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Brian Blount, Austin, TX US
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| 20110125635 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MANAGING DISTRIBUTOR INFORMATION - An embodiment of the invention provides a system that enables financial services companies to manage and track information about a sales force. The system includes components for managing distributors information, for validating and tracking licenses and credentials, for creating customized contracts, and for maintaining compensation structures. The system allows for configuring compensations, providing financial services companies a toolkit for creating and modeling their complex commission schedules used to compensate their sales force. The system also provides modeling tools for agreements and contracts between a financial services company or provider and the distributors who sell products. The system has a multi-component architecture comprising multiple modules, multiple data processing engines, a backbone and multiple data sources. The processing modules carry out information processing using one or more data processing engines. The data processing provides the tools to fetch data from the databases and process it. | 05-26-2011 |
Calvin E. Blount, Atlanta, GA US
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| 20090187482 | Systems, Methods, and Computer Program Products for Supply Chain Finance - Systems and methods for providing supply chain financing that include receiving a request to finance an asset of a borrower, where the asset is associated with goods provided by a supplier to a buyer under the control of a supply chain/logistics entity. Attributes of a trade ecosystem of the supplier and/or the buyer are evaluated to determine whether to finance the asset. Financing of the asset is then established based upon the analyzed attributes of the trade ecosystem, where the terms of the financing permit control over movement of goods before and/or after default of the terms of the financing. Information associated with movement of the goods is monitored and analyzed to determine adjustments to at least one of the financing terms based on the information associated with movement of the goods. | 07-23-2009 |
Charles Blount, West Hollywood, CA US
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| 20080261788 | EXERCISE DEVICE - Various embodiments of the invention are directed towards an exercise device for use with Pilates method exercise and other exercise methods. The exercise device is used either the arms or legs of the user for various exercises. The exercise device improves upon related-art system by allowing users to performing exercises while actively engaging the hands or legs of the device with the device in a manner that remains comfortable during exercises. | 10-23-2008 |
Curtis G. Blount, Katy, TX US
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| 20100193190 | In-Situ Zonal Isolation for Sand Controlled Wells - This invention relates to a process for isolating one or more segments of a gravel packed well from other segments to treat the isolated segments and easily re-establish flow from the other segments after the treatment. The treatment includes techniques for enhancing or permanently blocking production from the isolated segment. The process includes the installation of a removable plug and a permeability poison that forms a fluid seal to prevent longitudinal fluid flow along the annular production space outside the tubular production pipe. With wireline or other low-cost wellbore workover systems, access is re-engaged with the secluded formation including removal of plugs and fluid seals within the tubular production pipe. The inventive process allows enhanced recovery of fluids by focusing treatments on problem areas without harming productive segments of the well. | 08-05-2010 |
| 20100230112 | Multi-Channel, Combination Coiled Tubing Strings for Hydraulically Driven Downhole Pump - This invention relates to a downhole hydraulic pump for hydrocarbon wells that is installed and operated using coiled tubing. The downhole hydraulic pump is driven by a hydraulic power system positioned at the surface and connected through a closed loop system using multiple channels of the coiled tubing. The coiled tubing is formed of a combination of channels including strength component such as steel and having one channel that is at least lined with a non-metallic corrosion resistant surface where clean hydraulic fluid is carried from the hydraulic power system to the downhole hydraulic pump through the non-metallic corrosion resistant channel so to be less likely to pick up manufacturing and environmental particulates and corrosion by-products within the channel carrying the hydraulic fluid to the downhole hydraulic pump. The non-metallic corrosion resistant lined channel may comprise plastic pipe. | 09-16-2010 |
| 20110061873 | Hydraulically Driven Downhole Pump Using Multi-Channel Coiled Tubing - This invention relates to a coiled tubing installed and operated hydraulically driven downhole pump for hydrocarbon wells and especially hydrocarbon gas wells that are prone to produce fluids that choke gas production. The hydraulically driven downhole pump is driven by a closed loop surface positioned hydraulic power system. Should the hydraulically driven downhole pump become inoperative, it may be quickly retrieved and immediately replaced using a coiled tubing unit as compared to a workover rig. A coiled tubing unit is able to pull the coiled tubing string and re-install the string quite rapidly because the coiled tubing does not have joints that need to be disassembled or reconnected. The manpower needs and costs for replacement are considerably less and lost production of the well is substantially reduced. | 03-17-2011 |
Curtis G. Blount, Wasilla, AK US
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| 20080264689 | ANTI-SURGE/REVERSE THRUSTER - An anti-surge/reverse thrusting tool for reducing the forces on a drill bit used in subterranean well drilling operations is provided along with methods for drilling wells using a drill string employing the tool. The tool utilizes the pressure differential between drilling fluid flowing through the tool and the fluid located in the well bore annulus proximate the tool to reduce the likelihood of drill bit stall. The tool generally comprises an outer housing and a piston assembly that is axially shiftable relative to the housing. | 10-30-2008 |
Daniel L. Blount, Modesto, CA US
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| 20110058899 | Paver Having Dowel Bar Inserter With Automated Dowel Bar Feeder - A slipform paver for laying down a strip of concrete over a ground surface and for intermittently inserting into the strip spaced-apart dowel bars that are oriented substantially parallel to the length of the strip that is being laid down. The paver has a dowel bar inserter unit that orients the dowel bars substantially parallel to the travel direction of the paver and places the dowel bars into the concrete as the strip is being laid down. The inserter has a pair of spaced-apart, endless transport chains oriented transversely to the travel direction that substantially extends across a width of the inserter unit. Each chain defines upper and lower strands with turn-around chain sections at respective ends of the chain strands. A plurality of pairs of generally L-shaped opposing cups carried by exterior sides of the chain hold the dowel bars so that they can drop downwardly from the cups towards the concrete strip when the pair of cups holding the dowel bar are on the exterior chain side that faces downwardly. The chains move in a single direction, and a dowel bar holding magazine is located above the upwardly facing sides of the chains. The magazine stores a multiplicity of dowel bars and is configured to gravitationally move the dowel bars towards the chains for pick-up by pairs of L-shaped cups as the chains move the cups past a dowel bar loading station defined by the magazine proximate one of the chain turn-around sections. Elastic bands having ends fixedly attached to the magazine extend generally about a portion of a convexly curved dowel bar engaging surface defined by a wheel and resiliently bias the dowel bars moving along the chain turn-around section against the wheel. | 03-10-2011 |
Daniel R. Blount, Sulphur Springs, TX US
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| 20090100703 | Clothes Dryer Utilizing an Air Source from the Exterior of a Structure - A clothes drying system located in a structure, adapted to use air from outside the structure and thereby greatly reducing the energy required to air-condition the structure and run the dryer, has a dryer having an air intake port for taking the air into the dryer, and an air outlet port for expelling the air from the dryer. The clothes drying system further includes an air intake duct adapted to be operably attached to the air intake port and extend to outside the structure for transporting the air from outside of the structure to the dryer. | 04-23-2009 |
David H. Blount, San Diego, CA US
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| 20100300401 | Rotary compressed gas engine with pistons - This invention relates to an apparatus for producing a rotary motion force by means of a compressed gas rotary engine, rotary type with pistons in the circular rotor, consisting of a housing, a rotor with cylinder chambers containing pistons that has a rod containing a bearing which rotates against a stationary cam, the rotor is connected to a shaft, and combined with a r rod guiding system This engine may be produced in any suitable size and contain as many pistons as needed. More than one engine may be attached together. The engine has many uses such as to power machinery, automobiles, motorcycles, boats, generators, etc. | 12-02-2010 |
| 20110083637 | Rotary double engine - A rotary double engine comprising of two separate engines, one in the peripheral area of the housing cavity and one in the central area of the rotor. A number of expansion chambers and compression chambers are formed between the anterior wall, posterior wall, housing inner wall and movable vanes which extends from the inner peripheral surface of the housing through the slots in the eccentric located rotor to the centrally located cam and bears on the inner peripheral surface of the housing, inner surface of the anterior wall, inner surface of the posterior wall and outer surface of the cam. The expansion chambers expand and contract during the operation of the engine. The output shaft is connected to and passes centrally through the rotor and extends out through the anterior wall and posterior wall and bearings. Intake port in the housing front wall or posterior wall allows pressurized air or air/fuel mixture to pass into the expansion chambers of the peripheral engine and or central engine. The rotor and shaft are rotated by the compressed gas and/or combustion pressure on the vanes and rotor from the expanding pressurized air or combustion of the air/fuel mixture. Expanded pressurized air from the peripheral engine is passed through passage to the central engine to be further expanded or to be mixed with a fuel mixture to be ignited and the combustion gases used to rotate the rotor and shaft and to heated the pressured air as in the peripheral engine. | 04-14-2011 |
| 20110094678 | Delignificatin of biomass containing lignin and production of amino lignin aldehyde resins and carbohydrates - Delignification of biomass consisting of lignin containing plant is done by utilizing an amino compound in and aqueous solution at ambient temperature up to 150 degree C. to produce and aqueous solution of amino salt of lignin and an amino-lignin-cellulose which is not soluble in water. The aqueous solution of amino salt of lignin is then filtered off of the amino-lignin-cellulose. The aqueous solution of amino salt of lignin or the amino salt of lignin with the amino-lignin-cellulose may be reacted with an aldehyde to produce an amino-lignin-aldehyde resin or an amino-lignin-cellulose aldehyde resin which may be of the thermoplastic or thermosetting type. The thermoplastic resins are fire resistant, hard, strong, not water soluble and may be used to make exterior fiberboard, OAS boards, plywood, molded products, etc. These urea salts of lignin may also be utilized as long acting fertilizer, to produce plastics and other products. | 04-28-2011 |
| 20110098384 | Production of amino lignin and amino lignin cellulose resins and adhesives - Flame retardant and water resistant products are produced from bio-based materials such as lignin cellulose containing materials. The lignin cellulose materials are modified by the method of delignification. The method of this invention utilizes an amino compound in an aqueous solution to react with the lignin in the lignin cellulose and the amino lignin and freed lignin becomes water soluble. The amino compound also reacts with the non-water soluble lignin still attached to the cellulose and also to the cellulose that is produced. Other products are produced in this method such as carbohydrates, hemi-cellulose, rosins, waxes, alcohols and other products. The amino lignin, lignin, amino lignin and amino cellulose is reacted with many organic and inorganic compounds such as aldehydes, polyisocyanates, epoxies, polycarboxylic acids, vegetable oils and many other compounds to produce resins and adhesives which may be used to produce products such as molded products, particleboard, plywood, ABS, etc. which are flame retardant and water resistant. | 04-28-2011 |
Gerald Blount, North Augusta, SC US
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| 20100170674 | Injection well storage of carbon dioxide - A process and apparatus of separating CO | 07-08-2010 |
Gerarld C. Blount, North Augusta, SC US
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| 20100319586 | Carbon dioxide capture from a cement manufacturing process - A process of manufacturing cement clinker is provided in which a clean supply of CO | 12-23-2010 |
Joseph Blount, Andover, KS US
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| 20110099200 | DATA SHARING AND RECOVERY WITHIN A NETWORK OF UNTRUSTED STORAGE DEVICES USING DATA OBJECT FINGERPRINTING - A data sharing method using fingerprinted data objects for sharing data among untrusted network devices. Each peer device is adapted for storing a plurality of data objects, and a fingerprint generator is used to generate a fingerprint for each stored data object available for sharing or for recovery. The fingerprints are stored in a local data store, and a data manager running on one of the computer devices retrieves from another of the computer devices a copy of one of its data objects through the use of the associated fingerprints. The fingerprints include a hash value output from a strong hashing algorithm. The retrieving includes transmitting query messages with the fingerprints of the needed data objects to the networked, peer devices and then verifying the integrity of received data objects by generating a fingerprint of the received data objects that can be compared with the ones provided in the queries. | 04-28-2011 |
Juanita C. Blount, Pensacola, FL US
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| 20090258813 | Clean freeze - This invention is the freezing of a baking soda/water/lemon juice/orange juice mixture, as a cleaning material. The freezing of cleaning agents to improve the cleaning process. The placement of the mixture into a tear-away paper container. | 10-15-2009 |
Kenneth F. Blount, Guilford, CT US
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| 20100137440 | LYSINE RIBOSWITCHES, STRUCTURE-BASED COMPOUND DESIGN WITH LYSINE RIBOSWITCHES, AND METHODS AND COMPOSITIONS FOR USE OF AND WITH LYSINE RIBOSWITCHES - The lysine riboswitch is a target for antibiotics and other small molecule therapies. Compounds can be used to stimulate, active, inhibit and/or inactivate the lysine riboswitch. | 06-03-2010 |
Kenneth F. Blount, New Haven, CT US
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| 20080269258 | Riboswitches, Structure-Based Compound Design with Riboswitches, and Methods and Compositions for Use of and with Riboswitches - Riboswitches and modified versions of riboswitches can be employed as designer genetic switches that are controlled by specific effector compounds. Such effector compounds that activate a riboswitch are referred to herein as trigger molecules. The natural switches are targets for antibiotics and other small molecule therapies. In addition, the architecture of riboswitches allows actual pieces of the natural switches to be used to construct new non-immunogenic genetic control elements, for example the aptamer (molecular recognition) domain can be swapped with other non-natural aptamers (or otherwise modified) such that the new recognition domain causes genetic modulation with user-defined effector compounds. The changed switches become part of a therapy regimen-turning on, or off, or regulating protein synthesis. Newly constructed genetic regulation networks can be applied in such areas as living biosensors, metabolic engineering of organisms, and in advanced forms of gene therapy treatments. Compounds can be used to stimulate, active, inhibit and/or inactivate riboswitches. Atomic structures of riboswitches can be used to design new compounds to stimulate, active, inhibit and/or inactivate riboswitches. | 10-30-2008 |
| 20090305253 | Methods and Compositions Related to the Modulation of Riboswitches - Disclosed herein are methods and compositions related to the detection of conformational changes and interactions with trigger molecules in riboswitches. | 12-10-2009 |
Lawrence Blount, Tucson, AZ US
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| 20110202904 | Hierarchical aggregation system for advanced metering infrastructures - A coverage analysis tool may determine coverage in respect to heterogeneous coverage tasks associated with different hierarchy levels of a tasks hierarchy. The coverage analysis tool may iteratively refine coverage tasks to determine coverage of sub-tasks. In some cases, coverage tasks may be unrefined in order to reduce overhead of coverage analysis in performance of the software under test, such that the software under test may perform in an essentially similar manner as in non-testing mode. | 08-18-2011 |
Lawrence C. Blount, Tucson, AZ US
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| 20090249298 | Evaluation of Software based on Change History - A method for software processing includes obtaining change information, which records changes that have been performed in respective locations in software code. The change information is processed so as to assign to at least some of the locations respective priorities, which are indicative of respective likelihoods that the locations contain program faults. The at least some of the locations are presented to a user in accordance with the assigned priorities. | 10-01-2009 |
Lawrence Carter Blount, Tucson, AZ US
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| 20090089791 | RESOURCE ALLOCATION UNIT QUEUE - Provided is a system, deployment and program for resource allocation unit queuing in which an allocation unit associated with a task is classified. An allocation unit freed as the task ends is queued for use by another task in a queue at a selected location within the queue in accordance with the classification of said allocation unit. In one embodiment, an allocation unit is queued at a first end of the queue if classified in a first class and is queued at a second end of the queue if classified in said second class. Other embodiments are described and claimed. | 04-02-2009 |
| 20100131930 | Selective Code Coverage Instrumentation - Reporting on software test coverage, where a set of coverage tasks and a coverage task hierarchy have been established for a software under test (SUT). Establishing a coverage task subset, the subset including at least one coverage task hierarchy element at a level above the lowest coverage task hierarchy level. Identifying when, during a software test, a coverage task in the coverage task subset was completed. Outputting to a user the identity of those portions of the coverage task that have been completed. Refining the coverage task subset in one of the following fashions through the coverage task hierarchy in accordance with user input: depth first progression, breadth first progression. | 05-27-2010 |
| 20100191925 | DEFERRED VOLUME METADATA INVALIDATION - A method, system, and computer program product for managing modified metadata in a storage controller cache pursuant to a recovery action by a processor in communication with a memory device is provided. A count of modified metadata tracks for a storage rank is compared against a predetermined criterion. If the predetermined criterion is met, a storage volume having the storage rank is designated with a metadata invalidation flag to defer metadata invalidation of the modified metadata tracks until after the recovery action is performed. | 07-29-2010 |
Marion Lee Blount, Mahopac, NY US
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| 20080307104 | Methods and Apparatus for Functional Model-Based Data Provenance in Stream Processing Environments - Techniques for deriving a provenance of one or more of a plurality of output data elements generated from a given output port of a PC are provided. At least one dependency function is created that relates the one or more output data elements to a set of one or more input ports of the PC and a corresponding plurality of input data elements. The dependency function comprises an encoding of at least one of one or more temporal filters and one or more sequence filters relating to the plurality of input data elements. The at least one dependency function is stored. A history of stream-level bindings of one or more input streams to one or more input ports of the processing component and one or more output streams from one or more output ports of the processing component is stored. The plurality of input data elements belonging to the one or more input streams and the plurality of output data elements belonging to the one or more output streams are stored. The set of one or more input data elements from the plurality of input data elements are determined that relate to the one or more output data elements in accordance with at least one dependency function and the history of stream-level bindings. | 12-11-2008 |
| 20090292729 | Method and Apparatus for Maintaining and Processing Provenance Data in Data Stream Processing System - Techniques are disclosed for maintaining and processing provenance data in such data stream processing systems. For example, a method for processing data associated with a data stream received by a data stream processing system, wherein the system comprises a plurality of processing elements, comprising the following steps. A portion of data associated with the data stream is maintained. The maintained data comprises inputs to each processing element that contributed to an output of each processing element. In response to an alert generated by one of the processing elements, a scheduler is triggered to determine when a pre-calculation of a prospective query related to the alert should be executed. In response to the scheduler, at least a portion of the maintained data is used to determine a set of data that contributed to the alert such that the alert-contributing set of data can be used to respond to the prospective query upon arrival thereof. | 11-26-2009 |
| 20090292818 | Method and Apparatus for Determining and Validating Provenance Data in Data Stream Processing System - Techniques are disclosed for determining and validating provenance data in such data stream processing systems. For example, a method for processing data associated with a data stream received by a data stream processing system, wherein the system comprises a plurality of processing elements, comprises the following steps. Input data elements and output data elements associated with at least one processing element of the plurality of processing elements are obtained. One or more intervals are computed for the processing element using data representing observations of associations between inputs elements and output elements of the processing element, wherein, for a given one of the intervals, one or more particular input elements contained within the given interval are determined to have contributed to a particular output element. In another method, intervals are specified, and then validated by comparing the specified intervals against intervals computed based on observations. | 11-26-2009 |
Willie Blount, Columbia, MD US
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| 20110125994 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR SECURE ONLINE BROWSING - An external operating system (OS) that is separate from the internal OS of a computer is provided. The external OS may be stored on a USB device, a CD ROM, or other devices. The device that stores the external OS may be removable or non-removable, may have an internal flash memory of varying sizes, and may include browser software. The external OS, flash memory size and browser software may be customizable according to user requirements. The computer may boot up from the device into the external OS, rather than into the internal OS of the computer. Once the computer is booted up, the user has the ability to browse online, with all transactions occurring in the external OS, partitioned from the user's internal computer hard drive, thereby preventing infecting the computer by malware or other malicious software. | 05-26-2011 |