Patents by Inventor Robert A. Doolittle

Robert A. Doolittle 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).

  • Method and apparatus for configuration using a portable electronic configuration device
    Patent number: 6738027
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method and apparatus for configuration using a portable electronic configuration device. The portable device is attached to an unconfigured electronic device. The portable device causes the unconfigured device to send configuration data to a coupled device. The coupled device uses the data to configure the unconfigured device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2000
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2004
    Assignee: Sun Microsystems, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert A. Doolittle, James G. Hanko, Brian Gillespie
  • Multi-screen session mobility between terminal groups
    Patent number: 6710753
    Abstract: The present invention is for multi-screen session mobility between terminal groups. The invention uses a set of screen groups and a set of terminal groups to perform a mapping of the screen groups onto the terminal groups. Both the screen groups and the terminal groups have a geometry, which in one embodiment is defined by columns and rows. In cases where the number of columns in the screen group is less then or equal to the number of columns in the terminal group and where the number of rows in the screen group is also less then or equal to the number of rows in the terminal group, a first mapping scheme is employed. In cases where the number of columns in the screen group exceeds the number of columns in the terminal group or the number of rows in the screen group exceeds the number of rows in the terminal group, a second mapping scheme is employed. In one embodiment, the first mapping scheme maps the screen group directly onto the terminal group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2000
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2004
    Assignee: Sun Micosystems, Inc.
    Inventors: Brian J. Gillespie, James G. Hanko, Robert A. Doolittle, Gerard A. Wall, Aniruddha Mitra
  • Multi-screen session mobility between terminal groups
    Publication number: 20020196196
    Abstract: The present invention is for multi-screen session mobility between terminal groups. The invention uses a set of screen groups and a set of terminal groups to perform a mapping of the screen groups onto the terminal groups. Both the screen groups and the terminal groups have a geometry, which in one embodiment is defined by columns and rows. In cases where the number of columns in the screen group is less then or equal to the number of columns in the terminal group and where the number of rows in the screen group is also less then or equal to the number of rows in the terminal group, a first mapping scheme is employed. In cases where the number of columns in the screen group exceeds the number of columns in the terminal group or the number of rows in the screen group exceeds the number of rows in the terminal group, a second mapping scheme is employed. In one embodiment, the first mapping scheme maps the screen group directly onto the terminal group.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2000
    Publication date: December 26, 2002
    Inventors: Brian J. Gillespie, James G. Hanko, Robert A. Doolittle, Gerard A. Wall, Aniruddha Mitra
  • High performance communications interface for multiplexing a plurality of computers to a high performance point to point communications bus
    Patent number: 5222216
    Abstract: A high performance communications interface device for connecting a high speed computer to a high performance communications bus. The high performance communications interface device includes a high performance communications interface device processor, a source interface, a destination interface and at least one I/O processor which controls the transfer of data to the high speed computer from the high performance communications bus and from the high speed computer to the high performance communications bus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 1991
    Date of Patent: June 22, 1993
    Assignee: Thinking Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Edward C. Parish, Robert A. Doolittle, Sharon E. Gillett, Thomas J. Moser, William A. Nesheim, David L. Satterfield, James P. Tardiff