Connector
Granted: October 10, 2023
Patent Number:
11784433
A connector comprises a first housing having a connection end to be inserted into an opening of a second connector, the first housing containing a first electrical contact, wherein the connection end comprises a first opening. The connector further comprises a first cover biased towards a closed position in which the first electrical contact is inaccessible via the first opening, wherein the first cover is moved from the closed position to an open position exposing the first electrical…
Method and system for facilitating edge rack emulation
Granted: October 10, 2023
Patent Number:
11784880
A system for facilitating emulation in a distributed environment is provided. During operation, the system can obtain configuration of a physical edge rack, which can include one or more physical computing devices. The system can then present an emulated edge rack in a user interface. The emulated edge rack can be a digital twin of the physical edge rack. Based on a user input received via the user interface, the system can emulate a power-on event on the emulated edge rack. The emulated…
Algorithms for use of load information from neighboring nodes in adaptive routing
Granted: October 10, 2023
Patent Number:
11784920
Systems and methods are provided for passing data amongst a plurality of switches having a plurality of links attached between the plurality of switches. At a switch, a plurality of load signals are received from a plurality of neighboring switches. Each of the plurality of load signals are made up of a set of values indicative of a load at each of the plurality of neighboring switches providing the load signal. Each value within the set of values provides an indication for each link of…
Simulation-based capture system adjustments
Granted: October 10, 2023
Patent Number:
11785333
In one example in accordance with the present disclosure, a system is described. The system includes a replicator to receive a reference model of an object to be scanned. A capture system simulator of the system simulates capture settings. The capture system includes a number of capture devices placed around the object. The capture system also includes a controller. The controller extracts simulated capture data for the capture system and determines adjustments to the capture settings…
Temperature control of closely packed electronic assemblies
Granted: October 10, 2023
Patent Number:
11785743
A thin, single-layer thermally conductive jacket surrounds a PCA. One or more living springs integrated in the jacket exert compressive force on PCA components where cooling is desired. The compressive force creates and maintains a thermal contact though which heat is conducted out of the PCA components and into the jacket. The jacket conducts the heat (either directly or indirectly) to a liquid-cooled cold plate configured as a cooling frame surrounding one or more of the jacketed PCAs.…
Molded substrates
Granted: October 10, 2023
Patent Number:
11784072
Examples of molded substrates are described herein. In some examples, a molded substrate may support integrated circuitry. In some examples, the molded substrate and the integrated circuitry are included in a circuitry package for a replaceable print component. In some examples, the molded substrate is relatively flat. In some examples, molding remnants may be on the molded substrate.
Optimized transmissions using A-MPDU and multi-VAP frames
Granted: October 3, 2023
Patent Number:
11778594
Systems and methods are provided for aggregating Media Access Control (MAC) Protocol Data Units (MPDUs) destined for different peers, and may have the same or different source address information, e.g., within the same or across different virtual access points (VAPs). For example, trigger frames used to signal to devices which subchannel(s) those devices can utilize, may be aggregated. For example, a multi-VAP/multi-device block acknowledgement for acknowledging packets transmitted to…
Association identifier assignment for compact traffic indication map
Granted: October 3, 2023
Patent Number:
11778503
Examples of techniques for Association Identifier (AID) assignment are disclosed. In an example, a controller managing an AP may allocate a set of numbers for AID assignment to clients connecting to VAPs in a multiple BSSID set of the AP. The controller may configure the AP to assign AIDS to non-Multi-Link (non-ML) clients from a first subset of the set based on a first monotonic sequence and assign AIDS to ML clients from a second subset of the set based on a second monotonic sequence.…
Opportunistic spatial reuse
Granted: October 3, 2023
Patent Number:
11778478
Systems and methods are provided for opportunistic spatial reuse. In various embodiments, the disclosed systems and methods provide for mechanisms for enabling and disabling spatial reuse in a wireless network as appropriate based on the deployment of the wireless network. In some embodiments, spatial reuse can be enabled and disabled based on various factors, such as channel utilization. In some embodiments, spatial reuse can be enabled and disabled as appropriate for various types of…
Precaching precursor keys within a roaming domain of client devices
Granted: October 3, 2023
Patent Number:
11778467
Examples relate to seamless roaming across subnets. In an example, a system receives an indication that a client device has been authenticated at a first network device of a network. The system receives precursor keys and identification information of the client device, as generated from the authentication of the client device. The system determines second clusters, which are within a roaming domain of the cluster or the client device. The system receives one or more second precursor…
System and method for facilitating data-driven intelligent network
Granted: October 3, 2023
Patent Number:
11777843
Data-driven intelligent networking systems and methods are provided. The system can accommodate dynamic traffic with fast, effective congestion control. The system can maintain state information of individual packet flows, which can be set up or released dynamically based on injected data. Each flow can be provided with a flow-specific input queue upon arriving at a switch. Packets of a respective flow can be acknowledged after reaching the egress point of the network, and the…
Automatic system provisioning for NVME-over-fabric storage
Granted: October 3, 2023
Patent Number:
11777804
A network switch is provided. The network switch may incorporate resources for use as network attached resources for remote devices. Resources may include SSD storage for use as network attached storage for remote devices. The network switch may also include one or more client applications configured to detect an intended access path between a remote device and a non-volatile memory express (NVMe) storage device. The intended access path may be based on one of many different NVMe over…
Virtualizing secure storage of a baseboard management controller to a host computing device
Granted: October 3, 2023
Patent Number:
11775667
Example implementations relate a system and method for storing configuration files of a host computing device in a secure storage of a Baseboard Management Controller (BMC). The secure storage includes configuration files associated with the host computing device. The BMC is communicatively connected to the host computing device using a communication link. The secure storage is emulated as a storage device to the host computing device. The BMC monitors the secure storage to detect…
Perform verification check in response to change in page table base register
Granted: October 3, 2023
Patent Number:
11775649
Examples disclosed herein relate to performing a verification check in response to receiving notification. A computing system includes a host processor, memory coupled to the host processor, and a device separate from the host processor capable of accessing the memory. The host processor has a page table base register. The host processor is configured to send a notification to the device when the page table base register changes. The device performs a verification check in response to…
Authentication of devices by indicators on device packaging
Granted: October 3, 2023
Patent Number:
11775630
An example apparatus includes a packaging container, and any of a label and an electronic tag detachably connected to the packaging container and including an electrical code set for electrical authentication upon removal of any of the label and the electronic tag from the packaging container and being affixed to a device associated with the packaging container, wherein the electrical authentication is to validate the packaging container and the device as original equipment manufacturer…
Supervisory memory management unit
Granted: October 3, 2023
Patent Number:
11775443
A system includes a central processing unit (CPU) to process data with respect to a virtual address generated by the CPU. A first memory management unit (MMU) translates the virtual address to a physical address of a memory with respect to the data processed by the CPU. A supervisory MMU translates the physical address of the first MMU to a storage address for storage and retrieval of the data in the memory. The supervisory MMU controls access to the memory via the storage address…
Method and system for facilitating backwards compatibility of a rest API on an evolving data model
Granted: October 3, 2023
Patent Number:
11775356
During operation, the system receives a request, via a REST API, for data stored in a database which uses a schema associated with a current version, wherein the request indicates a version of the REST API. Responsive to determining that the indicated version is a prior version of the REST API which does not correspond to the current version of the database schema, the system: dispatches the request to a translation proxy; applies rules which converts the request to indicate an updated…
Virtual resource selection for a virtual resource creation request
Granted: October 3, 2023
Patent Number:
11775333
In some examples, a system associates, with a plurality of virtual resources deployed in a cloud environment, properties representative of characteristics of the virtual resources, the properties comprising a performance level of a virtual resource. The system receives a request to create a virtual resource in the cloud environment, and, in response to determining that properties of the virtual resource to be created for the request satisfy a criterion with respect to properties of a…
Printing fluid recirculation
Granted: October 3, 2023
Patent Number:
11772385
A printing device and method is described comprising: selectively generating a negative fluid pressure between one of one or more printing fluid supplies and a first one of first and second ports of a printhead; selectively generating a positive fluid pressure between one of said printing fluid supplies and a second one of the first and second ports of the printhead; and providing a first pulsed signal to a first priming pump associated with a first one of the first and second ports,…
Storage receptacles with fire suppression
Granted: October 3, 2023
Patent Number:
11771932
An example apparatus includes a cabinet body and a first storage receptacle at the cabinet body. The first storage receptacle is to temporarily store an electronic device. The apparatus further includes a second storage receptacle at the cabinet body. The second storage receptacle is to temporarily store another electronic device. The second storage receptacle is separate from the first storage receptacle to prevent physical access to the first storage receptacle through the second…
