Patents Assigned to Service
  • Publication number: 20160171536
    Abstract: The system may receive an individual transaction record of a purchase at a merchant location. The individual transaction record may be collected at a point of sale. The individual transaction record may also include at least one of a first purchase time, a first purchase location, a first purchase amount, a first merchant category, or a first purchase item. The system may further predict a future purchase based on the individual transaction record and transmit an offer based on the future purchase.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2014
    Publication date: June 16, 2016
    Applicant: American Express Travel Related Services Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Pankaj Garg, Sachin Garg, Subhajit Sanyal
  • Publication number: 20160173604
    Abstract: The present application provides a method and system for optimal caching of content in the Information Centric Networks (ICN) and a cache replacement based on a content metric value. The method and system comprises requesting for a plurality of content by a user to a nearest local or edge ICN cache router; delivering by the local or edge ICN cache router the requested plurality of content to the user if it is available in its cache; else forwarding the request for the plurality of content to any of intermediate ICN cache router for finding source of the requested plurality of content; downloading the plurality of content in its downstream path; and storing the downloaded plurality of content based on a content metric value derived by a content metric system (CMS) based on a plurality of network parameters for the requested plurality of content.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2015
    Publication date: June 16, 2016
    Applicant: TATA Consultancy Services Limited
    Inventors: Bighnaraj PANIGRAHI, Samar SHAILENDRA, Hemant Kumar RATH, Anantha SIMHA
  • Patent number: 9366780
    Abstract: A steerable, magnetic dipole antenna for Measurement-While-Drilling (MWD) or Logging-While-Drilling (LWD) applications. The antenna elements use a hole arrangement in addition to grooves in a steel tool body, which is typically a drill collar. This antenna embodiment is extremely robust, meaning that does not significantly reduce the structural integrity of the tool body in which it is disposed. The antenna embodiment is also relatively wear resistant. The resultant magnetic dipole generated by this antenna is also electrically steerable in inclination angle from a common origin. A variable dipole moment inclination angle combined with independently measured tool rotation orientation during normal drilling allows the antenna to generate a magnetic dipole moment that may be directed at any three dimensional angle and from a common origin point at the centroid of the antenna.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2016
    Assignee: Precision Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Macmillan M. Wisler, Larry W. Thompson, Jian-Qun Wu, Lance Pate
  • Patent number: 9366100
    Abstract: A vibrator apparatus to be positioned onto a pipe string is disclosed. The apparatus is comprised of a tubular housing, a tubular stator having a radial fluid opening, and a rotating rotor shaft with a longitudinally extending fluid bore and at least one radially extending fluid passage that intermittently aligns with the stator fluid opening. A rotation generator is provided to rotate the rotor shaft in response to fluid flow. Fluid flow through the fluid bore of the rotor shaft is discharged from the radially extending fluid passage of the rotor as it rotates in response to fluid flow and is intermittently interrupted by the stator as the rotor is rotated past the radial fluid opening in the stator thereby creating pulses in the fluid column and vibrating the pipe string.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2016
    Assignee: KLX Energy Services LLC
    Inventor: Toby Scott Baudoin
  • Patent number: 9367653
    Abstract: In some aspects, a one-dimensional proppant transport flow model represents flow of a proppant-fluid mixture in a subterranean region. The one-dimensional proppant transport flow model includes a proppant momentum conservation model that balances axial proppant momentum in an axial flow direction of the proppant-fluid mixture against dynamic changes in transverse proppant momentum. In some instances, the proppant momentum conservation model can vary the axial proppant momentum, for example, to account for interphase momentum transfer between the proppant and the fluid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2016
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Srinath Madasu, Avi Lin
  • Patent number: 9365612
    Abstract: A compound, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt or ester thereof, of formula I: X—W wherein X is a caspase-selective structure and W has the structure of —NH—CH(Y)(Z) wherein Y is a structure that can form a reversible covalent bond with a caspase; and Z is selected from a carboxyl moiety or a carboxylic acid mimetic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2016
    Assignee: United States of America as represented by the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services
    Inventors: Craig Thomas, Matthew B. Boxer
  • Patent number: 9368124
    Abstract: A computer implemented system for audio watermarking for providing robust and blind audio watermarking. The system comprises a watermark embedding system wherein an audio signal is divided into audio frames, multi-level District Wavelet Transform (DWT) is applied on each frame, followed by Singular Value Decomposition (SVD) and embedding the watermark, further followed by inverse SVD and inverse DWT to get watermarked audio frames which are combined to generate a watermarked audio signal. The system further comprises watermark extracting detection system wherein the watermarked audio signal which may be attacked and/or modified is divided into watermarked audio frames, multilevel DWT is applied on each watermarked audio frame, followed by SVD, extracting the embedded watermarked, correlating the extracted watermark with pre-stored watermarks, calculating Peak to Sidelobe ratio (PSR) from the correlation coefficient arrays and finally comparing each PSR with a threshold to authenticate the embedded watermark.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2016
    Assignee: Tata Consultancy Services Ltd.
    Inventors: Krishna Rao Kakkirala, Srinivasa Rao Chalamala, Bala Mallikarjuna Rao Garlapati
  • Patent number: 9366116
    Abstract: A casing window assembly for completion of a lateral wellbore. The casing window assembly includes a tubular casing sleeve with a casing window and an inner sleeve releasably secured within the casing sleeve at a pre-released position adjacent the casing window.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2016
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventor: David Joe Steele
  • Patent number: 9365999
    Abstract: A method of installing an inground vehicle lift includes the steps of excavating an area to create a pit, lowering a housing which encloses the mechanical components of the lift into the pit via a support structure, coupling the housing with a lower rebar system and an upper rebar system via a plurality of anchors and a plurality of angled support members before or after lowering the housing into the pit, leveling the housing, pouring concrete into the pit to a level such that the lower rebar system is sufficiently embedded within the concrete, allowing the concrete to partially cure, detaching the housing from the support structure, backfilling the pit with backfill material, installing insulation within the pit above the backfill material, and pouring concrete into the pit to a level such that the upper rebar system is sufficiently embedded within the concrete.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2016
    Assignee: Vehicle Services Group, LLC
    Inventors: Adam Jordan, Paul Lee, Jon Martin
  • Patent number: 9364448
    Abstract: A method is provided for the treatment of vision problems in a subject suffering from one of various forms of albinism, including, for example, oculocutaneous albinism types OCA1a and OCA1b, as well as ocular albinism type 1, resulting from mutations in the GPR143 gene, as well as the OCA2, OCA3 or OCA4 genes, by administering to the subject a pharmaceutical composition comprising a therapeutically effective amount of the compound (2-[2-nitro-4-(trifluoromethyl)benzoyl]cyclohexane-1,3-dione), also known as NTBC for a sufficient period of time. The administration of NTBC is believed to increase the amount of pigmentation in the subject and alleviate certain symptoms caused by lack of pigmentation in the eye tissues. Also described are methods of use of NTBC for increasing the pigmentation of a subject for cosmetic purposes, by administering to the subject a therapeutically effective amount of NTBC.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2016
    Assignee: The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services
    Inventors: Brian P. Brooks, William A. Gahl
  • Patent number: 9366377
    Abstract: In an example embodiment, a mounting structure for mounting a display monitor to a panel. The mounting allows the display monitor to be rotated so that it can be seen from either side of the panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2016
    Assignee: Diebold Self-Service Systems division of Diebold, Incorporated
    Inventors: Michael Tirak, Pedro Tula, Nathaniel Oberly
  • Patent number: 9367873
    Abstract: A system, method and article of manufacture are provided for account and customer creation in an online banking model. An application is received from a customer. The application includes information relating to the user and also documentation relating to the user. A first computer is utilized to create a profile for the customer based on the application received from the customer. The first computer is also utilized to create an account for the customer. Information relating to the created profile and account is transmitted from the first computer to a second computer where a notification is generated. The notification indicates that the account has been created. The notification is transmitted from the second computer to the customer utilizing a network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2016
    Assignee: Accenture Global Services Limited
    Inventors: Kennard L. Wottowa, Michael Henry, William E. Storts
  • Patent number: 9366131
    Abstract: A downhole drilling vibration analysis involves measuring orientation data in at least two orthogonal axes downhole while drilling with a drilling assembly. For example, two orthogonal magnetometers can be used. A toolface of the drilling assembly is determined using the measured sensor data, and velocity (RPM) values for the toolface for a plurality of revolutions of the drilling assembly are determined. From these determined values, a coefficient of variation for the toolface velocity (RPM) values for the revolutions of the drilling assembly is calculated. When a pattern in found in the toolface velocity (RPM) and/or the calculated coefficient of variations exceed one or more thresholds, the processing device determines that detrimental vibrations are occurring in the drilling assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2016
    Assignee: Precision Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Charles Mauldin, Roger Bartel, Richard Berns
  • Patent number: 9365148
    Abstract: A truck body includes a front wall, side walls, and a floor. The floor has panels disposed at predetermined angles from the horizontal that, with the other parts of the body, form a payload volume within the body. The floor also includes a tail panel disposed at a lesser angle from the horizontal to facilitate the shedding of the payload when dumping, and further to maintain the center of mass of the payload in a generally forward position during dumping.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2016
    Assignee: Western Technology Services International, Inc.
    Inventors: Frederick J. Reynolds, Ronald L. Hehn
  • Patent number: 9366691
    Abstract: A sensing system includes plurality of sensors along the lengths of input and output optical fibers. Each sensor receives broadband pulses from the input fiber, dynamically senses a plurality of physical parameters in a one-to-one correspondence with a plurality of predefined wavelength bands, and forms signal pulses from the broadband pulses by transmitting only a single wavelength within each wavelength band. Each single wavelength has a dynamically-varying peak wavelength value indicative of the corresponding sensed physical parameter. The signal pulses from the output optical fiber are directed into one or more interferometers, which produce a phase deviation corresponding to each dynamically-varying peak wavelength value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2016
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Han-Sun Choi, Etienne Samson
  • Patent number: 9366115
    Abstract: A jumper tube for use with a shunt tube assembly comprises a first tubular member configured to engage a first shunt tube, a second tubular member axially disposed within the first tubular member, and a locking member configured to prevent the second tubular member from axially displacing into the first tubular member. The second tubular member is configured to slidingly engage within the first tubular member, and the second tubular member is configured to engage a second shunt tube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2016
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Brandon Thomas Least, John C. Gano, Jean Marc Lopez
  • Patent number: 9367843
    Abstract: Techniques are provided for generating a transaction alert for a transaction whether the transaction was processed by a first payment processing network associated with an alerting platform or the transaction was processed by a second payment processing network not associated with an alert platform. An authorization request message associated with a transaction is received by a transaction processing server configured to receive authorization request messages from a first payment network and a second payment network. If the authorization request message was routed through the second payment network, alert initiation data is transmitted to an alert platform associated with the first payment network. The alert platform is configured to apply at least one alert criterion to the alert initiation data to determine if an alert is to be generated, generate the alert, and transmit the alert to a mobile application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2016
    Assignee: Visa International Service Association
    Inventor: Penny Jurss
  • Patent number: 9366123
    Abstract: A tubing string assembly is disclosed for fluid treatment of a wellbore. The tubing string can be used for staged wellbore fluid treatment where a selected segment of the wellbore is treated, while other segments are sealed off. The tubing string can also be used where a ported tubing string is required to be run in in a pressure tight condition and later is needed to be in an open-port condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2016
    Assignee: Packers Plus Energy Services Inc.
    Inventors: Jim Fehr, Daniel Jon Themig
  • Patent number: 9367434
    Abstract: A system comprehensively tests each feasible path in a policy-based Extensible Markup Language (XML) workflow. The system may receive an input workflow and parse workflow (or proxy code of the workflow) to construct a policy control flow graph. The system may identify paths in the policy control flow graph, such as each feasible path in the policy control flow graph. The system may determine path constraints for the identified paths, where the path constraints identify path conditions for traversing the identified path in the policy control flow graph. Then, the system may generate a set of test inputs for the workflow using the path constraints that, when input into the policy-based XML workflow, cause the workflow to traverse the identified paths.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2016
    Assignee: Accenture Global Services Limited
    Inventors: Kunal Taneja, Teresa Tung, Mijung Kim
  • Patent number: 9366653
    Abstract: Apparatus for determining a thickness of a wall of a pipe, featuring a signal processing module configured to respond to signaling containing information about traveling stress waves transmitted to and reflected back from a wall of a pipe by a sensor band that includes a series, ring or array having multiple transducers circumferentially arranged and mounted around, and attached to or clamped onto, an outside wall of the pipe; determine a profile of a thickness of the wall of the pipe corresponding to circumferential locations of the multiple transducers based on the signaling received from the sensor band, and the provides corresponding signaling containing information about the profile of the thickness of the wall of the pipe; and another module configured to receive the corresponding signaling and provide a visual indication of either data or a graph of the thickness of the wall of the pipe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2016
    Assignee: CiDRA Corporate Services Inc.
    Inventors: Christian Victor O'Keefe, Robert J. Maron, Mark R. Fernald, Timothy J. Bailey, Alex M. Van der Spek, Michael A. Davis, John V. Viega