Kevin D Smith
Plumbers at Westward Dr, Fort Collins, CO

6668329, Dec 23, 2003

Sep 9, 1999

09/392424

Michael L Rudd - Fort Collins CO
Kevin N Smith - Fort Collins CO
Steven D Hariri - Fort Collins CO

Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. - Houston TX

G06F 132

713320, 713401, 709232

Disclosed is a method for conserving power in a battery-powered electronic appliance having a communications interface including receive mode circuitry and a battery that supplies power to the receive mode circuitry when the receive mode circuitry is enabled. Upon power up of the appliance, the communications interface is initialized, and the receive mode circuitry is enabled to operate in a receive mode. A predetermined enable time is then timed. When the predetermined enable time expires, the receive mode circuitry is disabled.

6396518, May 28, 2002

Aug 7, 1998

09/130869

James C. Dow - Fort Collins CO
Dan L. Dalton - Greeley CO
Michael L. Rudd - Fort Collins CO
Karin C. Ruffatto - Fort Collins CO
Kevin N. Smith - Fort Collins CO
Daniel Formosa - Montvale NJ
Sandra Nieves - New York NY
Paul Hamburger - New York NY
Michael J. DeVries - Loveland CO
Nancy Shepard - Arvada CO

Hewlett-Packard Company - Palo Alto CA

G09G 500

345772, 345864, 400 88

An appliance indicates that it is transferring information to an external device by displaying a send animation. The send animation simulates movement of a metamorphic icon by moving images on a background such that the metamorphic icon appears to be moving. One embodiment of the appliance includes a processor for manipulating and exhibiting the send animation on a built-in display screen. In one embodiment, the metamorphic icon resembles a paper airplane and the moving images resemble clouds so that the paper airplane appears to be flying over the clouds, thereby indicating that the appliance is sending information to an external device.

6819341, Nov 16, 2004

Jun 28, 2001

09/894079

James C. Dow - Fort Collins CO
Dan L. Dalton - Greeley CO
Michael L. Rudd - Fort Collins CO
Karin C. Ruffatto - Fort Collins CO
Kevin N. Smith - Fort Collins CO
Daniel Formosa - Montvale NJ
Sandra Nieves - New York NY
Paul Hamburger - New York NY
Michael J. DeVries - Loveland CO
Nancy Shepard - Arvada CO

Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. - Houston TX

G09G 500

345772, 345706, 345839, 345864

An appliance indicates that it is transferring information over a wireless communication path to an external device by displaying an animation. In one embodiment, an animation indicates that the appliance is attempting to establish communication over an infra red (IR) port with the external device by displaying an animation having an light emitting diode (LED) with emanating waves propagating away from the LED. Movement of the waves stop when communication is established. The wave edges indicate a maximum cone angle indicating the direction that the IR port must be pointed to establish and maintain communication with the external device.

6038621, Mar 14, 2000

Nov 4, 1996

8/743618

Thomas S. Gale - Boise ID
Patrick W. Fulghum - Boise ID
Kevin N. Smith - Fort Collins CO
Steven J. Jahr - Granite Bay CA
James G. Wendt - Auburn CA

Hewlett-Packard Company - Palo Alto CA

G06F 1300

710 56

A peripheral system includes (a) a peripheral device having peripheral memory located thereon, (b) at least one input/output (I/O) card communicating with the peripheral device, and (c) a means for managing the peripheral memory between the peripheral device and the at least one I/O card. In a preferred embodiment, the means for managing the peripheral memory includes (a) a means for determining, during normal operation, an optimum amount of peripheral memory for allocating to each I/O card, and (b) a means for allocating, during normal operation, the optimum amount of peripheral memory to each I/O card. A preferred method for managing memory, between a peripheral device, having peripheral memory thereon, and at least one input/output (I/O) card, includes (a) determining, during normal operation, an optimum amount of peripheral memory for allocating to each I/O card, and (b) allocating, during normal operation, the optimum amount of peripheral memory to each I/O card.

6161186, Dec 12, 2000

Feb 12, 1999

9/249644

Kevin N Smith - Fort Collins CO

Hewlett Packard Company - Palo Alto CA

G06F 132, G06F 1700

713320

An apparatus for receiving and processing digital signals. Techniques and apparatus are disclosed for reducing power consumption in digital receiving and processing circuits without manual intervention and without data rate reduction. The digital signal comprises a leading, slower data rate signal and a trailing, faster data rate signal. When the pre-defined leading signal is received, a slower digital-signal processor processes that signal and then activates a faster digital-signal processor which processes the trailing, faster signal. After processing the trailing signal, the faster digital-signal processor is deactivated.

2003005, Mar 27, 2003

Sep 18, 2001

09/955411

Kimble Smith - Loveland CO, US
Scott Janson - Loveland CO, US
Kevin Smith - Fort Collins CO, US

G01S013/58

342/104000, 342/114000, 342/115000

A radar device for measuring the surface velocity of water moving in a horizontal plane in which the radar device is positioned above or below the horizontal plane. The radar device includes a tilt sensor, or accelerometer, to measure the angle of tilt of the radar device with respect to a target point located at a distance from the radar device. The accelerometer generates a signal representing the tilt angle. A processor in the radar device calculates the cosine correction factor that is applied to the measured velocity of the target point. This results in an automatically corrected measured velocity being displayed on the radar device.

8005932, Aug 23, 2011

Nov 20, 2003

10/716605

Max C. Knees - Fort Collins CO, US
Eric Pulsipher - Fort Collins CO, US
Gabriel Wechter - Fort Collins CO, US
Kevin N. Smith - Fort Collins CO, US

Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. - Houston TX

G06F 15/173, H04L 12/28

709223, 370254

A method for discovering a network comprising network devices, the method including dividing the network into zones of network devices, in a zone of the network, identifying devices in the zone that have SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol) access, collecting data from those devices in the zone identified as having SNMP access, and stitching the collected data into a topology of the network. A machine readable medium a computer program for causing a computing device to perform the exemplary method. A system for discovering a network organized into zones of network devices includes means for identifying devices in a zone of the network that have SNMP access, collecting data from those devices in the zone identified as having SNMP access, and stitching the collected data into a topology of the network, and means for transferring data to and from the means for identifying, collecting and stitching.