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Bradley Culter, Magnolia, TX US
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20110231602 | NON-DISRUPTIVE DISK OWNERSHIP CHANGE IN DISTRIBUTED STORAGE SYSTEMS - Non-disruptive disk ownership change in a distributed storage system is disclosed. The distributed storage system may having a first storage controller for managing a first storage pool, and a second storage controller. An exemplary method may include entering a preparation phase to transfer control of the first storage pool from the first storage controller to the second storage controller. The method may also include suspending writing normal I/O to the first storage pool and holding at the first storage controller any new I/O for the first storage pool. The method may also include rejecting the I/O requests held by the first storage controller after the second storage controller assumes ownership of the first storage pool. | 09-22-2011 |
20130111094 | MANAGEMENT OF TARGET DEVICES | 05-02-2013 |
20130111457 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR COMPOSING OR DECOMPOSING A COMPOSITE IMAGE FOR FIRMWARE UPDATE IMAGES | 05-02-2013 |
Bradley G. Culter, Magnolia, TX US
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20100268689 | PROVIDING INFORMATION RELATING TO USAGE OF A SIMULATED SNAPSHOT - At least one simulated snapshot is created for a parent volume stored on a storage subsystem. A processor updates the at least one simulated snapshot in response to modification operations to the parent volume, wherein the at least one simulated snapshot stores metadata but not any prior version of data that is modified in response to the modification operations to the parent volume. The processor provides information relating to usage of the at least one simulated snapshot based on accessing the metadata of the at least one simulated snapshot. | 10-21-2010 |
20100287365 | DEPLOYMENT OF BOOT IMAGES IN DISKLESS SERVERS - In one embodiment, a system, comprises a first computer system comprising at least a first diskless server, at least a first RAID controller coupled to the first diskless server, at least a first storage pool coupled to the RAID controller, and a remote management server coupled to the RAID controller via a an out-of-band communication link. The remote management server comprises a boot management module which, when executed, initiates a command to instruct the RAID controller to create at least a first logical volume in a memory module coupled to the RAID controller, transmits the command to the RAID controller via the out-of-band communication link, and transmits a boot image from the remote management server to the RAID controller via the out-of-band communication link. The RAID controller creates the first logical volume for the boot image in response to the command, and stores the boot image in the first logical volume. | 11-11-2010 |
John Dougherty Culter, Naples, FL US
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20110120992 | MICROWAVE COOKING PACKAGE - Microwave cooking packages suitable for use as microwave popcorn packages include at least one panel (e.g., first and second panels) formed of a vertically rigid material. A flexible portion is attached to the panels. The flexible portion may be formed of a polyester film material such as a biaxially-oriented polyethylene terephthalate (PET) film, which may be at least partially transparent. The flexible portion (and panels) defines a bag construction configured to contain a popcorn charge and to be expandable between a collapsed configuration and an expanded configuration when the popcorn charge is subjected to a popping operation. The microwave cooking package may include a vent assembly configured to at least partially open when the bag configuration is in an expanded configuration to vent the bag construction. The vent assembly includes a first portion a second portion of the bag construction that is configured to be folded against the first portion. | 05-26-2011 |
Reese T. Culter, Mountain View, CA US
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20100300856 | WHITE POINT ADJUSTMENT FOR MULTICOLOR KEYBOARD BACKLIGHT - There are provided systems, devices and methods for operating a light source to match a white point of ambient light. In one embodiment, a light control system is provided. The light control system includes a light source and a light sensor. The light sensor is configured to operate in conjunction with the light source to provide a visual effect. A controller is electrically coupled to the light source and the light sensor and configured to determine the intensity and color of light to which the light sensor is exposed and dynamically adjust the output of the light source to match the determined intensity and color of light to which the light sensor is exposed. | 12-02-2010 |
Robert G. Culter, Beaverton, OR US
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20110012514 | LED ARRAY HAVING ARRAY-BASED LED DETECTORS - The present invention provides an optical system having an array of light emitting semiconductor devices to performing an operation that have multiple characteristics associated with performing the operation. The array includes at least one detector located within the array to selectively monitor multiple characteristics of the light emitting semiconductor devices and is configured to generate a signal corresponding to the selected characteristic. A controller is configured to control the light emitting semiconductor devices in response to the signal from the at least one detector. At least one of the multiple characteristics may be concentrated at an area of the array and the at least one detector may be located within the array at the area of the array to selectively monitor characteristic that is concentrated at the area of the array. | 01-20-2011 |
Ross Culter, Redmond, WA US
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20090150149 | Identifying far-end sound - Frames containing audio data may be received, the audio data having been derived from a microphone array, at least some of the frames containing residual acoustic echo after having acoustic echo partially removed therefrom. Probability distribution functions are determined from the frames of audio data. A probability distribution function comprises likelihoods that respective directions are directions of sources of sounds. An active speaker may be identified in frames of video data based on the video data and based on audio information derived from the audio data, where use of the audio information as a basis for identifying the active speaker is controlled by determining whether the probability distribution functions indicate that corresponding audio data includes residual acoustic echo. | 06-11-2009 |
Ross G. Culter, Redmond, WA US
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20090147938 | Removing near-end frequencies from far-end sound - By-bandwidth voice-switching is performed during doubletalk between a near-end teleconference device and a far-end teleconference device. This may involve receiving far-end voice data from the far-end teleconference device. Near-end voice data is also received at the near-end teleconference device. Frequency subbands of the near-end voice data that having substantial energy are identified. Before playing the far-end voice data on one or more loudspeakers of the near-end teleconference device, frequency subbands from the far-end voice data frequency subbands thereof that correspond to the identified frequency subbands of the near-end voice data are attenuated and/or eliminated. | 06-11-2009 |
20090147942 | Reducing Echo - Far-end audio signal data generated by a far-end device during voice cross-talk between the far-end device and a near-end device is received via a network. Energy levels of frequency components of the received far-end audio signal data are determined. Near-end audio signal data produced by a microphone array is received, the near-end audio signal data including components contributed by a loudspeaker playing at least some of the far-end audio signal data. Which frequency components of the near-end audio signal data to use to compute likely near-end sound source directions is controlled dynamically, where the controlling is based on the determined energy levels of the frequency components of the received far-end audio signal data. | 06-11-2009 |