Patents by Inventor Ann Nichols

Ann Nichols 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: 10080937
    Abstract: A self-centering counterbalanced walking cart includes a mobile carriage and a holder body supported upright and centered thereon. The holder body has an endless sidewall defining an interior storage cavity, golf club clips and recessed decks on the endless sidewall, and handle and stand pivotally coupled at a lower portion and extending upright along opposite sides of the endless sidewall. The clips are spaced from one another and affixed about the exterior of an upper annular portion of the endless sidewall for retaining golf clubs about and in upright orientations along the exterior of the holder body. The recessed decks are defined in and spaced apart from one another about the exterior of the lower annular portion of the endless sidewall for receiving heads of the golf clubs retained upright by the golf club clips. The mobile carriage may be a two-wheel or four-wheel version.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2018
    Inventors: John Philip Brett Nichol, Jacqueline Ann Nichol
  • Publication number: 20150163715
    Abstract: A radio access network system is described that determines a wireless offloading schema associated with a user equipment or device. The user equipment device can receive input representing a user preference for offloading determined communication services to a determined network. Based on the offloading schema, a user equipment device can select a network to send and receive transmissions associated with a determined communication service.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2013
    Publication date: June 11, 2015
    Applicants: AT&T Mobility II LLC, AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Jayanta Das, Joseph Bailey, Vandana S. Chakravarti, Ann Nichols, Glenn Petry, Karen Marie Stansbury
  • Patent number: 7921424
    Abstract: Various embodiments of the present invention are directed toward extending a federation of servers and balancing the data load of said federation of servers, in order to improve accessibility and scope of the system by moving the first backup data structure on the second server to the new server, creating a second data structure on the new server, and creating a second backup data structure for the second data structure on the second server. To balance the load, certain embodiments employ a method comprising suspending writes to the selected logical partitions, copying selected logical partitions to the new physical partition, redirecting reads and writes to the logical partitions in the new physical partition, and removing the original selected logical partitions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2011
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: David R. Shutt, Elizabeth Ann Nichols
  • Patent number: 7530073
    Abstract: Various embodiments of the present invention are directed toward extending a federation of servers and balancing the data load of said federation of servers, in order to improve accessibility and scope of the system by moving the first backup data structure on the second server to the new server, creating a second data structure on the new server, and creating a second backup data structure for the second data structure on the second server. To balance the load, certain embodiments employ a method comprising suspending writes to the selected logical partitions, copying selected logical partitions to the new physical partition, redirecting reads and writes to the logical partitions in the new physical partition, and removing the original selected logical partitions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2009
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: David R. Shutt, Elizabeth Ann Nichols
  • Patent number: 7150022
    Abstract: Various embodiments of the present invention are directed toward extending a federation of servers and balancing the data load of said federation of servers, in order to improve accessibility and scope of the system by moving the first backup data structure on the second server to the new server, creating a second data structure on the new server, and creating a second backup data structure for the second data structure on the second server. To balance the load, certain embodiments employ a method comprising suspending writes to the selected logical partitions, copying selected logical partitions to the new physical partition, redirecting reads and writes to the logical partitions in the new physical partition, and removing the original selected logical partitions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2006
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: David R. Shutt, Elizabeth Ann Nichols
  • Patent number: 6973654
    Abstract: Various embodiments of the present invention are directed toward extending a federation of servers and balancing the data load of said federation of servers, in order to improve accessibility and scope of the system by moving the first backup data structure on the second server to the new server, creating a second data structure on the new server, and creating a second backup data structure for the second data structure on the second server. To balance the load, certain embodiments employ a method comprising suspending writes to the selected logical partitions, copying selected logical partitions to the new physical partition, redirecting reads and writes to the logical partitions in the new physical partition, and removing the original selected logical partitions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2003
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2005
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: David R. Shutt, Elizabeth Ann Nichols
  • Patent number: D1023787
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: BIG HEART PET, INC.
    Inventors: Patricia Ann Waynick, Wang Lee, Julius Austria Coronel, Benjamin Cooper Priess, Thomas Paul Nichols