Patents by Inventor Michael Hope

Michael Hope 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: 20230075745
    Abstract: Filaments that contain a filament-forming material and an additive, nonwoven webs, and methods for making such filaments are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2022
    Publication date: March 9, 2023
    Inventors: Gregory Charles Gordon, Robert Wayne Glenn, Mark Robert Sivik, Mark Ryan Richards, Stephen Wayne Heinzman, Michael David James, Geoffrey William Reynolds, Paul Dennis Trokhan, Paul Thomas Weisman, Alyssandrea Hope Hamad-Ebrahimpour, Frank William Denome, Stephen Joseph Hodson
  • Patent number: 11563742
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method includes receiving a request for one of a network session and a virtual network function, wherein the request includes a single packet authorization request. The method further includes classifying the single packet authorization request at a first service classifier. The method further includes routing the request, via a service function forwarder, to a single packet authorization service function for validation. The method further includes instantiating a security virtual function in response to the request, wherein instantiating the security virtual function occurs after validation of the single packet authorization request. The method further includes configuring the security virtual function to apply at least one connection policy to allow or deny traffic in a data session. The method further includes, in response to allowing the data session, terminating the security virtual function after the data session has concluded.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignee: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.
    Inventors: Michael Stair, Edward Hope
  • Publication number: 20220407881
    Abstract: Embodiments are directed to monitoring network traffic using network monitoring computers (NMCs). Metrics may be determined based on monitoring network traffic associated with a plurality of entities each associated with a profile that includes the metrics for each entity. Beaconing metrics associated with beaconing activity may be determined based on the metrics. The profile of each entity may be compared with the beaconing metrics to determine the entities that may be engaged in beaconing activity. The entities may be characterized based on beaconing activity such that the beaconing activity includes communication with endpoints associated with the third parties, employing communication protocols associated with the third-parties, or exchanging payloads consistent with the beaconing activity. Reports that include information associated with the entities and its beaconing activity may be generated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 26, 2022
    Publication date: December 22, 2022
    Inventors: Jeff James Costlow, Michael Ryan Corder, Edmund Hope Driggs, Benjamin Thomas Higgins, Michael Kerber Krause Montague, Kenneth Perrault, Jesse Abraham Rothstein, Jonathan Jacob Scott, Marc Adam Winners, Xue Jun Wu
  • Publication number: 20220314078
    Abstract: In one aspect of the disclosure, a method includes rendering, by a processor, a virtual environment associating, by the processor, exercise machine control signals with the virtual environment, and displaying, by the processor, the virtual environment on a video wall. The method may include receiving, by the processor, a video of a trainer on an exercise machine in front of the video wall displaying the virtual environment, wherein the exercise machine has one or more parameters which are controlled according to the exercise machine control signals associated with the virtual environment, associating, by the processor, the control signals with the video of the trainer in the virtual environment, and publishing the video with the associated control signals for use on a remote exercise machine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2022
    Publication date: October 6, 2022
    Inventors: Eric Watterson, Nick Watterson, Joseph A. Torres, JR., Michael Hope
  • Patent number: 11434586
    Abstract: Filaments that contain a filament-forming material and an additive, nonwoven webs, and methods for making such filaments are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Gregory Charles Gordon, Robert Wayne Glenn, Jr., Mark Robert Sivik, Mark Ryan Richards, Stephen Wayne Heinzman, Michael David James, Geoffrey William Reynolds, Paul Dennis Trokhan, Paul Thomas Weisman, Alyssandrea Hope Hamad-Ebrahimpour, Frank William Denome, Stephen Joseph Hodson
  • Patent number: 11431626
    Abstract: Processing an ingress packet in a packet pipeline to determine a forwarding rule includes identifying a matching rule in each forwarding table in the pipeline. Prefix lengths of the respective matching rules are compared. The matching rule with the greatest prefix length serves as the basis for forwarding an egress packet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: ARISTA NETWORKS, INC.
    Inventors: Michael Chih-Yen Wang, Prashanth Krishnamurthy, Sean Hope, Tula Kraiser
  • Publication number: 20150083433
    Abstract: A method for performing downhole gas lift operations includes coupling a gas lift valve to a tubing, wherein the gas lift valve includes an actuator, a flow control device disposed in the actuator, and a closure member that is initially in an open position; injecting a gas downhole and exterior to the tubing; urging the gas to enter the tubing via the gas lift valve; and creating a sufficient pressure differential across the gas lift valve to move the actuator, thereby causing the closure member to close the gas lift valve.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2014
    Publication date: March 26, 2015
    Inventors: Stephen David LONG, Zlatko SALIHBEGOVIC, J. Michael HOPE
  • Patent number: 7422902
    Abstract: Novel lipid-nucleic acid particulate complexes which are useful for in vitro or in vivo gene transfer are described. The particles can be formed using either detergent dialysis methods or methods which utilize organic solvents. Upon removal of a solubilizing component (i.e., detergent or an organic solvent) the lipid-nucleic acid complexes form particles wherein the nucleic acid is serum-stable and is protected from degradation. The particles thus formed have access to extravascular sites and target cell populations and are suitable for the therapeutic delivery of nucleic acids.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 1999
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2008
    Assignee: The University of British Columbia
    Inventors: Jeffery J. Wheeler, Marcel B. Bally, Yuan-Peng Zhang, Dorothy L. Reimer, Michael Hope, Pieter R. Cullis, Peter Scherrer
  • Publication number: 20070172950
    Abstract: Novel lipid-nucleic acid particulate complexes which are useful for in vitro or in vivo gene transfer are described. The particles can be formed using either detergent dialysis methods or methods which utilize organic solvents. Upon removal of a solubilizing component (i.e., detergent or an organic solvent) the lipid-nucleic acid complexes form particles wherein the nucleic acid is serum-stable and is protected from degradation. The particles thus formed have access to extravascular sites and target cell populations and are suitable for the therapeutic delivery of nucleic acids.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2007
    Publication date: July 26, 2007
    Applicants: The University of British Columbia, INEX Pharmaceuticals Corporation
    Inventors: Jeffrey Wheeler, Marcel Bally, Yuan-Peng Zhang, Dorothy Reimer, Michael Hope, Pieter Cullis, Peter Scherrer
  • Publication number: 20060008909
    Abstract: The present invention includes novel liposomes comprising dihydrosphingomyelin. The invention also includes compositions comprising these liposomes and a therapeutic agent, in addition to methods and kits for delivering a therapeutic agent or treating a disease, e.g., a cancer, using these compositions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 16, 2005
    Publication date: January 12, 2006
    Applicant: Inex Pharmaceuticals Corporation
    Inventors: Pieter Cullis, Thomas Madden, Michael Hope, Steven Ansell, Barbara Mui, Sean Semple, Norbert Maurer
  • Publication number: 20050255153
    Abstract: Methods for the preparation of a lipid-nucleic acid composition are provided. According to the methods, a mixture of lipids containing a protonatable or deprotonatable lipid, for example an amino lipid and a lipid such as a PEG- or Polyamide oligomer-modified lipid is combined with a buffered aqueous solution of a charged therapeutic agent, for example polyanionic nucleic acids, to produce particles in which the therapeutic agent is encapsulated in a lipid vesicle. Surface charges on the lipid particles are at least partially neutralized to provide surface-neutralized lipid-encapsulated compositions of the therapeutic agents. The method permits the preparation of compositions with high ratios of therapeutic agent to lipid and with encapsulation efficiencies in excess of 50%.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2003
    Publication date: November 17, 2005
    Inventors: Sean Semple, Sandra Klimuk, Troy Harasym, Michael Hope, Steven Ansell, Pieter Cullis, Peter Scherrer, Dan Debeyer
  • Publication number: 20050249794
    Abstract: Lipid-nucleic acid particles can provide therapeutic benefits, even when the nucleic acid is not complementary to coding sequences in target cells. It has been found that lipid-nucleic acid particles, including those containing non-sequence specific oligodeoxynucleotides, can be used to stimulate cytokine secretion, thus enhancing the overall immune response of a treated mammal. Further, immune response to specific target antigens can be induced by administration of a antigenic molecule in association with lipid particles containing non-sequence specific oligodeoxynucleotides. The nucleic acid which is included in the lipid-nucleic acid particle can be a phosphodiester (i.e.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2004
    Publication date: November 10, 2005
    Inventors: Sean Semple, Troy Harasym, Sandra Klimuk, Ljiljiana Kojic, Jonathan Bramson, Barbara Mui, Michael Hope
  • Publication number: 20050079212
    Abstract: Plasmid-lipid particles which are useful for transfection of cells in vitro or in vivo are described. The particles can be formed using either detergent dialysis methods or methods which utilize organic solvents. The particles are typically 65-85 nm, fully encapsulate the plasmid and are serum-stable.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2004
    Publication date: April 14, 2005
    Applicant: Inex Pharmaceuticals Corp.
    Inventors: Jeffery Wheeler, Michael Hope, Pieter Cullis, Marcel Bally
  • Patent number: 6858224
    Abstract: Particle aggregation of lipid:nucleic acid complex particles is prevented by incorporating a non-cationic lipid into lipid:nucleic acid complex particles containing a cationic lipid and a nucleic acid polymer. The non-cationic lipid is a polyethylene glycol-based polymer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2001
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2005
    Assignee: Inex Pharmaceuticals Corporation
    Inventors: Jeffrey Wheeler, Marcel B. Bally, Yuan-Peng Zhang, Dorothy L. Reimer, Michael Hope
  • Publication number: 20050008689
    Abstract: Methods for the preparation of a lipid-nucleic acid composition are provided. According to the methods, a mixture of lipids containing a protonatable or deprotonatable lipid, for example an amino lipid and a lipid such as a PEG- or Polyamide oligomer-modified lipid is combined with a buffered aqueous solution of a charged therapeutic agent, for example polyanionic nucleic acids, to produce particles in which the therapeutic agent is encapsulated in a lipid vesicle. Surface charges on the lipid particles are at least partially neutralized to provide surface-neutralized lipid-encapsulated compositions of the therapeutic agents. The method permits the preparation of compositions with high ratios of therapeutic agent to lipid and with encapsulation efficiencies in excess of 50%.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2004
    Publication date: January 13, 2005
    Inventors: Sean Semple, Sandra Klimuk, Troy Harasym, Michael Hope, Steven Ansell, Pieter Cullis, Peter Scherrer, Dan Debeyer
  • Patent number: 6815432
    Abstract: Plasmid-lipid particles which are useful for transfection of cells in vitro or in vivo are described. The particles can be formed using either detergent dialysis methods or methods which utilize organic solvents. The particles are typically 65-85 nm, fully encapsulate the plasmid and are serum-stable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2003
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2004
    Assignee: Inex Pharmaceuticals Corp.
    Inventors: Jeffery J. Wheeler, Michael Hope, Pieter R. Cullis, Marcel B. Bally
  • Publication number: 20030181410
    Abstract: Plasmid-lipid particles which are useful for transfection of cells in vitro or in vivo are described. The particles can be formed using either detergent dialysis methods or methods which utilize organic solvents. The particles are typically 65-85 nm, fully encapsulate the plasmid and are serum-stable.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2003
    Publication date: September 25, 2003
    Applicant: Inex Pharmaceuticals Corp.
    Inventors: Jeffery J. Wheeler, Michael Hope, Pieter R. Cullis, Marcel B. Bally
  • Patent number: 6586410
    Abstract: Novel lipid-nucleic acid particulate complexes which are useful for in vitro or in vivo gene transfer are described. The particles can be formed using either detergent dialysis methods or methods which utilize organic solvents. Upon removal of a solubilizing component (i.e., detergent or an organic solvent) the lipid-nucleic acid complexes form particles wherein the nucleic acid is serum-stable and is protected from degradation. The particles thus formed have access to extravascular sites and target cell populations and are suitable for the therapeutic delivery of nucleic acids.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2000
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2003
    Assignee: Inex Pharmaceuticals Corporation
    Inventors: Jeffery J. Wheeler, Marcel B. Bally, Yuan-Peng Zhang, Dorothy L. Reimer, Michael Hope, Pieter R. Cullis, Peter Scherrer
  • Patent number: 6534484
    Abstract: Plasmid-lipid particles which are useful for transfection of cells in vitro or in vivo are described. The particles can be formed using either detergent dialysis methods or methods which utilize organic solvents. The particles are typically 65-85 nm, fully encapsulate the plasmid and are serum-stable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 1999
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2003
    Assignee: Inex Pharmaceuticals Corp.
    Inventors: Jeffery J. Wheeler, Michael Hope, Pieter R. Cullis, Marcel B. Bally
  • Publication number: 20020192651
    Abstract: Particle aggregation of lipid:nucleic acid complex particles is prevented by incorporating a non-cationic lipid into lipid:nucleic acid complex particles containing a cationic lipid and a nucleic acid polymer. The non-cationic lipid is a polyethylene glycol-based polymer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 5, 2001
    Publication date: December 19, 2002
    Inventors: Jeffrey Wheeler, Marcel B. Bally, Yuan-Peng Zhang, Dorothy L. Reimer, Michael Hope