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Matthew Miller
Matthew Miller, Newark, CA US
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| 20110011338 | FLOW CONTROL FEATURES OF CVD CHAMBERS - Apparatus and methods for gas distribution assemblies are provided. In one aspect, a gas distribution assembly is provided comprising an annular body comprising an annular ring having an inner annular wall, an outer wall, an upper surface, and a bottom surface, an upper recess formed into the upper surface, and a seat formed into the inner annular wall, an upper plate positioned in the upper recess, comprising a disk-shaped body having a plurality of first apertures formed therethrough, and a bottom plate positioned on the seat, comprising a disk-shaped body having a plurality of second apertures formed therethrough which align with the first apertures, and a plurality of third apertures formed between the second apertures and through the bottom plate, the bottom plate sealingly coupled to the upper plate to fluidly isolate the plurality of first and second apertures from the plurality of third apertures. | 01-20-2011 |
| 20110114601 | PLASMA SOURCE DESIGN - Embodiments of the present invention generally provide a plasma source apparatus, and method of using the same, that is able to generate radicals and/or gas ions in a plasma generation region that is symmetrically positioned around a magnetic core element by use of an electromagnetic energy source. In general, the orientation and shape of the plasma generation region and magnetic core allows for the effective and uniform coupling of the delivered electromagnetic energy to a gas disposed in the plasma generation region. In general, the improved characteristics of the plasma formed in the plasma generation region is able to improve deposition, etching and/or cleaning processes performed on a substrate or a portion of a processing chamber that is disposed downstream of the plasma generation region. | 05-19-2011 |
Matthew Miller, Bellingham, WA US
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| 20100269526 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR OPERATING AND MONITORING DEHUMIDIFIERS - Systems and methods of automatically operating dehumidifiers in response to dehumidifier operating conditions are disclosed herein. A method of operating a dehumidifier configured in accordance with one embodiment includes directing air flow through the dehumidifier at a first volumetric flow rate while the dehumidifier is operating at a first operating condition. The method further includes changing the first volumetric flow rate to a second volumetric flow rate when the first operating condition of the dehumidifier changes to a predetermined second operating condition. | 10-28-2010 |
Matthew Miller, Grass Valley, CA US
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| 20100159857 | ENHANCING ANTENNA PERFORMANCE IN RF DEVICES - Method and apparatus for improving RF signal performance of a battery-operated handheld device includes RF isolating the battery from DC-powered circuitry and actively incorporating the battery in RF signal transfers with respect to an RF antenna. | 06-24-2010 |
| 20120041703 | Temperature Measurement Correction Using Multiple Temperature Sensors - Correcting a temperature measurement of a target sensed at one temperature sensor in an asset tracking device by using another temperature sensor. The asset tracking device includes at least one heat source that affects the temperature sensor for sensing the temperature of the target. The other temperature sensor measures temperature at a location in the asset tracking device. The relationships between an actual temperature of the target and the temperature measured at the two sensors are established through experiments or model. Using the relationships, the measured temperature of the target can be corrected to obtain a corrected temperature of the target. | 02-16-2012 |
Matthew Miller, Cambridge GB
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| 20090151938 | STIMULATION THROUGH FRACTURING WHILE DRILLING - A method for preparing a formation surrounding a wellbore to bear hydrocarbons through a borehole is disclosed. In one step, a bottomhole assembly is inserted into the borehole. The formation is drilled with the bottomhole assembly. The formation may be characterized with logging tools, probes, sensors, seismic system and/or the like to create first information. One or more fractures are placed in the formation without removal of the bottomhole assembly from the wellbore. Further, continuous drilling of the formation is performed with the bottomhole assembly after/during placing the fractures. Further characterizing of the formation with the probes, sensors/systems or the like is performed to produce second information. Another fracture is placed with feedback from the second information. Repeating the drilling, characterizing and placing of fractures as necessary during the formation preparing process. | 06-18-2009 |
| 20100108316 | METHOD OF IMPROVING RECOVERY FROM HYDROCARBON RESERVOIRS - A method of increasing the recovery of hydrocarbons from a highly fractured reservoir is described using the steps of injecting into the reservoir a membrane-forming fluid to form a membrane over the surface of at least part of exposed formation, injecting into the reservoir a fluid to establish a chemical potential gradient across the membrane and letting fluid enter the formation across the membrane to increase the pressure inside the formation and to force additional hydrocarbon from the formation. | 05-06-2010 |
Matthew Miller, Stillwater, MN US
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| 20090157165 | Degradable Endoprosthesis - An endoprosthesis includes a body that has a first bioerodible metal and a surface, and a capsule formed of a second bioerodible metal disposed on the surface. The capsule includes a porous peripheral region and a drug-containing core. A method of making such an endoprosthesis is also disclosed. | 06-18-2009 |
| 20100069838 | DEVICES AND SYSTEMS FOR DELIVERY OF THERAPEUTIC AGENTS TO BODY LUMENS - In accordance with one aspect, the invention provides medical devices that comprise an elongated drug delivery member, which is adapted to take on a radially expanded configuration upon actuation in vivo. | 03-18-2010 |
Matthew Miller, Boston, MA US
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| 20090253189 | Lactic Acid-Producing Yeast Cells Having Nonfunctional L- or D-Lactate:Ferricytochrome C Oxidoreductase Cells - Yeast cells having an exogenous lactate dehydrogenase gene ae modified by reducing L- or D-lactate:ferricytochrome c oxidoreductase activity in the cell. This leads to reduced consumption of lactate by the cell and can increase overall lactate yields in a fermentation process. Cells having the reduced I, or D-lactate:ferricytochrome c oxidoreductase activity can be screened for by resistance to organic acids such as lactic or glycolic acid. | 10-08-2009 |
Matthew Miller, Seattle, WA US
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| 20090254726 | METHOD OF ADDRESS SPACE LAYOUT RANDOMIZATION FOR WINDOWS OPERATING SYSTEMS - A system and method for address space layout randomization (“ASLR”) for a Windows operating system is disclosed. The address space layout includes one or more memory regions that are identified and then a particular implementation of the system randomizes the identified memory region in order to prevent any software vulnerabilities. | 10-08-2009 |
Matthew Miller, Spring, TX US
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| 20090221452 | Lost circulation material formulation and method of use - A lost circulation material and method for well treatment employing the material that is effective at sealing or plugging small fissures and large fractures and has utility over a wide range of temperatures, including high temperatures. The material has an optimized bimodal particle distribution and optionally has a polymer flocculent or water swellable polymer. | 09-03-2009 |
Matthew Miller, Plainville, MA US
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| 20080235400 | CONTENT REQUEST ROUTING AND LOAD BALANCING FOR CONTENT DISTRIBUTION NETWORKS - A content distribution mechanism that distributes content of a content provider at various sites across a network and selects the site that is nearest a content requestor using an anycast address that resides at each of the sites. The sites are configured as nodes (or clusters) and each node includes a content server and a DNS server. The DNS servers are so associated with the content servers at their respective nodes as to resolve the name of the content provider to the IP address of the content servers at the nodes. The DNS servers each are assigned the anycast address in addition to a unique address, and the anycast address is advertised to the network (in particular, the network routing infrastructure) using Border Gateway Protocol (BGP). Node selection occurs when the network routing infrastructure selects a shortest path to the anycast address during DNS name resolution. | 09-25-2008 |
| 20080279222 | DISTRIBUTION OF TRAFFIC ACROSS A COMPUTER NETWORK - A system and method of distributing traffic across a computer network is provided using a relay apparatus. A relay apparatus includes an interface to a communication network, a data store, and a processor. The data store includes data elements associating a first network address of a server to a second network address of the server. The processor is configured to receive a request corresponding to a data element in the data store, use the data element to determine a corresponding server, and forward the request to the server in a manner such that any response to the forwarded request is sent to the relay apparatus. | 11-13-2008 |
Matthew Miller, Fremont, CA US
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| 20110115378 | PLASMA SOURCE DESIGN - Embodiments of the present invention generally provide a plasma source apparatus, and method of using the same, that is able to generate radicals and/or gas ions in a plasma generation region that is symmetrically positioned around a magnetic core element by use of an electromagnetic energy source. In general, the orientation and shape of the plasma generation region and magnetic core allows for the effective and uniform coupling of the delivered electromagnetic energy to a gas disposed in the plasma generation region. In general, the improved characteristics of the plasma formed in the plasma generation region is able to improve deposition, etching and/or cleaning processes performed on a substrate or a portion of a processing chamber that is disposed downstream of the plasma generation region. | 05-19-2011 |
Matthew Miller, Katy, TX US
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| 20110257887 | UTILIZATION OF TRACERS IN HYDROCARBON WELLS - Monitoring of a wellbore which penetrates a reservoir is carried out by providing tracer material at one or more subterranean locations within or proximate the wellbore, so that tracer may enter the flow and be present in flow from the wellbore; repeatedly taking samples from the flow from the wellbore, and analyzing the samples for the presence of tracer, in the vicinity of the wellsite. Taking samples from the flow will generally be done at the surface and may be done by automatic equipment controlled by a programmed computer. The computer may be programmed to take action, such as operating a valve within the well, in response to detection of tracer. Sampling repeatedly and analyzing on site can provide information in something close to real time and thus integrates the use of tracers into an overall process of monitoring and control. | 10-20-2011 |
Matthew Miller, Rancho Santa Margarita, CA US
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| 20120075490 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DETERMINING POSITIONING OF OBJECTS WITHIN A SCENE IN VIDEO CONTENT - Methods and systems for determining positioning of objects of interest within a scene in video content are disclosed. One method includes applying position detection tags to one or more physical objects in a scene to be captured as video content, and capturing video content including the scene containing the one or more physical objects such that positions of the physical objects are known. The method also includes detecting the one or more objects within a recorded scene of the video content, and identifying one or more objects of interest in the recorded scene corresponding to the objects at least in part by extrapolating from the known physical positions of the objects in the scene. | 03-29-2012 |
| 20120078691 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING MULTIMEDIA CONTENT EDITING AND MANAGEMENT TOOLS - Methods and systems for managing content are described. One system includes a multimedia management frontend accessible to providers of multimedia content. The multimedia management frontend operates on one or more computing systems and is configured to receive multimedia content from a provider and expose multimedia content editing tools to the provider, the tools including a user interface configured to display information related to the multimedia content and receive from the provider provider-selected preferences as well as identification of one or more objects of interest in the multimedia content. The system also includes a scheduler configured to receive the multimedia content from the multimedia frontend. The system further includes a plurality of computing systems communicatively interconnected to the scheduler, the plurality of computing systems configured to receive multimedia content from the scheduler and generate metadata associated with the multimedia content based on the provider-selected preferences received at the multimedia frontend. | 03-29-2012 |
| 20120078712 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROCESSING AND DELIVERY OF MULTIMEDIA CONTENT - Methods and systems for providing multimedia content are disclosed. One method includes applying a container to multimedia content using one or more computing systems, the container defining an interface through which metadata external to the multimedia content is linked with one or more portions of the multimedia content. The method also includes constructing a set of text metadata describing an audio portion of the multimedia content, and generating a set of object metadata describing at least a portion of one or more objects appearing in the multimedia content. The method further includes, upon receiving a request for playback of the multimedia content, providing the text metadata and the object metadata associated with the container for synchronized use during playback of the multimedia content via the container. | 03-29-2012 |
| 20120078899 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DEFINING OBJECTS OF INTEREST IN MULTIMEDIA CONTENT - Methods and systems for detecting objects of interest in multimedia content are disclosed. One method includes receiving multimedia content at one or more computing systems, and generating a plurality of scenes from the multimedia content, each of the plurality of scenes including one or more candidate objects of interest. The method also includes receiving selection of one or more of the candidate objects of interest as objects of interest, and defining one or more actions to be taken with respect to one or more of the objects of interest. The method further includes generating metadata associated with each of the objects of interest, the metadata defining actions to be taken with respect to the one or more of the objects of interest. | 03-29-2012 |
Matthew Miller, Santa Margarita, CA US
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| 20120078626 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CONVERTING SPEECH IN MULTIMEDIA CONTENT TO TEXT - Methods and systems for converting speech to text are disclosed. One method includes analyzing multimedia content to determine the presence of closed captioning data. The method includes, upon detecting closed captioning data, indexing the closed captioning data as associated with the multimedia content. The method also includes, upon failure to detect closed captioning data in the multimedia content, extracting audio data from multimedia content, the audio data including speech data, performing a plurality of speech to text conversions on the speech data to create a plurality of transcripts of the speech data, selecting text from one or more of the plurality of transcripts to form an amalgamated transcript, and indexing the amalgamated transcript as associated with the multimedia content. | 03-29-2012 |
Matthew Miller, Rancho Santa Margaritta, CA US
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| 20120079380 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MANAGING INTERACTIVE FEATURES ASSOCIATED WITH MULTIMEDIA CONTENT - Methods and systems for managing interactive features associated with multimedia content are disclosed. One method includes applying a container to multimedia content using one or more computing systems, the container defining an interface through which metadata external to the multimedia content is linked with one or more portions of the multimedia content. The method further includes receiving a request for the multimedia content from a content consumer. The method also includes associating a set of metadata describing one or more interactive features with the multimedia content, the set of metadata linked to at least a portion of the multimedia content via the container and selected from a database including metadata defining interactive features capable of being associated with the multimedia content. The method also includes, upon receiving a request for playback of the multimedia content, providing the multimedia content and the one or more interactive features to the content consumer. | 03-29-2012 |