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).

  • Patent number: 11752414
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: Fast Track Vision, LLC
    Inventors: John Alan Davey, Robert J. Dyer, Andrew Robert Nota
  • Patent number: 11750494
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: METASWITCH NETWORKS LTD.
    Inventors: Alan Davey, Jonathan Cumming
  • Publication number: 20220337504
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2022
    Publication date: October 20, 2022
    Inventors: Alan DAVEY, Jonathan CUMMING
  • Patent number: 11258695
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: Metaswitch Networks Ltd.
    Inventors: Alan Davey, Jonathan Cumming
  • Publication number: 20210052964
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: August 21, 2020
    Publication date: February 25, 2021
    Inventors: John Alan Davey, Robert J. Dyer, Andrew Robert Nota
  • Publication number: 20210039861
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2019
    Publication date: February 11, 2021
    Inventors: Richard KERSHAW, Tom HIRST, Paul RAWLINGS, Craig HARDWICK, Julian BURGESS, Stuart FRASER, Alan DAVEY
  • Publication number: 20200280508
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2020
    Publication date: September 3, 2020
    Inventors: Alan DAVEY, Jonathan CUMMING
  • Patent number: 10358260
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2019
    Assignee: LINPAC PACKAGING LIMITED
    Inventors: Alan Davey, Ben Elkington, James Thomas Philip Rowson
  • Publication number: 20180282044
    Abstract: A process for packaging a product, such as a food product, including a step of creating a vacuum reservoir.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2016
    Publication date: October 4, 2018
    Inventors: Craig HARDWICK, Alan DAVEY
  • Publication number: 20180072459
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2016
    Publication date: March 15, 2018
    Inventors: ALAN DAVEY, BEN ELKINGTON, JAMES THOMAS PHILIP ROWSON