Patents by Inventor Paul Ferguson
Paul Ferguson 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: 9612921Abstract: A method and system for managing operational states of database tables within a multiple-database system. If a particular user session issues a query against a target table that causes a data inconsistency, the target table transitions into an errant state and the session will become interrupted. This errant state is then propagated onto any other table associated with the user session. A session-level recovery process can thereafter be executed to repair and restore database tables associated with the interrupted user sessions without the need to take an entire database system offline.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2014Date of Patent: April 4, 2017Assignee: Teradata US, Inc.Inventor: Gregory Paul Ferguson
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Publication number: 20170007508Abstract: A particle comprising:—(a) a spacer which is a polyethylene glycol (PEG) chain with molecular weight Mw (and therefore the required length) of the spacer extending from the particle from 3000 to 400,000; (b) a deposition aid; and (c) a benefit agent, wherein the spacer is attached directly to the particle and the deposition aid is attached to the end of the spacer.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 27, 2014Publication date: January 12, 2017Applicant: Conopco, Inc., d/b/a UNILEVERInventors: Paul Ferguson, Christopher Clarkson JONES, Kenneth Stuart LEE, David Richard Arthur MEALING
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Patent number: 9431552Abstract: A metallization paste or ink for making electrical contacts on solar cells has reduced diffusion in a silicon wafer. The paste or ink is configured for printing on a crystalline silicon substrate of a solar cell, wherein the paste comprises silicon particles, aluminum particles, and a paste vehicle. Alternatively, the paste comprises aluminum-silicon alloy particles.Type: GrantFiled: February 25, 2013Date of Patent: August 30, 2016Assignee: Starsource Scientific LLCInventors: Yunjun Li, James P. Novak, Patrick Paul Ferguson, Mohshi Yang
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Patent number: 9334469Abstract: The invention provides a benefit agent delivery particle comprising hydroxylpropyl cellulose. The benefit agent delivery particle may further comprise a non-polysaccharide polymer, preferably an aminoplast polymer. The benefit agent delivery particle may comprise a perfume. The invention also provides a process for the manufacture of the particles in which perfume oil is encapsulated using emulsion polymerization to form core-shell particles, (in the alternative the perfume may be adsorbed later) and, a further polymer layer is formed on the outer surface of the core shell-particles in the presence of the delivery aid.Type: GrantFiled: January 27, 2014Date of Patent: May 10, 2016Assignee: Conopco, Inc.Inventors: Honggang Chen, Paul Ferguson, Christopher Clarkson Jones, David Richard Arthur Mealing, Xiaoyun Pan, Jinfang Wang
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Patent number: 9270918Abstract: A method for recommending broadcasting contents, is performed by a multimedia contents reproducing device of a first user. The method includes the operations of logging a broadcasting contents viewing behavior pattern of the first user and generating a first user profile; transmitting the generated first user profile to an external server by using a network; receiving a recommendation result about one or more recommended broadcasting contents from the server, wherein a preference degree correlation between the first user profile and a second user profile of at least a second user registered in an account of the first user is reflected in the recommendation result; classifying the one or more recommended broadcasting contents in the received recommendation result into broadcasting timetable categories; and displaying on a screen a recommendation result about the classified one or more recommended broadcasting contents.Type: GrantFiled: March 6, 2009Date of Patent: February 23, 2016Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Hye-soo Lee, Hee-seon Park, Hyo-won Lee, Cathal Gurrin, Paul Ferguson
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Publication number: 20160022114Abstract: A cleaning apparatus and method is used with industrial kitchen articles. The apparatus includes a cleaning tank for immersing kitchen articles having a generally rectangular configuration, with two opposing major sides and two opposing minor sides. There is an openable and closable lid, which may be pivotably openable and closable from one of the minor sides of the tank to allow access to the tank and to cover the tank in use. A retaining device can be positioned within the tank in use and configured to support kitchen articles in immersion within the tank. A lifting mechanism for lifting and lowering the retaining device is coupled or connected between the lid and retaining device such that as lid is openable and closable, the retaining device raises and lowers within the cleaning tank, respectively. The lid includes an extendable handle portion configured to extend the effective length of the lid.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 24, 2015Publication date: January 28, 2016Inventor: Paul Ferguson
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Patent number: 9169459Abstract: The invention provides a composition comprising: a) a benefit agent (preferably perfume) delivery particle comprising a poly-xyloglucan or poly-galactomannan with a ratio of beta-1,4 to 1,6 linkages of 1:1 to 3:1, or a mixture thereof as a delivery aid, b) a mannanase, preferably in combination with one or more of lipase, protease and amylase. Preferably the delivery particle is a core-shell encapsulate.Type: GrantFiled: August 8, 2011Date of Patent: October 27, 2015Assignee: Conopco, Inc.Inventors: Paul Ferguson, Christopher Clarkson Jones
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Publication number: 20150303323Abstract: A metallization paste or ink for making electrical contacts on solar cells has reduced diffusion in a silicon wafer. The paste or ink is configured for printing on a crystalline silicon substrate of a solar cell, wherein the paste comprises silicon particles, aluminum particles, and a paste vehicle. Alternatively, the paste comprises aluminum-silicon alloy particles.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 25, 2013Publication date: October 22, 2015Inventors: Yunjun Li, James P. Novak, Patrick Paul Ferguson, Mohshi Yang
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Publication number: 20150285897Abstract: This disclosure is directed to devices, systems, and methods for operating a hybrid radar that combines Frequency-Modulated Continuous-Wave (FMCW) radar and pulsed radar in a single radar wave-train. In one example, a device includes a hybrid radar system configured to generate a hybrid radar wave-train that combines Frequency-Modulated Continuous-Wave (FMCW) radar and pulsed radar. The device may include a hybrid radar transmission synthesizer and a hybrid radar transmission processing system, communicatively coupled to receive signals from the hybrid radar transmission synthesizer.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 23, 2014Publication date: October 8, 2015Applicant: Honeywell International Inc.Inventors: Brennan Kilty, Paul Ferguson, Marc Pos, Gloria Logan
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Patent number: 9047355Abstract: A method of processing a transaction request at a database load balancer. The method comprises receiving the transaction request, where the transaction request is comprised of one or more operations; analyzing the transaction request to determine the one or more operations; associating one or more database locks with each of the one or more operations; analyzing one or more of the database locks to determine the one or more sequence numbers associated with each of the one or more operations; and transmitting the one or more operations with the associated database locks and the sequence numbers to one or more databases servers accessible to the database load balancer.Type: GrantFiled: June 25, 2012Date of Patent: June 2, 2015Assignee: Teradata US, Inc.Inventors: Gregory Paul Ferguson, Jeffrey Maurice Heisz, David Tung, Muhammad Mansoor Jamal, Ariff Kassam
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Patent number: 8897717Abstract: A two-element array antenna system includes a first antenna element and a second antenna element. A transmitting, receiving, and processing (TRP) system is coupled to the first and second antenna elements via, respectively, a single first transmission element and a single second transmission element. The first and second transmission elements have respective transmit-path and receive-path functionality. The TRP system is configured to determine an amplitude offset and phase offset associated with the transmit-path functionality of the first and second transmission elements, and, based on data obtained during the determination of amplitude offset and phase offset associated with the transmit-path functionality of the first and second transmission elements, determine an amplitude offset and phase offset associated with the receive-path functionality of the first and second transmission elements.Type: GrantFiled: July 28, 2010Date of Patent: November 25, 2014Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.Inventors: Paul Ferguson, Mark Virtue, Eduard Shestak, Ruy C. Brandao, Pal Meiyappan, James Burton Jones, Jon Riley
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Publication number: 20140250326Abstract: A method and system for managing operational states of database tables within a multiple-database system. If a particular user session issues a query against a target table that causes a data inconsistency, the target table transitions into an errant state and the session will become interrupted. This errant state is then propagated onto any other table associated with the user session. A session-level recovery process can thereafter be executed to repair and restore database tables associated with the interrupted user sessions without the need to take an entire database system offline.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 28, 2014Publication date: September 4, 2014Applicant: TERADATA CORPORATIONInventor: Gregory Paul Ferguson
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Publication number: 20140142019Abstract: The invention provides a benefit agent delivery particle comprising hydroxylpropyl cellulose. The benefit agent delivery particle may further comprise a non-polysaccharide polymer, preferably an aminoplast polymer. The benefit agent delivery particle may comprise a perfume. The invention also provides a process for the manufacture of the particles in which perfume oil is encapsulated using emulsion polymerization to form core-shell particles, (in the alternative the perfume may be adsorbed later) and, a further polymer layer is formed on the outer surface of the core shell-particles in the presence of the delivery aid.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 27, 2014Publication date: May 22, 2014Applicant: CONOPCO, INC., D/B/A UNILEVERInventors: Honggang Chen, Paul Ferguson, Christopher Clarkson Jones, David Richard Arthur Mealing, Xiaoyun Pan, Jinfang Wang
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Patent number: 8637445Abstract: The invention provides a benefit agent delivery particle comprising hydroxylpropyl cellulose. The benefit agent delivery particle may further comprise a non-polysaccharide polymer, preferably an aminoplast polymer. The benefit agent delivery particle may comprise a perfume. The invention also provides a process for the manufacture of the particles in which perfume oil is encapsulated using emulsion polymerization to form core-shell particles, (in the alternative the perfume may be adsorbed later) and, a further polymer layer is formed on the outer surface of the core shell-particles in the presence of the delivery aid.Type: GrantFiled: August 16, 2011Date of Patent: January 28, 2014Assignee: Conopco Inc.Inventors: Honggang Chen, Paul Ferguson, Christopher Clarkson Jones, David Richard Arthur Mealing, Xiaoyun Pan, Jinfang Wang
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Patent number: 8593330Abstract: Systems and methods for providing an improved multiradio system. An exemplary system includes first and second antennas and a first receiver that receives a signal from the first antenna, filters the received signal based on bandwidths associated with a traffic collision-avoidance system (TCAS), a transponder, and a universal access transceiver (UAT). The system digitizes the filtered signal and digitally downconverts the digitized signal. A second receiver receives a signal from the second antenna, filters the signal received from the second antenna based on the TCAS, the transponder, the UAT, and distance-measuring equipment (DME), separates the filtered signal into a first signal having a bandwidth associated with the TCAS, the transponder, the UAT and the lower half of the DME RF band, and into a second signal having a bandwidth associated with the upper half of the DME RF band, digitizes the first and second signal, and digitally downconverts the digitized first and second signals.Type: GrantFiled: July 11, 2011Date of Patent: November 26, 2013Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.Inventors: James B. Jones, Pal Meiyappan, Paul Ferguson, Mark Virtue, Thomas W. Hastings
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Publication number: 20130210697Abstract: The invention provides a composition comprising: a) a benefit agent (preferably perfume) delivery particle comprising a poly-xyloglucan or poly-galactomannan with a ratio of beta-1,4 to 1,6 linkages of 1:1 to 3:1, or a mixture thereof as a delivery aid, b) a mannanase, preferably in combination with one or more of lipase, protease and amylase. Preferably the delivery particle is a core-shell encapsulate.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 8, 2011Publication date: August 15, 2013Inventors: Paul Ferguson, Christopher Clarkson Jones
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Publication number: 20130184194Abstract: The invention provides a benefit agent delivery particle comprising hydroxylpropyl cellulose. The benefit agent delivery particle may further comprise a non-polysaccharide polymer, preferably an aminoplast polymer. The benefit agent delivery particle may comprise a perfume. The invention also provides a process for the manufacture of the particles in which perfume oil is encapsulated using emulsion polymerization to form core-shell particles, (in the alternative the perfume may be adsorbed later) and, a further polymer layer is formed on the outer surface of the core shell-particles in the presence of the delivery aid.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 16, 2011Publication date: July 18, 2013Inventors: Honggang Chen, Paul Ferguson, Christopher Clarkson Jones, David Richard Arthur Mealing, Xiaoyun Pan, Jinfang Wang
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Publication number: 20130015998Abstract: Systems and methods for providing an improved multiradio system. An exemplary system includes first and second antennas and a first receiver that receives a signal from the first antenna, filters the received signal based on bandwidths associated with a traffic collision-avoidance system (TCAS), a transponder, and a universal access transceiver (UAT). The system digitizes the filtered signal and digitally downconverts the digitized signal. A second receiver receives a signal from the second antenna, filters the signal received from the second antenna based on the TCAS, the transponder, the UAT, and distance-measuring equipment (DME), separates the filtered signal into a first signal having a bandwidth associated with the TCAS, the transponder, the UAT and the lower half of the DME RF band, and into a second signal having a bandwidth associated with the upper half of the DME RF band, digitizes the first and second signal, and digitally downconverts the digitized first and second signals.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 11, 2011Publication date: January 17, 2013Applicant: HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INC.Inventors: James B. Jones, Pal Meiyappan, Paul Ferguson, Mark Virtue, Thomas W. Hastings
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Patent number: 8305144Abstract: A power amplifier provides relatively stable quiescent current while maintaining relatively high signal gains and peak to quiescent current ratios. The power amplifier has an input stage and a current mirror stage and incorporates a control transistor between these stages. The control transistor transitions to the triode mode for small inputs and offset voltages thereby reducing the amplifier circuit's gain. However, the control transistor transitions from the triode region to saturation as the input signal becomes larger thereby allowing the amplifier circuit to maintain a relatively high gain for large inputs. Accordingly, better quiescent current characteristics can be obtained without significantly sacrificing performance.Type: GrantFiled: November 9, 2010Date of Patent: November 6, 2012Assignee: ADTRAN, Inc.Inventors: Paul Ferguson, Daniel M. Joffe
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Patent number: 8242951Abstract: A two-element array antenna system includes a first antenna element and a second antenna element. The first and second antenna elements respectively include first and second frequency multipliers. A transmitting, receiving, and processing (TRP) system is coupled to the first and second antenna elements via, respectively, a single first transmission element and a single second transmission element. The TRP system is configured to transmit to the first antenna element a first input signal at a sub-multiple of a first frequency, receive from the first frequency multiplier a first calibration signal based on the first input signal, transmit to the second antenna element a second input signal at a sub-multiple of the first frequency, receive from the second frequency multiplier a second calibration signal based on the second input signal, and determine, based on the calibration signals, a relative phase difference between the first and second transmission elements.Type: GrantFiled: April 8, 2010Date of Patent: August 14, 2012Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.Inventors: Ruy Lopes Brandao, Pal Meiyappan, Ruy C. Brandao, James Burton Jones, Mark Virtue, Paul Ferguson