Patents by Inventor Thomas Sullivan

Thomas Sullivan 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: 20180037770
    Abstract: Anti-corrosion metal pretreatment compositions comprising a Group IVB metal, a Group IB metal and polyamidoamine polymers; replenisher compositions for the metal pretreatment compositions; methods of making the metal pretreatment compositions; methods of forming an anti-corrosion Group IVB oxide coating on at least one metal substrate surface by contacting the surface with the metal pretreatment composition; and coated metal substrates having anti-corrosion coatings deposited on the metal substrates from chrome VI free, anti-corrosion metal pretreatment compositions having enhanced corrosion resistance of the Group IVB metal oxide coatings and adhesion of the anti-corrosion and primer coating layers to metal substrates.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 13, 2017
    Publication date: February 8, 2018
    Inventors: Donald Robb Vonk, Thomas Sullivan Smith, II, Alvaro Bobadilla
  • Publication number: 20180010858
    Abstract: A return waterbox for a heat exchanger, such as a shell-and-tube heat exchanger, is provided. The return waterbox may include an insert configured to direct a fluid flow(s) in the return waterbox. In some embodiments, such as in a two-pass heat exchanger, the insert can be configured to receive water from one portion of the heat exchanger tubes in the first pass and redirect the received water to another portion of the heat exchanger tubes in the second pass.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 14, 2017
    Publication date: January 11, 2018
    Inventor: Brian Thomas SULLIVAN
  • Patent number: 9843565
    Abstract: A request for a web page is received and the requested web page is retrieved. The web page is modified to obfuscate a set of form attribute values into a corresponding set of obfuscated form attribute values. The modified web page is transmitted to the requesting device. The modified web page does not include the set of form attribute values in their original form. Form data for the set of obfuscated form attribute values is received from the requesting device. The set of obfuscated form attribute values is deobfuscated thereby revealing the original set of form attribute values. The form data for the set of original form attribute values is further processed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2017
    Assignee: CLOUDFLARE, INC.
    Inventors: Nicholas Thomas Sullivan, Zi Lin, Rajeev Devendra Sharma
  • Patent number: 9771682
    Abstract: A mounting and support mechanism for a rotary feeder gear motor having an adjusting housing, wherein the adjusting housing includes a support flange adjacent the gear motor, a hollow adjusting housing and a support flange adjacent a stationary feeder end cover. Contained within the adjusting housing is a carrier extension wherein the carrier extension at one end encases a stationary bushing, the stationary bushing houses an adjusting shaft to provide movement of a rotor assembly axially, and at the opposite end the carrier extension connects to a bearing carrier mechanism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2017
    Assignee: Andritz Inc.
    Inventors: Keith Vogel, Thomas Sullivan
  • Publication number: 20170234585
    Abstract: Generally, apparatuses, systems, and methods are described to vent refrigerant vapor from the refrigerant pump line using a vent line, such as during priming of the pump and/or during a startup of the compressor, directed to a relatively reduced volute casing mass of the refrigerant pump, and/or directed to returning refrigerant to an economizer or chiller component other than the condenser.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 1, 2017
    Publication date: August 17, 2017
    Inventors: Daoud Ali JANDAL, Brian Thomas SULLIVAN, Steven Erwin MELOLING, Reginald Loyd BERRY, Ronald Allen BOLDT, Matthew Aron WITT, Damion Scott PLYMESSER
  • Publication number: 20170237566
    Abstract: A server receives a piece of data for encryption. The server encrypts the piece of data such that no single key can decrypt the encrypted piece of data and any combination of a first multiple of unique keys taken a second multiple at a time are capable of decrypting the encrypted piece of data. Each of the first multiple of unique keys is tied to account credentials of a different user. The second multiple is less than or equal to the first multiple. The encrypted piece of data is returned.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 2, 2017
    Publication date: August 17, 2017
    Inventor: Nicholas Thomas Sullivan
  • Publication number: 20170237571
    Abstract: A server establishes a secure session with a client device where a private key used in the handshake when establishing the secure session is stored in a different server. During the handshake procedure, the server receives a premaster secret that has been encrypted using a public key bound with a domain for which the client device is attempting to establish a secure session with. The server transmits the encrypted premaster secret to the different server for decryption along with other information necessary to compute a master secret. The different server decrypts the encrypted premaster secret, generates the master secret, and transmits the master secret to the server. The server receives the master secret and continues with the handshake procedure including generating one or more session keys that are used in the secure session for encrypting and decrypting communication between the client device and the server.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2016
    Publication date: August 17, 2017
    Inventors: Sébastien Andreas Henry Pahl, Matthieu Philippe François Tourne, Piotr Sikora, Ray Raymond Bejjani, Dane Orion Knecht, Matthew Browning Prince, John Graham-Cumming, Lee Hahn Holloway, Nicholas Thomas Sullivan, Albertus Strasheim
  • Patent number: 9733023
    Abstract: A return waterbox for a heat exchanger, such as a shell-and-tube heat exchanger, is provided. The return waterbox may include an insert configured to direct a fluid flow(s) in the return waterbox. In some embodiments, such as in a two-pass heat exchanger, the insert can be configured to receive water from one portion of the heat exchanger tubes in the first pass and redirect the received water to another portion of the heat exchanger tubes in the second pass.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2017
    Assignee: TRANE INTERNATIONAL INC.
    Inventor: Brian Thomas Sullivan
  • Publication number: 20170180312
    Abstract: Methods and apparatuses for identifying a domain of a command and control server of a botnet are described. Upon receipt of a request to register a domain for a service that includes a proxy server, where the proxy server is to receive and process traffic for that domain if registration is successful, a determination of whether the domain was generated by a domain generation algorithm (DGA) is performed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2015
    Publication date: June 22, 2017
    Inventor: Nicholas Thomas Sullivan
  • Publication number: 20170171172
    Abstract: A server receives a request from a client to establish a secure session. The server analyzes the request to determine a set of one or more properties of the request. The server selects, based at least in part on the determined set of properties, one of multiple certificates for a hostname of the server, where each of the certificates is signed using a different signature and hash algorithm pair. The server returns the selected certificate to the client.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2015
    Publication date: June 15, 2017
    Inventors: Nicholas Thomas Sullivan, Lee Hahn Holloway, Piotr Sikora, Ryan Lackey, John Graham-Cumming, Dane Orion Knecht, Patrick Donahue, Zi Lin
  • Publication number: 20170171247
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for enabling an HSTS policy for a subdomain of a domain is described. A request for content at a subdomain of a domain is received at a proxy server from a client device over a secure transport. The proxy server determines whether the subdomain is associated with a rule indicating that Hypertext Transport Protocol Strict Transport Security (HSTS) is to be enabled for the subdomain of the domain. Responsive to determining that the subdomain is associated with the rule, the proxy server transmits, to the client device, a first response that includes an HSTS header and which instructs the client device to communicate only over the secure transport for requests for content at the subdomain, wherein the first response includes the HSTS header regardless of whether HSTS has been enabled for the subdomain at an origin server.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2015
    Publication date: June 15, 2017
    Inventors: Nicholas Thomas Sullivan, Rajeev Devendra Sharma, Ryan Lackey, Zi Lin
  • Patent number: 9680807
    Abstract: A server establishes a secure session with a client device where a private key used in the handshake when establishing the secure session is stored in a different server. During the handshake procedure, the server receives a premaster secret that has been encrypted using a public key bound with a domain for which the client device is attempting to establish a secure session. The server transmits the encrypted premaster secret to the different server for decryption along with other information necessary to compute a master secret and session keys for the secure session. The different server decrypts the encrypted premaster secret, generates the master secret, and generates session keys that are used in the secure session for encrypting and decrypting communication between the client device and the server and transmits those session keys to that server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2017
    Assignee: CLOUDFLARE, INC.
    Inventors: Sébastien Andreas Henry Pahl, Matthieu Phillippe François Tourne, Piotr Sikora, Ray Raymond Bejjani, Dane Orion Knecht, Matthew Browning Prince, John Graham-Cumming, Lee Hahn Holloway, Nicholas Thomas Sullivan, Albertus Strasheim
  • Patent number: 9671146
    Abstract: Generally, apparatuses, systems, and methods are described to vent refrigerant vapor from the refrigerant pump line using a vent line, such as during priming of the pump and/or during a startup of the compressor, directed to a relatively reduced volute casing mass of the refrigerant pump, and/or directed to returning refrigerant to an economizer or chiller component other than the condenser.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2017
    Assignee: TRANE INTERNATIONAL INC.
    Inventors: Daoud Ali Jandal, Brian Thomas Sullivan, Steven Erwin Meloling, Reginald Loyd Berry, Ronald Allen Boldt, Matthew Aron Witt, Damion Scott Plymesser
  • Publication number: 20170146272
    Abstract: Generally, apparatuses, systems, and methods are described that are directed to accessing liquid refrigerant from an evaporator to source a refrigerant pump and pump line to cool and lubricate such moving parts that may be part of the compressor, for example the compressor motor and the compressor bearings, and/or for cooling drives such as an adjustable or variable frequency drive.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2016
    Publication date: May 25, 2017
    Inventors: Daoud Ali JANDAL, Brian Thomas SULLIVAN, Reginald Loyd BERRY, Ronald Allen BOLDT, Matthew Aron WITT, Damion Scott PLYMESSER
  • Patent number: 9639687
    Abstract: A server receives a piece of data for encryption. The server encrypts the piece of data such that no single key can decrypt the encrypted piece of data and any combination of a first multiple of unique keys taken a second multiple at a time are capable of decrypting the encrypted piece of data. Each of the first multiple of unique keys is tied to account credentials of a different user. The second multiple is less than or equal to the first multiple. The encrypted piece of data is returned.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: CLOUDFARE, INC.
    Inventor: Nicholas Thomas Sullivan
  • Publication number: 20170089620
    Abstract: Generally, apparatuses, systems, and methods are described to prime a refrigerant pump by decoupling or shielding from a condenser operation, such as for example the condenser water pump, so that liquid refrigerant can be appropriately sourced from the condenser and/or the evaporator using flow control device(s) such as a source valve on a source line of the condenser and/or on a source line of the evaporator and the control of such valve(s).
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2016
    Publication date: March 30, 2017
    Inventors: Daoud A. JANDAL, Brian Thomas SULLIVAN, Reginald Loyd BERRY, Dennis Lee JUSTIN, Matthew Aron WITT, Damion Scott PLYMESSER
  • Patent number: 9599599
    Abstract: In one aspect of the invention, a method includes determining an amount of carbon dioxide (CO2) in dialysate flowing through a dialysis system using a CO2 sensor associated with the dialysis system, determining, using a pH sensor associated with the dialysis system, a pH level of the dialysate, and calculating a level of bicarbonate in the dialysate based at least in part on the determined amount of CO2 measured in the gas and the determined pH level of the dialysate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2017
    Assignee: Fresenius Medical Care Holdings, Inc.
    Inventors: Stephen R. Ash, Thomas A. Sullivan, David Carr, Michael James Beiriger
  • Publication number: 20170068028
    Abstract: An optical interference coating with reduced back reflectance for 3D glasses based on colour separation has a substantial transmittance at one or more passbands over the visible spectral range in order to view the desired left (right) eye image and a substantial reflectance and absorption at one or more different blocking bands over the visible spectral range in order to block the undesired right (left) eye image while simultaneously reducing the back reflectance of visible light, whatever the source, towards the viewer's eye. The thickness of the absorbing layer material or materials are chosen such that the luminance back reflectance of the coatings is substantially reduced while minimizing the transmittance loss of the filter's desired passbands. The optical interference coating is typically deposited on the concave side of the lens for 3D glasses.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2016
    Publication date: March 9, 2017
    Inventors: Brian Thomas Sullivan, Graham Carlow, Michelle Derouin, Peter Hook
  • Publication number: 20170067205
    Abstract: A mounting and support mechanism for a rotary feeder gear motor having an adjusting housing, wherein the adjusting housing includes a support flange adjacent the gear motor, a hollow adjusting housing and a support flange adjacent a stationary feeder end cover. Contained within the adjusting housing is a carrier extension wherein the carrier extension at one end encases a stationary bushing, the stationary bushing houses an adjusting shaft to provide movement of a rotor assembly axially, and at the opposite end the carrier extension connects to a bearing carrier mechanism.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2016
    Publication date: March 9, 2017
    Inventors: Keith Vogel, Thomas Sullivan, Keith Vogel, Thomas Sullivan
  • Patent number: 9586661
    Abstract: A device comprising a first plate disposed on top of a second plate where the first and second plates are parallel and separated by a fixed distance with a spacer, and wherein the spacer fits around the perimeter of the first and second plates creating a void space, and wherein the second plate has a plurality of pin-sized holes, and wherein a pump sits in the void space and is operably coupled to the plates, wherein the plates are operably coupled to the bottom, exterior hull of an Unmanned Underwater Vehicle (UUV), and wherein the pump is configured to pump liquid into the void space between the parallel plates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2017
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by Secretary of the Navy
    Inventors: Daniel Joseph Braun, Wayne Po-wen Liu, Peter Thomas Sullivan