Patents by Inventor Michael Humphreys
Michael Humphreys 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: 11935410Abstract: Systems, methods, and apparatuses for locating parking spaces are disclosed. According to one method, a request is received from a user of a vehicle to locate a space; the location of the user is determined; a database comprising spaces within a geographic region is accessed; from the database, a subset of spaces within the geographic region is identified, the subset comprising user-specific spaces; a determination is made regarding the availability of the user-specific spaces; and if a user-specific space is available, a transmission is initiated, intended for the user, providing the location of at least one available space. The systems, methods, and apparatus may be used to locate free spaces, may allow users to indicate when they are vacating a space to enable other users to access the space via a “park it forward” approach, and may assign available spaces to users based on an equitable prioritization protocol.Type: GrantFiled: February 23, 2022Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Inventors: Evan Humphreys, Denise Lisa Salvucci, Michael J. Kline
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Publication number: 20230316250Abstract: A system, method and computer readable medium for dynamically determining location-based rules affecting item sales at POS registers for a particular location and for distributing the location-based rules to the POS registers is discussed. A location-based ruleset of rules regulating sales of items at an individual store is created and transmitted to the store along with a rule group to item map file that maps rules and warnings to individual store items. A rules engine at the store provides updated item sale rules and warnings to POS registers based on the location-based ruleset and rule group to item map file. Embodiments thus provide an improved system for updating POS registers at different store locations with location-based rules specific to the store location.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 8, 2023Publication date: October 5, 2023Inventors: Shuvro Chakrobartty, Edward Sherrill, Gopi Kishore Danda, Britto Michaelsamy, Prasanna Rajendran, John Michael Humphrey
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Patent number: 11710113Abstract: A system, method and computer readable medium for dynamically determining location-based rules affecting item sales at POS registers for a particular location and for distributing the location-based rules to the POS registers is discussed. A location-based ruleset of rules regulating sales of items at an individual store is created and transmitted to the store along with a rule group to item map file that maps rules and warnings to individual store items. A rules engine at the store provides updated item sale rules and warnings to POS registers based on the location-based ruleset and rule group to item map file. Embodiments thus provide an improved system for updating POS registers at different store locations with location-based rules specific to the store location.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2016Date of Patent: July 25, 2023Assignee: Walmart Apollo, LLCInventors: Shuvro Chakrobartty, Edward Sherrill, Gopi Kishore Danda, Britto Michaelsamy, Prasanna Rajendran, John Michael Humphrey
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Publication number: 20220411640Abstract: Disclosed herein is a turf filler comprising a plurality of inorganic particles having a size of less than or equal to about 10 mesh at least partially encapsulated within a coating composition comprising a copolymer comprising one or more C2-C20 olefinic monomers and monomers of an ethylenically unsaturated ester of a C2-C10 carboxylic acid, wherein at least a first portion of the plurality of the particles further comprises a colorant, and a second portion of the plurality of particles is essentially free of a colorant. A method of producing the turf filler is also disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 24, 2022Publication date: December 29, 2022Inventors: Michael Humphreys, Dong Hinh
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Patent number: 11387087Abstract: A method, apparatus, and computer-readable storage medium for analyzing component separation/mass spectrometer data for a sample having known characteristic includes analyzing reference ion data for a relationship between ion mass, retention time, and intensity. The analyzed data is added to a repository, wherein each ion therein has an intensity maxima within a characteristic retention time range for a characteristic ion mass. If the reference ion is in the repository, the range is modified according to the characteristic retention time of the reference ion intensity maxima. Based on the known characteristic, an ion expected in the sample is selected from the repository, and sample data is compared to data for the ion selected from the repository to determine whether the ion is present in the sample. The range in the repository is then modified according to the characteristic retention time of the intensity maxima for the ion present in the sample.Type: GrantFiled: June 12, 2020Date of Patent: July 12, 2022Assignee: Metabolon, Inc.Inventors: William Lefew, David V. Foster, Rex A. Dwyer, Shelby S. Matlock, Casson Stallings, Michael Humphrey, Michael Heiser
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Patent number: 10841152Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media for creating and configuring computing clusters on a cloud computing platform. One of the methods includes receiving, by a service broker, a user input requesting creation of a computing cluster. The service broker generates, based at least in part on one or more release templates and the user input, a deployment manifest that specifies components and properties of a deployment of one or more clusters of a container orchestrator. The service broker provides the deployment manifest to a deployment manager. The deployment manager creates, according to the deployment manifest, one or more computing clusters in which one or more containerized applications are managed by the container orchestrator. Each computing cluster is configured to execute, in a user space, a containerized application specified by the container orchestrator. References to the computing cluster(s) are provided to a user device.Type: GrantFiled: December 3, 2018Date of Patent: November 17, 2020Assignee: Pivotal Software, Inc.Inventor: Colin Michael Humphreys
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Publication number: 20200312642Abstract: A method, apparatus, and computer-readable storage medium for analyzing component separation/mass spectrometer data for a sample having known characteristic includes analyzing reference ion data for a relationship between ion mass, retention time, and intensity. The analyzed data is added to a repository, wherein each ion therein has an intensity maxima within a characteristic retention time range for a characteristic ion mass. If the reference ion is in the repository, the range is modified according to the characteristic retention time of the reference ion intensity maxima. Based on the known characteristic, an ion expected in the sample is selected from the repository, and sample data is compared to data for the ion selected from the repository to determine whether the ion is present in the sample. The range in the repository is then modified according to the characteristic retention time of the intensity maxima for the ion present in the sample.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 12, 2020Publication date: October 1, 2020Inventors: William Lefew, David V. Foster, Rex A. Dwyer, Shelby S. Matlock, Casson Stallings, Michael Humphrey, Michael Heiser
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Patent number: 10735278Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for computing availability metrics for an integrated service. One of the methods includes generating, for a service installed on a software platform, a plurality of availability logs, each availability log representing an occurrence of the service becoming unavailable. The plurality of availability logs are aggregated according to one or more aggregation criteria. The aggregated availability logs are processed to compute one or more availability metrics for the service, wherein each availability metric quantifies the availability of the service to process requests from the plurality of workloads in the presence of system failures and interruptions. An availability rating for the service is computed from the one or more availability metrics.Type: GrantFiled: March 12, 2019Date of Patent: August 4, 2020Assignee: Pivotal Software, Inc.Inventors: Onsi Joe Fakhouri, Amit Kumar Gupta, Colin Michael Humphreys
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Patent number: 10379968Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer readable media for backing up and restore a deployment on a cloud computing platform are described. A deployment on a cloud computing platform includes a set of virtual machines and corresponding disks. A deployment may include multiple subunits designated as deployment jobs. A respective job specification file specifies respective resources used by each deployment job. The resources include various scripts specifying actions to take before, during, and after a backup. A backup orchestrator, upon receiving a backup request for the deployment, executes the scripts in a pre-specified sequence ordered by script type. When a particular type of scripts executes, the corresponding script for each deployment job, if specified in the specification file to correspond to that type, executes. When all scripts of a particular type finish execution, scripts having a next type execute. Accordingly, the operations of backing up multiple deployment jobs are synchronized and orchestrated.Type: GrantFiled: May 5, 2017Date of Patent: August 13, 2019Assignee: Pivotal Software, Inc.Inventors: Therese Louise Stowell, Kalyan Chakravarthy Dudala, Colin Michael Humphreys, Simon James Jones, Jatin Naik, Alvaro Perez-Shirley, Henry Arthur James Stanley
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Publication number: 20180322019Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer readable media for backing up and restore a deployment on a cloud computing platform are described. A deployment on a cloud computing platform includes a set of virtual machines and corresponding disks. A deployment may include multiple subunits designated as deployment jobs. A respective job specification file specifies respective resources used by each deployment job. The resources include various scripts specifying actions to take before, during, and after a backup. A backup orchestrator, upon receiving a backup request for the deployment, executes the scripts in a pre-specified sequence ordered by script type. When a particular type of scripts executes, the corresponding script for each deployment job, if specified in the specification file to correspond to that type, executes. When all scripts of a particular type finish execution, scripts having a next type execute. Accordingly, the operations of backing up multiple deployment jobs are synchronized and orchestrated.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 5, 2017Publication date: November 8, 2018Inventors: Therese Louise Stowell, Kalyan Chakravarthy Dudala, Colin Michael Humphreys, Simon James Jones, Jatin Naik, Alvaro Perez-Shirley, Henry Arthur James Stanley
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Publication number: 20170166566Abstract: Compounds and pharmaceutically acceptable salts of the compounds are disclosed, wherein the compounds have the structure of Formula I wherein X, R1, R2a, R2b, R4a, R4b,R5a, R5b, R6, R7, y and z are as defined in the specification. Corresponding pharmaceutical compositions, methods of treatment, methods of synthesis, and intermediates are also disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 24, 2017Publication date: June 15, 2017Inventors: Martin Youngjin Pettersson, Christopher William am Ende, John Michael Humphrey, Douglas Scott Johnson, Gregory Wayne Kauffman, Danica Antonia Rankic, Antonia Friederike Stepan, Patrick Robert Verhoest
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Publication number: 20170091744Abstract: A system, method and computer readable medium for dynamically determining location-based rules affecting item sales at POS registers for a particular location and for distributing the location-based rules to the POS registers is discussed. A location-based ruleset of rules regulating sales of items at an individual store is created and transmitted to the store along with a rule group to item map file that maps rules and warnings to individual store items. A rules engine at the store provides updated item sale rules and warnings to POS registers based on the location-based ruleset and rule group to item map file. Embodiments thus provide an improved system for updating POS registers at different store locations with location-based rules specific to the store location.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 27, 2016Publication date: March 30, 2017Inventors: Shuvro Chakrobartty, Ted Sherrill, Gopi Kishore Danda, Britto Michaelsamy, Prasanna Rajendran, John Michael Humphrey
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Patent number: 9200000Abstract: The present invention relates to compounds of the Formula and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, to processes for the preparation of, intermediates used in the preparation of, and compositions containing such compounds and the uses of such compounds as a method for the treatment of a disease or condition selected from the group consisting of central nervous system disorders, cognitive disorders, schizophrenia, dementia and other disorders in a mammal.Type: GrantFiled: November 1, 2013Date of Patent: December 1, 2015Assignee: Pfizer Inc.Inventors: Christopher John Helal, Thomas Allen Chappie, John Michael Humphrey, Patrick Robert Verhoest, Eddie Yang
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Publication number: 20150274721Abstract: Compounds and pharmaceutically acceptable salts of the compounds are disclosed, wherein the compounds have the structure of Formula I wherein X, R1, R2a, R2b, R4a, R4b, R5a, R5b, R6, R7, y and z are as defined in the specification. Corresponding pharmaceutical compositions, methods of treatment, methods of synthesis, and intermediates are also disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 27, 2015Publication date: October 1, 2015Inventors: Martin Youngjin Pettersson, Christopher William am Ende, John Michael Humphrey, Douglas Scott Johnson, Gregory Wayne Kauffman, Danica Antonia Rankic, Antonia Friederike Stepan, Patrick Robert Verhoest
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Patent number: 8829010Abstract: The present invention provides, inter alia, compounds of Formula (I) and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, to processes for the preparation of, intermediates used in the preparation of, and compositions containing such compounds and the uses of such compounds as a method for the treatment of a disease or condition selected from the group consisting of central nervous system disorders, cognitive disorders, schizophrenia, dementia and other disorders in a mammal. The present invention further provides compounds of Formula (Id) and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof as CYP3A4 selective inhibitors.Type: GrantFiled: May 24, 2012Date of Patent: September 9, 2014Assignee: Pfizer Inc.Inventors: Christopher John Helal, Thomas Allen Chappie, John Michael Humphrey
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Publication number: 20140080806Abstract: The present invention provides, inter alia, compounds of Formula (I) and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, to processes for the preparation of, intermediates used in the preparation of and compositions containing such compounds and the uses of such compounds as a method for the treatment of a disease or condition selected from the group consisting of central nervous system disorders, cognitive disorders, schizophrenia, dementia and other disorders in a mammal. The present invention further provides compounds of Formula (Id) and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof as CYP3A4 selective inhibitors.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 24, 2012Publication date: March 20, 2014Inventors: Christopher John Helal, Thomas Allen Chappie, John Michael Humphrey
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Publication number: 20140066622Abstract: The present invention relates to compounds of the Formula and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, to processes for the preparation of, intermediates used in the preparation of, and compositions containing such compounds and the uses of such compounds as a method for the treatment of a disease or condition selected from the group consisting of central nervous system disorders, cognitive disorders, schizophrenia, dementia and other disorders in a mammal.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 1, 2013Publication date: March 6, 2014Applicant: Pfizer Inc.Inventors: Christopher John Helal, Thomas Allen Chappie, John Michael Humphrey, Patrick Robert Verhoest, Eddie Yang
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Patent number: 8607779Abstract: A drainback tank having a solar return pipe, at least a portion of the solar return pipe being located within the internal body of the tank, the solar return pipe having a hole that is in close proximity to the hole of an output pipe, such that the fluid in the solar return pipe flows into the output pipe and leaves the tank housing to be used to heat the fluid of a corresponding hot water tank via convection in a heat exchanger.Type: GrantFiled: May 6, 2011Date of Patent: December 17, 2013Assignee: Apricus Inc.Inventor: Michael Humphreys
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Patent number: 8598155Abstract: The present invention relates to compounds of the Formula and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, to processes for the preparation of, intermediates used in the preparation of, and compositions containing such compounds and the uses of such compounds as a method for the treatment of a disease or condition selected from the group consisting of central nervous system disorders, cognitive disorders, schizophrenia, dementia and other disorders in a mammal.Type: GrantFiled: February 20, 2012Date of Patent: December 3, 2013Assignee: Pfizer Inc.Inventors: Christopher John Helal, Thomas Allen Chappie, John Michael Humphrey, Patrick Robert Verhoest, Eddie Yang
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Patent number: 8567388Abstract: A hot water storage tank having features to minimize heat loss and improve stratification throughout the tank. The tank having an inner lid and outer lid. The tank having a bladder. A tank having a solar stratification input pipe, the solar stratification input pipe having one or more holes, the one or more holes allowing the fluid to exit the solar stratification input pipe at a level where the fluid is of similar density to the fluid in the tank maintaining stratification throughout the tank, and the solar stratification input pipe being located within the tank and parallel to the longitudinal axis of the tank.Type: GrantFiled: February 23, 2011Date of Patent: October 29, 2013Assignee: Apricus IncInventor: Michael Humphreys