Patents by Inventor Alan Hayes
Alan Hayes 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).
-
Publication number: 20240104738Abstract: Oral care based imaging computer-implemented systems and methods for analyzing attributes of a facial image portion of at least one person depicted in a digital image. An oral care digital imaging computer-implemented method for analyzing a facial image portion of a person depicted in a digital image may include analyzing the facial image portion for positive and negative attributes as defined by pixel data of the digital image and generating a probability value based on the positive and negative attributes in the facial image portion in the digital image.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 5, 2023Publication date: March 28, 2024Inventors: Amirhossein Tavanaei, Matthew Lloyd Barker, Faiz Feisal Sherman, Sherrie Lee Kinderdine, Scott Alan Hayes, David Anthony Hengehold, Yanyan HE, Yumeng Ouyang, Jiahui Li, Nataliya Gurich, Ming Qi
-
Publication number: 20240065175Abstract: Dual arm mechanical pruning apparatuses for simultaneously hedging and/or skirting trees in adjacent rows typically comprising: a mast assembly; a lift carriage assembly; two front arm assemblies, each front arm assembly comprising one or more saw blades; two lower arm assemblies, each lower arm assembly comprising one or more saw blades; two swing arms, each swing arm rotatably attached to the lift carriage, one of the two front arm assemblies and one of the two lower arm assemblies, where the two swing arms rotate, thereby extending and retracting the two front arm assemblies and the two lower arm assemblies relative to the lift carriage assembly, and where the two front arm assemblies hedge, and the two lower arm assemblies hedge or skirt trees. In some embodiments the dual arm mechanical pruning apparatus also comprises a vehicle mounting assembly.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 31, 2022Publication date: February 29, 2024Inventors: Brendan J. Brooks, Carlos A MENDEZ, Allen HAYES, Alan ISSACSON
-
Publication number: 20220398731Abstract: Oral care based imaging computer-implemented systems and methods for determining perceived attractiveness of a facial image portion of at least one person depicted in a digital image. The method has the following steps: a) obtaining a digital image comprising at least one oral feature of at least one person, wherein the digital image includes a facial image portion of the at least one person, the facial image portion having both positive and negative attributes as defined by pixel data of the digital image; b) analyzing the facial image portion; c) generating an Attractiveness Score indicative of a perceived attractiveness of the facial image portion based on the analyzed facial image portion in the obtained digital image; d) further generating an image description that identifies at least one area in said facial image portion based on the Attractiveness Score; and e) presenting the image description to a use.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 3, 2021Publication date: December 15, 2022Inventors: Amirhossein Tavanei, Matthew Lloyd Barker, Faiz Feisal Sherman, Sherrie Lee Kinderdine, Scott Alan Hayes, David Anthony Hengehold, Yanyan HE, Yumeng Ouyang, Jiahui Li, Nataliya Gurich, Ming Qi
-
Patent number: 10988330Abstract: In one example, a media size detector includes a button coupled to a spring of a housing to interact with a media size adjuster of a media tray, a first side of a lever to receive pressure from the spring when the button is depressed by the media size adjuster, and a second side of the lever to apply pressure to activate or deactivate a switch coupled to a printed circuit assembly when the first side of the lever receives pressure from the spring.Type: GrantFiled: September 8, 2016Date of Patent: April 27, 2021Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.Inventors: Alan Hayes, Mark Olson, Alexander M Nameroff
-
Patent number: 10406844Abstract: According to examples, an apparatus may include a processor and a memory. The memory may have stored thereon machine readable instructions that when executed by the processor, may cause the processor to determine a job thickness of a print job including sheets, determine an average sheet thickness of the sheets, and determine an average print material coverage on the sheets. The instructions may also cause the processor to identify, based on the determined job thickness, the determined average sheet thickness, and the average print material coverage, a plurality of correction factors to be applied in a calculation of a corrected stack height of print jobs in an output bin and apply the identified plurality of correction factors to a measured stack height in the output bin to calculate the corrected stack height.Type: GrantFiled: April 30, 2018Date of Patent: September 10, 2019Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.Inventors: Alan Hayes, Elliott Downing, Bruce G. Johnson
-
Publication number: 20190259559Abstract: An ion beam neutralization system, often referred to as a plasma bridge neutralizer (PBN), as part of an ion beam (etch) system. The system utilizes an improved filament thermo-electron emitter PBN design, that when utilized in a particular method of operation, greatly extends filament life and minimizes variation in neutralizer operating parameters for long periods of operation. The PBN includes a solenoidal electromagnetic that produces an axial magnetic field within the PBN and a magnetic concentrator that facilitates the alignment of the magnetic field and inhibits stray fields. The PBN can readily provide a filament lifetime of at least 500 hours.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 7, 2019Publication date: August 22, 2019Inventors: Rustam YEVTUKHOV, Ivan SHKURENKOV, Boris DRUZ, Alan HAYES, Robert HIERONYMI
-
Publication number: 20190193962Abstract: In one example, a media size detector includes a button coupled to a spring of a housing to interact with a media size adjuster of a media tray, a first side of a lever to receive pressure from the spring when the button is depressed by the media size adjuster, and a second side of the lever to apply pressure to activate or deactivate a switch coupled to a printed circuit assembly when the first side of the lever receives pressure from the spring.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 8, 2016Publication date: June 27, 2019Inventors: Alan Hayes, Mark Olson, Alexander M Nameroff
-
Patent number: 8793457Abstract: An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for policy-based secure destruction of data. The method for policy-based secure destruction of data is provided. In one embodiment, the method includes storing a data destruction policy, wherein the data destruction policy defines at least one predetermined data destruction parameter. The method may also include referencing the data destruction policy to obtain the data destruction parameters in response to a predetermined data operation. In a further embodiment, the method may include executing a data destruction process in accordance with the data destruction parameters.Type: GrantFiled: January 22, 2007Date of Patent: July 29, 2014Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: David Maxwell Cannon, Toby Lyn Marek, Mark Alan Haye
-
Patent number: 8628689Abstract: The invention relates to a low temperature-curable coating composition comprising a film-forming resin, a curing agent for the film-forming resin, and a lithium salt.Type: GrantFiled: April 2, 2010Date of Patent: January 14, 2014Assignee: Akzo Nobel Coatings International B.V.Inventors: Peter Visser, Scott Alan Hayes
-
Patent number: 8214377Abstract: Provided are a method, system, and program for managing storage objects. Storage object information is provided for each storage object, wherein the storage object information indicates at least one of a plurality of groups associated with the storage object, and wherein each storage object is capable of being associated with a plurality of groups and different group types. Group information is provided for each group indicating a group identifier, storage objects associated with the group, and a group type.Type: GrantFiled: April 7, 2003Date of Patent: July 3, 2012Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Matthew Joseph Anglin, David Maxwell Cannon, Avishai Haim Hochberg, Mark Alan Haye
-
Publication number: 20120025142Abstract: The invention relates to a low temperature-curable coating composition comprising a film-forming resin, a curing agent for the film-forming resin, and a lithium salt.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 2, 2010Publication date: February 2, 2012Applicant: Akzo Nobel Coatings International B.V.Inventors: Peter Visser, Scott Alan Hayes
-
Patent number: 8055623Abstract: Provided are a system and article of manufacture for merging metadata on files in a backup storage. A query is received for information on files from a file system for a client node. A determination is made of metadata for files in a backup storage for the client node stored external to backup sets. At least one backup set in the backup storage for the client node is processed to determine metadata for files included in at least one backup set. The determined metadata for files in the backup storage and for files included in at least one backup set is merged to form merged metadata. The query is executed against the merged metadata to determine files whose metadata satisfies the query. Results including information from the merged metadata on the determined files are returned.Type: GrantFiled: November 4, 2008Date of Patent: November 8, 2011Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Matthew Joseph Anglin, Ken Eugene Hannigan, Mark Alan Hayes, Avishai Haim Hochberg
-
Patent number: 8029891Abstract: Provided are compositions comprising infrared absorptive inorganic nanoparticles and a matrix material and methods to produce the compositions. The infrared absorptive inorganic nanoparticles preferably include antimony tin oxide (ATO), indium tin oxide (ITO), or mixtures thereof. Also provided are polymer blends, polymeric films and sheets, solar control laminates, and processes to produce the polymer blends, polymeric films and sheets and solar control laminates.Type: GrantFiled: May 31, 2005Date of Patent: October 4, 2011Assignee: E.I. du Pont de Nemours and CompanyInventors: Thomas R. Phillips, Richard A. Fugiel, Richard Alan Hayes
-
Patent number: 7778020Abstract: An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for a modular blade. The blade has a first carrier card and a second carrier card. At least one of these cards connects into the backplane of a blade server and provides connectivity for the modular blade to the backplane. The carrier cards also provide connectivity between their respective attached devices. In order to increase the density available in a modular blade, the computing components on the first and second cards interleave with one another such that a maximum number of components fit in a minimal space. The modular blade also provides an airflow channel for air circulation necessary to provide cooling. The first carrier card and second carrier card may also be identical, with one of the identical pair rotated one-hundred and eighty degrees with respect to the other.Type: GrantFiled: December 6, 2007Date of Patent: August 17, 2010Assignee: Fusion Multisystems, Inc.Inventors: David Flynn, Alan Hayes, Bert Lagerstedt, John Strasser, Jonathan Thatcher, Vince Warner
-
Patent number: 7713068Abstract: An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for a scalable, composite, reconfigurable backplane. The backplane is made up of one or more blade aggregation modules which provide switching for attached devices. The blade aggregation module connects to transition cards that then connect with blade modules. The blade aggregation module provides connectivity to the connected modules, which may connect to a second blade aggregation module through the transition cards. The transition cards may additionally connect with unit aggregation modules to connect rows of blade modules together. Transition cards can also provide outside connectivity. The backplane, made up of blade aggregation modules, transition cards, and unit aggregation modules, is highly scalable and versatile, and also provides an unblocked airflow path to facilitate cooling the blades.Type: GrantFiled: December 6, 2007Date of Patent: May 11, 2010Assignee: Fusion Multisystems, Inc.Inventors: David Flynn, Alan Hayes, Bert Lagerstedt, John Strasser, Jonathan Thatcher, Vince Warner
-
Patent number: 7693878Abstract: A system, apparatus, and process creates a table of contents (TOC), including one or more table of contents (TOC) entries, to manage data in a hierarchical storage management system. Each TOC entry contains metadata describing the contents and attributes of a data object within an image, which is an aggregation of multiple data objects into a single object for storage management purposes. The TOC is stored in a storage hierarchy, such as magnetic disk, for fast access of and efficient operation on the aggregated TOC entries. The system, apparatus, and process also provide for aggregating the TOC entries from one or more TOCs into a TOC set in the storage management server database. The TOC set may be manipulated and queried in order to find a particular data object or image referenced by a TOC entry.Type: GrantFiled: August 11, 2008Date of Patent: April 6, 2010Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Matthew Joseph Anglin, David Maxwell Cannon, Mark Alan Haye, Michael A. Kaczmarski, Donald Paul Warren, Jr.
-
Patent number: 7600086Abstract: Provided is a method for managing retention of stored objects, comprising: receiving a modification request with respect to an attribute or archive policy for an object; determining whether an attribute modification protection flag or setting is set in response to the modification request requesting to modify the attribute for the object; allowing the modification of the attribute object in response to determining that the attribute modification protection flag or setting is not set; determining whether a protection retention mechanism or setting is set in response to the modification request requesting to modify the archive policy for the object; and allowing the modification of the archive policy for the object in response to determining that the protection retention mechanism or setting is not set.Type: GrantFiled: August 18, 2006Date of Patent: October 6, 2009Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Avishai Haim Hochberg, Toby Lyn Marek, David Maxwell Cannon, Howard Newton Martin, Donald Paul Warren, Jr., Mark Alan Haye, Alan L. Stuart
-
Publication number: 20090063430Abstract: Provided are a system and article of manufacture for merging metadata on files in a backup storage. A query is received for information on files from a file system for a client node. A determination is made of metadata for files in a backup storage for the client node stored external to backup sets. At least one backup set in the backup storage for the client node is processed to determine metadata for files included in at least one backup set. The determined metadata for files in the backup storage and for files included in at least one backup set is merged to form merged metadata. The query is executed against the merged metadata to determine files whose metadata satisfies the query. Results including information from the merged metadata on the determined files are returned.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 4, 2008Publication date: March 5, 2009Applicant: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Matthew Joseph Anglin, Ken Eugene Hannigan, Mark Alan Haye, Avishai Haim Hochberg
-
Patent number: 7483927Abstract: Provided is a method for merging metadata on files in a backup storage. A query is received for information on files from a file system for a client node. A determination is made of metadata for files in a backup storage for the client node stored external to backup sets. At least one backup set in the backup storage for the client node is processed to determine metadata for files included in at least one backup set. The determined metadata for files in the backup storage and for files included in at least one backup set is merged to form merged metadata. The query is executed against the merged metadata to determine files whose metadata satisfies the query. Results including information from the merged metadata on the determined files are returned.Type: GrantFiled: December 1, 2005Date of Patent: January 27, 2009Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Matthew Joseph Anglin, Ken Eugene Hannigan, Mark Alan Haye, Avishai Haim Hochberg
-
Publication number: 20080294611Abstract: A system, apparatus, and process creates a table of contents (TOC), including one or more table of contents (TOC) entries, to manage data in a hierarchical storage management system. Each TOC entry contains metadata describing the contents and attributes of a data object within an image, which is an aggregation of multiple data objects into a single object for storage management purposes. The TOC is stored in a storage hierarchy, such as magnetic disk, for fast access of and efficient operation on the aggregated TOC entries. The system, apparatus, and process also provide for aggregating the TOC entries from one or more TOCs into a TOC set in the storage management server database. The TOC set may be manipulated and queried in order to find a particular data object or image referenced by a TOC entry.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 11, 2008Publication date: November 27, 2008Inventors: Matthew Joseph Anglin, David Maxwell Cannon, Mark Alan Haye, Michael A. Kaczmarski, Donald Paul Warren, JR.