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Aongus Flood, Narberth, PA US
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| 20090235319 | Video on Demand Gateway - A video on demand (VOD) gateway allows multiple incompatible and non-interoperable VOD systems to function as a single unified VOD system. A VOD gateway system includes a VOD asset gateway, a VOD session gateway, a VOD transaction gateway and a generic VOD client software program. The generic VOD client software resides in a CATV set-top box. The VOD asset gateway at the headend aggregates video inventory from multiple VOD vendor's equipment. The VOD session gateway at the headend translates a subscriber request in a generic protocol for VOD program into the proprietary protocol for a specific VOD system. The VOD transaction gateway at the headend aggregates embodiment, a VOD gateway permits operators of multiple CATV systems to use multiple incompatible and non-interoperable VOD systems in each plurality of separate CATV systems. | 09-17-2009 |
Brandon Jeffrey Flood, Royal Oak, MI US
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| 20100198754 | METHOD OF PROVIDING MODULAR BATTERY PACKS FOR A HYBRID VEHICLE - A method of offering or providing batteries for a hybrid or electric vehicle allows the customer to choose a vehicle electrical battery power rating that will match their expected driving range needs. Specifically, the method includes offering different modular battery packs for an electric or hybrid electric vehicle. Each of the different modular battery packs has a different number of interconnected batteries, a different energy level, and is configured to be operable for providing propulsion power to the vehicle. At least one of the different modular battery packs is installed on the hybrid or electric vehicle. The method may include recharging and/or recycling used battery back modules. | 08-05-2010 |
Brian Flood, Medford, WI US
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| 20100192746 | GUILLOTINE CUTTER - An improved guillotine cutter for a printer is disclosed. The guillotine cutter includes a guillotine blade having a cutting motion that helps to urge the cut media from the exit chute of the frame. This reduces the likelihood of the cut media becoming pulled into the frame of the cutter, requiring that the user fish the cut media out. The guillotine cutter further provides a frame having integrated bearing surfaces for supporting many of the movable components of the cutter. This minimizes the complexity of the assembly of the cutter, reducing the number of parts (by elimination of separate bearings and other such additional components) and time required to assemble the cutter. | 08-05-2010 |
Christine H. Flood, Westford, MA US
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| 20100325630 | PARALLEL NESTED TRANSACTIONS - A system for managing transactions, including a first reference cell associated with a starting value for a first variable, a first thread having an outer atomic transaction including a first instruction to write a first value to the first variable, a second thread, executing in parallel with the first thread, having an inner atomic transaction including a second instruction to write a second value to the first variable, where the inner atomic transaction is nested within the outer atomic transaction, a first value node created by the outer atomic transaction and storing the first value in response to execution of the first instruction, and a second value node created by the inner atomic transaction, storing the second value in response to execution of the second instruction, and having a previous node pointer referencing the first value node. | 12-23-2010 |
David Andrew Flood, Ft. Lauderdale, FL US
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| 20110165372 | Line sleeve - This invention is an anti chafing device, called the Line Sleeve for use around boat lines. The invention is made of wool attached to a sheepskin backing. The invention uses hook and loop fasteners to secure the invention to the boat line. When attached to the line the invention acts as buffer between the line and the surface area of the boat. The line can no longer come in direct contact with the boat. Thus stopping any abrasions and chafeing that can damage the surface area of the boat. | 07-07-2011 |
David L. Flood, Mattawan, MI US
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| 20090096597 | DRIVER INTERFACE UNIT - A system and method for detecting a plurality of vehicle conditions are disclosed. A system may include a plurality of inputs indicating a corresponding plurality of vehicle conditions, and a driver interface unit in communication with the inputs. The driver interface unit is operable to output one or more indicators associated with each vehicle condition, and to modify one of the indicators such that the driver interface unit outputs the modified indicator and the other indicators. | 04-16-2009 |
Donald Flood, San Francisco, CA US
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| 20100100445 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TARGETING THE DELIVERY OF INVENTORIED CONTENT OVER MOBILE NETWORKS TO UNIQUELY IDENTIFIED USERS - A method and system for targeting online advertisements. The method includes receiving a request for an advertisement from a publisher, wherein the request includes an identifying data uniquely associated with a user. The method includes sending a response to the publisher, wherein the response includes the advertisement and an image URL. The method includes receiving a request for the image identified by the image URL and a unique user cookie from the user. The method includes if the identifying data has been previously received, determining a unique user identifier associated with the user from the identifying data. The method includes if the identifying data has not been previously received, determining the unique user identifier associated with the user from the unique user cookie, and associating the identifying information with the unique user identifier. | 04-22-2010 |
Jesse Flood, Austell, GA US
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| 20090114320 | PERSONAL SECURITY WALLET AND METHOD OF USE THEREOF - A personal security wallet comprising a flashbulb, such as, for exemplary purposes only, a xenon flashtube, contained on the front of the wallet within a window covered by a concentrating lens; a charge storage mechanism within the wallet spine, such as, for exemplary purposes only, a capacitor, wherein the charge storage mechanism is in electrical communication with the flashbulb; an activation switch on the back of the wallet in communication with the charge storage mechanism; a disabling switch inside the wallet in electrical communication between the charge storage mechanism; and an energy source within the wallet spine, wherein the energy source comprises a battery. | 05-07-2009 |
John Flood, Cypress, TX US
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| 20120077400 | Elastic, Moisture-Vapor Permeable Films, their Preparation and their Use - The present disclosure relates to films such as membranes and coatings and to coated articles. The films comprise a combination of at least one elastomeric styrenic block copolymer which is optionally functionalized with functional groups different from sulfonic acid or sulfonate ester functional groups, and at least one sulfonated block copolymer. Films comprising the optionally functionalized block copolymer(s) and the additional sulfonated block copolymer(s) are elastic and are moisture-vapor permeable, and thus useful as coatings in breathable clothing and footwear, industrial workwear including cleanroom coveralls, in medical applications such as wound dressings and protective clothing, for bed sheets and mattress or seat covers, and other non-apparel applications. | 03-29-2012 |
John E. Flood, Cypress, TX US
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| 20090099314 | CROSSLINKED ELASTIC MATERIAL FORMED FROM A LINEAR BLOCK COPOLYMER - An elastic material for use in an absorbent article is provided. The elastic material contains a crosslinked network formed from a linear block copolymer having a monoalkenyl aromatic midblock positioned between conjugated diene endblocks (e.g., butadiene-styrene-butadiene (“B-S-B”) triblock copolymer). Prior to crosslinking, such linear block copolymers have a relatively low viscosity and thus may be readily formed into a precursor elastic material (e.g., film, strands, web, etc.) that is subsequently crosslinked to achieve the desired elastic and mechanical properties. Crosslinking is typically achieved through the formation of free radicals (unpaired electrons) that link together to form a plurality of carbon-carbon covalent bonds at the conjugated diene endblocks. | 04-16-2009 |
| 20100038815 | ELASTOMERIC BICOMPONENT FIBERS COMPRISING BLOCK COPOLYMERS HAVING HIGH FLOW - Bicomponent fibers having a sheath-core morphology where the sheath is a thermoplastic polymer and the core is an elastomeric compound are made which can be continuously extruded from the melt at high production rates. The elastomeric compound comprises a coupled, selectively hydrogenated block copolymer having high flow. The block copolymer has at least one polystyrene block of molecular weight from 5,000 to 7,000 and at least one polydiene block of molecular weight from 20,000 to 70,000 and having a high vinyl content of 60 mol % or greater. The bicomponent fibers are useful for the manufacture of articles such as woven fabrics, spunbond non-woven fabrics or filters, staple fibers, yarns and bonded, carded webs. The bicomponent fibers can be made using a process comprising coextrusion of the thermoplastic polymer and elastomeric compound to produce fibers at greater than 800 mpm and having a denier from 0.1 to 50 g/9000 m. | 02-18-2010 |
Keith Flood, Cary, NC US
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| 20100113534 | Pharmaceutical Compositions And Methods For Producing Low Impurity Concentrations Of The Same - A composition having clevidipine as an active ingredient is described. The composition includes clevidipine as an active ingredient and an amount of the impurity H168/79 that is no greater than about 1.5%, or where the ratio between clevidipine and H168/79 is equal or above 60 to 1. | 05-06-2010 |
Kerry Flood, Santa Maria, CA US
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| 20100171315 | WIND ENERGY CAPTURE DEVICE - A device to collect wind energy from the rooftop of a house or other building is described. The device encompasses a wind scoop, which can be moved in any direction to ‘catch’ the prevalent wind. The wind passes through conduits to a low-profile wind turbine, which is configured for maximum containment of wind and energy capture. The turbine powers a electricity generator to produce electricity. In an alternative embodiment, the turbine can be powered by moving water from ordinary municipal water lines or other sources. | 07-08-2010 |
Kerry A. Flood, Santa Maria, CA US
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| 20100264656 | ORBITING POWER PLANT - A self-contained orbiting power plant receives and directs solar radiation as an energy source to heat the working fluid of a Rankine-type engine used to power an electrical energy generator and create a pseudo-gravity environment in which the buoyant force exists. Through the use of reflectors and alignment of the power plant with the solar radiation source, the low temperature of outer space is used as a heat sink to condense steam back into the liquid phase. The working fluid (e.g. water) is pressurized and heated to the elevated vaporization point and the expansion of the superheated steam is captured through rotation of the power plant in the microgravity environment. The steam is used to rotate an electrical generator turbine and a counter-rotation hull turbine. The steam is cooled by conductive heat transfer to a cooling fluid (e.g. liquid ammonia) which radiates excess heat to outer space, and to return the working fluid to the liquid phase for recirculation. The produced electrical current is transformed and transmitted as microwave energy. The power generated may be transformed to specific transmittable wavelengths to decompose greenhouse gases in the atmosphere during transmission. | 10-21-2010 |
Lawrence A. Flood, Norwalk, CT US
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| 20100297356 | PROCESS FOR THE PREPARATION OF A CROSSLINKER COMPOSITION - This invention is directed to a process for the preparation of a crosslinker composition, comprising the steps of providing a mixture of an aliphatic alcohol A having at least one hydroxyl group and from 1 to 10 carbon atoms, with at least one multifunctional aldehyde C having at least two aldehyde groups —CHO to form a mixture AC, heating the mixture AC to convert at least a part of the multifunctional aldehyde C to its hemiacetal or to its acetal to form a mixture (AC)′, adding to the mixture (AC)′ least one cyclic urea U or the educts to produce the said cyclic urea U in situ, which cyclic urea U has at least one unsubstituted >NH group, and reacting the mixture thus obtained to form a chemical bond between the nitrogen atom of the at least one unsubstituted >NH group of the at least one cyclic urea U5 and the carbon atom of the least one aldehyde group —CHO of the multifunctional aldehyde C, and coating compositions comprising the said crosslinker composition. | 11-25-2010 |
Mark Andrus Flood, Fountain Hills, AZ US
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| 20100127074 | Method and equipment configured for verifying presence of a medical implant within a patient - A system comprises means for authenticating an identity of a medical implant patient using at least a portion of information provided on an identification card and means for displaying an image showing a medical implant as actually implanted within the medical implant patient and an image showing an implant operation scar of the medical implant patient resulting from actual implantation of the medical implant therein thereby allowing the displayed image of the medical implant to be visually compared against a corresponding image provided on the identification card and allowing verification that the medical implant patient has a scar thereon appearing the same as the image showing the implant operation scar of the medical implant patient resulting from actual implantation of the medical implant. Displaying the images is performed in response to successfully authenticating the identity of the medical implant verification patient. | 05-27-2010 |
| 20100127075 | Medical implant verification card - A medical implant verification card (MIVC) having information provided on one or both sides thereof. Information for enabling access to a Medical Implant Verification Account (MIVA) of a patient is one the card. An image showing a medical implant as implanted within a body of the patient (e.g., reproduction of an x-ray image) is on the card. An image of an actual implant operation scar of the patient is on the card. The implant operation scar image shows a scar on the body of the patient resulting from implantation of the medical implant within the body of the patient. Implant identification information designating a type of the medical implant is on the card. Information designating a name of a surgeon having performed the operation for implanting the medical implant and/or information for contacting the surgeon is on the card. | 05-27-2010 |
Michael A. Flood, Hampton, VA US
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| 20110317147 | Time Shifted PN Codes for CW LIDAR, RADAR, and SONAR - A continuous wave Light Detection and Ranging (CW LiDAR) system utilizes two or more laser frequencies and time or range shifted pseudorandom noise (PN) codes to discriminate between the laser frequencies. The performance of these codes can be improved by subtracting out the bias before processing. The CW LiDAR system may be mounted to an artificial satellite orbiting the earth, and the relative strength of the return signal for each frequency can be utilized to determine the concentration of selected gases or other substances in the atmosphere. | 12-29-2011 |
Michael G. Flood, Pensacola, FL US
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| 20100326442 | RESUSCITATION/RESPIRATION SYSTEM - A patient resuscitation/respiratory system includes a system control unit with a timer module controlling a plurality of air pressure modules. In an exemplary embodiment, the air pressure modules include a first air pressure module for controlling a first flow of pressurized gas from a first pressurized gas supply to an inflatable abdominal cuff, a second air pressure module for controlling a second flow of pressurized gas from the first gas supply to an inflatable chest cuff, and a third air pressure module for controlling a third flow of pressurized gas from the first gas supply to an inflatable leg cuff. The control unit in this embodiment includes a ventilator supply module for controlling a flow of breathable gas from a second pressurized gas supply to a patient ventilator module to periodically connect the patient ventilator module and the patient's lungs to the breathable gas supply. The timer module is configured to automatically cycle the plurality of air pressure modules to periodically inflate and deflate the cuffs in a resuscitation mode. The system control unit in a portable embodiment may be battery powered, and the gas supplies may be portable compressed gas cylinders. | 12-30-2010 |
| 20110098611 | METHODS OF ACHIEVING INCREASED FLUID DISTRIBUTION WITH AND PATIENT KITS FOR RESUSCITATION SYSTEMS - In one embodiment, a method of rehabilitating a patient's cardiac/pulmonary activity and achieving increased fluid distribution, includes placing one inflatable/deflatable chest cuff over the patient's chest area and another inflatable/deflatable cuff over the patient's abdominal area, the chest cuff, when inflated, being arranged to depress the chest and force air out of the patient's lungs, the abdominal cuff being arranged, when inflated to apply pressure to the underlying vessels to direct blood into the patient's chest area; inflating and deflating the chest cuff and the abdominal cuff; connecting an intravenous (IV) line to one of the patient's blood vessels, the IV line connected to a fluid source, to facilitate the distribution of medications, by enhancing IV medication and fluid infusion rates, the chest and abdominal cuff inflation and deflation serving as multiple external circulatory pumps to increase the fluid infusion rate. | 04-28-2011 |
Patrick D. Flood, Arvada, CO US
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| 20090235592 | Integrated Debris-Shielding Cover, Flashing & Mounting System for Rain Gutter - A rain gutter system includes a fastening clips, fasteners, a rain gutter and a reverse-curve shield. The shield includes a back dam that overlaps existing flashing and has a crease at the bottom. The fastening clips have a groove that locates the fastening clips relative to the back dam. The upper back end of the back wall of the rain gutter forms a snap together joint with lower end of the back dam. The rain gutter is anchored to the back dam and fastening clips vertically and in the fore/aft direction, and can slide laterally. The front upper end of the rain gutter slopes up and back to improve debris shedding. | 09-24-2009 |
Rachel Flood, Austin, TX US
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| 20120002546 | MULTICASTING TRAFFIC MANAGER IN A NETWORK COMMUNICATIONS PROCESSOR ARCHITECTURE - Described embodiments provide a method of processing packets of a network processor. One or more tasks are generated corresponding to received packets associated with one or more data flows. A traffic manager receives a task corresponding to a data flow, the task provided by a processing module of the network processor. The traffic manager determines whether the received task corresponds to a unicast data flow or a multicast data flow. If the received task corresponds to a multicast data flow, the traffic manager determines, based on identifiers corresponding to the task, an address of launch data stored in launch data tables in a shared memory, and reads the launch data. Based on the identifiers and the read launch data, two or more output tasks are generated corresponding to the multicast data flow, and the two or more output tasks are added at the tail end of a scheduling queue. | 01-05-2012 |
Stephen Paul Flood, Eden Prairie, MN US
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| 20110249836 | CONTROL OF LOW POWER OR STANDBY MODES OF A HEARING ASSISTANCE DEVICE - Disclosed herein, among other things, are apparatus and methods to provide improved control of hearing aids and hearing aid applications. In one embodiment, a hearing assistance device includes a microphone, a receiver for playing sound to a wearer, a processor connected to the microphone and the receiver, and a radio connected to the processor. The processor is adapted to enter a low power or standby mode upon receipt of a predetermined command from one or more of the microphone or the radio. The processor is further adapted to exit a low power or standby mode upon receipt of a predetermined command from one or more of the microphone or the radio. Other embodiments are possible without departing from the scope of the present subject matter. | 10-13-2011 |
Timothy P. Flood, Sebastopol, CA US
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| 20090300391 | Self-Powered Devices and Methods - A system includes a computing device that selectively communicates with a self-powered device. The self-powered device has several modes of operation, including a first low-power mode of operation and a second high-power mode of operation. The self-powered device is to communicate with the computing device when the self-powered device is in the second mode of operation. The self-powered device may conserve power by alternating between the first mode of operation and the second mode of operation such that the self-powered device is in the second mode of operation during pre-determined or adaptively-determined time intervals. A duty-cycle of the second mode of operation relative to the first mode of operation may be in accordance with a power budget for the self-powered device. | 12-03-2009 |
Wayne Flood, Tacoma, WA US
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| 20110123686 | METHOD FOR FORMING A LOAF OF BREAD - A method of forming a loaf of bread having at least two textures is provided that includes forming a first portion of dough that corresponds to a first texture, forming a second portion of dough that corresponds to a second texture, and heating the first portion and the second portion of dough in a single bread pan to form the loaf of bread having a first end of the first texture, a second end of the second texture, and a central section having both the first texture and the second texture. | 05-26-2011 |