Patents by Inventor Ronald Brown

Ronald Brown 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: 20240124130
    Abstract: An actuator assembly includes an actuator drive source and a gust lock. The actuator drive source is operable to supply an actuator drive torque to drive a component. The gust lock is movable between a locked position, in which rotation of the drive source is prevented, and an unlocked position, in which rotation of the drive source is not prevented. The gust lock includes a lock shaft, a lock rotor, a lock motor, and a linear actuator. The lock shaft is rotatable with the drive source when the gust lock is in the unlocked position. The lock rotor is rotatable with the lock shaft. The lock motor is configured to supply a lock drive torque. The linear actuator is coupled to receive the lock drive torque and is configured, upon receipt of the lock drive torque, to move between an engaged position and a disengaged position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 11, 2023
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Applicant: HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INC.
    Inventors: Joseph Wagner, Zachary Brown, Darrell Horner, Kevin Gardner, Ronald Vaughan
  • Patent number: 11841825
    Abstract: A system can determine that a first destination inode number of a first destination inode of destination inodes is equal to a first source inode number of a file. The system can create a second file on the source file system, wherein the second file is stored in a second source inode of the source inodes having a second source inode number of the source inode numbers. The system can determine that the destination file system lacks an inode that has the second source inode number. The system can move a third file stored in the first destination inode to a second destination inode of the destination inodes that has a second destination inode number of the destination inode numbers. The system can migrate the first file to the destination file system, wherein the destination file system stores the first file with the first destination inode number.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: DELL PRODUCTS L.P.
    Inventors: John Bankier, Ronald Brown
  • Publication number: 20230344805
    Abstract: A method, computer program product, and computing system for establishing a first file system protocol connection between a first storage system and a second storage system. A security descriptor of one or more electronic files on the first storage system may be queried for security-related information using the first file system protocol connection. Security-related information associated with a first file system protocol and security-related information associated with a second file system protocol may be migrated from the first storage system to the second storage system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 22, 2022
    Publication date: October 26, 2023
    Inventors: Fei Long, John Duncan Bankier, Ronald Brown
  • Publication number: 20230205646
    Abstract: A system can perform a migration. The system can, in response to receiving a request to perform a file system operation on a destination file system, wherein the request identifies a first source file handle, direct, by a second computer and to a first computer, to perform the file system operation on a source file system with the first source file handle, to produce a second source file handle, convert the first and second source file handles to corresponding first and second components of a destination file handle, perform the file system operation on the destination file system with the first and second components of a destination file handle, respond to the client computer with the second source file handle. The system can re-assign a network address when rolling back the migration, wherein a client is configured to use the second source file handle with the source file system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2021
    Publication date: June 29, 2023
    Inventors: Ronald Brown, John Bankier, Pascal Donette, Francois Roche
  • Publication number: 20230169033
    Abstract: A system can migrate a source file system on a first computer to a destination file system on a second computer. The system can receive, at the second computer, a request from a client computer that indicates a file system operation, and that references a source file handle of the source file system that comprises an identifier of the source file system. The system can identify the destination file system based on the identifier of the source file system. The system can determine, from a source inode number of the source file handle, a source inode number segment. The system can determine, from the source inode number segment, a destination inode number segment. The system can determine, from the destination inode number segment, a destination inode number. The system can perform the file system operation on the destination file system using the destination inode number and the identifier of the destination file system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2021
    Publication date: June 1, 2023
    Inventors: Ronald Brown, John Bankier, Pascal Donette, Francois Roche
  • Publication number: 20230169034
    Abstract: A system can determine that a first destination inode number of a first destination inode of destination inodes is equal to a first source inode number of a file. The system can create a second file on the source file system, wherein the second file is stored in a second source inode of the source inodes having a second source inode number of the source inode numbers. The system can determine that the destination file system lacks an inode that has the second source inode number. The system can move a third file stored in the first destination inode to a second destination inode of the destination inodes that has a second destination inode number of the destination inode numbers. The system can migrate the first file to the destination file system, wherein the destination file system stores the first file with the first destination inode number.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2021
    Publication date: June 1, 2023
    Inventors: John Bankier, Ronald Brown
  • Publication number: 20230111299
    Abstract: A method for determining a volume of one or more air bubbles in a fluid path includes initiating an injection procedure in which at least one medical fluid is injected into the fluid path, receiving an electrical signal from an air detector of the fluid injector system, wherein the electrical signal indicates the presence of one or more air bubbles in the fluid path, calculating a flow rate of fluid in the fluid path, determining a fluid pressure in the fluid path, determining a count value of the one or more air bubbles representative of a volume of the one or more air bubbles, and updating a cumulative counter with the count value of the one or more air bubbles. The cumulative counter is representative of a cumulative volume of air that has passed through the fluid path during the injection procedure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2021
    Publication date: April 13, 2023
    Inventors: MICHAEL MCDERMOTT, WILLIAM BARONE, RONALD BROWN, TIM NEWING
  • Patent number: 11438436
    Abstract: A method, computer program product, and computer system for creating, by a computing device, a first directory entry with a name using a majority protocol, wherein the creation may be done on a source side for a multi-protocol delta copy migration session. Minority protocol name information associated with the first directory entry using the majority protocol may be relayed to a destination side for the multi-protocol delta copy migration session, wherein the minority protocol name information is cached on the destination side. A second directory entry with the name using the majority protocol for the multi-protocol delta copy migration session may be created on the destination side. The name of the second directory entry created using the majority protocol may be reset to the minority protocol name created using the minority protocol name information cached on the destination side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: EMC IP HOLDING COMPANY, LLC
    Inventors: Rongrong Shi, Fei Long, John D. Bankier, Ronald Brown
  • Publication number: 20220226090
    Abstract: Disclosed are gel compositions containing microspheres that encapsulate folic acid and optionally one or more drugs, one or more peptides, one or more growth factors, one or more nucleic acids, or the like, or combinations thereof. The compositions may be in or applied to a device, such as, for example, a dental prosthetic. The composition may be used to treat an individual afflicted with or suspected of having drug-induced gingival overgrowth (DIGO). The composition may be applied directly to the individual or applied through a device, such as, for example, a dental prosthetic. Also described is a method of method of making the composition, a method of making a device, and methods for using the composition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 7, 2020
    Publication date: July 21, 2022
    Inventors: Praveen ARANY, Saeed Ur RAHMAN, Fatma ALKASSIMI, Imran KHAN, Ronald BROWN
  • Patent number: 10552371
    Abstract: A target data storage system performing a migration operation also responds to client requests by creating and maintaining a metadata cache for caching attributes of a user file as obtained from a source data storage system. A read-type client request is processed by (1) determining whether the metadata cache stores current attribute values, (2) if so, then satisfying the client request using the current values in the metadata cache, and (3) otherwise obtaining current attribute values from the source data storage system and satisfying the client request using the obtained current attribute values, and storing the current values in the metadata cache to be available for use in processing subsequent read-type client requests. A write-type client request is processed forwarding modified attribute values from the client request to the source data storage system for storage therein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2020
    Assignee: EMC IP Holding Company LLC
    Inventors: Zexian Liao, Yuan Luo, John Bankier, Fei Long, Xianfeng Wang, Ronald Brown
  • Patent number: 10464108
    Abstract: Certain exemplary aspects of the present disclosure are directed towards apparatuses and methods which autonomously decontaminate parts. Parts to be cleaned are identified, and based on the identification of the part, a part specific cleaning program is initiated. During the cleaning, the part is manipulated about a gas supply in such a way that the drag force on the contamination particles attached to the part exceeds the contamination particles' surface adhesion force and accordingly is removed from the surface of the part. The removed contamination is then evacuated from the atmospheric environment near the part by a low pressure zone of a second gaseous material near the part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Assignee: Seagate Technology LLC
    Inventors: Timothy Ronald Brown, Grant Nicholas Hester, Dennis Quinto Cruz, David Maxwell Harrold, Hans John Geittmann
  • Publication number: 20170354997
    Abstract: Certain exemplary aspects of the present disclosure are directed towards apparatuses and methods which autonomously decontaminate parts. Parts to be cleaned are identified, and based on the identification of the part, a part specific cleaning program is initiated. During the cleaning, the part is manipulated about a gas supply in such a way that the drag force on the contamination particles attached to the part exceeds the contamination particles' surface adhesion force and accordingly is removed from the surface of the part. The removed contamination is then evacuated from the atmospheric environment near the part by a low pressure zone of a second gaseous material near the part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2017
    Publication date: December 14, 2017
    Inventors: Timothy Ronald Brown, Grant Nicholas Hester, Dennis Quinto Cruz, David Maxwell Harrold, Hans John Geittmann
  • Patent number: 9750893
    Abstract: The current invention is a syringe and swab system for a syringe having a plunger, a barrel, a needle hub, a needle, a needle safety cover, and a swab attached to the distal end of the needle safety cover for placing over an injection site to apply pressure and a vial for holding fluid that may be utilized with the swab.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2017
    Inventors: Michael S. Zelten, Keith Ronald Brown
  • Patent number: 9744567
    Abstract: Certain exemplary aspects of the present disclosure are directed towards apparatuses and methods which autonomously decontaminate parts. Parts to be cleaned are identified, and based on the identification of the part, a part specific cleaning program is initiated. During the cleaning, the part is manipulated about a gas supply in such a way that the drag force on the contamination particles attached to the part exceeds the contamination particles' surface adhesion force and accordingly is removed from the surface of the part. The removed contamination is then evacuated from the atmospheric environment near the part by a low pressure zone of a second gaseous material near the part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2017
    Assignee: Seagate Technology LLC
    Inventors: Timothy Ronald Brown, Grant Nicholas Hester, Dennis Quinto Cruz, David Maxwell Harrold, Hans John Geittmann
  • Patent number: 9355144
    Abstract: An approach is provided for recycling information fragments in information spaces. An information management system detects a plurality of information management processes occurring in an information space. The information management processes retrieve one or more information fragments from the information space. The information management system then determines a sequence of states for each of the plurality of information management processes over a period of time and calculates a state trajectory from each of the sequence of states. The calculated state trajectories are used to predict a finite set of possible future states. The information management system uses the prediction to determine which of the one or more information fragments are recyclable and preserves the recyclable information fragments for responding to a subsequent request directed to the information space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2016
    Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy
    Inventors: Sergey Boldyrev, Ian Oliver, Jukka Honkola, Ronald Brown, Olli Tyrkko, Vesa Luukkala
  • Publication number: 20150209839
    Abstract: Certain exemplary aspects of the present disclosure are directed towards apparatuses and methods which autonomously decontaminate parts. Parts to be cleaned are identified, and based on the identification of the part, a part specific cleaning program is initiated. During the cleaning, the part is manipulated about a gas supply in such a way that the drag force on the contamination particles attached to the part exceeds the contamination particles' surface adhesion force and accordingly is removed from the surface of the part. The removed contamination is then evacuated from the atmospheric environment near the part by a low pressure zone of a second gaseous material near the part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2014
    Publication date: July 30, 2015
    Applicant: Seagate Technology LLC
    Inventors: Timothy Ronald Brown, Grant Nicholas Hester, Dennis Quinto Cruz, David Maxwell Harrold, Hans John Geittmann
  • Patent number: 8954443
    Abstract: The present invention is a method for performing a multi-protocol scan of a NAS system by a storage virtualization system to create a multi-protocol file index. Current NAS systems may utilize two protocols, CIFS and NFS. Storage virtualization systems migrate, redirect or synchronize data between a primary and a secondary NAS. Present storage virtualization systems are designed to work with NFS or CIFS systems, but not both. The present invention enables a storage virtualization system to simultaneously or near-simultaneously operate using NFS and CIFS protocols. The present invention also provides for a multi-protocol scan of a NAS device to ensure that all data files and data file attributes are recognized and preserved during storage virtualization.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 10, 2015
    Assignee: EMC Corporation
    Inventors: Philip Love, Dylan Simon, Srinivas Aji, Ronald Brown, John Duncan Bankier
  • Patent number: 8667034
    Abstract: The present invention enables a storage virtualization system to identify and preserve symlinks stored in a mixed protocol NFS+CIFS NAS system. Using the results of a multi-protocol scan, a storage virtualization system may identify which data objects are symlinks. The storage virtualization system may also determine the symlinks' target path information either by monitoring access or by referring to metadata discovered during the scan. After recording this target path information, the storage virtualization system may provide symlink expansion capabilities separate from the client computer or the NAS system. In addition, this target path information may be preserved upon symlink migration to a second NAS system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2014
    Assignee: EMC Corporation
    Inventors: Dylan Simon, Ronald Brown, Mingzhou Joe Sun
  • Patent number: 8535257
    Abstract: The current invention is a syringe and swab system for a syringe having a plunger, a barrel, a needle hub, a needle, a needle safety cover, and a swab attached to the distal end of the needle safety cover for placing over an injection site to apply pressure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2013
    Inventors: Michael S. Zelten, Keith Ronald Brown
  • Patent number: D718933
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 9, 2014
    Inventor: James Ronald Brown, Jr.