Patents by Inventor Stephen E. Still

Stephen E. Still 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: 20140033120
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus for conducting market analyses on data drawn from various one or more sources for conducting airline travel and cargo market analyses and the presentation of analysis results using intuitive graphical user interfaces. Data is displayed in a visual dashboard having plural dashboard panes for interfacing an associated user with a plurality of associated databases. Data is presented to an associated user from at least one associated database in drill down enabled hierarchical levels. A user is presented with data from associated firewall protected and non-firewall protected databases in selectable merged visual formats.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2012
    Publication date: January 30, 2014
    Inventors: David BENTAL, Joel M. Antolini, Zinovii Dmytriv, Kenneth M. Klee, Kenneth A. Koster, Joseph U. Romaine, Matthew A. Schnitz, Stephen E. Still
  • Patent number: 6691235
    Abstract: Apparatus for providing electrical power to a processor (CPU) within a computing system includes a fixed-voltage power supply and a programmable power supply. When the computing system is turned on, a switching circuit determines whether the processor is a unified voltage plane type, having a first particular pin electrically floating, or a split voltage plane type, having this pin grounded. In either case, the output of the programmable power supply is applied to the pins associated with the core voltage plane of a split voltage plane type. If the processor is a unified voltage plane type, the switching circuit applies the output of the programmable power supply to the pins associated with the I/O voltage plane of a split voltage plane type.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2000
    Date of Patent: February 10, 2004
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Ray Garcia, Warren F. Huber, Kendall A. Honeycutt, Stephen E. Still
  • Patent number: 6400113
    Abstract: Apparatus for monitoring fan speeds within a computing system includes a tachometer turning with the fan, providing a tachometer signal including a number of pulses during each revolution of the fan. This tachometer signal is provided as an input to a signal generator in the form of a flip-flop, which generates a square-wave signal having transitions between high and low levels corresponding to tachometer signal pulses. The square-wave signals are provided as inputs to separate input ports of a microprocessor. These input ports are sequentially sampled at a rate providing at least two samples per period of the fastest square-wave signal, so that transitions of each square wave signal during a predetermined time interval can be detected and counted. For each input port, the number of counted transitions is compared to a stored acceptable value to establish whether the fan is operating in an acceptable speed range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2000
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2002
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Ray Garcia, Will E. Hamel, Kendall A. Honeycutt, Stephen E. Still
  • Patent number: 6240476
    Abstract: A computer system includes a system bus, peripheral devices, bus control logic having bus control lines for bus master operation, and an allocation control circuit. The allocation control circuit is connected to at least one of the bus control lines and at least two of the peripheral devices. The connected bus control line is coupled to one of the connected peripheral devices by the allocation unit so that the one connected peripheral device can operate as a bus master on the system bus. In a preferred embodiment, the allocation control circuit includes switches that are controlled by the system software. Also provided is a method of allocating bus master control lines to peripheral devices. According to the method, the bus master control lines and the peripheral devices are connected to an allocation unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 1998
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2001
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Ray Garcia, Stephen E. Still, Kendall A. Honeycutt
  • Patent number: 5925869
    Abstract: A multiple-input, mixed-type bar code processor, comprising: a plurality of retriggerable pulse generators, each having data inputs coupled to sources of potential representing fixed logic levels and each having at least one of a clear and a reset input coupled to a different one of a plurality of sources of input bar code data streams, for regenerating the input bar code data streams responsive to logic level transitions of the input bar code data streams, both when any input bar code data stream is logically low absent scanned data and when any other input bar code data stream is logically high absent the scanned data; a circuit for receiving all of the regenerated bar code data streams and generating a single output bar code data stream; and, a bar code data stream decoder coupled for receiving the single output bar code data stream.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 1997
    Date of Patent: July 20, 1999
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Stephen E. Still, Ira Baker, Neal William Horner, James J. Tout, Jr.