Patents by Inventor James Arthur Davis
James Arthur 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: 8549146Abstract: A load balancer dynamically load balances packets for network connections between clients and servers. When receiving a packet from a client that requests a new connection, the load balancer checks the current load of all the servers and selects the server most suitable to handle the new connection. The load balancer then forwards that packet to the selected server. If the server accepts the request for the new connection, then the server responds with an acknowledgement packet. The acknowledgement packet also includes the server's blade identification that the client uses for all subsequent packets on the accepted connection. When the load balancer receives a packet containing the blade identification, the load balancer forwards the packet to the server corresponding to the blade identification. Backup load balancers can therefore continue packet forwarding services in a smooth and efficient manner.Type: GrantFiled: January 28, 2010Date of Patent: October 1, 2013Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (publ)Inventors: Vladica Stanisic, James Arthur Davis, Tobias Karlsson, Reda Haddad, Mahmood Hossain
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Publication number: 20130054678Abstract: Systems, apparatuses, and methods are provided for authoring data collection devices, deploying data collection devices for the collection of data, retrieving data collection devices and collected data, and/or managing collected data and relationships between data collectors and data providers. Client data is collected from a client remotely via any network-enabled input device and retrieved by a service provider prior to an encounter between the client and the service provider. Client data is collected preferably through deployment of client data collection forms authored by service providers by means of a form creation system in which specialty specific data containers stored in one or more libraries are arranged via a drag-and-drop interface to establish a form. Client data can be configured for passage to third party data storage and/or processing systems. Clients can be referred to other service providers with data being pre-populated into the other service providers' data collection forms.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 17, 2012Publication date: February 28, 2013Inventors: David Kevin Williams, Andriy Oleksandrovich Selyutin, James Arthur Davis, JR.
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Publication number: 20110185065Abstract: A load balancer dynamically load balances packets for network connections between clients and servers. When receiving a packet from a client that requests a new connection, the load balancer checks the current load of all the servers and selects the server most suitable to handle the new connection. The load balancer then forwards that packet to the selected server. If the server accepts the request for the new connection, then the server responds with an acknowledgement packet. The acknowledgement packet also includes the server's blade identification that the client uses for all subsequent packets on the accepted connection. When the load balancer receives a packet containing the blade identification, the load balancer forwards the packet to the server corresponding to the blade identification. Backup load balancers can therefore continue packet forwarding services in a smooth and efficient manner.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 28, 2010Publication date: July 28, 2011Inventors: Vladica Stanisic, James Arthur Davis, Tobias Karlsson, Reda Haddad, Mahmood Hossain
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Patent number: 6613029Abstract: There is provided a personal care product having a vapor sweep comprising a material which reacts with water or urine to form vapor at a rate capable of displacing at least 5, and preferably at least 10, percent of the air volume within said product per minute. This vapor generation sweeps water vapor and humidity from the personal care product, such as a diaper, and so it's believed will contribute to skin health. Materials that, upon reaction with water or urine, produce large volumes of carbon dioxide may be incorporated into the various components of standard personal care products to achieve the objective of this invention. Such materials include leavening agents. Additionally, a seal may be added to the personal care product to encourage the generated vapor to travel a longer path prior to exiting the product in order to maximize water vapor removal.Type: GrantFiled: April 28, 1999Date of Patent: September 2, 2003Assignee: Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc.Inventors: Rosann Marie Kaylor, James Arthur Davis, Andrew Edsel Huntoon, Michael Tod Morman, Mary Garvie Weber
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Publication number: 20020177834Abstract: The present invention relates to an absorbent article comprising a topsheet, a backsheet, and a valving means, the valving means comprising at least one one-way valve and a connection means which permits the connection of a pumping means, wherein the valving means allows air to be distributed into one or more regions of the article. The valving means of the article allows air to be discharged into the article in a region between a wearer's skin and the product.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 25, 2001Publication date: November 28, 2002Applicant: Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc.Inventors: James Arthur Davis, Wanda Walton Jackson, Jark C. Lau, K. Y. Wang, Susan Carol Paul, Rebecca Willey Griffin, Roland Columbus Smith, David Craige Strack, Eugenio Go Varona, Marlene Rebecca Waugaman, Tamara Lee Mace
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Patent number: 6454749Abstract: There is provided a bellows adapted to be actuated by the movement of a wearer's body and force air into a personal care product in a region between the skin of the wearer and the product. The bellows may be located in the periphery of the personal care product and the discharge of the bellows is directed into the personal care product so air is forced into the product.Type: GrantFiled: August 11, 1998Date of Patent: September 24, 2002Assignee: Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc.Inventors: Jark Chong Lau, James Arthur Davis, Kenneth Yin Wang, Wanda Walton Jackson
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Patent number: 6332923Abstract: A liquid spray for depositing a coating on a surface of a substrate includes a support bracket and a liquid atomizer operatively connected to the support bracket to spray a liquid spray system also includes an auxiliary air nozzle operatively connected to the support bracket to spray a stream of air to meet the liquid spray just above the surface of the substrate. The support bracket is positioned at a predetermined angle relative to the surface of the substrate for depositing a liquid spray coating on the surface of the substrate.Type: GrantFiled: February 7, 2000Date of Patent: December 25, 2001Assignee: Visteon Global Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Richard Lee Crawley, Daryl Middleton, James Arthur Davis, Kanwal Bhatia, Robert Franklin Tweadey
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Patent number: 6316687Abstract: A distinctive absorbent garment article generally delimits a front waistband section, a rear waistband section and an intermediate section which interconnects the front and rear waistband sections. The article has a substantially fluid-impermeable backsheet layer, a liquid permeable topsheet layer, positioned in facing relation with the backsheet layer, and an absorbent body located between the backsheet layer and topsheet layer. The absorbent body includes a distinctive humidity transfer region which is advantageously configured to exhibit relatively low moisture retention. A vapor permeable panel is connected to the backsheet layer at one or more waistband sections of the article, and is arranged in an overlying registry with the humidity transfer region of the absorbent body.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 1993Date of Patent: November 13, 2001Assignee: Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc.Inventors: James Arthur Davis, Karen Marie Arnold, Mary Beth Eckhardt, Rebecca Jean Kuepper, Pamela Jean Mayberry, Michael Tod Morman, Thomas Walter Odorzynski, MaryAnn Zunker
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Patent number: 6312831Abstract: The invention is a substrate having a surface coated with a singular metal oxide film wherein the metal consists essentially of titanium and tin and the film is made from a liquid mixture of a titanate, a tin compound, and an anhydrous organic liquid. The substrate may be glass and the film applied by pyrolytic decomposition of the liquid mixture in air. Preferably, the film has a refractive index of greater than 2.2 and no visible light absorption to give it an optimal neutral appearance.Type: GrantFiled: April 30, 1999Date of Patent: November 6, 2001Assignee: Visteon Global Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Richard Lee Crawley, Daryl Middleton, James Arthur Davis
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Patent number: 6281407Abstract: There is provided a personal care product having a drying agent incorporated into it. The drying agent can reduce or control the relative humidity in the air enclosed by a personal care product significantly. Such a drying agent may be a desiccant or humectant or a combination of both. The drying agent may function using chemical or physical means and may be in fibrous, particulate or other form. The reduction of the relative humidity within a personal care product will reduce skin hydration which is believed to reduce redness and irritation due to contact with fluids.Type: GrantFiled: May 28, 1999Date of Patent: August 28, 2001Assignee: Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc.Inventors: Steven Bruce Warner, James Arthur Davis, Sharon Linda Greene, Rosann Marie Kaylor, Pamela Jean Mayberry, Michael Tod Morman
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Patent number: 6221460Abstract: Disclosed herein is a liquid absorbent material that is particularly useful as a liner material for personal care absorbent articles such as diapers, training pants, incontinence garments, sanitary napkins, bandages and the like. The material contains a plurality of peaks across its surface at spaced-apart intervals separated by channels. Disposed within the peaks is a liquid absorbing material capable of absorbing body exudates and liquids in general. Due to the materials and the nature of the construction of the present invention, when used as a liner material for personal care absorbent articles such as diapers, it tends to reduce the total surface area in contact with the infant's skin and it also provides a plurality of air channels within the diaper from the front waistband to the back waistband of the diaper thereby providing a path for increased air circulation.Type: GrantFiled: September 12, 1995Date of Patent: April 24, 2001Assignee: Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc.Inventors: Mary Eva Garvie Weber, Stanley Michael Gryskiewicz, Pamela Jean Mayberry, James Arthur Davis, Michael Tod Morman, Gary Howard Meitner, Leslie Warren Collier, IV, Nancy Donaldson Kollin, Douglas Bryan Cole
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Patent number: 6215038Abstract: There is provided a personal care product having an osmolality changing agent incorporated into it which achieves the objects of this invention. The agent can reduce skin hydration significantly by increasing the osmolality of a solution outside of, but in contact with, the skin, in order to cause water to move across the skin cellular boundary to dilute the solution. Such a material is preferably compatible with modern fiber forming processes like spunbonding and meltblowing. The reduction of skin hydration may reduce redness and irritation due to contact with fluids.Type: GrantFiled: July 29, 1999Date of Patent: April 10, 2001Assignee: Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc.Inventors: James Arthur Davis, Pamela Jean Mayberry, Michael Tod Morman
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Patent number: 5906879Abstract: A 3-dimension thermoformed bicomponent fiber nonwoven material comprising a lofty bicomponent material layer forming a plurality of peaks separated from one another by channels and having a basis weight in the range of about 0.5 to 7.0 ounces per square yard. The bicomponent material layer comprises a structural component and a heat activatable adhesive component suitable for thermoforming. Also disclosed are various configurations of this material suitable for use in absorbent personal care articles such as sanitary napkins, disposable diapers, incontinent-care pads and the like.Type: GrantFiled: April 30, 1997Date of Patent: May 25, 1999Assignee: Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc.Inventors: Andrew Edsel Huntoon, Mary Garvie Weber, Gordon Allen Shaw, Marshall Kenneth Bryant, Mark George Everson, Gerald Lewis Clark, Wanda Walton Jackson, Susan Marie Vanage, Mark Charles Jacobs, Pamela Jean Mayberry, James Arthur Davis, Douglas Bryan Cole, Stanley Michael Gryskiewicz, Ann Louise McCormack, Richard Daniel Pike, Leslie Warren Collier, IV, Frank Andrew Rosch, III, Scott Richard Lange
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Patent number: 4005674Abstract: A pivot position sensor sensing outboard motor trim includes a housing within which a pair of U-shaped movable contacts are secured in axially spaced relation on an operating rod which extends outwardly of the housing. The housing is attached by the motor. The end of the rod is interconnected by a flexible cable to a clamp coupler affixed to the tilt tube or shaft. The cable extends over the collar and wraps and unwraps thereon as the motor pivots to position the rod with respect to the motor. The fixed housing is provided with a chamber having a pair of wound linear resistor units secured in longitudinal recesses on opposite sides of the chamber and engaged by one of said contacts. At ninety degrees therefrom, a pair of limit contact strips are mounted in offset recesses on opposite sides of the chamber and connected by the other contact. At a preselected up-tilted position, the limit contacts separate from the strips and open the circuit therebetween to terminate up-trim drive.Type: GrantFiled: September 4, 1975Date of Patent: February 1, 1977Assignee: Brunswick CorporationInventor: James Arthur Davis