Patents by Inventor James Marks

James Marks 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: 9118587
    Abstract: Potential paths between a source and destination of a network are identified based on trace-route information, then filtered to eliminate paths or links that are not supported by ancillary information associated with the network so as to identify feasible/actual paths between the source and destination. The ancillary information includes, for example, routing tables and ARP tables. If a feasible path cannot be identified based on the ancillary information, supplemental information regarding nodes further along the potential path is assessed to provide a basis for inferring the nodes that may provide a feasible path. The determined feasible paths are displayed for review, and provided to serve as filters for subsequent path-analysis tools.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2015
    Assignee: RIVERBED TECHNOLOGY, INC.
    Inventors: Raghavendra Uppalli, James Mark Shaw, Pradeep Natarajan, Alain Cohen
  • Publication number: 20150219131
    Abstract: The device utilizes a thruster cylinder driven by a enlarged knob and terminating in a thruster plate to clamp to a support. Provision is made to attach a device to the clamp through a rotating index wheel which can lock the device by receiving a tang from a trigger lever at a selected increment of rotation. A second embodiment has two index wheels so that the attached device can be displaced in one of four directions to avoid conflict with other devices on the same support. The second axis is normally used to return a displaced device to an upright orientation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 5, 2014
    Publication date: August 6, 2015
    Applicant: Pryor Products
    Inventors: Richard Enoch Quintania, James Mark Cox
  • Patent number: 9088645
    Abstract: A method, system, and program for intermediary device initiated caller identification are provided. A trusted telephone network detects a call initiation connection from an origin device. The trusted telephone network then brokers a connection between the origin device and an external server enabled to perform a caller identity authentication service. A voice utterance for a caller is received at the external server from the origin device. The server authenticates a caller identity associated with the voice utterance and transfer the authenticated caller identity to the trusted telephone network. The trusted telephone network then specifies services available for the call according to a caller profile for the authenticated caller identity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2001
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2015
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Michael Wayne Brown, Joseph Herbert McIntyre, Michael A. Paolini, James Mark Weaver, Scott Lee Winters
  • Patent number: 9087299
    Abstract: The connectivity information provided by a variety of inference engines is integrated to provide a set of inferred links within a network. A consolidation is performed among inference engines that operate at a base level of connectivity detail to create a model of the network at this base level. The connectivity information provided by inference engines at each subsequent higher level of connectivity abstraction is then overlaid on the base level connectivity. By separately consolidating the connectivity information at each level of abstraction, the rules for dealing with conflicts can be simplified and/or better focused to resolve the conflict. By assuming that the more detailed lower level information is likely to be more accurate, rules can be developed to modify the connectivity models produced by the higher level techniques to conform to the lower level connectivity details while still maintaining the integrity of the higher level connectivity models.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2015
    Assignee: RIVERBED TECHNOLOGY, INC.
    Inventors: Raghavendra B. Uppalli, James Mark Shaw
  • Patent number: 9060862
    Abstract: Regarding semi-constrained artificial ball (head) and socket (cup) joints such as the hip or shoulder joint, which allow for certain numbers of degrees of rotation along three independent axes. For example, one embodiment creates at least two axes of rotation through a super-spherical space carved out of the inner surface of the cup, with a cup-cable connecting two points along the super-spherical space, and a perpendicular head-cable looping around the head and the cup-cable within the super-spherical space, and with the head-cable residing in a groove. Another embodiment creates two axes of rotation through a combination of a 1) swivel with lever and/or 2) cable attached to a circular track (with the knob or ring around cable facing inward or outward), both of which have the center of the head as the center of rotation. The third axis may be created by a horizontal swivel and by wiggle room.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2015
    Inventors: Floyd Franklin Castro, James Mark Oakley Fisher, Alex Paul Moskovitz
  • Publication number: 20150139180
    Abstract: The capacity of a cellular wireless system is increased by operation of base stations or base station sectors arranged to re-use radio resource elements that are used by neighbouring base stations or base station sectors, in conjunction with operation of relay stations, which are similarly arranged to re-use radio resource elements used by neighbouring relay stations, and where the radio resource elements re-used by the relay stations are different to those used by the base stations. The relay stations provide coverage, particularly in the areas at the boundaries between the areas of coverage of base stations that suffer from interference between signals transmitted from the respective base stations. In addition, the relay stations generally increase the average available carrier to interference ratio compared with a system in which base stations alone are deployed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2015
    Publication date: May 21, 2015
    Inventors: James Mark Naden, Peiying Zhu
  • Publication number: 20150131789
    Abstract: A method, system, and program for billing for service provided to destination device according to the calling plan of the individual receiving the call. An authenticated identity for a callee answering a call placed to a destination device is received at an intermediary device. The intermediary device then accesses a billing plan for the authenticated identity of the callee and loads the billing plan for specifying charges for the call, such that telephone service billed to the callee is accessible at multiple destination devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2014
    Publication date: May 14, 2015
    Inventors: Michael Wayne Brown, Joseph Herbert Mclntyre, Michael A. Paolini, James Mark Weaver, Scott Lee Winters
  • Patent number: 9014012
    Abstract: A network analysis system invokes an application specific, or source-destination specific, path discovery process. The application specific path discovery process determines the path(s) used by the application, collects performance data from the nodes along the path, and communicates this performance data to the network analysis system for subsequent performance analysis. The system may also maintain a database of prior network configurations to facilitate the identification of nodes that are off the path that may affect the current performance of the application. The system may also be specifically controlled so as to identify the path between any pair of specified nodes, and to optionally collect performance data associated with the path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2015
    Assignee: Riverbed Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Vinod Jeyachandran, Pradeep Natarajan, James Mark Shaw, Raghavendra Uppalli, Pradeep Singh, Nitin Gupta, Jerrold Stiffler
  • Publication number: 20150081701
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and non-transitory computer readable media configured to capture a first data flow between a data source and a data client. One or more elements relating to the first data flow are determined. At least one element of the first data flow is tagged with a first tag. A visual representation of the first data flow based on the elements relating to the data is generated. The visual representation of the first data flow is adjusted according to the first tag in response to selection of the first tag.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2014
    Publication date: March 19, 2015
    Inventors: Apostolos Lerios, Theodore Vassilakis, Laurent An Minh Nguyen, James Mark Adler, Lawrence David Cutler, Daron Alan Scarborough
  • Patent number: 8948049
    Abstract: Networks and devices may communicate with each other using virtual connections. In one embodiment, a computer-implemented model is generated and includes a representation of the path of a virtual connection. The path of a virtual connection, such as an IP tunnel, is traced between its source and destination. The physical connection corresponding to such IP tunnels are found by tracing through the device configuration and routing tables at routers in the network. The path between the source and destination devices is traced until the path is terminated at the destination device, or at an interface to an external network. If the path ends at an external network, the path is traced from the destination device toward the source device until a corresponding interface to the external network is reached.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2015
    Assignee: Riverbed Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: James Mark Shaw, Raghavendra B. Uppalli
  • Patent number: 8948124
    Abstract: The capacity of a cellular wireless system is increased by operation of base stations or base station sectors arranged to re-use radio resource elements that are used by neighboring base stations or base station sectors, in conjunction with operation of relay stations, which are similarly arranged to re-use radio resource elements used by neighboring relay stations, and where the radio resource elements re-used by the relay stations are different to those used by the base stations. The relay stations provide coverage, particularly in the areas at the boundaries between the areas of coverage of base stations that suffer from interference between signals transmitted from the respective base stations. In addition, the relay stations generally increase the average available carrier to interference ratio compared with a system in which base stations alone are deployed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2015
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: James Mark Naden, Peiying Zhu
  • Patent number: 8934376
    Abstract: The embodiments improve the results of an auto-detection of network devices responsive to the causes of detection failures in preceding runs of the auto-detection process. The network may comprise various devices that are believed to be in the network. If a device that is believed to be in the network, but is undiscovered, the embodiments identify the device and information regarding the cause or causes of non-discovery. In response, the discovery parameters are modified, based on the causes associated with the undiscovered devices. The extent to which the discovery parameters are modified is based various criteria, such as the characterization of the network, or upon the detection of changes to the network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2015
    Assignee: Riverbed Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Krisnan Sivaramakrishna Iyer, James Mark Shaw, Jerrold A. Stiffler
  • Patent number: 8914503
    Abstract: Embodiments provide systems, methods, and computer program products for inferring the switch port connectivity of discovered but unmanaged devices in a network without direct access to the devices. Embodiments operate by generating a physical address-to-port map based on collected operational data and then pruning the generated map based on switch port connectivity information and/or inferred link connectivity information. The switch port connectivity of discovered unmanaged devices is then generated or updated based on the pruned map. The switch port connectivity information can be used by various other tools to enable diagramming, asset inventory, and network planning, design, and optimization workflows.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 16, 2014
    Assignee: Riverbed Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Sivaramakrishna Prasadam, Raghavendra Uppalli, James Mark Shaw
  • Patent number: 8909538
    Abstract: Improved methods of presenting speech prompts to a user as part of an automated system that employs speech recognition or other voice input are described. The invention improves the user interface by providing in combination with at least one user prompt seeking a voice response, an enhanced user keyword prompt intended to facilitate the user selecting a keyword to speak in response to the user prompt. The enhanced keyword prompts may be the same words as those a user can speak as a reply to the user prompt but presented using a different audio presentation method, e.g., speech rate, audio level, or speaker voice, than used for the user prompt. In some cases, the user keyword prompts are different words from the expected user response keywords, or portions of words, e.g., truncated versions of keywords.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 9, 2014
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventor: James Mark Kondziela
  • Patent number: 8902541
    Abstract: A head rotator assembly (22) for dynamically compensating for a tape skew of a storage tape that moves over a head (20) in a tape drive (10) comprises a head supporter (230) that is coupled to and supports the head (20), and a supporter mover assembly (232). The supporter mover assembly (232) includes a first actuator (234A) that indirectly rotates a portion of the head supporter (230) about an axis to move the head (20) in an azimuth direction relative to the storage tape to dynamically compensate for the tape skew as the storage tape moves over the head (20). Additionally, the supporter mover assembly (232) can include a first lever (236A) moved by the first actuator (234A) to rotate the portion of the head supporter (230) so that the head (20) moves in the azimuth direction relative to the storage tape to dynamically compensate for the tape skew.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2014
    Assignee: Quantum Corporation
    Inventors: Ashok B. Nayak, Turguy Goker, Ming-Chih Weng, James Mark Decot
  • Patent number: 8903063
    Abstract: A method, system, and program for billing for service provided to destination device according to the calling plan of the individual receiving the call. An authenticated identity for a callee answering a call placed to a destination device is received at an intermediary device. The intermediary device then accesses a billing plan for the authenticated identity of the callee and loads the billing plan for specifying charges for the call, such that telephone service billed to the callee is accessible at multiple destination devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2014
    Assignee: eBay Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Wayne Brown, Joseph Herbert McIntyre, Michael A. Paolini, James Mark Weaver, Scott Lee Winters
  • Publication number: 20140334461
    Abstract: Methods, systems and apparatuses are provided for transmitting and receiving space-time block coded data in a wireless communications system with co-operative relays. A source node transmits RF signals representing first and second sets of data symbols in respective first and second channels (in time frequency code or any combination) of a wireless communications system, the first and second sets of data symbols being for transmission from separate antennas respectively according to a space-time block code. A relay node receives the RF signals representing the first set of data symbols in the first channel and transmits RF signals representing the first set of data symbols in the second channel. A destination node received the RF signals representing the second set of data symbols from the source node and the RF signals representing the first set of data symbols from the relay node.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2014
    Publication date: November 13, 2014
    Inventor: James Mark Naden
  • Patent number: 8867163
    Abstract: A head rotator assembly for positioning a head of a tape drive relative to a storage tape that moves over the head comprises a head supporter and a supporter mover assembly. The head supporter is coupled to and supports the head. The supporter mover assembly includes a first actuator that indirectly rotates a portion of the head supporter about an axis to move the head in an azimuth direction relative to the storage tape as the storage tape moves over the head. The supporter mover assembly can further include a first lever. The first actuator moves the first lever to rotate the portion of the head supporter so that the head moves in the azimuth direction relative to the storage tape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 21, 2014
    Assignee: Quantum Corporation
    Inventors: Ashok B. Nayak, Turguy Goker, Ming-Chih Weng, James Mark Decot
  • Publication number: 20140271478
    Abstract: Provided herein are antibodies with high affinity for the ?8 subunit of ??8.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 17, 2012
    Publication date: September 18, 2014
    Applicant: The Regents of the University of California
    Inventors: Stephen Nishimura, Jianlong Lou, Jody Lynn Baron, James Marks
  • Patent number: 8830565
    Abstract: An intra-cavity optical parametric oscillator. The oscillator includes means for providing a non-linear loss for suppressing relaxation oscillations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2014
    Assignee: University Court of the University of St Andrews
    Inventors: Malcolm Harry Dun, David James Mark Stothard, Cameron Francis Rae