DR. KENNETH GARY GROSS, M.D.
Osteopathic Medicine at Balboa Ave, San Diego, CA

8474275, Jul 2, 2013

Sep 4, 2012

13/602407

Ali Heydari - Albany CA, US
Kenneth C. Gross - San Diego CA, US

Oracle International Corporation - Redwood City CA

F25B 15/00, F25B 15/16

62107, 62109, 62487

A passive heat sink for cooling an electronic component such as a high-performance processor. The heat sink includes a shell with a surface that is positionable adjacent a heat generating surface of the electronic component. The shell includes a heat exchanger portion with cooling fins extending outward and positioned in a fan-provided airflow. A generator compartment is provided within the shell with a generator vessel for containing an absorbent, and the generator compartment is maintained at a pressure lower than ambient. The generator compartment conducts heat away from the electronic component to the absorbent in the generator vessel. An absorber compartment, at a pressure lower than the generator compartment, is provided within the shell above the generator compartment, and, in use, an absorption refrigeration cycle contained within the shell is activated by heat from the electronic component. A bubble pump moves absorbent from the generator compartment to the absorber compartment.

7243265, Jul 10, 2007

Oct 22, 2003

10/690917

Michael J. Wookey - Los Gatos CA, US
Kenneth C. Gross - San Diego CA, US

Sun Microsystems, Inc. - Palo Alto CA

G06F 11/00

714 37, 714 48

Methods, systems, and articles of manufacture consistent with the present invention train a real-time health-monitor for a computer-based system while simultaneously monitoring the health of the system. A plurality of signals that each describe an operating condition of a subject data processing system are monitored in real-time. It is determined whether there is a problem with the subject data processing system by comparing at least one of the monitored signals to a corresponding at least one signal in a known signal dataset. The known signal dataset includes a signal value for at least one signal that describes an operating condition of one of a plurality of subject data processing systems. A new signal dataset having an entry for each monitored signal and a corresponding signal value is prepared simultaneously with monitoring the plurality of signals and determining whether there is a problem.

7461793, Dec 9, 2008

Dec 9, 2005

11/298959

Kenneth Clayton Gross - San Diego CA, US
Ramakrishna C. Dhanekula - San Diego CA, US

Sun Microsystems, Inc. - Santa Clara CA

G06K 19/06

235494, 235487, 235375

A method of tagging a manufactured product with a passive tag includes processing a subset of a plurality of unique combinations of at least two axis ratios, where the subset is determinable by a plurality of parameters that define a portion of a coordinate space, to determine a first particular unique combination of the at least two axis ratios. A gas having the determined particular one unique combination of at least two axis ratios is incorporated into the manufactured product. The product to be tagged may be a first product, characterized by a first particular characteristic, and a second product is characterized by a second particular characteristic different from the first particular characteristic. The unique combination of at least two axis ratios is a first unique combination. The plurality of unique combinations of at least two axis ratios is processed to determine a second particular unique combination of the at least two axis ratios, and a gas having the determined second particular unique combination of at least two axis ratios is incorporated into the second product.

7085681, Aug 1, 2006

Dec 22, 2004

11/021145

Emrys J. Williams - Palo Alto CA, US
Kenneth C. Gross - San Diego CA, US

SUN Microsystems, Inc. - Santa Clara CA

G06F 11/30, G06F 15/00, G21C 17/00

702183

One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that monitors a computer system using a plurality of physical sensors. The system operates by polling the plurality of physical sensors in a given sequence at a given rate, wherein each physical sensor monitors a specific physical parameter of the computer system. The system then provides a plurality of measurements from the plurality of physical sensors to a monitoring system. If a given physical sensor detects a parameter that is not within a pre-determined operating range, the system receives an interrupt from the given physical sensor. In response to receiving this interrupt, the system raises an alarm.

7359834, Apr 15, 2008

Mar 24, 2006

11/388405

Kalyanaraman Vaidyanathan - San Diego CA, US
Sajjit Thampy - Sunnyvale CA, US
Kenneth C. Gross - San Diego CA, US

Sun Microsystems, Inc. - Santa Clara CA

G06F 11/30

702186, 702182

One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that monitors system-calls to identify runaway processes within a computer system. First, the system monitors system-calls on the computer system during runtime, to generate a trace of system-calls made. Then, the system analyzes the trace to detect runaway processes.

7171589, Jan 30, 2007

Dec 17, 2003

10/739474

Aleksey M. Urmanov - San Diego CA, US
Lawrence G. Votta - Sammamish WA, US
Kenneth C. Gross - San Diego CA, US

Sun Microsystems, Inc. - Santa Clara CA

G06F 11/00

714 47, 324760, 702132

One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that facilitates determining the effects of a temperature variation in a computer system. The system operates by systematically varying the flow of a coolant through the computer system to produce a temperature variation in the computer system while the computer system is operating. While this temperature variation is taking place, the system monitors the computer system to determine effects of the temperature variation on the computer system.

2011017, Jul 14, 2011

Jan 12, 2010

12/685841

Kalyanaraman Vaidyanathan - San Diego CA, US
Kenneth C. Gross - San Diego CA, US
David Belanger - San Diego CA, US
Ayse Kivilcim Coskun - Boston MA, US

SUN MICROSYSTEMS, INC. - Santa Claira CA

G06F 1/32, G06F 1/26

713320, 713340, 713300

A system for controlling energy usage in a server having a processor, where the system includes a memory for storing energy cost information, and a controller for determining a transaction rate for the processor. The controller is also for determining a cumulative of energy expended by the server based on the determined transaction rate for each of a number of available power level states (P-states) for operation of the processor, and for selecting one of the available P-states for operation of the processor based on the determined cumulative energy expended and the stored energy cost information.

7672129, Mar 2, 2010

Sep 19, 2006

11/523435

Chien Ouyang - San Jose CA, US
Kenneth C. Gross - San Diego CA, US

Sun Microsystems, Inc. - Santa Clara CA

H05K 7/20, H01L 23/34, F28F 7/00, H02K 44/08

361699, 361703, 257714, 165 804, 165 805, 16510433, 174 151, 417 50

A cooling system for a heat producing component includes a base having two or more cells. The cells may include microchannel passages. A pump system may be coupled to the base. The pump system may circulate fluid independently in each of two or more of the cells. The pump system may include an array of two more magnetohydrodynamic pumps. Each magnetohydrodynamic pump may provide fluid to a different cell. A controller may control a flow rate in each one of cell of the cooling system independently one or more of other cells of the cooling system.

8155332, Apr 10, 2012

Jan 10, 2008

11/972043

Kenneth C. Gross - San Diego CA, US
Aleksey M. Urmanov - San Diego CA, US
Charles E. Kinney - La Jolla CA, US

Oracle America, Inc. - Redwood Shores CA

G10K 11/16, F01N 1/06, F01N 1/00

381 711, 381 715, 181206, 361690, 361695

Some embodiments of the present invention provide a system that attenuates noise from a fan exhaust of a computer system. During operation, the system monitors the noise from the fan exhaust and calculates a frequency spectrum of the noise from the monitored noise. Next, the system generates an antiphase spectrum from the frequency spectrum and generates a flow of air which exhibits a property of the antiphase spectrum. Finally, the system directs the flow of air into the fan exhaust so that the noise is attenuated by a reduction of turbulence in the fan exhaust by the flow of air.