Patents by Inventor Anthony Mays
Anthony Mays 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: 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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Patent number: 11920193Abstract: Methods of characterizing an analyte using a detector such as a nanopore and an enzyme are provided. One aspect features methods for characterizing a double-stranded polynucleotide using a detector, e.g., without using a hairpin connecting a template and a complement of the double-stranded polynucleotide. Another aspect features methods for characterizing an analyte using a tag-modified nanopore with increased sensitivity and/or higher throughput. Compositions and systems including, e.g., adaptors for attachment to double-stranded polynucleotides and tag-modified nanopores, which can be used in the methods are also provided.Type: GrantFiled: June 6, 2019Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: Oxford Nanopore Technologies PLCInventors: James Anthony Clarke, James White, Richard Muscat, Jessica Mary May Johnson, Ramiz Iqbal Nathani, Andrew John Heron, Mark John Bruce, Lakmal Nishantha Jayasinghe, Domenico Caprotti, David Jackson Stoddart, Rebecca Victoria Bowen, Christopher James Wright, Paul Richard Moody
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Publication number: 20220163315Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: November 17, 2021Publication date: May 26, 2022Inventors: Philip Anthony May, Simon Trevena Coulton, Alan James Dodd, Maria Isabel Jimenez-Lopez
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Publication number: 20170118221Abstract: A scalable access filter that is used together with others like it in a virtual private network to control access by users at clients in the network to information resources provided by servers in the network. Each access filter uses a local copy of an access control data base to determine whether an access request is made by a user. Each user belongs to one or more user groups and each information resource belongs to one or more information sets. Access is permitted or denied according to access policies which define access in terms of the user groups and information sets. The first access filter in the path performs the access check, encrypts and authenticates the request; the other access filters in the path do not repeat the access check. The interface used by applications to determine whether a user has access to an entity is now an SQL entity. The policy server assembles the information needed for the response to the query from various information sources, including source external to the policy server.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 6, 2016Publication date: April 27, 2017Inventors: Clifford Lee Hannel, Anthony May
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Patent number: 9438577Abstract: A scalable access filter that is used together with others like it in a virtual private network to control access by users at clients in the network to information resources provided by servers in the network. Each access filter uses a local copy of an access control data base to determine whether an access request is made by a user. Each user belongs to one or more user groups and each information resource belongs to one or more information sets. Access is permitted or denied according to access policies which define access in terms of the user groups and information sets. The first access filter in the path performs the access check, encrypts and authenticates the request; the other access filters in the path do not repeat the access check. The interface used by applications to determine whether a user has access to an entity is now an SQL entity. The policy server assembles the information needed for the response to the query from various information sources, including source external to the policy server.Type: GrantFiled: August 14, 2013Date of Patent: September 6, 2016Assignee: Dell Software Inc.Inventors: Clifford Lee Hannel, Anthony May
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Patent number: 9331992Abstract: A scalable access filter that is used together with others like it in a virtual private network to control access by users at clients in the network to information resources provided by servers in the network. Each access filter uses a local copy of an access control data base to determine whether an access request is made by a user. Each user belongs to one or more user groups and each information resource belongs to one or more information sets. Access is permitted or denied according to access policies which define access in terms of the user groups and information sets. The first access filter in the path performs the access check, encrypts and authenticates the request; the other access filters in the path do not repeat the access check. The interface used by applications to determine whether a user has access to an entity is now an SQL entity. The policy server assembles the information needed for the response to the query from various information sources, including source external to the policy server.Type: GrantFiled: August 14, 2013Date of Patent: May 3, 2016Assignee: DELL SOFTWARE INC.Inventors: Clifford Lee Hannel, Anthony May
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Patent number: 9276920Abstract: A scalable access filter that is used together with others like it in a virtual private network to control access by users at clients in the network to information resources provided by servers in the network. Each access filter uses a local copy of an access control data base to determine whether an access request is made by a user. Each user belongs to one or more user groups and each information resource belongs to one or more information sets. Access is permitted or denied according to access policies which define access in terms of the user groups and information sets. The first access filter in the path performs the access check, encrypts and authenticates the request; the other access filters in the path do not repeat the access check. The interface used by applications to determine whether a user has access to an entity is now an SQL entity. The policy server assembles the information needed for the response to the query from various information sources, including source external to the policy server.Type: GrantFiled: August 14, 2013Date of Patent: March 1, 2016Assignee: DELL SOFTWARE INC.Inventors: Clifford Lee Hannel, Anthony May
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Patent number: 9154489Abstract: A scalable access filter that is used together with others like it in a virtual private network to control access by users at clients in the network to information resources provided by servers in the network. Each access filter uses a local copy of an access control data base to determine whether an access request is made by a user. Each user belongs to one or more user groups and each information resource belongs to one or more information sets. Access is permitted or denied according to access policies which define access in terms of the user groups and information sets. The first access filter in the path performs the access check, encrypts and authenticates the request; the other access filters in the path do not repeat the access check. The interface used by applications to determine whether a user has access to an entity is now an SQL entity. The policy server assembles the information needed for the response to the query from various information sources, including source external to the policy server.Type: GrantFiled: August 14, 2013Date of Patent: October 6, 2015Assignee: Dell Software Inc.Inventors: Clifford Lee Hannel, Anthony May
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Patent number: 8914410Abstract: A scalable access filter that is used together with others like it in a virtual private network to control access by users at clients in the network to information resources provided by servers in the network. Each access filter uses a local copy of an access control data base to determine whether an access request is made by a user. Each user belongs to one or more user groups and each information resource belongs to one or more information sets. Access is permitted or denied according to access policies which define access in terms of the user groups and information sets. The first access filter in the path performs the access check, encrypts and authenticates the request; the other access filters in the path do not repeat the access check. The interface used by applications to determine whether a user has access to an entity is now an SQL entity. The policy server assembles the information needed for the response to the query from various information sources, including source external to the policy server.Type: GrantFiled: March 21, 2011Date of Patent: December 16, 2014Assignee: SonicWALL, Inc.Inventors: Clifford Lee Hannel, Anthony May
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Publication number: 20140059645Abstract: A scalable access filter that is used together with others like it in a virtual private network to control access by users at clients in the network to information resources provided by servers in the network. Each access filter uses a local copy of an access control data base to determine whether an access request is made by a user. Each user belongs to one or more user groups and each information resource belongs to one or more information sets. Access is permitted or denied according to access policies which define access in terms of the user groups and information sets. The first access filter in the path performs the access check, encrypts and authenticates the request; the other access filters in the path do not repeat the access check. The interface used by applications to determine whether a user has access to an entity is now an SQL entity. The policy server assembles the information needed for the response to the query from various information sources, including source external to the policy server.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 14, 2013Publication date: February 27, 2014Applicant: SonicWALL, Inc.Inventors: Clifford Lee Hannel, Anthony May
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Publication number: 20140059646Abstract: A scalable access filter that is used together with others like it in a virtual private network to control access by users at clients in the network to information resources provided by servers in the network. Each access filter uses a local copy of an access control data base to determine whether an access request is made by a user. Each user belongs to one or more user groups and each information resource belongs to one or more information sets. Access is permitted or denied according to access policies which define access in terms of the user groups and information sets. The first access filter in the path performs the access check, encrypts and authenticates the request; the other access filters in the path do not repeat the access check. The interface used by applications to determine whether a user has access to an entity is now an SQL entity. The policy server assembles the information needed for the response to the query from various information sources, including source external to the policy server.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 14, 2013Publication date: February 27, 2014Applicant: SonicWall, Inc.Inventors: Clifford Lee Hannel, Anthony May
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Publication number: 20140047232Abstract: A scalable access filter that is used together with others like it in a virtual private network to control access by users at clients in the network to information resources provided by servers in the network. Each access filter uses a local copy of an access control data base to determine whether an access request is made by a user. Each user belongs to one or more user groups and each information resource belongs to one or more information sets. Access is permitted or denied according to access policies which define access in terms of the user groups and information sets. The first access filter in the path performs the access check, encrypts and authenticates the request; the other access filters in the path do not repeat the access check. The interface used by applications to determine whether a user has access to an entity is now an SQL entity. The policy server assembles the information needed for the response to the query from various information sources, including source external to the policy server.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 14, 2013Publication date: February 13, 2014Applicant: SonicWALL, Inc.Inventors: Clifford Lee Hannel, Anthony May
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Publication number: 20130346751Abstract: A scalable access filter that is used together with others like it in a virtual private network to control access by users at clients in the network to information resources provided by servers in the network. Each access filter uses a local copy of an access control data base to determine whether an access request is made by a user. Each user belongs to one or more user groups and each information resource belongs to one or more information sets. Access is permitted or denied according to access policies which define access in terms of the user groups and information sets. The first access filter in the path performs the access check, encrypts and authenticates the request; the other access filters in the path do not repeat the access check. The interface used by applications to determine whether a user has access to an entity is now an SQL entity. The policy server assembles the information needed for the response to the query from various information sources, including source external to the policy server.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 14, 2013Publication date: December 26, 2013Applicant: SonicWALL, Inc.Inventors: Clifford Lee Hannel, Anthony May
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Publication number: 20110231443Abstract: A scalable access filter that is used together with others like it in a virtual private network to control access by users at clients in the network to information resources provided by servers in the network. Each access filter uses a local copy of an access control data base to determine whether an access request is made by a user. Each user belongs to one or more user groups and each information resource belongs to one or more information sets. Access is permitted or denied according to access policies which define access in terms of the user groups and information sets. The first access filter in the path performs the access check, encrypts and authenticates the request; the other access filters in the path do not repeat the access check. The interface used by applications to determine whether a user has access to an entity is now an SQL entity. The policy server assembles the information needed for the response to the query from various information sources, including source external to the policy server.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 21, 2011Publication date: September 22, 2011Inventors: Clifford Lee Hannel, Anthony May
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Patent number: 7912856Abstract: A scalable access filter is used in a virtual private network to control access by users at clients in the network to information resources provided by servers in the network. Access is permitted or denied according to access policies which define access in terms of the user groups and information sets. The access filter in the path performs the access check, encrypts and authenticates the request.Type: GrantFiled: October 29, 2007Date of Patent: March 22, 2011Assignee: SonicWALL, Inc.Inventors: Clifford Lee Hannel, Anthony May
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Patent number: 7580919Abstract: An exemplary scalable access filter that is used together with others like it in a virtual private network to control access by users at clients in the network to information resources provided by servers in the network is disclosed. Each access filter uses a local copy of an access control data base (3845) to determine whether an access request is made by a user. Each user belongs to one or more user groups and each information resource belongs to one or more information sets. Access is permitted or denied according to access policies, which define access in terms of the user groups and information sets. The first access filter in the path performs the access check, encrypts and authenticates the request; the other access filters in the path do not repeat the access check. The interface used by applications to determine whether a user has access to an entity is now an SQL query.Type: GrantFiled: June 21, 2000Date of Patent: August 25, 2009Assignee: SonicWALL, Inc.Inventors: Clifford Lee Hannel, Anthony May
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Publication number: 20090037332Abstract: A system and method for providing an efficient and robust interface that allows banking transactions to be processed by an online banking system and third party accounting software packages via a single user point of entry. The system is configured to receive a transaction request from a third party accounting software, the transaction request including one or more transactions; verify, based on information stored in a first database, that the transaction request is from a valid source; store information regarding the one or more transactions from the transaction request in a second database; process the one or more transactions; and provide a response to the third party accounting software indicating a status of at least one transaction in the transaction request.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 31, 2008Publication date: February 5, 2009Inventors: Janice Cheung, Nigel Feasey, Sally Fraustro-Fairfield, Richard Gunderson, II, Sergey Kats, Anthony Mays, Bryan Walley, Arulanandu Michael, Rod Shahinian, Kai Man Kelvin Tse
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Publication number: 20080208524Abstract: A surface profile measuring instrument has a means for measuring the profile of a surface and a means for storing measurements produced by the means for measuring the profile of a surface. The instrument may have a tip physically coupled to a sensor. The instrument may also have means for processing the measurements and/or for analysing the measurements. The instrument may be connected to an external device such as a printer and/or to a display unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 21, 2008Publication date: August 28, 2008Applicant: ELCOMETER INSTRUMENTS LIMITEDInventors: Ian Carrington Sellars, Peter Ian Baldwin, Philip Anthony May, Colin John Morley, Brian Leslie Williams, Michael Carrington Sellars
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Publication number: 20080172366Abstract: A scalable access filter that is used together with others like it in a virtual private network to control access by users at clients in the network to information resources provided by servers in the network. Each access filter use a local copy of an access control data base (3845) to determine whether an access request is made by a user. Each user belongs to one or more user groups and each information resource belongs to one or more information sets. Access is permitted or denied according to access policies which define access in terms of the user groups and information sets. The first access filter in the path performs the access check, encrypts and authenticates the request; the other access filters in the path do not repeat the access check. The interface used by applications to determine whether a user has access to an entity is now an SQL query.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 29, 2007Publication date: July 17, 2008Inventors: Clifford Lee Hannel, Anthony May
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Publication number: 20040252688Abstract: Methods and apparatus (4.1-4.4) for the efficient transport and routing of packets over frame-based networks are disclosed. Groups of packets are encapsulated inside of frames (4.7, 4.8) and the frames (4.7, 4.8) are transported over a multiple-access network. Each frame (4.7, 4.8) contains one or more destination addresses. Unicast, multicast, and broadcast are supported.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 24, 2004Publication date: December 16, 2004Inventors: George Anthony May, Abdu Omran, Dale John Shpak, Pei-Chong Tang