Jerry L PetreeSan Jose, CA

7421688, Sep 2, 2008

Feb 3, 2004

10/770951

Stefano Righi - Lawrenceville GA, US
Brian Richardson - Loganville GA, US
Jerry Petree - Alpharetta GA, US

American Megatrends, Inc. - Norcross GA

G06F 9/44
G06F 15/16
G06F 15/177

717172, 709202, 709221, 713 2

Methods and systems are provided for updating firmware on a plurality of networked computing devices via a distributed network. An instruction to update the firmware on a plurality of networked computing devices, such as nodes in a computer cluster, is sent from a manager computer to the computing devices monitoring for instructions. When the instruction is received, the computing devices transition to an operating system independent recovery state, receive a new firmware image over the distributed network, and update the firmware with the new firmware image.

7673301, Mar 2, 2010

Feb 3, 2004

10/771245

Stefano Righi - Lawrenceville GA, US
Brian Richardson - Loganville GA, US
Jerry Petree - Alpharetta GA, US

American Megatrends, Inc. - Norcross GA

G06F 9/44
G06F 15/16
G06F 15/177

717172, 709202, 709221, 713 2

Methods and systems are provided for updating and recovering firmware within computers over a distributed network. While a computer is in an operating system independent state, a determination is made as to whether the firmware within the computer is valid. The firmware may be the BIOS for the computer. If it is determined that the current firmware is invalid, a recovery request is sent to a manager computer monitoring for recovery requests. The manager computer sends a new firmware image over the network to the computer. The invalid firmware is then updated with the new firmware image. An instruction to update the firmware of the computer may also be sent from a manager computer to computers monitoring for instructions. When the instruction is received, the computer transitions to an operating system independent recovery state, receives a new firmware image over the network, and updates with the new firmware image.

7957402, Jun 7, 2011

Aug 8, 2005

11/199308

Eswar Konduru - Norcross GA, US
Jerry Petree - Dacula GA, US

American Megatrends, Inc. - Norcross GA

H04L 12/28
H04L 12/56

370401, 370216, 370248, 370254

A bridge module bridges communications between computing systems using the UDP (user datagram protocol) communication protocol and computing systems using the TCP (transmission control protocol) communication protocol. Communications between the bridge and the computing system having UDP communication drivers are handled with the UDP protocol. Communications between the bridge and the computing system having TCP communication drivers are handled with TCP protocol. The UDP computing system sends data packets to the bridge module. The bridge module converts these packets from UDP protocol to packets in TCP protocol and sends them to the TCP computing system. The TCP computing system can send data back to the UDP computing system by sending packets to the bridge module using the TCP protocol. The bridge module will convert the TCP data packets from the TCP computing system to data packets in UDP protocol and forward them on to the UDP computing system.

7293169, Nov 6, 2007

Feb 3, 2004

10/771016

Stefano Righi - Lawrenceville GA, US
Brian Richardson - Loganville GA, US
Jerry Petree - Alpharetta GA, US

American Megatrends, Inc. - Norcross GA

G06F 15/177

713 2, 709220, 717171

These systems and methods make use of operating system dependent applications that allow remote updates to firmware stored on network attached remote computers. Updates to the remote computers may occur on any computer in the network despite diverse hardware architectures and various operating systems executing between the computers. A command to update the firmware on the remote computers is initiated from a manager utility application operating on a network attached manager computer. The command is then received at an agent application operating on each remote computer. Each agent application monitors command activity via a communication port. Upon determining that the command is valid, each agent application receives an update application and a new firmware file from a network attached computer or data storage and utilizes the update application and the new firmware file to update the firmware of each network attached computer.

2021000, Jan 7, 2021

Jul 1, 2019

16/458926

- San Jose CA, US
Qiyan Wang - Mountain View CA, US
Jerry L. Petree - San Jose CA, US
Samir Agrawal - Milpitas CA, US
Sandeep Dhull - Santa Clara CA, US
Luna Chen - San Jose CA, US
Jamie P. Carlson - San Jose CA, US

B60R 25/24
B60R 25/01

Remote devices have replaced keys as a means to access a secure feature of a vehicle. Remote door locks, starters, climate control, trunk openers, etc., have allowed vehicles to be more welcoming and easier to use. However, such functions often rely on radio frequency transmissions that can merely relay signals coming from an authorized device that may allow a nefarious user to access the vehicle or contents therein. By encoding sequence numbers and timestamps within an exchange, a vehicle may determine that an authorized user is too far away to be granted access to the secure feature, thereby denying access to the nefarious user implementing a relay attack on the vehicle.

2021000, Jan 7, 2021

Jul 1, 2019

16/459013

- San Jose CA, US
Samir Agrawal - Milpitas CA, US
Jerry L. Petree - San Jose CA, US
Jevin K. Saini - Fremont CA, US
Aswini Vijayaraghavan - Santa Clara CA, US
Yongbum Kim - Los Altos Hills CA, US

H04J 3/06
H04L 7/00
H04L 12/40

Methods, systems, and devices of the present disclosure are directed to providing seamless fault tolerant clock synchronization utilizing redundant reference clocks in a vehicle communication system. Redundant grandmaster clocks may be synchronized by utilizing clock signals sent between physical layers over a network, and derived clocks of network end devices may be synchronized using messages sent by the grandmaster clocks over the same or separate networks. The primary and backup grandmaster clocks may concurrently transmit synchronization messages to the network end devices. In this way, the grandmaster clocks may be synchronized to clock signals, and the network end devices may derive local clocks based on one, some, or all of the received messages transmitted over a network by the grandmaster clocks.

2019031, Oct 10, 2019

Apr 10, 2019

16/380612

- San Jose CA, US
Stephen Eric Sidle - Morgan Hill CA, US
Luna Chen - San Jose CA, US
Jerry L. Petree - San Jose CA, US
Suma Prabhakara - Fremont CA, US
George T. Feltovich - San Jose CA, US

H04W 74/02
H04W 4/48

Embodiments of the present disclosure are directed to vehicle communication systems, in particular, toward contention resolution on a shared medium in vehicle communication systems. The present disclosure can provide a modified version of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 802.3 standard to handle physical layer (PHY), and data link layer's (DLL) media access control (MAC) of the wired communication links in the vehicle communication subsystem utilizing a shared medium and half-duplex mode. As a result, the modified MAC and PHY may provide fair access and deterministic latency for shared access to the medium of vehicle communication systems independent of the offered network load.

2019016, May 30, 2019

Nov 29, 2017

15/826330

- San Jose CA, US
Veera Ganesh Yalla - Sunnyvale CA, US
Samir Agrawal - Milpitas CA, US
Jerry L. Petree - San Jose CA, US
Dennis Polischuk - San Jose CA, US

G05D 1/00
G07C 5/08

According to one embodiment, an autonomous vehicle safety system can be implemented with a plurality of sensors, each of the plurality of sensors being configured to produce an electrical signal that is indicative of an environmental condition about a vehicle; a sensor distribution hub that receives the electrical signals from the plurality of sensors and generates two streams of data based on the electrical signals received from the plurality of sensors; a first micro-processing unit configured to receive a first of the two streams of data generated by the sensor distribution hub, where the first micro-processing unit is further configured to autonomously control the vehicle; and a second micro-processing unit configured to receive a second of the two streams of data generated by the sensor distribution hub, where the second micro-processing unit is also configured to autonomously control the vehicle.