Patents by Inventor Andrew Gibbs

Andrew Gibbs 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: 8924527
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided that allow network resources to be shared across geographical distances. This can be achieved by changing the resources available for establishing and handling call or data session processing in an area. A mobility management device can alone or in combination with a DNS server change the size or the resource pool available in some embodiments. The change in resources can be dynamic according to certain predefined conditions or can be setup beforehand to account for daily demand. This sharing of resources can allow more efficient usage of resources available across a geographic region, rather than needed to over-provision each region to account for peak demands.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2014
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Rajesh Ramankutty, Kuntal Chowdhury, Andrew Gibbs
  • Patent number: 8883305
    Abstract: The present invention relates to thermoset resin fiber components, composite materials including thermoset resin fiber components, composite articles manufactured using such composite materials and methodologies for manufacturing same. The thermoset resin fiber components may include a single fiber of thermoset resin or a plurality of fibers commingled together. The properties and characteristics of the thermoset resin used are chosen according to the material to be produced therefrom. The thermoset fiber components may be woven into reinforcement fibers to form prepregs. Thermoplastic fibers may be commingled and co-woven with the thermoset fiber components.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2014
    Assignee: Umeco Structual Materials (Derby) Limited
    Inventors: Mark Raymond Steele, Andrew Gibbs, Amy Grace Atkinson
  • Patent number: 8594104
    Abstract: Methods and systems for providing interconnection between network operation environments are disclosed in some embodiments. This can include providing interoperability between 3GPP and 3GPP2 standards environments. In one embodiment, a method is disclosed that includes receiving a request from a mobile device for service at a gateway, determining a mode of operation for the mobile device by inspecting an incoming message, wherein the mode of operation includes 3GPP and 3GPP2, establishing a connection using a proxy mobile internet protocol (PMIP), where the type of connection established is dependent on the mode of operation, providing an IP address to a mobile device based on the mode of operation and the parameters associated with the mode of operation, and communicating with an authentication, authorization, and accounting (AAA) server operating in accordance with the mode of operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2013
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Kuntal Chowdhury, Robert Marks, Rajesh Velandy, Andrew Gibbs
  • Publication number: 20130139650
    Abstract: Apparatus and a method of handling a molten metal processing by-product are provided in which the by product is placed in a container unit and put in the apparatus, the apparatus including an element having a first position outside of the container and a second position in which at least a part of the element is in the container so as to compress the by-product and exclude oxygen from it. The element also serves to transfer heat from the contents of the container unit to the element and so provide cooling. The element can then be returned to the first position, the container unit be removed and placed at a cooling location for final cooling.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2011
    Publication date: June 6, 2013
    Applicant: ALTEK EUROPE LIMITED
    Inventors: Alan Peel, Andrew Gibbs
  • Patent number: 8428610
    Abstract: Methods and systems for providing a dynamic and real time load factor that can be shared with other network elements is disclosed. The load factor can be used in determining the relative load among a set of network elements and in distributing new sessions requests as well as existing session on the set of network elements. The load factor can also be used for determining to which network element a user equipment is handed off. The dynamic load factor can also be shared amongst network elements to determine how the load is balanced among the network elements, such as a mobility management entity (MME).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2013
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Kuntal Chowdhury, Andrew Gibbs, Rajeev Koodli
  • Publication number: 20130075964
    Abstract: A compressing element, devices for using such a compressing element and methods of use are provided, in which the compressing element has: a upper surface provided with an inlet and an outlet; a lower surface; an at least partially hollow interior provided between the upper surface and the lower surface, the hollow interior being connected to the inlet and the outlet; the hollow interior being provided with: one or more fluid flow constraining surfaces provided by one or more walls of the hollow interior; and one or more fluid flow control elements provided in the hollow interior, the one or more fluid flow control elements being additional to the one or more fluid flow constraining surfaces provided by the one or more walls of the hollow interior. The arrangement of inlet, outlet, fluid flow constraining surfaces and fluid control elements provides for improved cooling of the compressing element, for instance when used to press molten metal processing by-products to extract molten metal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2011
    Publication date: March 28, 2013
    Applicant: ALTEK EUROPE LIMITED
    Inventors: Alan Peel, Andrew Gibbs
  • Patent number: 8200830
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided to allow detection of the load conditions on network devices. The load detection can occur using a mobility management device to track establishment of sessions and attempts at session establishment to determine the loading conditions on various network devices. This information can then be used by a selection logic to determine which devices are selected to send session establishment messaging for new session establishment requests. This can provide quicker setup times as highly loaded network devices or network devices experiences other failures are selected less until conditions are back to normal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2012
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Rajesh Ramankutty, Kuntal Chowdhury, Andrew Gibbs
  • Patent number: 8084126
    Abstract: The present invention relates to thermoset resin fiber components, composite materials including thermoset resin fiber components, composite articles manufactured using such composite materials and methodologies for manufacturing same. The thermoset resin fiber components may include a single fiber of thermoset resin or a plurality of fibers commingled together. The properties and characteristics of the thermoset resin used are chosen according to the material to be produced therefrom. The thermoset fiber components may be woven into reinforcement fibers to form prepregs. Thermoplastic fibers may be commingled and co-woven with the thermoset fiber components.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2011
    Assignee: Advanced Composites Group Limited
    Inventors: Mark Raymond Steele, Andrew Gibbs, Amy Grace Atkinson
  • Publication number: 20110274907
    Abstract: Curative fibre components comprise one or more fibres for filaments of curative suitable to cure curable resins such as thermoset resin. In curative fibre components comprising a plurality of fibres of curative, the fibres can be commingled, such as twisting, to form a thread or yarn. Curative fibre components can be used to form a material in the form of a sheet, fabric, layer, textile or mat of woven or non-woven curative fibres. Curative fibre components can be used to produce composite materials such as fibre reinforced resinous composite materials. The curative fibre components can be commingled, including interwoven, stitched and layered with other fibres or fibrous materials, such as fibrous reinforcement, fibrous curable resin, fibrous thermoplastic, other non-reinforcing fibres to form composite materials, prepregs, preforms and articles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 24, 2009
    Publication date: November 10, 2011
    Inventors: Mark Raymond Steele, Andrew Gibbs, Amy Grace Atinkson
  • Patent number: 8041825
    Abstract: Systems and methods for providing an interface to communicate policy information from a policy server to a policy enforcement point are presented. An external policy server is used to implement and provide various policies to a policy enforcement point for enforcement on subscriber sessions and traffic flows of a mobile subscriber. A policy enforcement point can request instructions from the policy server using an access-request message and receive from the policy server unsolicited instructions with a change-of-authorization message. Policies for application to a subscriber session or traffic flow are included in the message from a policy server to the policy enforcement point. Other messages such as a disconnect message are used to terminate a subscriber session.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2011
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Andrew Gibbs, Shaji E. Radhakrishnan, Kuntal Chowdhury
  • Publication number: 20100281157
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided to allow detection of the load conditions on network devices. The load detection can occur using a mobility management device to track establishment of sessions and attempts at session establishment to determine the loading conditions on various network devices. This information can then be used by a selection logic to determine which devices are selected to send session establishment messaging for new session establishment requests. This can provide quicker setup times as highly loaded network devices or network devices experiences other failures are selected less until conditions are back to normal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2010
    Publication date: November 4, 2010
    Applicant: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Rajesh Ramankutty, Kuntal Chowdhury, Andrew Gibbs
  • Publication number: 20100281151
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided that allow network resources to be shared across geographical distances. This can be achieved by changing the resources available for establishing and handling call or data session processing in an area. A mobility management device can alone or in combination with a DNS server change the size or the resource pool available in some embodiments. The change in resources can be dynamic according to certain predefined conditions or can be setup beforehand to account for daily demand. This sharing of resources can allow more efficient usage of resources available across a geographic region, rather than needed to over-provision each region to account for peak demands.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2010
    Publication date: November 4, 2010
    Applicant: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Rajesh Ramankutty, Kuntal Chowdhury, Andrew Gibbs
  • Publication number: 20100203787
    Abstract: The present invention relates to thermoset resin fibre components, composite materials comprising thermoset resin fibre components, composite articles manufactured using such composite materials and methodologies for manufacturing same. The thermoset resin fibre components may comprise a single fibre of thermoset resin or a plurality of fibres commingled together. There properties and characteristics of the thermoset resin used are chosen according to the material to be produced therefrom. The thermoset fibre components may be woven into reinforcement fibres to form prepregs. Thermoplastic fibres may be commingled and co-woven with the thermoset fibre components.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2008
    Publication date: August 12, 2010
    Applicant: ADVANCED COMPOSITES GROUP LIMITED
    Inventors: Mark Raymond Steele, Andrew Gibbs, Amy Grace Atkinson
  • Publication number: 20100125566
    Abstract: A system for creating a patent search report comprising a case management subsystem for receiving patent-related information from a patent document and creating the patent search report, a search subsystem for searching at least one database using the patent-related information as a search query, and a classification subsystem for classifying the patent-related information according to one or more international classification systems based on the searching of the at least one database.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2008
    Publication date: May 20, 2010
    Applicant: PATENTCAFE.COM, INC.
    Inventors: Andrew Gibbs, Stephanie A. Gibbs
  • Publication number: 20070294232
    Abstract: At least one exemplary embodiment discloses a system, computer program product and method for evaluating the value of a legal document such as a patent-related document. In accordance with at least one exemplary embodiment, a Latent Semantic Analysis (“LSA’) search engine can search a database of patent-related documents to identify an “N” number of patent-related documents deemed thereby as relevant to a target document and indices of the target patent-related document can be compared and scored against the indices of the relevant identified patent-related documents. At least one exemplary embodiment evaluates a plurality of indices of patent-related document value using legal, commercial and/or technological factors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2007
    Publication date: December 20, 2007
    Inventors: Andrew Gibbs, Stephanie Gibbs
  • Publication number: 20070174296
    Abstract: A system and method of distributing one or more of a software application, a database, and a document search and retrieval means across a network of two or more servers. Individually, or collectively, one or more servers are accessible by a client computer that has permission to access the network. In an exemplary configuration, the present invention is comprised of an application service distributed between one or more host servers on the Internet and one or more appliance servers and clients located behind a network security access point, with one or more authorized clients and the appliance in communication across the network security network access point with one or more ASP host servers on the network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 17, 2007
    Publication date: July 26, 2007
    Inventors: Andrew Gibbs, Stephanie Gibbs
  • Publication number: 20070168345
    Abstract: A method and system for searching a data collection to identify employee candidates using the text of job description as a semantic search query upon a database containing patent literature or non-patent literature. An exemplary embodiment discloses employee candidates for the described job in a relevancy-ranked order based on the proximity of the search results to the latent semantic analysis search query.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 17, 2007
    Publication date: July 19, 2007
    Inventors: Andrew Gibbs, Stephanie Gibbs
  • Publication number: 20070094712
    Abstract: Systems and methods for providing an interface to communicate policy information from a policy server to a policy enforcement point are presented. An external policy server is used to implement and provide various policies to a policy enforcement point for enforcement on subscriber sessions and traffic flows of a mobile subscriber. A policy enforcement point can request instructions from the policy server using an access-request message and receive from the policy server unsolicited instructions with a change-of-authorization message. Policies for application to a subscriber session or traffic flow are included in the message from a policy server to the policy enforcement point. Other messages such as a disconnect message are used to terminate a subscriber session.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2006
    Publication date: April 26, 2007
    Inventors: Andrew Gibbs, Shaji Radhakrishnan, Kuntal Chowdhury
  • Patent number: 6923006
    Abstract: Water supplied from a bottle 1 is pre-chilled in a reservoir 3. A two-part water pump 11 transfers water under pressure through a jet nozzle 14 into an oxygen space 17 in a PET pressure vessel 12, which entrains oxygen into the water. The pressure vessel is received in a conductive holder 18 and is cooled by a peltier element 19 provided with cooling fins 20. The holder 18 forms a capacitive level sensor with a probe 32 inside the vessel, which starts the pump 11 when oxygenated water is drawn off via a draw tube 28 and discharge valve 31. When the water level in the oxygenating vessel is restored a solenoid valve 25 opens to restore the oxygen pressure in the vessel. For hygiene purposes the pumping body can be removed from the pump motor and replaced together with the reservoir 3 and oxygenating vessel 12 along with the associated tubing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2001
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2005
    Inventors: Philip Andrew Walton, Gary Squire, Robert Tansley, Andrew Gibbs
  • Publication number: 20030177784
    Abstract: Water supplied from a bottle 1 is pre-chilled in a reservoir 3. A two-part water pump 11 transfers water under pressure through a jet nozzle 14 into an oxygen space 17 in a PET pressure vessel 12, which entrains oxygen into the water. The pressure vessel is received in a conductive holder 18 and is cooled by a peltier element 19 provided with cooling fins 20. The holder 18 forms a capacitive level sensor with a probe 32 inside the vessel, which starts the pump 11 when oxygenated water is drawn off via a draw tube 28 and discharge valve 31. When the water level in the oxygenating vessel is restored a solenoid valve 25 opens to restore the oxygen pressure in the vessel. For hygiene purposes the pumping body can be removed from the pump motor and replaced together with the reservoir 3 and oxygenating vessel 12 along with the associated tubing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 27, 2002
    Publication date: September 25, 2003
    Inventors: Philip Andrew Walton, Gary Squire, Robert Tansley, Andrew Gibbs