Patents by Inventor Steven Edwards

Steven Edwards 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: 20100107848
    Abstract: A scoreless separation device and method are described herein for separating a glass sheet without needing to score the glass sheet. In one embodiment, the device shears a stationary glass sheet without needing to score the glass sheet. In another embodiment, the device shears a moving glass sheet to remove outer edges from the moving glass sheet without needing to score the moving glass sheet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2008
    Publication date: May 6, 2010
    Inventors: Michael Albert Joseph, II, Steven Edward DeMartino
  • Publication number: 20100088674
    Abstract: A method, system, and computer product for processing information embedded in a text file with a grammar programming language is provided. A text file is parsed according to a set of rules and candidate textual shapes corresponding to potential interpretations of the text file are provided by compiling a script. An output is provided, which may include either a processed value corresponding to a particular textual shape, or a textual representation of the text file that includes generic data structures that facilitate providing any of the candidate textual shapes, where the generic data structures are a function of the set of rules.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2009
    Publication date: April 8, 2010
    Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Giovanni Moises Della-Libera, Clemens Alden Szyperski, Steven Edward Lucco, Douglas Allen Walter, John Braden Keiser
  • Publication number: 20100088434
    Abstract: A method for performing a data exchange between an initiator and a receiver in a fibre channel protocol (FCP) is provided. A control flag is set in a write command to indicate the presence of an identifier. The identifier is copied into a command descriptor block (CDB) of the write command and appended to a data frame. The write command and data frame, including the identifier, is sent from the initiator to the receiver.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 6, 2008
    Publication date: April 8, 2010
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Dung Ngoc DANG, Chung Man FUNG, Steven Edward KLEIN, Patricia Ching LU
  • Publication number: 20100077612
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing an integrated seal on a component is disclosed, comprising the steps of supplying a component having an edge portion, forming a profile on the edge portion, supplying a seal, applying a bond preparation on a surface on the edge portion, applying a bonding material on the seal, mounting the seal to the edge portion, and curing the bond. A method of assembling a stator assembly is disclosed comprising the steps of providing a vane, providing a first fairing located near a first side of the vane, the first fairing having a first seal coupled to a first edge portion of the first fairing, providing a second fairing located near a second side of the vane, the second fairing having a second seal coupled to a second edge portion of the second fairing and engaging a portion of the first seal with a portion of the second seal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2008
    Publication date: April 1, 2010
    Inventors: Courtney James Tudor, Scott Alan Garten, Eli B. Kalaani, Samir Mahendra Mehta, Steven Edward Dinser
  • Publication number: 20100080692
    Abstract: A fairing is disclosed, comprising a surface capable of bounding a fluid on the surface and a seal located at an edge portion on the fairing wherein the seal has at least one support flange and a contact face capable of engaging with an adjacent component to facilitate reducing a leakage of the fluid. A stator assembly is disclosed comprising a vane, a first fairing having a first seal and a second fairing having a second seal, wherein the first seal engages with an adjacent component to facilitate reducing leakage of a fluid in the stator assembly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2008
    Publication date: April 1, 2010
    Inventors: Courtney James Tudor, Scott Alan Garten, Eli B. Kalaani, Samir Mahendra Mehta, Steven Edward Dinser
  • Publication number: 20100067400
    Abstract: A serving gateway facing a radio access network receives packets, applies deep packet inspect to classify the packet into a predetermined application class, and inserts a marker identifying the class and a QoS associated with the class. The serving gateway assigns the packets to a queue within a default bearer based on the class and the QoS marker. The serving gateway transfers packets through the bearer by processing the queues in accordance with their priority.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2008
    Publication date: March 18, 2010
    Applicant: ALCATEL LUCENT
    Inventors: Andrew Dolganow, Steven Edward Morin, Keith Allan
  • Publication number: 20100062675
    Abstract: A system and method is provided for substantially synchronizing sound and smoke, or the like, in a model train or other model vehicle. In one embodiment of the present invention, a sensor is configured to send a signal periodically to a smoke generating device and a controller, wherein the signal is used by the smoke generating device to produce a particular quantity of smoke. The controller is then configured to receive a signal from a motor, wherein the signal includes information (e.g., a count) that can be used to identify a rotational position of the motor, or a rotational position of an axle in communication with the motor. The controller then uses the signal from the sensor and the signal from the motor to estimate (or predict) a transmission time of a next (or second) signal from the sensor, wherein the next (or second) signal is used by the smoke generating device to produce a next (or second) production of smoke.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2008
    Publication date: March 11, 2010
    Inventors: Jon F. Zahornacky, Steven Edward Ziemba, Neil P. Young, Bruce R. Koball
  • Publication number: 20100054204
    Abstract: Mobile protocol packets, with a header field and a payload field, are communicated from a user mobile equipment to an application-aware serving gateway. The application-aware mobile protocol serving gateway detects header information in the header field and application information in the payload field to manage the mobile protocol packets based on a policy.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2008
    Publication date: March 4, 2010
    Applicant: ALCATEL LUCENT
    Inventors: Andrew Dolganow, Steven Edward Morin, Keith Allan
  • Publication number: 20100057940
    Abstract: A packet processing system for providing application-aware hot redundancy and a related card and methods are disclosed. The system may include a plurality of active devices, each including a processor configured to perform deep packet inspection to identify an application associated with an active flow, and a redundancy block configured to determine whether the application requires hot redundancy and, if so, to forward a message from which state information may be derived. The system may also include at least one protecting device in communication with each of the active devices and configured to receive the message regarding the active flow from the active device, derive state information from the message, and resume packet forwarding operations for the active flow upon failure of a respective active device of the plurality of active devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2008
    Publication date: March 4, 2010
    Applicant: ALCATEL LUCENT
    Inventors: Andrew Dolganow, Steven Edward Morin
  • Publication number: 20100054257
    Abstract: In various exemplary embodiments, a Deep Packet Inspection device is integrated into a provider edge router associated with a user agent client or provided externally. The DPI device monitors the exchange of packets between an originating proxy and a user agent client and inspects the packets to identify SIP control messages. By monitoring the messages exchanged between the two devices, the DPI device may determine the type of application, desired QoS, source, destination, and other information related to the connection. Using this information, the router may then access a policy database to determine whether there is a QoS policy for the application and/or user. Based on this determination, the router may initiate network reservation for an anticipated data flow or store the information so the flow of packets can be remarked as the packets arrive. Accordingly, in various exemplary embodiments, the edge router is aware that QoS should be granted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2008
    Publication date: March 4, 2010
    Applicant: AL CATEL LUCENT
    Inventors: Andrew DOLGANOW, Steven Edward Morin
  • Publication number: 20100054231
    Abstract: Based on application information received from a Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) device, a Radio Network Controller (RNC) or similar device may select a dormancy timer value to optimize the use of network resources. In particular, the RNC may set an additional dormancy timer based on a default value or a rough determination of the application by examining port numbers. After the DPI device has received a sufficient number of packets to identify the underlying application, the DPI device may then propagate the application information to the RNC. Based on this application information, the RNC may determine the most efficient dormancy timer and modify the value of the default timer based on this determination.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2008
    Publication date: March 4, 2010
    Applicant: ALCATEL LUCENT
    Inventors: Andrew Dolganow, Steven Edward Morin
  • Publication number: 20100045569
    Abstract: Display systems and methods for mobile devices and mobile devices are disclosed. In one embodiment, a display system for a mobile device is provided. The mobile device is handheld and includes a primary display screen. The display system includes an auxiliary screen and a connecting device coupled to the auxiliary screen and attachable to the mobile device. An image from the mobile device is producible on the auxiliary screen. The display system is removable from the mobile device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 22, 2008
    Publication date: February 25, 2010
    Inventors: Leonardo William Estevez, William Robert Krenik, Steven Edward Smith, Yoram Solomon, Jose Vasquez, Steven Monroe Penn
  • Patent number: 7669139
    Abstract: An apparatus and program product utilize a displayed pictorial representation that depicts the actual physical configuration of a plurality of hardware components in a physical computer system to facilitate the collective management of the underlying hardware components. Typically, within such a pictorial representation, a selected status is displayed for multiple of such hardware components, thereby permitting hardware components sharing common attributes or characteristics to be identified in an efficient and intuitive manner, as well as to permit collective management operations to be performed on all selected hardware components. In addition, a pictorial representation may be dynamically generated to represent the physical configuration of a plurality of hardware components within a plurality of computers. In connection with such dynamic generation, the plurality of computers may be accessed to identify the plurality of hardware components that are resident in such computers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2010
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Gregory Richard Hintermeister, Bradley James Lory, David Walter Mead, Chee Peh, Steven Edward Royer
  • Publication number: 20100037605
    Abstract: A variable geometry turbine has a gas inlet chamber and a gas flow inlet passage downstream of the inlet chamber and upstream of said turbine wheel. The inlet passage is defined between a moveable first wall and a second wall and an actuator is operable to control displacement of the first wall in order to vary the size of the gas flow inlet passage. A piston member defining the first wall or being connected to it is received in a piston chamber and serves to move the first wall as a result of displacement of the piston member in the piston chamber. A bypass passage defined in the housing and extends between the piston chamber and a location in the turbine upstream of the inlet passage for delivering gas to the piston chamber. The bypass passage is disposed such that gas introduced through the bypass passage pressurises the chamber and applies a force to displace the piston member in a direction that causes the first wall to move towards the second wall.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 9, 2009
    Publication date: February 18, 2010
    Inventors: Steven Edward Garrett, John Frederick Parker
  • Publication number: 20100008493
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus to decode dual-tone signals are disclosed. An example receiver to decode a dual-tone signal includes a tone detector to detect a start of a first tone, a first counter to count first cycles of the first tone, a second counter to count second cycles of a system clock while the first counter is counting and the first count is less than a first threshold, state control logic to start the second counter counting third cycles of the clock when a time period elapses, the third count being substantially equal to the second count, the first counter to count fourth cycles of a second tone while the third cycles are counted, and a decoder to compare the fourth count to a second threshold to identify an event represented by the signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2008
    Publication date: January 14, 2010
    Inventors: Steven Edward Marum, Kenneth L. Williams
  • Patent number: 7647581
    Abstract: An analysis tool extracts class data from Java objects originating from multiple vendors having a particular design specification. A database mining tool then creates training data from the extracted class data to create a definition of objects associated with the particular design specification. Various implementations of the defined classes are compared across various performance metrics, which are output for the program designer as a function of vendor. The designer then selects the best design choices based on the best practices of multiple vendors disclosed by the outputs of the analysis tool when implementing a new Java program.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2010
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Steven Edward Atkin, Margot Bruce Casey, Tyron Jerrod Stading
  • Publication number: 20090324660
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a personal-care article for dispensing and or applying a personal-care product that comprises a package and a personal-care product. The package comprises at least one chamber, a dispensing orifice, a first zone proximate to the dispensing orifice and a second zone distal to the dispensing orifice, wherein the first zone and the second zone are both located in the at least one chamber. The personal-care product comprises a first personal-care composition substantially disposed within the first zone and the second personal-care composition substantially disposed within the second zone. The first composition comprises a first fragrance releaseably associated with a suppressing agent and the second composition comprises a second fragrance releaseably associated with a suppressing agent; wherein the first fragrance is different from the second fragrance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2009
    Publication date: December 31, 2009
    Inventors: Jonathan Robert Cetti, Christopher Dean Putman, Andres Ernesto Velarde, Karen Lehnhoff, Edward Dewey Smith, III, Julien Claude Plos, Timothy Alan Scavone, Steven Edward Witt, Joyce Marie Benjamin, Cynthia Louise Crisp
  • Publication number: 20090326723
    Abstract: An irrigation control system and method for controlling irrigation based on weather data. Weather data such as wind, temperature, solar radiation, humidity, and rainfall, may be collected at one or more weather stations for a region. The weather data may be compiled on a computer and transmitted to a paging broadcast service. The weather data may then be transmitted by the paging broadcast service to controller interfaces associated with irrigation systems throughout the region. The controller interfaces may adjust irrigation controllers associated with the irrigation systems based on the weather data such that the proper amount of water is applied. This allows the water to be used more efficiently and the health of the landscape to be improved.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 29, 2009
    Publication date: December 31, 2009
    Applicant: IRRISOFT, INC.
    Inventors: Steven Edward Moore, Travis L. Barney, Charles Ashurst
  • Publication number: 20090307688
    Abstract: An interface is provided between a virtual cluster proxy and a virtual I/O server on a logical partitioned platform. The virtual I/O server is configured to support virtual real memory. A command is received from a virtual cluster proxy. The virtual cluster proxy identifies whether the command is a virtual real memory command or a virtualization command. Virtual real memory commands and virtualization commands are marked by the virtual cluster proxy with a virtualization marker. The virtualization marker indicates that the command is a virtual real memory command or a virtualization command. The command is then forwarded to a logical partitioned platform. A virtual memory manager intercepts the command and identifies whether the command has been marked with the virtualization marker. If the command is marked with the virtualization marker, the virtual memory manager reroutes the command to the virtual I/O server.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 9, 2008
    Publication date: December 10, 2009
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: James A. Pafumi, Veena Patwari, Priya Paul, Steven Edward Royer
  • Publication number: 20090297806
    Abstract: Laminated articles and layered articles, for example, low alkali glass laminated articles and layered articles useful for, for example, electrochromic devices are described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 21, 2009
    Publication date: December 3, 2009
    Inventors: David Francis Dawson-Elli, Steven Edward DeMartino, Laura L. Hluck