Patents by Inventor Ian Percival

Ian Percival 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: 11418573
    Abstract: This disclosure describes techniques for providing an abstraction layer for one or more file transfer tools that may operate on a public network, or on a network controlled by an organization or enterprise. In some examples, a computing system may serve as a front-end for a managed file transfer system that may hide some details of the operations performed by the file transfer system. The computing system may interact with one or more managed file transfer systems (or similar systems) to provision a data path between computing systems, perform a file transfer between the computing systems, perform sustainment tasks associated with the data path, and/or perform lifecycle management tasks associated with the data path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.
    Inventors: Thomas McLaughlin, Charles Eric Almond, James Ian Percival
  • Patent number: 11057455
    Abstract: This disclosure describes techniques for providing an abstraction layer for one or more file transfer tools that may operate on a public network, or on a network controlled by an organization or enterprise. In some examples, a computing system may serve as a front-end for a managed file transfer system that may hide some details of the operations performed by the file transfer system. The computing system may interact with one or more managed file transfer systems (or similar systems) to provision a data path between computing systems, perform a file transfer between the computing systems, perform sustainment tasks associated with the data path, and/or perform lifecycle management tasks associated with the data path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.
    Inventors: Thomas McLaughlin, Charles Eric Almond, James Ian Percival
  • Patent number: 10773927
    Abstract: The present application relates to an elevator system and a method of adapting an elevator system, the system being adapted to warn elevator users of the existence of a vertical misalignment between a floor of a lift car and a landing surface adjacent to which the lift car stops. The elevator system comprises facing parallel walls that depend vertically downwards from a leading edge of the lift car floor and a leading edge of the landing surface respectively. A luminaire is mounted on at least one of said walls at a distance below the edge of said wall so as to face the opposing wall irrespective of said vertical misalignment. Light from said luminaire illuminates said opposing walls to alert elevator users to the existence of said vertical misalignment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2020
    Assignee: VIP Lift & Escalator Services Limited
    Inventor: Ian Percival
  • Publication number: 20180334364
    Abstract: The present application relates to an elevator system and a method of adapting an elevator system, the system being adapted to warn elevator users of the existence of a vertical misalignment between a floor of a lift car and a landing surface adjacent to which the lift car stops. The elevator system comprises facing parallel walls that depend vertically downwards from a leading edge of the lift car floor and a leading edge of the landing surface respectively. A luminaire is mounted on at least one of said walls at a distance below the edge of said wall so as to face the opposing wall irrespective of said vertical misalignment. Light from said luminaire illuminates said opposing walls to alert elevator users to the existence of said vertical misalignment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2016
    Publication date: November 22, 2018
    Applicant: VIP Lift & Escalator Services Limited
    Inventor: Ian PERCIVAL
  • Publication number: 20180148299
    Abstract: The present application relates to an elevator system and a method of adapting an elevator system, the system being adapted to warn elevator users of the existence of a vertical misalignment between a floor of a lift car and a landing surface adjacent to which the lift car stops. The elevator system comprises facing parallel walls that depend vertically downwards from a leading edge of the lift car floor and a leading edge of the landing surface respectively. A luminaire is mounted on at least one of said walls at a distance below the edge of said wall so as to face the opposing wall irrespective of said vertical misalignment. Light from said luminaire illuminates said opposing walls to alert elevator users to the existence of said vertical misalignment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2016
    Publication date: May 31, 2018
    Applicant: VIP Lift & Escalator Services Limited
    Inventor: Ian PERCIVAL
  • Patent number: 7111129
    Abstract: The cache keeps regularly accessed disk I/O data within RAM that forms part of a computer systems main memory. The cache operates across a network of computers systems, maintaining cache coherency for the disk I/O devices that are shared by the multiple computer systems within that network. Read access for disk I/O data that is contained within the RAM is returned much faster than would occur if the disk I/O device was accessed directly. The data is held in one of three areas of the RAM for the cache, dependent on the size of the I/O access. The total RAM containing the three areas for the cache does not occupy a fixed amount of a computers main memory. The RAM for the cache grows to contain more disk I/O data on demand and shrinks when more of the main memory is required by the computer system for other uses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2004
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2006
    Assignee: SuperSpeed LLC
    Inventor: James Ian Percival
  • Patent number: 7039767
    Abstract: The cache keeps regularly accessed disk I/O data within RAM that forms part of a computer systems main memory. The cache operates across a network of computers systems, maintaining cache coherency for the disk I/O devices that are shared by the multiple computer systems within that network. Read access for disk I/O data that is contained within the RAM is returned much faster than would occur if the disk I/O device was accessed directly. The data is held in one of three areas of the RAM for the cache, dependent on the size of the I/O access. The total RAM containing the three areas for the cache does not occupy a fixed amount of a computers main memory. The RAM for the cache grows to contain more disk I/O data on demand and shrinks when more of the main memory is required by the computer system for other uses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2004
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2006
    Assignee: SuperSpeed Software, Inc.
    Inventor: James Ian Percival
  • Patent number: 7017013
    Abstract: The cache keeps regularly accessed disk I/O data within RAM that forms part of a computer systems main memory. The cache operates across a network of computers systems, maintaining cache coherency for the disk I/O devices that are shared by the multiple computer systems within that network. Read access for disk I/O data that is contained within the RAM is returned much faster than would occur if the disk I/O device was accessed directly. The data is held in one of three areas of the RAM for the cache, dependent on the size of the I/O access. The total RAM containing the three areas for the cache does not occupy a fixed amount of a computers main memory. The RAM for the cache grows to contain more disk I/O data on demand and shrinks when more of the main memory is. required by the computer system for other uses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2003
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2006
    Assignee: SuperSpeed Software, Inc.
    Inventor: James Ian Percival
  • Publication number: 20040186958
    Abstract: The cache keeps regularly accessed disk I/O data within RAM that forms part of a computer systems main memory. The cache operates across a network of computers systems, maintaining cache coherency for the disk I/O devices that are shared by the multiple computer systems within that network. Read access for disk I/O data that is contained within the RAM is returned much faster than would occur if the disk I/O device was accessed directly. The data is held in one of three areas of the RAM for the cache, dependent on the size of the I/O access. The total RAM containing the three areas for the cache does not occupy a fixed amount of a computers main memory. The RAM for the cache grows to contain more disk I/O data on demand and shrinks when more of the main memory is required by the computer system for other uses.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 8, 2004
    Publication date: September 23, 2004
    Applicant: SuperSpeed Software, Inc.
    Inventor: James Ian Percival
  • Patent number: 5783237
    Abstract: A process is provided for the recovery and reuse of a salt solution obtained from a salty effluent (as herein defined) comprising: (1) passing said salty effluent, optionally after removing any fine particles therefrom, through a membrane filtration system which separates the salt in the form of a salt solution from the food residues; (2) passing said salt solution through an evaporator to decrease the water content thereof; (3) adjusting the temperature of the salt solution, typically within the range 15.degree.-25.degree. C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 1996
    Date of Patent: July 21, 1998
    Assignee: Murray Goulburn Co-Operative Co. Limited
    Inventors: Wayne Barry Sanderson, Anthony Phillip Brady, Graeme Frank Whitehead, Ian James Oldham, Ian Percival Brockwell
  • Patent number: 5606681
    Abstract: Virtual disks are created in RAM having the characteristics of either a write through unit, a write deferred unit, or a repeat save interval unit, which identifies the mode of operation the virtual disk uses in the backup of its RAM data to a backing disk drive. A unit identified as a write through unit proceeds by writing the write I/O data to the virtual disk in RAM and immediately to the backing disk drive. A write through unit does not signal completion of a write I/O data until the data has been written to both the virtual disk in RAM and the backing disk drive. A unit identified as a write deferred unit proceeds by writing the write I/O data to the virtual disk in RAM and immediately from the RAM to the backing disk drive. A write deferred unit will signal completion of a write I/O data to the virtual disk in RAM only and does not wait for the backing disk write to complete.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 1994
    Date of Patent: February 25, 1997
    Assignee: EEC Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Peter Smith, Eric S. Dickman, Ian Percival