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Alan Finnie, Dundee GB
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| 20110049020 | MEDIA DEPOSITORY - A media depository comprises: an input for receiving deposited media items, a discriminator arranged to receive individual deposited media items from the input, and to ascertain whether each individual deposited media item is a banknote or a check; and a combined media container. The combined media container comprises: first and second media entrances, located opposite each other; first and second moveable supports, also located opposite each other; and an urging mechanism coupled to the first and second moveable supports and arranged to urge the first moveable support towards the first media entrance and the second moveable support towards the second media entrance, so that the first and second moveable supports are initially located at the first and second entrances respectively, and move closer to each other as media items are deposited. | 03-03-2011 |
Alistair Andrew Finnie, Whitley Bay GB
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| 20110144217 | POLYMER WITH SALT GROUPS AND ANTIFOULING COATING COMPOSITION COMPRISING SAID POLYMER - A film-forming polymer with improved chemical stability in antifouling coating applications, said polymer bearing pendant to its backbone a salt of (i) a basic group with a first pK | 06-16-2011 |
Donald K. Finnie, Berkshire GB
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| 20080267387 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR IMPLEMENTING CALL PROCESSING IN PACKET TELEPHONY NETWORKS - Various method and apparatus are provided to perform call routing, queuing and other call processing in packet telephony networks. | 10-30-2008 |
Donald K. Finnie, Reading GB
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| 20100098060 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONNECTING PACKET TELEPHONY CALLS BETWEEN SECURE AND NON-SECURE NETWORKS - Described herein is a method and apparatus for connecting packet telephony calls between secure networks and non-secure networks. A first telephony stream having information content for delivery to a first address may be received wherein the first telephony stream is formatted according to a first communication protocol used by a first network. The first telephony stream may be terminated at a secure boundary between the first network and a second network. A second address associated with the first address may be identified. A second telephony stream having the information content and formatted according to the second communication protocol may be delivered to the second address | 04-22-2010 |
James L. Finnie, Toronto CA
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| 20110131192 | Approaches to Reducing Lock Communications In a Shared Disk Database - Lock communications in a shared disk database system is reduced by several approaches: sending a single message to a lock manager for locks required for an operation and locks that will be required in the future, the operations may include row update, row delete, large scan, and row insert; performing an operation in two executions, where in a first execution locks required for the operation is determined without performing the operation, and in a second execution a single message is sent to a lock manager for the required locks and the operation is performed; in free space searching, sending a single message to a lock manager for row and page locks before a row insert is actually performed; and granting locks in an unfair manner. | 06-02-2011 |
| 20120089735 | Two-Level Management of Locks on Shared Resources - In a shared data system comprising one or more primary nodes and a plurality of secondary nodes, global lock manager on a primary node manages locks for shared resources by exchanging an abstract lock state with local lock managers on the secondary nodes. The abstract lock state includes a particular representation of all of the applications on the nodes that are requesting or are granted locks. The exchange of these particular lock states instead of individual requests improves performance by increasing concurrency and reducing off-machine communication. A global deadlock detector on a node detects and resolves global deadlocks, in conjunction with local deadlock detectors on the secondary nodes. | 04-12-2012 |
James L. Finnie, Markham CA
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| 20110145627 | IMPROVING DATA AVAILABILITY DURING FAILURE DETECTION AND RECOVERY PROCESSING IN A SHARED RESOURCE SYSTEM - A system and method for managing shared resources is disclosed. The system includes a primary coherency processing unit which processes lock requests from a plurality of data processing hosts, the primary coherency processing unit also storing a first current lock state information for the plurality of data processing hosts, the first current lock state information including a plurality of locks held by the plurality of data processing hosts. The system further includes a standby coherency processing unit storing fewer locks than the primary coherency processing unit, the locks stored by the standby coherency processing unit being a subset of locks included in the first current lock state information, the standby coherency unit configured to perform a plurality of activities of the primary coherency processing unit using the subset of locks in response to a failure of the primary coherency processing unit. | 06-16-2011 |
Kim Suzanne Finnie, New South Wales AU
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| 20080199523 | Particles Comprising A Releasable Dopant Therein - A process for making particles comprising a hydrophobic dopant for subsequent release therefrom is disclosed. The process comprises providing an emulsion comprising a hydrophilic phase and a hydrophobic phase dispersed in the hydrophilic phase, and reacting the precursor material to form the particles comprising the dopant therein. The hydrophobic phase comprises a precursor material and the dopant. | 08-21-2008 |
| 20090246279 | PARTICLES HAVING HYDROPHOBIC MATERIAL THEREIN - A process for preparing particles having a hydrophobic material therein is disclosed. The process comprises providing a multiple emulsion comprising a first emulsion dispersed in a hydrophobic medium, said first emulsion comprising a hydrophobic phase dispersed in a hydrophilic phase, wherein the hydrophobic phase comprises the hydrophobic material and the hydrophilic phase comprises a precursor which is capable of reacting to form a non-fluid matrix and reacting the precursor in the multiple emulsion to form the matrix in the form of the particles having the hydrophobic material therein wherein the precursor is added prior to formation of the multiple emulsion. Also disclosed are particles having a hydrophobic material therein, which may be releasable, as well as particles having a hydrophobic material therein, which may be releasable, made by the process and methods of using the particles. | 10-01-2009 |
| 20090252808 | CONTROLLED RELEASE OF BIOLOGICAL ENTITIES - A process is provided for releasably encapsulating a biological entity. The process comprise combining a solution of a surfactant in a non-polar solvent with a precursor material and the biological entity to form an emulsion. The emulsion comprises a polar phase dispersed in a non-polar phase, wherein the polar phase comprises the biological entity. The particles comprising the biological entity are then formed from the polar phase. | 10-08-2009 |
| 20120021964 | TRIGGERED RELEASE - A method is described for delivering a species to a liquid, whereby porous particles are exposed to a condition such that the species is rapidly released into the liquid. Each of the porous particles comprises an agglomeration of primary particles so that outer surfaces of said primary particles define pores of said porous particles. The primary particles comprise silica and the species is disposed in the pores of the porous particles. | 01-26-2012 |
Kim Suzanne Finnie, Chatswood AU
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| 20120085261 | CERAMIC PARTICLES AND COATING COMPOSITIONS INCLUDING SAID PARTICLES - The present invention relates to coating compositions for metallic devices, especially for aircrafts, to provide protection against corrosion. The coating composition comprises ceramic particles having at least one active material substantially homogeneously distributed throughout each particle. The active material being releasable in the presence of a liquid by solubilization into the liquid. | 04-12-2012 |
Liam James Finnie, Toronto CA
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| 20090150616 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF USING THREADS AND THREAD-LOCAL STORAGE - A system is provided that includes processing logic and a memory management module. The memory management module is configured to allocate a portion of memory space for a thread stack unit and to partition the thread stack unit to include a stack and a thread-local storage region. The stack is associated with a thread that is executable by the processing logic and the thread-local storage region is adapted to store data associated with the thread. The portion of memory space allocated for the thread stack unit is based on a size of the thread-local storage region that is determined when the thread is generated and a size of the stack. | 06-11-2009 |
Sean Mcilwain Finnie, Manhattan, KS US
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| 20090092716 | Gluten-free baked products and methods of preparation of same - The present invention provides an ingredient delivery system and methods of producing a gluten-free bakery product using an oven to produce quality gluten-free bakery products made by this method. | 04-09-2009 |