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Butterworth, GB
Andrew Butterworth, Leeds GB
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| 20120034017 | ANTIPERSPIRANT COMPOSITIONS AND PRODUCTS - The perceived visual appearance of skin such as axilla skin, as indicated by tone, radiance and/or smoothness, is improved significantly by topical application of an antiperspirant composition that is a roll-on emulsion that comprises a dihydric or trihydric humectant and/or a glyceride oil. and a mica pigment, The visual appearance can be further enhanced by incorporating into the composition a particulate microfine aluminium oxide and/or a silicone elastomer. The mica-containing compositions are advantageously applied from a roll-ball dispenser in which the depth of film of fluid on the rolling ball is controlled, such as by a spider spaced inward of the ball and/or the flow of fluid within the ball housing is perturbed such as by a castellated sealing ring and/or a shallow bead outward of the sealing ring within the ball housing. | 02-09-2012 |
| 20120039833 | ANTIPERSPIRANT COMPOSITION COMPRISING MICA AND FATTY ALCOHOL WAX - The visual appearance of skin such as axilla skin is not improved significantly by topical application of an antiperspirant composition that is a stick that comprises at least 8% by weight of a fatty alcohol gellant. The visual appearance of a cosmetic antiperspirant composition comprising 5-30% of an astringent antiperspirant salt, 40-80% of a continuous liquid phase comprising at least one water-immiscible oil and 5-30% of a fatty alcohol wax gellant, as indicated by tone, radiance and smoothness, is enhanced by incorporating at least 0,25% of a mica pigment, optionally on the presence of a di or tri-hydric humectant and/or a triglyceride oil. Preferably the composition comprises 20 to 35% by weight of a non-volatile oil, and/or a co-gellant that melts at from 75 to 90° C. such as caster wax or polyethylene of molecular weight 300 to 600. | 02-16-2012 |
Frank Butterworth, Disley Cheshire GB
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| 20120058822 | SELECTION INTERFACE - A selection interface has a control module, a display with screen operable to display an image, a region selector and an element selector. The region selector enables the selection of a single region of the image and further operable to cause the display to display an expanded view of the selected single region thereby facilitating selection of any one of the elements within the selected region. The selection interface is suitable for use in implementing a selection game such as spot the ball in which case the image is a digital photograph of a ball game which has been cropped and sized so that it has the desired dimensions and the image is divided into a plurality of square regions. The center of the ball is recorded by overlaying an object of a substantially similar size, shape and orientation with the ball and recording the center of that object when the two objects coincide. The element containing the center of the ball is found and recorded. The ball is then electronically removed from the image. Users attempt to guess the location of the element containing the center of the ball and select the same using the selection interface. | 03-08-2012 |
Harry Butterworth, Eastleigh GB
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| 20110138138 | WRITE SET BOUNDARY MANAGEMENT FOR HETEROGENEOUS STORAGE CONTROLLERS IN SUPPORT OF ASYNCHRONOUS UPDATE OF SECONDARY STORAGE - A data storage system including at least one storage controller having a first color policy and operative to store data onto a first data storage unit at a primary site as part of a current color of the primary site, at least one storage controller having a second color policy and operative to store data onto a second data storage unit at the primary site as part of the current color, and a color control node operative to provide each of the controllers with new color information while maintaining the integrity of dependent writes across color boundaries. | 06-09-2011 |
Henry Butterworth, Hampshire GB
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| 20090138666 | WRITE SET BOUNDARY MANAGEMENT IN SUPPORT OF ASYNCHRONOUS UPDATE OF SECONDARY STORAGE - A color control node includes an interface for communicating with multiple storage controllers, wherein the storage controllers maintain a primary storage system at a primary site and a secondary storage system at a secondary site; and wherein the storage controllers maintain a current color and associate all writes with the current color without polling the color control node. The color control node also includes operational capability for issuing a polling command to instruct the storage controllers to poll the color control node for the current color prior to associating each write with a new color; receiving an acknowledgment of receipt of the polling command; changing the current color to a new color responsive to receiving the acknowledgment; issuing a storage command to the storage controllers indicating the new color; and instructing each storage controller to cease polling the color control node for the current color. | 05-28-2009 |
Henry Butterworth, Eastleigh GB
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| 20090313500 | CONTAINMENT AND RECOVERY OF SOFTWARE EXCEPTIONS IN INTERACTING, REPLICATED-STATE-MACHINE-BASED FAULT-TOLERANT COMPONENTS - A method, system and article of manufacture are disclosed for error recovery in a replicated state machine. A batch of inputs is input to the machine, and the machine uses a multitude of components for processing those inputs. Also, during this processing, one of said components generates an exception. The method comprises the steps of after the exception, rolling the state machine back to a defined point in the operation of the machine; preemptively failing said one of the components; re-executing the input batch in the state machine; and handling any failure, during the re-executing step, of the one of the components using a defined error handling procedure. The rolling, preemptively failing, re-executing and handling steps are repeated until the input batch runs to completion without generating any exception in any of the components that are not preemptively failed. | 12-17-2009 |
Henry E. Butterworth, Eastleigh GB
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| 20080301494 | Remote Copy Synchronization in Disaster Recovery Computer Systems - A method, storage system, and machine-readable medium for resynchronizing data stored among a first storage element and a second storage element of a remote copy pair of storage elements is disclosed. According to one embodiment, a method is provided which includes detecting a reestablishment of a remote copy relationship between the first and second storage elements and performing a resynchronization operation in response to this detection. Performing the resynchronization operation comprises transmitting data of a second change record associated with the second storage element to the first storage element, combining the second change record with a first change record associated with the first storage element, identifying a data segment of the second storage element utilizing the combined change record, and overwriting data of the first storage element with data of the identified data segment. | 12-04-2008 |
| 20100017644 | BYZANTINE FAULT TOLERANT DYNAMIC QUORUM USING A TRUSTED PLATFORM MODULE - A method implemented in a computer infrastructure having computer executable code tangibly embodied on a computer readable medium. The computer executable code is operable to dynamically adjust quorum requirements for a voting set V of a server cluster, including a plurality of servers, to ensure that a response of the server cluster to a client request remains Byzantine fault tolerant when at least one of: a failed server of the server cluster is replaced with at least one new server, such that a total set S of servers that have ever been members of the server cluster is increased, and an existing server is removed from the voting set V. | 01-21-2010 |
Henry E. Butterworth, Chandlers Ford GB
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| 20080256543 | Replicated State Machine - A replicated state machine includes multiple state machine replicas. In response to a request from a client, the state machine replicas can execute a service for the request in parallel. Each of the state machine replicas is provided with a request manager instance. The request manager instance includes a distributed consensus means and a selection means. The distributed consensus means commits a stimulus sequence of requests to be processed by each of the state machine replicas. The selection means selects requests to be committed to the stimulus sequence. The selection is based on an estimated service time of the request from the client. The estimated service time of the request from the client is based on a history of service times from the client provided by a feedback from the state machine replicas. As such, requests from multiple clients are serviced fairly. | 10-16-2008 |
Henry Esmond Butterworth, Hampshire GB
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| 20090177857 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR MANAGING DATA STORAGE - An apparatus for controlling a log-structured data storage system, operable with a first log-structured data storage area for storing data, comprises a metadata storage component for controlling the first log-structured data storage area and comprising a second log-structured data storage area for storing metadata; and means for nesting the second log-structured data storage area for storing metadata within the first log-structured data storage area. The apparatus may further comprise at least a third log-structured data storage area for storing further metadata, and means for nesting the at least a third log-structured data storage area within the second log-structured data storage area. | 07-09-2009 |
| 20090276654 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IMPLEMENTING FAULT TOLERANT DATA PROCESSING SERVICES - Systems and methods are provided to implement fault tolerant data processing services based on active replication and, in particular, systems and methods for implementing actively replicated, fault tolerant database systems in which database servers and data storage servers are run as isolated processes co-located within the same replicated fault tolerant context to provide increased database performance. | 11-05-2009 |
| 20110010513 | STORAGE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM FOR PRESERVING CONSISTENCY OF REMOTE COPY DATA - A storage control system adapted to operate as a remote copy pair by communicating between a primary and a secondary of the remote copy pair comprises: a selector for selecting writes to be placed in a batch based on one or more criteria; a sequence number requester for requesting a sequence number for the batch; a sequence number granter for granting a sequence number for the batch; a batch transmitter for transmitting the batch to the secondary; a permission receiver for receiving a permission to write the batch from the secondary; and a write component responsive to the permission receiver to write the batch to completion; wherein the secondary is responsive to the completion to grant a further permission to write for a further batch. | 01-13-2011 |
Henry Esmond Butterworth, Chandlers Ford GB
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| 20090043826 | Method for Reliably Updating A Data Group In A Read-Before-Write Data Replication Environment Using A Comparison File - A method is disclosed for reliably updating a data group in a read-before-write data replication environment. The method reliably updates the data group by receiving an updated data group sent from a first storage medium to a second storage medium, comparing the updated data group with a previous data group previously existing on the second storage medium and writing the updated data group to the second storage medium. The read-before-write and differencing method disclosed maintain reliability by storing multiple copies of changes made to the second storage medium during and after the write process. | 02-12-2009 |
Michael Butterworth, Hinckley GB
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| 20100195103 | COLOUR ASSESSMENT APPARATUS AND METHOD - A method of colour assessment of a sample ( | 08-05-2010 |
Noel Butterworth, Holmes Chapel GB
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| 20080210226 | Mechanical Doses Counter for a Powder Inhaler - A rotatably actuated counter is disclosed. The counter includes a ratchet driven unit wheel nested within a tens wheel. Each wheel has a radial face displaying counting indicia. The tens wheel is transparent, allowing the indicia on the unit wheel to be viewed adjacent to the indicia on the tens wheel to provide a total count. A slave wheel is positioned between the unit and tens wheels. A gear on one face of the slave wheel engages gear teeth on the tens wheel. A Geneva mechanism on the other face is engaged by a foot on the unit wheel once per rotation. The wheels are rotatably mounted within a housing having a sidewall with a window through which the count indicia may be viewed. The unit wheel rotates in ten increments and then rotates the tens wheel through one increment by engaging and rotating the slave wheel. | 09-04-2008 |
Roger Butterworth, Wilmslow Cheshire GB
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| 20100048268 | MOBILE DEVICE ACCESSORIES AND METHODS OF ATTACHMENT TO MOBILE DEVICES - A mobile device accessory for attachment to a mobile device can include both an attachment portion as well as an accessory portion. In some embodiments, the attachment portion can comprise a battery cover or replica battery cover. Further, the accessory portion can comprise a flexible cover configured to remain on the phone during use and protect the outside of the mobile device when closed. | 02-25-2010 |
Sam Butterworth, Macclesfield GB
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| 20090270390 | PYRIMIDINE DERIVATIVES - The invention concerns pyrimidine derivatives of Formula (I) wherein each of p, R | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090325954 | 2-BENZIMIDAZOLYL-6-MORPHOLINO-4-PHENYLPYRIMIDINE DERIVATIVES AS PI3K AND MTOR INHIBITORS FOR THE TREATMENT OF PROLIFERATIVE DISORDERS - The invention concerns pyrimidine derivatives of Formula (I), wherein each of p, R | 12-31-2009 |
| 20100022534 | 2-BENZIMIDAZOLYL-6-MORPHOLINO-4- (AZETIDINE, PYRROLIDINE, PIPERIDINE OR AZEPINE) PYRIMIDINE DERIVATIVES AS PI3K AND MTOR INHIBITORS FOR THE TREATMENT OF PROLIFERATIVE DISORDERS - The invention concerns pyrimidine derivatives of Formula (I) wherein each of p, R | 01-28-2010 |