Mcmillan, CA
Barry Mcmillan, Markham CA
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20090043690 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR VALIDATING INDIRECT FINANCING TRANSACTIONS - A computer-implemented system and methods for electronically validating indirect financing transactions using various validation rules are described. The system is configured to collect from various independent finance sources information about available automobile financing programs, including various credit application validation rules. The system receives from automobile dealer credit application information, which may be provided via one or more electronic worksheets. The system validates accuracy of the application data using pre-submission validation rules and forwards the validated credit application to the associated finance source for approval. After submission of the credit application for approval, the system may receive additional changes to the application from the dealer. The system is configured to validates accuracy of the changed information using post-submission validation rules and notify the finance source if any validation rules were violated by the dealer. | 02-12-2009 |
20100088221 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR THE AUTOMATIC ALLOCATION OF BUSINESS AMONG MULTIPLE ENTITIES - Systems and methods for allocating business among a plurality of entities are provided. In some embodiments, information about the business may be communicated from a client terminal. If the business is capable of being automatically allocated, at least one relevant parameter may be processed to identify a provider with which to allocate the business. In some embodiments of the present invention, motor vehicle dealership financing application allocation techniques are used to determine financing sources, financing eligibility, financing terms, or any combination thereof in connection with the sale or leasing of motor vehicles. | 04-08-2010 |
Brad Mcmillan, Calgary CA
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20080209033 | Event monitoring and management - Described are techniques used in monitoring the performance, security and health of a system used in an industrial application. Agents included in the industrial network report data to an appliance or server. The appliance stores the data and determines when an alarm condition has occurred. Notifications are sent upon detecting an alarm condition. The alarm thresholds may be user defined. A threat thermostat controller determines a threat level used to control the connectivity of a network used in the industrial application. | 08-28-2008 |
20100023598 | Event monitoring and management - Described are techniques used in monitoring the performance, security and health of a system used in an industrial application. Agents included in the industrial network report data to an appliance or server. The appliance stores the data and determines when an alarm condition has occurred. Notifications are sent upon detecting an alarm condition. The alarm thresholds may be user defined. A threat thermostat controller determines a threat level used to control the connectivity of a network used in the industrial application. | 01-28-2010 |
20100064039 | Event monitoring and management - Described are techniques used in monitoring the performance, security and health of a system used in an industrial application. Agents included in the industrial network report data to an appliance or server. The appliance stores the data and determines when an alarm condition has occurred. Notifications are sent upon detecting an alarm condition. The alarm thresholds may be user defined. A threat thermostat controller determines a threat level used to control the connectivity of a network used in the industrial application. | 03-11-2010 |
Craig Mcmillan, Regina CA
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20100040261 | BIOMETRIC IDENTIFICATION ASSURANCE METHOD AND TOKEN RETRIEVAL - The present disclosure is directed to a method for securing access to a system. The method may comprise collecting a set of biometric information and a set of personal information of a person; storing the set of biometric and personal information to a certifying device; receiving a first biometric input from the person; sending the first biometric input to the certifying device; receiving a set of requested biometric tests from the certifying device, the set of requested biometric tests is randomly selected from the set of biometric information; collecting a set of biometric inputs from the person in response to the set of requested biometric tests; sending the set of biometric inputs to the certifying device; determining whether the biometric inputs are valid; receiving a token with personal information representing the person when the biometric inputs are valid; registering the token with the system to allow access to the system. | 02-18-2010 |
Daryl Mcmillan, Waterloo CA
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20110307960 | SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND APPARATUS FOR SECURING USER DOCUMENTS - The invention is directed to systems, methods and apparatus for securing documents. The system comprises a server having a processor and a data storage device for storing documents, at least one document provider connected to the server, the at least one document provider operable to provide user documents to the server for storage in the data storage device, the user documents containing at least one object of security concern, and at least one document consumer connected to the server, the at least one document consumer operable to receive the user documents containing the at least one object of security concern from the server. The processor in the server is operable to determine whether to provide the at least one object of security concern to the at least one document consumer based on at least one security setting, and based on the decision either provide the documents with the at least one object of security concern or provide a replacement documents without the security of concern and an indication on each replacement document that that the at least one object of security concern has been excluded. | 12-15-2011 |
Dennis J. Mcmillan, Cold Lake CA
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20130284780 | Multi-Compartment Gun Case for All-Terrain Vehicle - A multi-compartment gun case for front or rear mount on an ATV is provided. The comprises an upper storage compartment suitable for storage of a rifle and a lower storage compartment suitable for storage of other equipment. The upper storage compartment opens towards the seating position of the ATV to allow for quick and easy access of a stored rifle to the driver without the need to dismount, while the lower storage compartment opens away from the driver towards an area accessible when dismounted so that a user does not need to mount the ATV to access the lower storage compartment. | 10-31-2013 |
Gavin Malcolm Mcmillan, Maple Ridge CA
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20140153477 | UNINTERRUPTED TRANSMISSION OF INTERNET PROTOCOL TRANSMISSIONS DURING ENDPOINT CHANGES - A method and apparatus providing uninterrupted transmission of IP transmissions, during endpoint changes is disclosed. If a destination identifier in a received IP transmission matches a caller identifier of a record and a source address identifier or source identifier in the transmission do not match a caller address identifier or the caller identifier of the record, and a session identifier in the transmission matches a caller session identifier in the record, the source address identifier and the source identifier in the transmission are set as the caller address identifier and caller identifier respectively of the record. A similar procedure is followed to set the callee address identifier and callee identifier of the record using similar fields associated with the callee. | 06-05-2014 |
20150327320 | UNINTERRUPTED TRANSMISSION OF INTERNET PROTOCOL TRANSMISSIONS DURING ENDPOINT CHANGES - Facilitating uninterrupted transmission of internet protocol (IP) transmissions during endpoint changes is disclosed. When an IP transmission is received at a first relay port or a second relay port, a call record having the first relay port identifier or the second relay port identifier matching a destination port identifier in the IP transmission is located. When the destination port identifier matches the first relay port identifier of the record, a source IP address identifier and a source port identifier from the IP transmission are set as a first entity IP address identifier and first entity port identifier, respectively, of the record when the first entity IP address identifier and first entity port identifier do not match the source IP address identifier and source port identifier respectively and a received IP session identifier in the IP transmission matches the first entity session identifier. A similar procedure is followed to set a second entity IP address identifier and port identifier. | 11-12-2015 |
James Robert Mcmillan, Dunrobin CA
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20130124682 | NETWORK QUALITY AS A SERVICE - A system is provided for improving the performance of an access network for coupling user devices to an application server. The system includes a user device coupled to an intermediate server via the access network. The user device has a processor adapted to encode data using a network performance enhancing coding (NPEC), and to transmit the encoded data via the access network to the intermediate server. The intermediate server is adapted to receive the encoded data and has a processor adapted to decode the encoded data using the NPEC, and to transmit the decoded data to the application server. | 05-16-2013 |
20150026130 | METHOD FOR EFFICIENT MANAGEMENT OF EMAIL ATTACHMENTS - A system for managing email attachments receives and opens, on a mobile device, a document attached to an email; converts the opened document to a lower-resolution document; stores the lower-resolution document; and synchronizes the stored lower-resolution document with the mobile device. The system can also generate and store a corresponding thumbnail of the lower-resolution document. The original of the opened document may be stored in a remote storage device, optionally encrypting the low-resolution document before storing. The original of the opened document may also be broken into a plurality of pieces which are stored in different remote storage devices. | 01-22-2015 |
20150039723 | NETWORK QUALITY AS A SERVICE - A method of improving the performance of an access network for coupling one or more user devices to an application server, said method comprising encoding, using one of one or more encoders, data using a network performance enhancing coding (NPEC); transmitting the encoded data; receiving the encoded data; decoding, using one of one or more decoders, the encoded data using said NPEC; and receiving the decoded data at either of said application server or said one or more user devices. | 02-05-2015 |
Jennifer Mcmillan, Edmonton CA
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20120063961 | FLUID INJECTION NOZZLE FOR FLUID BED REACTORS - The liquid feed nozzle assemblies for a circulating fluid bed reactor comprise (i) a throttle body premixer to combine liquid feed with atomization steam upstream of a nozzle body to form a liquid feed/steam mixture comprising liquid feed droplets; (ii) a conduit connected to the venturi premixer and to a discharge nozzle body to convey a flow of the liquid/steam mixture created by the premixer to the nozzle body; (iii) a discharge nozzle connected to the flow conduit to shear the liquid feed/steam mixture to create liquid feed droplets of reduced size and (iv) a disperser at the outlet of the discharge nozzle to provide a spray jet of liquid feed having an increased surface area relative to a cylindrical jet. The nozzle assembles are particularly useful in fluid coking units using heavy oil feeds such a tar sands bitumen. | 03-15-2012 |
20160060541 | FLUID INJECTION NOZZLE FOR FLUID BED REACTORS - The liquid feed nozzle assemblies for a circulating fluid bed reactor comprise (i) a throttle body premixer to combine liquid feed with atomization steam to form a liquid feed/steam mixture comprising gas bubbles in liquid; (ii) a conduit connected to the premixer and to a discharge nozzle to convey a flow of the liquid/steam mixture created by the premixer to the nozzle body; (iii) a discharge nozzle connected to the flow conduit to shear the liquid feed/steam mixture to create liquid feed droplets of reduced size and (iv) a disperser at the outlet of the discharge nozzle to provide a spray jet of liquid feed having an increased surface area relative to a cylindrical jet. The nozzle assembles are particularly useful in fluid coking units using heavy oil feeds such a tar sands bitumen. | 03-03-2016 |
Lisa Mcmillan, Casselman CA
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20090061490 | METHOD FOR THE PRODUCTION OF A FERMENTATION PRODUCT FROM A PRETREATED LIGNOCELLULOSIC FEEDSTOCK - A method for obtaining a fermentation product from a sugar hydrolysate obtained from a feedstock containing hemicellulose, by (i) removing suspended fiber solids from said sugar hydrolysate to obtain a clarified sugar solution; (ii) fermenting xylose in the clarified sugar solution in a fermentation reaction with yeast to produce a fermentation broth comprising the fermentation product; (iii) separating the yeast from the fermentation broth to produce a yeast slurry; (vi) treating the yeast slurry thus obtained with an oxidant to kill microbial contaminants, thereby an oxidant-treated yeast slurry; (v) re-introducing at least a portion of the oxidant-treated yeast back to step (ii) to increase the concentration of yeast in said fermentation reaction; and (vi) recovering the fermentation product. | 03-05-2009 |
20120252085 | METHOD FOR THE PRODUCTION OF A FERMENTATION PRODUCT FROM A PRETREATED LIGNOCELLULOSIC FEEDSTOCK - A method for obtaining a fermentation product from a sugar hydrolysate obtained from a feedstock containing hemicellulose, by (i) removing suspended fiber solids from said sugar hydrolysate to obtain a clarified sugar solution; (ii) fermenting xylose in the clarified sugar solution in a fermentation reaction with yeast to produce a fermentation broth comprising the fermentation product; (iii) separating the yeast from the fermentation broth to produce a yeast slurry; (vi) treating the yeast slurry thus obtained with an oxidant to kill microbial contaminants, thereby an oxidant-treated yeast slurry; (v) re-introducing at least a portion of the oxidant-treated yeast back to step (ii) to increase the concentration of yeast in said fermentation reaction; and (vi) recovering the fermentation product. | 10-04-2012 |
Michael Mcmillan, Saint-Lazare CA
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20090143830 | MOLDABLE PASTE COMPOSITION - The invention concerns a novel moldable and/or flowable composition for application to a bone defect site to promote new bone growth at the site. The composition includes a therapeutic material and a carrier comprising means for achieving reverse phase characteristics. In one embodiment, the therapeutic material can be a resorbable alloplastic material and the carrier can be a poloxamer. In a specific embodiment, the resorbable alloplastic material is a biphasic material composed of hydroxyapatite and tricalcium phosphate (HA-TCP), and the carrier is poloxamer 407 (Pluronic® F127). The invention further includes methods for using the novel composition. | 06-04-2009 |
20110172671 | Orthopedic/Spine Bone Mill - A orthopedic/spine bone mill comprising a vessel and a rotatable grinding tool to produce ground autologous and or allograft bone particles for surgical bone reconstruction use, wherein the vessel includes a wall defining a circular cylindrical chamber having a concentric axis. The vessel further includes generally concave or a cup shaped bottom wall which corresponds to the shape of the cutting blade and a lid adapted to be removably connected to the vessel. The lid includes an opening coincident with the axis. The grinding tool includes an elongated shaft extending through the opening in the Jid along the axis with a cutting blade mounted to the shaft within the chamber whereby the cutting blade can be rotated by motive device, such as a drill find in the operating room, engaging the shaft exterior of the vessel to cut bone, placed in the vessel, into said bone particles. | 07-14-2011 |
Nancy Anne Mcmillan, Waterloo CA
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20110173269 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROCESSING DATA ON A COMPUTING DEVICE - A method and computing device for processing data are provided. Rule data for visually coding incoming data is stored. First and second profile data are stored, independent of the rule data. Each profile data comprises a respective range of time and a respective recurrence pattern that repeats indefinitely. Each profile data is associated with a respective subset of the rule data. Respective indications are received that first profile data and second profile have been activated. In response, the respective subset is automatically applied during the respective range of time such that incoming data is visually coded at the display device according to the respective subset during the respective range of time. Automatic application of the respective subset during the respective range of time repeats indefinitely according to the respective recurrence pattern until another indication that the respective profile data has been deactivated is received. | 07-14-2011 |
20110225251 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROCESSING DATA ON A COMPUTING DEVICE - A method and computing device for processing data are provided. Rule data for visually coding incoming data is stored. First and second profile data are stored, independent of the rule data. Each profile data comprises a respective range of time and a respective recurrence pattern that repeats indefinitely. Each profile data is associated with a respective subset of the rule data. Respective indications are received that first profile data and second profile have been activated. In response, the respective subset is automatically applied during the respective range of time such that incoming data is visually coded at the display device according to the respective subset during the respective range of time. Automatic application of the respective subset during the respective range of time repeats indefinitely according to the respective recurrence pattern until another indication that the respective profile data has been deactivated is received. | 09-15-2011 |
20130007165 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROCESSING DATA ON A COMPUTING DEVICE - A method and computing device for processing data are provided. Rule data for visually coding incoming data is stored. First and second profile data are stored, independent of the rule data. Each profile data comprises a respective range of time and a respective recurrence pattern that repeats indefinitely. Each profile data is associated with a respective subset of the rule data. Respective indications are received that first profile data and second profile have been activated. In response, the respective subset is automatically applied during the respective range of time such that incoming data is visually coded at the display device according to the respective subset during the respective range of time. Automatic application of the respective subset during the respective range of time repeats indefinitely according to the respective recurrence pattern until another indication that the respective profile data has been deactivated is received. | 01-03-2013 |
Owen Mcmillan, Toronto CA
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20100122330 | AUTOMATIC LOCAL LISTING OWNER AUTHENTICATION SYSTEM - A method and apparatus for verifying that a user is the owner of a public listing is provided. The user selects an option to claim ownership of the public listing offered by an online service provider. The online service provider uses information regarding the user and the public listing to generate a verification code. The online service provider delivers the verification code to the owner of the public listing via the contact information provided by the public listing. If the user owns the public listing, the user receives the verification code via contact information associated with the public listing. The user verifies ownership by inputting a code to the online service provider. If the inputted code matches the verification code, then the online service provider identifies the user as the owner of the listing. Once verified, the user modifies the listing. | 05-13-2010 |
Ryan Mcmillan, Ontario CA
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20130305353 | Low Power Driver System and Method for Controlling The Same - A low power driver system for controlling an electric strike of a door is provided. The low power driver system includes an input system configured to detect a user credential, a control system configured to authenticate the user credential and generate a plurality of signals based at least in part on an authentication of the user credential, a driver system configured to generate a plurality of voltage potentials during an unlocking cycle based at least in part on the plurality of signals, wherein each of the plurality of voltage potentials are difference from each other, and a locking device configured to unlock based at least in part on the plurality of voltage potentials. | 11-14-2013 |
Ryan Mcmillan, Elmira CA
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20160047144 | LOW POWER MAGNETIC LOCK ASSEMBLY - An electromagnetic lock assembly includes a magnet block having a coil assembly and a connection for receiving an electrical current; and a control system having a detection circuit and an activation circuit, wherein the detection circuit senses a voltage across the coil and automatically sends an activation signal to the activation circuit when the voltage decreases from a supply voltage to a reference threshold voltage, the activation circuit increasing the electrical current through or the voltage across the coil assembly upon receipt of the activation signal. The electromagnetic lock assembly may further include an armature for coupling with the magnet block, wherein the supply voltage is configured by the control system to magnetically couple the armature and the magnet block absent an external separating force applied against the armature or magnet block. | 02-18-2016 |
Scott Mcmillan, Penticton CA
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20160038788 | PERFORMANCE MONITORING SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR EDGING SPORTS - A performance monitoring system and method for edging or near-edging sports includes a pair of measurement apparatus associated with each foot or of an athlete. Each measurement apparatus includes at least one sensor, adapted to cooperate with the corresponding foot or boot and the corresponding surface-engaging equipment to measure and provide at least force data exerted on said surface-engaging equipment. A data receiver cooperates with each sensor to receive said data and to communicate said data to a data processor. The data processor is adapted to determine from said data, for each sensor, at least the following derived characteristics: force over time, a peak force, delta time, and corresponding explosiveness. Feedback of the characteristics is provided to a user. | 02-11-2016 |