Patents by Inventor Kenneth McDonald
Kenneth McDonald 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: 20240137267Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for asset utilization and trigger-based automation. A network management system may receive a receive a network management configuration that identifies a configuration of a set of assets to be allocated to a service. The network management system may generate an asset utilization dataset including a set of utilization values associated with the set of assets generated over a time. The asset utilization data set may be used to train a machine-learning model configured to generated predictions corresponding to a future utilization associated with the set of assets. The network management system may then execute the machine-learning model predict utilization of a first asset. Upon determining that the predicted utilization is greater than a threshold, the network management system may execute an action associated with the set of assets.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 23, 2023Publication date: April 25, 2024Inventors: James Michael Brinksma, Alexander Kenneth Godwin, Nathan Oliver Grey, Marcelo Alejandro McAndrew, Stuart David McDonald, Michael John Vitale
-
Patent number: 9726515Abstract: A utility meter device (1002) including a communications receiver (110) for receiving file fragments for the device, a processing means (150), eg microprocessor, microcontroller, and programmable non-volatile memory means (120), eg flash, EEPROM, for building and storing application and date files from the fragments, and executing a meter application of the device by processing at least one application file and associated data identified by configuration instructions in at least one of the fragments to provide data for reconfiguring a meter through a control interface (1016).Type: GrantFiled: June 24, 2005Date of Patent: August 8, 2017Assignee: Freestyle Technology Pty LtdInventors: Andrew Paul Donaghey, Ian Kenneth McDonald, David Lewis Beard
-
Publication number: 20130346570Abstract: A client processor including a communications receiver for receiving file fragments for the device, a micro-controller system including a microcontroller and a programmable non-volatile memory system, for building and storing application and data files from the fragments, and executing an application of the device by processing at least one application file and associated data identified by configuration instructions included in at least one of the fragments.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 27, 2013Publication date: December 26, 2013Inventors: Andrew Paul Donaghey, Ian Kenneth McDonald, David Lewis Beard
-
Patent number: 8606891Abstract: A client processor including a communications receiver for receiving file fragments for the device, a micro-controller system including a microcontroller and a programmable non-volatile memory system, for building and storing application and data files from the fragments, and executing an application of the device by processing at least one application file and associated data identified by configuration instructions included in at least one of the fragments.Type: GrantFiled: October 18, 2011Date of Patent: December 10, 2013Assignee: Freestyle Technology Pty LtdInventors: Andrew Paul Donaghey, Ian Kenneth McDonald, David Lewis Beard
-
Patent number: 8448528Abstract: A target magnet assembly configured to be secured to a rotating shaft of a steering gear assembly. The target magnet assembly includes an index hub with a mount and a magnet secured by the mount. The mount includes a tab with a protrusion extending from the tab, a finger, and a stop. The magnet includes an axial retention groove receiving the finger, a top surface abutting the stop, and a radial retention groove receiving the protrusion.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2010Date of Patent: May 28, 2013Assignee: Bourns IncorporatedInventors: Kenneth McDonald, James Thomas, Lawrence B. Reimer
-
Publication number: 20130084276Abstract: The invention relates to differentially expressed disease - associated proteins that have potential to identify patients with cardiovascular disease including ventricular dysfunction and heart failure and the potential to predict heart failure in patients. In particular, the invention relates to the use of a panel of biomarkers in the diagnostic and prognostic evaluation of cardiovascular patients. One of the markers is Leucine-rich alpha-2-glycoprotein (LRG).Type: ApplicationFiled: January 26, 2011Publication date: April 4, 2013Inventors: Chris Watson, Mark Ledwidge, Kenneth McDonald, John Baugh
-
Patent number: 8390276Abstract: A target magnet assembly configured to be secured to a rotating shaft of a steering gear assembly. The target magnet assembly includes an index hub with a mount and a magnet secured by the mount. The mount includes a tab with a protrusion extending from the tab, a finger, and a stop. The magnet includes an axial retention groove receiving the finger, a top surface abutting the stop, and a radial retention groove receiving the protrusion.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2010Date of Patent: March 5, 2013Assignee: Bourns IncorporatedInventors: Kenneth McDonald, James Thomas, Kevin Laycock
-
Publication number: 20120330683Abstract: A method and system for evaluating a subject's weight calculates a moving average of the weight of the subject based on several consecutive weight measurements e.g. on consecutive days. Rather than looking for absolute weight gains of e.g. 2 kg in 48 hours, as with currently accepted guidelines, each new measurement is compared with the calculated moving average, and a first form of alert is generated if the new measurement differs from the calculated moving average by more than a with expected range threshold amount such as by one standard deviation. If the first form of alert is generated consecutively on a predetermined number of successive iterations, a second form of alert is generated different from the first form of alert. The system and method does not assume a stable underlying patient weight, and absolute weight gains over e.g.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 25, 2011Publication date: December 27, 2012Applicants: CROFTON CARDIAC SYSTEMS LIMITED, THE NATIONAL DIGITAL RESEARCH CENTRE LIMITED, UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN, BIANCAMED LIMITEDInventors: Mark Ledwidge, Kenneth McDonald
-
Publication number: 20120073386Abstract: A target magnet assembly configured to be secured to a rotating shaft of a steering gear assembly. The target magnet assembly includes an index hub with a mount and a magnet secured by the mount. The mount includes a tab with a protrusion extending from the tab, a finger, and a stop. The magnet includes an axial retention groove receiving the finger, a top surface abutting the stop, and a radial retention groove receiving the protrusion.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 27, 2010Publication date: March 29, 2012Inventors: Kenneth McDonald, James Thomas, Lawrence B. Reimer
-
Publication number: 20120074808Abstract: A target magnet assembly configured to be secured to a rotating shaft of a steering gear assembly. The target magnet assembly includes an index hub with a mount and a magnet secured by the mount. The mount includes a tab with a protrusion extending from the tab, a finger, and a stop. The magnet includes an axial retention groove receiving the finger, a top surface abutting the stop, and a radial retention groove receiving the protrusion.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 27, 2010Publication date: March 29, 2012Inventors: Kenneth McDonald, James Thomas, Kevin Laycock
-
Publication number: 20100251990Abstract: An engine comprising a first section having a first face and a second section having a second face, the first and second faces being opposed to one another and arranged for relative rotation, the first face comprising at least one chamber, the second face comprising a plurality of discrete regions each being associated with a discrete stage of a combustion cycle, wherein the first and second faces are arranged such that relative rotation thereof causes the at least one chamber of the first face to be exposed to the discrete regions of the second face.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 16, 2008Publication date: October 7, 2010Inventor: Kenneth McDonald
-
Publication number: 20080015951Abstract: A recurring order management system and method for a computer network is disclosed. The system receives a request to suggest a recurring order for one or more products or services. The system generates a profile which stores the suggested products or services, the suggested recurrence for those products or services and the suggested quantities to deliver upon each recurrence. The order then automatically recurs one or more times according to the specified recurrence.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 29, 2007Publication date: January 17, 2008Inventors: William Kerker, Thomas Paasche, Dave Bamborough, Randy Bancino, Robin Horder-Koop, Kenneth McDonald, John Parker, Claire Zevalkink
-
Publication number: 20070197051Abstract: Method and apparatus for switching high power at high repetition rates. The apparatus is preferably a switch utilizing a pressurized flowing dielectric. The pressurized dielectric suppresses growth of dielectric breakdown byproducts, such as large bubbles and breakdown contamination, enabling lower dielectric flow rates to remove the byproducts. In addition to the advantage of lower flow rates, and thus smaller and lighter pumping means, the switch can switch high energies (up to megajoules) at fast repetition rates, up to thousands of pulses per second. The switch is preferably triggered to reduce jitter. The switch can also be used to remove water from oil.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 13, 2006Publication date: August 23, 2007Applicants: Alpha-Omega Power Technologies, The Curators of the University of Missouri, The Boeing CompanyInventors: William Cravey, Randy Curry, Kenneth McDonald, Glenn Anderson, Richard Sears
-
Publication number: 20070022146Abstract: Techniques to create physically and transactionally consistent copies of one or more database objects without impacting the availability of the target database objects are described. In one technique, a consistent copy is created as of the time a copy utility is executed. In another technique, a consistent copy is created as of an arbitrary specified time. This approach modifies a prior copy to bring it “up-to-date.” In yet another technique, a consistent copy is created by starting with a current snapshot of the target database objects and selectively removing updates from it back to a user specified arbitrary point-in-time. Each of the described techniques generate consistent copies of the target database objects without blocking users from accessing the target objects during the copy operation.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 28, 2006Publication date: January 25, 2007Applicant: BMC SOFTWARE, INC.Inventors: Michael Murley, Thomas Price, Kenneth McDonald, Stanley Dee, Linda Ball
-
Publication number: 20060235764Abstract: The present invention is directed to a system and method for providing complete electronic commerce (“E-Commerce”) transactions and solutions for a marketing company's products via the World Wide Web, including facilities for signing up new customers and recruiting, training and supporting new Independent Business Owners through an interactive online process. In another aspect, the present invention relates to the combination of a marketing business with a membership buying opportunity using both electronic commerce and face-to-face transactions. The present invention is also directed to a system and method for combining a marketing business with a membership buying opportunity, so that Independent Business Owners participating in the marketing plan can introduce customers to a membership buying opportunity and earn bonuses or commissions based on the purchases by those members, while Members in the buying opportunity can consume products or, at their option, qualify to become Independent Business Owners.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 15, 2006Publication date: October 19, 2006Inventors: David Bamborough, James Blodgett, William Dangl, Robin Horder-Koop, James Hunking, Kenneth McDonald, John Parker, Kelly Savage, Claire Zevalkink, Thomas Paasche
-
Publication number: 20050023903Abstract: Method and apparatus for switching high power at high repetition rates. The apparatus is preferably a switch utilizing a pressurized flowing dielectric. The pressurized dielectric suppresses growth of dielectric breakdown byproducts, such as large bubbles and breakdown contamination, enabling lower dielectric flow rates to remove the byproducts. In addition to the advantage of lower flow rates, and thus smaller and lighter pumping means, the switch can switch high energies (up to megajoules) at fast repetition rates, up to thousands of pulses per second.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 17, 2004Publication date: February 3, 2005Inventors: William Cravey, Randy Curry, Kenneth McDonald, Glenn Anderson
-
Patent number: 6683450Abstract: An electronic sensor assembly that can be used in speed-sensing applications such as anti-lock brake systems. The sensor assembly includes a sensor element, a housing surrounding the sensor element, a sensor terminal connected to the sensor element and extending outside of the housing for electrically coupling the sensor element to a conductor, a connector terminal for mechanically and electrically coupling the sensor terminal to the conductor, and a splice band mechanically and electrically coupling the sensor terminal to the connector terminal without welding, soldering, or using a crimp bucket. In one aspect of the invention, the sensor assembly further includes a capacitor electrically and mechanically coupled to the sensor terminal and the connector terminal via the splice band. The sensor element is preferably an active sensor such as a magneto-resistive sensor or a Hall-Effect sensor.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2001Date of Patent: January 27, 2004Assignee: SSI Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Michael G. Rick, Gary P. Schneider, Kenneth McDonald
-
Publication number: 20030080730Abstract: An electronic sensor assembly that can be used in speed-sensing applications such as anti-lock brake systems. The sensor assembly includes a sensor element, a housing surrounding the sensor element, a sensor terminal connected to the sensor element and extending outside of the housing for electrically coupling the sensor element to a conductor, a connector terminal for mechanically and electrically coupling the sensor terminal to the conductor, and a splice band mechanically and electrically coupling the sensor terminal to the connector terminal without welding, soldering, or using a crimp bucket. In one aspect of the invention, the sensor assembly further includes a capacitor electrically and mechanically coupled to the sensor terminal and the connector terminal via the splice band. The sensor element is preferably an active sensor such as a magneto-resistive sensor or a Hall-Effect sensor.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 31, 2001Publication date: May 1, 2003Applicant: SSI Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Michael G. Rick, Gary P. Schneider, Kenneth McDonald
-
Patent number: 6547191Abstract: An apparatus for the temporary stowage of cables and lines which emanate from a docked vessel for obtaining power, cable TV and telephone reception, which apparatus may be permanently or temporarily mounted to a substrate such as a marina's decking. The apparatus includes a base to which is attached at least one and preferably up to four spaced springs, each of which is also mounted to an upper plate, from which a preferably flexible shaft extends in an upwardly direction. Mounted on the shaft is at least one cable and line receiving means for retaining the cables and lines therein. Cables for TV, telephone, and lines for fresh water and perhaps fuel can be stowed on the apparatus pending and during connections to such utilities.Type: GrantFiled: January 18, 2001Date of Patent: April 15, 2003Assignee: Innovative Marine Products, Inc.Inventor: Kenneth A. McDonald
-
Publication number: 20020130223Abstract: An apparatus for the temporary stowage of cables and lines which emanate from a docked vessel for obtaining power, cable TV and telephone reception, which apparatus may be permanently or temporarily mounted to a substrate such as a marina's decking. The apparatus includes a base to which is attached at least one and preferably up to four spaced springs, each of which is also mounted to an upper plate, from which a preferably flexible shaft extends in an upwardly direction. Mounted on the shaft is at least one cable and line receiving means for retaining the cables and lines therein. Cables for TV, telephone, and lines for fresh water and perhaps fuel can be stowed on the apparatus pending and during connections to such utilities.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 18, 2001Publication date: September 19, 2002Inventor: Kenneth A. McDonald