Patents by Inventor Paul A. James

Paul A. James 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: 11109019
    Abstract: A video coding or decoding method using inter-image prediction to encode input video data in which each chrominance component has 1/Mth of the horizontal resolution and 1/Nth of the vertical resolution of the luminance component, where M and N are integers equal to 1 or more, including storing one or more images preceding a current image, interpolating a higher resolution version of prediction units of the stored images so that the luminance component has a horizontal resolution P times that of the corresponding portion of the stored image and a vertical resolution Q times that of the corresponding portion of the stored image, detecting inter-image motion between a current image and the one or more interpolated stored images so as to generate motion vectors between a prediction unit of the current image and areas of the one or more preceding images, and generating a motion compensated prediction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: James Alexander Gamei, Nicholas Ian Saunders, Karl James Sharman, Paul James Silcock
  • Publication number: 20210260330
    Abstract: Some embodiments provide for an inspiratory limb for a breathing circuit that includes a first segment that comprises a first heater wire circuit and a second segment that comprises a second heater wire circuit. The inspiratory limb can include an intermediate connector that includes a connection circuit that electrically couples the first heater wire circuit to the second heater wire circuit. The inspiratory limb can be configured to operate in two modes wherein, in a first mode, electrical power passes through the first electrical connection to provide power to the first heater wire circuit without providing power to the second heater wire circuit, and in a second mode, electrical power pass through the first electrical connection to provide power to both the first heater wire circuit and the second heater wire circuit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 18, 2021
    Publication date: August 26, 2021
    Inventors: Po-Yen Liu, Peter Alan Seekup, Anthony James Newland, Malcolm David Smith, Ping Si, Helgard Oosthuysen, Matthew Robert Wilson, Ian Lee Wai Kwan, Sinaa Alnashi, Paul James Tonkin, Kiel Anthony McCool, David Robert Kemps, Yayi Lin, Callum McDonald Ross, David John Sims
  • Publication number: 20210244196
    Abstract: A method for adjusting pressure within an air bed comprises providing an air bed that includes an air chamber and a pump having a pump housing, selecting a desired pressure setpoint for the air chamber, calculating a pressure target, adjusting pressure within the air chamber until a pressure within the pump housing is substantially equal to the pressure target, determining an actual chamber pressure within the air chamber, and comparing the actual chamber pressure to the desired pressure setpoint to determine an adjustment factor error. The pressure target may be calculated based upon the desired pressure setpoint and a pressure adjustment factor. Furthermore, the pressure adjustment factor may be modified based upon the adjustment factor error determined by comparing the actual chamber pressure to the desired pressure setpoint.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2020
    Publication date: August 12, 2021
    Inventors: Paul James Mahoney, Matthew Glen Hilden, Matthew Wayne Tilstra
  • Publication number: 20210234900
    Abstract: A policy management server manages a segmentation policy and automatically configures an enclave protection device consistently with the segmentation policy so that that the segmentation policy can be enforced with respect to workloads within a secure enclave protected by the enclave protection device. The policy management server identifies protected workloads that are members of a secure enclave and external workloads that are external to the secure enclave. The policy management server identifies cross-boundary rules of the segmentation policy affecting traffic between the protected workloads and external workloads. The policy management server generates and distributes a configuration of the enclave protection device to enable enforcement of the cross-boundary rules pertaining to traffic passing through the enclave protection device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2020
    Publication date: July 29, 2021
    Inventors: George Jeffrey Francis, Matthew Kirby Glenn, Jalandip Lepcha, Paul James Kirner
  • Patent number: 11075936
    Abstract: A segmentation server generates vulnerability exposure scores associated with workloads operating in a segmented computing environment. The segmentation server may automatically aggregate the vulnerability exposure scores in various ways to generate vulnerability exposure information representative of workloads in an administrative domain controlled by the segmentation server. The aggregated vulnerability exposure information may be presented in a manner that enables an administrator to easily evaluate different segmentation strategies and assess the risks associated with each of them. Moreover, the segmentation server can automatically generate a segmentation policy that modifies a configured segmentation strategy based on the vulnerability exposure scores to reduce exposure to certain vulnerabilities without impeding operation of the workloads.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2021
    Assignee: Illumio, Inc.
    Inventors: Matthew Kirby Glenn, Paul James Kirner, Seth Bruce Ford, Mukesh Gupta, Joy Anne Scott, Nathaniel Jurist Gleicher
  • Patent number: 11075937
    Abstract: A segmentation server generates vulnerability exposure scores associated with workloads operating in a segmented computing environment. The segmentation server may automatically aggregate the vulnerability exposure scores in various ways to generate vulnerability exposure information representative of workloads in an administrative domain controlled by the segmentation server. The aggregated vulnerability exposure information may be presented in a manner that enables an administrator to easily evaluate different segmentation strategies and assess the risks associated with each of them. Moreover, the segmentation server can automatically generate a segmentation policy that modifies a configured segmentation strategy based on the vulnerability exposure scores to reduce exposure to certain vulnerabilities without impeding operation of the workloads.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2021
    Assignee: Illumio, Inc.
    Inventors: Matthew Kirby Glenn, Paul James Kirner, Seth Bruce Ford, Mukesh Gupta, Joy Anne Scott, Nathaniel Jurist Gleicher
  • Patent number: 11066878
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are downhole disconnect assemblies for disconnecting downhole tubulars. Those disconnect assemblies may each include: 1) a housing having an inner surface and a groove disposed in the inner surface; 2) a sub disposed in the housing, the sub having a window aligned with the groove; 3) a locking lug extending through the window and having a projection removably disposed in the groove; 4) a prop sleeve disposed in the sub and releasably coupled to the locking lug; and 5) a load transfer sleeve pushing the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Inventors: Paul James Wilson, Robert Bradley Cook, Daniel Teen, Glenn Mitchel Walls
  • Publication number: 20210212912
    Abstract: According to the present invention there is provided a cosmetic composition comprising a cosmetically acceptable carrier and a preservative system, wherein the preservative system comprises: (i) an antimicrobial agent; (ii) a chelating agent comprising ethylenediamine tetraacetic acid (EDTA) or a derivative thereof; and (iii) an antimicrobial booster agent selected from the group consisting of ethylhexylglycerin, caprylyl glycol, hydroxy acetophenone, caprylhydroxamic acid, phenethyl alcohol, p-anisic acid, glyceryl caprylate, levulinic acid, sodium levulinate, propanediol, hexanediol, pentylene glycol, capryloyl glycine, methylpropanediol, phenylpropanol, sodium anisate, and combinations thereof, wherein the antimicrobial agent is present in an amount of from about 0.001% to about 1% by weight of the composition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2019
    Publication date: July 15, 2021
    Inventors: Paul James Tomlinson, Mark Johnson, Jake Thomas Hicks
  • Publication number: 20210205532
    Abstract: Devices and methods for tissue transfer are described where a cannula may be inserted into the breast of a subject at one of several points of entry. Insertion of the cannula into the breast may be accomplished by using a guidance system to distinguish between tissue types. Once desirably positioned, the cannula may be withdrawn from the breast while automatically (or manually) injecting the fat in multiple deposits of adipose tissue or fat such that the deposited fat remains within the tract formed by the withdrawn cannula. Multiple tracts of the deposited fat may be injected within the breast until the breast has been desirably remodeled and/or augmented.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2021
    Publication date: July 8, 2021
    Inventors: JOSEPH RIMSA, Brian J. Domecus, Christopher S. Jones, Paul James Lingane
  • Patent number: 11047201
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are downhole landing assemblies including a downhole landing assembly for an oil or gas well, downhole landing assembly may include: an upper seat cylinder capable of being coupled to an upper portion of a tubular string; a lower seat cylinder capable of being coupled to a lower portion of the tubular string, wherein the lower seat cylinder may be coupled to the upper seat cylinder; a landing seat coupled to the lower seat cylinder, the landing seat may have two inner surfaces; and a landing mandrel having two outer surfaces, wherein one outer surface of the two outer surfaces may be capable of being abutted against one inner surface of the two inner surfaces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2021
    Inventors: Paul James Wilson, Robert Bradley Cook, Daniel Teen, Glenn Mitchel Walls
  • Publication number: 20210195592
    Abstract: An access system for a wireless local area network is provided. The access system initiates operation in a first frequency band of a plurality of frequency bands of the wireless local area network to provide one or more wireless client devices of the wireless local area network with access to a wireless wide area network. The access system also processes one or more association requests received in the first frequency band to identify one or more associated wireless client device. The access system also determines whether each of the one or more associated wireless client devices supports a second frequency band. The access system also sends a request to the one or more associated wireless client devices to transition from the first frequency band to the second frequency band based on determining that each of the one or more associated wireless client devices supports the second frequency band.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2021
    Publication date: June 24, 2021
    Inventors: Paul James Husted, Nihar Jindal
  • Publication number: 20210195418
    Abstract: A device is arranged to comprise a communication interface (20) to transmit data over the cellular network (60) to a destination device (65). The device further has a security module (25) providing one or more security domains (32), each security domain used to host a profile facilitating access by the device to the cellular network. At least one security domain hosts a profile that stores secret data and provides a token generation application to generate a token using at least the secret data. The device then outputs the token in association with the transmitted data, enabling the destination device to perform authentication of the transmitted data by invoking an authentication service (85) that also stores the secret data (50). Such an approach provides a particularly cost effective and robust mechanism for providing a highly trusted authentication of data transmitted over a cellular network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2019
    Publication date: June 24, 2021
    Inventors: Paul James REID, Colin Dean TEBBUTT
  • Publication number: 20210183115
    Abstract: A Virtual Reality or Augmented Reality (VR/AR) system includes a central control unit and a user display device. A method of processing visual information for display on the user display device involves comprising: determining (802) a first region and a second region of a frame of visual information, discarding (804) visual information corresponding to the second region of the frame, processing (806) visual information corresponding to the first region of the frame, obtaining (810) replacement visual information corresponding to the second region of the frame, displaying (812) the visual information corresponding to the first region of the frame on a first portion of the screen and displaying the replacement visual information on a second portion of the screen. The visual information of the first region of the frame is transmitted from the central control unit to the user display device subsequent to discarding the visual information corresponding to the second region of the frame.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 27, 2018
    Publication date: June 17, 2021
    Inventors: Ian Christopher DOIDGE, Paul JAMES, Patrick David COOPER
  • Publication number: 20210173789
    Abstract: A cache stores, along with data that is being transferred from a higher level cache to a lower level cache, information indicating the higher level cache location from which the data was transferred. Upon receiving a request for data that is stored at the location in the higher level cache, a cache controller stores the higher level cache location information in a status tag of the data. The cache controller then transfers the data with the status tag indicating the higher level cache location to a lower level cache. When the data is subsequently updated or evicted from the lower level cache, the cache controller reads the status tag location information and transfers the data back to the location in the higher level cache from which it was originally transferred.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2021
    Publication date: June 10, 2021
    Inventor: Paul James MOYER
  • Publication number: 20210161781
    Abstract: According to the present invention there is provided composition in the form of an oil-in-water emulsion having a viscosity of between 15,000 cP (15 Pa-s) and 45,000 cP (45 Pa-s) at 23° C., having a pH of between 2 and 6 and comprising: (i) at least 1.6 wt. % of at least one cross-linked anionic polyelectrolyte resulting from the polymerisation of partially or completely salified 2-methyl 2-[(1-oxo 2-propenyl)amino]1-propane sulfonic acid, with at least one neutral monomer chosen from the N,N-dialkyl acrylamides, wherein each of the alkyl groups comprises between one and four carbon atoms, and at least one monomer of formula (B): wherein R represents a linear or branched alkyl radical comprising eight to twenty carbon atoms and n represents a number greater than or equal to one and less than or equal to twenty, in the presence of at least one cross-linking agent; (ii) at least 4 wt. % of at least one polysorbate; (iii) at least 0.1 wt. % of at least one polysaccharide gum; and (iv) between 6 wt. % and 30 wt.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2019
    Publication date: June 3, 2021
    Inventors: Jake Thomas Hicks, Marco Demurtas, Christopher John Elms, Paul James Tomlinson, Michael David Bell
  • Publication number: 20210144181
    Abstract: A policy management server manages a segmentation policy for segmenting a network and a deception policy for implementing deception services. The policy management server distributes segmentation rules and deception rules to distributed enforcement modules that configure respective traffic filters to enforce the policies. The deception rule may be enforced directly by the traffic filter acting as a deception service, or the traffic filter may act as a proxy to an external deception service. The deception service can behave similarly to a real service to obtain information about the malicious actor that is reported to the policy management server to enable the policy management server to take a remedial action. Furthermore, the policy management server may automatically generate the deception policy based on the segmentation policy such that connection requests that are not allowed by the segmentation policy are automatically sent to a deception service.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2019
    Publication date: May 13, 2021
    Inventors: Rupesh Kumar Mishra, Paul James Kirner, Rushabh Sanghvi
  • Publication number: 20210137271
    Abstract: A chair support shell has an integral back portion, seat portion, and joining portion between the back portion and the seat portion. At least a major portion of the support shell comprises a compliant structure, the compliant structure having a plurality of cells interconnected by a plurality of resilient members. The compliant structure provides compliance in the seat portion, compliance in the back portion, and compliance in the joining portion. The compliant structure enables recline of the back portion relative to the seat portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 3, 2017
    Publication date: May 13, 2021
    Inventors: Kent Wallace Parker, Martyn Walter Goodwin Collings, Wayne Douglas O'Hara, Aaron Michael Young, Paul James Stevenson, Gavin James Bateman, Kai Xi Lin
  • Patent number: 11002616
    Abstract: A cloud-based system for monitoring food storage/processing comprising at least one fixed sensor to collect fixed location environment data; at least one handheld sensor to collect mobile location environment data; and a remote monitoring and reporting system to collect the fixed and remote location environment data and to audit the collected data. A portable device comprises a processor configured to: receive the mobile location environment data; and transmit an auditable version of the received mobile location environment data to the remote system. A hub device comprising a processor configured to: receive the fixed location environment data; and transmit an auditable version of the fixed location environment data. The monitoring and reporting system is configured to determine whether the version of the environment data indicates that the monitored environment is operating within the bounds of a model defining correct operation of a food process and to output an alert if necessary.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Inventors: Martin Kirk Jackson, Paul James Young, Michael Thomas Cimelli, Martin James Nash, Brian Noel Reid
  • Publication number: 20210112992
    Abstract: A method may comprise receiving, at a central controller, a command, from a remote control, to adjust a feature of a first component of an air mattress framework; relaying, from the central controller, the command to the first component; receiving from the first component at the central controller, an indication of the success of the command; and relaying the indication from the central controller to the remote control.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2020
    Publication date: April 22, 2021
    Inventors: Rob Nunn, Matthew Wayne Tilstra, Matthew Glen Hilden, Paul James Mahoney
  • Patent number: D927005
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: Helius Medical, Inc
    Inventors: Sybille Diana Hauser-Raspe, Pamela Dorothy Heidt, Paul James Fearis, Mike Andrew Vilhauer