Brian Belmont is the founder and managing partner of Vertical Upside LLC. He is an executive with 24 years experience in global high tech businesses. His career has ranged from designing, developing, and bringing to market new technologies to researching and establishing new and emerging businesses to injecting new life into established businesses via new technology introduction. His background includes roles in technology architecture, engineering management, and program management.

Throughout his career Brian has held key roles at industry leaders Intel, Texas Instruments, and Compaq Computer, as well as at start-up ventures Boca Research and Media Sourcery. Brian’s roles at Intel included Director of Consumer Electronics Internet Frameworks, Consumer Electronics Platform Architect, Manager of Mobile IA Platforms for the Corporate Technology Group, and Manager of Software Engineering for the Consumer Digital Audio Systems Organization. In these various roles Brian was consistently responsible for delivering new and innovative technologies to enhance Intel ‘s silicon platforms and generate new business. Brian was directly responsible for development of the Widget Channel Framework for consumer electronics devices, several technologies responsible for lowing power consumption by up to 45% on Intel platforms, and developing the underlying technology for what is now marketed as Windows SideShow. At Texas Instruments, Brian was Director of PC Systems Software within the Strategic Marketing Group, responsible for establishing the strategy for utilizing software as a value add for Texas Instrument’s semiconductor products including DSPs and Graphics chips. While at Compaq Computer, Brian was responsible for development of Plug and Play technology, Desktop and Laptop Power Management technologies, development of the PCI and PCMCIA standards as well as software to support introduction of these technologies on Compaq systems. He has led multidiscipline teams across diverse geographies, and led industry standards work groups for DLNA, PCI, and Plug and Play. He holds 19 US patents with several more applications under evaluation, and has been awarded 4 Division recognition awards and 3 customer recognition awards.

Patents

CPU Technology

• 7,461,275 - Dynamic core swapping

Notebook technology

• 7,406,610 - Computing system with low power states and proxy for integration with legacy application software
• 7,263,331 - Method and apparatus for sharing a bluetooth module with two computing devices
• 7,114,090 and 7,421,597 - Computing system with operational low power states
• 7,080,271 and 7,428,650 - Non main CPU/OS based operational environment
• 7,263,331 - Method and apparatus for sharing a bluetooth module with two computing devices
• 7,254,730 - Method and apparatus for a user to interface with a mobile computing device
• 5,488,572 - Portable computer system for docking to an expansion base unit

Television and computing

• 6,600,503 and 6,172,677 and 7,418,672- Integrated content guide for interactive selection of content and services
• 6,259,440 - Device with converged functionality
• 6,119,172 - Access control for a TV/PC convergence device
• 5,819,156 - PC/TV usage tracking and reporting device

Power Management

• 5,535,400 - SCSI disk drive power down apparatus

Plug and Play

• 5,628,027 - Method of determining the configuration of devices installed on a computer bus
  
• 5,596,728 - Method and apparatus for resolving resource conflicts after a portable computer has docked to an expansion base unit
• 5,594,879 - Method of and apparatus for arbitrarily disabling under processor control individual slots on a computer bus
• 5,537,663 - System for determining configuration of devices installed on a computer bus
• 5,469,554 - Detecting the presence of a device on a computer system bus by altering the bus termination

Misc

• 5,751,998 - Memory accessing system with portions of memory being selectively write protectable and relocatable

Multiple pending patent applications.