Patents by Inventor Thomas D. Spear

Thomas D. Spear 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: 8661287
    Abstract: A load balancer includes a failover logic unit to identify servers to execute services, generate and store in the load balancer a failover rule and a service rule, and to determine a failure in a first server that executes a first service responsive to a lack of response by the first server to a keepalive message sent by the load balancer to the first server. The load balancer can then perform an operation to cause an automatic failover of the first service to another server based on the failover and service rules.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2014
    Assignee: Rackspace US, Inc.
    Inventor: Thomas D. Spear
  • Publication number: 20130007505
    Abstract: A load balancer includes a failover logic unit to identify servers to execute services, generate and store in the load balancer a failover rule and a service rule, and to determine a failure in a first server that executes a first service responsive to a lack of response by the first server to a keepalive message sent by the load balancer to the first server. The load balancer can then perform an operation to cause an automatic failover of the first service to another server based on the failover and service rules.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2011
    Publication date: January 3, 2013
    Inventor: Thomas D. Spear
  • Patent number: 4991646
    Abstract: A baffle between the blower and the heat exchanger of a ventilation system evenly distributes air flow over the heat exchanger surface which air flow otherwise would be concentrated along one wall of the system housing and through a localized portion of the heat exchanger. The baffle has a flat panel mounted on the wall adjacent the concentrated air flow and has spaced curved vanes extending into the air stream to direct portions of the stream away from the wall. Diffusers between and downstream of the vanes spread out air currents which pass between the vanes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 1990
    Date of Patent: February 12, 1991
    Assignee: General Motors Corporation
    Inventor: Thomas D. Spears
  • Patent number: 4860641
    Abstract: A wobble plate of the type for operating in a variable displacement compressor including a plurality of pistons operatively connected to the wobble plate by a plurality of dumb-bell like piston rods having spherical end portions and a connecting rod extending therebetween. The wobble plate includes a plurality of sockets including an integral lip for retaining the spherical portion of the piston rods contained within each of the sockets against axial displacement and a passageway extending radially outwardly from each of the sockets and opening to a peripheral edge of the wobble plate for allowing insertion of the piston rods from a direction substantially perpendicular relative to the central axis of the wobble plate. Plugs disposed within the passageway prevent inadvertent radial displacement of the spherical ends of the rod members from the sockets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 1988
    Date of Patent: August 29, 1989
    Assignee: General Motors Corporation
    Inventor: Thomas D. Spears