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).
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Patent number: 11418573Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: July 1, 2021Date of Patent: August 16, 2022Assignee: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.Inventors: Thomas McLaughlin, Charles Eric Almond, James Ian Percival
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Patent number: 11057455Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: April 4, 2018Date of Patent: July 6, 2021Assignee: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.Inventors: Thomas McLaughlin, Charles Eric Almond, James Ian Percival
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Patent number: 10773927Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 16, 2016Date of Patent: September 15, 2020Assignee: VIP Lift & Escalator Services LimitedInventor: Ian Percival
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Publication number: 20180334364Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: March 16, 2016Publication date: November 22, 2018Applicant: VIP Lift & Escalator Services LimitedInventor: Ian PERCIVAL
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Publication number: 20180148299Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: March 16, 2016Publication date: May 31, 2018Applicant: VIP Lift & Escalator Services LimitedInventor: Ian PERCIVAL
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Patent number: 7111129Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: November 22, 2004Date of Patent: September 19, 2006Assignee: SuperSpeed LLCInventor: James Ian Percival
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Patent number: 7039767Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: April 8, 2004Date of Patent: May 2, 2006Assignee: SuperSpeed Software, Inc.Inventor: James Ian Percival
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Patent number: 7017013Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: October 10, 2003Date of Patent: March 21, 2006Assignee: SuperSpeed Software, Inc.Inventor: James Ian Percival
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Publication number: 20040186958Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: April 8, 2004Publication date: September 23, 2004Applicant: SuperSpeed Software, Inc.Inventor: James Ian Percival
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Patent number: 5783237Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: April 15, 1996Date of Patent: July 21, 1998Assignee: Murray Goulburn Co-Operative Co. LimitedInventors: Wayne Barry Sanderson, Anthony Phillip Brady, Graeme Frank Whitehead, Ian James Oldham, Ian Percival Brockwell
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Patent number: 5606681Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 2, 1994Date of Patent: February 25, 1997Assignee: EEC Systems, Inc.Inventors: Peter Smith, Eric S. Dickman, Ian Percival