Patents by Inventor William Moore

William Moore 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).

  • Kettle Valve
    Publication number: 20100308249
    Abstract: A valve assembly uses an O ring contained within a void such that the outer edges of the valve assembly reach the outer mid section of the O ring. A kettle for brewing beer or heating other fluid is drilled so as to accommodate the disclosed valve. The O ring is pressed and held against the outside surface of the kettle wall. A retaining nut placed within the kettle further secures the valve to the kettle. As the surface of the kettle heats during use, the contained O ring retains sufficient contact with the valve and kettle so as to prevent leakage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2009
    Publication date: December 9, 2010
    Inventor: William Moore
  • Guide based content services
    Publication number: 20090192887
    Abstract: Systems are described for a guide of audio, video, multimedia transmission, receiving and playback with advertising and bi-directional fulfillment of goods and services over the Internet. A method of streaming content distribution includes streaming content from a plurality of streaming content sources; streaming advertisement from a plurality of streaming advertisement sources before, during, and after playback of streamed content; requesting streaming content by a user; locating streaming content with a guide; and communicating bi-directionally with users. A streaming content distribution system includes a streaming content guide through which a user locates a source of streaming content and starts playback of streaming content; data on streaming content; data on network locations of streaming content; and data on access characteristics.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2008
    Publication date: July 30, 2009
    Inventors: William Moore, Thomas Hutchings, David McIntosh, Edwin Lau
  • Guide based content services
    Publication number: 20090193134
    Abstract: Systems are described for a guide of audio, video, multimedia transmission, receiving and playback with advertising and bi-directional fulfillment of goods and services over the Internet. A method of streaming content distribution includes creating data on streaming content; creating data on network locations of streaming content; creating data on access characteristics; locating a source of streaming content with a with a streaming content guide; and starting playback of streaming content from the source of streaming content. A streaming content distribution system includes a streaming content guide through which a user locates a source of streaming content and starts playback of streaming content; data on streaming content; data on network locations of streaming content; and data on access characteristics.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2008
    Publication date: July 30, 2009
    Inventors: William Moore, Thomas Hutchings, David McIntosh, Edwin J. Lau
  • Methods of manufacturing and modifying taxane coatings for implantable medical devices
    Publication number: 20080020013
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to endolumenal medical devices coated with a taxane therapeutic agent in one or more solid form(s) having varying dissolution rates. Particularly preferred coatings comprise amorphous paclitaxel, dihydrate paclitaxel, or combinations thereof that provide durable coatings that release paclitaxel over a desired period of time, which can be on the order of hours, days or weeks. Preferred embodiments relate to medical device coatings of paclitaxel, or paclitaxel analogs or derivatives, having one or more polymorph solid forms that provide a prolonged release of paclitaxel within a body vessel without requiring a polymer carrier or barrier layer to achieve the desired rate of paclitaxel elution.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2007
    Publication date: January 24, 2008
    Applicants: Cook Incorporated, MED Institute, Inc.
    Inventors: Priscilla Reyes, William Moore, Randy Myers, Patrick Ruane
  • 2-Cyanopropanoic Acid Amide and Ester Derivatives and Methods of Their Use
    Publication number: 20070299105
    Abstract: This invention provides compounds of formula I or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof that are useful for the treatment of the inflammatory component of diseases and are particularly useful in treating atherosclerosis, myocardial infarction, congestive heart failure, inflammatory bowel disease, arthritis, type II diabetes, and autoimmune diseases such as multiple sclerosis and rheumatoid arthritis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2007
    Publication date: December 27, 2007
    Applicant: Wyeth
    Inventors: Thomas Caggiano, Antony Brazzale, William Moore, Callain Kim
  • Imidazo-pyridine derivatives as ligands for GABA receptors
    Patent number: 7279580
    Abstract: A class of 8-fluoro-3-phenylimidazo[1,2-?]pyridine derivatives, substituted at the meta position of the phenyl ring by an optionally substituted aryl or heteroaryl group, or by a pyrrolidinonyl group, which is directly attached or bridged by an oxygen atom or by a —NH— or —OCH2— linkage, being selective ligands for GABAA receptors, in particular having high affinity for the ?2 and/or ?3 and/or ?5 subunit thereof, are accordingly of benefit in the treatment and/or prevention of adverse conditions of the central nervous system, including anxiety, convulsions and cognitive disorders.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2003
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2007
    Assignee: Merck Sharp & Dohme Limited
    Inventors: Simon Charles Goodacre, David James Hallett, Alexander Charles Humphries, Philip Jones, Sarah Margaret Kelly, Kevin John Merchant, Kevin William Moore, Michael Reader
  • Taxane coatings for implantable medical devices
    Publication number: 20070212394
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to implantable medical devices coated with a taxane therapeutic agent, such as paclitaxel, in one or more solid form(s) having varying dissolution rates. Particularly preferred coatings comprise amorphous and/or solvated solid forms of taxane therapeutic agents that provide durable coatings that release the taxane over a desired period of time, which can be varied in the absence of a polymer by selecting the type and amount of solid forms of the taxane therapeutic agent in the coating. Other preferred embodiments relate to methods of coating medical devices and methods of treatment. The coatings can provide a sustained release of the taxane therapeutic agent within a body vessel without containing a polymer to achieve the desired rate of paclitaxel elution.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2007
    Publication date: September 13, 2007
    Applicants: Cook Incorporated, MED Institute, Inc.
    Inventors: Priscilla Reyes, William Moore, Patrick Ruane, Darin Schaeffer
  • Method and system for repairing partially damaged blocks
    Publication number: 20070198889
    Abstract: A method for reconstructing a logical block, wherein the logical block comprises a first set of sectors. The method including obtaining a copy of the logical block comprising a second set of sectors, determining which of the sectors in the first set of sectors are identical to sectors in the second set of sectors to obtain identical sectors, selecting a first combination of non-identical sectors from the first set of sectors and the second set of sectors, combining a copy of each of the identical sectors with the first combination of non-identical sectors to obtain a first reconstructed logical block, calculating a first checksum for the first reconstructed logical block, and determining whether the first calculated checksum is equal to the stored checksum associated with the first logical block.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 19, 2006
    Publication date: August 23, 2007
    Applicant: Sun Microsystems, Inc.
    Inventors: William Moore, Jeffrey Bonwick
  • Inhibitors of protein kinases
    Publication number: 20070185098
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to a compound having the formula wherein R1, R2, R3, R4, G, and Q are defined herein. The compounds of the present invention are useful as inhibitors of protein kinases. The present invention is also directed to compositions comprising a compound according to the above formula. The present invention is also directed to compounds that stabilize the open conformation of a protein kinase, a crystallized protein kinase in the open conformation, and uses thereof. The compounds and compositions described herein are useful for treating and preventing an inflammatory condition or disease.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 4, 2007
    Publication date: August 9, 2007
    Applicant: Locus Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
    Inventors: Enrique Michelotti, William Moore, Eric Springman
  • I/O dependency graphs
    Publication number: 20070174494
    Abstract: A method for executing a selected input/output (I/O) command from a plurality of I/O commands based on a dependency graph of I/O commands includes building the dependency graph of I/O commands, wherein the dependency graph is built by requiring all children of the selected I/O command to be ready before the selected I/O command is ready, and executing the I/O command based on the dependency graph, wherein execution of the selected I/O command is completed when all of the children of the selected I/O command finish execution.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 20, 2006
    Publication date: July 26, 2007
    Applicant: Sun Microsystems, Inc.
    Inventors: Jeffrey Bonwick, William Moore
  • Adaptive resilvering I/O scheduling
    Publication number: 20070168569
    Abstract: In general, the invention relates to a method for storing data. The method includes receiving an Input/Output (I/O) request to store data in a storage pool, determining whether the I/O request is a resilvering I/O request, if the I/O request is a resilvering I/O request: associating the I/O request with a first deadline, wherein the first deadline is associated with a low priority, and determining the quantized deadline for the I/O request using the first deadline. If the I/O request is not the resilvering I/O request: associating the I/O request with a second deadline, determining the quantized deadline for the I/O request using the second deadline, placing the I/O request in the I/O queue using the quantized deadline, and issuing the I/O request to the storage pool using the I/O queue.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 19, 2006
    Publication date: July 19, 2007
    Applicant: Sun Microsystems, Inc.
    Inventors: Jeffrey Bonwick, William Moore, Matthew Ahrens
  • Pharmaceutical formulation
    Publication number: 20070160666
    Abstract: The instant invention provides a pharmaceutical composition comprised of a cholesterol absorption inhibitor and an HMG-CoA reductase inhibitor, one or more anti-oxidants, microcrystalline cellulose, hydroxypropyl methylcellulose, magnesium stearate and lactose. The composition need not contain ascorbic acid in order to obtain desirable stability.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2007
    Publication date: July 12, 2007
    Inventors: William Moore, Shaun Fitzpatrick, Christian Seiler, Robert Saklatvala, Catherine Petts, Wing-Kee Cho
  • Pipelined I/O execution
    Publication number: 20070150624
    Abstract: A method for pipelining execution input/output (I/O) includes obtaining a first I/O operation, determining a first plurality of stages of a pipeline needed to execute the first I/O operation, and executing each of the first plurality of stages to complete the I/O operation, wherein the first plurality of stages is a subset of a plurality of stages associated with pipeline, and wherein each of the first plurality of stages of the pipeline is executed in sequence.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 20, 2006
    Publication date: June 28, 2007
    Applicant: Sun Microsystems, Inc.
    Inventors: William Moore, Jeffrey Bonwick
  • Input/output priority inheritance
    Publication number: 20070130387
    Abstract: A method for executing input/output (I/O) operations based on priority involves receiving a first I/O request for a unit of data, receiving a second I/O request for the same unit of data, determining a priority of the first I/O request and a priority of the second I/O request, and executing the first I/O request based on priority, where the first I/O request is executed based on the higher of the priority of the first I/O request and the priority of the second I/O request.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 12, 2006
    Publication date: June 7, 2007
    Applicant: Sun Microsystems, Inc.
    Inventors: William Moore, Jeffrey Bonwick
  • Method and system for data replication
    Publication number: 20070124659
    Abstract: A method for writing data to a storage pool includes receiving a write operation to write a logical block of data to the storage pool, determining a number (n?1) of physical blocks required to store the logical block of data, generating a parity block using the logical block of data, allocating n physical blocks in the storage pool, writing the parity block in the first of n allocated physical block, and writing the logical block of data across the remaining n?1 allocated physical blocks, where n is less than a number of disks in the storage pool, and where each of the n allocated physical blocks is located on a different disk in the storage pool.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2006
    Publication date: May 31, 2007
    Applicant: Sun Microsystems, Inc.
    Inventors: William Moore, Jeffrey Bonwick, Matthew Ahrens
  • Method and system for adaptive metadata replication
    Publication number: 20070118576
    Abstract: A method for writing a data block to a storage pool. The method including receiving a write operation for a block, determining whether the block comprises metadata, and if the block comprises metadata: determining a first replication type for the block, and writing the block to the storage pool in accordance with the first replication type. If the block does not comprise metadata: determining a second replication type for the block and writing the block to the storage pool in accordance with the second replication type.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 19, 2006
    Publication date: May 24, 2007
    Applicant: Sun Microsystems, Inc.
    Inventors: William Moore, Jeffrey Bonwick, Matthew Ahrens
  • Optical Isolator Device, and Method of Making Same
    Publication number: 20070111464
    Abstract: The present invention is generally directed to an optical isolator device, and various methods of making same. In one illustrative embodiment, the method comprises obtaining a single SOI substrate, the SOI substrate having an active layer comprised of silicon and a buried insulation layer, forming a doped layer of silicon above the active layer of the SOI substrate, forming first and second isolated regions in at least the doped layer of silicon, forming a photon generating device in the first isolated region, and forming a photon receiving device in the second isolated region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 10, 2007
    Publication date: May 17, 2007
    Inventors: Chris Speyer, William Moore
  • Method and system for block reallocation
    Publication number: 20070106870
    Abstract: A system includes a storage pool including a first disk and a second disk, a data management unit (DMU), and a storage pool allocator (SPA). The SPA is configured to receive a request from the DMU to write a logical block, allocate a first physical block on the first disk, attempt to write the logical block to the first physical block, and allocate a second physical block on the second disk, if the attempt to write the logical block to the first physical block fails.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 19, 2006
    Publication date: May 10, 2007
    Applicant: Sun Microsystems, Inc.
    Inventors: Jeffrey Bonwick, William Moore, Matthew Ahrens
  • Method and system using checksums to repair data
    Publication number: 20070106925
    Abstract: A method for reconstructing corrupted data, which includes determining a number of non-parity disks (n), selecting a first combination of n-1 non-parity disks, obtaining a first set of physical blocks from the first combination of n-1 non-parity disks, obtaining a parity block associated with the first set of physical blocks, reconstructing a first physical block using the first set of physical blocks and the parity block, combining the first physical block and the first set of physical blocks to obtain a first reconstructed logical block, checksumming the first reconstructed logical block to obtain a first calculated checksum, and determining whether the first calculated checksum is equal to a stored checksum associated with the first reconstructed logical block.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 19, 2006
    Publication date: May 10, 2007
    Applicant: Sun Microsystems, Inc.
    Inventors: William Moore, Jeffrey Bonwick
  • Method and system supporting per-file and per-block replication
    Publication number: 20070106851
    Abstract: A method for writing data to a storage pool, involving receiving a first write operation to write a first block to the storage pool, determining a first replication type for the first block using a first replication policy associated with the first block, determining a first number of physical blocks required to write the first block to the storage pool using a size of the first block and the first replication type, and writing the first block, in accordance with the first replication policy, to the storage pool by filling in the first number of physical blocks.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 19, 2006
    Publication date: May 10, 2007
    Applicant: Sun Microsystems, Inc.
    Inventors: Jeffrey Bonwick, William Moore