Patents by Inventor Lawrence Smith

Lawrence Smith 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: 7091252
    Abstract: Bubble columns fractionate with vapor-liquid mass transfer efficiencies approaching that of distillation towers when vapor velocities in excess of 50% of jet flood are used. If the vapor velocities are pushed above about 70% of jet flood then the distillation performance of a given column packing becomes similar for both liquid continuous operation (bubble column mode) and vapor continuous operation (ordinary distillation tower mode).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2006
    Assignee: Catalytic Distillation Technologies
    Inventors: Lawrence A. Smith, Jr., Mitchell E. Loescher
  • Patent number: 7085931
    Abstract: A public key authentication system and method for use in a computer system having a plurality of users. The system includes a virtual smart card server, storage connected to the virtual smart card server, and a virtual smart card agent connected to the virtual smart card server. The storage includes a plurality of virtual smart cards, wherein each virtual smart card is associated with a user and wherein each smart card includes a private key. The virtual smart card agent authenticates the user and accesses the authenticated user's virtual smart card to obtain the user's private key.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 1999
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2006
    Assignee: Secure Computing Corporation
    Inventors: Lawrence Smith, Richard Levenberg
  • Publication number: 20060158328
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to a method of asset location. Location data is received from a cellular transmitter associated with a selected asset, which location data includes data representative of a cellular receiver with which direct communication with the cellular transmitter is made. The location data is then communicated to a tracking service system, which tracking service system includes a database representative of geographic locations associated with a plurality of cellular receivers. The database is then queried with received location data so as to generate geographic tracking data associated with a location of the cellular receiver, the geographic tracking data including display data adapted to generate a map image including a representative of a location of the selected asset.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2005
    Publication date: July 20, 2006
    Inventors: Jerry Culpepper, Lawrence Smith, James VanCleave
  • Publication number: 20060155156
    Abstract: A process for the removal of organic sulfur compounds, primarily oxygenated organic compounds, such as sulfates and sulfonic esters from a hydrocarbon liquid is disclosed which comprises contacting the hydrocarbon liquid with a coalescer comprising a mesh material which has been wetted by sulfuric acid. The hydrocarbon liquid may be the product from a sulfuric acid catalyzed alkylation process and contain sufficient sulfuric acid to remove the sulfates and sulfonic esters. Sulfuric acid may be added to the coalescer vessel counter current to the hydrocarbon liquid to improve the efficiency of the contacting and removal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2005
    Publication date: July 13, 2006
    Inventor: Lawrence Smith
  • Publication number: 20060123184
    Abstract: A method and apparatus if described herein for accessing a physical memory location referenced by a physical address with a processor. The processor fetches/receives instructions with references to virtual memory addresses and/or references to physical addresses. Translation logic translates the virtual memory addresses to physical addresses and provides the physical addresses to a common interface. Physical addressing logic decodes references to physical addresses and provides the physical addresses to a common interface based on a memory type stored by the physical addressing logic.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2004
    Publication date: June 8, 2006
    Inventors: Sanjoy Mondal, Rajesh Patel, Lawrence Smith
  • Publication number: 20060109838
    Abstract: A method, apparatus and computer program product for performing dynamic Voice Over Internet Protocol (VOIP) endpoint mapping is presented. At least one on net endpoint of a VOIP call is determined. An endpoint data structure is used to store, for each on net endpoint of the call, a key and at least one of an Internet Protocol (IP) address of the end point, a phone number associated with the endpoint, and/or a display name associated with the endpoint. The endpoint data structure is used to correlate call legs across a network. Heuristics of the VOIP call are determined, the heuristics including information relating to the main source call leg and the main destination call leg.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 2, 2005
    Publication date: May 25, 2006
    Inventors: Lawrence Smith, John Doyle, Feng Chen, Luis Zamora
  • Patent number: 7043855
    Abstract: A treating device for use with a fabric article drying appliance. The treating device dispenses a benefit composition into a chamber so as to provide benefits to fabric articles contained within the fabric article drying appliance. The treating device is comprised of at least two housings in communication with one another wherein at least one housing is located in the interior of a fabric article drying appliance and at least one housing is located outside of the fabric article drying appliance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2003
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2006
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Laura Lynn Heilman, Christopher Lawrence Smith, Keith David Fanta, Paul Amaat Raymond Gerard France, Dean Larry Du Val, Michael Joseph Orr, Jichun Shi
  • Publication number: 20060096875
    Abstract: A roofing nail holder for nail coils, including a flat base with rounded sides leading up to an open top so that the nails can be inserted there through, and a belt clip. A notch is cut out from the front wall for ready finger-access and quick reloading of a nail gun. The points of the nails in the coil can be oriented toward the front or back of the holder, depending on the preference of the user. An alternate embodiment of the present invention is a nail strip holder, which generally comprises a parallelogram-shaped receptacle with an open top, and slots cut out of the bottom surface. A nail strip is inserted into the receptacle through the open top and rests within the receptacle at a 30-degree angle. A belt clip is likewise attached to the receptacle. Both embodiments provide easy access to nails while performing construction work, and may be economically manufactured.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2005
    Publication date: May 11, 2006
    Inventor: Lawrence Smith
  • Publication number: 20060071783
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to a method of asset location. Location data is received from a cellular transmitter associated with a selected asset, which location data includes data representative of a cellular receiver with which direct communication with the cellular transmitter is made. The location data is then communicated to a tracking service system, which tracking service system includes a database representative of geographic locations associated with a plurality of cellular receivers. The database is then queried with received location data so as to generate geographic tracking data associated with a location of the cellular receiver, the geographic tracking data including display data adapted to generate a map image including a representative of a location of the selected asset.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2005
    Publication date: April 6, 2006
    Inventors: Jerry Culpepper, Lawrence Smith, James VanCleave
  • Publication number: 20060074280
    Abstract: A patient identification device is disclosed. The device includes a first sensor, a second sensor, and a processor. The first sensor may be configured to be positioned on the patient's finger. The device may include a camera. The device may include an identifier. The identifier displays a randomly generated alphanumeric code for further identification of the patient.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 6, 2004
    Publication date: April 6, 2006
    Inventors: Dinesh Martis, Edward Biggins, Frederick Oehler, Lawrence Smith, Olivier Fischer, Jason Hispkind, George Jones
  • Publication number: 20060075402
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes transitioning control to a virtual machine (VM) from a virtual machine monitor (VMM), determining that a VMM timer indicator is set to an enabling value, and identifying a VMM timer value configured by the VMM. The method further includes periodically comparing a current value of a timing source with the VMM timer value, generating an internal event if the current value of the timing source has reached the VMM timer value, and transitioning control to the VMM in response to the internal event without incurring an event handling procedure in any one of the VMM and the VM.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2004
    Publication date: April 6, 2006
    Inventors: Gilbert Neiger, Steven Bennett, Erik Cota-Robles, Sebastian Schoenberg, Clifford Hall, Dion Rodgers, Lawrence Smith, Andrew Anderson, Richard Uhlig, Michael Kozuch, Andy Glew
  • Publication number: 20060030741
    Abstract: A process for the etherification of C4, C5 and/or C6 tertiary olefins in a hydrocarbon feed with at least one C1 to C6 alcohol, preferably C1-C4 alcohols in a distillation column reactor, preferably where C4's and C5's ethers are co-produced, in which the amount of alcohol employed in the etherification is below that which will produce an azeotrope with hydrocarbons in the overheads from the distillation column reactor. The azeotrope results from the presence of unreacted alcohol in the reaction system in the distillation column reactor. The amount of alcohol is less than the stoichiometric amount, preferably less than 90%, more preferably 10 to 80%, of the stoichiometric amount and the overheads contain less than a stoichiometric of alcohol.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2004
    Publication date: February 9, 2006
    Inventors: Lawrence Smith, John Adams
  • Patent number: 6995296
    Abstract: A process for the alkylation of alkane with olefin or olefin precursor such as an oligomer of tertiary olefin comprising contacting a liquid system comprising acid catalyst, isoparaffin and olefin in concurrent downflow into contact in a reaction zone with a disperser mesh under conditions of temperature and pressure to react said isoparaffin and said olefin to produce an alkylate product is disclosed. Preferably, the liquid system is maintained at about its boiling point in the reaction zone. Unexpectedly, the olefin oligomers have been found to function as olefin precursors and not as olefins in the reaction. Thus, for example, a cold acid alkylation using an oligomer of isobutene (principally dimer and trimer) with isobutane produces isooctane with the isobutane reacting with the constituent isobutene units of the oligomers on a molar basis. The product isooctane is essentially the same as that produced in the conventional cold acid process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2004
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2006
    Assignee: Catalytic Distillation Technologies
    Inventors: Lawrence A. Smith, Jr., Mitchell E. Loescher, John R. Adams, Abraham P. Gelbein
  • Publication number: 20060015869
    Abstract: Techniques for handling certain virtualization events occurring within a virtual machine environment. More particularly, at least one embodiment of the invention pertains to handling events related to the sub-operating system mode using a dedicated virtual machine monitor (VMM) called the system management mode VMM (SVMM), which exists in a separate portion of memory from a main virtual machine monitor (MVMM) used to handle virtualization events other than those related to the sub-operating system mode. In at least one embodiment, a technique for initializing and managing transitions to and from the SVMM is disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2005
    Publication date: January 19, 2006
    Inventors: Gilbert Neiger, Steven Bennett, Dion Rodgers, Richard Uhlig, Lawrence Smith
  • Publication number: 20060005084
    Abstract: In one embodiment, information pertaining to a first fault occurring during operation of a virtual machine (VM) is stored in a first field. A second fault is detected while delivering the first fault to the VM, and a determination is made as to whether the second fault is associated with a transition of control to a virtual machine monitor (VMM). If this determination is positive, information pertaining to the second fault is stored in a second field, and control is transitioned to the VMM.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2004
    Publication date: January 5, 2006
    Inventors: Gilbert Neiger, Andrew Anderson, Steven Bennett, Jason Brandt, Erik Cota-Robles, Stalinselvaraj Jeyasingh, Alain Kagi, Sanjoy Mondal, Rajesh Parthasarathy, Dion Rodgers, Lawrence Smith, Richard Uhlig
  • Publication number: 20060000401
    Abstract: A mooring line storage device and system for watercraft having a housing defining an inner cavity. The housing has at least one access aperture and a cover in overlying relationship with the aperture. Cover and housing cooperatively interact to prevent extension of a discrete region of a mooring line from the inner cavity. The device may also include at least one hanger to suspend the housing from a structural member of the watercraft.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 1, 2004
    Publication date: January 5, 2006
    Inventors: Joseph Massetti, Lawrence Smith
  • Publication number: 20060000402
    Abstract: A mooring line storage device and system for watercraft having a housing defining an inner cavity. The housing has at least one access aperture and a cover in overlying relationship with the aperture. Cover and housing cooperatively interact to prevent extension of a discrete region of a mooring line from the inner cavity. The device may also include at least one hanger to suspend the housing from a structural member of the watercraft.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2005
    Publication date: January 5, 2006
    Inventors: Joseph Massetti, Lawrence Smith
  • Publication number: 20050283660
    Abstract: A platform and method for secure handling of events in an isolated execution environment. A processor executing in isolated execution “IsoX” mode may leak data when an event occurs as a result of the event being handled in a traditional manner based on the exception vector. By defining a class of events to be handled in IsoX mode, and switching between a normal memory map and an IsoX memory map dynamically in response to receipt of an event of the class, data security may be maintained in the face of such events.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 21, 2005
    Publication date: December 22, 2005
    Inventors: Francis McKeen, Lawrence Smith, Benjamin Chaffin, Michael Cornaby, Bryant Bigbee
  • Publication number: 20050283279
    Abstract: A method includes, receiving a unit of information, wherein the unit of information pertains to an architectural structure or a vehicle. The unit of information is stored local to a user and the user is notified wirelessly, based on the unit of information. An apparatus includes a storage device configured to receive a unit of information that is associated with the architectural structure or the vehicle. A processor is programmed to receive the unit of information, maintain the unit of information in the storage device, and initiate a notification to the user in response to the unit of information, wherein the notification is communicated wirelessly to the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2004
    Publication date: December 22, 2005
    Inventors: Frederick Cleeves, Lawrence Smith
  • Publication number: 20050283740
    Abstract: An apparatus includes an information content that has a unit of information. The apparatus further includes an object-icon, which has a part. The information content is logically associated with the object-icon and the unit of information is logically associated with the part. The object-icon visually resembles something of interest to a user. The apparatus further includes a storage device, which is configured to store information, such as the information content or the unit of information and an information display in communication with the storage device. The apparatus further includes a processor programmed to display the object-icon on the information display and to display the part on the information display if the object-icon is selected by the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2004
    Publication date: December 22, 2005
    Inventors: Frederick Cleeves, Lawrence Smith