Ray Garcia, Age 39Pembroke Park, FL

6400113, Jun 4, 2002

Jul 19, 2000

09/619235

Ray Garcia - Boca Raton FL
Will E. Hamel - Parkland FL
Kendall A. Honeycutt - Boca Raton FL
Stephen E. Still - Lake Worth FL

International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY

H02P 500

318463, 318268, 318464, 388912, 324166

Apparatus for monitoring fan speeds within a computing system includes a tachometer turning with the fan, providing a tachometer signal including a number of pulses during each revolution of the fan. This tachometer signal is provided as an input to a signal generator in the form of a flip-flop, which generates a square-wave signal having transitions between high and low levels corresponding to tachometer signal pulses. The square-wave signals are provided as inputs to separate input ports of a microprocessor. These input ports are sequentially sampled at a rate providing at least two samples per period of the fastest square-wave signal, so that transitions of each square wave signal during a predetermined time interval can be detected and counted. For each input port, the number of counted transitions is compared to a stored acceptable value to establish whether the fan is operating in an acceptable speed range.

6691235, Feb 10, 2004

Jul 27, 2000

09/627093

Ray Garcia - Boca Raton FL
Warren F. Huber - Groton MA
Kendall A. Honeycutt - Boca Raton FL
Stephen E. Still - Lake Worth FL

International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY

G06F 126

713300, 713320, 323281, 323285

Apparatus for providing electrical power to a processor (CPU) within a computing system includes a fixed-voltage power supply and a programmable power supply. When the computing system is turned on, a switching circuit determines whether the processor is a unified voltage plane type, having a first particular pin electrically floating, or a split voltage plane type, having this pin grounded. In either case, the output of the programmable power supply is applied to the pins associated with the core voltage plane of a split voltage plane type. If the processor is a unified voltage plane type, the switching circuit applies the output of the programmable power supply to the pins associated with the I/O voltage plane of a split voltage plane type. If it is of a split voltage plane type, the switching circuit applies the output of the fixed-voltage power supply to an I/O voltage plane of the processor, with the programmable power supply being first set to generate a voltage determined by whether a second grounded pin is present in the processor. Then, an instruction in an initialization program causes the processor having a split voltage plane to transmit an identification code, which is used to determine a final level of the programmable power supply voltage.

2002010, Aug 8, 2002

Feb 3, 2001

09/775766

Chester Heath - Boca Raton FL, US
Kendall Honeycutt - Boca Raton FL, US
Ray Garcia - Boca Raton FL, US

G06F015/16
G06F017/00
G06F015/177

709/220000

The present invention describes a system for enabling a host computer to reset individual client computers. The invention allows the host to apply the reset to any or all clients, and to inhibit additional resets during a host power-on event. The invention additionally allows individual client modules to reset other client modules, given that the issuer is authorized and equipped to do so.

2003002, Jan 30, 2003

Jul 26, 2001

09/915923

Kendall Honeycutt - Boca Raton FL, US
Ray Garcia - Boca Raton FL, US

G06F015/177

713/002000

The invention disclosed provides a verification circuit and method for sending an operator-generated signal to a frozen remote computer processor that will be distinguished from an unintentional short circuit. The apparatus includes a USB connective cable having a momentary contact switch able to create a short circuit that is transmitted to a resetting circuit. According to the method of the invention, the user of the computer having a frozen remote processor activates the switch so that the resetting circuit recognizes that an intentional reset request is being sent, and transmits a signal to reboot the processor.

2003002, Jan 30, 2003

Jul 26, 2001

09/915926

Chester Heath - Boca Raton FL, US
Kendall Honeycutt - Boca Raton FL, US
Ray Garcia - Boca Raton FL, US

G06F015/177

713/002000

The invention disclosed provides a verification circuit and method for sending an operator-generated signal to a frozen remote computer processor that will be distinguished from an unintentional short circuit. The apparatus includes a USB connective cable having a momentary contact switch able to create a series of intentional short circuits that are transmitted to a counter circuit. According to the method of the invention, the user of the computer having a frozen remote processor activates the switch multiple times within a fixed time period so that the counter and associated circuit recognize that an intentional reset request is being sent, and transmit a signal to reboot the processor.

6240476, May 29, 2001

Aug 21, 1998

9/137490

Ray Garcia - Boca Raton FL
Stephen E. Still - Lake Worth FL
Kendall A. Honeycutt - Boca Raton FL

International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY

G06F 1336
G06F 1314

710107

A computer system includes a system bus, peripheral devices, bus control logic having bus control lines for bus master operation, and an allocation control circuit. The allocation control circuit is connected to at least one of the bus control lines and at least two of the peripheral devices. The connected bus control line is coupled to one of the connected peripheral devices by the allocation unit so that the one connected peripheral device can operate as a bus master on the system bus. In a preferred embodiment, the allocation control circuit includes switches that are controlled by the system software. Also provided is a method of allocating bus master control lines to peripheral devices. According to the method, the bus master control lines and the peripheral devices are connected to an allocation unit. It is determined which peripheral devices to connect to which bus master control lines, and the allocation unit is directed to couple each bus master control line to one of the peripheral devices so that the selected peripheral devices can operate as bus masters.

6054847, Apr 25, 2000

Sep 9, 1998

9/150393

Ray Garcia - Boca Raton FL
Kendall Anthony Honeycutt - Boca Raton FL
Stephen Eugene Still - Lake Worth FL

International Business Machines Corp. - Armonk NY

G05F 308

323354

A method and apparatus to automatically select operating voltages for a device. The method comprising the steps of: connecting a variable resistive network in series to a first side of a resistor for varying the current through the resistor; charging an inductor with a modulate pulse train, the inductor being connected to the second side of the resistor; outputting a voltage equal to the voltage across the resistor and a fixed reference voltage located at the first side of the resistor; determining if at least one designated processor pin is connected to ground; and varying the resistance of the resistive network if at least one pin is connected to ground so as to change the current flowing through the resistor, thereby changing the voltage across it.

2018023, Aug 23, 2018

Aug 19, 2016

15/753220

- Pompano Beach FL, US
Ray Garcia - Boca Raton FL, US

SCHROTH SAFETY PRODUCTS LLC - POMPANO BEACH FL

B60R 21/0132
G08B 21/02
B60Q 9/00

The invention consists of various embodiments of a system that uses electromechanical means to alert a vehicle operator of an imminent vehicle roll-over and protect the operator in a roll-over event. The system uses an electronics control unit (ECU) that is able to detect the deflection angle of the vehicle's tilt with the horizontal. If this angle exceeds a certain amount, the operator is alerted of the increased risk of roll-over via haptic feedback whereby the ECU controls a seatbelt electromechanical system to create a haptic feedback alert to the operator. If the angle exceeds a second higher amount, the system braces the operator for a roll-over event by tightening the seatbelt, thereby better protecting the operator. The fact that the system is electromechanical, instead of pyrotechnical, makes the system reusable. Another embodiment of the invention comprises a safety process used by the ECU to alert and protect the operator. By conducting this procedure, the ECU is able to detect when a critical angle has been exceeded by the vehicle and what response is appropriate for the circumstance.