Patents by Inventor Todd Mills

Todd Mills 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).

  • Publication number: 20240103894
    Abstract: A computer readable medium stores instructions that cause a processor to receive an indication of a request for analysis of a simulation model associated with an industrial automation system, wherein the industrial automation system includes a plurality of devices, wherein each of the plurality of devices includes a respective compute surface configured to perform one or more software tasks, identify a first device of the plurality of devices having sufficient resources to perform the analysis, and deploy a container to the first device. The container is configured to collect data from one or more sensors disposed in or around the industrial automation system, update the simulation model based on the collected data, and provide the updated simulation model for distribution to one or more other devices of the plurality devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2022
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Inventors: Nathaniel S. Sandler, Bruce T. McCleave, JR., James M. Teal, Bart Nieuwborg, Todd A. Wiese, Jonathan A. Mills, Michael J. Anthony
  • Publication number: 20240103494
    Abstract: A computer readable medium stores instructions that cause a processor to receive an industry profile associated with an industrial automation system that includes a plurality of devices, each including a compute surface that performs software tasks. The instructions cause the processor to determine data processing tasks to perform based on the industry profile, identify a portion of the devices to perform the data processing tasks based on the compute surface available for each of the devices, deploy a container to each of the portion of the devices, wherein each container of each of the portion of the devices performs at least one of the data processing tasks, receive one or more properties associated with the container of each of the portion of the plurality of devices, and update a registry to indicate the one or more properties associated with the container of each of the portion of the devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2022
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Inventors: Nathaniel S. Sandler, Bruce T. McCleave, JR., James M. Teal, Bart Nieuwborg, Todd A. Wiese, Jonathan A. Mills
  • Publication number: 20240094707
    Abstract: Techniques for data transmission within an industrial automation system include modeling or simulating, in accordance with a model, a plurality of devices performing one or more operations in an industrial automation system, determining, for a first operation of the one or more operations and from a plurality of categories, a category for the first operation, sending a request to the industrial automation system for data associated with the first operation at a time, wherein the data and time are determined based on the category of the first operation, receiving, from the industrial automation system, the requested data, and modifying the model based on the received data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2022
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Inventors: David C. Mazur, Rob A. Entzminger, Jonathan A. Mills, Todd A. Wiese, Bruce T. McCleave, JR., James M. Teal
  • Patent number: 11934178
    Abstract: Techniques for data transmission within an industrial automation system include modeling or simulating, in accordance with a model, a plurality of devices performing one or more operations in an industrial automation system, determining, for a first operation of the one or more operations and from a plurality of categories, a category for the first operation, sending a request to the industrial automation system for data associated with the first operation at a time, wherein the data and time are determined based on the category of the first operation, receiving, from the industrial automation system, the requested data, and modifying the model based on the received data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Rockwell Automation Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: David C. Mazur, Rob A. Entzminger, Jonathan A. Mills, Todd A. Wiese, Bruce T. McCleave, Jr., James M. Teal
  • Patent number: 10180871
    Abstract: The disclosed embodiments relate to systems and methods for coordinating management of a shared disk storage between nodes. Particularly, a messaging protocol may be used to communicate notifications regarding each node's perception of the shared storage's state. The nodes may use the messaging protocol to achieve consensus when recovering from a storage device failure. Some embodiments provide for recovery when localized failures, such as failures at an adapter on a node, occur.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2019
    Assignee: NetApp Inc.
    Inventors: Todd Mills, Suhas Urkude, Kyle Sterling, Atul Goel
  • Patent number: 9471259
    Abstract: A shared storage architecture is described for coordinating management of a shared storage between nodes of a network storage system. In various embodiments, the shared storage is partitioned into and different partitions are assigned to different nodes of the network storage system. The shared storage architecture provides techniques for asserting reservations on the shared storage, managing state of the shared storage, and implementing various configurations of the network storage system using the shared storage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2016
    Assignee: NetApp, Inc.
    Inventors: Atul Goel, Kyle Sterling, Todd Mills
  • Publication number: 20160266957
    Abstract: The disclosed embodiments relate to systems and methods for coordinating management of a shared disk storage between nodes. Particularly, a messaging protocol may be used to communicate notifications regarding each node's perception of the shared storage's state. The nodes may use the messaging protocol to achieve consensus when recovering from a storage device failure. Some embodiments provide for recovery when localized failures, such as failures at an adapter on a node, occur.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2016
    Publication date: September 15, 2016
    Inventors: Todd Mills, Suhas Urkude, Kyle Sterling, Atul Goel
  • Patent number: 9348717
    Abstract: The disclosed embodiments relate to systems and methods for coordinating management of a shared disk storage between nodes. Particularly, a messaging protocol may be used to communicate notifications regarding each node's perception of the shared storage's state. The nodes may use the messaging protocol to achieve consensus when recovering from a storage device failure. Some embodiments provide for recovery when localized failures, such as failures at an adapter on a node, occur.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2016
    Assignee: NETAPP, INC.
    Inventors: Todd Mills, Suhas Urkude, Kyle Sterling, Atul Goel
  • Publication number: 20150212760
    Abstract: A shared storage architecture is described for coordinating management of a shared storage between nodes of a network storage system. In various embodiments, the shared storage is partitioned into and different partitions are assigned to different nodes of the network storage system. The shared storage architecture provides techniques for asserting reservations on the shared storage, managing state of the shared storage, and implementing various configurations of the network storage system using the shared storage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2014
    Publication date: July 30, 2015
    Inventors: Atul Goel, Kyle Sterling, Todd Mills
  • Publication number: 20150033063
    Abstract: The disclosed embodiments relate to systems and methods for coordinating management of a shared disk storage between nodes. Particularly, a messaging protocol may be used to communicate notifications regarding each node's perception of the shared storage's state. The nodes may use the messaging protocol to achieve consensus when recovering from a storage device failure. Some embodiments provide for recovery when localized failures, such as failures at an adapter on a node, occur.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2013
    Publication date: January 29, 2015
    Applicant: NetApp, Inc.
    Inventors: Todd Mills, Suhas Urkude, Kyle Sterling, Atul Goel
  • Patent number: 7389396
    Abstract: A storage system with an array of redundant storage devices places bounds on access request servicing. If a storage device is unable to service the access request within the bounds, the storage system temporarily, individually offlines the specific storage device. Access requests pending for the storage device may be serviced by other storage devices of the redundant array while the storage device is offline. The offline storage device can perform error recovery and be brought back online by the system when error recovery has completed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2005
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2008
    Assignee: Network Appliance, Inc.
    Inventors: Atul Goel, Todd Mills, Rajesh Sundaram, Douglas Coatney