Richard Kelley

6493779, Dec 10, 2002

Dec 21, 1998

09/224111

Guy Lynn Guthrie - Austin TX
Richard Allen Kelley - Apex NC
Danny Marvin Neal - Round Rock TX
Steven Mark Thurber - Austin TX

International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY

G06F 1324

710260, 710263, 710264, 710 48

A method and apparatus is provided in which Pipelined Packet Transfers (PPT) are implemented. The PPT methodology includes a request phase and a response phase. The PPT request phase involves a PPT request master delivering to a PPT request target a source address, a destination address and an information packet for the interrupt being requested. The PPT response phase involves the PPT request target becoming a PPT response master with the PPT response master delivering to a PPT request master a destination address and a data packet which includes the interrupt processing information. Pipelined Packet transfers (PPT) are ordered in accordance with a predetermined processing priority to improve performance and avoid deadlock.

6565272, May 20, 2003

Aug 27, 2001

09/940295

Richard A. Kelley - Vancouver WA
David Burton - Vancouver WA
Wade A. Powell - Vancouver WA
Elmer S. Cajigas - Vancouver WA

Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. - Houston TX

B41J 25308

400 59, 400 55, 347 8

The present invention provides an apparatus for adjusting and fixing default printhead-to-media spacing in a printer having a frame and a printhead-carrying carriage, the apparatus including an elongate, laterally extending carriage rod along which the carriage moves during printing, and selectively adjustable and fixable compliant structure mounting the rod on the frame, and operable to effect positional and fixable adjustment of the rod relative to the frame to establish a desired default printhead-to-media spacing.

6349820, Feb 26, 2002

Dec 21, 1999

09/467689

Sherrill L. Beard Kelley - Shreveport LA, 71119
Richard D. Kelley - Shreveport LA, 71119

B65D 6900

206223, 2064595, 206472, 434127

A spice-holding device includes a rectangular book-shaped container having a top, bottom, back cover, front cover, a binding end and an opening end defining an interior volume. The interior volume is partitioned into a plurality of compartments for holding predetermined quantities of preselected spices. The front cover is pivotally attached to the book-shaped container along the binding end so that the front cover is pivotable between an open position exposing the spice-holding compartments in the interior volume and a closed position covering the spices for storage and so that the spice-holding device is self-supporting when holding the spices and placed on its bottom. A method of business for distributing selected spices in a cuisine specific book shaped storage device. A method that includes selecting a specific cuisine, collecting spices useful for preparing the selected specific cuisine and making a book-shaped spice-holding device, including a plurality of compartments for holding small quantities of the selected cuisine-specific spices. The book-shaped spice-holding device is labeled with a cuisine indicator corresponding to the selected, specific cuisine for which the collected spices are useful.

6519555, Feb 11, 2003

Sep 30, 1996

08/723174

Richard Allen Kelley - Apex NC
Danny Marvin Neal - Round Rock TX
Michael Anthony Perez - Cedar Park TX
Paul Gordon Robertson - Austin TX
Padmavathy Tamirisa - Austin TX
John Daniel Upton - Georgetown TX

International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY

G06F 1750

703 13, 703 15

The invention provides an apparatus and method of allowing a device to respond to a configuration query only if it is the true target of the query. In one embodiment of the invention, logic gates having two inputs are provided. The first input of the logic gates is connected to the signal of a bridge that selects a device when the address of the signal is referenced in the configuration query. The second input of the logic gate receives a signal indicating whether the local bus or the subordinate bus is being configured and the output of the logic gate is used to enable the device. In a second embodiment, certain signals designated to indicate the selection of a bus are used to enable devices to respond to configuration queries.

6572292, Jun 3, 2003

May 4, 2001

09/849124

Richard A. Kelley - Vancouver WA
Bruce G. Johnson - Ridgefield WA
Michael W. Munro - Vancouver WA

Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. - Houston TX

B41J 1310

400627, 400648, 400656, 271276

An apparatus for transporting print medium through a printzone of a printing device. The apparatus including a print media movement mechanism configured to advance a first portion of a print medium through the printzone and a reciprocally translating vacuum platen downstream of the print media movement mechanism. The vacuum platen receives the print medium and conveys a remaining portion of the print medium through the printzone so that a printing mechanism can print at a bottom margin of the print medium.

6405276, Jun 11, 2002

Dec 10, 1998

09/210135

Richard A. Kelley - Apex NC
Danny Marvin Neal - Round Rock TX
Steven Mark Thurber - Austin TX

International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY

G06F 1338

710310, 710 57, 710109, 710306

A bus bridge with a pool of buffers sets including first and second buffer sets. The bridge includes steering logic for directing transactions issued by a first peripheral device to the first buffer set and transactions issued by the second peripheral device to the second buffer set. The bus bridge is configured to pull posted memory write transactions ahead of a delayed read completion transaction in the first buffer set in response to identifying the first peripheral device as a target of a read request issued by a processor. In one embodiment, the bus bridge is further configured to receive first and second device select signals from the first and second peripheral devices respectively. In this embodiment, the device select signals indicate the target of the read request issued by the processor. The bridge is configured, in one embodiment, such that the pulling of posted memory write transactions in the first buffer set leaves transactions in all buffer sets other than the first buffer set unaffected in response to the read request. The invention further contemplates a computer system that includes a processor coupled to a system memory via a host bus and a bus bridge as described coupled between the host bus and a secondary bus.

6580244, Jun 17, 2003

Jan 24, 2001

09/769861

Rick M Tanaka - Vancouver WA
Christopher M Lesniak - Vancouver WA
Richard Alan Kelley - Vancouver WA

Hewlett-Packard Company - Palo Alto CA

G05B 1101

318560, 318 34, 318 48, 318 49, 318 63, 318 86, 318 90, 318630, 318625

Two motors are used to provide motion control in a transport drive system. A primary motor, or a primary and secondary motor, provides primary power for accelerated motion. PWM signals are used to drive the motors according to predetermined fixed functions related to acceleration, deceleration and hold of a load. Alternatively, during onset of large or high speed moves, the primary and secondary motors are on in tandem. During deceleration of a move, the torque provided by the secondary motor is reversed, providing active braking and ensuring the drive train remains loaded wherein backlash is eliminated. During a driver hold phase, the primary and secondary motor push against each other to actively control positioning.

6581141, Jun 17, 2003

May 18, 1999

09/314045

Richard Allen Kelley - Apex NC
Danny Marvin Neal - Round Rock TX
Adalberto Guillermo Yanes - Rochester MN

International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY

G06F 1316

711154, 710 57, 710310

A system and method for optimally processing split request transactions across a PCI-X bridge with a PCI-X bridge buffer. The split transaction mode of the PCI-X bridge buffer is toggled between a No Over-commit mode and an over-commit mode. Over-commitment of the buffer is inhibited when the split transaction mode is toggled to the No Over-commit mode and when the buffer is over committed by the bridge. At least some over-commitment of the buffer is allowed by the bridge when the split transaction mode is toggled to the over-commit mode and when the buffer is not over committed by the bridge. The over-commit mode may be an Over-commitment mode or a Flood mode. The Over-commitment mode allows some degree of over commitment of the buffer by the bridge while the Flood mode allows the bridge to forward all split request transactions regardless of size of the transactions or amount of available space in the buffer when the Over-commit mode is in a Flood mode. The split request transaction is controlled and forwarded based on the toggled split transaction mode. The system comprises at least a toggle switch and a control system.