Harry R Rogers

8364940, Jan 29, 2013

May 28, 2010

12/790464

Christian L. Belady - Mercer Island WA, US
Eric C. Peterson - Woodinville WA, US
Harry R. Rogers - Bellevue WA, US

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

G06F 9/46

713 1, 713 2, 700 79, 700299, 700300, 360 75

This document describes various techniques for automatically starting servers at low temperatures. A server may be powered on into a heating mode responsive to determining that a temperature of the server is below an operational temperature range. The server may then be restarted when the temperature of the server has increased to a temperature that is within the operational temperature range.

8533514, Sep 10, 2013

Jun 26, 2011

13/168983

Harry R. Rogers - Bellevue WA, US
Kushagra Vaid - Sammamish WA, US
Mark E. Shaw - Sammamish WA, US
Bryan Kelly - Redmond WA, US
Matthew Faist - El Dorado Hills CA, US

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

G06F 1/26

713340, 713320, 714 14

The power draw of equipment in a data center may be capped in order to keep the power draw under the capacity of the Uninterruptable Power Supply (UPS) that serves the data center. The current capacity of the UPS may be estimated, and the equipment may be controlled so as to keep the equipment's power draw under that current capacity. Factors that may affect the estimate of the UPS's current capacity include the history of temperature and humidity to which the UPS has been subject, and charge/discharge history of the UPS. Factors that may affect the decision of which equipment to throttle to a lower power level include: the current power load at the data center, the type of software that each server is running, and the demand for that software.

20100185843, Jul 22, 2010

Jan 20, 2009

12/356326

Sompong Paul Olarig - Pleasanton CA, US
Vladimir Sadovsky - Redmond WA, US
Chris Lionetti - Duvall WA, US
James Robert Hamilton - Bellevue WA, US
Harry Raymond Rogers - Bellevue WA, US
Timothy Louis Falk - Shoreline WA, US

MICROSOFT CORPORATION - Redmond WA

H04L 9/32
G06F 15/177
G06F 21/24

713 2, 713173

Storage devices can provide for hardware encryption and decryption of data stored by them. The hardware cryptographic functions can be applied with reference to cryptographic information of a communicationally, and physically, separable key device. Disconnection of the separable key device can render encrypted data inaccessible. Destruction of the separable key device can result in virtual destruction of the encrypted data. The cryptographic information on the separable key device can be provided by a storage device manufacturer, or by a provisioning computing device. The separable key device can be directly communicationally coupled to a provisioning computing device or it can establish a secure communication tunnel with the provisioning device through a computing device to which the separable key device is communicationally coupled. Cryptographic information can be provided by, and deleted from, the provisioning computing device prior to completion of the booting of that device.

20130120931, May 16, 2013

Nov 11, 2011

13/295034

Sriram Sankar - Redmond WA, US
Harry Rogers - Bellevue WA, US
Kushagra V. Vaid - Sammamish WA, US
Mark Shaw - Sammamish WA, US
Bryan David Kelly - Redmond WA, US
Grant Cowan Emerson - Kenmore WA, US

MICROSOFT CORPORATION - Redmond WA

G06F 1/20
B23P 11/00
G06F 1/16

36167948, 36167902, 36167946, 29428

Enclosing arrangements of racks of computing devices fully encloses a space, either solely by the racks themselves, or in conjunction with structural features, such as walls and doors. The enclosed space can be either a hot aisle, whose hot air is vented out by fans positioned in at least one vertical extremity of the enclosed space, such as the floor, or ceiling, or it can be a cold aisle, whose cold air is pumped in by those fans. To maintain proper pressurization across a vertical cross-section of the enclosed space, specific ones of the computing devices have their fans adjusted based on their vertical position within the racks or have passive airflow adjustments, such as impedance screens. Computing devices can draw or vent air from their sides, taking advantage of the interstitial space between the racks provided by the enclosing arrangement.

20130282885, Oct 24, 2013

Apr 20, 2012

13/452252

Harry Rogers - Bellevue WA, US
Sriram Sankar - Redmond WA, US
Jie Liu - Medina WA, US

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

H04W 24/00
H04W 40/00
G06F 15/173

709223

Embodiments of network systems, computing systems, devices, components, modules, routines, and processes are described herein. In one embodiment, a network system includes a computing unit and a management controller configured to control a device operation of the computing unit. The device operation includes at least one of an operation to power up, an operation to power down, an operation to reset, an operation to power cycle, or an operation to refresh the computing unit. The network system also includes a wireless element configured to allow wireless communication between the computing unit and the management controller.

20130335907, Dec 19, 2013

Jun 13, 2012

13/495520

Mark Shaw - Sammamish WA, US
Matthew Allen Faist - El Dorado Hills CA, US
Eric C. Peterson - Woodinville WA, US
Harry Raymond Rogers - Bellevue WA, US
Kushagra Virendrakumar Vaid - Sammamish WA, US

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

H05K 7/16
G06F 1/16

36167931, 36167902, 361727

In computing scenarios involving an aggregation of multiple computational units into a server or computer set, many architectures may be devised to provide physical storage and logical aggregation of the computational units. Presented herein are variations of one such architecture, comprising a chassis having a set of slots, into which may be inserted a tray storing the computational units of one or more blades. Respective trays and chassis slots comprise a power connector and a network connector that are positioned to connect directly (i.e., without a cable or manual interaction) when a tray is inserted into a slot. The chassis stores a set of power supplies, and may connect each blade with a power supply, optionally providing power routing and failover capabilities. The chassis may also provide a management component that connects to and provides management capabilities of the blades of the trays, power supplies, and climate regulating components.

20130344794, Dec 26, 2013

Jun 22, 2012

13/530899

Mark Shaw - Sammamish WA, US
Matthew Allen Faist - El Dorado Hills CA, US
Eric C. Peterson - Woodinville WA, US
Harry Raymond Rogers - Bellevue WA, US

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

F24F 11/02

454258, 454256

Climate regulation within an enclosure (e.g., a case of a workstation or a rack or cabinet of servers) may be achieved through a climate regulator featuring several selectable climate regulator settings (e.g., a variable-speed fan array). Controllers of such climate regulators often select climate regulator settings based on current conditions inside the enclosure, such as the temperature of one or more processors operating within the enclosure. However, such control fails to account for the climate of air outside the enclosure that is drawn in to provide climate regulation, even though the climate properties of inlet air may significantly affect the effectiveness of climate regulation. Accordingly, a controller of a climate regulator may be configured to detect inlet climate properties of air directed into the enclosure, and to map the inlet climate properties (alone or in combination with other factors) to a selected climate regulator setting for the climate regulator.

20210263871, Aug 26, 2021

May 10, 2021

17/316385

- Suwon-si, KR
Harry Rogers - San Jose CA, US
Sreenivas Krishnan - San Jose CA, US
Zhan Ping - San Jose CA, US
Michael Scriber - Hayward CA, US

G06F 13/38
G06F 13/42
G06F 13/40

A flexible storage system. A storage motherboard accommodates, on a suitable connector, a storage adapter circuit that provides protocol translation between a host bus interface and a storage interface, and that provides routing, to accommodate a plurality of mass storage devices that may be connected to the storage adapter circuit through the storage motherboard. The storage adapter circuit may be replaced with a circuit supporting a different host interface or a different storage interface.