Patents by Inventor Charles Jarvis
Charles Jarvis 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: 11388995Abstract: A rack features a front panel, a rear panel, a first rail assembly and a second rail assembly. The first rail assembly includes a first frame, a first plurality of support members extending laterally from the first frame, and a first set of edge connectors extending in a first longitudinal direction from the first frame. The second rail assembly includes a second frame, a second plurality of support members extending laterally from the second frame and aligned with the first plurality of support members, and a second set of edge connectors extending in the first longitudinal direction from the second frame for coupling to the front panel.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 2020Date of Patent: July 19, 2022Assignee: Cambro Manufacturing CompanyInventors: Johannes Le, Charles Jarvis
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Patent number: 10881199Abstract: A rack features a front panel, a rear panel, a first rail assembly and a second rail assembly. The first rail assembly includes (i) support members extending in a first lateral direction, (ii) a first set of edge connectors extending in a first longitudinal direction for coupling with a first attachment mechanism of the front panel, and (iii) a second set of edge connectors extending in a second longitudinal direction for coupling with a third attachment mechanism of the rear panel. The second rail assembly includes (i) support members extending in a second lateral direction opposite the first lateral direction, (ii) a third set of edge connectors extending in the first longitudinal direction for coupling with the second attachment mechanism of the front panel, and (iii) a fourth set of edge connectors extending in the second longitudinal direction for coupling with the fourth attachment mechanism of the rear panel.Type: GrantFiled: August 28, 2018Date of Patent: January 5, 2021Assignee: Cambro Manufacturing CompanyInventors: Johannes Le, Charles Jarvis
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Patent number: 10304020Abstract: Some embodiments of the invention provide systems and methods for deploying employees to roles in a restaurant. For example, some embodiments are directed to basing employee deployment decisions at least in part on a combination of quantitative data and qualitative assessments of performance by various employees in various roles. Qualitative assessments may, for example, relate to an employee's success in promoting customer satisfaction, or to the accuracy of quantitative data relating to a task or function.Type: GrantFiled: December 6, 2018Date of Patent: May 28, 2019Assignee: Panera, LLCInventors: Charles Jarvis Chapman, III, Michael R. Nettles
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Publication number: 20190108464Abstract: Some embodiments of the invention provide systems and methods for deploying employees to roles in a restaurant. For example, some embodiments are directed to basing employee deployment decisions at least in part on a combination of quantitative data and qualitative assessments of performance by various employees in various roles. Qualitative assessments may, for example, relate to an employee's success in promoting customer satisfaction, or to the accuracy of quantitative data relating to a task or function.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 6, 2018Publication date: April 11, 2019Applicant: Panera, LLCInventors: Charles Jarvis Chapman, III, Michael R. Nettles
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Patent number: 9965734Abstract: Some embodiments of the invention provide systems and methods for analyzing the deployment of employees in a restaurant. For example, some embodiments are directed to determining whether an employee who has vacated his/her assigned station has acted appropriately in doing so, and if not, causing the employee to be redirected to his/her assigned station. Determining whether an employee acted appropriately in leaving his/her assigned station may involve analyzing video recordings of the restaurant at or around the time the employee left his/her station, operational data describing events occurring in the restaurant at or around the time the employee left his/her station, and/or other information, which may supply valuable context in determining whether or not the employee acted properly. If the employee acted improperly, he/she may be redirected to his/her assigned station, using automated, semi-automated and/or manual techniques.Type: GrantFiled: September 12, 2017Date of Patent: May 8, 2018Assignee: Panera, LLCInventors: Charles Jarvis Chapman, III, Michael R. Nettles
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Publication number: 20180060794Abstract: Some embodiments of the invention provide systems and methods for analyzing the deployment of employees in a restaurant. For example, some embodiments are directed to determining whether an employee who has vacated his/her assigned station has acted appropriately in doing so, and if not, causing the employee to be redirected to his/her assigned station. Determining whether an employee acted appropriately in leaving his/her assigned station may involve analyzing video recordings of the restaurant at or around the time the employee left his/her station, operational data describing events occurring in the restaurant at or around the time the employee left his/her station, and/or other information, which may supply valuable context in determining whether or not the employee acted properly. If the employee acted improperly, he/she may be redirected to his/her assigned station, using automated, semi-automated and/or manual techniques.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 12, 2017Publication date: March 1, 2018Applicant: Panera, LLCInventors: Charles Jarvis Chapman, III, Michael R. Nettles
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Patent number: 9798987Abstract: Some embodiments of the invention provide systems and methods for analyzing the deployment of employees in a restaurant. For example, some embodiments are directed to determining whether an employee who has vacated his/her assigned station has acted appropriately in doing so, and if not, causing the employee to be redirected to his/her assigned station. Determining whether an employee acted appropriately in leaving his/her assigned station may involve analyzing video recordings of the restaurant at o around the time the employee left his/her station, operational data describing events occurring in the restaurant at or around the time the employee left his/her station, and/or other information, which may supply valuable context in determining whether or not the employee acted properly. If the employee acted improperly, he/she may be redirected to his/her assigned station, using automated, semi-automated and/or manual techniques.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2016Date of Patent: October 24, 2017Assignee: Panera, LLCInventors: Charles Jarvis Chapman, Michael R. Nettles
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Publication number: 20160364676Abstract: Some embodiments of the invention provide systems and methods for analyzing the deployment of employees in a restaurant. For example, some embodiments are directed to determining whether an employee who has vacated his/her assigned station has acted appropriately in doing so, and if not, causing the employee to be redirected to his/her assigned station. Determining whether an employee acted appropriately in leaving his/her assigned station may involve analyzing video recordings of the restaurant at or around the time the employee left his/her station, operational data describing events occurring in the restaurant at or around the time the employee left his/her station, and/or other information, which may supply valuable context in determining whether or not the employee acted properly. If the employee acted improperly, he/she may be redirected to his/her assigned station, using automated, semi-automated and/or manual techniques.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 28, 2016Publication date: December 15, 2016Applicant: Panera, LLCInventors: Charles Jarvis Chapman, Michael R. Nettles
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Patent number: 8214341Abstract: Provided are a method, system, and article of manufacture for managing writes received to data units that are being transferred to a secondary storage as part of a mirror relationship. Synchronization information indicates data units to transfer from a primary storage to a secondary storage, wherein the synchronization information data is updated to indicate the transfer of one of the data units from the primary storage to the secondary storage. A storage controller receives a write request having an update to a target data unit comprising one of the data units indicated in the synchronization information that has not been transferred from the primary storage to the secondary storage. The write request is allowed to apply the update to the target data unit in response to transferring the data in the target data unit to a network adapter of the storage controller and before the data in the target data unit is transferred to the secondary storage.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2008Date of Patent: July 3, 2012Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Robert Francis Bartfai, Michael E. Factor, Shachar Fienblit, Olympia Gluck, Eyal Gordon, Thomas Charles Jarvis, Eli Malul, Carol Santich Mellgren, Gail Andrea Spear, Aviad Zlotnick
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Patent number: 8150806Abstract: A mechanism is provided for managing operations in a data storage system. A first storage controller monitors operation state information associated with a plurality of operation states stored in a data structure. The first storage controller detects a change in the operation state information. The change in the operation state information is in response to a managing entity updating the operation state information to a first operation state in the plurality of operation states in the data structure. Responsive to detecting the change in the operation state information, the first storage controller identifies a reference to a first operation associated with the first operation state updated by the managing entity. The first operation is one operation in a plurality of operations. The first storage controller performs the first operation associated with the first operation state.Type: GrantFiled: September 11, 2007Date of Patent: April 3, 2012Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Kenneth Wayne Boyd, Kenneth F. Day, III, Michael Factor, Shachar Fienblit, Olympia Gluck, Thomas Charles Jarvis, John Earle Lindley, Robert Bruce Nicholson, Orit Nissan-Messing, William James Scales, Aviad Zlotnick
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Patent number: 8127084Abstract: Provided are a method, system, and article of manufacture for using different algorithms to destage different types of data from cache. A first destaging algorithm is used to destage a first type of data to a storage for a first duration. A second destaging algorithm is used to destage a second type of data to the storage for a second duration.Type: GrantFiled: March 24, 2010Date of Patent: February 28, 2012Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Binny Sher Gill, Michael Thomas Benhase, Joseph Smith Hyde, II, Thomas Charles Jarvis, Bruce McNutt, Dharmendra Shantilal Modha
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Patent number: 8086792Abstract: Provided are a method, system, and program for destaging a track from cache to a storage device. The destaged track is retained in the cache. Verification is made of whether the storage device successfully completed writing data. Indication is made of destaged tracks eligible for removal from the cache that were destaged before the storage device is verified in response to verifying that the storage device is successfully completing the writing of data.Type: GrantFiled: April 18, 2007Date of Patent: December 27, 2011Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Thomas Charles Jarvis, Michael Howard Hartung, Karl Allen Nielsen, Jeremy Michael Pinson, Steven Robert Lowe
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Patent number: 8055865Abstract: Provided are a method, system, and article of manufacture for managing write requests to data sets in a primary volume subject to being copied to a secondary volume. Information indicating data sets to copy from a primary storage to a secondary storage is generated. A write request is received to write data to a target data set indicated in the information to copy from the primary storage to the secondary storage. A determination is made as to whether the write request is part of a sequential write access. The target data set and sequential data sets following the target data set are copied from the primary storage to the secondary storage. The write request to write the data to the primary storage is executed in response to receiving acknowledgment that the target data set was copied to the secondary storage.Type: GrantFiled: August 6, 2007Date of Patent: November 8, 2011Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventor: Thomas Charles Jarvis
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Patent number: 7890697Abstract: Provided are a method, system, and program for destaging a track from cache to a storage device. The destaged track is retained in the cache. Verification is made of whether the storage device successfully completed writing data. Indication is made of destaged tracks eligible for removal from the cache that were destaged before the storage device is verified in response to verifying that the storage device is successfully completing the writing of data.Type: GrantFiled: June 18, 2008Date of Patent: February 15, 2011Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Thomas Charles Jarvis, Michael Howard Hartung, Karl Allen Nielsen, Jeremy Michael Pinson, Steven Robert Lowe
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Patent number: 7886974Abstract: A smartcard interface system is described. The interface system supports a plurality of different smartcard types. By providing a plurality interface modules and selecting an appropriate one of the available modules for effecting communication with a presented smart card, the system provides for interaction with the presented smart card in a manner specific to that smart card.Type: GrantFiled: January 16, 2006Date of Patent: February 15, 2011Assignee: Sequoia Smart Solutions Pty. Ltd.Inventors: Michael Edward Abbiss, Ian Mark Coulson, Anthony Charles Jarvis, Ian Ronald Anderson
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Publication number: 20100213254Abstract: A smartcard interface system is described. The interface system supports a plurality of different smartcard types. By providing a plurality interface modules and selecting an appropriate one of the available modules for effecting communication with a presented smart card, the system provides for interaction with the presented smart card in a manner specific to that smart card.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 16, 2006Publication date: August 26, 2010Applicant: Sequoia Smart Solutions Pty. Ltd.Inventors: Michael Edward Abbis, Ian Mark Coulson, Anthony Charles Jarvis, Ian Ronald Anderson
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Patent number: 7783839Abstract: Provided are a method, system, and article of manufacture for using different algorithms to destage different types of data from cache. A first destaging algorithm is used to destage a first type of data to a storage for a first duration. A second destaging algorithm is used to destage a second type of data to the storage for a second duration.Type: GrantFiled: January 8, 2007Date of Patent: August 24, 2010Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Binny Sher Gill, Michael Thomas Benhase, Joseph Smith Hyde, II, Thomas Charles Jarvis, Bruce McNutt, Dharmendra Shantilal Modha
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Patent number: 7757015Abstract: Method, device and computer program product for determining a characteristic of an identifiable component. The method includes: receiving identification information representative of an identity of components that belong to a group of components, determining at least one characteristic of an identifiable component in response to the received identification information, and performing at least one characteristic responsive operation. The device includes an identifiable component and a component characteristic determiner. The component characteristic determiner is adapted to receive identification information representative of an identity of components that belong to a group of components and to determine at least one characteristic of the identifiable component in response to a relationship between the received identification information and reference identification information. The device is adapted to perform at least one characteristic responsive information.Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 2005Date of Patent: July 13, 2010Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Michael Factor, Thomas Charles Jarvis, Robert Akira Kubo, Orit Nissan-Messing, Gary Valentin, Elena Yerushalmi, Aviad Zlotnick
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Patent number: D720963Type: GrantFiled: October 21, 2013Date of Patent: January 13, 2015Assignee: Cambro Manufacturing CompanyInventors: Charles Jarvis, Jorge Baez
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Patent number: D773899Type: GrantFiled: September 16, 2015Date of Patent: December 13, 2016Assignee: CAMBRO MANUFACTURING COMPANYInventors: Charles Jarvis, Pietro Brattoli