Robert G Robbins

US Patent:

6343984, Feb 5, 2002

Filed:

Nov 30, 1998

Appl. No.:

09/203220

Inventors:

Daryl J. Langdon - San Jose CA
Robert Robbins - San Jose CA

Assignee:

Network Appliance, Inc. - Sunnyvale CA

International Classification:

H05K 720

US Classification:

454184, 361695

Abstract:

The invention provides a redundant cooling system with abatement of noise from cooling fans used primarily in computer equipment and other boxes housing electronic equipment. Typically either the computer system or box housing electronic components has two parallel side panels, a front panel, and a back panel upon which cooling fans are mounted to draw air across various electronic components and through the box for heat dissipation. The cooling system includes an airflow grille attached to one end of a laminar flow duct and two adjacent cooling fans mounted to the other end of a laminar flow duct which includes a Venturi opening on the top panel of the laminar flow duct to facilitate laminar flow through the laminar flow duct at a distance before the cooling fans and at a distance after the cooling fans.

US Patent:

6468150, Oct 22, 2002

Filed:

Mar 30, 2001

Appl. No.:

09/823368

Inventors:

Daryl J. Langdon - San Jose CA
Robert Robbins - San Jose CA

Assignee:

Network Appliance, Inc. - Sunnyvale CA

International Classification:

H05K 720

US Classification:

454184, 361695

Abstract:

A redundant cooling system with abatement of noise from cooling fans being used primarily in computer equipment and other boxes housing electronic equipment. Typically either the computer system or box housing electronic components has two parallel side panels, a front panel, and a back panel upon which cooling fans are mounted to draw air across various electronic components and through the box for heat dissipation. The cooling system includes an airflow grille attached to one end of a laminar flow duct and two adjacent cooling fans mounted to the other end of a laminar flow it duct which includes a Venturi opening on the top panel of the laminar flow duct to facilitate laminar flow through the laminar flow duct at a distance before the cooling fans and at a distance after the cooling fans.

US Patent:

6605115, Aug 12, 2003

Filed:

Jun 5, 2000

Appl. No.:

09/587647

Inventors:

John P. Cooke - Palo Alto CA
Garrison C. Fathman - Portola Valley CA
Jonathan B. Rothbard - Woodside CA
Shiro Uemura - Nara, JP
Robert C. Robbins - Stanford CA
Murray H. Kown - Menlo Park CA

Assignee:

Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University - Stanford CA

International Classification:

A61F 206

US Classification:

623 148, 623 142

Abstract:

Cardiovascular cell proliferation in a blood vessel subjected to trauma, such as angioplasty, vascular graft, anastomosis, or organ transplant, can be inhibited by contacting the vessel with a polymer consisting of from 6 to about 30 amino acid subunits, where at least 50% of the subunits are arginine, and the polymer contains at least six contiguous arginine subunits. Exemplary polymers for this purpose include arginine homopolymers 7 to 15 subunits in length.

US Patent:

7032136, Apr 18, 2006

Filed:

Sep 9, 2002

Appl. No.:

10/238932

Inventors:

Kumar Gajjar - San Jose CA, US
Robert Robbins - Sunnyvale CA, US
Ranjit Ghate - Oakland CA, US

Assignee:

Network Appliance, Inc. - Sunnyvale CA

International Classification:

G06F 11/00

US Classification:

714 43, 714 42

Abstract:

An apparatus and method for testing a network-based storage virtualization system. A tester is connected to a host side of a storage virtualization system. The tester provides test scripts to the storage virtualization system to test I/O and other operations. A separate link, independent of said storage virtualization system, is provided to a storage side of said storage virtualization system to allow verification of the correct translation from virtual to physical independent of the data path used by the virtualization system. Thus, the tester verifies, over the separate link, the physical configuration of VLUNs and data written to the VLUNs by the tester on storage devices.

US Patent:

8132058, Mar 6, 2012

Filed:

Apr 3, 2006

Appl. No.:

11/397487

Inventors:

Kumar Gajjar - San Jose CA, US
Robert Robbins - Sunnyvale CA, US
Ranjit Ghate - Oakland CA, US

Assignee:

NetApp, Inc. - Sunnyvale CA

International Classification:

G06F 11/00

US Classification:

714 43, 714 27

Abstract:

An apparatus and method for testing a network-based storage virtualization system. A tester is connected to a host side of a storage virtualization system. The tester provides test scripts to the storage virtualization system to test I/O and other operations. A separate link, independent of said storage virtualization system, is provided to a storage side of said storage virtualization system to allow verification of the correct translation from virtual to physical independent of the data path used by the virtualization system. Thus, the tester verifies, over the separate link, the physical configuration of VLUNs and data written to the VLUNs by the tester on storage devices.

US Patent:

20020029319, Mar 7, 2002

Filed:

Jun 6, 2001

Appl. No.:

09/876846

Inventors:

Robert Robbins - Sunnyvale CA, US
Richard Meyer - San Francisco CA, US
Jerry Smith - Long Beach CA, US

International Classification:

G06F012/00

US Classification:

711/114000, 711/156000

Abstract:

A system with a RAID controller connected to a plurality of hosts, and having a storage area configurable as a plurality of logical units. The RAID controller stores in an associated memory a table of access rights for the hosts to the logical units. Updates can be provided and additional material can be provided in new memory space that is subsequently made available to the various hosts by providing updated access rights that include the new space. In one embodiment, the present invention also maps the logical unit number from that requested by the host to an actual number used in the RAID subsystem.

US Patent:

20040074504, Apr 22, 2004

Filed:

May 20, 2003

Appl. No.:

10/442671

Inventors:

John Cooke - Palo Alto CA, US
Garrison Fathman - Portola Valley CA, US
Jonathan Rothbard - Woodside CA, US
Shiro Uemura - Nara, JP
Robert Robbins - Stanford CA, US
Murray Kown - Menlo Park CA, US

International Classification:

A61F002/06

US Classification:

128/898000, 623/916000

Abstract:

Cardiovascular cell proliferation in a blood vessel subjected to trauma, such as angioplasty, vascular graft, anastomosis, or organ transplant, can be inhibited by contacting the vessel with a polymer consisting of from 6 to about 30 amino acid subunits, where at least 50% of the subunits are arginine, and the polymer contains at least six contiguous arginine subunits. Exemplary polymers for this purpose include arginine homopolymers 7 to 15 subunits in length.

US Patent:

20060148700, Jul 6, 2006

Filed:

Nov 10, 2005

Appl. No.:

11/271285

Inventors:

Masashi Tanaka - Saitama-City, JP
Robert Robbins - Stanford CA, US

International Classification:

A01N 1/02

US Classification:

514012000, 435001100

Abstract:

Methods for reducing injury to a transplanted mammalian organ or tissue, including inhibiting the development of graft blood vessel disease, are provided. In one form, a method includes administering compositions that include one or more PKC regulators to an organ or tissue donor and an organ or tissue recipient. Methods for decreasing or otherwise modulating an inflammatory response in a mammal are also provided. In one form, a method includes administering one or more regulators of protein kinase C to a patient in need thereof prior to, during or after an event giving rise to an inflammatory response. Methods for inhibiting, or otherwise modulating, a pro-apoptotic event are also provided. In one form, a method includes administering a therapeutically effective amount of an agonist of ε protein kinase C, and optionally an inhibitor of δ protein kinase C.