Avid Technology Limited

Symbotic LLC

Irobot Corporation

Eric C Peters

Stanley Rabinowitz

Herbert R Jacobs

Peter J Fasciano

Patrick D O'Connor

Stephen J Reber

Robert P Sullivan

Stephen C Toebes

John Lert

Nathan Ulrich

Foster Hinshaw

Joseph H Rice

Robert A Gonsalves

Michael Eric Phillips

John J Walsh

Paul D Garmon

Curt A Rawley

James Robert Hamilton

Jeffrey D Kurtze

Peter Zawojski

Richard D Hennessy

Pong Choa

John Walsh, Jr

Jay Koutavas

Avinash Chopde

B Joshua Rosen

Travis Pierce

Jamie Milliken

Ray Cacciatore

Garth Allen Dickie

Michael J Halloran

Raymond D Cacciatore

William J Warner

Jeffrey L Bedell

Richard Baker Gillett, Jr

Gregory Cockroft

Robert A Gonzalves

Mike Halloran

John Jr Walsh

A warehouse storage and retrieval system including an array of multilevel storage racks having at least one transfer deck, picking isles and storage areas disposed along picking isles, the storage areas being configured to hold differing loads, and a controller including a management module configured to variably size the storage areas of the array of multilevel storage rack modules and assign each of the variably sized storage areas to a corresponding one of the differing loads, wherein the storage and retrieval system is arranged to transport the differing loads for placement in the variably sized storage areas assigned by the controller.

Control system for storage and retrieval systems

A location estimation system for use with an autonomous lawn mowing robot, comprises a plurality of synthetic surfaces positioned with respect to a mowable space in an environment, a radiation source coupled to the lawn mowing robot, a detector coupled to the lawn mowing robot and configured to detect radiation reflected by objects in the environment, and a controller configured to controllably direct radiation from the radiation source to scan the environment, and to vary at least one of an output power of the directed radiation and a scan rate of the directed radiation, as a function of detected radiation reflected from one or more of the synthetic surfaces.

Autonomous robot localization

Multiple applications request data from multiple storage units over a computer network. The data is divided into segments and each segment is distributed randomly on one of several storage units, independent of the storage units on which other segments of the media data are stored. At least one additional copy of each segment also is distributed randomly over the storage units, such that each segment is stored on at least two storage units. This random distribution of multiple copies of segments of data improves both scalability and reliability. When an application requests a selected segment of data, the request is processed by the storage unit with the shortest queue of requests. Random fluctuations in the load applied by multiple applications on multiple storage units are balanced nearly equally over all of the storage units. This combination of techniques results in a system which can transfer multiple, independent high-bandwidth streams of data in a scalable manner in both directions between multiple applications and multiple storage units.

Computer system and process for transferring multiple high bandwidth streams of data between multiple storage units and multiple applications in a scalable and reliable manner

Multiple applications request data from multiple storage units over a computer network. The data is divided into segments and each segment is distributed randomly on one of several storage units, independent of the storage units on which other segments of the media data are stored. At least one additional copy of each segment also is distributed randomly over the storage units, such that each segment is stored on at least two storage units. When an application requests a selected segment of data, the request is processed by the storage unit with the shortest queue of requests. Random fluctuations in the load applied by multiple applications on multiple storage units are balanced nearly equally over all storage units. These techniques result in a system which can transfer multiple, independent high-bandwidth streams of data in a scalable and reliable manner in both directions between multiple applications and multiple storage units.

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Eric C Peters