Patents by Inventor Brian McKinney
Brian McKinney 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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Patent number: 11735950Abstract: Systems and methods for supplementing power to a drilling operation's generator and motor systems are disclosed. A power unit is connected to a power grid between generators and motors for a drilling operation. The power unit saps and stores energy from the electrical grid when the generator has excess capacity and providing power to the motors when the demand from the motors exceeds the available capacity of the generators.Type: GrantFiled: October 29, 2018Date of Patent: August 22, 2023Assignee: Schlumberger Technology CorporationInventors: Seetharam Kothuru, Brian McKinney, Ramakrishna Madhireddy
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Publication number: 20200270948Abstract: Systems and methods for supplementing power to a drilling operation's generator and motor systems are disclosed. A power unit is connected to a power grid between generators and motors for a drilling operation. The power unit saps and stores energy from the electrical grid when the generator has excess capacity and providing power to the motors when the demand from the motors exceeds the available capacity of the generators.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 29, 2018Publication date: August 27, 2020Inventors: Seetharam KOTHURU, Brian MCKINNEY, Ramakrishna MADHIREDDY
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Patent number: 7570164Abstract: A method for implementing a virtual tag in an RFID tag reading system. In one embodiment, data is read from the memory of an RFID tag and stored in tag cache memory. Commands intended for the tag are queued in the tag cache, and the commands queued in the tag cache are executed in response to occurrence of an event. A result is provided as if the command had been applied to the tag at the time of an initial request to send commands to the tag.Type: GrantFiled: December 30, 2005Date of Patent: August 4, 2009Assignee: SkyeTek, Inc.Inventors: Sayan Chakraborty, Brian McKinney
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Publication number: 20080214331Abstract: A target and magnetic material are provided. The target has a size sufficient to facilitate training a trainee in shooting a hockey puck at a specific location in a hockey goal. The target is further provided with an edge face with a mounting surface for receiving the magnetic material. The target is removably secured to a structural frame member defining a hockey goal by positioning the edge face with the magnetic material adjacent to a structural frame member comprising the hockey goal. Methods of use of the target are also disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 31, 2008Publication date: September 4, 2008Applicant: TOTAL HOCKEY PRODUCTS AND SERVICES, LLCInventors: Dean Charles Talafous, Brian McKinney
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Publication number: 20080052634Abstract: A system and method for providing information over a communication network among a group of computer users. Computer users are able to provide information that relates to information downloaded from the communication network. User-provided information is displayed adjacent to the relevant information from the communication network and is viewable by other computer users utilizing the system.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 27, 2007Publication date: February 28, 2008Inventors: Robert Fishkin, Brian McKinney
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Publication number: 20080042830Abstract: A method for implementing a virtual sensor in an RFID tag reading system, including an RFID reader and at least one RFID tag having tag memory in which sensor data is stored. Initially, sensor data is read from the tag memory. The sensor data is then stored in sensor cache memory in the reader. Sensor data is accordingly read and stored at a predetermined interval. The sensor data in sensor cache memory is periodically updated, via predictive modeling software stored in and executed by the reader, to determine a present or future estimated value for the sensor data from observed changes in the data.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 21, 2007Publication date: February 21, 2008Applicant: SKYETEK, INC.Inventors: Sayan Chakraborty, Brian McKinney
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Patent number: 7308762Abstract: Methods and apparatuses for rotatably supporting movable components, including canards. An apparatus in accordance with one embodiment of the invention includes an airfoil configured positioned external to an aircraft fuselage. A connecting portion can depend from the airfoil portion and can have an attachment portion configured to attach to an aircraft internal to the aircraft fuselage. Rollers carried by one of the connecting portion and the fuselage can rotatably contact a track carried by the other of the connecting portion and the fuselage.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 2004Date of Patent: December 18, 2007Assignee: The Boeing CompanyInventors: David L. Bath, Kelly T. Jones, P. Brian McKinney, Joseph R. Pineda
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Publication number: 20070159330Abstract: A method for implementing a virtual tag in an RFID tag reading system. In one embodiment, data is read from the memory of an RFID tag and stored in tag cache memory. Commands intended for the tag are queued in the tag cache, and the commands queued in the tag cache are executed in response to occurrence of an event. A result is provided as if the command had been applied to the tag at the time of an initial request to send commands to the tag.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 30, 2005Publication date: July 12, 2007Inventors: Sayan Chakraborty, Brian McKinney
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Publication number: 20070046467Abstract: A system and method for coordinating a plurality of radio frequency identification (RFID) readers to minimize reader noise and increase reader sensitivity. A first set of one or more of the plurality of readers is coordinated to operate in a transmit only mode. A second set of one or more of the plurality of readers is coordinated to operate in receive only mode. The first and second set are synchronized such that a receive period of the second set coincides with a transmit period of the first set.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 21, 2006Publication date: March 1, 2007Inventors: Sayan Chakraborty, Brian McKinney
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Patent number: 6843450Abstract: Methods and apparatuses for rotatably supporting movable components, including canards. An apparatus in accordance with one embodiment of the invention includes an airfoil configured positioned external to an aircraft fuselage. A connecting portion can depend from the airfoil portion and can have an attachment portion configured to attach to an aircraft internal to the aircraft fuselage. Rollers carried by one of the connecting portion and the fuselage can rotatably contact a track carried by the other of the connecting portion and the fuselage.Type: GrantFiled: October 20, 2003Date of Patent: January 18, 2005Assignee: The Boeing CompanyInventors: David L. Bath, Kelly T. Jones, P. Brian McKinney, Joseph R. Pineda
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Publication number: 20040079839Abstract: Methods and apparatuses for rotatably supporting movable components, including canards. An apparatus in accordance with one embodiment of the invention includes an airfoil configured positioned external to an aircraft fuselage. A connecting portion can depend from the airfoil portion and can have an attachment portion configured to attach to an aircraft internal to the aircraft fuselage. Rollers carried by one of the connecting portion and the fuselage can rotatably contact a track carried by the other of the connecting portion and the fuselage.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 20, 2003Publication date: April 29, 2004Inventors: David L. Bath, Kelly T. Jones, P. Brian McKinney, Joseph R. Pineda
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Patent number: 6088362Abstract: A multi-line key telephone system not having a key service unit includes three analog telephone lines to which up to eight, three-line telephones may be connected to provide enhanced service features with cost-effectiveness. System reliability is maintained, notwithstanding a power dependency of the telephones, by including POTS telephones to provide uninterrupted essential telephone service in the event of a power outage. Both data and voice communications between two or more of the three-line telephones is achieved by converting an input digital bit stream from either a digital or analog source into a corresponding out-of-band binary FSK radio frequency output signal that is transceivingly communicated between the three-line telephones as data packets within a TDM frame. The out-of-band signal thus permits analog voice communications on the same line to proceed without interference.Type: GrantFiled: May 26, 1998Date of Patent: July 11, 2000Assignee: Nortel Networks CorporationInventors: Robert Turnbull, David Westergaard, Bruce W. Yee, Michael J. Lucas, Alan D. Eyre, Brian McKinney
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Patent number: 6072826Abstract: A multi-line key telephone system not having a key service unit includes three analog telephone lines to which up to eight, three-line telephones may be connected to provide enhanced service features with cost-effectiveness. System reliability is maintained, notwithstanding the power dependency of the telephones, by including POTS telephones to provide uninterrupted essential telephone service in the event of a power outage. Both data and voice communications between two or more of the three-line telephones is achieved by converting an input digital bit stream from either a digital or analog source into a corresponding out-of-band binary FSK radio frequency output signal that is transceivingly communicated between the three-line telephones as data packets within a TDM frame. The out-of-band signal thus permits analog voice communications on the same line to proceed without interference.Type: GrantFiled: May 26, 1998Date of Patent: June 6, 2000Assignee: Nortel Networks CorporationInventors: Robert Turnbull, David Westergaard, Bruce W. Yee, Michael J. Lucas, Alan D. Eyre, Brian McKinney
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Patent number: 6046995Abstract: A multi-line key telephone system not having a key service unit includes three analog telephone lines to which multiple telephone stations may be connected for enhanced communications between stations. Each station is connected by a modem to a single telephone line and includes a Universal Asynchronous Receiver Transmitter (UART) communicating with the modem, a microprocessor and a digital signal processor for effecting voice and data transfers and communicating time division multiplex protocol control to another telephone station on the same line. The UART includes a synchronizer with a master clock for defining positions of voice and data packets within a TDM frame having a predetermined data bit structure, and a receiver for acquiring a first valid packet header and start bit and issuing a sync pulse to adjust the master clock to conform to the timing of a new communication session.Type: GrantFiled: May 26, 1998Date of Patent: April 4, 2000Assignee: Nortel Networks CorporationInventors: Robert Turnbull, David Westergaard, Bruce W. Yee, Michael J. Lucas, Alan D. Eyre, Brian McKinney
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Patent number: 5787115Abstract: A multi-line key telephone system not having a key service unit includes three analog telephone lines to which up to eight, three-line telephones may be connected to provide enhanced service features with cost-effectiveness. System reliability is maintained, notwithstanding the power dependency of the telephones, by including POTS telephones to provide uninterrupted essential telephone service in the event of a power outage. Both data and voice communications between two or more of the three-line telephones is achieved by converting an input digital bit stream from either a digital or analog source into a corresponding out-of-band binary FSK radio frequency output signal that is transceivingly communicated between the three-line telephones as data packets within a TDM frame. The out-of-band signal thus permits analog voice communications on the same line to proceed without interference.Type: GrantFiled: December 28, 1995Date of Patent: July 28, 1998Assignee: Northern Telecom LimitedInventors: Robert Turnbull, David Westergaard, Bruce W. Yee, Michael J. Lucas, Alan D. Eyre, Brian McKinney