Patents by Inventor KEVIN MCAULIFFE

KEVIN MCAULIFFE 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: 9773081
    Abstract: A governing modeling system maintains information associated with an analytic model. One or more policies may be defined that are associated with the analytic model and one or more instances of the analytic model. The system may monitor the analytic model and the one or more instances of the analytic model based on at least some of the information, the one or more policies associated with the analytic model and the one or more policies associated with the one or more instances of the analytic model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2017
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Chidanand Apte, Brenda Dietrich, Kevin McAuliffe, Bonnie Ray
  • Patent number: 9604783
    Abstract: A system is provided for maintaining a minimum separation between a first pallet positioned on a first rack and a second pallet positioned on a second rack. The system comprises a double back stop that includes a first back stop attached to the first rack to prevent lateral movement of the first pallet beyond the first back stop. The double back stop also includes a second back stop attached to the second rack to prevent lateral movement of the second pallet beyond the second back stop. A minimum distance is maintained between the first and second backstops such that the minimum separation is maintained. The double back stop also includes a middle section to connect the first back stop to the second back stop. Methods are also provided for forming the double back stop and for maintaining the minimum separation between the first pallet and the second pallet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2017
    Inventor: Kevin McAuliffe
  • Patent number: 9604784
    Abstract: A system for maintaining a minimum separation between pallets positioned on racks. The system comprising a double back stop. The stop includes: a first and a second back stop configured to prevent lateral movement of the pallets beyond the back stops, the back stops defining a minimum separation between the pallets; and a middle section connecting the back stops includes a vertical cross-member; and one or more of the following: a clip forming a channel affixed to the double back stop, and/or a web affixed to the double back stop, and/or member affixed to the double back stop, and/or a slot in the double back stop.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2017
    Inventor: Kevin McAuliffe
  • Publication number: 20160120312
    Abstract: A system for maintaining a minimum separation between pallets positioned on racks. The system comprising a double back stop. The stop includes: a first and a second back stop configured to prevent lateral movement of the pallets beyond the back stops, the back stops defining a minimum separation between the pallets; and a middle section connecting the back stops includes a vertical cross-member; and one or more of the following: a clip forming a channel affixed to the double back stop, and/or a web affixed to the double back stop, and/or member affixed to the double back stop, and/or a slot in the double back stop.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 12, 2016
    Publication date: May 5, 2016
    Inventor: Kevin McAuliffe
  • Publication number: 20150014262
    Abstract: A system is provided for maintaining a minimum separation between a first pallet positioned on a first rack and a second pallet positioned on a second rack. The system comprises a double back stop that includes a first back stop attached to the first rack to prevent lateral movement of the first pallet beyond the first back stop. The double back stop also includes a second back stop attached to the second rack to prevent lateral movement of the second pallet beyond the second back stop. A minimum distance is maintained between the first and second backstops such that the minimum separation is maintained. The double back stop also includes a middle section to connect the first back stop to the second back stop. Methods are also provided for forming the double back stop and for maintaining the minimum separation between the first pallet and the second pallet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2014
    Publication date: January 15, 2015
    Inventor: Kevin McAuliffe
  • Publication number: 20120011082
    Abstract: A governing modeling system maintains information associated with an analytic model. One or more policies may be defined that are associated with the analytic model and one or more instances of the analytic model. The system may monitor the analytic model and the one or more instances of the analytic model based on at least some of the information, the one or more policies associated with the analytic model and the one or more policies associated with the one or more instances of the analytic model.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2010
    Publication date: January 12, 2012
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Chidanand Apte, Brenda Dietrich, Kevin McAuliffe, Bonnie Ray
  • Publication number: 20070176751
    Abstract: An exemplary embodiment uses a novel adaptation of a tree splitting algorithm applied to Radio Frequency (RE) tagging technology to identify many tags in the RF field of a base station. The embodiment uses the tree splitting algorithm to identify a single tag in a field of a plurality of radio frequency tags. Once the single tag is identified, the identified tag is placed in a Data_Exchange state where the base station can access data from the tag memory by using information that identifies the tag.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 2, 2007
    Publication date: August 2, 2007
    Inventors: Christian Cesar, Shun Chan, Thomas Colino, Kenneth Goldman, Sharon Greene, Harley Heinrich, Kevin McAuliffe, Dilip Kandlur, Arvind Krishna
  • Publication number: 20070159305
    Abstract: A system and method is disclosed for selecting certain subgroups of radio frequency (RF) tags for querying, communicating, and/or identifying by a base station. The base station sends commands to a group tags within a RF field of the base station. The tags use control logic to determine whether or not they meet certain criteria sent out by the commands. This may cause the tags to change state which either prevents or allows a given tag to participate in an identification process. In this way, a given subgroups of tags meeting certain criteria can be selected for querying, communicating, and/or identifying.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 2, 2007
    Publication date: July 12, 2007
    Inventors: Christian Cesar, Shun-Shing Chan, Harley Heinrich, Thomas Cofino, Dilip Kandlur, Kenneth Goldman, Sharon Greene, Kevin McAuliffe, Arvind Krishna
  • Publication number: 20060241954
    Abstract: A method (and system) of adaptive action management for business solutions includes detecting a business situation, adaptively deciding an action for a detected business situation using information from a knowledge base, and invoking an action service for implementing the action.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 22, 2005
    Publication date: October 26, 2006
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Jun-Jang Jeng, Kumar Bhaskaran, Hung-yang Chang, Kevin McAuliffe, Quoc-Bao Nguyen, Yoichi Yoshida
  • Publication number: 20050168348
    Abstract: A master entity is capable of broadcasting commands to a plurality of three-state-selection machine slaves. Transitions from one state to another are effected on instruction from commands in a sequence of commands broadcast from the master. Slaves move to another state when they satisfy a primitive condition specified in the command. By moving slaves among the three sets, a desired subset of slaves can be isolated in one of the sets. This desired subset of slaves then can be moved to one of the states that is unaffected by commands that cause the selection of other desirable subsets of slaves. In the embodiments of the incorporated U.S. Pat. No. 5,673,037, certain subgroups of radio frequency (RF) tags are selected for querying, communicating, and/or identifying by commands from a base station. Commands from the base station may cause the tags to change state which either prevents or allows a given tag to participate in an identification process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 2, 2004
    Publication date: August 4, 2005
    Inventors: Christian Cesar, Shun Chan, Thomas Cofino, Kenneth Goldman, Sharon Greene, Harley Heinrich, Kevin McAuliffe
  • Publication number: 20050088286
    Abstract: A Write Broadcast system and method uses a base station to write sent data to all or some selected number (sub group) of tags in a base station field simultaneously. By unselecting the tags that have been successfully written to, and requesting a response from the remaining tags in the field (or sub group), the system determines, by receiving a response to the request, that there are tags in the field (sub group) that were unsuccessfully written to. Another Write Broadcast signal is sent to these tags. The system is useful for quickly (simultaneously) “stamping” information on the tag memory of a large number of tags in the field of the base station.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2004
    Publication date: April 28, 2005
    Inventors: Harley Heinrich, Christian Cesar, Thomas Cofino, Daniel Friedman, Kenneth Goldman, Sharon Greene, Kevin McAuliffe, Shun-Shing Chan
  • Publication number: 20020118097
    Abstract: A Write Broadcast system and method uses a base station to write sent data to all or some selected number (sub group) of tags in a base station field simultaneously. By unselecting the tags that have been successfully written to, and requesting a response from the remaining tags in the field (or sub group), the system determines, by receiving a response to the request, that there are tags in the field (sub group) that were unsuccessfully written to. Another Write Broadcast signal is sent to these tags. The system is useful for quickly (simultaneously) “stamping” information on the tag memory of a large number of tags in the field of the base station.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 1999
    Publication date: August 29, 2002
    Inventors: HARLEY KENT HEINRICH, CHRISTIAN LENZ CESAR, THOMAS A. COFINO, DANIEL J. FRIEDMAN, KENNETH ALAN GOLDMAN, SHARON LOUIS GREENE, KEVIN MCAULIFFE
  • Patent number: RE48218
    Abstract: A system for maintaining a minimum separation between pallets positioned on racks. The system comprising a double back stop. The stop includes: a first and a second back stop configured to prevent lateral movement of the pallets beyond the back stops, the back stops defining a minimum separation between the pallets; and a middle section connecting the back stops includes a vertical cross-member; and one or more of the following: a clip forming a channel affixed to the double back stop, and/or a web affixed to the double back stop, and/or member affixed to the double back stop, and/or a slot in the double back stop.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2020
    Inventor: Kevin McAuliffe