Pilson
Keith Pilson, Dublin IE
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20090094285 | RECOMMENDATION APPARATUS - A recommendation apparatus for selecting, by comparing one or more media files from a plurality of received recommendations, one or more media files for inclusion into a digital media file. A recommendation apparatus in accordance with an embodiment includes: a main controller component for receiving a plurality of recommendations associated with one or more media files from a plurality of recommenders; a weighting component for determining a weighting factor associated with each of the received recommendations; a weighting component for identifying from each of the determined weighting factors each of the recommendations falling within a predetermined threshold and for selecting each of these recommendations for inclusion into an audio playlist. | 04-09-2009 |
20090112597 | PREDICTING A RESULTANT ATTRIBUTE OF A TEXT FILE BEFORE IT HAS BEEN CONVERTED INTO AN AUDIO FILE - An apparatus for predicting a resultant attribute of a text file before it has been converted to an audio file by a text-to-speech converter application. In accordance with an embodiment, the apparatus includes: a receiver component for receiving a text file and a request to determine a resultant attribute of the text file before it is converted to an audio file, by a text-to-speech converter component; a calculation component for determining a file type associated with the received text file and the size of the received text file; a calculation component for identifying an attribute associated with the determined file type; and a calculation component for determining from the identified attribute and the size of the received text file a resultant attribute of the text file before it is converted to an audio file by the text-to-speech converter component. | 04-30-2009 |
Richard Pilson, Greenville, SC US
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20130078094 | Systems and Methods for Mode Shape Identification - Embodiments of the present application can provide systems and methods for mode shape identification of turbine buckets. According to one embodiment, a system can be provided. The system can include a turbine bucket having numerous trigger patterns disposed at a distal end of the turbine bucket. A sensor is disposed adjacent to the distal end of the turbine bucket for detecting the trigger patterns. The trigger patterns are patterned to identify at least one mode shape of the turbine bucket. | 03-28-2013 |
Richard Ryan Pilson, Greer, SC US
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20140161625 | TURBINE COMPONENT HAVING COOLING PASSAGES WITH VARYING DIAMETER - Systems and devices configured to cool turbine components in a turbine by passing a cooling flow through the turbine component via a cooling passage with a variable diameter are disclosed. In one embodiment, a turbine component includes: at least one elongated cooling passage extending from a root of the bucket to a tip of the bucket, wherein the elongated cooling passage has a variable diameter along a length of the bucket. | 06-12-2014 |