Patents by Inventor Brian Neil
Brian Neil 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: 8695537Abstract: A leash apparatus includes a housing containing a spool assembly, a spring biased lever arm, and a first tensioning line. The first tensioning line is attached to a first end of the lever arm and wrapped at least once around the spool assembly, and has an opposite end attached to other than the rotatable portion of the spool assembly, such as a fixed location on the leash housing on a mounting of the spool assembly. A surface of the spool assembly slidingly rotates relative to the tensioning line portion that wraps at least once around the spool assembly. A second tensioning line is wound about the spool assembly and extends outside of the housing. The second tensioning line is guided around a wheel attached to a second end of the lever arm located on an opposite side of the lever arm.Type: GrantFiled: November 26, 2012Date of Patent: April 15, 2014Assignee: Season 4, LLCInventors: Daniel Lee Bizzell, Thomas James Philpott, Brian Neil Smith, Michael Starkey
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Publication number: 20120002668Abstract: A method for routing input/output (10) data in a telecommunication system including a network node having a plurality of first integrated circuit (IC) cards, a plurality of second 1C cards and a switching fabric, each second IC card connected to a corresponding first IC card in a respective slot of the network node xs described. The method involves receiving the IO data at an external port of any of the plurality of first or second 1C cards. When packets of the IO data are received at an external port of a given second IC card, the given second IC card performs a packet classification of the packets to at least in part determine a destination for the packets. A further step of the method includes delivering the packets to a first or second IC card destination according to the packet classification performed by the given second IC card via a logical network layer existing on the first and second IC cards and the switching fabric.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 18, 2010Publication date: January 5, 2012Applicant: ROCKSTAR BIDCO LPInventors: Robert Lariviere, Sylvain Joseph Henri Chenard, Gregory Waines, Brian Neil Baker, Guy Mousseau
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Patent number: 7232807Abstract: Amplibody compositions and methods used to interact with agglomeration proteins are disclosed herein. Compositions herein comprise one or more DNA or RNA molecules having affinity for at least one agglomeration protein. The nucleic acid component is a naturally or non-naturally occuring molecule with twenty or more ribonucleotide bases. For RNA, at least one nucleotide sequence portion of this RNA molecule has affinity to at least one consensus sequence present in the agglomeration RNA-binding protein. The portion of nucleotide sequence of RNA having affinity for agglomeration proteins is a sequence that is derived from either and RNA virus, and RNA agglomeration proteins is a sequence that is derived from either and RNA virus, an RNA phage, a messenger RNA (“mRNA”), a ribosomal RNA (“rRNA), a transfer RNA (“tRNA”), a sequence that is received as a template by one or more RNA dependent RNA polymerases, or a combination thereof.Type: GrantFiled: April 22, 2005Date of Patent: June 19, 2007Assignee: Oligomerix, Inc.Inventors: Abraham Grossman, Valentine M. Kryukov, Brian Neil Zeiler
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Publication number: 20040005543Abstract: Amplibody compositions and methods used to interact with agglomeration proteins are disclosed herein. Compositions herein comprise one or more DNA or RNA molecules having affinity for at least one agglomeration protein. The nucleic acid component is a naturally or non-naturally occuring molecule with twenty or more ribonucleotide bases. For RNA, at least one nucleotide sequence portion of this RNA molecule has affinity to at least one consensus sequence present in the agglomeration RNA-binding protein. The portion of nucleotide sequence of RNA having affinity for agglomeration proteins is a sequence that is derived from either and RNA virus, and RNA agglomeration proteins is a sequence that is derived from either and RNA virus, an RNA phage, a messenger RNA (“mRNA”), a ribosomal RNA (“rRNA”), a transfer RNA (“tRNA”), a sequence that is received as a template by one or more RNA dependent RNA polymerases, or a combination thereof.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 26, 2003Publication date: January 8, 2004Inventors: Abraham Grossman, Valentine M. Kryukov, Brian Neil Zeiler
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Publication number: 20030061464Abstract: An instruction set is provided that features ninety four instructions and various address modes to deliver a mixture of flexible micro-controller like instructions and specialized digital signal processor (DSP) instructions that execute from a single instruction stream.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 1, 2001Publication date: March 27, 2003Inventors: Michael I. Catherwood, Brian Boles, Stephen A. Bowling, Joshua M. Conner, Rodney Drake, John Elliot, Brian Neil Fall, James H. Grosbach, Tracy Ann Kuhrt, Guy McCarthy, Manuel Muro, Michael Pyska, Joseph W. Triece
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Publication number: 20030005269Abstract: A processor configuration for processing multi-precision shift instructions is provided. The multi-precision shift instructions are executed following a previous shift instruction of the same increment, such as a logical or arithmetic left or right shift operation. The first shift instruction shifts a first memory word by the shift increment and stores this shifted value into memory. The second, and any subsequent, multi-precision shift instruction shifts the next memory word by the shift increment and concatenates the bits shifted out of the previously shifted memory word into bit positions of the memory word presently being shifted. This concatenated value is then stored back to memory and forms another part of the multi-precision shifted value.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 1, 2001Publication date: January 2, 2003Inventors: Joshua M. Conner, John Elliot, Michael I. Catherwood, Brian Neil Fall, Brian Boles
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Patent number: 6371417Abstract: Railway wheel detection and counter and block control systems are disclosed using magnetic coils to detect wheels via measuring eddy current losses induced by a railway wheel as it disturbs the coil's magnetic field. Information from the coils is measured and processed using combination of analog and digital signal processing which processing automatically tests and calibrates all components to provide fail-safe operation. Virtual blocks are used to establish train presence, speed, and direction which parameters are used to provide block control systems.Type: GrantFiled: May 22, 2000Date of Patent: April 16, 2002Assignee: L.B. Foster Company A. Pennsylvania Corp.Inventor: Brian Neil Southon
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Patent number: 6154755Abstract: An index imaging system includes: a scanner for scanning a plurality of photographic images to produce a corresponding plurality of digital images; a computer connected to the scanner for receiving the digital images and generating a corresponding plurality of thumbnail digital images and containing index imaging software for writing an application program for manipulating the digital images; a printer connected to the computer for receiving the thumbnail digital images and producing an index print; and a floppy disc writer connected to the computer for recording the thumbnail digital images and the application program on a floppy disc. Computer program products carrying thumbnail digital images and optionally particular application programs, are also provided.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 1996Date of Patent: November 28, 2000Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventors: David William Dellert, Stephen L Shaffer, Maja Aniela Gruszynski, Gregory Richard Bryniarski, Brian Neil Westrich
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Patent number: 6128435Abstract: A method for processing digitized video material is disclosed. The method comprises the steps of: capturing (4) a video sequence having a first start-time and a first end-time to provide plurality of digitized frames; filtering (6-13) the frames according to a pre-determined filter function; decimating (6-13) the frames to reduce the frames to a pre-determined horizontal and vertical frame size; and encoding (15) the filtered and decimated frames. In response to the encoding step failing to encode the data at a failure time between the first start-time and the first end-time, the video sequence is divided (20) into two or more sequences having a respective start-time and end-time. One of the sequences, having a start-time and an end-time temporally including the failure time, is selected; and the filter function for the selected sequence is re-defined (21). The capturing, filtering, decimating and encoding steps are then repeated for the selected sequence.Type: GrantFiled: November 13, 1997Date of Patent: October 3, 2000Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventor: Brian Neil Galton
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Patent number: 5737545Abstract: A method and system are designed to guarantee availability of ownership of an ISA bus by a bus mastering or a direct memory access device in a system also including a PCI bus. This is accomplished by placing a lock on the PCI bus through a bridge device to a configuration read of a PCI configuration space register. Once the lock is established, other PCI devices are prevented from locking any other resource on the PCI bus. The PCI configuration space exists outside of the memory or I/O ranges to which an ISA resident device can generate access. Consequently, whenever the ISA resident device generates its access, it is to a device known not to be in a locked state. Consequently, the bus transaction is capable of completion within the time limit expected by the ISA resident device.Type: GrantFiled: May 21, 1996Date of Patent: April 7, 1998Assignee: VLSI Technology, Inc.Inventors: Philip Wszolek, Barry Martin Davis, Brian Neil Fall, Richard Demers
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Patent number: 5732226Abstract: A link system controller is interposed between a PCI bus and the data bus and memory data bus of a personal computer system to normally allow transfer of write information from the PCI bus to DRAM memories on the memory data bus. Whenever a request is made for the transfer of data to the CPU data bus, a CPU bus interface controller requests release of the system from the DRAM controller. The DRAM controller then grants permission or releases control to the CPU bus interface whenever the DRAM controller is not writing data out to the DRAM data bus. When this release is effected, the transfer of write data to the memory data bus is prevented and transfer of data to the CPU data bus is enabled. This prevents simultaneous switching of the devices on both the CPU data bus and the memory data bus, to reduce the generation of noise; so that the operation of the IC system device is not impaired.Type: GrantFiled: April 8, 1996Date of Patent: March 24, 1998Assignee: VLSI Technology, Inc.Inventors: Philip Wszolek, Rodney James Pesavento, Brian Neil Fall, James Crawford Steele
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Patent number: 5729977Abstract: An exhaust collector for a pneumatic tool having a cylindrical body with a rotary driver at one end, an inlet port and an exhaust port for motive fluid at the other end, and a switch on the side of the cylindrical body which actuates a valve to turn the pneumatic tool on and off. The exhaust collector includes a tubular adapter on the cylindrical body defining an extension of the inlet port, a cup-shaped shroud clamped to the cylindrical body and cooperating therewith in defining a closed exhaust plenum around the tubular adapter, a first quick-connect fluid coupling on the shroud in flow communication with the tubular adapter for coupling to the inlet port a hose connected to a source of motive fluid, and a second quick-connect fluid coupling on the shroud in flow communication with the exhaust plenum for coupling to the exhaust plenum a hose connected to a remote exhaust diffuser.Type: GrantFiled: December 9, 1996Date of Patent: March 24, 1998Assignee: General Motors CorporationInventors: Brian Neil Zibble, Robert Frank Hack, Donald Phillip Block, Thomas Alan Haynes
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Patent number: 4052719Abstract: According to the invention, a television receiver system comprises selector equipment for selecting information in the form of coded characters, received separately from any picture signals, from a single information channel or a small number of information channels and routing the selected information to a storage device, and a reading device operable, when actuated, to read the information from the storage device repeatedly and feed it, via a character generator, for display by an intensity modulated raster.Type: GrantFiled: May 3, 1976Date of Patent: October 4, 1977Assignee: Independent Broadcasting AuthorityInventors: Peter Richard Hutt, Alan Ronald Blake, Gunter VON Cavallar, Brian Neil Douglas, Philip John Dodds
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Patent number: 3996583Abstract: In any television transmission system there are periods during which the wide-band picture signals are absent. The invention provides a signal generator system for the transmission of digital information representing a series of pages of alphanumeric or graphical symbols piecewise during these periods. At least one peripheral generating device is provided for supplying digitized data to a main storage device (conveniently of the magnetic disc type) and transfer means is operable to read out portions of the data from the main storage device and store them temporarily in a second storage device. Discharge means is operable to discharge portions of the data from the second storage device at intervals to provide output signals for insertion in a television signal during periods as aforesaid.Type: GrantFiled: July 30, 1974Date of Patent: December 7, 1976Assignee: Independent Broadcasting AuthorityInventors: Peter Richard Hutt, Alan Ronald Blake, Gunter Von Cavallar, Brian Neil Douglas, Philip John Dodds
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Patent number: 3961137Abstract: Apparatus for processing groups of digital data for transmission comprises a run-in signal generator for providing at the output of the apparatus an output in which the groups of data are each preceded by a run-in signal, said apparatus being so constituted that the output is in the form of digital signals of the complemented type, and a start code generator operable to provide a start code with at least one break of complementation and arranged to insert a start code between each group and its preceding run-in signal.The apparatus is especially suitable for the transmission of data intermittently, e.g. during periods of a television signal unoccupied by wide-band picture signals. Because of the complementation break, the start code cannot arise from a data combination. Good reliability of reception is achieved on channels susceptible to interference.Type: GrantFiled: July 30, 1974Date of Patent: June 1, 1976Assignee: Independent Broadcasting AuthorityInventors: Peter Richard Hutt, Alan Ronald Blake, Gunter VON Cavallar, Brian Neil Douglas, Philip John Dodds
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Patent number: D300729Type: GrantFiled: May 19, 1986Date of Patent: April 18, 1989Assignee: Neotech Industries, Inc.Inventors: Paul Skaggs, Brian Neil, David R. Ripley