Michael A Donahue

US Patent:

6343083, Jan 29, 2002

Filed:

Apr 9, 1998

Appl. No.:

09/057872

Inventors:

Jeffrey B. Mendelson - Petaluma CA
Mowaffak T. Midani - Petaluma CA
Marcus A. Maranhao - Rohnert Park CA
Michael J. Donahue - Sebastopol CA
Jean Francois Van Kerckhove - San Francisco CA
Wayne R. Roiger - Saint Michael MN

Assignee:

Alcatel USA Sourcing, L.P. - Plano TX

International Classification:

H04L 1246

US Classification:

370466, 3703955, 370392

Abstract:

Method for managing connections on a connection-oriented network such as an ATM network, for use with devices communicating according to a connectionless communication protocol such as IP over Ethernet. Roughly described, a bridging network element (BNE) resides at the ATM point-of-presence through which a data network accesses the ATM network. When the BNE receives an internet ARP (IARP) request from the data network for forwarding onto the ATM network, it forwards it instead to an IARP server. In addition to responding to the IARP request, the IARP server also regards the IARP request as a trigger, and in response thereto, causes the ATM network to establish a connection between the BNE point-of-presence and another point-of-presence on the ATM network through which the target address can be reached. Connection time-out periods are chosen to exceed or to be very likely to exceed the address resolution cache age-out periods on the client devices, thereby ensuring that after a connection timeout, the client device will or will be very likely to transmit another IARP request before it begins streaming transmission of more data packets onto the ATM network.

US Patent:

55260225, Jun 11, 1996

Filed:

Jan 6, 1993

Appl. No.:

8/000992

Inventors:

Michael J. Donahue - San Francisco CA
Mark D. Pesce - San Francisco CA
Marc de Groot - San Francisco CA
Michael A. Perry - Oakland CA
Donald E. Drumm - Billerica MA

Assignee:

Virtual I/O, Inc. - Seattle WA

International Classification:

G09G 500

US Classification:

345156

Abstract:

A sourceless orientation sensor having an azimuthal sensor which determines the azimuthal orientation relative to a planetary magnetic field, and a tilt sensor which determines the direction and magnitude of the displacement from vertical using the planetary gravitational field. The tilt sensor includes a transparent gas and a transparent viscous fluid in a spherical shell, a light emitting diode (LED) mounted at the top of the shell, and four photodetectors mounted at the bottom of the shell. As the tilt sensor is rotated the path of the light cone emanating from the LED and refracting at the gas/fluid interface is altered, thereby altering the intensity of light incident on the photodetectors. The magnitude of the light incident on the photodetectors is processed to provide the tilt angles. A thin transparent disk floats at the gas/fluid interface to damp surface waves caused by reorientation of the device.

US Patent:

20180276009, Sep 27, 2018

Filed:

May 31, 2018

Appl. No.:

15/994653

Inventors:

- Palo Alto CA, US
Gregory Burk - Colorado Springs CO, US
Michael Donahue - Colorado Springs CO, US

International Classification:

G06F 9/445
H04L 29/06
G06F 21/60

Abstract:

Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed to manage asset in a computing environment using a common agent framework. An example method includes maintaining a catalog of capabilities available to an asset based on plugins installed at the asset. The example method also includes determining whether a capability is installed at the asset based on the catalog of capabilities, and installing the capability at the asset when the capability is not installed at the asset. The example method also includes receiving, at the asset, a request to perform the capability, validating, via a processor, the request, and, in response to the validating, performing the capability.

US Patent:

20170046181, Feb 16, 2017

Filed:

Aug 11, 2015

Appl. No.:

14/824049

Inventors:

- Palo Alto CA, US
Gregory Burk - Colorado Springs CO, US
Michael Donahue - Colorado Springs CO, US

International Classification:

G06F 9/445

Abstract:

Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed to manage asset in a computing environment using a common agent framework. An example method includes maintaining a catalog of capabilities available to an asset based on plugins installed at the asset. The example method also includes determining whether a capability is installed at the asset based on the catalog of capabilities, and installing the capability at the asset when the capability is not installed at the asset. The example method also includes receiving, at the asset, a request to perform the capability, validating, via a processor, the request, and, in response to the validating, performing the capability.