Patents by Inventor James Aston

James Aston 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).

  • Publication number: 20080289470
    Abstract: A bolt lock is described for attachment to a blade collar of a concrete saw. The bolt lock stabilizes the position of a blade collar mounting bolt thereby preventing the bolt from loosening, which could otherwise result in the blade disengaging from the concrete saw.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2008
    Publication date: November 27, 2008
    Applicant: DIAMOND PRODUCTS, LIMITED
    Inventor: James Aston
  • Publication number: 20080134858
    Abstract: The invention provides a bolt lock for attachment to the blade collar of a concrete saw. The collar serves to stabilize the position of the blade collar bolt thereby helping to prevent the bolt from loosening, which can in turn lead to the blade falling off the concrete saw.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2007
    Publication date: June 12, 2008
    Applicant: DIAMOND PRODUCTS, LIMITED
    Inventor: James Aston
  • Publication number: 20060015939
    Abstract: A method to protect a file system form a viral infection may include flagging the program in response to opening a local file on a local file system to perform a read operation and opening a shared file on shared or network file system to perform a write or append operation on the local file. The program may also be flagged in response to the program reading or opening itself and the program attempting to write or append itself or any content to the shared file on the shared or network file system or to write or append itself or any content to the local file on the local file system. The program may also be flagged in response to the program attempting to write or append the local file to the shared or network file system and to preserve a filename of the local file in the shared or network file system. The program may also be flagged in response to the program attempting to write or append a remote file to the local file system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 14, 2004
    Publication date: January 19, 2006
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: James Aston, Haley Gray, Durga Mannaru
  • Publication number: 20050081053
    Abstract: A technique is provided to organize different virus signatures into anti-virus sets to minimize the impact on processor utilization due to the scanning of computer viruses. All of the virus signatures assigned to an anti-virus set share a common characteristic. The defined anti-virus sets are then associated with an executing agent so that whenever the executing agent's target file is accessed, the target file is scanned with virus signatures stored in the previously assigned anti-virus set to determine if the target file is contaminated with a virus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 10, 2003
    Publication date: April 14, 2005
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corlporation
    Inventors: James Aston, John Lake, Durga Mannaru