Patents Assigned to Service
  • Patent number: 9838279
    Abstract: The disclosed methods and systems include collecting routing data from a plurality of network routers, and correlating the routing data across routers and across time to obtain network data. The network data can be streamed to a user in real-time and the user can interactively query the data. In one embodiment, interactive routing analyzes, drill-down, and forensics can be performed using a repository of Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) update traffic. Alarms can be set to detect selected routing problems. In setting the alarms, the message data for each router can be processed in timestamp order. Current message data from each router can be compared with previous message data to determine a condition status. An alarm can be provided when the condition status meets a temporal correlation criterion and/or a spatial correlation criterion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2017
    Assignee: Dynamic Network Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Andrew T. Ogielski, James H. Cowie, Alin Popescu
  • Patent number: 9834395
    Abstract: A device for reducing rotation of an article during singulation of a stack of articles is disclosed. The device may include a torsion element, a rotatable member configured to rotate about an elongated axis of the torsion element between a first position and a second position, and a revolving member coupled to the rotatable member. An outer surface of the revolving member contacts a drive belt in the first position and an article in the second position. The torsion element exerts torque on the rotatable member when it moves from the first position towards the second position. The torque causes the outer surface of the revolving member to apply a frictional force to the article, thereby minimizing rotation of the article. Systems and methods of singulating articles are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2017
    Assignee: United States Postal Service
    Inventors: John W. Brown, Edward F. Houston, Juan A. Roman, Leung M. Shiu, Riley H. Mayhall, Jacob L. Timm, Reza Badri, Thomas A. Hillerich
  • Publication number: 20170342815
    Abstract: Systems and methods for visualizing data from radially-oriented look-ahead sensors coupled to a drill bit are disclosed herein. A system comprises a processor, a memory, and a data analysis module. The data analysis module is operable to receive formation information from each of a plurality of formation sensors coupled to a downhole drilling system, the formation information being associated with one or more properties of a formation at a depth in front of the downhole drilling system, receive angular information from one or more orientation sensors coupled to the downhole drilling system, the angular information being associated with the formation information, compile sensor data based on the formation information and the angular information, and generate a visualization based on the sensor data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 31, 2014
    Publication date: November 30, 2017
    Applicant: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventor: Richard Thomas Hay
  • Publication number: 20170347129
    Abstract: Arrangement and method in which at least one server is coupled to imaging sources that obtain high resolution videos of scenic locations, a series of images constituting a video. Stream controllers are located at user sites and coupled to the server. The stream controllers are controlled, e.g., by user interfaces, to select one of the imaging sources to provide high resolution streaming video to the stream controller via the server. A display system is coupled to each stream controller and configured to display streaming video from the selected imaging source.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2016
    Publication date: November 30, 2017
    Applicant: ATTI International Services Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Eli Levi, Richard Engel
  • Publication number: 20170346735
    Abstract: A method and a system is disclosed herein for co-operative on-path and off-path caching policy for information centric networks (ICN). In an embodiment, a computer implemented method and system is provided for cooperative on-path and off-path caching policy for information centric networks in which the edge routers or on-path routers optimally store the requested ICN contents and are supported by a strategically placed central off-path cache router for additional level of caching. A heuristic mechanism has also been provided to offload and to optimally store the contents from the on-path routers to off-path central cache router. The present scheme optimally stores the requested ICN contents either in the on-path edge routers or in strategically located off-path central cache router. The present scheme also ensures optimal formulation resulting in reduced cache duplication, delay and network usage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 2, 2017
    Publication date: November 30, 2017
    Applicant: Tata Consultancy Services Limited
    Inventors: Hemant Kumar RATH, Bighnaraj PANIGRAHI, Anantha SIMHA
  • Publication number: 20170344970
    Abstract: A system and method for remediation, curing concerns, and transferring information associated with declined transactions is disclosed. The present disclosure generally relates to electronic commerce, and more particularly, to a system and method of validation and efficiency associated with electronic commerce.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 18, 2017
    Publication date: November 30, 2017
    Applicant: American Express Travel Related Services Company, Inc.
    Inventors: ARUJ AHLUWALIA, VERNON MARSHALL, SATISH THENTHIRUPERAI NARAYANAN, ANDREW ROTH, XIONGWEN RUI, THOMAS K. SERGE
  • Publication number: 20170346813
    Abstract: A system may generate a seed one-time password (OTP). The system may also perform steps including transmitting the seed OTP to a user device, receiving a response OTP from the user device, and calculating an expected response OTP by applying a function to the seed OTP. The system may then compare the response OTP to the expected response OTP and send a result in response to comparing the response OTP to the expected response OTP.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 18, 2017
    Publication date: November 30, 2017
    Applicant: American Express Travel Related Services Company, Inc.
    Inventors: WAEL IBRAHIM, UPENDRA MARDIKAR
  • Publication number: 20170340019
    Abstract: An electronic smoking article includes a liquid supply region including liquid material and a heater-wick element operable to wick liquid material and heat the liquid material to a temperature sufficient to vaporize the liquid material and form an aerosol. The heater-wick element is formed of a carbon or graphite foam.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 16, 2017
    Publication date: November 30, 2017
    Applicant: Altria Client Services LLC
    Inventors: Susan E. PLUNKETT, David B. KANE
  • Publication number: 20170342307
    Abstract: Methods for diverting treatment fluids to less permeable zones of subterranean formations using a water swellable agent that can degrade at high temperatures are provided. In one embodiment, the method may comprise introducing a water swellable agent into or adjacent to a permeable zone of a subterranean formation; introducing an aqueous solution into the subterranean formation to contact the water swellable agent; allowing the water swellable agent to swell when contacted by the aqueous solution; introducing a treatment fluid into the subterranean formation, wherein the water swellable agent diverts the treatment fluid away from the permeable zone; and allowing the water swellable agent to thermally degrade.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2014
    Publication date: November 30, 2017
    Applicant: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventor: Julio Vasquez
  • Publication number: 20170346882
    Abstract: A distributed media outlet can include both a traffic and billing system, and a media delivery system that employ separate broadcast logs, or playlists. An enterprise hub can transmit broadcast instructions to the media outlet via an integrated services layer (ISL), which acts as a multidirectional gateway between the enterprise hub and the media outlet. The ISL can synchronize the separate playlists used by the traffic and billing system and the media delivery system by simultaneously injecting the broadcast instructions into both systems included in the media outlet. The media delivery system and traffic and billing system can continually re-synchronize their playlists by, at least in part, relaying information to one another via the integrated services layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 4, 2017
    Publication date: November 30, 2017
    Applicant: iHeartMedia Management Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Kohinoor Basu, Matthew M. Ferry, John W. Fulbright
  • Publication number: 20170344465
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to systems and methods for generating covering arrays. By processing parameters and corresponding values pertaining to an application under test (AUT), the system generates a first set of arrays, wherein elements in the first set are unique from each other. A second set of arrays is generated by identifying two or more arrays from the first set. Each array in the second set may include pairwise interacting elements that are unique to each other. A third set of arrays is formed by interchanging pairwise interacting elements across the second set of arrays. Unique pairwise interacting elements are interchanged across set of arrays to eliminate from duplicating pairwise interacting elements. Combining two or more arrays from the third set of arrays results in an optimized covering array, which is then used for generating optimized test designs for at least one AUT.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 6, 2017
    Publication date: November 30, 2017
    Applicant: Tata Consultancy Services Limited
    Inventor: Sukumar SUNDARAM
  • Publication number: 20170344870
    Abstract: A transaction card includes a card body that may comprise a card body comprising a ceramic material, the card body including a primary surface and a first mating surface. A card backer comprises a metallic material and includes a secondary surface and a second mating surface. A portion of the first mating surface and a portion of the second mating surface are coupled together.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 18, 2017
    Publication date: November 30, 2017
    Applicant: American Express Travel Related Services Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Troy Patrick Williams, Peter Bates
  • Publication number: 20170343693
    Abstract: Systems and methods for downhole signal filtering. A method for downhole signal filtering may comprise defining outliers as isolated values; providing thresholds; determining the outliers from a buffer; computing a difference in slowness between adjacent pairs of values; comparing the adjacent pairs of values to other values in a same window; determining if the adjacent pairs of values vary more than the threshold; assigning a 2D flag array a value of 0 if the adjacent pairs of values vary more than the threshold; and computing a 75% percentile distribution for each adjacent pair of values to determine if each adjacent pair of values are the outliers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 12, 2017
    Publication date: November 30, 2017
    Applicant: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventor: Kristoffer Thomas Walker
  • Publication number: 20170340211
    Abstract: This disclosure relates generally to biomedical signal processing, and more particularly to method and system for physiological parameter derivation from pulsating signals with reduced error. In this method, pulsating signals are extracted, spurious perturbations in the extracted pulsating signals are removed for smoothening, local minima points in the smoothened pulsating signal are derived, systolic maxima point between two derived local minima are derived, most probable pulse duration and most probable peak-to-peak distance are derived, dicrotic minima is removed while ensuring that every dicrotic minima is preceded by a systolic maxima point and followed by a beat start point of said systolic maxima, diastolic peak is derived while ensuring that every dicrotic maxima is preceded by a diastolic notch followed by next beat start point of that maxima, and physiological parameters are derived from the derived local minima points, systolic maxima points, dicrotic notch and diastolic peak.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2017
    Publication date: November 30, 2017
    Applicant: Tata Consultancy Services Limited
    Inventors: Soma BANDYOPADHYAY, Arijit UKIL, Chetanya PURI, Rituraj SINGH, Arpan PAL, C. A. MURTHY, Kayapanda MANDANA
  • Publication number: 20170340117
    Abstract: Described herein is a chair for relieving pressure points from prolonged sitting. The chair comprises a plurality of armrests, the armrests having an armrest frame and a foam layer coupled to an upper portion of the armrest frame. The chair further includes a seat bottom that includes a seat bottom frame, a sinuous spring base coupled to the seat bottom frame, a plurality of coil springs coupled to the sinuous spring base, and a gel infused foam layer coupled to the coil springs. The chair also includes a seat back having a seat back frame, elastic webbing coupled to the seat back frame, and one or more cushions coupled to the seat back frame.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 10, 2017
    Publication date: November 30, 2017
    Applicant: GES Consulting Services, LLC
    Inventor: Joseph Savovic
  • Publication number: 20170340259
    Abstract: Systems and methods for generating notifications based on bladder volume signals and bladder muscle signals are disclosed. A system includes a processor, a plurality of bladder electrical signal application electrodes, a plurality of bladder volume measurement electrodes, a plurality of bladder muscle measurement electrodes, a memory module communicatively coupled to the processor, and machine readable instructions stored in the memory module. When executed by the processor, the machine readable instructions cause the system to output a first electrical output signal with the plurality of bladder electrical signal application electrodes, receive the bladder volume signal at the plurality of bladder volume measurement electrodes in response to the first electrical output signal, receive the bladder muscle signal at the plurality of bladder muscle measurement electrodes, and generate the notification based on the bladder volume signal and the bladder muscle signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 22, 2017
    Publication date: November 30, 2017
    Applicant: Hill-Rom Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Brian L. Lawrence, Eric D. Agdeppa, Michael S. Hood, Yongji Fu
  • Publication number: 20170342786
    Abstract: A method for reducing lost circulation in a subterranean formation. The method includes providing a treatment fluid comprising a base fluid and a lost circulation material comprising red mud. The treatment fluid is introduced into a wellbore within the subterranean formation such that at least a portion of the red mud bridges openings in the subterranean formation to reduce loss of fluid circulation into the subterranean formation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2015
    Publication date: November 30, 2017
    Applicant: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas Jason Pisklak, Kyriacos Agapiou, Darrell Chad Brenneis, James Robert Benkley, Jiten Chatterji
  • Publication number: 20170345293
    Abstract: The amount of traffic information included in traffic message frames broadcast to users, for example via a Transport Protocol Experts Group (TPEG) frame, can be reduced by using configurable bounding areas for different road classes (types). A broadcast area associated with a primary bounding area can be divided into sub-bounding areas. Rather than broadcasting information for all roads of all classes in the broadcast area, each road class is associated with a particular bounding area. Traffic information pertaining to roads located within a bounding area that have road classifications matching bounding area road classifications is included in a TPEG frame. For example, if a class 4 road is located within a sub-bounding area associated only with road classifications 0-3, information about that particular road can be excluded from the broadcast traffic information, even if it is located within the primary bounding area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2016
    Publication date: November 30, 2017
    Applicant: iHeartMedia Management Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Jeffrey Lee Littlejohn, Charles Kirkendall, Amit Deshpande
  • Publication number: 20170342808
    Abstract: In some aspects, the present invention comprises a system and method for optimizing the control scheme used for drilling operations based on the complex and large data sets available in realtime during operation of a wellsite and based on existing model data available at the wellsite for past similar drilling operations. Such optimizations typically require downtime to quantify how the realtime values will factor into the control model, but the present invention allows for such optimization in realtime in a closed-loop system that will reduce the non-productive time associated with reservoir operations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2015
    Publication date: November 30, 2017
    Applicant: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Jason D. DYKSTRA, Zhijie SUN, Yuzhen XUE
  • Publication number: 20170344951
    Abstract: A technique for management of workflow configurations is disclosed. In an embodiment, an update in a workflow configuration is received. Further, a list of transactions in a workflow at multiple levels are fetched upon receiving the update in the workflow configuration, the workflow includes the list of transactions and a list of stakeholders associated with the list of transactions. Furthermore, a plurality of clauses at each of the multiple levels are executed to determine a set of eligible stakeholders for performing the list of transactions and corresponding actions. Each of the plurality of clauses are decision control points configured at each of the multiple levels. Moreover, the list of stakeholders and corresponding actions for each of the list of transactions at the multiple levels are dynamically updated based on the set of eligible stakeholders for performing the list of transactions and corresponding actions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 6, 2016
    Publication date: November 30, 2017
    Applicant: Tata Consultancy Services Limited
    Inventors: Viral Prakash SHAH, Shobhit Shukla, Ikshita Jain, Meenal Keshore, Ramprasad Dhakad, Bhakti Chandarana