Patents by Inventor Alan James
Alan James has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Patent number: 11997147Abstract: A system for diagnosing a session initiation protocol (SIP) trunk configuration may include one or more processors coupled to memory. The one or more processors may be collectively operable to execute a diagnostics environment. The diagnostics environment may include an interface module operable to access data associated with a configuration including a set of configuration settings assignable to a SIP trunk. The set of configurations settings may be associated with respective layers and/or sublayers of a network connectivity model. A comparison module may be operable to determine a configuration status of one or more of the layers and/or sublayers associated with the SIP trunk. A display module may be operable to cause the configuration status to be displayed in a user interface. A method of diagnosing a SIP trunk configuration is also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: September 19, 2023Date of Patent: May 28, 2024Assignee: AVOXI, INC.Inventors: Gregory William Pries, Alan Jay Graham, Jeffery Wayne Cook, Nicholas James Goodyear, John Jordan Vardell
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Patent number: 11995206Abstract: A breach detection engine detects and mitigates the effects of breaches across one or more data sources. An index is generated based on one or more data sources and the index is queried using keywords indicative of potential breaches. A database of potential breaches is populated based on the query of the index. The potential breach database is queried using keywords associated with a system identity (e.g., a third party). A likelihood of a candidate breach is identified based on a set of breach criteria weights. A network node associated with a candidate breach determined to be an actual breach is identified for isolation or for the performance of one or more additional security actions.Type: GrantFiled: March 7, 2023Date of Patent: May 28, 2024Assignee: UPGUARD, INC.Inventors: Alan James Sharp-Paul, Christopher Robert Vickery, Jonathan David Hendren, Gregory Ford Pollock, Daniel Bradbury, Christian Alan Kiely, Gavin Richard Turner, Michael Franz Baukes
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Patent number: 11991043Abstract: An operator node is configured to enable the management of nodes communicatively coupled to the operator node via a network. A selection of node objects is received by the operator node, the selected node objects including software components for inclusion within a node configuration. A configuration policy is generated based on the selected objects, the configuration policy including a set of tests (such as scripts or executables) that, when run, test for the presence of one or more of the selected node objects. A target node is scanned to determine the configuration of the target node, and the set of tests are applied to identify a set of objects identified by the policy but not installed at the target node. The target node is then re-configured to install the identified set of objects at the target node.Type: GrantFiled: September 22, 2022Date of Patent: May 21, 2024Assignee: UPGUARD, INC.Inventors: Alan James Sharp-Paul, Michael Franz Baukes
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Publication number: 20240159138Abstract: There is described a computer-implemented method of controlling a drilling operation. In particular, there is described a computer-implemented method of determining that a differential pressure is in an oscillating state. In response to determining that the differential pressure is in the oscillating state, a weight on bit setpoint is decreased so as to decrease the differential pressure. There is also described a computer-implemented method of determining a difference between a differential pressure and a target differential pressure. The target differential pressure is less than a differential pressure limit. A weight on bit setpoint is adjusted as a function of the difference between the differential pressure and the target differential pressure so as to adjust the differential pressure and thereby reduce the difference between the differential pressure and the target differential pressure.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 23, 2024Publication date: May 16, 2024Inventors: Kshitij Agarwal, Jonathan Alan McIntyre, Choon-Sun James Ng, Aaron Eddy
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Patent number: 11980188Abstract: The present invention relates to compounds of Formula (I), wherein R1, R2, R3, R4 and G are as defined herein. The invention further relates to herbicidal compositions which comprise a compound of Formula (I), to their use for controlling weeds, in particular in crops of useful plants.Type: GrantFiled: March 11, 2019Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Assignee: SYNGENTA PARTICIPATIONS AGInventors: Alan Joseph Hennessy, Elizabeth Pearl Jones, Shuji Hachisu, Nigel James Willetts, Suzanna Dale, Alexander William Gregory, Ian Thomas Tinmouth Houlsby, Yunas Bhonoah, Julia Comas-Barcelo
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Patent number: 11962613Abstract: An internal network can include a plurality of linked internal nodes, each internal node being configured to communicate with other internal nodes or with one or more external servers over an external network. The internal network can analyze the configuration of the internal nodes and the network traffic between internal nodes of the internal network and external servers. Based on the analysis, a network vulnerability score measuring the vulnerability of the internal network to attack can be determined. If the vulnerability score is below a threshold, the internal network can be isolated from the external network, for example by preventing internal nodes from communicating with or over the external network.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2023Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: UPGUARD, INC.Inventors: Michael Franz Baukes, Alan James Sharp-Paul
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Publication number: 20240117311Abstract: The instant disclosure is directed to methods for generating stem cell-derived immune cells with enhanced function. Disclosed herein are methods for modifying a stem or progenitor cell capable of differentiating into an immune cell to inhibit the function of at least one gene selected from DGK? and DGK?, and directing differentiation of that stem or progenitor cells towards enhanced immune cells. Also disclosed herein are immune cells or stem cells made by the present methods, as well as the use of immune cells in therapeutic treatment.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 9, 2022Publication date: April 11, 2024Inventors: Nicholas BOYD, Alan Osborne TROUNSON, Huimin CAO, Mathew James TIEDEMANN, Riehard BOYD, Runzhe SHU, Frederico Loureiro CALHABEU
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Publication number: 20240115824Abstract: Systems and methods can determine respiratory rates of a patient using a respiratory device by performing one or more frequency analyses of a signal from the gases flow. The signal from the gases flow can be one that varies with the patient's breathing. The system can include a non-sealed patient interface, such as a nasal cannula in a nasal high flow therapy, or any other patient interfaces. The respiratory system can also detect whether the patient has taken off the patient interface and/or whether the patient connected to the patient interface is talking or eating. Data of the patient's use of the respiratory system and the patient's respiratory rates can provide therapy compliance and long-term trend of use information and/or progress in the patient's respiratory functions and/or other physiological functions.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 30, 2023Publication date: April 11, 2024Inventors: Rhys Matthew James Williams, Charles Grady Cantrell, David Martin Russell, Brett James Ryan, Bryn Alan Edwards, Anton Kim Gulley
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Publication number: 20240115061Abstract: A food display cabinet having a plurality of food display zones, wherein each food display zone including a heat exchange element and is configurable to be held at the same or different temperatures, the food display cabinet having a control logic to control the temperature of each of the food display zones, the control logic configured to: receive an indicia of an item to be placed in a first food display zone, and the time in which the item is placed in the zone; identify a temperature and power profile associated with the item; vary the temperature of the first food display zone, using the heat exchange element, so that the first food display zone is at the identified temperature at the time the item is placed in the first food display zone.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 19, 2023Publication date: April 11, 2024Inventors: Alan David Nuttall, Michael James Steele
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Patent number: 11954463Abstract: Techniques are disclosed relating to determining a similarity of components of a current webpage to different UI components for use in automatically generating an updated webpage. A computer system may receive information specifying a current webpage, including a particular current UI component and information specifying a plurality of different UI components for an updated webpage. The computer system may identify one or more characteristics of the particular current UI component. The computer system may determine, based on the identified one or more characteristics, a similarity of ones of the plurality of different UI components to the particular current UI component. The computer system may select, based on the determining, a particular different UI component from the plurality of different UI components for use, in the updated webpage, for the particular current UI component. Such techniques may advantageously improve user experience by automatically providing up-to-date user interfaces.Type: GrantFiled: October 27, 2021Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: Salesforce, Inc.Inventors: Owen Winne Schoppe, Brian J. Lonsdorf, Alan Martin Ross, Sönke Rohde, David James Woodward, Jessica Lundin
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Patent number: 11946740Abstract: A coating thickness measuring instrument comprising: a magnetic induction probe comprising at least one drive coil and at least one pick-up coil; a driver for driving an alternating current in the or each drive coil; and a detector for detecting the output of the or each pick-up coil; and a processor configured to: apply a transfer function to the detector output to produce an output which corresponds to a measured coating thickness; and, scale both the drive current and detector output simultaneously in response to the output. The scaling may be changed in a step-wise manner. The scaling applied to the drive current may be inversely proportional to the scaling applied to the detector output. The scaling may be defined by a first and second scaling factor, stored as a pair. The instrument may store two or more pairs of scaling factors and select a pair in response to the measured coating thickness.Type: GrantFiled: November 17, 2021Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: Elcometer LimitedInventors: Philip Anthony May, Simon Trevena Coulton, Alan James Dodd, Maria Isabel Jimenez-Lopez
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Publication number: 20240102706Abstract: A Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning (HVAC) system that is configured to receive a refrigerant from a condenser at a fixed expansion device and a variable expansion device. The system is further configured to output a first portion of the refrigerant to a first downstream HVAC component at a fixed flow rate using the fixed expansion device. The system is further configured to apply a first force to a pin of the variable expansion device based on a sensed temperature. The system is further configured to apply a second force to a valve of the variable expansion device via the force applied to the pin and to output a second portion of the refrigerant to a second downstream HVAC component at a variable flow rate based on the second force using the valve of the variable expansion device.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 6, 2023Publication date: March 28, 2024Inventors: Scott Eric Sloan, Daniel James Dettmers, Alan David Stahl, Walt Bernhard Waetjen, Clifford William Calvert
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Publication number: 20240091409Abstract: A nerve regeneration device comprising a bioresorbable conduit and a matrix contained therein having elongate pores aligned with the longitudinal axis of the conduit. The matrix comprises collagen, fibronectin, laminin-1, and laminin-2, wherein the amount, by weight, of laminin-1 or laminin-2 is greater than the amount of fibronectin in the matrix.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 30, 2023Publication date: March 21, 2024Inventors: Fergal O'Brien, Alan Hibbitts, Simon James Archibald
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Patent number: 11935436Abstract: A sign mounting for mounting a sign on top of a barrier post that includes a body having an inner side for positioning against a barrier post and an outer side for supporting a sign; and a mounting channel formed on the inner side of the body. The mounting channel allows the sign mounting to be mounted onto and supported by a spline of the barrier post. The mounting channel is open at a lower end and closed at an upper end and has a relatively narrow vertical opening at an inner side extending from the lower end to the upper end for a spline to extend through, and a relatively wider inner portion extending laterally beyond the opening on each side of the vertical opening within which a spline can be positioned. The sign mounting may form part of a mounting kit that includes a barrier post.Type: GrantFiled: May 27, 2022Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: TENSATOR GROUP LTDInventors: Peter James Crawley, Alan Robert McPherson
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Publication number: 20240086216Abstract: A method, system, computer program product and a computer program for prioritizing queued tasks waiting to access a resource associated with a resource manager in an application server, wherein an incoming task received at the application server from a calling application may have a status indicating that the incoming task is in a final phase during which a response to the calling application is created, the method comprising: receiving the incoming task; identifying the status of the incoming task; in response to identifying that the status of the incoming task is in the final phase, placing the incoming task in a priority queue; analyzing any queued tasks waiting to access the resource in the priority queue and one or more other queues; and processing a queued task from the priority queue in preference to the one or more other queues.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 9, 2022Publication date: March 14, 2024Inventors: Philip I Wakelin, Michael D. Brooks, Alan Hollingshead, Mark James Hiscock
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Patent number: 11905099Abstract: A self-heating container includes a first substance and a second substance that are adapted to produce an exothermic reaction upon contact with each other, a soluble material between the first substance and the second substance, a frangible membrane physically separating the second substance from the soluble material, and a means for rupturing the frangible membrane.Type: GrantFiled: October 27, 2020Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: Tempra Technology, Inc.Inventors: Cullen M. Sabin, Alan James Maskell
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Publication number: 20240043388Abstract: The present invention relates to a cannabinoid derivative as a pharmaceutically active compound and method of preparation thereof. The cannabinoid derivative of the invention is an analogue of cannabidiol (CBD). CBD is a non-psychoactive cannabinoid which has been used to treat various diseases and disorders. While such treatments hold promise, there remains a need in the art for more effective treatments and this has been brought about by way of the cannabinoid derivative of the invention.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 15, 2021Publication date: February 8, 2024Inventors: Alan James SILCOCK, Antoine MILLET, Karen Ka-Yen TSE, Paul Stuart HINCHLIFFE, Andrew SHARPE
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Publication number: 20240025858Abstract: The present invention relates to a group of novel compounds, methods for their manufacture and the use of these compounds as research tools and as pharmaceuticals. The novel compounds are analogues of cannabidiol (CBD). CBD is a non-psychoactive cannabinoid which has been used to treat various diseases and disorders. While such treatments hold promise, there remains a need in the art for more effective treatments and this has been brought about by way of novel cannabidiol compounds.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 15, 2021Publication date: January 25, 2024Inventors: Alan James SILCOCK, Antoine MILLET, Karen Ka-Yen TSE, Paul Stuart HINCHLIFFE, Andrew SHARPE, Iain David SIMPSON, Joanne PEACH, Stefano LEVANTO
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Publication number: 20240018297Abstract: Disclosed herein is a composition comprising a cationically polymerizable first epoxide and a second epoxide. The first epoxide is a glycidyl epoxide and the second epoxide further comprises a glycidyl epoxide and/or a non-glycidyl epoxide. The disclosed composition further comprises an initiator and a filler, where the composition upon external stimulus undergoes an ionic polymerization reaction in a spatially propagating reaction front or in a global reaction that occurs throughout an entire composition.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 20, 2021Publication date: January 18, 2024Inventors: Alan James Lesser, Daniel Scott Camarda, Matthew Lampe, Anna Maria Mueller-Cristadoro, Mark D. Minnichelli, Chinmay Mangesh Saraf, Martin Linnenbrink, John Daguerre-Bradford
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Publication number: 20230336583Abstract: An internal network can include a plurality of linked internal nodes, each internal node being configured to communicate with other internal nodes or with one or more external servers over an external network. The internal network can analyze the configuration of the internal nodes and the network traffic between internal nodes of the internal network and external servers. Based on the analysis, a network vulnerability score measuring the vulnerability of the internal network to attack can be determined. If the vulnerability score is below a threshold, the internal network can be isolated from the external network, for example by preventing internal nodes from communicating with or over the external network.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 28, 2023Publication date: October 19, 2023Inventors: Michael Franz Baukes, Alan James Sharp-Paul