Patents by Inventor Clay Davis
Clay Davis 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: 7849162Abstract: A system and method for replaying a predefined path through a set of web pages. The system and method comprises selecting in chronological order a saved request in a request history. The saved requests correspond to a set of user requests made at a web page from the set of web pages. Furthermore, the present invention comprises determining whether the saved request is a form request, and if so finding a best fit form on the web page from the set of web pages and sending a replay request to the best-fit form. If the saved request is not a form request, making the replay request to a best-fit URL.Type: GrantFiled: February 4, 2005Date of Patent: December 7, 2010Assignee: BMC Software, Inc.Inventors: Clay Davis, Walter R. Bodwell, Michael C. Klobe
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Patent number: 7631102Abstract: A system and method for mediating a web page at an intermediate server. The system and method can include receiving a web page from a target web server, ensuring that the web page is not cached and changing links in the web page to refer to the intermediate server.Type: GrantFiled: July 25, 2005Date of Patent: December 8, 2009Assignee: BMC Software, Inc.Inventors: Walter R. Bodwell, Clay Davis, Michael C. Klobe
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Publication number: 20050256955Abstract: A system and method for mediating a web page at an intermediate server. The system and method can include receiving a web page from a target web server, ensuring that the web page is not cached and changing links in the web page to refer to the intermediate server.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 25, 2005Publication date: November 17, 2005Inventors: Walter Bodwell, Clay Davis, Michael Klobe
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Patent number: 6954783Abstract: A system and method for mediating a web page at an intermediate server. The system and method can include receiving a web page from a target web server, ensuring that the web page is not cached and changing links in the web page to refer to the intermediate server.Type: GrantFiled: November 10, 2000Date of Patent: October 11, 2005Assignee: BMC Software, Inc.Inventors: Walter R. Bodwell, Clay Davis, Michael C. Klobe
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Publication number: 20050203902Abstract: A system and method for replaying a predefined path through a set of web pages. The system and method comprises selecting in chronological order a saved request in a request history. The saved requests correspond to a set of user requests made at a web page from the set of web pages. Furthermore, the present invention comprises determining whether the saved request is a form request, and if so finding a best fit form on the web page from the set of web pages and sending a replay request to the best-fit form. If the saved request is not a form request, making the replay request to a best-fit URL.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 4, 2005Publication date: September 15, 2005Inventors: Clay Davis, Walter Bodwell, Michael Klobe
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Patent number: 6930769Abstract: A method and apparatus are provided for testing a photodetector (20) that has a narrow field of view (A) and an alignment surface (50), to determine whether the field of view and the axis (52) of the field of view are precisely what is expected or deviates therefrom. While the photodetector views a region or zone (102), a narrow spot of light (82) is moved into and out of the zone and across the zone, while the output of the photodetector is monitored. The narrow spot of light is generated by focusing a small spot of light onto a surface. The small spot of light can be a spot of light on an oscilloscope monitor (80) which scans the spot back and forth in a raster pattern. To create a very small spot, the image on the oscilloscope monitor is focused to a greatly reduced size spot image (124) onto the surface that the photodetector views.Type: GrantFiled: March 21, 2003Date of Patent: August 16, 2005Assignee: PointSource Technologies, LLCInventors: Clay Davis, Alex Aguirre
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Patent number: 6901438Abstract: A system and method for replaying a predefined path through a set of web pages. The system and method comprises selecting in chronological order a saved request in a request history. The saved requests correspond to a set of user requests made at a web page from the set of web pages. Furthermore, the present invention comprises determining whether the saved request is a form request, and if so finding a best fit form on the web page from the set of web pages and sending a replay request to the best-fit form. If the saved request is not a form request, making the replay request to a best-fit URL.Type: GrantFiled: November 10, 2000Date of Patent: May 31, 2005Assignee: BMC SoftwareInventors: Clay Davis, Walter R. Bodwell, Michael C. Klobe
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Patent number: 6852969Abstract: A glow discharge spectroscopy (GDS) source operates at atmospheric pressure. One of the discharge electrodes of the device is formed by an electrolytic solution 27 containing the analyte specimen. The passage of electrical current (either electrons or positive ions) across the solution/gas phase interface causes local heating and the volatilization of the analyte species. Collisions in the discharge region immediately above the surface of the solution results in optical emission and ionization that are characteristic of the analyte elements. As such, these analyte elements can be identified and quantified by optical emission spectroscopy (OES) or mass spectrometry (MS). The device uses the analyte solution as either the cathode or anode. Operating parameters depend on the electrolyte concentration (i.e. solution conductivity) and the gap 35 between the solution surface and the counter electrode.Type: GrantFiled: August 7, 2003Date of Patent: February 8, 2005Assignee: Clemson UniversityInventors: R. Kenneth Marcus, W. Clay Davis
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Patent number: 6819421Abstract: An improvement in a system that identifies unknown microscopic particles in a fluid such as water, by detecting scattering of a laser beam (24) in multiple directions as a particle passes through a detect zone (30) to generate an event vector, and by comparing the eventvector to those of particles of known species. When the eventvectors produce a cluster (70) of particles in a multi-dimensional projection of the eventvectors, the computer signals that a possible new species has been found in the fluid. A background signature is generated for particles in the fluid when the fluid is safe. When new water is later passed through the apparatus, clusters of particles are searched for that are present in a much greater density than exists for the background signature for a safe fluid, to generate a signal indicating that the fluid may be unsafe.Type: GrantFiled: April 11, 2003Date of Patent: November 16, 2004Assignee: Point Source Technologies, LLCInventors: Donald C. Mead, Clay Davis
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Publication number: 20040026616Abstract: A glow discharge spectroscopy (GDS) source operates at atmospheric pressure. One of the discharge electrodes of the device is formed by an electrolytic solution 27 containing the analyte specimen. The passage of electrical current (either electrons or positive ions) across the solution/gas phase interface causes local heating and the volatilization of the analyte species. Collisions in the discharge region immediately above the surface of the solution results in optical emission and ionization that are characteristic of the analyte elements. As such, these analyte elements can be identified and quantified by optical emission spectroscopy (OES) or mass spectrometry (MS). The device uses the analyte solution as either the cathode or anode. Operating parameters depend on the electrolyte concentration (i.e. solution conductivity) and the gap 35 between the solution surface and the counter electrode.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 7, 2003Publication date: February 12, 2004Inventors: R. Kenneth Marcus, W. Clay Davis
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Patent number: 6628386Abstract: An apparatus for identifying microscopic particles in a fluid, includes a laser beam (16) that passes though a narrow detect zone (22), and photodetectors (30) that detect light scattered by microscopic particles that pass through the detect zone. The laser beam has a horizontal width (W) that is a plurality of times as great as its average vertical thickness (T), to increase the number of particles passing through the zone while minimizing the time of each particle in the zone. A quadrant detector (48) that is used to detect deviation of the laser beam from a predetermined path, is oriented about 45° from the usual direction. The laser beam is generated by a diode laser (82) whose output passes through two appropriately-positioned cylindrical lenses (84, 86) to produce the desired the ratio of width (W) to thickness (T).Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 2001Date of Patent: September 30, 2003Assignee: PointSource Technologies, LLCInventors: Clay Davis, Donald Mead, Gregory Quist
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Publication number: 20030107734Abstract: An apparatus for identifying microscopic particles in a fluid, includes a laser beam (16) that passes though a narrow detect zone (22), and photodetectors (30) that detect light scattered by microscopic particles that pass through the detect zone. The laser beam has a horizontal width (W) that is a plurality of times as great as its average vertical thickness (T), to increase the number of particles passing through the zone while minimizing the time of each particle in the zone. A quadrant detector (48) that is used to detect deviation of the laser beam from a predetermined path, is oriented about 45° from the usual direction. The laser beam is generated by a diode laser (82) whose output passes through two appropriately-positioned cylindrical lenses (84, 86) to produce the desired the ratio of width (W) to thickness (T).Type: ApplicationFiled: December 12, 2001Publication date: June 12, 2003Inventors: Clay Davis, Donald Mead, Gregory Quist
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Patent number: 5621490Abstract: A system is provided for treating sound represented by the varying width of a motion picture film soundtrack, which provides a "flat" frequency response up to 12.5 kHz with maximum phase coherence, even though the film speed is only 62% to 78% of the present speed of 90 feet per minute. The projector photocell which detects a slit-shaped area of light passing through the soundtrack, produces an output that is amplified so the amplification is progressively greater at higher frequencies, with the gain at 12.5 kHz being at least 6 dB greater than at 1 kHz. A photocell is selected whose output at 12.5 kHz is within 1 dB of its output at 1 kHz for light of a wavelength of substantially 1000 nanometers.Type: GrantFiled: August 26, 1996Date of Patent: April 15, 1997Assignee: The Todd-AO CorporationInventor: Clay Davis