Patents by Inventor William Weiner

William Weiner 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: 10944643
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for cloud infrastructure voting to optimize usage of the cloud infrastructure are provided. The method determines the need to access a database or cloud services within a cloud infrastructure, determining a time of that need to access the database or cloud services within the cloud infrastructure. Access to the database or cloud services within the cloud infrastructure is determined based on the time of the need to access the database or cloud services using predetermined access rules. The apparatus provides a voter and user information database that contains the predetermined access rules for accessing the cloud infrastructure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Assignee: HITACHI VANTARA LLC
    Inventors: William Weiner, Mark A. Chance
  • Publication number: 20180205618
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for cloud infrastructure voting to optimize usage of the cloud infrastructure are provided. The method determines the need to access a database or cloud services within a cloud infrastructure, determining a time of that need to access the database or cloud services within the cloud infrastructure. Access to the database or cloud services within the cloud infrastructure is determined based on the time of the need to access the database or cloud services using predetermined access rules. The apparatus provides a voter and user information database that contains the predetermined access rules for accessing the cloud infrastructure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 12, 2018
    Publication date: July 19, 2018
    Inventors: William Weiner, Mark A. Chance
  • Patent number: 6404243
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a floating body architecture CMOSFET inverter with body biasing inverters added for controlling the delay time of the inverter. At least one body biasing inverter is connected between the main inverter's input and the body terminals of the FETs of the inverter. By supplying a representation of the input voltage to the body terminals of the p-channel and n-channel FETs, the preferred embodiment of the present invention is able to control the history dependent delay time associated with the variable source-to-body voltages in floating body CMOSFET inverters. The delay time is minimized by adding an odd number of body biasing inverter stages into the main inverter circuit. The delay time can also be maximized by adding an even number of body biasing inverter stages into the circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2001
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2002
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Company
    Inventors: Kenneth Koch, II, William Weiner
  • Patent number: 5953237
    Abstract: A method and structure of power balancing is capable of simultaneously minimizing maximum power while also reducing the step load of any electronic system, subsystem, or device having one or more functional units or resources that are not in constant use and that are therefore capable of being selectively powered-down or powered-up.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 1996
    Date of Patent: September 14, 1999
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Company
    Inventors: Thomas N. Indermaur, Matthew L. Biggio, William Weiner