Patents by Inventor Stephen Jeffreys

Stephen Jeffreys 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).

  • Publication number: 20110316563
    Abstract: A system for validating capacitance measurement characteristics for a biomass measurement device (probe), is disclosed in which a test chamber for contains a test liquid medium, and a docking arrangement enables the measurement device to be disposed in the test medium in the chamber to measure the capacitance of the medium at a measurement zone in the chamber. A capacitive agent or structure (such as a capacitive device) is positioned in the test medium in the test chamber in a predetermined manner in order to provide a permittivity at the test zone which is different to the permittivity of the media without the capacitive agent or structure present.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2009
    Publication date: December 29, 2011
    Inventors: Stephen Jeffrey Davies, Stephen Taylor, Robert William Todd, Lindsay Agate, Matthew Lee
  • Publication number: 20090132428
    Abstract: This invention relates to a method for creating and marketing a modifiable debt product wherein a debtor who issues the debt note has the ability to modify the type of the note coupon multiple times throughout the life of the note while continuously providing fixed coupons to respective investors. The modifications to the note coupon are determined by prevailing market conditions and are executed as on-market transformations. The invention provides flexibility to the debtor who may wish to change the note in response to the fluctuations of the market without creating additional risk to investors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2005
    Publication date: May 21, 2009
    Inventors: Stephen Jeffrey Wolf, Anthony Albert Fraind
  • Publication number: 20080294588
    Abstract: Correlating security event data according to one or more rules to initiate one or more actions is disclosed. Security event data is received, via an event pipeline, that defines an occurrence of an event. Each type of source of event data may have its own pipeline. Event objects are created from the received security event data, and are gathered into a rules engine. The rules engine includes a plurality of rules. Each rule defines one or more conditions to be met and one or more actions to be taken in response. A rule is evaluated at a frequency over a period of time using data contained within event objects, so to determine whether the one or more conditions defined within the evaluated rule are met. The one or more actions defined by the evaluated rule are initiated whenever the one or more conditions defined by that rule are met.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 22, 2008
    Publication date: November 27, 2008
    Inventors: Stephen Jeffrey Morris, Richard Casey Clarkson, Steven Arnold Bolton, Robert Leo MacDonald, JR., Gregory Wayne Barrett
  • Publication number: 20080292140
    Abstract: Tracking a target across a region is disclosed. A graphical user interface is provided that displays, in a first region, video from a field of view of a main video device, and, in a plurality of second regions, video from a field of view of each of a plurality of perimeter video devices (PVDs). The field of view of each PVD is proximate to the main video device's field of view. A selection of one of the plurality of PVDs is received. In response, video from a field of view of the selected PVD is displayed in the first region, and a plurality of candidate PVDs is identified. Each candidate PVD has a field of view proximate to the field of view of the selected PVD. The plurality of second regions is then repopulated with video from a field of view of each of the plurality of identified candidate PVDs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 22, 2008
    Publication date: November 27, 2008
    Inventors: Stephen Jeffrey Morris, Richard Casey Clarkson
  • Publication number: 20080294990
    Abstract: Intelligently crafting a dynamic video tour using a plurality of video devices selected in real time is provided. A list of attributes is received, the list of attributes describing at least one characteristic of a video device. A list of factors is continuously received, the list of factors describing one or more events, an event occurring at a point in time. A subset of the plurality of video devices is selected, based upon the received list of attributes and the received list of factors. The subset changes over time due to one or more changes in the list of factors. Video is displayed from the selected subset of the plurality of video devices as a tour, the displayed video changing over time as the selected subset changes over time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 22, 2008
    Publication date: November 27, 2008
    Inventors: Stephen Jeffrey Morris, David Emmanuel Bartolini, Victoria Diane Staubly
  • Publication number: 20080288120
    Abstract: Methods and systems for modifying a turbine control system may be provided for. A method may include replacing at least one legacy main controller processor communicating in a first communication protocol with a current main control processor communicating in a second communication protocol, retaining at least one legacy IO processor in communication with at least one turbine monitoring device communicating in the first communication protocol, and providing at least one converter in communication with the current main controller processor or processors and in communication with the legacy IO processor or processors. The converter may translate communications between the current main controller processor or processors and the legacy IO processor or processors by translating between the second communication protocol and the first communication protocol.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 14, 2007
    Publication date: November 20, 2008
    Applicant: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
    Inventors: Marc Gavin Lindenmuth, Fred Henry Boettner, Stephen Jeffrey Sullivan, Brian Keith Holzman, Cecil Ernest Weaver, II, Scott Alan Kopcho, Eamon Patrick Gleeson
  • Publication number: 20080201344
    Abstract: This invention relates to methods for controlling and monitoring access to network servers. In particular, the process described in the invention includes client-server sessions over the Internet. In this environment, when the user attempts to access an access-controlled file, the server subjects the request to a secondary server which determines whether the client has an authorization or valid account. Upon such verification, the user is provided with a session identification which allows the user to access to the requested file as well as any other files within the present protection domain.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2008
    Publication date: August 21, 2008
    Inventors: Thomas Mark Levergood, Lawrence C. Stewart, Stephen Jeffrey Morris, Andrew C. Payne, George Winfield Treese
  • Publication number: 20080155380
    Abstract: The quality of data stored in a memory system is assessed by different methods, and the memory system is operated according to the assessed quality. The data quality can be assessed during read operations. Subsequent use of an Error Correction Code can utilize the quality indications to detect and reconstruct the data with improved effectiveness. Alternatively, a statistics of data quality can be constructed and digital data values can be associated in a modified manner to prevent data corruption. In both cases the corrective actions can be implemented specifically on the poor quality data, according to suitably chosen schedules, and with improved effectiveness because of the knowledge provided by the quality indications. These methods can be especially useful in high-density memory systems constructed of multi-level storage memory cells.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2008
    Publication date: June 26, 2008
    Inventors: Daniel C. Guterman, Stephen Jeffrey Gross, Geoffrey S. Gongwer
  • Patent number: 7360136
    Abstract: The quality of data stored in a memory system is assessed by different methods, and the memory system is operated according to the assessed quality. The data quality can be assessed during read operations. Subsequent use of an Error Correction Code can utilize the quality indications to detect and reconstruct the data with improved effectiveness. Alternatively, a statistics of data quality can be constructed and digital data values can be associated in a modified manner to prevent data corruption. In both cases the corrective actions can be implemented specifically on the poor quality data, according to suitably chosen schedules, and with improved effectiveness because of the knowledge provided by the qualify indications. These methods can be especially useful in high-density memory systems constructed of multi-level storage memory cells.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2008
    Assignee: Sandisk Corporation
    Inventors: Daniel C. Guterman, Stephen Jeffrey Gross, Geoffrey S. Gongwer
  • Patent number: 7340510
    Abstract: Conventional replication status reporting techniques in a Content Delivery Network (CDN) tend to produce large, unwieldy reports which are difficult to transmit, consume large amounts of bandwidth, and require a large share of CPU resources to process. A replication status reporter which identifies an ordered list of events corresponding to content items (files) for replication (pre-positioning) in a content delivery network, and determines a point of progression along a sequence represented by the ordered list of files, allows a management server to avoid computationally expensive endeavors which itemize and transmit lists of every replicated file in the CDN. The servers in a CDN channel receive files as a series of ordered events. Origin servers deliver the files generally according the event. A replication status report indicates the progression in the list, rather than enumerating the entire list, avoids cumbersome and unnecessary processing and delays in reporting replication status.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2003
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2008
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Barbara Liskov, Dmitry Stavisky, Stephen Jeffrey Morris
  • Patent number: 7272639
    Abstract: This invention relates to methods for controlling and monitoring access to network servers. In particular, the process described in the invention includes client-server sessions over the Internet. In this environment, when the user attempts to access an access-controlled file, the server subjects the request to a secondary server which determines whether the client has an authorization or valid account. Upon such verification, the user is provided with a session identification which allows the user to access to the requested file as well as any other files within the present protection domain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 1998
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2007
    Assignee: Soverain Software LLC
    Inventors: Thomas Mark Levergood, Lawrence C. Stewart, Stephen Jeffrey Morris, Andrew C. Payne, George Winfield Treese
  • Patent number: 7257628
    Abstract: Mechanisms and techniques provide a system that operates in a computerized device(s) to establish a data distribution path for content within a content distribution network by receiving a network topology definition defining at least one hierarchical interconnection of network groups. Each network group comprises at least one content engine. The system also receives a channel definition comprising a selection of a plurality of content engines that are to distribute content within the content distribution network. The plurality of content engines in the channel definition is selected from content engines within the network groups defined within the network topology definition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2007
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Barbara Liskov, Dmitry Stavisky, Stephen Jeffrey Morris, Dan Li
  • Patent number: 7228337
    Abstract: In a computational device, a technique provides network communications to a virtual machine. In particular, the technique includes receiving a first communications signal having a first address and data from an external device, performing a network address translation operation based on the first communications signal to obtain a second address that identifies the virtual machine and providing a second communications signal having the second address and the data, to the virtual machine. The technique may further include using an external network Internet Protocol address and port identifier and to translate the first communications signal into an internal network Internet Protocol address by accessing an entry of a network address translation table.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2001
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2007
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: David M. Bornstein, Stephen Jeffrey Morris, James W. O'Toole, Jr.
  • Publication number: 20040225947
    Abstract: The quality of data stored in a memory system is assessed by different methods, and the memory system is operated according to the assessed quality. The data quality can be assessed during read operations. Subsequent use of an Error Correction Code can utilize the quality indications to detect and reconstruct the data with improved effectiveness. Alternatively, a statistics of data quality can be constructed and digital data values can be associated in a modified manner to prevent data corruption. In both cases the corrective actions can be implemented specifically on the poor quality data, according to suitably chosen schedules, and with improved effectiveness because of the knowledge provided by the qualify indications. These methods can be especially useful in high-density memory systems constructed of multi-level storage memory cells.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2004
    Publication date: November 11, 2004
    Inventors: Daniel C. Guterman, Stephen Jeffrey Gross, Geoffrey S. Gongwer
  • Patent number: 6751766
    Abstract: The quality of data stored in a memory system is assessed by different methods, and the memory system is operated according to the assessed quality. The data quality can be assessed during read operations. Subsequent use of an Error Correction Code can utilize the quality indications to detect and reconstruct the data with improved effectiveness. Alternatively, a statistics of data quality can be constructed and digital data values can be associated in a modified manner to prevent data corruption. In both cases the corrective actions can be implemented specifically on the poor quality data, according to suitably chosen schedules, and with improved effectiveness because of the knowledge provided by the quality indications. These methods can be especially useful in high-density memory systems constructed of multi-level storage memory cells.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2002
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2004
    Assignee: SanDisk Corporation
    Inventors: Daniel C. Guterman, Stephen Jeffrey Gross, Geoffrey S. Gongwer
  • Publication number: 20030217323
    Abstract: The quality of data stored in a memory system is assessed by different methods, and the memory system is operated according to the assessed quality. The data quality can be assessed during read operations. Subsequent use of an Error Correction Code can utilize the quality indications to detect and reconstruct the data with improved effectiveness. Alternatively, a statistics of data quality can be constructed and digital data values can be associated in a modified manner to prevent data corruption. In both cases the corrective actions can be implemented specifically on the poor quality data, according to suitably chosen schedules, and with improved effectiveness because of the knowledge provided by the quality indications. These methods can be especially useful in high-density memory systems constructed of multi-level storage memory cells.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 20, 2002
    Publication date: November 20, 2003
    Applicant: SanDisk Corporation
    Inventors: Daniel C. Guterman, Stephen Jeffrey Gross, Geoffrey S. Gongwer
  • Patent number: 6193075
    Abstract: The utilization of an air cyclone classifying method to effectively separate out a low ash fraction, containing less than 11% by weight of non-protein material, from rendered animal meal. A yield of low material greater than 50% by weight is recovered as usable canine and feline food. The method involves the creation in a first cyclone separator of a double vortex air cyclone having a descending external air vortex and a rising internal air spire; wherein an upper chamber therein is equipped with a rotary particle rejector. The rendered animal meal infeed is fed into the rising air spire which entrains and carries the low ash fraction through the rotary particle rejector, to a second cyclone air cleaning device; wherein the low ash material is recovered from the entraining air. The larger and denser high ash particles are recovered from the first cyclone separator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 1996
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2001
    Assignee: Colgate-Palmolive Company
    Inventor: Stephen Jeffrey Plas
  • Patent number: 5971011
    Abstract: An apparatus to permit or stop the flow of water through a conduit is described as having a microprocessor which contains a real time clock, day of the week indication, and an elapsed time clock. Data relating to the quantity of water flowing at any given moment is supplied by a flowmeter to the microprocessor. Primary and subsetting information is supplied to the microprocessor to determine the maximum allowable quantity of water that may flow over a specified period of time. The subsetting parameters override the primary information if so enabled and supply replacement information for certain periods of time. The elapsed time clock is reset whenever the flow rate becomes zero (no water flowing) or when the predetermined period of time is exceeded prior to exceeding the predetermined quantity of water that is allowed to flow within that period of time. If the flow of the predetermined quantity of water is exceeded within the predetermined (allowable) time frame, a solenoid is energized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 1998
    Date of Patent: October 26, 1999
    Inventor: Stephen Jeffrey Price
  • Patent number: 5708780
    Abstract: This invention relates to methods for controlling and monitoring access to network servers. In particular, the process described in the invention includes client-server sessions over the Internet involving hypertext files. In the hypertext environment, a client views a document transmitted by a content server with a standard program known as the browser. Each hypertext document or page contains links to other hypertext pages which the user may select to traverse. When the user selects a link that is directed to an access-controlled file, the server subjects the request to a secondary server which determines whether the client has an authorization or valid account. Upon such verification, the user is provided with a session identification which allows the user to access to the requested file as well as any other files within the present protection domain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 1995
    Date of Patent: January 13, 1998
    Assignee: Open Market, Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas Mark Levergood, Lawrence C. Stewart, Stephen Jeffrey Morris, Andrew C. Payne, George Winfield Treese
  • Patent number: 4097691
    Abstract: An acoustic telephone coupler for use in transmitting medical data over telephone lines and adapts to accommodate any telephone handset configuration. The slim coupler base further functions as a spool for a lengthy cable, and a dual purpose strap alternatively retains the cable and cable connector on the spool or a telephone handset against the transducers of the coupler.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 1977
    Date of Patent: June 27, 1978
    Assignee: Motorola, Inc.
    Inventors: Stephen Jeffrey Ehrlich, Edward Robert Beyer