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Bruce P. Osler, Boxborough, MA US
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20150023404 | Quality Optimization with Buffer and Horizon Constraints in Adaptive Streaming - Techniques are provided for optimizing quality in adaptive streaming, where information is obtained relating to encoding bitrates and content quality scores for content segments of a content stream. The content segments of the content stream are provided by a content server and downloaded by a computing device. For each content segment, an encoding bitrate is determined for downloading the content segment from the content server, where determining the encoding bitrate for a current content segment is based upon an estimated current network bandwidth, constraints of a buffer into which downloaded content segments are stored, and also upon quality scores associated with content segments within a selected horizon extending from the current content segment to a future content segment in the content stream at an endpoint of the horizon. Each content segment with the determined bitrate for the content segment is downloaded from the content server. | 01-22-2015 |
Geoff Osler, Seattle, WA US
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20110027734 | SYSTEM AND APPARATUS FOR APPLYING AN ELECTRIC FIELD TO A COMBUSTION VOLUME - According to an embodiment, combustion in a combustion volume is affected by at least two sequentially applied non-parallel electric fields. According to an embodiment, a combustion volume is equipped with at least three individually modulatable electrodes. According to an embodiment, an electric field application apparatus for a combustion volume includes a safety apparatus to reduce or eliminate danger. | 02-03-2011 |
20140368121 | SYSTEM AND APPARATUS FOR APPLYING AN ELECTRIC FIELD TO A COMBUSTION VOLUME - A combustion system is provided, in which respective waveforms are applied to each of a plurality of electrodes positioned in a combustion volume, producing periodic electric fields between pairs of the electrodes. A safety circuit is configured to reduce or eliminate danger by grounding each of the plurality of electrodes or otherwise driving each of the electrodes to a safe state upon detection of a safety condition. | 12-18-2014 |
Geoffrey D. Osler, Seattle, WA US
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20130333279 | FLAME ENHANCEMENT FOR A ROTARY KILN - A rotary kiln includes a stationary burner and at least one electrode configured to apply an electric field and/or voltage to a flame supported by the stationary burner. The electric field may contain the flame and/or accelerate combustion to shift most heat transfer from the flame from radiation heat transfer to convective heat transfer. | 12-19-2013 |
Jonathan Osler, Port Sunlight GB
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20150225680 | LAUNDRY DETERGENT PARTICLES - The present invention provides a coated detergent particle having perpendicular dimensions x, y and z, wherein x is from 0.5 to 2 mm, y is from 2 to 8 mm, and z is from 2 to 8 mm, wherein the particle comprises: (i) from 20 to 39 wt % of a surfactant selected from: anionic and non-ionic surfactants; (ii) from 10 to 40 wt % of an inorganic salt coating selected from: sodium carbonate and/or sodium sulphate of which at least 5 wt % of the inorganic salt is sodium carbonate; and, (iii) from 10 to 40 wt % of calcite having a median particle size average diameter (D50) in the range from 10 to 70 microns, and wherein the inorganic salts and are present on the detergent particle as a coating and the surfactant is present a core with the calcite dispersed though the core. | 08-13-2015 |
Jonathan Osler, Wirral GB
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20120058266 | MANUFACTURE OF HIGH ACTIVE DETERGENT PARTICLES - A process for manufacturing detergent particles comprising the steps of: a) forming a liquid surfactant blend comprising a major amount of surfactant and a minor amount of water, the surfactant part consisting of at least 51 wt % linear alkylbenzene sulfonate and at least one co-surfactant, the surfactant blend consisting of at most 20 wt % nonionic surfactant; b) drying the liquid surfactant blend of step (a) in an evaporator or drier to a moisture content of at most 2 wt % and cooling the output from the evaporator or dryer; c) feeding the cooled material, which output comprises at least 93 wt % surfactant blend with a major part of LAS, to an extruder, optionally along with less than 10 wt % of other materials such as perfume, fluorescer, and extruding the surfactant blend to form an extrudate while periodically cutting the extrudate to form hard detergent particles with a diameter across the extruder of greater than 2 mm and a thickness along the axis of the extruder of greater than 0.2 mm, provided that the diameter is greater than the thickness; d) optionally, coating the extruded hard detergent particles with up to 30 wt % coating material selected from powdered inorganic material and mixtures of such material and nonionic material with a melting point in the range 40 to 90° C. | 03-08-2012 |
Lloyd Osler, Edmonton CA
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20080312511 | ANIMAL HEALTH MONITORING SYSTEM AND METHOD - The invention provides a real-time method and computer-implemented system of monitoring animal health comprising sensing at least one physical characteristic by means of an active physical sensor attached to the animal, and sensing at least one activity of the animal by means of an activity sensor attached to the animal; positioning an active activity signal generator in the environment, such that the activity signal generator is associated with an activity, gathering physical characteristic data and activity data, and wirelessly transmitting all such data to a network receiver/converter, in real-time; converting all such data if necessary, and transmitting all such data over a computer network to one or more users, in real-time. | 12-18-2008 |
Matt Osler, Toronto CA
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20090305611 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR IMPROVING ACCURACY OF A HIGH-PRESSURE FLUID JET APPARATUS - A calibration device provided for use with a high-pressure fluid jet apparatus includes a body configured to be coupled to the high-pressure fluid jet apparatus, and a light-emitting device positioned toward the first end of the body and configured to project light on a target element at a location substantially identical to a location at which the high-pressure fluid jet contacts the target element during operation with fluid, allowing calibration of the high-pressure fluid jet apparatus before operation with fluid. | 12-10-2009 |
Peter J. Osler, Jericho, VT US
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20110113398 | Method and System for Providing Secondary Power Pins in Integrated Circuit Design - An integrated circuit (IC) design with multiple metal layers containing cells requiring secondary power supply. After placing the cells and stripes of a primary power/ground grid in metal layers of the IC design, specific cells are provided with secondary power stripes in a first metal layer. The secondary power stripes are designed in such a way that each secondary power/ground stripe exhibits a full overlap with a stripe of a corresponding primary power/ground grid in a different metal layer. Subsequently, signals from the IC design are routed, and power vias between the primary power/ground grid stripes and the secondary power/ground stripes are generated. | 05-12-2011 |
Robert William Osler, Brossard CA
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20120000112 | Flexible shaft spinnerbait fishing lure assembly with"V" shaped stabilizer - A flexible shaft spinnerbait fishing lure assembly comprising a main flexible shaft of a minimum diameter of 0.041 inch onto which is incorporated, along its length, a rigid or semi rigid “V” shape stabilizer, onto which is integrated an eyelet onto which the fishing line is attached, and which serves to maintain the “V” shape of the spinnerbait assembly, resulting in little to no deformation or breakage of the assembly with continued use. The preferred positioning of the stabilizer and its preferred fish attracting head shape weight, hook and fish attracting components configurations allow for increased overall stability of the assembly, including vertical stability when being pulled through water. Due to this increased stability, the flexible spinnerbait assembly also generates, with greater consistency, the frequencies desired to increase fish attraction. | 01-05-2012 |
Scott Osler, Mountain View, CA US
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20090112681 | Method and system for click-to-call - A method and system for establishing a connection between a sales agent and a user. A telephone connection is established by a lead generator. The sales agent is selected by the lead generator on the basis of a bid price method and is connected to the user on the basis of the user's services of interest. A unique billing system is also provided for billing the sales agent. The invention may be implemented on a stored program computer under the control of programmed software. | 04-30-2009 |
Scott Osler, Dallas, TX US
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20120228074 | Travel Master - An apparatus to stack a first stackable luggage to a second stackable luggage, the second stackable luggage having a male connector device and the first stackable luggage having a female connector device. The second stackable luggage may be substantially a mirror of the first stackable luggage. The first stackable luggage may include a front 360° rotatable and spinnable wheel, and the first stackable luggage may include a rotatable back wheel. The first stackable luggage may include a releasable and biased strap, and the first stackable luggage may include a first wheel depression for the front wheel in the top surface of the first stackable luggage. The first stackable luggage may include a second wheel depression for the back wheel in the top surface of the first stackable luggage, and the male connector device magnetically may connect to the female connector device. | 09-13-2012 |
Scott D. Osler US
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20090184172 | RAIL-MOUNTING ASSEMBLY - A rail-mounting assembly has a base frame formed unitarily with a pair of side members and a pair of end members generally bridging ends of the side members and having inwardly directed generally vertical inner end faces. At least one web extending horizontally between the members has a horizontal upper face and defines with the members a vertically throughgoing aperture. A top plate spaced above the base frame has a lower face having a portion spacedly vertically confronting the upper face of the web and a pair of outwardly directed outer end faces longitudinally horizontally confronting the inner end faces of the end members. An elastomeric body is bonded to each of the outer end faces and the respective confronting inner end face and to the upper face of the web and the portion of the lower face confronting the upper face. | 07-23-2009 |
Wilbur Osler, Mattituck, NY US
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20140231534 | END RESTRAINT FOR TURNOUT - An assembly for securing at least one rail to a substrate has a longitudinally extending rail plate extending across and secured underneath the rail and having a pair of opposite ends. Respective end restraints at the ends of the rail plate each have a jaw fixed to the respective end of the rail plate and each formed with a vertically throughgoing passage. A respective rigid anchor hood is fixed to the substrate in each of the passages with an outer surface of the anchor hood spaced inward from an inner surface of the respective passage and forming an annular space therewith. A respective rubber bumper mass fills each of these spaces so that forces transverse to the rail are transmitted through the bumpers to the anchor hoods. | 08-21-2014 |
Wilbur F. Osler US
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20090184172 | RAIL-MOUNTING ASSEMBLY - A rail-mounting assembly has a base frame formed unitarily with a pair of side members and a pair of end members generally bridging ends of the side members and having inwardly directed generally vertical inner end faces. At least one web extending horizontally between the members has a horizontal upper face and defines with the members a vertically throughgoing aperture. A top plate spaced above the base frame has a lower face having a portion spacedly vertically confronting the upper face of the web and a pair of outwardly directed outer end faces longitudinally horizontally confronting the inner end faces of the end members. An elastomeric body is bonded to each of the outer end faces and the respective confronting inner end face and to the upper face of the web and the portion of the lower face confronting the upper face. | 07-23-2009 |
Wilbur F. Osler, Mattituck, NY US
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20080265050 | Anchor-bolt assembly - A rail-carrying plate lies on an upper surface of a base. An anchor-bolt assembly has an elastomeric buffer sheet between the rail plate and the base upper surface and a bolt set in the anchor sleeve passing through the rail plate. An inner ring surrounds the bolt, bears directly on the base surface, is pressed downward by the bolt against the base surface, has an annular outwardly directed outer surface. An outer ring is transfixed by the bolt, has an annular inner surface spaced outward from the inner-ring outer surface, and bears upward on the rail plate. An annular elastomeric body between the inner and outer rings is bonded to the respective outer and inner surfaces thereof so that vertical displacement of the outer ring relative to the inner ring tends to self-center the two rings. | 10-30-2008 |
20120091216 | DIRECT-FIXATION TRACK-MOUNTING ASSEMBLY - A direction-fixation mount secures a track assembly to a flat upper surface of a fixed substrate. The track assembly includes a flat plate having a pair of opposite end edges, a track sitting on the plate, and fasteners securing the track to the plate. The direct-fixation mounting assembly has an elastomeric pad of predetermined stiffness underneath the plate and atop the surface so that the track and plate bears downward via the pad on the surface, and a pair of end restraints each having a rigid outer part fixed to the substrate offset outward from a respective one of the end edges of the plate, a rigid inner part spaced inward from the outer part and fixed to the respective outer end edge of the plate, and an elastomeric mass separate from the pad and fixed to and between the respective inner and outer parts. | 04-19-2012 |