Patents by Inventor David A. Bradshaw
David A. Bradshaw 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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Publication number: 20060153958Abstract: A flavour composition comprising at least two flavour materials selected from the following Group (a) materials: decanol, nonanol, decanal, anethole synthetic, cardamom oil, cinnamic aldehyde, ionone alpha, origanum, tarragon, thymol; and at least one flavour material selected from the following Group (b) materials: nonanal, Aniseed rectified, basil oil, camomile oil, citral, clove bud oil, Damascone F, ginger, Tea Tree Pure, peppermint oil of natural origin. The compositions may reduce or prevent dental caries.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 11, 2004Publication date: July 13, 2006Inventors: John Behan, David Bradshaw, Jonathan Richards, Michael Munroe
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Publication number: 20060153959Abstract: A flavour composition comprises at least 0.5% by weight of one or more of the following group A materials: cinnamic aldehyde, basil oil, tarragon, cis-3-hexenyl acetate, cis-3hexenol, orange oil, lime, citral, and damascone; and at least 3% by weight of one or more of the following group B materials: anethole synthetic, alcohol C10, eucalyptol, methyl salicylate, clove bud oil, carvone laevo, benzyl benzoate, thymol, benzaldehyde, benzyl formate, ethyl salicylate, eucalyptus oil, ionone alpha, iso amyl acetate, rosemary oil, cardamom oil, ginger, eugenol, camomile oil, spearmint, and peppermint. These materials have been identified as being capable of inhibiting the growth of Porphyromonas gingivalis or the protease (arg-gingipain) activity of Porphyromonas gingivalis, and so to possess hitherto unappreciated antimicrobial properties.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 11, 2004Publication date: July 13, 2006Inventors: John Behan, David Bradshaw, Jonathan Richards, Michael Munroe
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Publication number: 20060052276Abstract: A perfume composition comprising a perfume component capable of inhibiting the production of odoriferous steroids by micro-organisms on the skin. The perfume component is capable of inhibiting the biotransformation of androstadienols to androstenones.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 16, 2003Publication date: March 9, 2006Inventors: Keith Perring, David Bradshaw, John Behan, Paula Cawkill
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Publication number: 20050233940Abstract: A perfume composition comprising a perfume component capable of inhibiting the production of odoriferous steroids by micro-organisms on the skin. The perfume component is capable of inhibiting bacterial 3a((3)-steroid dehydrogenase and/or steroid 4,5isomerase.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 16, 2003Publication date: October 20, 2005Inventors: Keith Perring, David Bradshaw, John Behan, Paula Cawkill
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Publication number: 20050039297Abstract: A floor cleaning device comprises a base portion for movement along a surface and a handle portion pivotally connected to the base. The base portion further includes a suction nozzle and a brush assembly for agitating the surface, wherein the brush assembly and the nozzle assembly are in a first position raised off of the surface for vacuuming the surface, and the nozzle assembly is lowered to a second position contacting the surface for collecting and picking up liquid and dirt from the surface. A method of cleaning a surface by first dry vacuuming the surface using a cleaning unit in which the nozzle assembly is raised to pick up particles and then wet vacuuming the floor with the nozzle assembly lowered to collect and pick up dirt from the floor mixed with cleaning solution distributed on the floor.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 28, 2004Publication date: February 24, 2005Inventors: Jeffery Morgan, David Bradshaw, Douglas Gerber, Charles Lang, Adam Sclafani, Kevin Thomas, Vincent Weber, Robert Wilson, Siu Wai Hui, Wing Leung Ng
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Publication number: 20050034266Abstract: A floor cleaning device comprises a base portion for movement along a surface and a handle portion pivotally connected to the base. The base portion further includes a suction nozzle and a brush assembly for agitating the surface, wherein the brush assembly and the nozzle assembly are in a first position raised off of the surface for vacuuming the surface, and the nozzle assembly is lowered to a second position contacting the surface for collecting and picking up liquid and dirt from the surface. A method of cleaning a surface by first dry vacuuming the surface using a cleaning unit in which the nozzle assembly is raised to pick up particles and then wet vacuuming the floor with the nozzle assembly lowered to collect and pick up dirt from the floor mixed with cleaning solution distributed on the floor.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 28, 2004Publication date: February 17, 2005Inventors: Jeffery Morgan, David Bradshaw, Douglas Gerber, Charles Lang, Adam Sclafani, Kevin Thomas, Vincent Weber, Robert Wilson, Siu Hui, Wing Ng
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Publication number: 20050029971Abstract: A cleaner for cleaning a surface comprises a floor-engaging portion for moving along the surface. A magnet and a hall effect sensor located in the cleaner handle generates a control signal. The control signal is provided to a control circuit which controls one or more operational features of the cleaner. One such operational features includes at least one pump for mixing and distributing cleaning solution to the surface. In an alternate embodiment, the control circuit controls an electric motor for propelling the cleaner over the surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 15, 2004Publication date: February 10, 2005Inventors: Donald Coates, Robert Bauman, Michael Durbin, Evan Gordon, Adam Sclafani, Aaron Tondra, William Theiss, Timothy Hertrick, David Bradshaw, Edgar Maurer, Wilbur Kellum
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Patent number: 6832409Abstract: A floor cleaning device comprises a base portion for movement along a surface and a handle portion pivotally connected to the base. The base portion further includes a suction nozzle and a brush assembly for agitating the surface, wherein the brush assembly and the nozzle assembly are in a first position raised off of the surface for vacuuming the surface, and the nozzle assembly is lowered to a second position contacting the surface for collecting and picking up liquid and dirt from the surface. A method of cleaning a surface by first dry vacuuming the surface using a cleaning unit in which the nozzle assembly is raised to pick up particles and then wet vacuuming the floor with the nozzle assembly lowered to collect and pick up dirt from the floor mixed with cleaning solution distributed on the floor.Type: GrantFiled: September 18, 2001Date of Patent: December 21, 2004Assignee: The Hoover CompanyInventors: Jeffery A. Morgan, David A. Bradshaw, Douglas E. Gerber, Charles A. Lang, Adam C. Sclafani, Kevin L. Thomas, Vincent L. Weber, Robert S. Wilson, Siu Wai Hui, Wing Leung Ng
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Patent number: 6598263Abstract: A dirt collecting system for a vacuum cleaner includes a dirt cup formed with a coarse particle separation chamber and a fine particle separation chamber separated by an apertured wall. Coarse dirt particles directed into the coarse particle separation chamber are prevented from entering the fine particle separation chamber by the apertured wall. The apertured wall is removable from the dirt cup and is cleaned upon removal by a cleaning element. A fine particle filter is located in the fine particle separation chamber for filtering fine particles. The fine particle filter is cleaned by rotating a knob located in the dirt cup lid so that the pleats of the fine particle filter is brushed past a wiper element.Type: GrantFiled: May 9, 2001Date of Patent: July 29, 2003Assignee: The Hoover CompanyInventors: David J. Boles, Nick M. Bosyj, David A. Bradshaw, Charles R. Morrow, Rodney J. Svik, Kevin S. Waltz
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Publication number: 20030051309Abstract: An improved floor cleaning device comprises a base portion for movement along a surface and a handle portion pivotally connected to the base. The base portion further includes a suction nozzle and a brush assembly for agitating the surface, wherein the brush assembly and the nozzle assembly are in a first position raised off of the surface for vacuuming said surface, and the nozzle assembly is lowered to a second position contacting the surface for collecting and picking up liquid and dirt from the surface. A method of cleaning a surface by first dry vacuuming the surface using a cleaning unit in which the nozzle assembly is raised to pick up particles and then wet vacuuming the floor with the nozzle assembly lowered to collect and pick up dirt from the floor mixed with cleaning solution distributed on the floor.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 18, 2001Publication date: March 20, 2003Applicant: The Hoover CompanyInventors: Jeffery A. Morgan, David A. Bradshaw, Douglas E. Gerber, Charles A. Lang, Adam C. Sclafani, Kevin L. Thomas, Vincent L. Weber, Robert S. Wilson, Siu Wai Hui, Wing Leung Ng
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Publication number: 20020198996Abstract: A system for implementing a failover policy includes a cluster infrastructure for managing a plurality of nodes, a high availability infrastructure for providing group and cluster membership services, and a high availability script execution component operative to receive a failover script and at least one failover attribute and operative to produce a failover domain. In addition, a method for determining a target node for a failover comprises executing a failover script that produces a failover domain, the failover domain having an ordered list of nodes, receiving a failover attribute and based on the failover attribute and failover domain, selecting a node upon which to locate a resource.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 29, 2001Publication date: December 26, 2002Inventors: Padmanabhan Sreenivasan, Ajit Dandapani, Michael Nishimoto, Ira Pramanick, Manish Verma, Robert David Bradshaw, Luca Castellano, Raghu Mallena
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Publication number: 20020170137Abstract: A cleaner for cleaning a surface comprises a floor-engaging portion for moving along the surface. A source supplies a liquid to a distributor, which distributes the liquid from the source on the surface wherein an activating device is operatively connected to the source to activate the source to supply liquid to the distributor to distribute liquid on the surface in response to a force moving the floor engaging portion in a first direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 13, 2002Publication date: November 21, 2002Inventors: Donald A. Coates, Robert W. Bauman, Michael A. Durbin, Evan A. Gordon, Adam C. Sclafani, Aaron P. Tondra, William H. Theiss, Timothy T. Hertrick, David A. Bradshaw, Edgar A. Maurer, Wilbur J. Kellum
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Publication number: 20020166199Abstract: A dirt collecting system for a vacuum cleaner includes a dirt cup formed with a course particle separation chamber and a fine particle separation chamber separated by an apertured wall. An inlet opening is formed in the dirt cup and communicates with the course particle separation chamber for inputting a stream of dirt laden air into the course particle separation chamber. A clean air outlet opening is formed in the fine particle separation chamber for allowing the filtered air stream to exit the dirt cup. The apertured wall includes a pre-filter for filtering coarse particles from a stream of dirt laden and depositing the coarse particles in the course particle separation chamber. A fine particle separation filter is positioned within the fine particle separation chamber and communicates with the clean air outlet opening. The fine particle separation filter separates fine particles from the air stream and deposits the fine particles within the fine particle separation chamber.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 9, 2001Publication date: November 14, 2002Inventors: David J. Boles, Nick M. Bosyj, David A. Bradshaw, Charles R. Morrow, Rodney J. Svik, Kevin S. Waltz
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Patent number: 6460052Abstract: A method and apparatus are provided for converting a non-versioned schema to a version-enabled schema. The method includes reading a first set of table definitions that belong to the non-versioned schema. A second set of table definitions is generated for the version-enabled schema such that each table definition in the second set of table definitions corresponds to a table definition in the first set of table. Each table definition in the second set of table definitions includes columns that correspond to the columns of the corresponding table definition in the first set of table definitions and one or more additional columns for storing version information. Multiple versions of a particular object are stored within the table. In response to a request from a user to retrieve the particular object, a version of the particular object to present to the user is determined based on a workspace associated with the user.Type: GrantFiled: August 20, 1999Date of Patent: October 1, 2002Assignee: Oracle CorporationInventors: Peter Rex Thomas, David Bradshaw, Jay Gitterman, Timothy Nicholas Scott
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Publication number: 20020049845Abstract: A high availability computing system includes a plurality of computer nodes (for example, a server system) connected by a first and a second network, wherein the computer nodes communicate with each other to detect server failure and transfer applications to other computer nodes on detecting server failure. The system incorporates methods of maintaining high availability in a server cluster having a plurality of nodes. A group communications service, a membership service and a system resource manager are instantiated on each node and the group communications service, the membership service and the system resource manager on each node communicate with other nodes to detect node failures and to transfer applications to other nodes on detecting node failure.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 16, 2001Publication date: April 25, 2002Inventors: Padmanabhan Sreenivasan, Ajit Dandapani, Michael Nishimoto, Ira Pramanick, Manish Verma, Robert David Bradshaw, Luca Castellano, Sharad Srivastava, Raghu Mallena
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Patent number: 6279028Abstract: A method of correlating a group of related processes residing on separate computers of a computer network so that they can be treated as a single entity. A single, large program is split up into separate processes and simultaneously run on several different computers. These related, but separate, processes are assigned a unique identifier. When a new process is created, it is assigned the same identifier as that of the process from which it was created, even though the child process might reside on a different computer. If a process determines that it should not belong to its current group, that process can create its own group by requesting that it be assigned a new identifier. Based on the identifiers, it is possible to implement programs that treat related processes as a single entity.Type: GrantFiled: December 8, 1995Date of Patent: August 21, 2001Assignee: Silicon Graphics, Inc.Inventors: Robert David Bradshaw, Jr., Ajit Dandapani
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Patent number: 5901406Abstract: The present invention teaches a combined air/liquid separator and recovery tank for use on a hot water carpet extractor. The combined tank and separator are particularly suited for an upright style of carpet extractor and features easy removal for emptying the recovery tank at a site remote from the extractor.Type: GrantFiled: November 20, 1996Date of Patent: May 11, 1999Assignee: The Hoover CompanyInventors: David G. Mueller, Fred S. Sindlinger, Jeffery Morgan, David Bradshaw, Gregg McAllise
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Patent number: D458670Type: GrantFiled: May 9, 2001Date of Patent: June 11, 2002Assignee: The Hoover CompanyInventors: Nick M. Bosyi, David A. Bradshaw, Charles R. Morrow
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Patent number: D407569Type: GrantFiled: November 21, 1997Date of Patent: April 6, 1999Assignee: Today's Kids, Inc.Inventors: John M. Underbrink, David Bradshaw
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Patent number: D411428Type: GrantFiled: September 9, 1997Date of Patent: June 22, 1999Assignee: The Stanley Works LimitedInventor: David Bradshaw Scott