Patents by Inventor Bruce Bernard

Bruce Bernard 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: 11465108
    Abstract: Dosing and mixing exhaust gas includes directing exhaust gas towards a periphery of a mixing tube that is configured to direct the exhaust gas to flow around and through the mixing tube to effectively mix and dose exhaust gas within a relatively small area. Some mixing tubes include a slotted region and a non-slotted region. Some mixing tubes include a louvered region and a non-louvered region. Some mixing tubes are offset within a mixing region of a housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: DONALDSON COMPANY, INC.
    Inventors: Matthew S. Whitten, Bruce Bernard Hoppenstedt
  • Patent number: 11297952
    Abstract: A chair assembly includes a seat with a top side and a bottom side. The seat is connected to a telescoping arm that has a first end and a second end. The first end of the arm is connected to the bottom side of the seat. A platform having a top side and a bottom side is attached to the second end of the arm. The height of the platform is adjustable via the telescoping arm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Inventor: Bruce Bernard Gaillard
  • Publication number: 20210213401
    Abstract: Dosing and mixing exhaust gas includes directing exhaust gas towards a periphery of a mixing tube that is configured to direct the exhaust gas to flow around and through the mixing tube to effectively mix and dose exhaust gas within a relatively small area. Some mixing tubes include a slotted region and a non-slotted region. Some mixing tubes include a louvered region and a non-louvered region. Some mixing tubes are offset within a mixing region of a housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2021
    Publication date: July 15, 2021
    Applicant: Donaldson Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Matthew S. WHITTEN, Bruce Bernard HOPPENSTEDT
  • Patent number: 10960366
    Abstract: Dosing and mixing exhaust gas includes directing exhaust gas towards a periphery of a mixing tube that is configured to direct the exhaust gas to flow around and through the mixing tube to effectively mix and dose exhaust gas within a relatively small area. Some mixing tubes include a slotted region and a non-slotted region. Some mixing tubes include a louvered region and a non-louvered region. Some mixing tubes are offset within a mixing region of a housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignee: Donaldson Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Matthew S. Whitten, Bruce Bernard Hoppenstedt
  • Patent number: 10958712
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and software for providing enhanced reliability for information services. In an implementation, a method performed by a first data processing system is disclosed for operating a proxy service to support an information service provided by an application executed by a device remote to the first data processing system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2021
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Bruce Bernard Lowekamp, Matthew Todd Kaufman
  • Publication number: 20190351379
    Abstract: Dosing and mixing exhaust gas includes directing exhaust gas towards a periphery of a mixing tube that is configured to direct the exhaust gas to flow around and through the mixing tube to effectively mix and dose exhaust gas within a relatively small area. Some mixing tubes include a slotted region and a non-slotted region. Some mixing tubes include a louvered region and a non-louvered region. Some mixing tubes are offset within a mixing region of a housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2019
    Publication date: November 21, 2019
    Inventors: Matthew S. WHITTEN, Bruce Bernard HOPPENSTEDT
  • Patent number: 10369533
    Abstract: Dosing and mixing exhaust gas includes directing exhaust gas towards a periphery of a mixing tube that is configured to direct the exhaust gas to flow around and through the mixing tube to effectively mix and dose exhaust gas within a relatively small area. Some mixing tubes include a slotted region and a non-slotted region. Some mixing tubes include a louvered region and a non-louvered region. Some mixing tubes are offset within a mixing region of a housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2019
    Assignee: Donaldson Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Matthew S. Whitten, Bruce Bernard Hoppenstedt
  • Patent number: 10205660
    Abstract: The present disclosure describes a networking switch of a network and method for operating the networking switch. The networking switch communicates within the network using datagrams, such as packets and/or frames. The frames include packets of a first communication protocol or layer having headers of the first communication protocol or layer. In some situations, the packets of the first communication protocol or layer are embedded with packets of a second communication protocol or layer. Often times, one or more fields of headers of the first communication protocol or layer convey substantially similar or redundant information, such as routing information to provide an example, as one or more fields of headers of the second communication protocol or layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2019
    Assignee: Avago Technologies International Sales Pte. Limited
    Inventors: Ian Bruce Bernard Cox, Ariel Hendel
  • Publication number: 20180248935
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and software for providing enhanced reliability for information services. In an implementation, a method performed by a first data processing system is disclosed for operating a proxy service to support an information service provided by an application executed by a device remote to the first data processing system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2018
    Publication date: August 30, 2018
    Inventors: Bruce Bernard Lowekamp, Matthew Todd Kaufman
  • Patent number: 9961131
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and software for providing enhanced reliability for web services. In an implementation, a proxy service supports web services provided by a client application to at least an online service. While the client application is temporarily disconnected from the proxy service, the proxy service monitors for web services activity to occur in association with the web services provided by the client application to at least the online service. In response to the client application reconnecting to the proxy service after having been temporarily disconnected from the proxy service, the proxy service communicates activity information to the client application indicative at least of whether or not to query the online service with respect to the web services activity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2018
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Bruce Bernard Lowekamp, Matthew Todd Kaufman
  • Publication number: 20170282135
    Abstract: Dosing and mixing exhaust gas includes directing exhaust gas towards a periphery of a mixing tube that is configured to direct the exhaust gas to flow around and through the mixing tube to effectively mix and dose exhaust gas within a relatively small area. Some mixing tubes include a slotted region and a non-slotted region. Some mixing tubes include a louvered region and a non-louvered region. Some mixing tubes are offset within a mixing region of a housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2014
    Publication date: October 5, 2017
    Inventors: Matthew S. WHITTEN, Bruce Bernard HOPPENSTEDT
  • Publication number: 20160359739
    Abstract: The present disclosure describes a networking switch of a network and method for operating the networking switch. The networking switch communicates within the network using datagrams, such as packets and/or frames. The frames include packets of a first communication protocol or layer having headers of the first communication protocol or layer. In some situations, the packets of the first communication protocol or layer are embedded with packets of a second communication protocol or layer. Often times, one or more fields of headers of the first communication protocol or layer convey substantially similar or redundant information, such as routing information to provide an example, as one or more fields of headers of the second communication protocol or layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 3, 2016
    Publication date: December 8, 2016
    Applicant: Broadcom Corporation
    Inventors: Ian Bruce Bernard COX, Ariel HENDEL
  • Patent number: 9500644
    Abstract: Particle populations and assays are provided which have varying amounts of magnetic material and varying particle concentrations among different subsets of particles. In particular, the particle populations and assays include at least two particle sets with distinct sums of particles which are inversely related to the magnetic material concentration comprising each of the particles within the two particle sets, respectively. A method for processing an assay having such particle sets includes routing the assay in proximity to an imaging plane within a static imaging optical analysis system and generating a magnetic field in proximity to the imaging plane. The magnetic field is sufficient to attract and immobilize a ratio of particles from the at least two discrete particle sets that is different from the ratio of particles comprising the at least two discrete particle sets in the assay as the assay is introduced into the static imaging optical analysis system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2016
    Assignee: LUMINEX CORPORATION
    Inventors: Adam Schilffarth, Bruce Bernard, Ben Mize
  • Patent number: 9281955
    Abstract: Technologies are provided in example embodiments for intercepting a packet being multicast from a first tunnel endpoint in a network, determining first address mapping information of the first tunnel endpoint and a first host, wherein the first host created the packet, generating a control protocol message with the first address mapping information, and communicating the control protocol message through a control plane in the network. In more specific example embodiments, the communicating the control protocol message includes sending the control protocol message to a network repository, where the first address mapping information is registered in the network repository. In other more specific example embodiments, the communicating the control protocol message includes pushing the control protocol message to one or more other tunnel endpoints. Further embodiments include decapsulating the packet to determine an endpoint identifier of the first host and a location of the first tunnel endpoint.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2016
    Assignee: CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC.
    Inventors: Victor Manuel Moreno, Ian Bruce Bernard Cox
  • Publication number: 20150312325
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and software for providing enhanced reliability for web services. In an implementation, a proxy service supports web services provided by a client application to at least an online service. While the client application is temporarily disconnected from the proxy service, the proxy service monitors for web services activity to occur in association with the web services provided by the client application to at least the online service. In response to the client application reconnecting to the proxy service after having been temporarily disconnected from the proxy service, the proxy service communicates activity information to the client application indicative at least of whether or not to query the online service with respect to the web services activity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2014
    Publication date: October 29, 2015
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Bruce Bernard Lowekamp, Matthew Todd Kaufman
  • Patent number: 9118733
    Abstract: A communication system comprising a plurality of nodes that are capable of establishing a communication connection between two or more clients, the plurality of nodes being arranged in a hierarchy in which a node comprised in one level of the hierarchy is more likely to be reachable by a client trying to establish a communication connection with another client than a node comprised in a lower level of the hierarchy, the communication system being arranged such that, when a client determines that a node is unreachable for establishing a communication connection between it and another client, that communication connection is instead established by a node comprised in a higher level of the hierarchy than the unreachable node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2015
    Assignee: Skype
    Inventor: Bruce Bernard Lowekamp
  • Publication number: 20150188723
    Abstract: Technologies are provided in example embodiments for intercepting a packet being multicast from a first tunnel endpoint in a network, determining first address mapping information of the first tunnel endpoint and a first host, wherein the first host created the packet, generating a control protocol message with the first address mapping information, and communicating the control protocol message through a control plane in the network. In more specific example embodiments, the communicating the control protocol message includes sending the control protocol message to a network repository, where the first address mapping information is registered in the network repository. In other more specific example embodiments, the communicating the control protocol message includes pushing the control protocol message to one or more other tunnel endpoints. Further embodiments include decapsulating the packet to determine an endpoint identifier of the first host and a location of the first tunnel endpoint.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2015
    Publication date: July 2, 2015
    Applicant: CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC.
    Inventors: Victor Manuel Moreno, Ian Bruce Bernard Cox
  • Patent number: 8982707
    Abstract: Technologies are provided in example embodiments for intercepting a packet being multicast from a first tunnel endpoint in a network, determining first address mapping information of the first tunnel endpoint and a first host, wherein the first host created the packet, generating a control protocol message with the first address mapping information, and communicating the control protocol message through a control plane in the network. In more specific example embodiments, the communicating the control protocol message includes sending the control protocol message to a network repository, where the first address mapping information is registered in the network repository. In other more specific example embodiments, the communicating the control protocol message includes pushing the control protocol message to one or more other tunnel endpoints. Further embodiments include decapsulating the packet to determine an endpoint identifier of the first host and a location of the first tunnel endpoint.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2015
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Victor Manuel Moreno, Ian Bruce Bernard Cox
  • Patent number: 8947265
    Abstract: A signal or lighting system synchronizes the flashing of multiple signal or lighting assemblies. When one of the assemblies is triggered, it broadcasts a temporally staggered sequence of signals, each signal instructing the receiving assemblies to initiate flashing of their beacons a given countdown time after that particular signal is transmitted. The countdown times of the various signals all count down to the same flashing start time so that the originating and receiving beacons all being flashing at the same time. The temporal diversity of the signals enhances the ability to overcome potential interference as at least one of the signals in the sequence is likely to be received by the destination assemblies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2015
    Assignee: Carmanah Technologies Corp.
    Inventors: Bruce Bernard, Darren Beckwith
  • Publication number: 20140269702
    Abstract: Technologies are provided in example embodiments for intercepting a packet being multicast from a first tunnel endpoint in a network, determining first address mapping information of the first tunnel endpoint and a first host, wherein the first host created the packet, generating a control protocol message with the first address mapping information, and communicating the control protocol message through a control plane in the network. In more specific example embodiments, the communicating the control protocol message includes sending the control protocol message to a network repository, where the first address mapping information is registered in the network repository. In other more specific example embodiments, the communicating the control protocol message includes pushing the control protocol message to one or more other tunnel endpoints. Further embodiments include decapsulating the packet to determine an endpoint identifier of the first host and a location of the first tunnel endpoint.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2013
    Publication date: September 18, 2014
    Applicant: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Victor Manuel Moreno, Ian Bruce Bernard Cox