Abstract: A system and method for separating solids from return fluids in well drill-out, flow back, well-test, and other production operations. Solids are collected in a filter comprising a perforate inner tube inside a solid outer tube with an annulus therebetween. The fluid stream from the well enters the filter through the inner tube so that the solids are captured inside and the filtrate flows out through the annulus. The filtrate is passed though a flow back line to a flow back tank. As needed, the solids are removed from the inner tube into a debris tube without interrupting the fluid flow through the filter. Chokes are included for equalizing the pressure along the flow path as the debris is moved from the filter to the debris tube and from the debris tube into to a debris pit so that dramatic changes in pressure are avoided.
Abstract: A method can include sending a request to a media content provider requesting media content and receiving the media content and instructions from the media provider. The instructions can be utilized by the media provider to broadcast the media content. The media provider can store the received media content in a database process the instructions then distribute the media content and the instructions to distributed media outlets. The media content provider can receive information indicating that the media content was broadcast by the distributed media outlets according to the instructions.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
March 19, 2009
Date of Patent:
May 14, 2013
Assignee:
Clear Channel Management Services, Inc.
Inventors:
Kohinoor Basu, Matthew M. Ferry, John W. Fulbright
Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer program products, for generating feedback. In one aspect, a method includes receiving sensor data from a plurality of sensors, wherein at least one of the plurality of sensors is associated with a mobile device of a user; aggregating the received sensor data to generate aggregated sensor data; processing the aggregated sensor data to determine an aggregated metric; comparing the aggregated metric to a target associated with the user to determine a measure of performance; and generating feedback based on the determined measure of performance. Further, the mobile device can comprise a mobile personal services device that includes one or more of an audio sensor, a video sensor, an environmental sensor, a biometric sensor, a location sensor, an activity detector, and a health monitor. The feedback can be displayed on the mobile personal services device. The feedback also can be displayed in near real-time.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
January 5, 2011
Date of Patent:
May 14, 2013
Assignee:
Accenture Global Services Limited
Inventors:
Alex M. Kass, Lucian P. Hughes, Owen E. Richter, Dana Le, Daniel R. Farina
Abstract: A mounting post for supporting a plurality of electronic cabinets, each having different bolt patterns, comprising a hollow post configured to receive a hollow mount at the upper end, a stabilizer plate attached to the lower end of the post, and a hollow mount selected from a plurality of hollow mounts, each having a lower end configured to mate to the post, and having a substantially planar upper surface with openings formed therein corresponding to a unique bolt pattern for an electronics cabinet.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
May 27, 2011
Date of Patent:
May 14, 2013
Assignees:
Windstream Intellectual Property Services, Inc., General Devices Co., Inc.
Inventors:
Michael E. Skudin, Dennis D. Davis, David W. Willis
Abstract: Improved systems and methods are provided for identifying financial relationships. In particular, financial relationships may be identified by associating tradelines with one or more people who sign or co-sign on the tradeline. In various embodiments a method is provided comprising, receiving, at a computer-based system for credit data analysis comprising a processor and a tangible, non-transitory memory, credit reporting data relating to a tradeline, parsing, by the computer-based system, the credit reporting data to yield primary debtor data and secondary debtor data, and linking, by the computer-based system, the tradeline with the primary debtor data and the secondary debtor data.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
February 23, 2012
Date of Patent:
May 14, 2013
Assignee:
American Express Travel Related Services Company, Inc.
Abstract: Methods and reagents for classifying tumors and for identifying new tumor classes and subclasses. Methods for correlating tumor class or subclass with therapeutic regimen or outcome, for identifying appropriate (new or known) therapies for particular classes or subclasses, and for predicting outcomes based on class or subclass. New therapeutic agents and methods for the treatment of cancer.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
September 10, 2010
Date of Patent:
May 14, 2013
Assignee:
Clarient Diagnostic Services, Inc.
Inventors:
Brian Z. Ring, Douglas T. Ross, Robert S. Seitz
Abstract: A gene profiling signature for ovarian tumor endothelial cells is disclosed herein. The gene signature can be used to diagnosis or prognosis an ovarian tumor, identify agents to treat an ovarian tumor, to predict the metastatic potential of an ovarian tumor and to determine the effectiveness of ovarian tumor treatments. Thus, methods are provided for identifying agents that can be used to treat ovarian cancer, for determining the effectiveness of an ovarian tumor treatment, or to diagnose or prognose an ovarian tumor. Methods of treatment are also disclosed which include administering a composition that includes a specific binding agent that specifically binds to one of the disclosed ovarian endothelial cell tumor-associated molecules and inhibits ovarian tumor in the subject.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
August 14, 2009
Date of Patent:
May 14, 2013
Assignees:
The United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, The University of MD Anderson Cancer Center
Inventors:
Michael J. Birrer, Tomas A. Bonome, Anil Sood, Chunhua Lu
Abstract: A method of inducing fracture complexity within a fracturing interval of a subterranean formation comprising characterizing the subterranean formation, defining a stress anisotropy-altering dimension, providing a wellbore servicing apparatus configured to alter the stress anisotropy of the fracturing interval of the subterranean formation, altering the stress anisotropy within the fracturing interval, and introducing a fracture in the fracturing interval in which the stress anisotropy has been altered. A method of servicing a subterranean formation comprising introducing a fracture into a first fracturing interval, and introducing a fracture into a third fracturing interval, wherein the first fracturing interval and the third fracturing interval are substantially adjacent to a second fracturing interval in which the stress anisotropy is to be altered.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
September 24, 2009
Date of Patent:
May 14, 2013
Assignee:
Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
Inventors:
Loyd E. East, Jr., Mohamed Y. Soliman, Jody R. Augustine
Abstract: Methods of inhibiting pathological angiogenesis in a subject are disclosed. In particular examples, the method includes administering a therapeutically effective amount of a composition to a subject wherein the composition includes a specific binding agent that preferentially binds to one or more pathological angiogenesis marker proteins including Vscp, CD276, ETSvg4 (Pea3), CD137(4-1BB), MiRP2, Ubiquitin D (Fat10), Doppel (prion-PLP), Apelin, Plgf, Ptprn (IA-2), CD109, Ankylosis, and collagen VIII?1. In additional examples, methods to deliver a therapeutic agent to a brain or liver endothelial cell are also disclosed.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
March 21, 2011
Date of Patent:
May 14, 2013
Assignee:
The United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services
Abstract: A polymeric matrix for oral administration with modified release and taste masking properties is disclosed, obtained without using inert supports such as sugar spheres, comprising particles of active substance directly and individually covered with a release regulating membrane. Use of such a matrix to prepare various administration forms for oral use as well as the method of its preparation are also disclosed.
Type:
Application
Filed:
December 28, 2012
Publication date:
May 9, 2013
Applicant:
I. P.S. International Products & Services S.r.I.
Inventor:
I. P.S. International Products & Services S.r.I.
Abstract: A system, method, and article of manufacture for providing electronic help is disclosed. The method may comprise receiving a search query, searching, by a search library and in response to the search query, a document object model (“DOM”) structure associated with a webpage, and identifying a portion of the webpage based upon the searching. In various embodiments, the method may further comprise receiving a selection of an option to receive electronic help, communicating with a help database to retrieve help data, and displaying a storyboard associated with the help data. The storyboard may be displayed in a pertinent portion of a webpage based upon the DOM structure of the webpage. The help data may be further received based upon the search query.
Type:
Application
Filed:
November 7, 2011
Publication date:
May 9, 2013
Applicant:
American Express Travel Related Services Company, Inc.
Inventors:
Hans-Jurgen Greiner, James Jerome Smart-Foster
Abstract: The invention provides a chimeric T cell receptor (TCR) comprising a variable region of a human TCR and a constant region comprising at least an extracellular domain of a constant region of a non-human TCR, as well as functional variants thereof. The invention also provides polypeptides and proteins related to the inventive TCRs, as well as nucleic acids encoding the TCRs, polypeptides, or proteins, recombinant expression vectors, and host cells. Further provided are pharmaceutical compositions related to the inventive TCRs and methods of preventing or treating a disease, e.g., an infectious disease, cancer, in a host, methods of detecting a diseased cell in a host, and methods of improving the biological activity of a TCR.
Type:
Application
Filed:
November 2, 2012
Publication date:
May 9, 2013
Applicant:
The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary, Department of Health & Human Servic
Inventor:
The United States of America, as represented by
Abstract: Apparatus, systems, and methods may operate to receive radiated energy as scattered energy after the radiated energy interacts with a geologic formation, wherein the scattered energy is received at a sub-surface multi-channel sensor array that operates to transform the scattered energy into received signals, and wherein the radiated energy is provided by a sub-surface source of elastic energy; and to identify discontinuous features in the geologic formation by interferometric comparison of the received signals as elastic signals and/or electromagnetic signals among some sensors in the sensor array, or by time-reversal propagation of the received signals as elastic and/or electromagnetic signals in a numeric model of a volume of the geologic formation. Additional apparatus, systems, and methods are disclosed.
Abstract: A system and method is disclosed that has the ability to automatically derive a test execution plan for parallel execution of test cases, while considering the complex dependencies across the test cases and preserving the semantics of test execution. The execution plan, so generated, provides for balanced workload distribution and scheduling of the test cases for improving the test execution cycles of the test suites in a cost effective manner.
Abstract: Procedures are described for monitoring dynamics along a drill string during the drilling process using only surface instrumentation or using a combination of surface and downhole instrumentation. Events such as drill collar whirl may be identified from signatures found in signals generated by an electromagnetic sensor such as a magnetometer and/or from a mechanical sensor such as accelerometer. Additional embodiments are described.
Abstract: For some embodiments, a system includes a moveable structure, moveable in at least a linear direction relative to a supporting structure, a magnetic field sensor assembly including a magnetic field sensor, and a magnet, wherein one of the magnet and the magnetic field sensor is coupled to the moveable structure, and wherein the other of the magnet and the magnetic field sensor assembly is coupled to the supporting structure, and wherein the magnetic field sensor assembly is configured to determine the relative position of the magnet to the magnetic field sensor.
Type:
Application
Filed:
July 23, 2010
Publication date:
May 9, 2013
Applicant:
Halliburton Energy Service ,Inc.
Inventors:
Li Gao, Jeffrey L. Moore, Jimmy W. Anders, Michael T. Pelletier
Abstract: A safety device for an exhaust gas aftertreatment system provides an alternative exhaust route in case of high temperatures or pressures within the regenerating particulate filter of the exhaust gas aftertreatment system that may cause damage to the particulate filter. The safety device comprises a valve that redirects the flow of exhaust gas from the regenerating particulate filter when specified temperature or pressure thresholds are met or exceeded.
Type:
Application
Filed:
October 24, 2012
Publication date:
May 9, 2013
Applicant:
Boshart Automotive Testing Services, Inc.
Inventor:
Boshart Automotive Testing Services, Inc.
Abstract: A cement bond logging method for wells containing heavy mud and cement is provided. Acoustic logging tool data from a well having material in the annular space between the casing and the formation is analyzed to map relationships between waveform amplitude, acoustic impedance, and impedance derivative of the material. Map zones representing fully bonded well regions and partially bonded well regions are identified. An image is generated from the log data corresponding to the identified map zones. A cement bond logging system including a memory having cement bond logging software and a processor coupled to the memory to execute the software is also provided.
Abstract: A tool for actuating a blow out preventer includes one or more connections for receiving hydraulic power from a remotely operated vehicle (“ROV”), a first pump for increasing pressure of an operating fluid for the blowout preventer (“BOP”), a second pump for increasing flow rate of the operating fluid, and a conductor for transporting the operating fluid to the BOP. The tool rapidly increases the pressure and flow rate of the fluid flowing to the BOP, and the BOP may be rapidly closed.
Abstract: A system and method are provided which allow users to load stored value accounts through online bill payment. The system and method do not rely on the user loading the stored value account sharing online banking login information or account number/routing information. In an aspect, the method includes a user selecting online banking as a payment option, receiving a bill for the load amount, paying the bill through online banking bill pay, the system receiving notification from the bank of an online banking bill payment and the system notifying the stored value account provider of the payment. The cash settlement is released to a stored value account provider in response to load request.
Type:
Application
Filed:
April 27, 2012
Publication date:
May 9, 2013
Applicant:
Western Union Financial Services, Inc.
Inventors:
John A. MacMillan, Marwan Forzley, Samer Forzley, Sheila H. James