Patents by Inventor Thomas Tyler

Thomas Tyler 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: 9037821
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method for replicating snapshots across backup domains may include 1) identifying a replication of a snapshot from a source storage device within a source domain to a target storage device within a target domain, 2) identifying a source master system within the source domain and a target master system within the target domain, 3) identifying metadata for managing the snapshot at the source master system, and 4) transmitting the metadata from the source master system to the target master system using a master-to-master communication channel that is separate from a communication channel used for the replication. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2015
    Assignee: Symantec Corporation
    Inventors: Jeenal Shah, Guido Westenberg, Claudia Rudolph, Thomas Tyler, Abrar Hussain
  • Publication number: 20050169015
    Abstract: A LED luminaire track lighting system includes an elongate track, having a number of longitudinal guideways, for attachment to a support surface, as well as a number of current conductors arranged within at least some of the guideways. The first of these conductors are power conductors and the second conductors are data conductors, the conductors being electrically isolated from each other. The lighting system further contains a first adapter for connection to a source of electrical power for the power conductors, and a second adapter for connection to a source of control data for application of data to the data conductors. There is at least one LED color-changing luminaire present in the system, and this luminaire contains a number of LEDs, each of which, when energized, generates a single color out of a discrete plurality of colors. A data converter converts data along the data lines to control the currents in the individual groups of color LEDs so that they create a desired composite color.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2004
    Publication date: August 4, 2005
    Inventors: John Luk, Dean Reiter, John Ryan, Thomas Tyler
  • Patent number: 5060126
    Abstract: Color wheel for lighting fixture, which includes a polygonal metal plate, which has slotted metal bars seated on the side edge of the polygonal plate with rectangular glass plates, e.g. dichroic filters adhesively held in the slots of the metal bars spaced. The glass plates are not in direct contact with the metal bars and are spaced close to each other, but not in contact, in a peripheral array.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 1990
    Date of Patent: October 22, 1991
    Inventors: Thomas Tyler, John F. Luk, Roger Pujol
  • Patent number: 4780050
    Abstract: To achieve priming during start-up and repriming during operation, a self-priming pump system is provided. The self-priming pump system includes a discharge priming reservoir for storing priming liquid for a pump. The discharge priming reservoir has an inlet in communication with the outlet of the pump for receiving priming liquid from the pump and has an outlet in communication with the pump upstream of an impeller and downstream of a liquid supply reservoir for supplying the priming liquid to the pump. The self-priming pump system is operable to separate air from priming liquid in the discharge priming reservoir during recirculation of priming liquid. In addition, a priming valve is disposed between the discharge priming reservoir and the pump to control circulation of priming liquid through the self-priming pump system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 1987
    Date of Patent: October 25, 1988
    Assignee: Sundstrand Corporation
    Inventors: Gerard Caine, Duane Mosure, Thomas Sailer, Thomas Tyler