Patents by Inventor Steven A. Brien

Steven A. Brien 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: 11983276
    Abstract: A communication system personality provisioning system includes a communication system included in a computing system and coupled to a management system. The communication system stores authentication information in a UEFI database of a UEFI system in the communication system. The communication system receives a first operating software image and application/service from the management system, authenticates the first operating software image and application/service via first secure initialization operations performed by the UEFI system using the authentication information and, in response, installs the first operating software image and application/service on the communication system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Mukund P. Khatri, Jimmy D. Pike, Gaurav Chawla, William Price Dawkins, Elie Jreij, Mark Steven Sanders, Walter A. O'Brien, III, Robert W. Hormuth
  • Patent number: 11928515
    Abstract: A system for providing computer implemented services using information handling systems includes persistent storage and a system control processor manager. The system control processor manager instantiates composed information handling systems using the information handling systems; monitors, using system control processors of the composed information handling systems, operation of the composed information handling systems to obtain operation information; makes a determination, based on the operation information, that the computing implemented services provided by the composed information handling systems are substandard; and in response to the determination: manages operation of the composed information handling systems to provide standards compliant computer implemented services by modifying a composition of at least one of the composed information handling systems using a system control processor of the system control processors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: William Price Dawkins, Mark Steven Sanders, Jimmy Doyle Pike, Elie Antoun Jreij, Robert Wayne Hormuth, Walter A. O'Brien, III, Mukund P. Khatri, Gaurav Chawla, Yossef Saad
  • Patent number: D252903
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 1977
    Date of Patent: September 18, 1979
    Inventors: Raymond A. Brien, Steven A. Brien