Patents by Inventor Philip Thomas

Philip Thomas 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).

  • Mask and components thereof
    Patent number: 8490623
    Abstract: A comfortable low-leak mask assembly for use with Non-Invasive Positive Pressure Ventilation (NIPPV) is provided to improve patient compliance and/or treatment. The mask system may include headgear having straps that are substantially inextensible and/or micro-adjustable; and/or a mask and/or cushion that includes various structures to allow enhanced/tailored sealing and/or fit at selected locations on the patient's face.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2003
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2013
    Assignee: ResMed Limited
    Inventors: Michael Berthon-Jones, Peter Edward Bateman, Donald Darkin, Robin Garth Hitchcock, Philip James Jenkinson, Susan Robyn Lynch, Gordon Joseph Malouf, Patrick John McAuliffe, Milind Chandrakant Raje, Gary Christopher Robinson, Richard Sokolov, Philip Thomas Stallard, Michael Kassipillai Gunaratnam
  • Security System with Automatic Alarm
    Publication number: 20130093587
    Abstract: An automatic alarm system is described that is triggered by the lack of event at one or more portable remote unit(s). The system includes an electromagnetic interface from a plurality of portable units to a central command and monitoring element. This automatic triggering of an alarm condition adds security to the users of the system since it is not always feasible to explicitly trigger an alarm when in danger.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2011
    Publication date: April 18, 2013
    Inventors: Troy Gonsalves, Geoffrey Vanderkooy, Philip Thomas, Robert Young
  • Browser based redirection of broken links
    Patent number: 8392576
    Abstract: Provided herein are methods, systems, and computer readable media for providing correct identifiers for web pages to users. A redirect database with original identifiers and redirected identifiers found to be associated with the original identifiers may be established. A processing device may transmit a first request for a resource located at a location specified by an identifier. The processing device may determine that the resource is no longer located at the location, and may receive a redirected identifier for the resource. The processing device may then transmit a second request for the resource to a location specified by the redirected identifier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2013
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventor: Philip Thomas Henderson
  • Customer statistics based on database lock use
    Patent number: 8386449
    Abstract: A method and service for establishing a web-based network that includes an enterprise locking service. The enterprise locking service is able to coordinate multiple, cooperating applications that need to ensure that one and only one user is modifying a database record at a given time. These database records may be stored in multiple databases having potentially different database record locking protocols. Through monitoring and tracking of requests for database locks, the enterprise locking service is also able to determine database usage trends under various metrics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2005
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2013
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventor: Philip Thomas Hartman
  • Multi-bank queuing architecture for higher bandwidth on-chip memory buffer
    Patent number: 8364864
    Abstract: A network device includes a main storage memory and a queue handling component. The main storage memory includes multiple memory banks which store a plurality of packets for multiple output queues. The queue handling component controls write operations to the multiple memory banks and controls read operations from the multiple memory banks, where the read operations for at least one of the multiple output queues alternates sequentially between the each of the multiple memory banks, and where the read operations and the write operations occur during a same clock period on different ones of the multiple memory banks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2013
    Assignee: Juniper Networks, Inc.
    Inventors: Anurag Agrawal, Philip A. Thomas
  • FLOW-CONTROL IN A SWITCH FABRIC
    Publication number: 20120320742
    Abstract: In some embodiments, an apparatus includes a module within a first stage of a switch fabric, a module within a second stage of the switch fabric, and a module within a third stage of the switch fabric. The module within the first stage is configured to send data to the module within the second stage. The module within the second stage is configured to send data to the module within the third stage. The module within the second stage is configured to send a first suspension indicator to the module within the third stage. The module within the third stage is configured to send a second suspension indicator to the module within the first stage in response to the first suspension indicator. The module within the first stage is configured to stop sending data to the module within the second stage in response to the second suspension indicator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2012
    Publication date: December 20, 2012
    Applicant: Juniper Networks, Inc.
    Inventor: Philip A. Thomas
  • Forehead supports for facial masks
    Patent number: 8327850
    Abstract: A forehead support for a mask assembly includes a frame connector provided to a mask frame, a forehead cushion support movably mounted to the frame connector for generally linear movement between retracted and extended positions with respect to the frame connector, and an adjustment knob movably mounted to the frame connector and threadably engaged with the forehead cushion support such that turning movement of the adjustment knob causes the forehead cushion support to be moved between the retracted and extended positions. The adjustment knob, forehead cushion support, and frame connector are constructed and arranged such that over-rotation of the adjustment knob beyond the extended position of the forehead cushion support is adapted to release the adjustment knob from the forehead cushion support and the frame connector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2012
    Assignee: ResMed Limited
    Inventors: Eva Ng, Vincent Chu, Scott Alexander Howard, Susan Robin Lynch, William Murray Lee, Mark Bertinetti, Matthew Eves, Joshua Adam Gudiksen, Philip Thomas Stallard, Shiva Kumar Shanmuga Sundara
  • Vision system with software control for detecting dirt and other imperfections on egg surfaces
    Patent number: 8330809
    Abstract: A vision system incorporated into an item of egg handling equipment, the system incorporating software control for detecting at least one of color shades and defects on both brown and white eggs. An enclosure incorporates a plurality of high resolution producing cameras, these communicating via cable with a switch to a remote vision PC system. A non-linear shaped diffuser is mounted along an open facing bottom of the enclosure for facilitating uniform lighting throughout an open interior of the enclosure associated with the cameras. The cameras are operable to produce multiple, high resolution images of each of a plurality of eggs continuously transported along the associated egg handling equipment, for classifying types of defects that are allowable and those that must be rejected, as well as assisting in the segregating of the eggs into more consistent shaded groups for eventual packaging.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2012
    Assignee: FPS Food Processing Systems, B.V.
    Inventors: Leslie Philip Thomas, Nathaniel Barret Brown
  • Methods and apparatus for transmission of groups of cells via a switch fabric
    Patent number: 8325749
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method can include receiving at an egress schedule module a request to schedule transmission of a group of cells from an ingress queue through a switch fabric of a multi-stage switch. The ingress queue can be associated with an ingress stage of the multi-stage switch. The egress schedule module can be associated with an egress stage of the multi-stage switch. The method can also include determining, in response to the request, that an egress port at the egress stage of the multi-stage switch is available to transmit the group of cells from the multi-stage switch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2012
    Assignee: Juniper Networks, Inc.
    Inventors: Sarin Thomas, Srihari Vegesna, Pradeep Sindhu, Chi-Chung Kenny Chen, Jean-Marc Frailong, David J. Ofelt, Philip A. Thomas, Chang-Hong Wu
  • Methods and systems for online video-based property commerce
    Patent number: 8307286
    Abstract: Video data may be extremely useful in online property commerce. However, the current methods of handling this video data fail to provide users of the data with effective and convenient ways of conveying and consolidating footage of multiple viewpoints and other property features. Among other things, embodiments of the invention address these failures by providing methods and systems for better handling of video data for property marketing, reporting, and analysis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2012
    Assignee: Wellcomemat LLC
    Inventors: Christian A. Sterner, Haider Zainy, Philip Thomas DiGiulio
  • Particle cassettes
    Patent number: 8298173
    Abstract: A method of producing a particle cassette for a needleless syringe device which alleviates problems of providing a chamber for the confinement of particles which is hermetically sealed from the environment. A predetermined force is applied in the longitudinal direction to push first and second cassette parts together so as to cause plastic deformation of a portion of the first cassette part so as to create said hermetically sealed chamber. The cassette parts are preferably made of PETG and have bonded thereto rupturable membranes preferably made of PET. The sealing is preferably achieved at the end of a protrusion on the first cassette part which is tapered and which interacts with the membrane of the second cassette part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2012
    Inventors: Nigel Robert Bates, Philip Thomas Price, John Watson, Stuart Graham Weekes
  • Methods and apparatus for dynamic detection of transit times between stages in distributed multi-stage switch fabrics
    Patent number: 8279863
    Abstract: In some embodiments, a method includes sending a signal to a first module associated with a stage of a switch fabric and receiving a signal from the first module a first amount of time after sending the signal to the first module. A signal is sent to a second module associated with the stage of the switch fabric and a signal is received from the second module a second amount of time after sending the signal to the second module. The second amount of time is less than the first amount of time. A cell of a first data packet is sent to the first module and a cell of a second data packet is sent to the second module a third amount of time after sending the cell of the first data packet. The third amount of time is associated with the difference between the first amount of time and the second amount of time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2012
    Assignee: Juniper Networks, Inc.
    Inventors: Sathish Shenoy, Anurag Agrawal, Philip A. Thomas
  • APPARATUS FOR PROCESSING CONTINUOUS LENGTHS OF FLEXIBLE FOIL
    Publication number: 20120241419
    Abstract: An apparatus and method are described that use a cylindrical drum type vacuum drum and allows accurately registered, high resolution laser patterning of thin films on discrete lengths or flexible substrate material that are unwound from an unwind reel and after processing are rewound onto a rewind reel. Length compensator units are provided either side of the drum to accommodate variations in the length of the substrate due to differential rotation of the drum and the unwind and rewind reels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2009
    Publication date: September 27, 2012
    Applicant: M-SOLV LIMITED.
    Inventor: Philip Thomas Rumsby
  • Headgear connection assembly
    Patent number: 8272382
    Abstract: A headgear connection assembly for a mask assembly includes a pair of clip receptacles provided to respective sides of a mask frame and a pair of locking clips adapted to be removably interlocked with respective clip receptacles. The locking clips are adapted to be removably connected to headgear straps in use. Each clip receptacle includes an upper wall. The upper wall has a recess and a lip adjacent to the recess at the edge of the upper wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2012
    Assignee: ResMed Limited
    Inventors: Scott Alexander Howard, Philip Thomas Stallard
  • System And Method To Eliminate Receiving Coins As Cents Due Less Than One Dollar
    Publication number: 20120239554
    Abstract: A system and method are provided for facilitating a transaction between a customer and a merchant in which a cash change amount between 1¢ and 99¢ is due the customer. According to an aspect of the disclosure, a method includes the steps of receiving information regarding an account associated with a customer, a merchant and a tracking fee amount; charging a tracking fee to an account associated with a customer; and crediting the tracking fee to an account associated with a merchant. Subsequently, an amount given by the sum of the amount of credit purchased and the tracking fee is credited to an account associated with a customer and charged to an account associated with a merchant. Accounts associated with a customer and a merchant are typically maintained electronically, and the charging and crediting are performed by a computing device. The credit purchase amount and tracking fee are equal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2011
    Publication date: September 20, 2012
    Inventors: Christopher Primbas, Philip Thomas Stamataky
  • APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING LONG, CONTINUOUS FLEXIBLE SUBSTRATES
    Publication number: 20120219340
    Abstract: An apparatus and method is described that allows accurately registered, high resolution patterning of thin films on discrete lengths of flexible substrate material that are unwound from a drum and after processing are rewound onto another drum. Discrete lengths of the substrate - are clamped to a chuck and the chuck moved in a direction parallel to the length of the substrate. Accommodating units are provided for accommodating length changes in the substrate both upstream and downstream of the chuck. A processing head is moved across the width of the substrate when clamped to the chuck and pattern formation is by one, or a combination, of laser ablation, laser exposure or ink jet printing using either or both subtractive and additive processes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 13, 2009
    Publication date: August 30, 2012
    Applicant: M-SOLV LIMITED
    Inventor: Philip Thomas Rumsby
  • Flow-control in a switch fabric
    Patent number: 8254255
    Abstract: In some embodiments, an apparatus includes a module within a first stage of a switch fabric, a module within a second stage of the switch fabric, and a module within a third stage of the switch fabric. The module within the first stage is configured to send data to the module within the second stage. The module within the second stage is configured to send data to the module within the third stage. The module within the second stage is configured to send a first suspension indicator to the module within the third stage. The module within the third stage is configured to send a second suspension indicator to the module within the first stage in response to the first suspension indicator. The module within the first stage is configured to stop sending data to the module within the second stage in response to the second suspension indicator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2012
    Assignee: Juniper Networks, Inc.
    Inventor: Philip A. Thomas
  • Respiratory mask
    Patent number: D665494
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2012
    Assignee: ResMed Limited
    Inventors: Philip Thomas Stallard, Victor Eduardo Solis, Neil Raymond Shaddick, Karthikeyan Selvarajan, Alison Oldenburg, Eva Ng, Susan Robyn Lynch, Murray William Lee, Scott Alexander Howard, Joshua Adam Gudiksen, Matthew Eves, Vincent Chu, Mark Bertinetti, Melanie Lucia Cariola
  • Frame for respiratory mask
    Patent number: D675314
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2013
    Assignee: ResMed Limited
    Inventors: Philip Thomas Stallard, Scott Alexander Howard
  • Adjustable forehead support dial for respiratory mask
    Patent number: D677778
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2013
    Assignee: Resmed Limited
    Inventors: Eva Ng, Vincent Chu, Mark Bertinetti, Scott Alexander Howard, Murray William Lee, Philip Thomas Stallard, Joshua Adam Gudiksen, Susan Robyn Lynch