Patents by Inventor Philip To

Philip To 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: 8275957
    Abstract: A method (and system) of storing data in a value-based storage system, includes optimizing a value of data stored in the value-based storage system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2012
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Nikhil Bansal, Frederick Douglis, Lisa Karen Fleischer, Kirsten Weale Hildrum, Akshay Kumar Reddy Katta, John Davis Palmer, Elizabeth Suzanne Richards, David Tao, William Harold Tetzlaff, Joel Leonard Wolf, Philip Shi-lung Yu
  • Patent number: 8275479
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for performing an operation on a workpiece. Image information may be received from a camera system at a controller in which the camera system and the controller may be associated with a housing. The workpiece with a number of inconsistencies and a tool system may be moved relative to each other under a control of the controller in which the tool system may be associated with the housing. A number of operations may be performed on the number of inconsistencies on the workpiece holes using the image information under the control of the controller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2012
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventors: Philip L. Freeman, Edward E. Feikert, John E. Inman
  • Patent number: 8276160
    Abstract: Managing an asynchronous messaging queue with a client computer in an asynchronous messaging system, where the client computer is programmed to store an manage the asynchronous messaging queue, includes receiving a reactive message in the asynchronous messaging queue, the reactive message including an identification of a referenced message and an action to be performed on the referenced message; and performing the action on the previously initiated message with the client computer if the referenced message is present in the asynchronous messaging queue.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2012
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: George Meldrum Blue, Nigel Goddard, Martin James Gompertz, Andrew Ian Hickson, Gary Patrick Longerstaey, Philip Graham Willoughby
  • Patent number: 8272974
    Abstract: A hybrid type golf club head is disclosed herein. The hybrid golf club head preferably has an increased heel/toe camber to minimize drag through rough when a golfer swings the hybrid golf club. A sole of the hybrid golf club head is relieved to allow for the face angle to open without the leading edge lifting too high.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2012
    Assignee: Callaway Golf Company
    Inventors: Philip A. Mickelson, Daniel M. Stevens, William C. Watson, Alan Hocknell, Luke R. Williams, Roger Cleveland
  • Patent number: 8274023
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to missile training systems, especially to those relating to the provision of a mechanism that allows missiles and similar devices to be fired at a target in a realistic, but safe, manner. The use of live fire exercises, in which army or other armed forces personnel use fully functioning weapons systems is well established. Live fire exercises can be used to provide realistic training scenarios, but also present obvious dangers. The present invention provides a module for attachment to an object (such as a missile), the object being adapted to be directed towards a target (such as a ship), the module comprising a control system providing an output signal indicative of whether or not said object is to be destroyed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2012
    Assignee: MBDA UK Limited
    Inventor: Philip Neil Gazard
  • Patent number: 8274131
    Abstract: A semiconductor device comprising a first transistor device (130) on or in a semiconductor substrate (115) and a second transistor device (132) on or in the substrate. The device further comprises an insulating trench (200) located between the first transistor device and the second transistor device. At least one upper corner (610) of the insulating trench is a rounded corner in a lateral plane (620) of the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2012
    Assignee: Texas Instruments Incorporated
    Inventors: Sameer P. Pendharkar, John Lin, Philip L. Hower, Steven L. Merchant
  • Patent number: 8276195
    Abstract: Described herein is a method that includes receiving multiple requests for access to an exposed media object, wherein the exposed media object represents a live media stream that is being generated by a media source. The method also includes receiving data associated with each entity that provided a request, and determining, for each entity, whether the entities that provided the request are authorized to access the media stream based at least in part upon the received data and splitting the media stream into multiple media streams, wherein a number of media streams corresponds to a number of authorized entities. The method also includes automatically applying at least one policy to at least one of the split media streams based at least in part upon the received data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 2, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2012
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Rajesh K. Hegde, Cha Zhang, Philip A. Chou, Zicheng Liu
  • Patent number: 8275902
    Abstract: A method for throttling in a file system. The method includes receiving a request by a client from an application to write data to a server, wherein the application is associated with an application bandwidth and wherein the server is associated with a server bandwidth, queuing a first job to write the data to the server on an I/O queue using an application-to-client throttling mechanism using at least one selected from the group of the application bandwidth and the server bandwidth, and issuing the first job from the I/O queue to the server using a client-to-server throttling mechanism and at least one selected from the group of the application bandwidth and the server bandwidth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2012
    Assignee: Oracle America, Inc.
    Inventors: Binu J. Philip, Sudheer Abdul Salam
  • Patent number: 8272511
    Abstract: An article of commerce includes a disposable cleaning article and a package. The package exhibits soft visual and sound characteristics. The package is formed as a multilayer packaging film including at least a co-extruded vapor barrier film layer and a polymeric film layer having a melting point at least about 20° C. less than the co-extruded film layer. The polymeric film layer is sealable to form the package so as to enclose the disposable cleaning article, thereby to substantially retain the water content of the disposable cleaning article. The polymeric film layer further exhibits a corrected sound level of less than approximately 50 decibels at readily audible frequencies, such as 3-5 kHz. The reduced sound level may be achieved by providing a film with a high loss tangent. In addition, the multilayer packaging film may have an outer surface with a soft or “matte” appearance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2012
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Martin Zethoff, Philip Andrew Sawin, Ravi K. Saggar, Matthew Aaron Neumann, Edward John Milbrada, Ralf Niepelt, Luis Alberto Santini Torres
  • Patent number: 8274784
    Abstract: A display support system includes a chassis housing an electronic display and defining a support member channel. A support member is moveably coupled to the chassis. The support member is operable to move between a stored position in which the support member is positioned in the support member channel and a support position in which the support member extends from the chassis. An adjustment member is moveably coupled to the support member. With the chassis engaging a support surface, the adjustment member is operable to engage the support surface and move relative to the support member such that an angle between the electronic display and the support surface may be adjusted. The system allows the electronic display to be supported in either a landscape orientation and a portrait orientation, while allowing the angle between the support surface and the electronic display to be adjusted in either orientation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2012
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Jason Franz, Jason A. Shepherd, Philip Seibert
  • Patent number: 8273020
    Abstract: A method and system for providing evolving, highly variable, long-term ongoing cognitive stimulation over a broad spectrum of cognitive domains. The user is presented with a series of entertaining audio/visual activities customized for the user, based on the user's life experience and cognitive level, each activity providing stimulation in one or more cognitive domains. The activities themselves and their level of challenge may change, in real time, over both the short- and the long term, varying in relation to current and historical user response patterns, creating an experience that remains engaging, with on-going use, over a period of months or years.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2012
    Assignee: Dakim, Inc.
    Inventors: Jerry Philip Robinson, Dan Michel, Melinda Wu
  • Patent number: 8275751
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer program products for database table aggregation are provided. A method includes encoding first and second components via a waveform definition, the first and second components specifying first and second criteria, respectively, for aggregating data. The method includes generating a complex periodic aggregation waveform (CPAW) having variable-sized square waves representing the components in a repeating pattern corresponding to the definition and the criteria, and which spans a first axis. The method includes providing a maximum byte count for aggregated data stored in a table defined by the first and/or second criteria, aggregating the data in accordance with the criteria, and creating a new table for overflow of data determined for the table when the maximum byte count is exceeded. The method includes updating the CPAW with results of the aggregation and generating a waveform representing the new table along a second axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2012
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Arthur Zaifman, Saiprakash Rao, Philip E. Brown
  • Patent number: 8276018
    Abstract: Mechanisms are provided for use with a microprocessor chip, for storing selected reliability information in an on-chip non-volatile storage device. An on-chip reliability controller coupled to one or more on-chip resources of the microprocessor chip, collects raw reliability information from the one or more on-chip resources of the microprocessor chip. The on-chip reliability controller analyzes the raw reliability information to identify selected reliability information for the one or more resources of the microprocessor chip. The on-chip reliability controller stores the selected reliability information in the on-chip non-volatile storage device. The on-chip non-volatile storage device stores the selected reliability information even in the event of an overall failure of the microprocessor chip in which the microprocessor chip loses power.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2012
  • 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
  • Patent number: 8275776
    Abstract: An apparatus, method and article of manufacture of the present invention detects the presence of references to the same concept in separate sections of text, and, with no input required from the reader, presents the reader with information concerning the detected references to the concept. The information provided may comprise information related to the location of the reference to the concept in other sections of text, and the reader also is provided the ability to move from one reference to a concept directly to another reference to the same concept.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2012
    Inventor: Philip R Krause
  • Patent number: 8274290
    Abstract: Method for real time monitoring of the waveform transmitted by an electromagnetic survey source, using a near-source monitoring receiver to measure electromagnetic field and transmitting the measured signal in real time to a control location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2012
    Assignee: ExxonMobil Upstream Research Company
    Inventors: Philip J. Summerfield, Ruben Quintanilla, Anne K. Rutledge, Xinyou Lu
  • Patent number: 8273742
    Abstract: The present invention provides novel 1,4-disubstituted phthalazine hedgehog pathway antagonists useful in the treatment of cancer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2012
    Assignee: Eli Lilly and Company
    Inventors: Philip Arthur Hipskind, Bharvin Kumar Patel, Takako Wilson (nee Takakuwa)
  • Patent number: 8275029
    Abstract: An apparatus comprises a summer suitable for subtracting a filtered feedback signal from an input; a symbol decision device suitable for receiving an output from the summer; a feedback filter suitable for filtering an output from the symbol decision device and for sending the filtered feedback signal to the summer, the feedback filter comprising an adjustable swing amplifier and an adjustable pole filter; and an adaptation algorithm suitable for simultaneously adapting both a pole setting and a swing setting based upon a least mean squared error criteria. The summer, the symbol decision device, and the feedback filter form a feedback circuit utilized to reconstruct an electrical signal distorted during transmission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2012
    Assignee: LSI Corporation
    Inventors: Philip Jenkins, Cathy Ye Liu, Mark Marlett, Jeff Kueng
  • Patent number: 8274019
    Abstract: This invention generally relates to a connector for attaching an electrical power source to a conductive fiber tow comprising: a flat surface having an upper and a lower mating portion substantially opposing each other; said upper portion includes a plurality of parallel ribbed troughs and said lower portion includes plurality of parallel ribbed protrusions wherein the upper and lower portions of said surface engagingly fasten a portion of said fiber tow between the ribbed protrusions and the ribbed troughs to hold the said fiber in a fixed position; and at least one electrical contact integral to the flat surface to supply electrical energy to said fiber for producing heat energy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2012
    Assignee: Carbon Fibers Heating Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Philip K Morin, Stanley G Tomalesky
  • Patent number: 8272958
    Abstract: A method and apparatus are used to simultaneously display a virtual dealer and a dynamic visual background image in connection with a multi-player video platform simulating and effecting play of a casino table card game. The dealer imagery is in the foreground and the background is behind the dealer. The background is either a live video feed from the casino, live feed from another location or event or pre-recorded image sequences. The various videos are keyed or masked and layered together using known video production technology.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2004
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2012
    Assignee: Shuffle Master, Inc.
    Inventors: Philip Stephen Smith, Ezra Christopher MacKenna, Donald T. Bush, Daymon B. Savage