Patents by Inventor Joseph O'Ruanaidh

Joseph O'Ruanaidh 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: 20180039560
    Abstract: Dynamically identifying performance anti-patterns in a software system is based on a set of documented symptoms that are evaluated in real-time. The evaluation is based on the observed system behavior and its comparison against the documented symptoms of different types of performance issues.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2017
    Publication date: February 8, 2018
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Erik R. ALTMAN, Hitham Ahmed ASSEM ALY SALAMA, Nicholas M. Mitchell, Patrick Joseph O'SULLIVAN, Andres Omar PORTILLO DOMINGUEZ, Peter F. SWEENEY
  • Patent number: 9879048
    Abstract: In one aspect, the invention relates to isolated compounds useful as antifungal agents, for example, compounds having a structure represented by a formula: wherein R1 is hydrogen or hydroxyl; wherein R2 is hydrogen, a-xylose or ?-xylose; and wherein R3 and R4 are each hydrogen or together oxygen, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof; methods of isolating and purifying same; pharmaceutical compositions comprising same; agricultural compositions comprising same; and methods of treating and/or preventing fungal infections using same. In one aspect, R2 is not hydrogen or ?-xylose when R1 is hydroxyl and R3 and R4 are together oxygen. This abstract is intended as a scanning tool for purposes of searching in the particular art and is not intended to be limiting of the present invention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: University of Utah Research Foundation
    Inventors: Eric W. Schmidt, Joseph O. Falkinham, Peter W. Jeffs
  • Patent number: 9873798
    Abstract: A composition suitable for forming a support using a three-dimensional (3D) deposition method is presented. The composition includes a wax including at least one functional group capable of reacting with a build material used in the 3D deposition method, when exposed to an actinic radiation, wherein the functional group is itself substantially non-reactive to the actinic radiation. A method of forming a three dimensional (3D) article is also presented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2018
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Michael Joseph O'Brien, Thomas Francis McNulty, Kwok Pong Chan
  • Patent number: 9868096
    Abstract: A blender has a mixing chamber for reception of materials to be blended. A mixing screw is mounted at a bottom of the mixing chamber for mixing materials within the mixing chamber and delivering mixed materials to an outlet feeding a processing line. Heaters are mounted within the mixing chamber for drying blend material in the mixing chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2018
    Assignee: Vervant Limited
    Inventor: James Joseph O'Callaghan
  • Publication number: 20180009324
    Abstract: The embodiments described and claimed herein are apparatus, systems, and methods for charging an electric vehicle at a stationary service station. In one embodiment, the service station includes a power generation component including at least one fuel cell, a fuel supply component for supplying fuel to the power generation component, a charging component including at least one customer charging station, and a control component for controlling and monitoring the other components and for providing accounting and billing functions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2017
    Publication date: January 11, 2018
    Inventors: Agim GJINALI, Brian Joseph O'CONNOR, Rron GJINALI
  • Patent number: 9861057
    Abstract: A novel maize variety designated X05H206 and seed, plants and plant parts thereof are produced by crossing inbred maize varieties. Methods for producing a maize plant by crossing hybrid maize variety X05H206 with another maize plant are disclosed. Methods for producing a maize plant containing in its genetic material one or more traits introgressed into X05H206 through backcross conversion and/or transformation, and to the maize seed, plant and plant part produced thereby. This invention relates to the maize variety X05H206, the seed, the plant produced from the seed, and variants, mutants, and minor modifications of maize variety X05H206. This invention further relates to methods for producing maize varieties derived from maize variety X05H206.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2018
    Assignee: PIONEER HI-BRED INTERNATIONAL, INC.
    Inventors: Mario Rosario Carlone, Jr., Michael Adam Chandler, Dean William Christensen, David B Fischer, Edwin Michael Grote, Thomas Craig Kevern, Suzanne Michelle Mickelson, Michael Joseph O'Leary, Julia Xiuling Zhang
  • Publication number: 20180002869
    Abstract: A method for seaming artificial turf at its edges is provided. In some embodiments, the method includes providing a tape having a lower surface resting on a support surface, an upper surface underlying the edges of the artificial turf, and a hot melt pressure sensitive adhesive provided on the upper surface of the tape. After application of heat sufficient to soften the hot melt pressure sensitive adhesive, the layer of hot melt adhesive is bonded to the lower surface of the edges of the turf to the tape while the adhesive extends into valleys of the underside of the turf. Also provided is a heating cart for heating the adhesive and a method of using the heating cart to heat the adhesive.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2017
    Publication date: January 4, 2018
    Applicant: APT Advanced Polymer Technology Corp.
    Inventors: Lawrence Joseph O'Connor, Timothy Alan O'Connor, Frank Keith Bonnell, William Mark Bobo
  • Patent number: 9860749
    Abstract: Systems and methods for verification conducted at a secure element are disclosed. In a method of verification conducted at a secure element interacting with a mobile device, the secure element receives at least one of an identifier of a universal integrated circuit card (UICC) and an identifier of the mobile device. The secure element then compares each of the received at least one identifiers against a registered identifier of corresponding form stored in a non-volatile memory of the secure element. If the received at least one identifiers match corresponding registered identifiers stored in the non-volatile memory, the secure element permits further interaction with the mobile device. If at least one of the received identifiers do not match corresponding registered identifiers stored in the non-volatile memory, the secure element denies further interaction with the mobile device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2018
    Assignee: VISA INTERNATIONAL SERVICE ASSOCIATION
    Inventors: Horatio Nelson Huxham, Alan Joseph O'Regan, Tara Anne Moss, Hough Arie Van Wyk
  • Patent number: 9853824
    Abstract: A method, computer program product, and system for injecting content in collaboration sessions is described. A method may comprise receiving, via one or more computing devices, a request from a third party to inject content into a collaboration session between two or more users. The method may further comprise monitoring, via the one or more computing devices, one or more communication platforms to detect a qualifying event associated with the request from the third party to inject the content into the collaboration session between the two or more users. The method may additionally comprise, in response, at least in part, to detecting the qualifying event associated with the request from the third party to inject the content into the collaboration session between the two or more users, injecting, via the one or more computing devices, the content into the collaboration session between the two or more users.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2017
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Carol Sue Zimmet, Ruthie D. Lyle, Patrick Joseph O'Sullivan, Fred Raguillat
  • Publication number: 20170360621
    Abstract: A disposable absorbent having a topsheet, a backsheet, and an absorbent core disposed between the topsheet and the backsheet, is described herein. The topsheet has first and second webs where the second web forms a body-contacting surface of the disposable absorbent article and the first web is disposed between the second web and the absorbent core. The second web is hydrophobic compared to the first web. And, the second web is a nonwoven with a plurality of fibers having a diameter less than about 10 microns.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2017
    Publication date: December 21, 2017
    Inventors: Hugh Joseph O'Donnell, Robert Haines Turner, Vincent Sean Breidenbach, Douglas Herrin Benson, Timothy Ian Mullane, Karen Denise McAffry, John Lee Hammons, Kelyn Anne Arora
  • Publication number: 20170364351
    Abstract: A data patch for a program already installed in an interactive display computer system is received over a network and stored. There is also received a first set of parameters for controlling the installation of the patch. At the computer, a second set of parameters for controlling optimum installation time periods is predetermined wherein said data patch may be installed. The first and second sets of parameters are correlated to determine a set of optimum time periods during which the data patch may be installed, and this set of time periods are displayed so that a user may interactively select an optimum time period for installation of the data patch.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 4, 2017
    Publication date: December 21, 2017
    Inventors: Judith Helen Bank, Liam Harpur, Ruthie D> Lyle, Patrick Joseph O'Sullivan, Lin Sun
  • Patent number: 9833698
    Abstract: Techniques for providing an immersive storytelling experience using a plurality of storytelling devices. Each of the storytelling devices may be configured to perform one or more actions based on a current context of a story and in response to a stimulus event. The actions include at least one of an auditory and a visual effect. Embodiments also provide a controller device configured to manage a playback of the story, by adjusting the stimulus event and the effect of each of the plurality of storytelling devices, based on the current context of the story, thereby creating an interactive and immersive storytelling experience.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2017
    Assignee: Disney Enterprises, Inc.
    Inventors: Eric Charles Haseltine, Joseph O'Brien Garlington, Theodore Wei-Yun Leung, Eric Wilson Muhlheim, Gabriel Sebastian Schlumberger
  • Publication number: 20170338964
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method for establishing a secure communication tunnel between a device and a server is provided. The method comprises the server receiving a session request from the device to establish a secure tunnel. A handshake procedure is carried out to set up an encryption/decryption key for the secure tunnel. The handshake procedure uses a first communication channel from the server to the device. The method also includes sending a component of the handshake procedure to the device via a second communication channel. This component is required by the device to continue the handshake procedure or to commencing use of the secure tunnel established by the handshake procedure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2016
    Publication date: November 23, 2017
    Inventors: Alan Joseph O'Regan, Horatio Huxham
  • Patent number: 9824695
    Abstract: Embodiments herein include receiving a request to modify an audio characteristic associated with a first user for a voice communication system. One or more suggested modified audio characteristics may be provided for the first user, based on, at least in part, one or more audio preferences established by another user. An input of one or more modified audio characteristics may be received for the first user for the voice communication system. A user-specific audio preference may be associated with the first user for voice communications on the voice communication system, the user-specific audio preference including the one or more modified audio characteristics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2017
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Ruthie D. Lyle, Patrick Joseph O'Sullivan, Lin Sun
  • Patent number: 9823994
    Abstract: Dynamically identifying performance anti-patterns in a software system is based on a set of documented symptoms that are evaluated in real-time. The evaluation is based on the observed system behavior and its comparison against the documented symptoms of different types of performance issues.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2017
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Erik R. Altman, Hitham Ahmed Assem Aly Salama, Nicholas M. Mitchell, Patrick Joseph O'Sullivan, Andres Omar Portillo Dominguez, Peter F. Sweeney
  • Patent number: 9819635
    Abstract: A method, computer program product, and computer system for processing a status request received from a requester concerning an electronic message addressed from a sender to a recipient. A probable route between the sender and the recipient for the electronic message is predicted. A message status for the electronic message is determined from one or more status indicators based at least in part upon the probable route.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Patrick Joseph O'Sullivan, Edith Helen Stern, Barry E. Willner
  • Publication number: 20170323592
    Abstract: A display (100) comprising a plurality of LED chips (604), each LED chip (604) comprising a plurality of light emitting elements (606a-c). Each LED chip (604) is arranged such that a first light emitting element (606a) is configured to illuminate a sub-pixel, and a second light emitting element (606b) is configured to illuminate a sub-pixel using substantially the same wavelength of light as the first light emitting element. There is also described an LED chip, a display pixel, a controlling method, a computer device and a computer program for a display.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 22, 2014
    Publication date: November 9, 2017
    Inventors: Padraig Hughes, William Henry, Joseph O'Keeffe
  • Publication number: 20170316736
    Abstract: A sub-pixel for an LED display, the sub-pixel comprising a first light emitting device having a first emission beam angle and a second light emitting device having a second beam angle, the second emission beam angle being different to the first emission beam angle. There is also described a display using a plurality of the sub-pixels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 22, 2015
    Publication date: November 2, 2017
    Inventors: Padraig Hughes, Joseph O'Keeffe, William Henry
  • Patent number: 9801348
    Abstract: A novel maize variety designated X95H693 and seed, plants and plant parts thereof are produced by crossing inbred maize varieties. Methods for producing a maize plant by crossing hybrid maize variety X95H693 with another maize plant are disclosed. Methods for producing a maize plant containing in its genetic material one or more traits introgressed into X95H693 through backcross conversion and/or transformation, and to the maize seed, plant and plant part produced thereby. This invention relates to the maize variety X95H693, the seed, the plant produced from the seed, and variants, mutants, and minor modifications of maize variety X95H693. This invention further relates to methods for producing maize varieties derived from maize variety X95H693.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2017
    Assignee: PIONEER HI-BRED INTERNATIONAL, INC.
    Inventors: Gustavo Marcelo Garcia, Edwin Michael Grote, Michael Joseph O'Leary
  • Publication number: 20170308875
    Abstract: A system and method for initiating payments in favour of a payee entity are provided. In a method conducted at a payment processor, an account creation request, the request including an identifier of a consumer is received from a payee entity. A financial account is registered for the payee entity in association with the consumer identifier and a consumer-specific account identifier of the financial account is provided. The consumer-specific account identifier is linked to the payee entity and consumer identifier and transmitted to a communication device of the consumer directly or via the payee entity so as to permit the consumer to initiate a payment in favour of the financial account of the payee entity by generating a transaction request message including the consumer-specific account identifier.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 17, 2015
    Publication date: October 26, 2017
    Applicant: Visa International Service Association
    Inventors: Alan Joseph O'Regan, Horatio Nelson Huxham