Patents by Inventor Brendan Murray

Brendan Murray 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).

  • Publication number: 20050120299
    Abstract: A system and method for creation of a network server application page where objects containing custom tags in a JAVA server page (JSP) are aggregated by input (32), process (34) and output (36) stages. The input stage involves arranging information into a structure having a number of elements with each element having a number of sub-elements. The process stage involves forming a template to represent each element type, the template having a marker, such that when the structure that represents the input is traversed, a corresponding template is matched with corresponding element values. The matching element values are substituted into the template text where the marker indicates, and the template content is appended to the output. The output is a ‘complex JSP page’, an aggregation of template content based on the structure representation of the input, which without this method of using templates would be very difficult to build.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 8, 2004
    Publication date: June 2, 2005
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Brendan Murray, Stanley Jerrard-Dunne
  • Publication number: 20050101808
    Abstract: Systems and methods to produced branched aliphatic alcohols are described. Systems may include a dehydrogenation-isomerization unit, an olefin dimerization unit, an olefin isomerization unit, a hydroformylation unit, a dehydrogenation unit, a hydrogenation unit and/or combinations thereof. Methods for producing branched aliphatic alcohols may include isomerization of olefins in a process stream. The isomerized olefins may be hydroformylated to produce aliphatic alcohols. After hydroformylation of the aliphatic alcohols, unreacted components from the hydroformylation process may be separated from the aliphatic alcohols products. The unreacted components from the hydroformylation process may be recycled back into the main process stream or sent to other processing units. Addition of multiple streams to the units may be performed to control reaction conditions in the units.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2004
    Publication date: May 12, 2005
    Inventors: Paul Ayoub, Hendrik Dirkzwager, Brendan Murray, Steve Sumrow
  • Publication number: 20050054890
    Abstract: A process for producing an alkylbenzene from an alkylphenyl alcohol involving the steps of: (a) feeding a feed stream containing alkylphenyl a reactor having a catalytic distillation zone; and, (b) concurrently in the reactor (i) contacting the feed stream containing alkylphenyl alcohol with hydrogen in the catalytic distillation zone to convert alkylphenyl alcohol to alkylbenzene over a catalyst containing Group VIII or a Group IB metal; and, (ii) separating alkylbenzene from the reaction mixture by fractional distillation to produce an overhead stream containing alkylbenzene having a reduced concentration of alkylphenyl alcohol than the feed stream from the distillation column reactor. Examples of the alkylphenyl alcohol include cumyl alcohol, phenyl ethyl alcohol, or di(2-hydroxyl 2-propyl)benzene, and that for the alkylbenzene include cumene and di-ethyl benzene, or di(2-hydroxyl-2-propyl)benzene.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 12, 2004
    Publication date: March 10, 2005
    Inventors: Brendan Murray, Garo Vaporciyan
  • Publication number: 20050049446
    Abstract: The invention relates to a hydrocracking process involving the steps of reacting a diphenyl alkane having a formulation of R1R2C(Ph)-(C)n(H)m-C(Ph)R3R4 with hydrogen using a catalyst containing a metal selected from the group consisting of Group IB and Group VIII metal compounds, preferably on an acidic support, to produce alkylbenzene(s) having a structure of R1R2C(Ph)R5 and R6(Ph)CR3R4; wherein the total number of carbon atoms for R5 and R6 is equal to n; wherein R1, R2, R3, R4 each is a H or a hydrocarbon group having 1-10 carbon atoms.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2004
    Publication date: March 3, 2005
    Inventors: Brendan Murray, Garo Vaporciyan
  • Publication number: 20050020840
    Abstract: A process for preparing an alkylene oxide, which process comprises: (i) oxidizing an alkylbenzene to obtain a stream comprising alkylbenzene hydroperoxide, (ii) contacting at least part of the alkylbenzene hydroperoxide obtained in step (i) with an olefin to obtain a product stream comprising an alkylene oxide (iii) separating alkylene oxide compound from the product stream of step (ii) to obtain (a) a residual product stream comprising alkylphenyl alcohol, and (b) alkylene oxide, (iv) feeding at least a part of the residual product stream comprising alkylphenyl alcohol to a reactor having a catalytic distillation zone, and concurrently in the reactor, (a) contacting the residual product stream comprising alkylphenyl alcohol with hydrogen in the catalytic distillation zone to convert the alkylphenyl alcohol in the residual product stream to alkylbenzene and form a reaction mixture, and (b) separating alkylbenzene from the reaction mixture by fractional distillation, (v) withdrawing a stream comprising alkylbe
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2004
    Publication date: January 27, 2005
    Inventors: Brendan Murray, Garo Vaporciyan
  • Publication number: 20040205675
    Abstract: A system, method, and processor readable medium for determining a language in which a document is created. After receiving an electronic document, an appropriate character set encoding (or encodings) for the text of the electronic document is determined. The character set encoding(s) indicate a list of potential languages in which the electronic document is created. The potential languages may be identified using bit flags. The number of potential languages for which an electronic document is created may be increased or decreased according to predetermined criteria. The number of potential languages may be adjusted by comparing groups of characters (n-grams) included in the electronic document with entries in a look-up table. If n-grams are located in the look-up table, bit flags associated with the n-grams may be logically ANDed together. This process may be repeated until only a single bit flag remains. The remaining bit flag identifies the language in which the electronic document is created.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 11, 2002
    Publication date: October 14, 2004
    Inventors: Thangaraj Veerappan, Brendan Murray
  • Publication number: 20030009447
    Abstract: An evaluator system accepts input textual messages in unknown languages and assesses which character sets, corresponding to languages, matches that message. Textual messages whose individual characters are encoded in 16 bit Unicode or other universal format are parsed, and character sets which can express each character and the accumulated correspondence is logged. When the character sets against which the message is being tested only provide partial matches, the invention can determine which offers the best fit, including by means of a weighting function. The evaluation technology of the invention can be applied to multipart documents, and to search engines and indices. Documents can be indexed according to assigned character sets, and quary strings matched to indices according to language.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 1999
    Publication date: January 9, 2003
    Inventors: BRENDAN MURRAY, KUNIAKI TAKIZAWA
  • Patent number: 5866124
    Abstract: The invention concerns antiidiotypic antibodies comprising human constant regions, and murine variable regions bearing the internal image of human high molecular weight-melanoma associated antigen which have the specificity of said antibody. These antiidiotypic monoclonal antibodies have immune-regulatory functions and can therefore be used for diagnostic and therapeutic purposes, such as the treatment of melanoma.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 1996
    Date of Patent: February 2, 1999
    Assignee: Novartis Corporation
    Inventors: Norman Hardman, Gerd Pluschke, Brendan Murray