Patents by Inventor Stuart Macfarlane

Stuart Macfarlane 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: 11429928
    Abstract: This invention relates to a natural resource and reserve management system, a corresponding method and a resultant natural asset inventory. The system has means for amalgamating and integrating data from disparate expert technical systems and applications, including computer developed or generated data, into at least one common, spatially-referenced database for use by at least one commercially available inventory management application, in order to provide integrated natural asset management in a natural resource inventory. The natural resources and reserves may comprise of depletable mineral resources and reserves, the amalgamation and integration may be conducted continually, and the data may be from disparate expert technical systems and applications in order to provide integrated mineral asset management in a mineral resource inventory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: MINERP IP INCORPORATED
    Inventors: John Francis Megannon, Andries George Hendrik Loubser, Michael Woodhall, Edmund Johan Strydom, Alastair Stuart MacFarlane
  • Publication number: 20200082329
    Abstract: This invention relates to a natural resource and reserve management system, a corresponding method and a resultant natural asset inventory. The system has means for amalgamating and integrating data from disparate expert technical systems and applications, including computer developed or generated data, into at least one common, spatially-referenced database for use by at least one commercially available inventory management application, in order to provide integrated natural asset management in a natural resource inventory. The natural resources and reserves may comprise of depletable mineral resources and reserves, the amalgamation and integration may be conducted continually, and the data may be from disparate expert technical systems and applications in order to provide integrated mineral asset management in a mineral resource inventory.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2019
    Publication date: March 12, 2020
    Inventors: John Francis Megannon, Andries George Hendrik Loubser, Michael Woodhall, Edmund Johan STRYDOM, Alastair Stuart MacFarlane
  • Patent number: 10521763
    Abstract: This invention relates to a natural resource and reserve management system, a corresponding method and a resultant natural asset inventory. The system has means for amalgamating and integrating data from disparate expert technical systems and applications, including computer developed or generated data, into at least one common, spatially-referenced database for use by at least one commercially available inventory management application, in order to provide integrated natural asset management in a natural resource inventory. The natural resources and reserves may comprise of depletable mineral resources and reserves, the amalgamation and integration may be conducted continually, and the data may be from disparate expert technical systems and applications in order to provide integrated mineral asset management in a mineral resource inventory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2019
    Assignee: MINE RP HOLDINGS (PTY) LIMITED
    Inventors: John Francis Megannon, Andries George Hendrik Loubser, Michael Woodhall, Edmund Johan Strydom, Alastair Stuart MacFarlane
  • Patent number: 10320650
    Abstract: A network testing system includes a test station and a communication device running an application. A VNC client and a VNC server are provided on the communication device to control the application for network testing purposes. In operation, the test station communicates with the remote VNC client, providing information and context data for the network test. More than one communication device may be used in the test.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2019
    Assignee: VIAVI SOLUTIONS INC.
    Inventors: Gregory Lee, Jonathan Dunbar, Stuart Macfarlane
  • Publication number: 20160140492
    Abstract: This invention relates to a natural resource and reserve management system, a corresponding method and a resultant natural asset inventory. The system has means for amalgamating and integrating data from disparate expert technical systems and applications, including computer developed or generated data, into at least one common, spatially-referenced database for use by at least one commercially available inventory management application, in order to provide integrated natural asset management in a natural resource inventory. The natural resources and reserves may comprise of depletable mineral resources and reserves, the amalgamation and integration may be conducted continually, and the data may be from disparate expert technical systems and applications in order to provide integrated mineral asset management in a mineral resource inventory.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2016
    Publication date: May 19, 2016
    Inventors: John Francis Megannon, Andries George Hendrik Loubser, Michael Woodhall, Edmund Johan STRYDOM, Alastair Stuart MacFarlane
  • Publication number: 20150081758
    Abstract: A network testing system includes a test station and a communication device running an application. A VNC client and a VNC server are provided on the communication device to control the application for network testing purposes. In operation, the test station communicates with the remote VNC client, providing information and context data for the network test. More than one communication device may be used in the test.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2014
    Publication date: March 19, 2015
    Inventors: Gregory LEE, Jonathan Dunbar, Stuart Macfarlane