Patents by Inventor Steven John Hyatt

Steven John Hyatt 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: 20100204935
    Abstract: According to one general embodiment of the present invention, there is provided a computer program product for reducing incidence of errors in connections between a power consumer apparatus operable to draw a load and a power supply apparatus capable of varying the power supplied, the computer program product comprising: a computer readable storage medium having computer readable program code embodied therewith, the computer readable program code comprising: computer readable program code configured to generate at the power consumer apparatus an identifiable pattern in a load to be drawn from a power supply connection to a power supply apparatus; and computer readable program code configured to monitor at the power consumer apparatus for a change in the load corresponding to the pattern, the monitoring being performed across a signal connection to the power supply apparatus; wherein a positive result of the monitoring indicates a correct configuration. Additional embodiments are also presented.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 23, 2010
    Publication date: August 12, 2010
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Steven John Hyatt, Ian David Judd, Robert Bruce Nicholson, Paul Jonathan Quelch, Stephen Arthur Randle, William James Scales
  • Patent number: 7759820
    Abstract: According to a first general aspect of the present invention, there is provided a logic arrangement for reducing incidence of errors in connections between a power consumer apparatus and a power supply apparatus, the logic arrangement comprising: a pattern-generating component for generating an identifiable pattern in a load to be drawn from a power supply connection to a power supply apparatus; and a testing component for monitoring across a signal connection to the power supply apparatus, the testing component monitoring for a change in the load corresponding to the pattern. A positive result of the testing by the testing component indicates a correct configuration. Additional embodiments are also presented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2010
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Steven John Hyatt, Ian David Judd, Robert Bruce Nicholson, Paul Jonathan Ouelch, Stephen Arthur Randle, William James Scales
  • Patent number: 6141724
    Abstract: A system for remotely developing an telephony application for a call handling server comprises: program code components for each process used by the call handling server and an associated reduced code components for each process; an application designer for combining the reduced code components into an application design; networking capability for sending the application designer and reduced code components to a client and receiving a completed application design; and an application builder for assembling, according to the application design, the program code components into an self contained application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 1998
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2000
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corp.
    Inventors: Nicholas David Butler, Jacqueline Bowden, Steven John Hyatt, David Seager Renshaw, Yuk-Lun Wong