James Dale Edwards
Anesthesiologist Assistant in Austin, TX

6845416, Jan 18, 2005

Aug 2, 2000

09/630844

Zaki Chasmawala - Austin TX, US
William R. Pitts - Round Rock TX, US
Rodney W. Cummings - Austin TX, US
James W. Edwards - Austin TX, US

National Instruments Corporation - Austin TX

G06F 1300

710107, 710305, 713400

A system for interfacing a host computer to a Controller Area Network (CAN) bus. The system comprises a memory, an embedded processor and interface logic. The memory stores program code. The embedded processor couples to the memory and executes the program code. The interface logic interfaces the embedded processor with an interconnecting bus, e. g. , the Real-Time System Integration (RTSI) bus. In response to execution of the program code, the embedded processor is operable to perform a CAN event in response to the interface logic receiving a RTSI trigger signal on a selected line of the RTSI bus. A peripheral device also coupled to the host computer assert the trigger signal in response to the peripheral device receiving and/or transmitting data. Furthermore, the interface logic is configured to assert a RTSI trigger signal on a selected line of said RTSI bus in response to the embedded processor performing a CAN event. CAN events include transmission/reception of a CAN frame.

6790097, Sep 14, 2004

Jan 8, 2003

10/338576

James W. Edwards - Austin TX
Craig A. Zimmerman - Austin TX
Robert A. Marshall - Austin TX

Cisco Technology, Inc. - San Jose CA

H01R 2400

439676, 439181, 439607

According to one embodiment of the invention, an apparatus includes a housing having a cavity configured to receive a plug. The apparatus includes a plurality of conductive pins each configured to contact a respective one of a plurality of conductive pins on the plug when the plug is inserted into the cavity. The apparatus also includes a discharge conductor system configured to contact at least one of the plurality of the conductive pins on the plug before complete insertion of the plug into the cavity and a discharge circuit coupling the discharge conductor system to ground.

5938754, Aug 17, 1999

Nov 26, 1997

8/979968

James W. Edwards - Austin TX
William R. Pitts - Round Rock TX
Michael S. Butler - Austin TX

National Instruments Corporation - Austin TX

G06F 1300

710129

An improved dual-connector cable for connecting a computer to a serial instrumentation bus. In one embodiment, the serial instrumentation bus is a fieldbus, preferably either a Foundation fieldbus or a Controller Area Network (CAN) bus. The cable comprises a first terminal located at a first end of the cable for coupling the cable to the computer. The first terminal comprises a device connector which is configured to connect the first terminal to a connector on the computer. The cable also comprises a second terminal located at a second end of the cable for coupling the cable to the serial instrumentation bus. The second terminal comprises interface circuitry for interfacing the cable with the serial instrumentation bus. The second terminal further comprises a first bus connector that is electrically coupled to the serial instrumentation interface circuitry. The first bus connector is configured to connect to a mating connector for coupling to the serial instrumentation bus.

2007023, Oct 11, 2007

Apr 11, 2006

11/401598

James Edwards - Austin TX, US
Thao Hoang - Cedar Park TX, US

H04L 12/28, H04L 12/66

370351000, 370463000

Methods and apparatus for selectively routing traffic from a port in a switch for use in a chassis-based server are provided. The switch may include a flexible physical layer component, allowing traffic from a channel (e.g., an Ethernet channel) to be routed to a connector on a front panel of the switch or to switch cross-connect routing in a backplane of the server system. The routing may be selectable by a user, for example, under software control, allowing flexibility to the user to select the routing that best fits an application, while conserving resources by not requiring a dedicated channel for each routing data path.

2006018, Aug 24, 2006

Jan 21, 2005

11/040769

Charles Yager - Cupertino CA, US
James Edwards - Austin TX, US
Craig Zimmerman - Austin TX, US
Gurinderjit Chahal - Fremont CA, US

G01N 30/86

327001000

A fault-tolerant stack of low cost switches each having only two dual-purpose uplinks is enabled by utilizing a specified topology for connecting the uplinks and implementing a recovery algorithm on each switch.