Patents Represented by Law Firm Fay & Sharp
  • Patent number: 8266169
    Abstract: Computer methods, apparatus and articles of manufacture therefor, are disclosed for developing a complex-query pattern that is transformed into a region-matching transducer. A corpus-level transducer and the region matching transducer are combined. The combined transducer is applied to a corpus to identify strings therein that satisfy patterns defined in the corpus-level transducer, including the complex-query pattern, with each identified pattern being recorded in a corpus index. The corpus and the corpus index are made available for receiving a query with the query tag for querying the corpus and applying the query using the corpus index to identify locations in the corpus that satisfy the query.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2012
    Assignee: Palo Alto Reseach Center Incorporated
    Inventors: Daniel G Bobrow, Robert D Cheslow
  • Patent number: 8264741
    Abstract: A system prints documents according to non-color content. The system includes a processing component that receives a print job that includes at least one of color and non-color content. A threshold selection component allows a user to select a minimum value of non-color content within the received print job. An analysis component evaluates the non-color content within each print job, compares the non-color content with the value selected via the threshold selection component, and modifies the color parameters of the print job to appear as non-color, if the threshold is met or exceeded. A print devices receives the print job information from the evaluation component and outputs the print job as a non-color print job if the non-color content threshold is met or exceeded, and outputs the print job as a color job if the non-color content threshold is not met.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2012
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventor: Frederick John Ramsey
  • Patent number: 8261080
    Abstract: A system and method for managing a digital certificate associated with a remote device is provided. The method includes providing a Web Service Application Programming Interface (API) and communicating digitally between the Web Service API and a remote device, including one of requesting the remote device to perform a task associated with managing digital certificates, and responding to a request from the remote device for performing a task associated with managing digital certificates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2012
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: Robert Benjamin Wilkie, Michelle Bremner, Shawn Oliver Hurley
  • Patent number: 8256661
    Abstract: A method of forming a part that includes a first component and a second component and which two components are diffusion bonded together. The first component is configured as a pressure component and includes a first bond land surface. The second component is configured as a suction component and includes a second bond land surface. A mandrel is provided that includes a first surface having a contour that mates with at least a portion of the first component and a second surface having a contour that mates with at least a portion of the second component. The first and second components are positioned on the mandrel so that the first bond land surface and the second bond land surface are in mating abutment. The first and second components together with the mandrel are positioned in a die assembly. The die assembly including a first die, a second die and a plurality of fastening members for releasably securing the first die to the second die.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2012
    Assignee: Barnes Group Inc.
    Inventors: Kevin VanDyke, Gigi Streeter, Jon Dreher, Larry Leyrer
  • Patent number: 8256027
    Abstract: A shapewear undergarment for a woman, more particularly to an upper body shapewear undergarment with arm compression that gently lifts and compresses flabby areas on the top half of the body, especially the arms, midriff and back. The overall design provides the user with a smoother, toner appearance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2012
    Inventors: Amy Blankenship Pedersen, Jennifer Pedersen Daniels
  • Patent number: 8259369
    Abstract: A calibration or characterization system is provided wherein the number of repeated patches or the size of a patch of a given color is printed to be approximately proportional to the square of the expected noise level. In that way, when multiple measurements for a given patch are averaged, all patch averages have approximately the same reliability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2012
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventor: R. Victor Klassen
  • Patent number: 8260655
    Abstract: A valuation optimization method includes generating offeree decision information (buyer decision information, by way of illustrative example) by presenting a sequence of mechanisms to a sequence of offerees wherein the mechanisms comprise menus of transaction offers (sale offer menus, by way of illustrative example). Actual transactions (sale transactions, by way of illustrative example) are conducted responsive to acceptances of transaction offers by buyers. At a selected time in the generating, an offeree valuation distribution belief and the current mechanism are updated optimize an offeree's utility. The offeree's utility comprises an offeree's utility function constrained by a robust learning constraint computed based on a local differential of an earlier offeree's utility function with respect to the earlier offeree's valuation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2012
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: Christopher R. Dance, Onno Zoeter
  • Patent number: 8256451
    Abstract: A valve device for filling containers, particularly containers intended to contain liquefied gases, includes a valve body in which a gas duct is defined at the inlet of the container, the gas duct extending predominantly in an axial direction. A closure is axially movable in the valve body away from and towards a valve seat in order, respectively, to open and shut off the gas duct. A float type actuator, capable of exerting a thrust on a second end of the closure, is provided. A deflector cover is disposed transversely to the gas pipe and is integral with the valve body. The deflector includes a guide cavity in which a first end of the closure is slidably engaged.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2012
    Assignee: Cavagna Group Switzerland S.A.
    Inventor: Niels Frederiksen
  • Patent number: 8257589
    Abstract: A coalescing agent for facilitating the separation of a non-aqueous phase from an aqueous phase of an aqueous medium, said agent consisting of particles of a polymeric foam material having: an IFD no. of 40 or higher (i.e. at least 40); a BR no. of 35 or higher (at least 35); a SF no. of 1.8 or higher (i.e. at least 1.8) and a density of 42 kg/m3 or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2012
    Assignee: Prosep Inc.
    Inventors: Serge Fraser, Richard Blain, Xuejun Chen
  • Patent number: 8259426
    Abstract: Variable frequency motor drives and control techniques are presented in which filter capacitor faults are detected by measuring filter neutral node current and/or voltages and detecting changes in the fundamental frequency component of the measured neutral condition at the fundamental frequency of the input power and/or based on input current unbalance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2012
    Assignee: Rockwell Automation Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Yuan Xiao, Navid Zargari, Manish Pande, Vijay Khatri
  • Patent number: 8260456
    Abstract: An inventory shelf monitoring system includes a plurality of track systems located on at least one shelf of a retail or warehouse establishment. Each track system includes a sensor and actuator that determines the position of a product pusher. The identity and location of the product pusher, for each track system on the at least one shelf, is sent to a data acquisition and transmitter circuit that assembles, formats, and transmits pusher position data to a central receiver, which receives corresponding data from all shelves employing the system in the retail or warehouse establishment. The data is then transmitted to a central processing unit in a user device that maintains data corresponding to product count, availability, and activity associated with each track unit of each shelf employing the system in the retail or warehouse establishment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2012
    Assignee: Fasteners For Retail, Inc.
    Inventors: Norman L. Siegel, Gregory M. Bird, Kenneth G. Rhineberger, James Bacnik, Paul Mueller, Daniel Kump, William H. Walker
  • Patent number: 8257187
    Abstract: A constant velocity (CV) joint assembly comprising a CV joint and an input member is disclosed. The CV joint that has a cage and a gear between which rotational drive can be transmitted. The input member is connected to the cage of the CV joint for transmission of rotational drive about an axis from an external component to the CV joint. The rotational drive is transmitted between the cage and the input member through interacting drive faces that are disposed in a plane that is generally parallel to the axis. The cage and the input member are retained in interconnection by fastening means that are not responsible for transmission of rotational drive between the cage and the input member. By separating the task of transmission of torque and retention of the connection between the cage and the input member, the fastening means required to perform the latter task can be comparatively light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2012
    Assignee: Xtrac Limited
    Inventors: Michael Kerr, Adrian Paul Moore
  • Patent number: 8259719
    Abstract: An apparatus for imposing preferences on broadcast/multicast service for an end-user is described herein. The apparatus includes a first tuner that receives a first set of data transmitted from a currently selected broadcast/multicast station, wherein the first set of data includes time, station identification, and program information; a second tuner that receives a second set of data from a plurality of broadcast/multicast stations, wherein the second set of data includes individually, for each broadcast/multicast station that is available, time, station identification, and program information; a decoder that decodes the first and second sets of data received by the first and second tuners and sends this decoded data to a decision engine for further processing; and a persona database that stores a plurality of user preference profiles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2012
    Assignee: Alcatel Lucent
    Inventors: Ranjan Sharma, Ramesh Pattabhiraman
  • Patent number: 8253331
    Abstract: A fluorescent lamp includes a discharge tube having an inner wall forming a discharge chamber. One or more coiled electrodes are disposed within the discharge tube. A mercury containing composition is disposed on at least one coiled electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2012
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Zoltan Somogyvari, Laszlo Balazs
  • Patent number: 8253979
    Abstract: A method of converting a RIPped K-only page or pixels to composite black in a digital print engine is included which executes the conversion process during current job workflow, while detecting the K-only page or pixels for billing purposes as K-only, and printed out as composite black.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2012
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: Zhenhuan Wen, Francis K. Tse
  • Patent number: 8253958
    Abstract: Described herein is a printing system comprising a plurality of print processing modules which selectively transfer print media therebetween during printing and a system controller that tracks process control protocols of each of the plurality of modules and compares to a scheduled job run and selectively alters a control variable of at least one of the process control protocols thereby preemptively altering initiation of at least one process control protocol to process the job run uninterrupted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2012
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: Alex Scott Brougham, Dusan G. Lysy
  • Patent number: 8254679
    Abstract: A harmonization system and method are disclosed which allow harmonization of a set of digital images. The images are automatically segmented into foreground and background regions and the foreground and background regions are separately harmonized. This allows region-appropriate harmonization techniques to be applied. The segmenting and harmonizing may be category dependent, allowing object-specific techniques to be applied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2012
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventor: Luca Marchesotti
  • Patent number: 8254825
    Abstract: A digital printing system employing tandem marking engines for duplex printing utilizing a variable dwell time in the output sheet inverter of the first marking engine to provide correct positioning of the leading edge of the inverted sheet for arrival at the entrance of the second marking to avoid the seam in the photoreceptor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2012
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: Ana P. Tooker, Michael James Diehl, Colleen R. Enzien, Thomas Edward Higgins, David Robert Kretschmann, Carlos A. Lopez, Andrew James Bonacci, Jacqueline Yvonne Tyson
  • Patent number: D666113
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2012
    Assignee: The Will-Burt Company
    Inventors: Anatol Kwartler, Brian Bacin
  • Patent number: D666723
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2012
    Assignee: Planmed Oy
    Inventors: Tapio Laukkanen, Kari Malmén