Patents by Inventor Matthew Alberts

Matthew Alberts 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: 20060110371
    Abstract: The present invention relates to controlling and/or manipulating of dendritic cells by controlling the expression and activity of indoleamine 2,3 deoxygenase expression and activity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2005
    Publication date: May 25, 2006
    Applicant: INSTITUT PASTEUR
    Inventors: Matthew Albert, Deborah Braun
  • Publication number: 20040220940
    Abstract: The use of a centralized version table allows for efficient object switching. Rather than synchronizing all database agents to recognize a newly created file as containing the most recent version of a given object, database agents requiring access to the given object need only consult the centralized version table to learn file identity information. That is, the database agents consult the centralized version table to determine which of the files associated with a given object contain the most recent version of the given object. Mechanisms associated with the use of the centralized version table also provide for efficient recovery from a failure that has occurred during an object switching transaction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 29, 2003
    Publication date: November 4, 2004
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Robert T. Berks, Miroslaw Adam Flasza, Matthew Albert Huras, Leo Tat Man Lau, Keriley K. Romanufa, Aamer Sachedina, Michael Jeffrey Winer
  • Patent number: 6810925
    Abstract: A hydrogen fueling station and system for hydrogen fueled vehicles that can transfer any gaseous fuel to any vehicle and can be located in any place where a vehicle can park and where environmental, safety and other regulatory requirements permit gaseous fuel to be transferred. The hydrogen fueling station is vertically elongate and includes an enclosure that has a plurality of housings to house groups of like components. The housings are configured and positively ventilated with external air to prevent the accumulation of leaked hydrogen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2003
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2004
    Assignee: General Hydrogen Corporation
    Inventors: John David Trevor Graham, Alan John Mulvenna, William Edward Mufford, Joachim George Borck, James Ko, Matthew Albert MacLennan Harper
  • Publication number: 20040208479
    Abstract: Briefly, there is provided a method for manipulating content stored on a disk recorder/playback device using conventional transport commands, such as those used on a conventional videotape recorder (VTR). The method commences by detecting whether the content is in one of a prescribed set of modes, and by determining whether one of a stop, normal motion, a first rapid motion or second rapid motion buttons has been actuated. Depending on which of the stop, normal motion, a first rapid mode or second rapid motion buttons, the content is advanced in one of a first and second directions. The motion of the content is controlled in accordance with the detected content mode and to the degree to which one of the first rapid motion mode and second motion mode buttons has been actuated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2004
    Publication date: October 21, 2004
    Inventors: Matthew Albert Ivey, Brian Charles Dunn, Mark Scott Hillebrandt
  • Publication number: 20040181635
    Abstract: A reservation system for making reservations in a shared memory buffer to store information from applications is logically partitioned in a number of fixed size indexed contiguous slots. The reservation system uses an atomic counter that is stored in the shared memory buffer. The value of the atomic counter can be associated with the index of a slot available for reservation. An application making a reservation increases the atomic counter value on a number of reserved slots to provide a value that is associated with the index of the next slot available for reservation. After the reservation is accomplished, the information is written into the reserved slots. The reservation system writes parsing information for further parsing to validate information in the shared memory buffer. The reservation system provides functionality for continuous and instantaneous dumping of the shared memory buffer into a file for cleaning and for wrapping the buffer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 29, 2003
    Publication date: September 16, 2004
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Matthew Albert Huras, David C. Kalmuk, John P. Kennedy, Hebert W. Pereyra, Mark F. Wilding
  • Publication number: 20040103109
    Abstract: A technique for recovering a dropped table is provided. One or more table spaces are specified prior to one or more tables being dropped from the specified one or more table spaces. When a table is to be dropped from the one or more specified table spaces, a table identifier, a time stamp, and table definition attributes are stored for the dropped table in a data structure and the table is dropped. Upon receiving a request to restore a table space from the one or more specified table spaces, each of the one or more tables in the table space being restored is recovered using the data structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2003
    Publication date: May 27, 2004
    Inventors: Matthew Albert Huras, Dale M. McInnis, Effi Ofer, Michael J. Winer, Roger Luo Q. Zheng
  • Patent number: 6684225
    Abstract: A database management system having a dropped table recovery flag. If the dropped table recovery flag is on at the time that a table is dropped, an entry will be made in a dropped table history file. The dropped table history file contains a timestamp of the time of table drop, a unique dropped table identifier, and table definition information. The system includes a command to permit the table-space of a dropped table to be restored and rolled forward to the point of the dropped table drop. The restored and rolled forward dropped table data is written to a flat file. The flat file data is loaded into a recreated table in the current table space to recover the dropped table.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2000
    Date of Patent: January 27, 2004
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Matthew Albert Huras, Dale M. McInnis, Effi Ofer, Michael J. Winer, Roger Luo Q. Zheng
  • Publication number: 20030164202
    Abstract: A hydrogen fueling station and system for hydrogen fueled vehicles that can transfer any gaseous fuel to any vehicle and can be located in any place where a vehicle can park and where environmental, safety and other regulatory requirements permit gaseous fuel to be transferred. The hydrogen fueling station is vertically elongate and includes an enclosure that has a plurality of housings to house groups of like components. The housings are configured and positively ventilated with external air to prevent the accumulation of leaked hydrogen.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 10, 2003
    Publication date: September 4, 2003
    Inventors: John David Trevor Graham, Alan John Mulvenna, William Edward Mufford, Joachim George Borck, James Ko, Matthew Albert MacLennan Harper
  • Publication number: 20030127155
    Abstract: This invention relates to a connectivity device for passively connecting a vehicle to a service port. The connectivity device comprises a mount for mounting to one of the vehicle or service port; a deployment apparatus movably attached to the mount; a plug for coupling to a receptacle in the other of the vehicle or service port; and, a compliant member attaching the plug to the deployment apparatus. The compliant member provides sufficient compliance for the plug to engage the receptacle when the connectivity device is in range of but not perfectly aligned with the receptacle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 29, 2002
    Publication date: July 10, 2003
    Inventors: Alan John Mulvenna, John David Trevor Graham, William Edward Mufford, Darren Scott Sokoloski, Craig James Greenhill, Bruce Conrad Wilnechenko, Curtis Michael Robin, Matthew Albert MacLennan Harper, Theodore Douglas Yntema
  • Patent number: 6578026
    Abstract: A method executed by a data processor for scanning a reverse range. The scan is conducted in an index for a table having an upper end and a lower end. The reverse range has a start key value for defining the reverse range, and the index has a set of keys representing a set of records and record attributes in the table. Each key in the set of keys has a RID designating a record in the table and a key value corresponding to an attribute of the record in the table. The method includes the steps of searching the index for a start key, selecting an upper bound of the reverse range, and, if the upper bound is the first key in the index, indicating that the index does not contain any key value within the reverse range, or, if the upper bound is not the first key in the index, then fetching each key below the upper bound in the index.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2000
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2003
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Leslie Anne Cranston, Catherine S. McArthur, Matthew Albert Huras
  • Publication number: 20030072743
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to methods for enhancing the ability of the immune system to either increase or decrease a cellular immune response to an antigen, for the purpose of either enhancing effectiveness of, for example, anti-viral and anti-tumor responses or decreasing immunological reactions in, for example, autoimmune disease or organ rejection, respectively; or clearing certain antigens responsible for disease in order to prevent an immune response.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2002
    Publication date: April 17, 2003
    Inventors: Matthew Albert, Raymond Birge
  • Patent number: 6221153
    Abstract: Compressed gases, liquefied gases, or supercritical fluids are utilized as anti-solvents in a crystal growing process for complex molecules. Crystals of the present invention exhibit greater crystal size and improved morphology over crystals obtained by conventional methods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 1998
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2001
    Inventors: Trevor Percival Castor, Matthew Albert Britz, Maury David Cosman, Peter Richard d'Entremont, Glenn Thomas Hong
  • Patent number: 6020455
    Abstract: A copolymer containing vinyl-3,4-cyclohexanediol and at least one monomer selected from acrylic acid, methacrylic acid, alkyl acrylate, alkyl methacrylate, styrene, acrylonitrile, butadiene, isoprene, vinyl acetate, maleic anhydride, ethylene, vinyl chloride, vinylidene dichloride, methyl styrene, vinyl toluene, acrylic and methacrylic acid, vinyl acetate, maleic anhydride, fumarate esters, maleate esters, vinylidene difluoride, vinyl fluoride, acrylic or methacrylic esters of the formula (I)H.sub.2 C.dbd.CHCOOR or H.sub.2 C.dbd.CCH.sub.3 COOR (I)where R is a aromatic or aliphatic hydrocarbon group containing 20 or fewer carbons and optionally containing oxygen, sulfur, or phosphorous, and mixtures thereof. A resin composition containing vinyl-3,4-cyclohexanediol, at least one carboxylic acid or ester thereof or anhydride, and optionally a polyol or diol other than vinyl-3,4-cyclohexanediol.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 1998
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2000
    Assignee: BP Amoco Corporation
    Inventors: Wayne Robert Pretzer, Matthew Albert Kulzick, Paul Alan Koning, Asare Nkansah, Maria Curry-Nkansah