Patents by Inventor William Price Dawkins

William Price Dawkins 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: 11500683
    Abstract: A workload compliance governor system includes a management system coupled to a computing system. A workload compliance governor subsystem in the computing system receives a workload performance request associated with a workload, exchanges hardware compose communications with the management system to compose hardware components for the workload, and receives back an identification of hardware components. The workload compliance governor subsystem then determines that the identified hardware components satisfy hardware compliance requirements for the workload, and configures the identified hardware components in the computing system based on the software compliance requirements for the workload in order to cause those identified hardware components to provide an operating system and at least one application that operate to perform the workload.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Mukund P. Khatri, Gaurav Chawla, William Price Dawkins, Elie Jreij, Mark Steven Sanders, Walter A. O'Brien, III, Robert W. Hormuth, Jimmy D. Pike
  • Patent number: 11500754
    Abstract: A graph-based data multi-operation system includes a data multi-operation management subsystem coupled to an application and accelerator subsystems. The data multi-operation management subsystem receives a data multi-operation graph from the application that identifies first data and defines operations for performance on the first data to transform the first data into second data. The data multi-operation management subsystem assigns each of the operations to at least one of the accelerator systems, and configures the accelerator subsystems to perform the operations in a sequence that transforms the first data into the second data, When the data multi-operation management subsystem determine a completion status for the performance of the operations by the accelerator subsystems, it transmits a completion status communication to the application that indicates the completion status of the performance of the plurality of operations by the plurality of accelerator subsystems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Gaurav Chawla, Mark Steven Sanders, William Price Dawkins, Jimmy D. Pike, Elie Jreij, Robert W. Hormuth
  • Patent number: 11500649
    Abstract: A coordinated initialization system includes a computing system with first and second initialization subsystems coupled to a coordinated initialization subsystem. The coordinated initialization subsystem receives first and second initialization progress information associated with respective first and second initialization subsystem operations performed by the respective first and second initialization subsystems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Elie Jreij, Robert W. Hormuth, Gaurav Chawla, Mark Steven Sanders, William Price Dawkins, Jimmy D. Pike
  • Publication number: 20220342688
    Abstract: An information handling system may include a first host system, comprising a first processor and a first network interface, and a second host system, comprising a second processor and a second network interface. The first network interface may be configured to accelerate migration of a designated virtual resource from the first host system to the second host system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2021
    Publication date: October 27, 2022
    Applicant: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Hendrich M. HERNANDEZ, Gaurav CHAWLA, William Price DAWKINS
  • Publication number: 20220342699
    Abstract: Techniques described herein relate to a method for deploying workflows. The method may include receiving, by a platform controller of a domain, a workflow portion from a service controller of a federated controller, provisioning a set of devices in the domain to the workflow portion based on a first fit, generating, by the platform controller, a workflow fingerprint based on the provisioning of the set of devices and based on the workflow portion, executing the workflow portion in the domain using the set of devices, making a determination that the workflow portion requires additional resources, based on the determination, provisioning additional resources of the domain to the workflow portion to obtain an updated execution resource set, and updating the workflow fingerprint based on the updated execution resource set to obtain an updated workflow fingerprint, and executing the workflow portion using the updated execution resource set.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 21, 2021
    Publication date: October 27, 2022
    Inventors: John S. Harwood, Robert Anthony Lincourt, JR., William Jeffery White, William Price Dawkins, Elie Antoun Jreij, Susan Elizabeth Young
  • Publication number: 20220342899
    Abstract: Techniques described herein relate to a method for provisioning workflows with data transformation services. The method may include receiving, by a platform controller associated with a first domain, workflow information associated with a portion of a workflow to be deployed in a device ecosystem, where the portion of the workflow includes a first subportion of the workflow; identifying an output intent associated with data of the first subportion of the workflow; making a first determination that the output intent is associated with a data transformation of the data; making a second determination that the first domain is able to perform the data transformation; and establishing data transformation services using resources of the first domain; and initiating performance of the first subportion of the workflow, where executing the first subportion of the workflow includes executing the data transformation services.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 21, 2021
    Publication date: October 27, 2022
    Inventors: John S. Harwood, Robert Anthony Lincourt, JR., Bhavesh Govindbhai Patel, William Price Dawkins, William Jeffery White
  • Publication number: 20220327066
    Abstract: A graph-based data flow control system includes a control plane system coupled to SCP subsystems. The control plane system identifies a workload, and identifies service(s) on the SCP subsystems for manipulating/exchanging data to perform the workload. The control plane system generates a respective SCP-local data flow control graph for each SCP subsystem that defines how their service(s) will manipulate/exchange data within that SCP subsystem, and generates inter-SCP data flow control graph(s) that define how service(s) provided by at least one SCP subsystem will manipulate/exchange data with service(s) provided by at least one other SCP subsystem. The control plane system then transmits each respective SCP-local data flow control graph to each of the SCP subsystems, and the inter-SCP data flow control graph(s) to at least one SCP subsystem, for use by the SCP subsystems in causing their service(s) to manipulate/exchange data to perform the workload.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2022
    Publication date: October 13, 2022
    Inventors: Gaurav Chawla, Mark Steven Sanders, Elie Jreij, Jimmy D. Pike, Robert W. Hormuth, William Price Dawkins
  • Patent number: 11442763
    Abstract: A virtual machine deployment system includes a plurality of processing subsystems, and at least one multi-endpoint adapter device including a plurality of endpoint subsystems. A plurality of communication couplings couple each of the plurality of endpoint subsystems to at least one of the plurality of processing subsystems in order to provide a respective subset of available communication resources to each of the plurality of processing subsystems. A virtual machine deployment engine receives an instruction to deploy a virtual machine, and determines at least one communication resource requirement for the virtual machine. The virtual machine deployment engine then identifies a first processing subsystem that is included in the plurality of processing subsystems and that is provided a first subset of the available communication resources that satisfies the at least one communication resource requirement for the virtual machine, and deploys the virtual machine on the first processing subsystem.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Shyamkumar T. Iyer, Yogesh Varma, Timothy M. Lambert, William Price Dawkins, Kurtis John Bowman
  • Publication number: 20220237050
    Abstract: A composed system manager for managing operation of composed information handling systems includes storage for storing telemetry models for the composed information handling systems and a telemetry manager. The telemetry manager makes a determination that a composed information handling system of the composed information handling systems has been instantiated; in response to the determination, identifies resource set components allocated to the composed information handling system; generates a telemetry model of the telemetry models for the composed information handling system based on the resource set components; and configures the resource set components based on the telemetry model to aggregate operation data generated by the resource set components.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2021
    Publication date: July 28, 2022
    Inventors: Joseph LaSalle White, William Price Dawkins, Jimmy Doyle Pike, Gaurav Chawla, Elie Antoun Jreij, Mukund P. Khatri
  • Publication number: 20220237036
    Abstract: An information handling system for obtaining composed information handling systems includes resource set components and a system control processor. The system control processor makes an identification, based on monitoring of a resource set component of the resource set components, of an operation event; in response to the identification: makes a determination that the operation event is not immediately remediable based on the monitoring of the resource set component; in response to the determination: modifies the monitoring of the resource set component to obtain refined operation data for the resource set component; and performs an action set, based on the refined operation data, to modify operation of the resource set component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2021
    Publication date: July 28, 2022
    Inventors: Joseph LaSalle White, William Price Dawkins, Jimmy Doyle Pike, Mukund P. Khatri, Elie Antoun Jreij, Gaurav Chawla
  • Publication number: 20220237051
    Abstract: A system control processor manager uses composed information handling systems that utilize resource sets of information handling systems and an infrastructure manager. The infrastructure manager obtains a composition request for a composed information handling system; allocates a portion of resource sets to the composed information handling system using a telemetry data map; makes a determination that at least one of the portion of the allocated resource sets is hosted by an information handling system that does not include a physical system control processor; and in response to the determination: provides the information handling system with access to a system control processor without adding any physical system control processors to the information handling system; and directs access requests, by entities hosted by the information handling system and directed to the portion of the allocated resource sets, through the system control processor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2021
    Publication date: July 28, 2022
    Inventors: William Price Dawkins, Praveen Vishakantaiah, Mark Steven Sanders, Gaurav Chawla, John S. Hardwood, Mukund P. Khatri
  • Patent number: 11392513
    Abstract: A graph-based data flow control system includes a control plane system coupled to SCP subsystems. The control plane system identifies a workload, and identifies service(s) on the SCP subsystems for manipulting/exchanging data to perform the workload. The control plane system generates a respective SCP-local data flow control graph for each SCP subsystem that defines how their service(s) will manipulate/exchange data within that SCP subsystem, and generates inter-SCP data flow control graph(s) that define how service(s) provided by at least one SCP subsystem will manipulate/exchange data with service(s) provided by at least one other SCP subsystem. The control plane system then transmits each respective SCP-local data flow control graph to each of the SCP subsystems, and the inter-SCP data flow control graph(s) to at least one SCP subsystem, for use by the SCP subsystems in causing their service(s) to manipulate/exchange data to perform the workload.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Gaurav Chawla, Mark Steven Sanders, Elie Jreij, Jimmy D. Pike, Robert W. Hormuth, William Price Dawkins
  • Publication number: 20220179701
    Abstract: A system for providing data protection services for data hosted by composed information handling systems includes a system includes a system control processor manager. The manager obtains a data protection architecture; identifies, based on the data protection architecture, first computing resources for a first pool that provides a first set of functionalities of the data protection services; identifies, based on the data protection architecture, second computing resources for a second pool that provides a second set of functionalities of the data protection services; assigns, based on hardware components of the first computing resources, a portion of the first set of functionalities to a first portion of the first computing resources; assigns, based on the hardware components of the first computing resources, a second portion of the first set of functionalities to a second portion of the first computing resources; and instantiates, based on the assignments, the data protection architecture.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2020
    Publication date: June 9, 2022
    Inventors: Yossef Saad, Ravi Vijayakumar Chitloor, Jehuda Shemer, Mahesh Kamat, Chegu Vinod, William Price Dawkins
  • Publication number: 20220179700
    Abstract: A system control processor manager for servicing workloads using composed information handling systems instantiated using information handling systems includes persistent storage and a workload manager. The workload manager obtains a workload request for a workload of the workloads; predicts future resource needs for the workload during a future time period; makes a determination that a portion of free resources of the information handling systems are available to meet the future resource needs; reserves the portion of the free resources based on the determination to obtain reserved resources during the future time period; and composes a composed information handling system of the composed information handling systems using the reserved resources during the future time period to service the workload request.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2020
    Publication date: June 9, 2022
    Inventors: Elie Antoun Jreij, William Price Dawkins, Gaurav Chawla, Mark Steven Sanders, Walter A. O'Brien, III, Mukund P. Khatri, Robert Wayne Hormuth, Yossef Saad, Jimmy Doyle Pike
  • Publication number: 20220179698
    Abstract: A method for managing composed information handling systems includes obtaining, by a system control processor, a composition request for a composed information handling system of the composed information handling systems, wherein the composition request comprises an operational instances requirement, and initially allocating only a minimum number of instances of a resource based on the operational instances requirement to the composed information handling system, wherein at least one of the minimum number of instances of the resource is provided by a first information handling system, wherein the first information handling system is operatively connected to the system control processor manager.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2020
    Publication date: June 9, 2022
    Inventors: William Price Dawkins, Robert Wayne Hormuth, Walter A. O'Brien, III, Yossef Saad, Mukund P. Khatri, Gaurav Chawla, Mark Steven Sanders, Elie Antoun Jreij, Jimmy Doyle Pike
  • Publication number: 20220179718
    Abstract: A method for managing composed information handling systems includes obtaining a composition request for a composed information handling system, making a first determination that a first information handling system is not capable of servicing the composition request local, and based on the first determination: allocating, an available resource on the first information handling system to the composed information handling system, sending a resource allocation request to a system control processor manager for access to an additional resource, obtain, in response to the allocation request, a notification for access to a second information handling system of the information handling systems that provides the available resource, setting up management services for available resource and the additional resource to obtain logical hardware resources, and presenting the logical hardware resources to at least one compute resource set as bare metal resources.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2020
    Publication date: June 9, 2022
    Inventors: Gaurav Chawla, Mark Steven Sanders, William Price Dawkins, Jimmy Doyle Pike, Elie Antoun Jreij, Robert Wayne Hormuth, Walter A. O'Brien, III, Mukund P. Khatri, Yossef Saad
  • Publication number: 20220179712
    Abstract: An information handling system for instantiating a composed information handling includes hardware computing resources. The hardware computing resources includes a compute resource set that includes computing resources including a processor and a memory, and a hardware resource set including resources distinct from the compute resource set. The information also includes a hardware system control processor adapted to present a portion of the hardware resource set to a compute resource set of the composed information handling system as bare metal resources.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2020
    Publication date: June 9, 2022
    Inventors: Robert Wayne Hormuth, Elie Antoun Jreij, Jimmy Doyle Pike, William Price Dawkins, Gaurav Chawla, Mark Steven Sanders, Mukund P. Khatri, Walter A. O'Brien, III, Yossef Saad
  • Publication number: 20220179707
    Abstract: A system for providing computer implemented services using information handling systems includes a composed information handling system that provides, at least in part, the computer implemented services and a system control processor manager. The system control processor manager instantiates a utilization monitor in a system control processor of the composed information handling system; and monitors, using the utilization monitor, a use rate of computing resources of the composed information handling system by a client.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2020
    Publication date: June 9, 2022
    Inventors: Elie Antoun Jreij, Gaurav Chawla, Robert Wayne Hormuth, Walter A. O'Brien III, Mukund P. Khatri, Jimmy Doyle Pike, Yossef Saad, Mark Steven Sanders, William Price Dawkins
  • Publication number: 20220179702
    Abstract: An information handling system for composing composed information handling systems includes persistent storage and a system control processor. The system control processor, after being allocated to a composed information handling system of the composed information handling systems: monitors health of computing resources of the composed information handling system; makes a determination, based on the monitoring of the health of the computing resources, that at least one of the computing resources is in a compromised state; and, based on the determination, marks the at least one of the computing resources for recomposition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2020
    Publication date: June 9, 2022
    Inventors: William Price Dawkins, Jon Robert Hass, Valerie Diane Padilla, Sudhir Vittal Shetty, James Robert King, Justin A. Kenney
  • Publication number: 20220179696
    Abstract: A system control processor manager for performing workloads using composed information handling systems instantiated using information handling systems includes persistent storage and a workload manager. The workload manager obtains performance information for a workload of the workloads; makes a determination, based on the performance information, to suspend performance of the workload; in response to the determination: deallocates a first computing resource of a composed information handling system performing the workload to a reserved pool; and deallocates a second computing resource of the composed information handling system to a freely allocable pool.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2020
    Publication date: June 9, 2022
    Inventors: William Price Dawkins, Elie Antoun Jreij, Walter A. O'Brien III, Mukund P. Khatri, Yossef Saad, Jimmy Doyle Pike, Gaurav Chawla, Mark Steven Sanders, Robert Wayne Hormuth