignee: InVisage Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Edward Sargent, Steven Ashworth McDonald, Shiguo Zhang, Larissa Levina, Gerasimos Konstantatos, Paul Cyr
  • Publication number: 20130013285
    Abstract: With N_Port ID Virtualization (NPIV), a managed system can he configured so that multiple logical partitions (LPARs) can access independent physical storage through the same physical fibre channel adapter. An NPIV client recovery component of a virtualization management component, such as a Power Hypervisor (pHYP), provides the emulation mapping between server and client virtual fibre channel adapters. The pHYP also provides a mechanism that prevents client partition crashes when the NPIV server (e.g., a VIOS logical partition) goes down. When the NPIV server is rebooted or powers down, the pHYP handles the client LPARs to avoid a crash by removing processing resources from the client logical partition. Thereby, the client logical partition is prevented from attempting to access a root volume group in physical storage via the NPIV server. The pHYP allocates processor resources to the client LPAR when the NPIV server is again available for I/O processing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2012
    Publication date: January 10, 2013
    Applicant: IBM CORPORATION
    Inventors: Michael Paul Cyr, James A. Pafumi, Veena Ganti, Vasu Vallabhaneni
  • Publication number: 20120208315
    Abstract: Provided herein are embodiments of a three-dimensional bicontinuous heterostructure, a method of producing same, and the application of this structure. The three-dimensional bicontinuous heterostructure includes two interpenetrating layers which are spatially continuous, include only protrusions or peninsulas, and have no islands. The method of producing the three-dimensional bicontinuous heterostructure includes forming an essentially planar continuous bottom layer of a first material; forming a layer of this first material on top of the bottom layer that is textured to produce protrusions for subsequent interpenetration with a second material, coating this second material onto this structure, and forming a coating with the second material that ensures that only the second material is contacted by subsequent layer. One of the materials includes visible and/or infrared-absorbing semiconducting quantum dot nanoparticles, and one of materials is a hole conductor and the other is an electron conductor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2012
    Publication date: August 16, 2012
    Applicant: InVisage Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Edward Sargent, Steve McDonald, Shiquo Zhang, Larissa Levina, Gerasimos Konstantatos, Paul Cyr
  • Publication number: 20120179837
    Abstract: A first Virtual Input/Output Server (VIOS) of a VIOS cluster performs the functions of: generating, at a sending daemon of the first VIOS, a send message that is to be transmitted to a receiving daemon at a second VIOS; in response to completion of the generating of the send message, forwarding the send message to a sending virtual small computer systems interface (vscsi) kernel extension (VKE) via a system call interface; and in response to the sending VKE receiving the send message from the sending daemon, forwarding the send message to one or more second VIOSes within the VIOS cluster utilizing a kcluster interface. The sending VKE parses at least one of a message header and a sub-header of the send message; and responsive to detection of a broadcast setting for the send message, the VKE forwards the send message to all nodes within the cluster via a cluster broadcast.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 11, 2011
    Publication date: July 12, 2012
    Applicant: IBM Corporation
    Inventors: Carl Duane Bender, Michael Paul Cyr, Morgan Jeffrey Rosas, Vasu Vallabhaneni
  • Patent number: 8161539
    Abstract: A data processing system that supports verifiable IPSec network communication. The data processing system comprises an IPSec network adapter that connects the data processing system to an external network and provides IPSec encryption and routing of IPSec packets. The data processing system also comprises a network adapter verifier, which is a secondary network card that is utilized to verify that IPSec packets being transmitted to the external network by the IPSec network adapter have been encrypted. The network adapter verifier comprises a device driver, which caches a copy of an IP address from a generated IPSec packet prior to the packet being received by the network adapter. The network adapter verifier is connected to the external network and monitors the transmission of packets out to the network connection by the network adapter. The IP identification (ID) of the packets are compared to the captured IP address of the generated IPSec packet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2002
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2012
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Michael Paul Cyr, Gerald Francis McBrearty, Shawn Patrick Mullen, Johnny Meng-Han Shieh
  • Publication number: 20120084071
    Abstract: With N_Port ID Virtualization (NPIV), a managed system can be configured so that multiple logical partitions (LPARs) can access independent physical storage through the same physical fibre channel adapter. An NPIV client recovery component of a virtualization management component, such as a Power Hypervisor (pHYP), provides the emulation mapping between server and client virtual fibre channel adapters. The pHYP also provides a mechanism that prevents client partition crashes when the NPIV server (e.g., a VIOS logical partition) goes down. When the NPIV server is rebooted or powers down, the pHYP handles the client LPARs to avoid a crash by removing processing resources from the client logical partition. Thereby, the client logical partition is prevented from attempting to access a root volume group in physical storage via the NPIV server. The pHYP allocates processor resources to the client LPAR when the NPIV server is again available for UO processing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2010
    Publication date: April 5, 2012
    Applicant: IBM CORPORATION
    Inventors: Michael Paul Cyr, James A. Pafumi, Veena Ganti, Vasu Vallabhaneni
  • Patent number: 8115232
    Abstract: The present invention provides of a three-dimensional bicontinuous heterostructure, a method of producing same, and the application of this structure towards the realization of photodetecting and photovoltaic devices working in the visible and the near-infrared. The three-dimensional bicontinuous heterostructure includes two interpenetrating layers which are spatially continuous, they are include only protrusions or peninsulas, and no islands. The method of producing the three-dimensional bicontinuous heterostructure relies on forming an essentially planar continuous bottom layer of a first material; forming a layer of this first material on top of the bottom layer which is textured to produce protrusions for subsequent interpenetration with a second material, coating this second material onto this structure; and forming a final coating with the second material that ensures that only the second material is contacted by subsequent layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2012
    Assignee: InVisage Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Edward Sargent, Steve McDonald, Shiguo Zhang, Larissa Levina, Gerasimos Konstantatos, Paul Cyr
  • Patent number: 7970852
    Abstract: A system and method for migrating a client partition between computer electronic complexes (CECs) while maintaining access to a Storage Area Network. An active and inactive world wide port name are generated for a client virtual channel adapter. A query is sent to a name server from the VIOS on the source CEC. The name server creates a list of small computer system interface (SCSI) targets that are available. The list is used by the VIOS on the destination CEC to verify whether any physical ports in the destination CEC have access to the same SCSI target. The client partition may be migrated between a source CEC and a destination CEC and the access to the Storage Area Network access may be maintained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2011
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: James P. Allen, Michael Paul Cyr, James A. Pafumi, Vasu Vallabhaneni
  • Publication number: 20090307330
    Abstract: A system and method for migrating a client partition between computer electronic complexes (CECs) while maintaining access to a Storage Area Network. An active and inactive world wide port name are generated for a client virtual channel adapter. A query is sent to a name server from the VIOS on the source CEC. The name server creates a list of small computer system interface (SCSI) targets that are available. The list is used by the VIOS on the destination CEC to verify whether any physical ports in the destination CEC have access to the same SCSI target. The client partition may be migrated between a source CEC and a destination CEC and the access to the Storage Area Network access may be maintained.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 9, 2008
    Publication date: December 10, 2009
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: James P. Allen, Michael Paul Cyr, James A. Pafumi, Vasu Vallabhaneni
  • Publication number: 20060243959
    Abstract: The present invention provides of a three-dimensional bicontinuous heterostructure, a method of producing same, and the application of this structure towards the realization of photodetecting and photovoltaic devices working in the visible and the near-infrared. The three-dimensional bicontinuous heterostructure includes two interpenetrating layers which are spatially continuous, they are include only protrusions or peninsulas, and no islands. The method of producing the three-dimensional biontinuous heterostructure relies on forming an essentially planar continuous bottom layer of a first material; forming a layer of this first material on top of the bottom layer which is textured to produce protrusions for subsequent interpenetration with a second material, coating this second material onto this structure; and forming a final coating with the second material that ensures that only the second material is contacted by subsequent layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 9, 2006
    Publication date: November 2, 2006
    Inventors: Edward Sargent, Steve McDonald, Shiguo Zhang, Larissa Levina, Gerasimos Konstantatos, Paul Cyr
  • Publication number: 20030200456
    Abstract: A data processing system that supports verifiable IPSec network communication. The data processing system comprises an IPSec network adapter that connects the data processing system to an external network and provides IPSec encryption and routing of IPSec packets. The data processing system also comprises a network adapter verifier, which is a secondary network card that is utilized to verify that IPSec packets being transmitted to the external network by the IPSec network adapter have been encrypted. The network adapter verifier comprises a device driver, which caches a copy of an IP address from a generated IPSec packet prior to the packet being received by the network adapter. The network adapter verifier is connected to the external network and monitors the transmission of packets out to the network connection by the network adapter. The IP identification (ID) of the packets are compared to the captured IP address of the generated IPSec packet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 19, 2002
    Publication date: October 23, 2003
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corp.
    Inventors: Michael Paul Cyr, Gerald Francis McBrearty, Shawn Patrick Mullen, Johnny Meng-Han Shieh
  • Patent number: 6234566
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a synchronized rack and pinion system for extendable rooms for recreational vehicles. In particular, the invention provides a drive system for use in extending and retracting an extendable room on a vehicle frame. The drive system includes at least one pair of parallel rack and pinion systems operatively connected between the vehicle frame and the extendable room, with each pair of parallel rack and pinion systems synchronized through respective drive shafts. The system is operable between a closed position where the extendable room is retracted with respect to the vehicle frame and an open position where the extendable room is extended with respect to the vehicle frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 1999
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2001
    Assignee: Prevost Car, Inc.
    Inventors: Jean-Paul Cyr, Normand Lessard
  • Patent number: 5904928
    Abstract: The invention relates to an anti-tartar composition comprising:(a) 0.5 to 5% by weight of at least one compound selected from among zirconium silicate and hydrated silica;(b) 0.5 to 5% by weight of at least one compound selected from among chlorhexidine digluconate and zinc digluconate;(c) 0.5 to 5% by weight of at least one compound selected from among potassium thiocyanate, glucose oxidase, lysozyme, and lactoperoxidase; and(d) 1 to 5% by weight of at least one acid compound selected from among vitamin C and citric acid.It also concerns the use thereof in combination with food supplements or chewable supports for animals as well as the food supplements and chewable articles thus obtained.The invention applies, in particular, to the control of the formation of tartar in domestic animals such as dogs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 1997
    Date of Patent: May 18, 1999
    Assignee: Societe a Responsabilite Limitee
    Inventors: Jean-Paul Cyr, Jean-Marc Denoun
  • Patent number: 5571275
    Abstract: An improved wear blade which slidingly engages an endless track of a snowmobile, and presses the endless track against the ground, has low friction, is highly wear resistant, and comprises polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE), and one or more of carbon, graphite, bronze, and molybdenum disulfide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 1995
    Date of Patent: November 5, 1996
    Inventor: Paul A. Cyr