Patents by Inventor Anderson Smith
Anderson Smith 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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Publication number: 20200086255Abstract: The present application relates generally to filter media useful for manufacturing air filters for residential and commercial office's Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning (HVAC), particularly to filters and filter media comprising soybean-based materials. The present invention provides an inexpensive, effective, environmentally friendly, and sustainable media for manufacturing HVAC air filters for residential and commercial buildings.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 27, 2018Publication date: March 19, 2020Applicant: Purdue Research FoundationInventors: Anderson Smith, Andrew Huang, Sushant Mehan, Samaneh Saadat
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Patent number: 10175910Abstract: Implementations of the present disclosure involve a system and/or method for gracelessly rebooting a storage appliance. The method and system includes a storage appliance in association with an event that will result in the loss of a state table from volatile memory that halts changes to at least one state table of the storage appliance. The state tables describe a plurality of file system states of one or more clients connected to the first storage appliance. The state information is written to a persistent memory of the storage appliance. The state table may then be repopulated using the state table information stored in persistent memory.Type: GrantFiled: April 27, 2016Date of Patent: January 8, 2019Assignee: ORACLE INTERNATIONAL CORPORATIONInventors: Jeffrey Anderson Smith, Piyush Shivam, William Eugene Baker
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Publication number: 20180307584Abstract: Disclosed herein are systems and methods for converting physical input signals into bitstreams using syntax trees regardless of the physical input signal's protocol. Using declarative language definitions within a protocol declaration, a test and measurement system can compile a syntax tree that automatically translates the input data into a proper bitstream output. The declarative language definitions within the protocol declaration allow custom or standard protocol rules to be written for multiple or arbitrary input protocols without writing unsafe functions, having to access memory, or debugging more complex language codes.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 9, 2018Publication date: October 25, 2018Applicant: Tektronix, Inc.Inventors: Mark Anderson Smith, Michael Scott Silliman, Andrew Loofburrow, Eric T. Anderson
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Patent number: 9779507Abstract: A method and system are provided for determining an orientation of a unit dose package, such as by determining whether the cavity that houses the medication is facing upwards or downwards. As a result of the determination of the orientation of the unit dose package, a method and system may also be provided for selectively picking a unit dose package, thereby enabling automated restocking of singulated unit dose packages by taking into account the orientation of the unit dose packages.Type: GrantFiled: December 1, 2014Date of Patent: October 3, 2017Assignee: AESYNT INCORPORATEDInventors: Patrick Joseph Braun, James Anderson Smith
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Publication number: 20160239215Abstract: Implementations of the present disclosure involve a system and/or method for gracelessly rebooting a storage appliance. The method and system includes a storage appliance in association with an event that will result in the loss of a state table from volatile memory that halts changes to at least one state table of the storage appliance. The state tables describe a plurality of file system states of one or more clients connected to the first storage appliance. The state information is written to a persistent memory of the storage appliance. The state table may then be repopulated using the state table information stored in persistent memory.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 27, 2016Publication date: August 18, 2016Applicant: Oracle International CorporationInventors: Jeffrey Anderson Smith, Piyush Shivam, William Eugene Baker
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Patent number: 9361192Abstract: Implementations of the present disclosure involve a system and/or method for gracelessly rebooting a storage appliance. The method and system includes a storage appliance in association with an event that will result in the loss of a state table from volatile memory that halts changes to at least one state table of the storage appliance. The state tables describe a plurality of file system states of one or more clients connected to the first storage appliance. The state information is written to a persistent memory of the storage appliance. The state table may then be repopulated using the state table information stored in persistent memory.Type: GrantFiled: October 19, 2012Date of Patent: June 7, 2016Assignee: Oracle International CorporationInventors: Jeffrey Anderson Smith, Piyush Shivam, William Eugene Baker
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Patent number: 9282021Abstract: Implementations of the present disclosure involve a system and method for simulating a storage cluster testing system. The method and system includes a processor configured to instructions stored on a memory to produce a simulation interface. The simulation interface includes an abstraction layer that receives verbs from a test driver and passes the verbs to one of two or more plugins. The plugins may include a synthetic plugin configured to translate the verbs into one or more command and send commands to a simulated storage appliance that is a computing device with relatively lower performance than an actual storage appliance. The simulated storage appliance may act in place of two storage appliances clustered to form a storage cluster. The simulated storage appliance forms a simulated storage cluster. The simulated storage cluster simulates the performance of the verb on by the storage cluster.Type: GrantFiled: October 19, 2012Date of Patent: March 8, 2016Assignee: Oracle International CorporationInventors: Jeffrey Anderson Smith, Piyush Shivam, William Eugene Baker
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Publication number: 20150090043Abstract: Embodiments provide a MEMS including a MEMS device and an detector circuit. The MEMS device includes a membrane, wherein a material of the membrane comprises a band gap and a crystal structure with structural elements (unit cells) connected by covalent bonds in two dimensions only. The detector circuit is configured to determine a deformation of the membrane based on a piezoresistive resistance of the material of the membrane.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 26, 2014Publication date: April 2, 2015Inventors: Guenther Ruhl, Max Christian Lemme, Alfons Dehe, Andreas Fischer, Frank Niklaus, Anderson Smith
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Publication number: 20150085109Abstract: A method and system are provided for determining an orientation of a unit dose package, such as by determining whether the cavity that houses the medication is facing upwards or downwards. As a result of the determination of the orientation of the unit dose package, a method and system may also be provided for selectively picking a unit dose package, thereby enabling automated restocking of singulated unit dose packages by taking into account the orientation of the unit dose packages.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 1, 2014Publication date: March 26, 2015Inventors: Patrick Joseph Braun, James Anderson Smith
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Patent number: 8929641Abstract: A method and system are provided for determining an orientation of a unit dose package, such as by determining whether the cavity that houses the medication is facing upwards or downwards. As a result of the determination of the orientation of the unit dose package, a method and system may also be provided for selectively picking a unit dose package, thereby enabling automated restocking of singulated unit dose packages by taking into account the orientation of the unit dose packages.Type: GrantFiled: March 17, 2009Date of Patent: January 6, 2015Assignee: Aesynt IncorporatedInventors: Patrick Joseph Braun, James Anderson Smith
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Publication number: 20140114644Abstract: Implementations of the present disclosure involve a system and method for simulating a storage cluster testing system. The method and system includes a processor configured to instructions stored on a memory to produce a simulation interface. The simulation interface includes an abstraction layer that receives verbs from a test driver and passes the verbs to one of two or more plugins. The plugins may include a synthetic plugin configured to translate the verbs into one or more command and send commands to a simulated storage appliance that is a computing device with relatively lower performance than an actual storage appliance. The simulated storage appliance may act in place of two storage appliances clustered to form a storage cluster. The simulated storage appliance forms a simulated storage cluster. The simulated storage cluster simulates the performance of the verb on by the storage cluster.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 19, 2012Publication date: April 24, 2014Applicant: Oracle International CorporationInventors: Jeffrey Anderson Smith, Piyush Shivam, William Eugene Baker
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Publication number: 20140115310Abstract: Implementations of the present disclosure involve a system and/or method for gracelessly rebooting a storage appliance. The method and system includes a storage appliance in association with an event that will result in the loss of a state table from volatile memory that halts changes to at least one state table of the storage appliance. The state tables describe a plurality of file system states of one or more clients connected to the first storage appliance. The state information is written to a persistent memory of the storage appliance. The state table may then be repopulated using the state table information stored in persistent memory.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 19, 2012Publication date: April 24, 2014Applicant: ORACLE INTERNATIONAL CORPORATIONInventors: Jeffrey Anderson Smith, Piyush Shivam, William Eugene Baker
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Publication number: 20110079556Abstract: A method and apparatus for efficiently performing solid phase extraction techniques for cleanup of samples to be used in analysis for pesticides, food products, etc. An insert to a centrifuge tube is disclosed which provides for mixing the solid and liquid, after which centrifuging is used to separate the liquid from the solid, after processing it through an appropriate filter.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 1, 2009Publication date: April 7, 2011Inventors: Lea Anderson-Smith, Andrew Beck
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Publication number: 20100239169Abstract: A method and system are provided for determining an orientation of a unit dose package, such as by determining whether the cavity that houses the medication is facing upwards or downwards. As a result of the determination of the orientation of the unit dose package, a method and system may also be provided for selectively picking a unit dose package, thereby enabling automated restocking of singulated unit dose packages by taking into account the orientation of the unit dose packages.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 17, 2009Publication date: September 23, 2010Applicant: McKesson Automation Inc.Inventors: Patrick Joseph Braun, James Anderson Smith
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Patent number: 7381934Abstract: A closed loop compensation system including a deformable mirror including an array of spaced actuators. An array of spaced sensors is mapped in optical space to reside between pairs of actuators. A lens system receives a wavefront from the deformable mirror and focuses sub-apertures of the wavefront onto individual ones of the spaced sensors. A sequencer addresses each actuator and associated sensor in the arrays. A compute unit is configured to respond to the sequencer to set a first actuator to an adjusted stroke position and then adjust the stroke of subsequent actuators to locate, to a pre-established position, the focused sub-aperture on a sensor in the pathway between each particular subsequent actuator and a neighboring previously adjusted portion of the mirror to compensate for sub-aperture tilt while maintaining relative phase between sub-apertures.Type: GrantFiled: January 11, 2006Date of Patent: June 3, 2008Assignee: Xinetics, Inc.Inventor: Mark Anderson Smith
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Patent number: 7172299Abstract: An integrated wavefront correction module including a mounting device a deformable mirror carried by the mounting device for correcting for high spatial and temporal frequency error in an incident wavefront and a tip-tilt correction mechanism including a base and a plurality of tip-tilt actuators interconnected between the base and one of the flexible and fixed portions and a plurality of support posts interconnected between the base and the other of the flexible and fixed portions or alternatively the tip-tilt correction mechanism may include at least one actuator platform, a base, a first set of tip-tilt actuators for adjustably supporting the at least one actuator platform from the base and a second set of tip-tilt actuators for adjustably supporting the mounting device from the at least one actuator platform for adjusting the mounting device and the deformable mirror together to compensate for tip-tilt errors in the incident wavefront with the tip-tilt actuators being operated typically at mid-range in orType: GrantFiled: September 8, 2004Date of Patent: February 6, 2007Assignee: Xinetics, Inc.Inventors: Mark Anderson Smith, Jeffrey L. Cavaco, Zaffir A. Chaudhry
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Patent number: 6598143Abstract: Initially, data is copied from a disk to a page frame and then to a read buffer, for instance. Next, a check is made to determine whether the percent of real memory occupied by file pages is less than a preset maximum volume. If so, no space is allocated for additional file page and no page frames are returned to the free list. If not, the VMM selects the best candidate file pages in real memory and returns them to the free list. Ideal candidates are a thread's memory pages, from a thread doing sequential I/O the file system. In so doing, the page frames are added to the free list as soon as the I/O is complete.Type: GrantFiled: February 24, 2000Date of Patent: July 22, 2003Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: William Eugene Baker, Bret Ronald Olszewski, Jeffrey Anderson Smith, David Blair Whitworth
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Publication number: 20020148126Abstract: The present invention is used to detect the grade on all slopes in highway construction using a degree gauge.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 27, 2002Publication date: October 17, 2002Inventors: Ronald Dean Smith, Patsy Anderson Smith
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Publication number: 20020059117Abstract: Methods and systems for generating revenue using a streaming video that includes primarily informative content for users are disclosed. An indication of one or more products or services is preferably provided in the informative content of the streaming video. The indication may be a picture of the product or service, or an audio indication, or both as desired. A link is preferably placed in the streaming video that directly or indirectly links a user or viewer to a site that has additional information related to the one or more products or services indicated in the streaming video. Revenue may be generated from companies that offer the products or services that are indicated or featured in the streaming video. The service or business that provides the streaming video, the companies that offer the products or services, and/or the web site(s) that distribute the streaming video may receive some or all of the generated revenue, preferably in a revenue sharing arrangement.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 15, 2001Publication date: May 16, 2002Applicant: ARAnet, IncInventors: Ted Yoch, Steve Madsen, Nancy Anderson-Smith