Bostock
Carrie Grimes Bostock, San Francisco, CA US
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20130212100 | ESTIMATING RATE OF CHANGE OF DOCUMENTS - One aspect of the disclosure can be embodied in a method that includes obtaining a first document from a corpus and obtaining metadata for the first document. The method also includes obtaining existing change rates for second documents selected based on the metadata, and calculating an estimated change rate for the first document based on the change rates for the second documents. | 08-15-2013 |
Clive Bostock, Pickering GB
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20140351217 | DATABASE SNAPSHOT ANALYSIS - Analysis tools summarize and provide statistics from snapshot files. The analysis tools may provide a temporal view of the changes of the data values across two or more periods of time from one or more snapshot files to show trends in performance of the system. The analysis tools may include meta-data definitions for different sources of the snapshot information. | 11-27-2014 |
20150019197 | DATABASE MODELING AND ANALYSIS - A method of modeling a prospective database migration between database systems may include collecting performance data associated with a plurality databases in a first database system. The method may also include receiving a selection of a set of databases in the plurality of databases to migrate to a second database system. The method may additionally include computing, using at least some of the performance data, combined performance data that estimates how the set of databases will perform on the second database system. The method may further include providing one or more indications as to whether the set of databases should be migrated to the second database system. In some embodiments, the one or more indications may be based on the combined performance data. | 01-15-2015 |
20150019497 | DATABASE DIAGNOSTICS INTERFACE SYSTEM - A database diagnostics system with an interface system that may be used to define, monitor, and deploy database diagnostics tools is presented. The interface system presents a user with a user interface for defining the parameters, behaviors, and schedules of database diagnostic tools. The diagnostic tools execute on a target database recording database parameters and state information. The interface system may present the user with a graphical user interface for assembling diagnostic tools at least partially from a predefined set of reusable modules and scripts. | 01-15-2015 |
Clive Bostock, North Yorkshire GB
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20150019707 | CLOUD SERVICES PERFORMANCE TUNING AND BENCHMARKING - Embodiments of the invention provide systems and methods for providing services related to managing computer systems. More specifically, embodiments of the present invention provide for providing performance tuning and benchmarking services to remote computer systems. Generally speaking, the service can provide functions to help customers maintain a consistent performance of their databases with minimal downtime by pro-actively addressing issues or bottlenecks with periodic assessments, monitoring of performance metrics that are causing stress throughout the term of the service, reporting violations of agreed upon thresholds for performance, and reactively helping customers address performance issues that arise with reactive tuning | 01-15-2015 |
David Graham Bostock, North East Derbyshire GB
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20160089727 | DRILLING TOOL APPARATUS - A drilling tool apparatus ( | 03-31-2016 |
David R. Bostock, St. Louis Park, MN US
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20090055245 | SURVEY FRAUD DETECTION SYSTEM AND METHOD - A method of filtering fraudulent responses from survey data including responses to survey questions received from survey takers and a response time for each response. For each question, any responses to the question having a response time less than a minimum time required to provide a thoughtful response are filtered from the survey data. Optionally, for each survey taker, a number of responses filtered from the survey data is determined. If this number exceeds a threshold, all responses provided by the survey taker are filtered from the survey data. The method may determine whether responses provided by each survey taker to attributes of a matrix question include a pattern. If a survey taker's responses include the pattern and were provided in less than the minimum time required to provide a thoughtful response to the matrix question, all responses provided by the survey taker are filtered from the survey data. | 02-26-2009 |
Ellen M. Bostock, Richmond, VA US
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20140095200 | RAPID IDENTIFICATION OF DENTAL PROSTHESES - The invention provides ownership identification and manufacturing data of removable or fixed dental prostheses or appliances. This is achieved through the embedding of a unique high resolution 2D Code and 5 digit alpha-numeric identification number printed with a high contrast ink on a translucent adhesive material. The insertion of the 2D Code and identification number is achieved via etching a rectangular indentation in the removable prosthesis with an acceptable Dental Laboratory etching device and securing/protecting it with a clear autopolymerizing acrylic resin. If the dental prosthesis is too small to accommodate the 2D Code and/or Identification Number, an Identification Card is also provided containing an identical Code & Identification Number. | 04-03-2014 |
Graham J. Bostock, Darlington GB
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20100095967 | FLAT-FOLDED PERSONAL RESPIRATORY PROTECTION DEVICES - A personal respiratory protection device includes a multi-layered structure and first and second means for attaching a headband to hold the device in position on a wearer's face. The multilayered structure includes a filter medium and is divided into a flat upper panel having an upper peripheral edge, a flat non-rectangular central panel and a lower panel having a lower peripheral edge. The central panel is separated from each of the upper and lower panels by first and second lines of demarcation. The first and second lines of demarcation converge towards the first and second means for attaching a headband. The multi-layered structure is capable of being folded at the respective lines of demarcation so that the device can be folded flat for storage and can be opened to form a cup-shaped off the face air chamber over the nose and mouth of the wearer while the upper peripheral edge and the lower peripheral edge contact the wearer's face when the device is in use. | 04-22-2010 |
Hayden Gregory Bostock, Victoria AU
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20100162670 | STIRRUP - A stirrup including a hanger part for suspending the stirrup and a platform part for supporting a foot of a rider, wherein the hanger part and platform part have interconnecting components, one of the components having an upwardly angled section and the other of the components having a downwardly angled section, the sections cooperating under weight load of the rider to secure the parts together. | 07-01-2010 |
John Bostock, Thorpe Langton GB
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20140002551 | INK MIXING SYSTEM | 01-02-2014 |
John Bostock, Leicestershire GB
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20100220159 | FLUSH PUMP FOR INK SUPPLY SYSTEM - An ink supply system for an ink jet printer has an ink circuit including a plurality of circuit components and fluid paths for conveying fluid between components. A manifold defines the fluid paths and a plurality of ports in fluid communication with the paths. One of the fluid paths is a solvent supply path for connection to a source of solvent. A second of the fluid paths being a solvent flush path for delivering solvent to an outlet for connection to a print head of the printer. A flush pump is disposed at the manifold between the first and second paths and in fluid communication therewith, the pump being configured to pump the solvent into the solvent flush path. | 09-02-2010 |
John Bostock, Bangor GB
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20100116650 | REMOVAL OF CONTAMINANTS FROM A FLUID - In the field of fluid treatment, there is a need for a more flexible electrocoagulation unit and a fluid treatment apparatus that is readily configurable to deal efficiently with differently contaminated fluids. An electrocoagulation unit ( | 05-13-2010 |
Jonathan Bostock, Louisville, KY US
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20130008893 | ENERGY MANAGEMENT IN A MICROWAVE COOKING APPLIANCE - A microwave oven comprises a cooking cavity and a RF generation module configured to deliver microwave energy into the cooking cavity. A controller receives and processes a signal indicative of the current state of an associated energy supplying utility for determining whether to operate the microwave oven in one of a normal operating mode and a power saving mode in response to the received signal. A power source is operatively associated with the controller and the RF generation module, and is configured to receive a signal from the controller and cause the microwave oven to operate in normal operating mode or in power saving operating mode in accord with the signal. | 01-10-2013 |
Richard Mark Bostock US
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20150239577 | RUNWAY ARRANGEMENT - An airport runway arrangement for commercial aircraft is provided. The arrangement comprises a first runway section, a second runway section extending substantially in prolongation of the first runway section and an intermediate section between the first and second runway sections. | 08-27-2015 |
Richard Mark Bostock, Barbican GB
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20150239577 | RUNWAY ARRANGEMENT - An airport runway arrangement for commercial aircraft is provided. The arrangement comprises a first runway section, a second runway section extending substantially in prolongation of the first runway section and an intermediate section between the first and second runway sections. | 08-27-2015 |
Roger Marc Bostock, Muensingen CH
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20140055767 | MIRROR ARRAY - A mirror array having a total surface extending perpendicularly to a surface normal, comprises a multiplicity of mirror elements each having a reflection surface and at least one degree of freedom of displacement, wherein the totality of the mirror elements form a parqueting of a total reflection surface of the mirror array, and wherein the mirror array is embodied modularly as a tile element in such a way that the parqueting of the total reflection surface can be extended by a tiling of a plurality of such mirror arrays. | 02-27-2014 |
20140327895 | OPTICAL COMPONENT - An optical component comprising a mirror array having a multiplicity of mirror elements, which each have at least one degree of freedom of displacement, and which are each connected to at least one actuator for displacement, has a multiplicity of local regulating devices for damping oscillations of the mirror elements, wherein each of the regulating devices in each case has at least one capacitive sensor having at least one moveable electrode and at least one electrode arranged rigidly relative to the carrying structure. | 11-06-2014 |
20140327896 | OPTICAL COMPONENT - An optical component comprises a mirror array having a multiplicity of mirror elements, which are each connected to at least one actuator for displacement, a multiplicity of signal lines for the signal-transmitting connection of the actuators to an external, global control/regulating device for predefining an absolute position of the individual mirror elements, and a multiplicity of local regulating devices for regulating the positioning of the mirror elements, wherein the regulating devices are in each case completely integrated into the component. | 11-06-2014 |
Sarah Bostock, Berne CH
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20090147977 | HEARING AID SYSTEM COMPRISING A MATCHED FILTER AND A MEASUREMENT METHOD - The invention relates to a hearing aid system comprising an input transducer for converting an input sound signal comprising an information signal part of a known waveform and a background noise part to an electrical analogue input signal, optionally an A/D converter for converting the electrical input signal to a digital input signal. The invention further relates to a method of making a critical gain measurement. The object of the present invention is to improve the signal-to-noise ratio of a signal to be measured or detected in a hearing instrument compared to prior art solutions. The problem is solved in that a matched filter receiving said analogue or digital input signal and optimized to improve the identification of the information signal part from the noisy input signal. An advantage of the invention is that it provides an alternative scheme for improving signal to noise ratio of a hearing aid. The invention may e.g. be used for the customization of hearing aid parameters in cooperation with fitting software and/or for improving signal to noise ratio of a detected or measured signal. | 06-11-2009 |
20110026725 | METHOD FOR MONITORING THE INFLUENCE OF AMBIENT NOISE ON STOCHASTIC GRADIENT ALGORITHMS DURING IDENTIFICATION OF LINEAR TIME-INVARIANT SYSTEMS - A hearing aid system and a method of estimating ambient noise in a listening device includes an input transducer and an output transducer, an electrical forward path between the input transducer and the output transducer providing a forward gain, an electrical feedback path comprising an adaptive filter for estimating the acoustic feedback gain from the output transducer to the input transducer. A method determines the quality of a critical gain measurement for a listening device. The method comprises a) monitoring the energy of the first-difference of the filter coefficients of the adaptive filter over time and b) applying a predefined threshold criterion to the change in energy content from one time instance to another to determine an acceptable impact of the ambient noise. This technique may e.g. be used for the fitting of hearing instruments where background noise is variable. | 02-03-2011 |