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Michael Brown
Michael Brown US
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| 20110079296 | MULTIFUNCTIONAL RESTRICTIVE VALVE - A multifunctional restrictive valve for controlling the flow of water therethrough. The valve has a main body with a flow channel through the main body. The main body receives water upstream thereof through an inlet port and passes it out through an outlet port at the downstream end of the body. A flow control assembly is located in the flow channel and includes a temperature sensor/actuator acting on a piston to move, when the temperature sensor heats up the piston, to block water flow control ports. The flow control assembly also includes an override feature wherein the piston is located within a slide and the flow control ports are located in the slide. By moving the slide away from the piston when the piston is blocking the flow control ports, the temperature sensor and piston may be overridden and flow may resume through the main body. | 04-07-2011 |
Michael Brown, Jamestown, RI US
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| 20110000929 | THERMOFORMED CONTAINER HAVING A TAMPER EVIDENT CLOSURE - A tamper evident container is disclosed. The container includes a body portion having a mating formation extending therefrom. A closure having a reciprocal mating formation configured and arranged for engagement with the mating formation extending from the body portion is further included. At least one tab extends from the closure. The tab is configured and arranged to break away from the closure. Further provided is at least one tab seat projecting from the body portion that is configured and arranged to capture the at least tab when the closure is engaged with the body portion. Disengaging the closure form the body portion breaks away the at least one tab | 01-06-2011 |
Michael Brown, Davis, CA US
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| 20100318893 | Online document annotation and reading system - An online system provides users with tools to annotate publications and share such annotations with other users. Publications annotated by a community of users become a richer source of information for the community. | 12-16-2010 |
Michael Brown, Waterloo CA
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| 20100262664 | Transmission of Status Updates Responsive to Status of Recipient Application - Selecting and modifying the transmission rates and sizes of status update messages transmitted by a mobile communications device to a recipient application based on use of the updates by the recipient application improves resource utilization or accuracy. During one mode of operation, a mobile communications device transmits status messages using a conservative message transmission mode. This allows the mobile communications device to transmit a greater number of status updates for future processing by the recipient application while conserving resources. When the recipient application is actively processing status updates from the mobile communications device, the mobile communications device transmits the status messages using an accelerated message transmission mode with a different number of status updates in each status message and different delay between status messages, which may reduce delay or improve accuracy. Similarly, the mobile communications device may reduce the number of status updates transmitted by applying algorithm-based filters described herein based on the expected usage by the recipient application. | 10-14-2010 |
| 20110191585 | Device Authentication - Authentication of two devices in communication with a third device is achieved where the first and second devices each possess a shared secret value. The authentication includes communication of authentication values from the first device to the second device using the third device. Similarly, there is communication of values from the second device to the first device using the third device. The third device retains the communicated values. The values are calculated to permit the third device to authenticate the first and second devices without the third device receiving the shared secret value. The authentication may be used to establish a communications channel between the first and the second devices. | 08-04-2011 |
Michael Brown, Ashburn, VA US
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| 20090112703 | USER IDENTIFICATION IN THE HEADER OF DATA PACKETS - Several ways of identifying users and collecting demographic information and market information are disclosed, including branding a browser with a unique identification in each user request, identifying a user by his key strokes or mouse clicks, gathering demographic information using multiple data sets and by monitoring network traffic. Additionally, user requested content is distinguished from other, non-user content, and the performance of a server can be monitor and analyzed from a client a client perspective. Further, an Internet user's Internet data is routed to a known domain on the Internet, from which it is routed on to the intended recipient. The domain includes proxy servers which proxy the user's data requests to the domain, and database servers, which filter and build a database of the user's Internet usage. Particular data concerning certain behaviors of interest, such as purchasing data, is filtered into the database, and can form the basis for numerous market measures. | 04-30-2009 |
| 20100251270 | Selective Mobile Metering - A first list includes a first set of destination names. The first set of destination names including destination names involved in network communications engaged in by a device. A monitoring application is configured to access a second list that includes a second set of destination names, use the first list and the second list to access network communications, engaged in by the device, that involve the first set of destination names and the second set of destination names, collect information regarding the accessed network communications, and send the collected information to a server | 09-30-2010 |
Michael Brown, Kitchener CA
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| 20090112978 | CLICK DETECTION METHOD, APPARATUS AND SYSTEM - A click detection method, apparatus and system is provided. An embodiment includes a method that receives a request from a client destined for a server and a unique identifier for the client. The method of the method also includes generating a representation of the unique identifier, and forwarding the unique identifier and the request to the server. | 04-30-2009 |
| 20090282255 | Bundle Verification - Systems, devices, and methods for modifying a signed bundle and verifying the modified bundle are disclosed. A signed bundle may be modified by removing a file specified in a server file list from a plurality of files in the bundle. The signed bundle comprises a catalog of files in the signed bundle and their associated hashes. The modified bundle includes the remaining files of the signed bundle that are not specified in the server file list and the catalog file of the signed bundle, the catalog signature of the signed bundle. The modified bundle may be verified by verifying the catalog signature of the modified signed bundle, and checking that the files specified in the catalog are either in the modified signed bundle or specified in the server file list. The hashes of the files in the modified signed bundle may also be checked to verify the modified signed bundle. | 11-12-2009 |
| 20100223136 | COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM FOR SENDING ADVERTISEMENT MESSAGES TO A MOBILE WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS DEVICE AND ASSOCIATED METHODS - A communications system includes at least one mobile wireless communications device operable based upon payment of a wireless network user subscription fee, and for sequentially playing media files. The communications system also includes an advertising server for sending at least one advertisement message to the at least one mobile wireless communications device to be played between the media files. The at least one mobile wireless device plays the audio advertisement messages between the media files for a discount of the wireless network user subscription fee. | 09-02-2010 |
| 20110214132 | METHOD FOR MODIFYING NOTIFICATIONS IN AN ELECTRONIC DEVICE - An embodiment relates to a novel apparatus and method for changing modes of notification in an electronic device. An electronic device includes a calendar application and a variety of other applications such as the message reader application or the daily alarm application. The device is configured to use the calendar application to track whether and how the user is notified of the receipt of an electronic. In one embodiment, the user specifically associates a profile behavior to the calendar entry when the calendar entry is first created. | 09-01-2011 |
Michael Brown, Las Vegas, NV US
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| 20090309306 | TRADING CARD GAME INCLUDING SPHERES IN THE PLAY PATTERN - A trading card game that includes a deck of cards and a plurality of spheres is disclosed. Each card includes an identical back surface and a face surface with content thereon. The content of at least a first card is different than the content of other cards. In some embodiments of the invention, at least some of the content of the first card corresponds to at least a first sphere. The content may be, for example, a depiction of the at least one sphere. Some embodiments of the invention provide card games such as Warball™ by Duncan Toys. | 12-17-2009 |
Michael Brown, Hertford GB
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| 20090232360 | PRE-PRINT DISTORTION - A thermoformed article carries an image. Using a first sheet carrying a grid image and a mold having at least two cavities, a forming carrying a grid distortion pattern for each cavity is made. An initial image is computed for each cavity based on the corresponding grid distortion pattern and a desired image. The initial images are applied to a second sheet. Using the second sheet and the mold, at least two articles are made, each article carrying a distorted image that is substantially similar to the desired image. | 09-17-2009 |
Michael Brown, Austin, TX US
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| 20080320121 | SYSTEM, COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT AND METHOD OF DYNAMICALLY ADDING BEST SUITED SERVERS INTO CLUSTERS OF APPLICATION SERVERS - A system, computer program product and computer-implemented method of dynamically adding a best suited application server to a cluster of application servers are provided. To do so, a history of quality of service (QoS) of a plurality of application servers is maintained. Using the history of QoS, an application server is dynamically selected and added to the cluster when the cluster is under a heavy workload. The selected application server is one that has the most historically favorable QoS and a heavy workload is one that exceeds a user-configurable threshold. | 12-25-2008 |
Michael Brown, Norwood, MA US
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| 20080308975 | Electrode-Supported Solid State Electrochemical Cell - A process for manufacturing a solid oxide fuel cell involves forming a tubular anode comprising an electrolyte substance and an oxide of an electrochemically active metallic substance without a distinct pore forming substance, sintering the tubular anode, forming an electrolyte onto the sintered anode, forming a cathode onto the electrolyte, and after forming the electrolyte and the cathode, reducing the oxide of the electrochemically active substance in the sintered anode to form pores in the anode. | 12-18-2008 |
Michael Andrew Brown, Bay City, TX US
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| 20080271218 | HYBRID BERMUDAGRASS PLANT NAMED 'EMERALD DWARF' - A hybrid Bermudagrass cultivar, named ‘Emerald Dwarf,’ is distinguished by greater rhizome development and rooting depth in conjunction with low surface stolon development. The cultivar is especially suited to golf greens. | 10-30-2008 |
Michael Brown, Nashua, NH US
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| 20110112431 | NEUROPATHY DIAGNOSTIC DEVICE - A neuropathy diagnostic device includes a body having a neutral temperature surface disposed on an exterior of the body, a variable temperature surface disposed on the exterior of the body, and a vibrating surface having a variable vibration amplitude. The vibrating surface extends outwardly from the body. A touch sensor extends outwardly from the body. A processor is disposed within the body. The processor is adapted to set a temperature of the neutral temperature surface, vary a temperature of the variable temperature surface, and vary the vibration amplitude of the vibrating surface. | 05-12-2011 |
Michael Brown, Heidelberg CA
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| 20110215999 | HAND-HELD ELECTRONIC DEVICE - A hand-held electronic device with a keyboard, thumbwheel, display and associated software is optimized for use of the device with the thumbs. The associated software has a plurality of features to optimize efficient use of the limited keyboard space and encourage the use of the device by thumb-based data entry through the thumbwheel and/or through a combination of minimal number of keystrokes. Software features include international character scrolling, and auto-capitalization. The keys on the device keyboard are optimally shaped and configured for thumb-based input. In addition, the thumbwheel is inclined between the front and a side edge of the device so as to be reachable by either the thumb or index finger of the user's hand at the side edge of the device. | 09-08-2011 |
| 20110225491 | HAND-HELD ELECTRONIC DEVICE - A hand-held electronic device with a keyboard, thumbwheel, display and associated software is optimized for use of the device with the thumbs. The associated software has a plurality of features to optimize efficient use of the limited keyboard space and encourage the use of the device by thumb-based data entry through the thumbwheel and/or through a combination of minimal number of keystrokes. Software features include international character scrolling, and auto-capitalization. The keys on the device keyboard are optimally shaped and configured for thumb-based input. In addition, the thumbwheel is inclined between the front and a side edge of the device so as to be reachable by either the thumb or index finger of the user's hand at the side edge of the device. | 09-15-2011 |
Michael Brown, Rochester, NY US
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| 20110217013 | LIGHT COLLECTING AND EMITTING APPARATUS, METHOD, AND APPLICATIONS - A light guide apparatus includes a light guide layer having a top surface and a bottom surface, and a transversely oriented side-end surface that forms an output aperture of the light guide, characterized by an index of refraction, n | 09-08-2011 |
Michael Brown, Madison, NC US
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| 20110225755 | CLEANING TOOL - The present disclosure generally relates to a cleaning tool, a tool system, and specific tool head designs. The disclosure is useful for cleaning fryers in restaurants. | 09-22-2011 |
Michael Brown, Mckinney, TX US
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| 20110235505 | Efficient deployment of mobility management entity (MME) with stateful geo-redundancy - This disclosure describes a method to provide stateful geographic redundancy for the LTE MME (Mobility Management Entity) function of the 3GPP E-UTRAN Evolved Packet core (EPC). The method provides MME many-to-one (“n:1”) stateful redundancy by building upon the S1-Flex architecture, which enables a MME Pool Area to be defined as an area within which a UE (User Equipment) may be served without need to change the serving MME. Geographic redundancy is achieved by utilizing a standby MME node deployed to backup a pool of MME nodes, with the standby MME node designed to handle the large volume of journaling or synchronization messages from all the MME nodes in the pool. The standby MME node takes over the personality and responsibility of any MME node in the pool that has failed, with minimal impact to subscribers that were being served by that failed MME node. | 09-29-2011 |
| 20110294524 | TRACKING AREA MANAGEMENT METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR LONG TERM EVOLUTION TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS - An MME keeps track of network tracking mobility characteristics by periodically updating a TA transition probability matrix derived from a global table that maintains UE movement data in the network by noting current TA and most recently known previous TA of each EU for every TAU event and paging event. The MME also maintains data of the number of paging events and TAUs performed by each UE and stores a paging ratio versus TAU for each UE. The UE characteristics, UE paging ratio, and network mobility characteristic are utilized in an algorithm that constructs a TA list for each UE designed to minimize the overall traffic cost function for paging events and TAU events for that UE and the overall network. Optionally, the TA list for each EU is constrained to meet certain minimum performance characteristics such as a predetermined paging success rate target and/or a predetermined delay bound target. | 12-01-2011 |
Michael Brown, Raynham, MA US
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| 20110313443 | OCCLUSIVE DEVICE WITH STRETCH RESISTANT MEMBER AND ANCHOR FILAMENT - A stretch-resistant occlusive device, and method of manufacturing such a device, having a helically wound coil defining a coil lumen extending along the entire axial length of the coil from a proximal end portion to a distal end portion. The device further includes a headpiece having a proximal end, a distal end attached to the proximal end portion of the coil, and a headpiece lumen extending between the proximal and distal ends of the headpiece. An anchor filament extends through the headpiece lumen, has at least one proximal end secured to the proximal end of the headpiece, and has a distal portion defining an eye positioned distal to the distal end of the headpiece. A stretch resistant member is positioned within the coil lumen, has a proximal portion extending through the eye, and has at least one distal end secured to the distal end of the coil. | 12-22-2011 |