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Thomas B. Will

Supervisory Patent Examiner (ID: 659, Phone: (571)272-6998 , Office: P/3671 )

Most Active Art Unit
2406
Art Unit(s)
2855, 2406, 3671, 3108, 2859, 2856, 3616
Total Applications
1203
Issued Applications
972
Pending Applications
68
Abandoned Applications
163

Applications

Application numberTitle of the applicationFiling DateStatus
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13/187732
Selectively compressing blocks of a bootable snapshot image during booting Jul 20, 2011 Issued
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13/187622
Device and method for determining whether to hold data in a memory area before transitioning to a power saving state Jul 20, 2011 Issued
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13/187841
Reconfigurable system having plurality of basic function units with each unit having a plurality of multiplexers and other logics for performing at least one of a logic operation or arithmetic operation Jul 20, 2011 Issued
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13/187732
Selectively compressing blocks of a bootable snapshot image during booting Jul 20, 2011 Issued
Array ( [id] => 8267393 [patent_doc_number] => 20120166821 [patent_country] => US [patent_kind] => A1 [patent_issue_date] => 2012-06-28 [patent_title] => 'START-UP CONTROL APPARATUS AND METHOD' [patent_app_type] => utility [patent_app_number] => 13/186738 [patent_app_country] => US [patent_app_date] => 2011-07-20 [patent_effective_date] => 0000-00-00 [patent_drawing_sheets_cnt] => 3 [patent_figures_cnt] => 3 [patent_no_of_words] => 834 [patent_no_of_claims] => 10 [patent_no_of_ind_claims] => 2 [patent_words_short_claim] => 0 [patent_maintenance] => 1 [patent_no_of_assignments] => 0 [patent_current_assignee] =>[type] => publication [pdf_file] =>[firstpage_image] =>[orig_patent_app_number] => 13186738 [rel_patent_id] =>[rel_patent_doc_number] =>)
13/186738
Apparatus and method to control the state of a power supply when a trigger signal is received during a predetermined time period Jul 19, 2011 Issued
Array ( [id] => 7746906 [patent_doc_number] => 20120023349 [patent_country] => US [patent_kind] => A1 [patent_issue_date] => 2012-01-26 [patent_title] => 'INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND POWER SAVING MEMORY MANAGEMENT METHOD' [patent_app_type] => utility [patent_app_number] => 13/187249 [patent_app_country] => US [patent_app_date] => 2011-07-20 [patent_effective_date] => 0000-00-00 [patent_drawing_sheets_cnt] => 4 [patent_figures_cnt] => 4 [patent_no_of_words] => 3793 [patent_no_of_claims] => 6 [patent_no_of_ind_claims] => 2 [patent_words_short_claim] => 0 [patent_maintenance] => 1 [patent_no_of_assignments] => 0 [patent_current_assignee] =>[type] => publication [pdf_file] => publications/A1/0023/20120023349.pdf [firstpage_image] =>[orig_patent_app_number] => 13187249 [rel_patent_id] =>[rel_patent_doc_number] =>)
13/187249
Information processing apparatus and power saving memory management method with an upper limit of task area units that may be simultaneously powered Jul 19, 2011 Issued
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13/187032
Apparatus and method to put logical ring in low power mode after a specific function has been performed Jul 19, 2011 Issued
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13/178027
On-demand storage system energy savings Jul 6, 2011 Issued
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13/178029
Apparatus and method for generating a boot image that is adjustable in size by selecting processes according to an optimization level to be written to the boot image Jul 6, 2011 Issued
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13/176637
Power supply system with at least a primary power source and an auxiliary power source for powering an electronic flight bag depending on an whether an aircraft is in a flight condition Jul 4, 2011 Issued
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13/176605
BOOT LOADING OF SECURE OPERATING SYSTEM FROM EXTERNAL DEVICE Jul 4, 2011 Abandoned
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13/127211
Power management integrated circuit using a flexible script-based configurator and method for power management Apr 5, 2011 Issued
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13/048871
ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD FOR SAVING ENERGY THEREOF Mar 15, 2011 Abandoned
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13/047417
Discovering a device presence and directing a power signal to the device from a port power controller through at most one of multiple physical ports at a time Mar 13, 2011 Issued
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13/047642
Method and apparatus for controlling sparse refresh of a self-refreshing display device using a communications path with an auxiliary communications channel for delivering data to the display Mar 13, 2011 Issued
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13/047284
ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD FOR APPLICATION AND PROFILE SENSITIVE BATTERY POWER MANAGEMENT Mar 13, 2011 Abandoned
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13/039749
Monitoring, controlling and reducing vampire power using a central controller in a network of power switch routers Mar 2, 2011 Issued
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13/036495
Power consumption reduction method of swapping high load threads with low load threads on a candidate core of a multicore processor Feb 27, 2011 Issued
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13/036659
Allocating power in devices by reserving a static power allocation to be used by one or more predetermined subsystems and reserving a dynamic power allocation to be used when the static power allocation is insufficient Feb 27, 2011 Issued
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13/036287
Selective shorting for clock grid during a controlling portion of a clock signal Feb 27, 2011 Issued
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