Host electronic device having a movable cooling component for removable electronic device
Granted: September 19, 2023
Patent Number:
11765848
Example implementations relate to a host electronic device configured for establishing a thermal contact between a heat generating component of a removable electronic device, and a cooling component of the host electronic device, when the removable electronic device is detachably connected to the host electronic device. The host electronic device includes a support structure, the cooling component, a driver, and an actuator. The cooling component is movably connected to the support…
Managing data management policies of resources
Granted: September 19, 2023
Patent Number:
11765204
Examples described herein relate to a method for managing data management policies of resources. An example includes detecting a movement of a resource from a first resource group protected by a first data management policy to a second resource group protected by a second data management policy. Further, in response to detection of the movement of the resource, a data management policy of the second resource group may be upgraded if first data management policy provides an enhanced level…
System and method for scaling data path processing with offload engines in control plane
Granted: September 19, 2023
Patent Number:
11765092
One aspect provides a network switch. The network switch includes hardware-based packet-processing logic for processing received packets, a processing unit, and an offload engine coupled to the processing unit. The offload engine is to offload, from the processing unit, packet-processing operations associated with a subset of the received packets. The offload engine comprises a processor core, at least one hardware packet-processing accelerator for performing the packet-processing…
Delivering power to printing functions
Granted: June 27, 2023
Patent Number:
11687145
A power management technique for a printer includes detecting a change in a state of operation of a printing device. The amount of power available to operate all functions of the printing device is calculated. Next, power is delivered to specified functions of the printing device based on the calculated amount of power available, wherein the specified functions are a subset of all functions of the printing device. Then, it is determined whether the specified functions operate correctly.
Assessment and dynamic quarantine of devices with anomalous behavioral pattern
Granted: June 27, 2023
Patent Number:
11689469
In computer networks, unicast and multicast are information transmission methods. Multicast is when one sender station or device transfers information to all of the other stations or devices in the computer network. Multicast packets sent from devices in a network can be sent directly to a server that will monitor and record the number of multicast packets being submitted from each device in the network. The server may perform actions to regulate the transmission of multicast packets if…
Selection of virtual private network profiles
Granted: June 27, 2023
Patent Number:
11689421
Examples described herein relate to the selection of virtual private network profiles. A device obtains VPN metrics associated with a plurality of VPN server nodes and monitors device usage metrics. The device is configured with a first VPN profile, which indicates that a first VPN tunnel connection is associated with a first VPN server node from the plurality of VPN server nodes. The device determines a latency associated with each of the plurality of VPN server nodes based on the VPN…
Creating a highly-available private cloud gateway based on a two-node hyperconverged infrastructure cluster with a self-hosted hypervisor management system
Granted: June 27, 2023
Patent Number:
11689415
Embodiments described herein are generally directed to a creation of an HA private cloud gateway based on a two-node HCI cluster with a self-hosted HMS. According to an example, a request to register a private cloud to be supported by on-premises infrastructure is received by a SaaS portal, which causes a base station to discover servers within the on-premises infrastructure. The base station is then instructed to prepare a server as a deployment node for use in connection with creation…
Method and system for dynamic topology-aware space allocation in a distributed system
Granted: June 27, 2023
Patent Number:
11687272
A system divides non-volatile memory of a plurality of storage devices into physical extents which comprises chunks. The system allocates slabs associated with the storage devices, wherein a respective slab comprises extents from different storage devices and further comprises stripes. A stripe comprises a chunk from each extent of the respective slab. The system updates, in a first data structure, an entry which indicates: a slab number for the respective allocated slab; and a storage…
Operational feature activation/disabling
Granted: June 27, 2023
Patent Number:
11687258
In some examples, a computer system computes a rate of operations that involves a first system, and classifies, using a classifier, a request for an operation. The computer system determines a relationship between the computed rate of operations and a dynamic threshold rate determined during a training phase, and based on the determined relationship and a classification of the request by the classifier, selectively activates or disables an operational feature of the first system.
Configuration of a computational drive
Granted: June 27, 2023
Patent Number:
11687253
Examples implementations relate to configuration of computational drives. An example computational drive includes a housing to be inserted in a drive bay of a host device, and persistent storage. The computational drive may also include a processor to respond to an insertion of the housing into the drive bay of the host device by configuring the computational drive to operate as a new node of a distributed file system, and connecting the computational drive to the distributed file system…
Build material composition
Granted: June 27, 2023
Patent Number:
11684978
An example of a method for making a build material composition for three-dimensional (3D) printing includes freezing a dispersion of flow additive nanoparticles in a liquid to form a frozen liquid containing the flow additive nanoparticles. The frozen liquid containing the flow additive nanoparticles is lyophilized to form flow additive agglomerates having a porous, fractal structure. The flow additive agglomerates are mixed with a host metal. The flow additive nanoparticles have an…
Imaging system with gloss treatment device
Granted: June 27, 2023
Patent Number:
11687023
An imaging system includes a toner image forming device and a gloss treatment device. The toner image forming device accommodates a color toner that forms a color toner image on a printing medium, and which accommodates a clear toner that forms a clear toner image on the printing medium. The clear toner has a wax content that is lower than a wax content of the color toner. The gloss treatment device melts the clear toner on the printing medium to apply gloss treatment to the printing…
Particle categorization
Granted: June 27, 2023
Patent Number:
11686664
An example system includes an input channel having a first end and a second end to receive particles through the first end, a sensor to categorize particles in the input channel into one of at least two categories, and at least two output channels Each output channel is coupled to the second end of the input channel to receive particles from the input channel, and each output channel is associated with at least one category of the at least two categories. Each output channel has a…
Inertial pumps
Granted: June 27, 2023
Patent Number:
11686327
The present disclosure is drawn to inertial pumps. An inertial pump can include a microfluidic channel, a fluid actuator located in the microfluidic channel, and a check valve located in the microfluidic channel. The check valve can include a moveable valve element, a narrowed channel segment located upstream of the moveable valve element, and a blocking element formed in the microfluidic channel downstream of the moveable valve element. The narrowed channel segment can have a width less…
Movable guides for media trays
Granted: June 27, 2023
Patent Number:
11685620
According to examples, an apparatus may include a guide frame, a standard position pawl movably attached to the guide frame, the standard position pawl to engage a standard pawl detent. The apparatus may also include a custom position pawl movably engaged with the guide frame, the custom position pawl to engage custom pawl teeth of a rack. The apparatus may further include a switch in movable engagement with the guide frame, the switch being movable between a first position at which the…
Transferring and mixing inks for printing
Granted: June 27, 2023
Patent Number:
11685160
According to examples, systems and methods for transferring and mixing ink utilizing a tank with a mixing area formed by a funnel portion are described. The mixing area is for mixing new ink and resident ink. In some examples, a new ink supply inlet tube deposits the new ink into the tank from a connected ink supply container. In some examples, a resident ink supply inlet tube deposits the resident ink into the tank from a connected printing device. In some examples, an outlet port…
Communicating print component
Granted: June 27, 2023
Patent Number:
11685153
An integrated circuit for a print component including a number of memory bits. The integrated circuit may include a selection circuit to select at least one memory bit of the number of memory bits and fire actuators of a fire pulse group. The integrated circuit may include a memory voltage regulator to provide a write voltage to the at least one memory bit of the number of memory bits.
Additive manufacturing with nozzles at different die widths
Granted: June 27, 2023
Patent Number:
11685115
In one example in accordance with the present disclosure, an additive manufacturing module is described. The additive manufacturing module includes an agent distributor to selectively distribute a fabrication agent onto layers of build material. The agent distributor includes at least one fluidic ejection die. Each fluidic ejection die includes a plurality of nozzles arranged along a die length and a die width, the plurality of nozzles arranged such that, for each set of neighboring…
Additive manufacturing of three-dimensional object
Granted: June 27, 2023
Patent Number:
11685114
Some examples include an additive manufacturing system including a processor and a memory to store instructions. The instructions cause the processor to generate print data from received data related to a three-dimensional build object. The generated print data includes defined print data to dispensing a first agent at a build area of a build material layer, defined print data to selectively dispensing a second agent at a component receiving area within the build area of the build…
Three-dimensional printer
Granted: June 27, 2023
Patent Number:
11685111
A three-dimensional (3D) printer includes a selective solidification module to selectively solidify portions of successive layers of a build material on a build platform. The 3D printer also includes a cartridge receiver to hold a removable material cartridge that accepts material from the 3D printer and makes material available to the 3D printer for printing of the 3D object.
