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Andrea Garrison, Houston, TX US

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20090039174Fragrance Dispensing Assembly With Buoyant Reeds - A fragrance dispensing assembly including a container having a sealed interior chamber containing porous reeds in a fragranced liquid. At least one buoyant member is coupled to one or more of the reeds. The porous reeds, buoyant member(s) and the fragranced liquid are put in the container and placed in contact with each other prior to sealing the container. To commence use of the fragrance dispensing assembly, the sealed container is opened and the buoyant member(s) elevate the coupled porous reeds within the liquid, thus providing additional portions of the pre-soaked porous reeds to extend from the opened container and begin instant and continuous fragrance dispensing to a room upon opening the sealed container.02-12-2009

John M. Garrison, Austin, TX US

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20100036698Charging Resource Usage in a Distributed Computing Environment - A method of allocating costs for resource usage in a distributed computing environment includes creating a standardized template for deploying a desired functionality within the distributed computing environment; the standardized template defining computing resources of the distributed computing environment needed to support the desired functionality, associating fixed costs with the computing resources, and calculating a total allocated cost associated with the standardized template by referencing the fixed costs. A system of allocating costs for resource usage in a distributed computing environment includes a standardized template for deploying a desired functionality within the distributed computing environment, the standardized template defining a plurality of interconnected computing resources, a fixed cost associated with each of the plurality of interconnected computing resources, and a software application configured to sum the fixed costs to produce a total cost for deploying the desired functionality.02-11-2010
20100049851Allocating Resources in a Distributed Computing Environment - A solution in a distributed computing environment is deployed and includes selecting a solution template corresponding to the solution, the solution template defining requirements for a plurality of computing elements; selecting resources within a computing infrastructure which match the requirements; and deploying the solution by configuring the resources according to the solution template.02-25-2010

John Michael Garrison, Austin, TX US

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20080216164METHOD FOR PROVIDING ACCESS CONTROL TO SINGLE SIGN-ON COMPUTER NETWORKS - A method for providing access control to a single sign-on computer network is disclosed. A user is assigned to multiple groups within a computer network. In response to an access request by the user, the computer network determines a group pass count based on a user profile of the user. The group pass count is a number of groups in which the access request meets all their access requirements. The computer network grants the access request if the group pass count is greater than a predetermined high group pass threshold value.09-04-2008
20080271151Method and system for morphing honeypot with computer security incident correlation - A method, system, apparatus, or computer program product is presented for morphing a honeypot system on a dynamic and configurable basis. The morphing honeypot emulates a variety of services while falsely presenting information about potential vulnerabilities within the system that supports the honeypot. The morphing honeypot has the ability to dynamically change its personality or displayed characteristics using a variety of algorithms and a database of known operating system and service vulnerabilities. The morphing honeypot's personality can be changed on a timed or scheduled basis, on the basis of activity that is generated by the presented honeypot personality, or on some other basis. The morphing honeypot can also be integrated with intrusion detection systems and other types of computer security incident recognition systems to correlate its personality with detected nefarious activities.10-30-2008
20080307367METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR A DRAG AND DROP OPERATION IMPLEMENTING A HIERARCHICAL PATH NAME - A computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer program product for transferring a file item. The process selects a file item in response to receiving a first input command. The process selects a file item in response to receiving a first input command. The process then identifies a file path name from a hierarchical file path to form a selected file path name. The file path name is identified by detecting a pointer passing over the file path name. In response to receiving a second input command, the process transfers the file item to a storage location associated with the selected file path name.12-11-2008
20090089680ALIASING UNIFORM RESOURCE LOCATIONS WITHIN A BROWSER - A computer implemented method, data processing system, and a computer program product are provided for resolving uniform resource locator addresses. A first uniform resource locator address is input from a user. The first uniform resource locator address is identified within a database list of uniform resource locator addresses. Each of the list of uniform resource locator addresses corresponds to a second uniform resource locator address contained in the database. Responsive to identifying the first uniform resource locator address with the list of uniform resource locator addresses, information for the corresponding second uniform resource locator address is displayed.04-02-2009
20090100335METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR IMPLEMENTING WILDCARD PATTERNS FOR A SPELLCHECKING OPERATION - A computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer usable program product for implementing wildcard patterns for a spellchecking operation. The process parses a set of words of a document using a dictionary of wildcard patterns to identify a set of wildcard strings in response to receiving a request to perform a spellchecking operation on the document. Thereafter, the process generates a visual cue identifying a subset of words as potentially misspelled, wherein the subset of words comprises words from the set of words that are absent from the set of wildcard strings.04-16-2009
20090109961MULTIPLE SIMULTANEOUS CALL MANAGEMENT USING VOICE OVER INTERNET PROTOCOL - Illustrative embodiments provide a computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer program product for more effectively managing multiple call situations using voice over internet protocol. In one illustrative embodiment, the computer implemented method comprising, responsive to receiving a request to monitor a call from among multiple simultaneous calls using voice over internet protocol, creating a set of trigger criteria for the call and monitoring the call for the set of trigger criteria. Responsive to one of the set of trigger criteria having been met, identifying a triggered criteria and selectively invoking a rule with respect to the triggered criteria to produce a result, and notifying a requester of the result.04-30-2009
20090113330Method For Predictive Drag and Drop Operation To Improve Accessibility - A method simplified drag and drop operations of display icons. This method calculates a projected path for an icon based on the past movement of the icon. The method highlights the “best fit” target icon as the mouse pointer moves across the screen. As the mouse pointer moves, or changes direction, the “best fit” target icon can change, with the current best-fit icon being highlighted. In addition to highlighting the target icon, a line or arrow from the mouse pointer to the target icon is maintained. The line presents the predicted path in a very noticeable, visual way. As the best-fit target icon changes, the line is re-drawn to point to the current best-fit icon. Regardless of how the target icon is visually indicated, releasing the mouse button will cause the drop operation to be completed “into” target. Completion of the drop could be instantaneous, or could be rendered with animation of some sort to indicate moving from the source to the target.04-30-2009
20090328213Method and system for morphing honeypot - A method, system, apparatus, or computer program product is presented for morphing a honeypot system on a dynamic and configurable basis. The morphing honeypot emulates a variety of services while falsely presenting information about potential vulnerabilities within the system that supports the honeypot. The morphing honeypot has the ability to dynamically change its personality or displayed characteristics using a variety of algorithms and a database of known operating system and service vulnerabilities. The morphing honeypot's personality can be changed on a timed or scheduled basis, on the basis of activity that is generated by the presented honeypot personality, or on some other basis.12-31-2009

Patent applications by John Michael Garrison, Austin, TX US

Philip J. Garrison, Houston, TX US

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20090304966Bimodal polyethylene process and products - Bimodal polyethylene resins having reduced long-chain branching and suitable for use in pipe resin applications as a result of their improved SCG and RCP resistance are provided. The improved resins of the invention are produced in a two-reactor cascade slurry polymerization process using a Ziegler-Natta catalyst system and wherein an alkoxysilane modifier is present in both reactors.12-10-2009
20100016526Process for the preparation of multimodal polyethylene resins - A two-stage cascade polymerization process for the production of multimodal polyethylene film resins with improved bubble stability is provided. The process comprises polymerizing ethylene or a mixture of ethylene and a C01-21-2010
20110136997PREPARATION OF MULTIMODAL, HIGH DENSITY, ETHYLENE HOMOPOLYMER BARRIER RESINS AND FILMS - Disclosed is a multimodal, high density, homopolyethylene barrier resin. The resin is preferably made by a multistage process. The process comprises a first stage in which ethylene is homopolymerized in the presence of a Ziegler-Natta catalyst, organoaluminum cocatalyst, alkoxysilane modifier, and hydrogen. The reaction mixture from the first stage is devolatilized to remove all or substantially all of the hydrogen. The polymerization continues in a second stage wherein ethylene is added to the devolatilized reaction mixture to produce the barrier resin. The barrier resin provides films with improved barrier properties.06-09-2011

Patent applications by Philip J. Garrison, Houston, TX US

Wayne Garrison, Mckinney, TX US

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20080203184Pneumatic Seasoning System - A pneumatic seasoning system and method utilizing a rotating drum for seasoning, a funnel-fed pneumatic eductor, line splitters, and a plurality of specially-designed swirl-inducing nozzle spools for inducing a broad and even seasoning plume. In a preferred embodiment, a pneumatic seasoning system transports seasoning from a seasoning hopper to food items within a rotating drum using a combination of an eductor and four in-line vacuum generators, which vacuum generators operate on compressed air. Each vacuum generator comprises a distributing nozzle roughly shaped like a collared spool, wherein compressed air is supplied to the annular region defined between the spool and its collar, and said compressed air exits through swirl ports distributed about the circumference of the spool exit. Each swirl port preferably has a pitch angle of 15° and a yaw angle of 15°.08-28-2008
20110020514PNEUMATIC SEASONING SYSTEM - A pneumatic seasoning system and method utilizing a rotating drum for seasoning, a funnel-fed pneumatic eductor, line splitters, and a plurality of specially-designed swirl-inducing nozzle spools for inducing a broad and even seasoning plume. In a preferred embodiment, a pneumatic seasoning system transports seasoning from a seasoning hopper to food items within a rotating drum using a combination of an eductor and four in-line vacuum generators, which vacuum generators operate on compressed air. Each vacuum generator comprises a distributing nozzle roughly shaped like a collared spool, wherein compressed air is supplied to the annular region defined between the spool and its collar, and said compressed air exits through swirl ports distributed about the circumference of the spool exit. Each swirl port preferably has a pitch angle of 15° and a yaw angle of 15°.01-27-2011