Philip Grady from Charlotte, NC

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Cable Attachment Bracket With An Attachment Tab
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US Patent:

6354869, Mar 12, 2002
Filed:

Jun 29, 2000
Appl. No.:

09/607307
Inventors:

Philip E. Grady - Kannapolis NC
Jochem K. Koenig - Charlotte NC
John E. McCloskey - Boca Raton FL
Assignee:

International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY
International Classification:

H01R 1373
US Classification:

439544, 439572
Abstract:

A connector is fastened to a central portion of a connector bracket adjacent a slot in a slotted bracket to provide a number of electrical circuits extending through the slot. A first end of the connector bracket is fastened to the slotted bracket by means of a screw. The central portion of the connector bracket extends inwardly along the slotted card bracket, adjacent the slot, which the central portion overlaps. An end tab of the card bracket, opposite the first end thereof, extends outwardly along a part of the slotted card bracket, which itself extends from an end of the slot.

Changing A Function Of A Device Based On Tilt Of The Device For Longer Than A Time Period
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US Patent:

7382353, Jun 3, 2008
Filed:

Nov 18, 2004
Appl. No.:

10/992437
Inventors:

Philip E. Grady - Kannapolis NC, US
Paul Andrew Hakenewerth - Charlotte NC, US
Kursad Urungu Oney - Durham NC, US
Kevin Laverne Schultz - Raleigh NC, US
Assignee:

International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY
International Classification:

G09G 5/00
US Classification:

345156, 345168, 345169, 345173, 345176
Abstract:

In various embodiments, changing the function involves disabling an input device, disabling an output device, changing a display mode of the output device from portrait to landscape, or increasing volume of the output device. In an embodiment, the change of the function is delayed by a time period, and the delay for changing the output device is longer than the delay for changing the input device. If the electronic device is upright, the input device and the output device are enabled. The tilt is sensed by a sensing device, signals from the sensing device are filtered, and a delay is introduced. In this way, premature disabling or enabling of the electronic device is avoided.

Changing A Function Of A Device Based On Tilt Of The Device For Longer Than A Time Period
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US Patent:

7760183, Jul 20, 2010
Filed:

Mar 18, 2008
Appl. No.:

12/077377
Inventors:

Philip E. Grady - Kannapolis NC, US
Paul Andrew Hakenewerth - Charlotte NC, US
Kursad Urungu Oney - Durham NC, US
Kevin Laverne Schultz - Raleigh NC, US
Assignee:

International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY
International Classification:

G09G 5/00
US Classification:

345156, 345168, 345170, 345172, 345169
Abstract:

In various embodiments, changing the function involves disabling an input device, disabling an output device, changing a display mode of the output device from portrait to landscape, or increasing volume of the output device. In an embodiment, the change of the function is delayed by a time period, and the delay for changing the output device is longer than the delay for changing the input device. If the electronic device is upright, the input device and the output device are enabled. The tilt is sensed by a sensing device, signals from the sensing device are filtered, and a delay is introduced. In this way, premature disabling or enabling of the electronic device is avoided.

States For Breakout Appliance In A Mobile Data Network
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US Patent:

8607074, Dec 10, 2013
Filed:

Nov 20, 2012
Appl. No.:

13/682404
Inventors:

Philip E. Grady - Kannapolis NC, US
Scott A. Liebl - Oronico MN, US
George W. Van Leeuwen - Rochester MN, US
Assignee:

International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY
International Classification:

G06F 11/30
US Classification:

713194, 455500, 455511, 455518, 340 561, 340 58, 726 24, 709224, 713 2, 713190, 713200
Abstract:

Mobile network services are performed in a mobile data network in a way that is transparent to most of the existing equipment in the mobile data network. The mobile data network includes a radio access network and a core network. A breakout appliance in the radio access network breaks out data coming from a basestation, and performs one or more mobile network services at the edge of the mobile data network based on the broken out data. The breakout appliance includes multiple states that support manufacturing, testing, production, tamper detection and end of life, and the functions of the breakout appliance vary according to its state.

Dc Power Distribution
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US Patent:

61810274, Jan 30, 2001
Filed:

Feb 26, 1999
Appl. No.:

9/259097
Inventors:

Philip Edward Grady - Kannapolis NC
Assignee:

International Business Machine Corp. - Armonk NY
International Classification:

G05F 110
US Classification:

307 31
Abstract:

Apparatus and method is disclosed for overcoming the voltage attenuation and ground shifts normally associated with providing DC power to distributed loads from a DC power supply without the need for excessively large conductors, the need to distribute the DC power supply or the need to provide converters at or near each load. Reasonably accurate voltage regulation at each load is provided according to the invention while using low but not insignificant resistance power conductors by providing similarly low resistance voltage sense conductors. The loads are connected between the sense conductors in a distributed fashion. Current approximating that drawn by each load is injected from the power conductors to the sense conductors at or near each load. Dynamic current requirements are supplied by capacitors connected across each load, usually mounted on the load circuit boards. Stability during power up is provided by capacitors connected between each power conductor and it's respective sense conductor at the power supply.