Patents by Inventor Stewart Lane Adams

Stewart Lane Adams 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).

  • Halt state for protection of hard disk drives in a mobile computing environment
    Patent number: 7620830
    Abstract: A computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer usable program code for preventing operational shock to a hard disk drive of a mobile computer. An exemplary method includes, responsive to activation by a user of an activation device associated with the mobile computer, changing a state of the activation device. The exemplary method also includes, responsive to the change of state of the activation device, issuing a priority standby command to the hard disk drive.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2009
    Assignee: Lenovo Singapore Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Stewart Lane Adams, Matthew Brent Griffith, Michael Scott Mettler, Scott David Ruppert
  • Minimization of In-Band Noise in a WLAN Network
    Publication number: 20080019334
    Abstract: A method, apparatus and computer-usable medium for minimizing in-band noise in a WLAN network is presented. The method includes the steps of detecting, at a first wireless device that communicates with a Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) via a first access point, a signal interference that is caused by a second wireless device that communicates with the WLAN via a second access point, wherein the first and second access points communicate with their respective first and second wireless devices via a same channel; and minimizing the signal interference by sending an instruction to the second wireless device to switch to a third access point, wherein the third access point uses a different channel than the channel that is used by the first and second access points.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2006
    Publication date: January 24, 2008
    Inventors: Stewart Lane Adams, Daryl Cromer, Philip John Jakes, Howard Jeffrey Locker, Raymond Gary Octaviano
  • Halt state for protection of hard disk drives in a mobile computing environment
    Publication number: 20080005594
    Abstract: A computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer usable program code for preventing operational shock to a hard disk drive of a mobile computer. An exemplary method includes, responsive to activation by a user of an activation device associated with the mobile computer, changing a state of the activation device. The exemplary method also includes, responsive to the change of state of the activation device, issuing a priority standby command to the hard disk drive.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2006
    Publication date: January 3, 2008
    Applicant: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Stewart Lane Adams, Matthew Brent Griffith, Michael Scott Mettler, Scott David Ruppert