Patents by Inventor Michael A. Lake
Michael A. Lake 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).
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Patent number: 7480834Abstract: A system and method for monitoring the availability of an application in a distributed data processing environment are provided. The performance aspects of application availability are defined in terms of easily observed and computed characteristics of the application as it behaves in a deployed environment with the deployed configuration. The system and method observe the application processes, the structural resources they require, and the consumable resources they require from the running system itself. These observations are then used to derive minimum requirements for the resource requirement aspects of availability as well as derive criteria for normal behavioral conditions. These minimum requirements and normal behavioral conditions are then used to establish monitoring rules or conditions for monitoring the operation of the application to determine if availability of the application is degrading such that a notification needs to be sent to an administrator.Type: GrantFiled: January 6, 2005Date of Patent: January 20, 2009Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Russell C. Blaisdell, John Michael Lake, Scot MacLellan
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Patent number: 7412432Abstract: A context-sensitive pre-evaluation analysis of a set of rules is performed based on the circumstance or the current state of a rule clause directed to an infrequently changing condition. A group of multiple-clause rules are identified which each have a clause defining an infrequently changing condition for evaluating a state of a resource. The current state of the resource is monitored. If the identified group of multiple-clause rules, which cannot evaluate as TRUE under the context of the current state the resource, the identified group of multiple-clause rules are excluded from consideration by the rules engine. The rules engine will then encounter fewer rules to evaluate for a solution. The identified group of multiple-clause rules is further analyzed in the context of the infrequently changing condition for the current resource state. State metrics that are defined by clauses of the identified multiple-clause rules, those that cannot evaluate as TRUE, are identified.Type: GrantFiled: October 27, 2005Date of Patent: August 12, 2008Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: David Louis Kaminsky, John Michael Lake
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Patent number: 7398510Abstract: Methods, apparatus, and computer program products for analyzing defect backlogs that arise in the software development process. Analysis is based on a validity ratio that projects the number of open defects that are likely to actually require fixes, a fix rate that describes the performance of the development team charged with fixing the defects, defect census data, and team performance census data. One outcome of the analysis may be an estimate of the date by which the defect backlog should be resolved. Another outcome of the analysis may be an estimate of the capacity of a team to resolve defects between a given start date and a given target date.Type: GrantFiled: April 21, 2004Date of Patent: July 8, 2008Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventor: John Michael Lake
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Patent number: 7299367Abstract: Methods, systems and computer program products for of selecting an alert condition for a resource monitoring system are provided in which a logic value is associated with at least some entries in a database. The entries in the database may correspond to values for specified metrics at different times. The alert condition is selected based on the logic values and the entries in the database.Type: GrantFiled: November 7, 2003Date of Patent: November 20, 2007Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Gregory Philip Hamm, John Michael Lake
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Publication number: 20070087213Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for treating wood and other cellulosic materials to render the resistance to wood attacking organisms, such as termite, fungi and insects. More particularly, the present invention relates to a process for treating wood with borate preservative formulation which contains at least one boron-containing component and at least one resinous component capable of retaining impregnated borate inside the treated wood even upon contact with water. The resinous component may be rosin, rosin derivative, tall oil-based compound, or mixtures thereof.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 4, 2006Publication date: April 19, 2007Inventors: Philip Robinson, Jane Blasser, Michael Lake, G. Hutter, Frederick Bishop, David Smith
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Patent number: 7171538Abstract: An interface for managing incremental data storage includes a write function that appends an entry to an incremental log, a read function that retrieves a most recent log entry corresponding to a block address, and a snapshot function that automatically partitions the incremental log into an additional volume. The interface may also include a policy assignment function that associates specified policies with explicitly or implicitly specified resources, a read entry function that retrieves sequential entries from the incremental log, and a compact volume function. The provided functions and associated apparatus, method, and system, facilitate management of incremental data including snapshot, remote copy, data compaction, policy management, data restoration, and other operations on data storage devices and systems.Type: GrantFiled: October 22, 2003Date of Patent: January 30, 2007Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Richard V. Kisley, John Michael Lake, Durga Devi Mannaru
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Publication number: 20070018826Abstract: An integrated system for tracking assets (tools and materials) and personnel associated with a work site. Personnel are equipped with tracking devices having at least geolocation capability. Assets are tagged with RFID tags, which are interrogated at portals, by mobile scanners, or by personnel tracking devices having RFID reading capability. The tag readers and tracking devices are all in communication with a common “information backbone” and all data is delivered to, and processed by, a common command and control subsystem.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 25, 2006Publication date: January 25, 2007Inventors: Brent Nowak, Michael Milam, Myron Moodie, Kenneth Oleson, Michael Lake, Sandra Dykes, Larry Canady, Charles Poer, John Pike
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Patent number: 7048885Abstract: An apparatus and process (20) for forming an embossed web or other article can include moving a target, composite web (26) along an appointed machine-direction (22) at a selected web speed, and operatively contacting the target web (26) with a rotary embossing device (38) to thereby form a non-linear embossment region (82) in at least a selected embossment portion of the target web (26). For example, the web speed can be at least a minimum of about 1.9 m/sec. In a particular aspect, the embossing device (38) can include an outer peripheral surface (42) having a lateral cross-direction (24) and a circumferential-direction (40), and can include a non-linear embossing member (44) located on the outer surface (42). In another aspect, the embossing member (44) can be configured to include a selected traversing occurrence along the circumferential-direction (40) of the embossing device (38). In a further aspect, the embossing member (44) can be configured to include a selected lateral traversing distance (50).Type: GrantFiled: August 14, 2003Date of Patent: May 23, 2006Assignee: Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc.Inventors: Marcus David Weiher, Shelley Rae Rasmussen, Andrew Michael Lake, Michael John Bott
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Patent number: 6998086Abstract: An embossing method and apparatus (20) comprises a rotary embossing device (32) having a radial direction (28) and an outer peripheral surface (34). The embossing device (32) includes at least one embossing-component (48) which extends at least radially outward from the peripheral surface (34), and is configured to provide for a first embossing-pattern (38). The embossing device (32) also includes a rotary shaft member (46). A base embossing-segment (50) is operatively joined to the rotary shaft member (46) and configured to carry a first base-section (40) of the first embossing-component (48). In a particular aspect, a first, supplemental embossing-segment (52) is operatively joined and selectively positionable on the rotary shaft member (46), and is configured to carry a first supplemental-section (42) of the first embossing-component (48).Type: GrantFiled: September 19, 2003Date of Patent: February 14, 2006Assignee: Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc.Inventors: Andrew Michael Lake, Shelley Rae Rasmussen, Jesse James Pasterski, Wen Tong Lay, Marcus David Weiher, Michael John Bott, Rodney Lawrence Abba
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Publication number: 20050186352Abstract: This invention relates to a method for treating wood and the treated wood. More particularly, the invention relates to a wood treatment method for making wood resistant to insect and soil microbe damage by impregnating the wood with a mixture of at least one borate and at least one rosin and/or rosin derivative.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 29, 2004Publication date: August 25, 2005Inventors: G. Hutter, Michael Lake, David Smith, Philip Robinson, Frederick Bishop
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Patent number: 6911573Abstract: The present invention is a method for producing an absorbent article. A wet resillient, cellulosic basesheet having elevated and depressed regions with an Overall Surface Depth of at least 0.2 mm is prepared. The cellulosic basesheet has an upper surface and a lower surface. A contiguous, fibrous nonwoven web having a plurality of openings is integrally attached onto the upper surface of the cellulosic basesheet such that a portion of the openings are superposed over the depressed regions of the cellulosic basesheet. An absorbent core and an impervious web are attached to the lower surface of the cellulosic basesheet such that the absorbent core is sandwiched between the impervious web and the cellulosic basesheet.Type: GrantFiled: January 8, 2002Date of Patent: June 28, 2005Assignee: Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc.Inventors: Fung-jou Chen, Jeffrey Dean Lindsay, Richard Joseph Kamps, Andrew Michael Lake, Mark Louis Robinson
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Publication number: 20040202105Abstract: A method, system, and computer program for managing network connectivity between a plurality of nodes and a network resource. The network resource includes a primary path to the nodes and at least one redundant path. A detecting module is configured to determine if the primary path is unavailable to at least one affected node belonging to the plurality of nodes. A switching module is configured to presumptively switch the affected node to the redundant path if the primary path is unavailable. An initiating module configured to initiate a voting procedure among the plurality of nodes to select a new path to the network resource, wherein data flow at the affected node through the redundant path continues during the voting procedure.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 11, 2003Publication date: October 14, 2004Inventors: Wendell D. Jones, Greg Kaszycki, David L. Kaminsky, John Michael Lake, David M. Ogle, Jonathan G. Rossie, Jonathan Sobel
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Publication number: 20040117477Abstract: Under the present invention, the performances of a plurality of similarly configured nodes are monitored and compared. If one of the nodes exhibits a performance that varies from the performances of the other nodes by more than a current tolerance, an operational risk is detected. If detected, an alert can be generated and one or more corrective actions implemented to address the operational risk.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 17, 2002Publication date: June 17, 2004Applicant: Internationl Business Machines CorporationInventors: David L. Kaminsky, John Michael Lake
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Patent number: 6608236Abstract: There is provided a distribution material for personal care products which is a fabric which wicks artificial menses according to a horizontal wicking test a distance of about 1 inch in less than about 1.5 minutes. Materials meeting this performance criteria generally have a pore size distribution with a high percentage (usually more than 50 percent) of pore diameters between about 80 and 400 microns and a density below about 0.15 g/cc. There is also provided a personal care product system having a distribution/retention layer and a pad shaping layer wherein each layer has a stain length ratio of 0.5 or less and the distribution/retention layer has a saturation profile of 4 or less.Type: GrantFiled: May 5, 1998Date of Patent: August 19, 2003Assignee: Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc.Inventors: Andrew Scott Burnes, Rebecca Lyn Dilnik, Connie Lynn Hetzler, Thomas Patrick Jorgenson, Tamara Lee Mace, David Michael Matela, Jayne Bramstedt Nelson, Lawrence Howell Sawyer, Alexander Manfred Schmidt-Foerst, Heather Anne Sorebo, James Allyn Spiers, Laura Jane Walker, Rodney Lawrence Abba, Charles John Chappell, Valerie Victoria Finch, Ann Marie Giencke, Michael Brent Kottek, Allan James Krueger, Andrew Michael Lake, MeeWha Lee, Sarah Elizabeth Long-Radloff, Janice Gail Nielsen, Ann Margaret Vanevenhoven
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Publication number: 20020178148Abstract: A technique for allowing lightweight cooperative multitasking to be used as if it were pre-emptive multitasking, in a fashion that is transparent to the development process. The technique accepts a long-running program which it then transforms into a co-operative multitasking program that yields the processor after a small amount of time has elapsed. This technique imposes a small overhead on the transformed long-running program, but no overhead on the original co-operative multitasking program. This contrasts strongly with the usual case in pre-emptive multitasking, which imposes its overhead on all processes in the system. The transformed long-running program can be throttled either statically or dynamically in response to changing conditions. This technology is designed to be compatible with a variety of approaches to co-operative multitasking asynchronous message-passing systems.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 30, 2001Publication date: November 28, 2002Inventors: Jonathan Sobel, Jonathan Rossie, John Michael Lake
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Publication number: 20020107495Abstract: A dual-zoned, three-dimensional, resilient absorbent web is disclosed which is suitable as body-side liner for absorbent articles such as feminine pads, diapers and the like. When used as a liner in absorbent articles, the dual-zoned web combines the advantages of apertured films and soft, nonwoven cover layers in one structure while still being inherently hydrophilic. The liner comprises a web of wet-resilient, hydrophilic basesheet having a three-dimensional topography comprising elevated regions onto which hydrophobic matter is deposited or printed and a plurality of spaced apart depressed regions. In a preferred embodiment, the hydrophobic matter applied to the elevated regions of the basesheet comprises hydrophobic fibers in a contiguous nonwoven web which has been apertured or provided with slits or other openings, such that the apertures or openings overlay a portion of the depressed regions.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 8, 2002Publication date: August 8, 2002Inventors: Fung-Jou Chen, Jeffrey Dean Lindsay, Richard Joseph Kamps, Andrew Michael Lake, Mark Louis Robinson
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Publication number: 20020103469Abstract: A dual-zoned, three-dimensional, resilient absorbent web is disclosed which is suitable as body-side liner for absorbent articles such as feminine pads, diapers and the like. When used as a liner in absorbent articles, the dual-zoned web combines the advantages of apertured films and soft, nonwoven cover layers in one structure while still being inherently hydrophilic. The liner comprises a web of wet-resilient, hydrophilic basesheet having a three-dimensional topography comprising elevated regions onto which hydrophobic matter is deposited or printed and a plurality of spaced apart depressed regions. In a preferred embodiment, the hydrophobic matter applied to the elevated regions of the basesheet comprises hydrophobic fibers in a contiguous nonwoven web which has been apertured or provided with slits or other openings, such that the apertures or openings overlay a portion of the depressed regions.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 8, 2002Publication date: August 1, 2002Inventors: Fung-jou Chen, Jeffrey Dean Lindsay, Richard Joseph Kamps, Andrew Michael Lake, Mark Louis Robinson
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Publication number: 20020099347Abstract: A dual-zoned, three-dimensional, resilient absorbent web is disclosed which is suitable as body-side liner for absorbent articles such as feminine pads, diapers and the like. When used as a liner in absorbent articles, the dual-zoned web combines the advantages of apertured films and soft, nonwoven cover layers in one structure while still being inherently hydrophilic. The liner comprises a web of wet-resilient, hydrophilic basesheet having a three-dimensional topography comprising elevated regions onto which hydrophobic matter is deposited or printed and a plurality of spaced apart depressed regions. In a preferred embodiment, the hydrophobic matter applied to the elevated regions of the basesheet comprises hydrophobic fibers in a contiguous nonwoven web which has been apertured or provided with slits or other openings, such that the apertures or openings overlay a portion of the depressed regions.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 8, 2002Publication date: July 25, 2002Inventors: Fung-jou Chen, Jeffrey Dean Lindsay, Richard Joseph Kamps, Andrew Michael Lake, Mark Louis Robinson
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Patent number: 6395957Abstract: A dual-zoned, three-dimensional, resilient absorbent web is disclosed which is suitable as body-side liner for absorbent articles such as feminine pads, diapers and the like. When used as a liner in absorbent articles, the dual-zoned web combines the advantages of apertured films and soft, nonwoven cover layers in one structure while still being inherently hydrophilic. The liner comprises a web of wet-resilient, hydrophilic basesheet having a three-dimensional topography comprising elevated regions onto which hydrophobic matter is deposited or printed and a plurality of spaced apart depressed regions. In a preferred embodiment, the hydrophobic matter applied to the elevated regions of the basesheet comprises hydrophobic fibers in a contiguous nonwoven web which has been apertured or provided with slits or other openings, such that the apertures or openings overlay a portion of the depressed regions.Type: GrantFiled: July 14, 1999Date of Patent: May 28, 2002Assignee: Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc.Inventors: Fung-jou Chen, Jeffrey Dean Lindsay, Richard Joseph Kamps, Andrew Michael Lake, Mark Louis Robinson
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Patent number: 6273996Abstract: Low-density uncreped through-air-dried webs containing bleached chemithermomechanical pulp fibers and a wet-strength resin are calendered to significantly increase density and reduce caliper. When wetted, these webs substantially return to their original caliper and density and substantially regain their original fluid-handling characteristics. Consequently these webs are very thin when dry and thick when wet. They can be used for a wide variety of applications, including paper towels, wipers and fluid-handling components for infant care and personal care products.Type: GrantFiled: March 13, 1998Date of Patent: August 14, 2001Assignee: Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc.Inventors: David Henry Hollenberg, James Ellis Horton, Jr., Andrew Michael Lake