Cooling structure for regulation blade of developing device
Granted: April 2, 2024
Patent Number:
11947312
An example developing device includes a developing roller, a regulation blade to regulate a thickness of a toner layer attached to an outer circumference of the developing roller, a blade bracket for supporting the regulation blade, and an inner duct including an air supply port and extending in a longitudinal direction of the developing roller to form a flow path of air to cool the blade bracket.
Consistent Quality of Service policy in a software defined enterprise
Granted: April 2, 2024
Patent Number:
11950125
Systems and methods for providing enhanced Quality of Service (QoS) network transmissions can be based on an application sub-class or a user class. Systems and methods can include inspecting the information packet having a network level QoS field having a first network level QoS portion and a second network level QoS portion, determining an application sub-class or user class associated with the information packet, tagging the first network level QoS portion of the information packet…
Enforcing reference operating state compliance for cloud computing-based compute appliances
Granted: April 2, 2024
Patent Number:
11949583
A process includes enforcing compliance of a compute appliance to a reference operating state for the compute appliance. The compute appliance is part of a cloud-based computing system. Enforcing compliance with the reference operating state includes, responsive to a startup of the compute appliance, the compute appliance determining an actual compute state of the compute appliance. The actual compute state includes an actual physical topology placement of a hardware component of the…
Adaptive backoff time in power-over-ethernet detection cycles
Granted: April 2, 2024
Patent Number:
11949522
One aspect provides a power sourcing equipment controller for providing power to a powered device using power-over-Ethernet (PoE). The power sourcing equipment includes a voltage-output logic block to output a sequence of voltage signals, the voltage signals comprising at least a detection signal and a classification signal; a current-measurement logic block to measure current provided responsive to the voltage signals; a backoff-time-determination logic block to determine a backoff time…
Wireless polling frequency alteration
Granted: April 2, 2024
Patent Number:
11949256
Examples herein relate to wireless polling frequency alteration. For instance, in some examples a wireless power transmitter circuit can emit wireless signals to detect a presence of a wireless power receiver circuit included in a mobile device and a controller can alter a wireless polling frequency at which the wireless power transmitter circuit emits the wireless signals to a respective wireless polling frequency of a plurality of wireless polling frequencies.
System management memory coherency detection
Granted: April 2, 2024
Patent Number:
11948008
In an example, a system includes a firmware controller to initiate a SM execution mode of the system. The firmware controller scans memory for a process pool tag. The firmware controller compares the process pool tag to a set of operating system process pool tags and detects a coherency discrepancy between the process pool tag and the set of operating system process pool tags. The firmware controller exits the SM execution mode of the system.
Execution of services concurrently
Granted: April 2, 2024
Patent Number:
11947996
Methods to execute an orchestration of computing services concurrently, the method including developing a representation of a set of services where each service relates to other services via different types of relationships. Also, applying a set of dependency rules for each type of relationship within the set of services such that the application of the dependency rules creates inter-step dependencies between steps representing state transitions of the set of services and developing the…
Remote resource configuration mechanism
Granted: April 2, 2024
Patent Number:
11947971
A system to facilitate configuration of infrastructure resources is described. The system includes a plurality of on-premises infrastructure appliances, each appliance including a plurality of infrastructure devices and an on-premises infrastructure controller to control the plurality of infrastructure devices. The system further includes a cloud services resource configuration manager, communicatively coupled to each of the on-premises infrastructure controllers, to configure each of…
Multi-die dot-product engine to provision large scale machine learning inference applications
Granted: April 2, 2024
Patent Number:
11947928
Systems and methods are provided for a multi-die dot-product engine (DPE) to provision large-scale machine learning inference applications. The multi-die DPE leverages a multi-chip architecture. For example, a multi-chip interface can include a plurality of DPE chips, where each DPE chip performs inference computations for performing deep learning operations. A hardware interface between a memory of a host computer and the plurality of DPE chips communicatively connects the plurality of…
Restoration of firmware subsystems based on manufacturing states
Granted: April 2, 2024
Patent Number:
11947675
An example computing device incudes a main processor, a management firmware subsystem, and a controller to control operation of the management firmware subsystem. The controller is separate from a main processor. A memory stores subsystem data that is useable by the controller. The computing device further includes a set of instructions that determines a manufacturing mode of the computing device. The manufacturing mode is enabled when the computing device is under manufacture or…
Skew detection
Granted: April 2, 2024
Patent Number:
11947302
According to some examples, a skew detection device comprises a first roller rotatable around a first axis, a second roller rotatable around a second axis, a first sensor, and a second sensor. The first sensor measures a first rotation parameter from the first roller and the second sensor measures a second rotation parameter from the second roller. A movement of a print media over the device rotates the first contact roller and the second roller, and a controller determines a skew of the…
Jam prevention of printing media using gap adjusting
Granted: April 2, 2024
Patent Number:
11947289
An example image forming apparatus includes a main body, a printing engine to be disposed in the main body to form an image on a printing medium, a fixing apparatus including a fixing roller and a fixing belt disposed to face the fixing roller, and a jam prevention apparatus including a fixed frame disposed adjacent to the fixing apparatus, and a movable apparatus to be detachably fastened to the fixed frame through a plurality of adjusting screws, to adjust a gap with the fixing belt…
DFS radar detection
Granted: April 2, 2024
Patent Number:
11947033
A method for improving dynamic frequency selection (DFS) includes receiving, by an access point, a plurality of pulses in a DFS channel of the access point, determining, by the access point, a plurality of characteristics of the plurality of pulses, varying, by the access point, a threshold for radar detection, and determining, by the access point and based on at least one of the plurality of characteristics, whether the plurality of pulses are radar.
Sensor assemblies coupled to sliding assemblies for position sensing
Granted: April 2, 2024
Patent Number:
11946781
According to examples, an apparatus may include a base, a sliding assembly slideably coupled to the base, and a sensor assembly coupled to the sliding assembly. The sliding assembly may moveably support a control panel and the sensor assembly may sense positions of the sliding assembly relative to the base. The sensor assembly may include a first sensor to sense that the sliding assembly is in a first position relative to the base, and a second sensor to sense that the sliding assembly…
Adjusting power consumption limits for processors of a server
Granted: March 26, 2024
Patent Number:
11940859
A method of adjusting core and un-core operating frequencies of two or more processors of a server includes determining core and un-core operating frequency variations versus power consumption limit variations of the two or more processors. The method also includes determining two or more first power consumption levels associated with the two or more processors. Each one of the two or more processors run at essentially a same target core operating frequency and at a same target un-core…
Print job management of usage data and consumption data
Granted: March 26, 2024
Patent Number:
11941312
An example method includes providing access to a database of a plurality of print devices registered to a print system, and receiving print data that identifies a print job for a print device among the plurality of print devices and a first account for a first service of the print system. The method further includes managing the print job including applying usage data for the print job to the first account based on the print data, and applying consumption data for the print job to a…
Configuration data deletion based on tamper status
Granted: March 26, 2024
Patent Number:
11941159
An example storage medium includes instructions that, when executed, cause a processor of a computing device to read, during start-up of the computing device, first configuration data from a first storage device of the computing device; read second configuration data from a second storage device of the computing device; determine that there is an inconsistency between the first configuration data and the second configuration data; check a tamper status of the computing device; based on…
FPGA chip with protected JTAG interface
Granted: March 26, 2024
Patent Number:
11941133
One aspect provides an FPGA chip mounted on a printed circuit board (PCB). The FPGA chip can include a joint test action group (JTAG) interface comprising a number of input/output pins and an enablement pin, and a control logic block coupled to the enablement pin of the JTAG interface. The control logic block can receive a control signal from an off-chip control unit and control a logical value of the enablement pin based on the received control signal, thereby facilitating the off-chip…
Container index persistent item tags
Granted: March 26, 2024
Patent Number:
11940956
Examples may include container index persistent item tags. Examples may store chunk signatures in at least one container index and, for each chunk signature, store at least one persistent item tag identifying a respective backup item that references or formerly referenced the chunk signature. Examples may determine that all chunks formerly referenced by a backup item have been erased based on the persistent item tags in the at least one container index and output an indication that the…
Migration of journal groups in a storage system
Granted: March 26, 2024
Patent Number:
11940882
Example implementations relate to metadata operations in a storage system. An example includes receiving, by a storage controller of a deduplication storage system, a plurality of data streams to be stored in persistent storage of the deduplication storage system; identifying, by the storage controller, a set of journals in a first journal group that are modified during a first backup process; determining, by the storage controller, a count of the set of journals that are modified during…
