Patents by Inventor ALAN DAVEY
ALAN DAVEY 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).
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Patent number: 11752414Abstract: An apparatus comprising a practice device for practice of hitting a tennis ball includes a server configured for serving the tennis ball to a user, a net disposed to intercept a flight of the tennis ball after the tennis bell has been hit by the user using a racket and to direct the captured tennis ball back towards the server to be served again to the user, an image detector configured to observe the tennis ball as the tennis ball hurtles towards the net, and a processor. The processor determines, based at least in part on image frames received from the image detector, data indicative of the tennis ball's virtual landing spot. This virtual landing spot is an estimate of where the tennis ball would have landed on an opposing court had the tennis ball not been intercepted by the net.Type: GrantFiled: August 21, 2020Date of Patent: September 12, 2023Assignee: Fast Track Vision, LLCInventors: John Alan Davey, Robert J. Dyer, Andrew Robert Nota
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Patent number: 11750494Abstract: A network node has a graceful restart mode in which the node: sends a graceful restart notification to one or more neighbouring nodes; attempts to re-establish an adjacency with the neighbouring node(s); receives link state data from at least one of the neighbouring node(s), the received data being sent in response to said attempt; derives pre-restart link data from the received data, the derived data identifying formerly active links, including the node, for routing traffic before the restart; routes network traffic in accordance with routing information stored in the router; detects one or more links, of the formerly active links, which are currently inactive; continues with graceful restart after said detection; determines one or more links, of the formerly active links, which are currently active; and exits the graceful restart mode in response to successful re-establishment of adjacencies with a respective neighbouring node for each of the currently active link(s).Type: GrantFiled: February 19, 2022Date of Patent: September 5, 2023Assignee: METASWITCH NETWORKS LTD.Inventors: Alan Davey, Jonathan Cumming
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Publication number: 20220337504Abstract: A network node has a graceful restart mode in which the node: sends a graceful restart notification to one or more neighbouring nodes; attempts to re-establish an adjacency with the neighbouring node(s); receives link state data from at least one of the neighbouring node(s), the received data being sent in response to said attempt; derives pre-restart link data from the received data, the derived data identifying formerly active links, including the node, for routing traffic before the restart; routes network traffic in accordance with routing information stored in the router; detects one or more links, of the formerly active links, which are currently inactive; continues with graceful restart after said detection; determines one or more links, of the formerly active links, which are currently active; and exits the graceful restart mode in response to successful re-establishment of adjacencies with a respective neighbouring node for each of the currently active link(s).Type: ApplicationFiled: February 19, 2022Publication date: October 20, 2022Inventors: Alan DAVEY, Jonathan CUMMING
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Patent number: 11258695Abstract: A network node has a graceful restart mode in which the node: sends a graceful restart notification to one or more neighbouring nodes; attempts to re-establish an adjacency with the neighbouring node(s); receives link state data from at least one of the neighbouring node(s), the received data being sent in response to said attempt; derives pre-restart link data from the received data, the derived data identifying formerly active links, including the node, for routing traffic before the restart; routes network traffic in accordance with routing information stored in the router; detects one or more links, of the formerly active links, which are currently inactive; continues with graceful restart after said detection; determines one or more links, of the formerly active links, which are currently active; and exits the graceful restart mode in response to successful re-establishment of adjacencies with a respective neighbouring node for each of the currently active link(s).Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2020Date of Patent: February 22, 2022Assignee: Metaswitch Networks Ltd.Inventors: Alan Davey, Jonathan Cumming
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Publication number: 20210052964Abstract: An apparatus comprising a practice device for practice of hitting a tennis ball includes a server configured for serving the tennis ball to a user, a net disposed to intercept a flight of the tennis ball after the tennis bell has been hit by the user using a racket and to direct the captured tennis ball back towards the server to be served again to the user, an image detector configured to observe the tennis ball as the tennis ball hurtles towards the net, and a processor. The processor determines, based at least in part on image frames received from the image detector, data indicative of the tennis ball's virtual landing spot. This virtual landing spot is an estimate of where the tennis ball would have landed on an opposing court had the tennis ball not been intercepted by the net.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 21, 2020Publication date: February 25, 2021Inventors: John Alan Davey, Robert J. Dyer, Andrew Robert Nota
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Publication number: 20210039861Abstract: A container for vacuum skin packaging a product is provided. The container includes a surface for supporting the product and one or more vacuum vents, wherein the one or more vacuum vents are separated from the supporting surface by one or more separation walls. A process for vacuum skin packaging a product using the container and a process for forming the container are also provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 25, 2019Publication date: February 11, 2021Inventors: Richard KERSHAW, Tom HIRST, Paul RAWLINGS, Craig HARDWICK, Julian BURGESS, Stuart FRASER, Alan DAVEY
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Publication number: 20200280508Abstract: A network node has a graceful restart mode in which the node: sends a graceful restart notification to one or more neighbouring nodes; attempts to re-establish an adjacency with the neighbouring node(s); receives link state data from at least one of the neighbouring node(s), the received data being sent in response to said attempt; derives pre-restart link data from the received data, the derived data identifying formerly active links, including the node, for routing traffic before the restart; routes network traffic in accordance with routing information stored in the router; detects one or more links, of the formerly active links, which are currently inactive; continues with graceful restart after said detection; determines one or more links, of the formerly active links, which are currently active; and exits the graceful restart mode in response to successful re-establishment of adjacencies with a respective neighbouring node for each of the currently active link(s).Type: ApplicationFiled: February 27, 2020Publication date: September 3, 2020Inventors: Alan DAVEY, Jonathan CUMMING
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Patent number: 10358260Abstract: The present invention relates to container comprising at least two compartments (2a, 2b), each compartment comprising a base (3a, 3b) and one more walls (4a, 4b) extending from the base, wherein the compartments are detachable from each other along a breakline (9) comprising a plurality of recesses (6). The present invention also relates to a method for producing the container.Type: GrantFiled: April 1, 2016Date of Patent: July 23, 2019Assignee: LINPAC PACKAGING LIMITEDInventors: Alan Davey, Ben Elkington, James Thomas Philip Rowson
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Publication number: 20180282044Abstract: A process for packaging a product, such as a food product, including a step of creating a vacuum reservoir.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 28, 2016Publication date: October 4, 2018Inventors: Craig HARDWICK, Alan DAVEY
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Publication number: 20180072459Abstract: The present invention relates to container comprising at least two compartments (2a, 2b), each compartment comprising a base (3a, 3b) and one more walls (4a, 4b) extending from the base, wherein the compartments are detachable from each other along a breakline (9) comprising a plurality of recesses (6). The present invention also relates to a method for producing the container.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 1, 2016Publication date: March 15, 2018Inventors: ALAN DAVEY, BEN ELKINGTON, JAMES THOMAS PHILIP ROWSON