Patents by Inventor Russell Alexader Blaine

Russell Alexader Blaine 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).

  • Thermal mitigation using selective I/O throttling
    Patent number: 9436628
    Abstract: A method and apparatus of a device that manages a thermal profile of a device by selectively throttling input/output operations of the device is described. In an exemplary embodiment, the device monitors the thermal profile of the device, where the device executes a plurality of processes that utilize storage of the device. In addition, the plurality of processes include a high priority process and a low priority process. If the thermal profile of the device exceeds a thermal threshold, the device decreases a first bandwidth range for the low priority process and maintains a second bandwidth range for the high priority process. The device further processes a storage request of the low priority process using the first bandwidth range and processing a storage request of the high priority process using the second bandwidth range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2016
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Umesh Suresh Vaishampayan, Derek R. Kumar, Christopher John Sarcone, Russell Alexader Blaine, Tejas Arun Bahulkar, Shachar Katz, Joseph Sokol, Jr., Matthew John Byom
  • THERMAL MITIGATION USING SELECTIVE I/O THROTTLING
    Publication number: 20150347330
    Abstract: A method and apparatus of a device that manages a thermal profile of a device by selectively throttling input/output operations of the device is described. In an exemplary embodiment, the device monitors the thermal profile of the device, where the device executes a plurality of processes that utilize storage of the device. In addition, the plurality of processes include a high priority process and a low priority process. If the thermal profile of the device exceeds a thermal threshold, the device decreases a first bandwidth range for the low priority process and maintains a second bandwidth range for the high priority process. The device further processes a storage request of the low priority process using the first bandwidth range and processing a storage request of the high priority process using the second bandwidth range.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2014
    Publication date: December 3, 2015
    Inventors: Umesh Suresh Vaishampayan, Derek R. Kumar, Christopher John Sarcone, Russell Alexader Blaine, Tejas Arun Bahulkar, Shachar Katz, Joseph Sokol, JR., Matthew John Byom