Patents by Inventor Tim W. Cox

Tim W. Cox 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: 9459855
    Abstract: A system and method for information handling system manufacture analyzes an image to determine a traits definition that identifies the operating system, applications and unique information of the image, such as in a XML file. The image traits definition may be communicated to a manufacture site over a network and used to re-create the image for copying to a manufactured information handling system. Communication of the image traits definition consumes less network and storage resources than communication of the image, thus reducing the time and expense of image transfers to manufacture information handling systems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2016
    Assignee: DELL PRODUCTS L.P.
    Inventors: Kevin Hanes, Tim W. Cox, Marc Jarvis, Chandar Kamalanathan
  • Publication number: 20150121362
    Abstract: A system and method for information handling system manufacture analyzes an image to determine a traits definition that identifies the operating system, applications and unique information of the image, such as in a XML file. The image traits definition may be communicated to a manufacture site over a network and used to re-create the image for copying to a manufactured information handling system. Communication of the image traits definition consumes less network and storage resources than communication of the image, thus reducing the time and expense of image transfers to manufacture information handling systems.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 9, 2015
    Publication date: April 30, 2015
    Applicant: DELL PRODUCTS L.P.
    Inventors: Kevin Hanes, Tim W. Cox, Marc Jarvis, Chandar Kamalanathan
  • Patent number: 8972545
    Abstract: A system and method for information handling system manufacture analyzes an image to determine a traits definition that identifies the operating system, applications and unique information of the image, such as in a XML file. The image traits definition may be communicated to a manufacture site over a network and used to re-create the image for copying to a manufactured information handling system. Communication of the image traits definition consumes less network and storage resources than communication of the image, thus reducing the time and expense of image transfers to manufacture information handling systems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2004
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2015
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Kevin Hanes, Tim W. Cox, Marc Jarvis, Chandar Kamalanathan
  • Patent number: 7426052
    Abstract: An information handling system image builder server associated with a manufacturer supports remote access by customers through networked communications, such as the Internet, to create images for loading on information handling systems manufactured for the customers. An image creation engine of the server accesses an image library to build an image with image components selected in accordance with customer parameters. The image is built on hardware or virtual test information handling systems interfaced with the image creation engine. Customers may remotely upload custom image components to the library, such as custom applications and settings, and remotely test the operation of the image on the test information handling systems before promoting the built image to a manufacture environment for manufacture of information handling systems with the image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2004
    Date of Patent: September 16, 2008
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Tim W. Cox, Edward Batchelor, Andrew L. Harris, Marc Jarvis, Chandar Kamalanathan
  • Patent number: 7093248
    Abstract: Alerts are targeted for display at an information handling system by associating conditions with alerts and downloading for display an alert only to information handling systems that meet the conditions of the alert. An alert list that includes alerts and associated conditions in an Extensible Mark-up Language file is periodically queried for retrieval at information handling systems and parsed to determine alerts targeted to the information handling system. Only relevant alerts are downloaded and displayed at each information handling system to minimize user distraction. Specific targeting is provided by logical expressions that may state conditional alert configuration parameters with precision to limit the number of information handling systems targeted for the alert to very specific configurations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2006
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Chandar Kamalanathan, Tim W. Cox, Fabiano De Souza, Junaid Ghaffar, Keith Hester, Micah Wiseley
  • Publication number: 20040148599
    Abstract: Alerts are targeted for display at an information handling system by associating conditions with alerts and downloading for display an alert only to information handling systems that meet the conditions of the alert. An alert list that includes alerts and associated conditions in an Extensible Mark-up Language file is periodically queried for retrieval at information handling systems and parsed to determine alerts targeted to the information handling system. Only relevant alerts are downloaded and displayed at each information handling system to minimize user distraction. Specific targeting is provided by logical expressions that may state conditional alert configuration parameters with precision to limit the number of information handling systems targeted for the alert to very specific configurations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2003
    Publication date: July 29, 2004
    Inventors: Chandar Kamalanathan, Tim W. Cox, Fabiano De Souza, Junaid Ghaffar, Keith Hester, Micah Wiseley
  • Patent number: 5340969
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for approving or disapproving transactions, particularly fuel dispensing transactions, based upon transaction cards. The invention converts actual invalid transaction card account data into incremental transaction card account data which is representative of the difference between successive entries in the actual invalid transaction card account data. The incremental invalid transaction card account data is downloaded from a central location, and stored at individual fuel vendor locations, thereby minimizing the requirement to communicate with the central location while minimizing memory requirements at the fuel vendor locations. In operation, when a transaction card, for example, a credit or debit card, is presented for a transaction, the incremental invalid transaction card data is resolved into actual invalid transaction card data, and the account number of the presented transaction card is compared with the resolved actual invalid transaction card account data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 1991
    Date of Patent: August 23, 1994
    Assignee: Dresser Industries, Inc.
    Inventor: Tim W. Cox