Patents by Inventor Thomas A. Waltz
Thomas A. Waltz 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).
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Publication number: 20240133586Abstract: A fluid heating system for heating a production fluid using a thermal transfer fluid, the production fluid being contained in a vessel includes an electric blower configured to receive ambient air and electrical input power and to provide output source air, a combustion system configured to receive the source air from the electric blower and to receive fuel and to provide the thermal transfer fluid, a heat exchanger configured to receive the thermal transfer fluid from the combustion system and configured to provide heat exchange from the thermal transfer fluid to the production fluid, and to provide output exhaust gas, and wherein the electric fan provides a predetermined volume flow rate of the output source air at a predetermined blower efficiency such that the fluid heating system has a Bulk Heat Flux of at least about 14.7 kBTU/Hr/ft2 and a Pressure Drop of at least about 0.7 psi.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 22, 2023Publication date: April 25, 2024Inventors: Alexander Thomas Frechette, Carl Nicholas Nett, Thomas William Tighe, Keith Richard Waltz
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Publication number: 20240109036Abstract: The present invention relates to an exhaust gas treatment system for reducing ammonia emission from a gasoline engine comprising a three-way conversion catalyst (TWC) or a four-way conversion catalyst (FWC), further comprising an ammonia oxidation catalyst (AMOx) or a selective catalytic reduction catalyst (SCR), and a method of treating exhaust gas from a gasoline engine with an exhaust gas treatment system capable of removing ammonia.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 1, 2022Publication date: April 4, 2024Inventors: Manale Maalouf, Florian Waltz, Karifala Dumbuya, Marcus Hilgendorff, Markus Kinne, Thomas Schmitz
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Patent number: 11946405Abstract: The present invention relates to a four-way conversion catalyst for the treatment of an exhaust gas stream of a gasoline engine, the catalyst comprising a porous wall-flow filter substrate comprising an inlet end, an outlet end, a substrate axial length extending between the inlet end and the outlet end, and a plurality of passages defined by porous internal walls of the porous wallflow filter substrate, wherein the plurality of passages comprise inlet passages having an open inlet end and a closed outlet end, and outlet passages having a closed inlet end and an open outlet end, wherein the interface between the passages and the porous internal walls is defined by the surface of the internal walls; wherein the porous internal walls comprise pores which comprise an oxidic component comprising a first refractory metal oxide, said first refractory metal oxide comprising aluminum, said oxidic component having a platinum group metal content in the range of from 0 to 0.Type: GrantFiled: August 30, 2019Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: BASF CorporationInventors: David Schlereth, Hao Li, Stephen Siemund, Thomas Schmitz, Attilio Siani, Florian Waltz
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Patent number: 11252119Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are provided for logging message data with reduced the latency and decreased overhead in multi-tenant systems. A message server may implement a two-stage process for logging the message data. In the first stage, the message server may create job-specific and write-optimized staging tables for each message processing job, and may store the message data for each job in a corresponding staging table. This may be done as the message server is building and sending the messages for each job. Additionally, the message server may partition or shard the staging tables so that the write operations are spread to multiple storage disks to avoid creating a storage server hotspot or bottleneck. In the second stage, the message server may move the accumulated message data from the individual staging tables to a corresponding tenant space at regular intervals. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.Type: GrantFiled: June 4, 2018Date of Patent: February 15, 2022Assignee: SALESFORCE.COM, INC.Inventors: D. Thomas Waltz, Jonathan Bennett, Paul Beck
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Patent number: 11216574Abstract: A system for controlling access within an enterprise to information associated with recipients of an electronic message campaign of the enterprise sent to a plurality of recipient devices wherein the enterprise includes hierarchically structured Business Units having an enterprise level Business Unit at the highest level and a plurality of second level Business Units and an enterprise system communicatively coupled to a network and including an enterprise level device communicatively coupled to a plurality of second level devices includes a server and an electronic message engine The server is configured to assign an enterprise account to the enterprise system and to allow the enterprise level device to communicate selected portions of the recipient list. The electronic message engine is configured to generate electronic messages within a message campaign for sending to recipients identified by each of the second level devices from the selected portions of the recipient list.Type: GrantFiled: October 14, 2019Date of Patent: January 4, 2022Assignee: salesforce.com, inc.Inventors: James Michael Ciancio-Bunch, Matt Beard, D. Thomas Waltz, Richard W. Jamison, Jack Fisher, Jeff Middlesworth
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Patent number: 10693952Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for processing and sending messages with low latency are described. An application server may obtain a triggered send request (TSR) message from triggered send (TS) subscriber. The TSR message may comprise TSR information and a TSR payload. The application server may directly inject the TSR payload to an available message server for processing when the TSR information indicates that a first priority is associated with the payload, and may notify the available message server that the TSR payload is available for processing when the TSR information indicates that a second priority is associated with the payload. The application server may also write the TSR payload and/or TSR information to a TSS queue of a TSS tenant space, and may write the payload to a non-relational datastore regardless of a priority associated with the payload. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.Type: GrantFiled: October 23, 2017Date of Patent: June 23, 2020Assignee: SALESFORCE.COM, INC.Inventors: D. Thomas Waltz, Jerry Seiler, Michael Clark, Steve Shellist, Kevin King, Andrew Rewald, Jonathan Bennett, Mike Alexander, Tod Karpinski
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Publication number: 20200042736Abstract: A system for controlling access within an enterprise to information associated with recipients of an electronic message campaign of the enterprise sent to a plurality of recipient devices wherein the enterprise includes hierarchically structured Business Units having an enterprise level Business Unit at the highest level and a plurality of second level Business Units and an enterprise system communicatively coupled to a network and including an enterprise level device communicatively coupled to a plurality of second level devices includes a server and an electronic message engine The server is configured to assign an enterprise account to the enterprise system and to allow the enterprise level device to communicate selected portions of the recipient list. The electronic message engine is configured to generate electronic messages within a message campaign for sending to recipients identified by each of the second level devices from the selected portions of the recipient list.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 14, 2019Publication date: February 6, 2020Inventors: James Michael Ciancio-Bunch, Matt Beard, D. Thomas Waltz, Richard W. Jamison, Jack Fisher, Jeff Middlesworth
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Patent number: 10515326Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for processing queues in a database system. An exemplary system includes a database having a plurality of queue tables, with each queue table being associated with a different queue type and having a different schema associated therewith. A server coupled to the database determines a number of threads to allocate to a particular queue based at least in part on a number of entries in a queue table and configuration information associated with the queue and allocates that number of threads to the queue. Each thread causes a processing system of the server to retrieve work detail data for a respective subset of entries of the queue of entries from that queue table in a manner that is influenced by schema associated with that queue table and then perform a task corresponding to the queue type using the work detail data.Type: GrantFiled: August 28, 2015Date of Patent: December 24, 2019Assignee: ExactTarget, Inc.Inventor: D. Thomas Waltz
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Publication number: 20190372924Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are provided for logging message data with reduced the latency and decreased overhead in multi-tenant systems. A message server may implement a two-stage process for logging the message data. In the first stage, the message server may create job-specific and write-optimized staging tables for each message processing job, and may store the message data for each job in a corresponding staging table. This may be done as the message server is building and sending the messages for each job. Additionally, the message server may partition or shard the staging tables so that the write operations are spread to multiple storage disks to avoid creating a storage server hotspot or bottleneck. In the second stage, the message server may move the accumulated message data from the individual staging tables to a corresponding tenant space at regular intervals. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 4, 2018Publication date: December 5, 2019Applicant: salesforce.com, inc.Inventors: D. Thomas WALTZ, Jonathan BENNETT, Paul BECK
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Patent number: 10445520Abstract: A system for controlling access within an enterprise to information associated with recipients of an electronic message campaign of the enterprise sent to a plurality of recipient devices wherein the enterprise includes hierarchically structured Business Units having an enterprise level Business Unit at the highest level and a plurality of second level Business Units and an enterprise system communicatively coupled to a network and including an enterprise level device communicatively coupled to a plurality of second level devices includes a server and an electronic message engine The server is configured to assign an enterprise account to the enterprise system and to allow the enterprise level device to communicate selected portions of the recipient list. The electronic message engine is configured to generate electronic messages within a message campaign for sending to recipients identified by each of the second level devices from the selected portions of the recipient list.Type: GrantFiled: October 6, 2017Date of Patent: October 15, 2019Assignee: SALESFORCE.COM, INC.Inventors: James Michael Ciancio-Bunch, Matt Beard, D. Thomas Waltz, Richard W. Jamison, Jack Fisher, Jeff Middlesworth
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Publication number: 20190124141Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for processing and sending messages with low latency are described. An application server may obtain a triggered send request (TSR) message from triggered send (TS) subscriber. The TSR message may comprise TSR information and a TSR payload. The application server may directly inject the TSR payload to an available message server for processing when the TSR information indicates that a first priority is associated with the payload, and may notify the available message server that the TSR payload is available for processing when the TSR information indicates that a second priority is associated with the payload. The application server may also write the TSR payload and/or TSR information to a TSS queue of a TSS tenant space, and may write the payload to a non-relational datastore regardless of a priority associated with the payload. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 23, 2017Publication date: April 25, 2019Applicant: salesforce.com, inc.Inventors: D. Thomas WALTZ, Jerry SEILER, Michael CLARK, Steve SHELLIST, Kevin KING, Andrew REWALD, Jonathan BENNETT, Mike ALEXANDER, Tod KARPINSKI
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Publication number: 20180096160Abstract: A system for controlling access within an enterprise to information associated with recipients of an electronic message campaign of the enterprise sent to a plurality of recipient devices wherein the enterprise includes hierarchically structured Business Units having an enterprise level Business Unit at the highest level and a plurality of second level Business Units and an enterprise system communicatively coupled to a network and including an enterprise level device communicatively coupled to a plurality of second level devices includes a server and an electronic message engine The server is configured to assign an enterprise account to the enterprise system and to allow the enterprise level device to communicate selected portions of the recipient list. The electronic message engine is configured to generate electronic messages within a message campaign for sending to recipients identified by each of the second level devices from the selected portions of the recipient list.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 6, 2017Publication date: April 5, 2018Inventors: James Michael Ciancio-Bunch, Matt Beard, D. Thomas Waltz, Richard W. Jamison, Jack Fisher, Jeff Middlesworth
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Patent number: 9785788Abstract: A system for controlling access within an enterprise to information associated with recipients of an electronic message campaign of the enterprise sent to a plurality of recipient devices wherein the enterprise includes hierarchically structured Business Units having an enterprise level Business Unit at the highest level and a plurality of second level Business Units and an enterprise system communicatively coupled to a network and including an enterprise level device communicatively coupled to a plurality of second level devices includes a server and an electronic message engine The server is configured to assign an enterprise account to the enterprise system and to allow the enterprise level device to communicate selected portions of the recipient list. The electronic message engine is configured to generate electronic messages within a message campaign for sending to recipients identified by each of the second level devices from the selected portions of the recipient list.Type: GrantFiled: December 16, 2014Date of Patent: October 10, 2017Assignee: SALESFORCE.COM, INC.Inventors: James Michael Ciancio-Bunch, Matt Beard, D. Thomas Waltz, Richard W. Jamison, Jack Fisher, Jeff Middlesworth
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Publication number: 20170061364Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for processing queues in a database system. An exemplary system includes a database having a plurality of queue tables, with each queue table being associated with a different queue type and having a different schema associated therewith. A server coupled to the database determines a number of threads to allocate to a particular queue based at least in part on a number of entries in a queue table and configuration information associated with the queue and allocates that number of threads to the queue. Each thread causes a processing system of the server to retrieve work detail data for a respective subset of entries of the queue of entries from that queue table in a manner that is influenced by schema associated with that queue table and then perform a task corresponding to the queue type using the work detail data.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 28, 2015Publication date: March 2, 2017Applicant: ExactTarget, Inc.Inventor: D. Thomas Waltz
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Publication number: 20100037928Abstract: An umbrella that has a shaft and a plurality of bows pivotally connected to the shaft. A plurality of ribs are slideably positioned on the shaft and pivotally connected to the bows. A cover is positioned on the bows and the cover is designed to protect a user from moisture. An insert is positioned on at least one of the ribs and the insert is disposed to receive a hold a towel on the rib.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 6, 2009Publication date: February 18, 2010Inventors: Thomas A. Waltz, Todd M. Blackmar
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Publication number: 20080094817Abstract: An educational lighting kit to enhance the quality of the image captured of a subject utilizing a floor mat having specific indicators located around the floor mat. The indicators identifying the desired location for specific components selected from the group of lights, light modifiers, reflectors, backgrounds, cameras and image capture equipment. The floor mat also includes an indicator for the subject for the image capture.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 9, 2007Publication date: April 24, 2008Inventors: Thomas Waltz, Kelly Mondora
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Patent number: 7246925Abstract: This light modifier assembly is a continuous light source for still and video imagemakers. More specifically, the continuous light source provides a constant light source for still, digital, video or high definition image capture. In a preferred embodiment, the light source comprises a multiplicity of lamps with a control configured to run multiple combinations of lamps together with no shift in color temperature and to set up multiple lighting ratios.Type: GrantFiled: March 13, 2006Date of Patent: July 24, 2007Assignee: The F.J. Westcott Co.Inventors: Thomas A. Waltz, Kelly Mondora
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Publication number: 20060203491Abstract: This light modifier assembly is a continuous light source for still and video imagemakers. More specifically, the continuous light source provides a constant light source for still, digital, video or high definition image capture. In a preferred embodiment, the light source comprises a multiplicity of lamps with a control configured to run multiple combinations of lamps together with no shift in color temperature and to set up multiple lighting ratios.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 13, 2006Publication date: September 14, 2006Inventors: Thomas Waltz, Kelly Mondora
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Patent number: D686772Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2012Date of Patent: July 23, 2013Assignee: The F.J. Westcott CompanyInventors: Thomas A. Waltz, Kelly A. Mondora
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Patent number: D692609Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2012Date of Patent: October 29, 2013Assignee: The F.J. Westcott CompanyInventors: Thomas A. Waltz, Kelly A. Mondora