John Martin Keagy

US Patent:

6665427, Dec 16, 2003

Filed:

Feb 23, 1999

Appl. No.:

09/255744

Inventors:

John M. Keagy - San Francisco CA
Naum Pinkhasik - San Jose CA
Alexander Muzil - St. Petersburg, RU

Assignee:

Identix, Inc. - Minnetonka MN

International Classification:

G06K 900

US Classification:

382124, 382127, 235282

Abstract:

In one embodiment, a fingerprint sensing system includes a sheet prism having a sensing surface and a number of prismlets positioned opposite to the sensing surface. Each prismlet has an entrance surface and an exit surface, and is adjacent to another prismlet. The width of the sheet is more than ten times the maximum thickness of any one of the prismlets. When a finger is positioned on the sensing surface, a portion of the radiation entering a number of the entrance surfaces and incident at the sensing surface is reflected through total internal reflection. The reflected radiation emits from a number of the exit surfaces to create an image of the fingerprint. In another embodiment, the system further includes a second sheet prism stacked together with the previously described sheet prism. The second sheet prism has a flat surface and a number of prismlets positioned opposite to the flat surface, which faces the prismlets of the previously described sheet prism. The image formed with two sheet prisms can have lower distortion.

US Patent:

8095662, Jan 10, 2012

Filed:

Aug 4, 2008

Appl. No.:

12/185774

Inventors:

Paul Lappas - San Francisco CA, US
John Martin Keagy - San Francisco CA, US
Nicholas F. Peterson - El Cerrito CA, US

International Classification:

G06F 15/173

US Classification:

709226

Abstract:

Some embodiments provide a method and system for automatedly scheduling virtual machines across several hosting servers of a hosting service provider. Some embodiments perform the automated scheduling by receiving a server configuration that includes constraint data. In some embodiments, the constraint data includes a specified amount of hosting resources needed to implement the server configuration. Based on the constraint data, a scheduling module in the hosting environment determines an optimal distribution of the server configuration across a set of hosting resources that implement the server configuration based on the constraint data. To determine the optimal distribution, some embodiments compute a set of scores for quantifying the specified set of hosting resources required for hosting the server configuration. From the optimal distribution, some embodiments perform a mapping of the server configuration to a particular set of hosting resources of several hosting resources using the computed set of scores.

US Patent:

8219653, Jul 10, 2012

Filed:

Apr 9, 2009

Appl. No.:

12/421611

Inventors:

John Martin Keagy - San Francisco CA, US
Jeffery Carr - San Francisco CA, US
Paul Lappas - San Francisco CA, US

Assignee:

Gogrid, LLC - San Francisco CA

International Classification:

G06F 15/177

US Classification:

709222, 718 1

Abstract:

Some embodiments provide a method for a server hosting environment having several nodes. Each node is for using one or more hypervisors in order to host several configurations of several computer systems. The method receives a first configuration of a computer system. The first configuration includes an operating system that directly accesses hardware of the computer system. The method generates a second configuration that is based on the first configuration. The second configuration includes the first configuration modified to be operable on a particular hypervisor of a particular node in the several nodes. The method installs the second configuration on the particular node in order to allow the particular node to operate on the second configuration in conjunction with the particular hypervisor. The second configuration accesses a set of virtual hardware provided by the particular hypervisor.

US Patent:

8280790, Oct 2, 2012

Filed:

Jan 13, 2009

Appl. No.:

12/353246

Inventors:

Paul Lappas - San Francisco CA, US
John Martin Keagy - San Francisco CA, US
Nicholas F. Peterson - El Cerrito CA, US

Assignee:

Gogrid, LLC - San Francisco CA

International Classification:

G07F 19/00

US Classification:

705 34, 705 30, 705 32, 705 39, 705 26, 709203, 709246, 709238, 709213, 709218, 709233, 709226, 709223, 709224, 709217, 709200, 709220, 709221, 709222, 709219

Abstract:

Some embodiments provide a system and method for projecting billing of a specified server configuration. In some embodiments, the projected billing is determined by identifying a set of allocated resources for the server configuration. In some embodiments, the set of resources include an amount of allocated RAM, network bandwidth, disk storage, processing power, etc. The set of resources are then projected over a billing period. Some embodiments determine a projection for the configuration as each component of the configuration is specified within a graphical user interface. Additionally, some embodiments determine a projection for the configuration after the entire configuration is specified within the graphical user interface.

US Patent:

8352608, Jan 8, 2013

Filed:

Apr 9, 2009

Appl. No.:

12/421602

Inventors:

John Martin Keagy - San Francisco CA, US
Jeffery Carr - San Francisco CA, US
Paul Lappas - San Francisco CA, US

Assignee:

Gogrid, LLC - San Francisco CA

International Classification:

G06F 15/173
G06F 15/177

US Classification:

709226, 709220, 709225

Abstract:

Some embodiments provide a method for automated configuration of a set of resources for hosting a virtual machine at a particular node in a hosting system. The hosting system includes several nodes for hosting several virtual machines. The method, at a first virtual machine operating using a first set of resources of the particular node, receives a configuration for a second virtual machine to be hosted on a second set of resources of the particular node. The method, from the first virtual machine, accesses the second set of resources to partition a file system for storing the second virtual machine. The method modifies the file system to configure the second virtual machine as specified by the configuration.

US Patent:

8364802, Jan 29, 2013

Filed:

Apr 9, 2009

Appl. No.:

12/421598

Inventors:

John Martin Keagy - San Francisco CA, US
Jeffery Carr - San Francisco CA, US
Paul Lappas - San Francisco CA, US

Assignee:

Gogrid, LLC - San Francisco CA

International Classification:

G06F 15/173

US Classification:

709223, 709226

Abstract:

Some embodiments provide a method. The method interfaces with several nodes of a hosting system. Each node includes resources for hosting several virtual machines. The method collects statistics for facilitating deployment of the virtual machines across the several resource nodes from the resource nodes. The method determines a particular node from the several nodes with sufficient available resources to host a configuration for a virtual machine based on the collected statistics. The method deploys the configuration for the virtual machine to the particular node for hosting on the particular node.

US Patent:

8374929, Feb 12, 2013

Filed:

Aug 7, 2007

Appl. No.:

11/834726

Inventors:

Paul Lappas - San Francisco CA, US
John Martin Keagy - San Francisco CA, US
Nicholas F. Peterson - El Cerrito CA, US

Assignee:

Gogrid, LLC - San Francisco CA

International Classification:

G07F 19/00

US Classification:

705 34, 705 30, 705 26, 705 39, 705 32, 709200, 709203, 709213, 709218, 709220, 709229, 709238, 709246, 370229, 370219, 370236, 370252, 370389, 370468, 370400, 370397

Abstract:

Some embodiments provide a system and method for projecting billing of a specified server configuration. In some embodiments, the projected billing is determined by identifying a set of allocated resources for the server configuration. In some embodiments, the set of resources include an amount of allocated RAM, network bandwidth, disk storage, processing power, etc. The set of resources are then projected over a billing period. Some embodiments determine a projection for the configuration as each component of the configuration is specified within a graphical user interface. Additionally, some embodiments determine a projection for the configuration after the entire configuration is specified within the graphical user interface.

US Patent:

8418176, Apr 9, 2013

Filed:

Apr 9, 2009

Appl. No.:

12/421610

Inventors:

John Martin Keagy - San Francisco CA, US
Jeffery Carr - San Francisco CA, US
Paul Lappas - San Francisco CA, US

Assignee:

Gogrid, LLC - San Francisco CA

International Classification:

G06F 9/455

US Classification:

718 1, 718104

Abstract:

Some embodiments provide a method for a server hosting environment that includes several nodes, where each node is for using one or more hypervisors in order to host several configurations of several computer systems. The method receives a first configuration of a particular computer system. The first configuration accesses a first set of virtual hardware provided by a first hypervisor of a first node. The method generates a second configuration that is based on the first configuration. The second configuration is operable on a different second hypervisor of a second node in the several nodes. The method installs the second configuration on the second node. The second configuration accesses a second set of virtual hardware provided by the second hypervisor to host the second configuration using the second hypervisor.