Patents by Inventor William Tracey

William Tracey 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: 20140262184
    Abstract: Two components necessary to make up a heat exchanger assembly generally need to be brazed. Two components may be secured which do not contain a cladded alloy. Staking or crimping is used to hold the two components together while securing a braze ring captured between the two components which acts as a brazing mechanism.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2013
    Publication date: September 18, 2014
    Applicant: CALSONICKANSEI NORTH AMERICA, INC.
    Inventors: James Dean Snow, William Tracey Guffey
  • Patent number: 8181780
    Abstract: A socket holding device has a plurality of posts extending from a base. The base may be arranged so that shallow wells are linearly arranged in front of deeper wells with the posts extending from the center of the wells. The posts have arms with a radial bead connected thereto receivable within receivers in the shafts of sockets. A socket may be securely retained to the base thereby preventing undesired disengagement from the well if inverted or “knocked over”, while preferably allowing free rotation of an installed socket thus enabling one to read the sizing information on the exterior surface of the socket. This design is believed to provide an ability to be installed and uninstalled from the post multiple times without a loss of grip function and also preferably requires no secondary motion to remove or release the socket, and can consist of a one-piece design.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2012
    Inventors: William Tracey Guffey, Troy Beavers Yoes
  • Publication number: 20080098265
    Abstract: A system and method are provided to allow demand loading and discarding of Java executable image (JXE) files. The virtual machine allocates an address space for a requested JXE program. The read-only portion of the JXE file is memory mapped from its nonvolatile location to the allocated memory space using read-only mapping and the read/write section of the JXE file are loaded into memory. When a page of the JXE program is needed, a page fault occurs if the read-only portion has not been loaded into memory. The operating system's page fault handler retrieves the needed page(s) from the nonvolatile storage location based upon the mapping data that resulted from the previously performed memory mapping. Because the read-only section of the JXE file is memory mapped using read-only mapping, the operating system's paging process is free to discard previously loaded memory pages that contain read-only portions of the JXE file.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2007
    Publication date: April 24, 2008
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Janet Dmitrovich, Philip Langdale, James Robbins, William Tracey
  • Patent number: 6964401
    Abstract: A promotional item includes a digital data storage disk adapted for inserting into a player for playback by a recipient. A disk carrier holds the data storage disk. The disk carrier cooperates with the data storage disk to form a novelty beverage coaster adapted for protecting an underlying surface. A moisture-absorbent plug is inserted into a center hole formed with the data storage disk, and is adapted for receiving and, transporting moisture away from a top side of the coaster.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2004
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2005
    Inventors: Michael Sean Kelley, William Tracey Walker
  • Publication number: 20050183077
    Abstract: A system and method for reclaiming memory occupied by compiled code resulting from a Just-in-Time (JIT) compiler is provided. An address space used to store code resulting from a JIT compiler is memory mapped using a special filesystem. A map is maintained identify method name and corresponding JIT pages. When the memory manager needs more space, it requests that the special filesystem write the data from memory back to nonvolatile storage. The special filesystem acts as if the data was written. When the code is subsequently called, a page fault and an invalid operation exception occur and are handled. The data in the map is used to recompile the method to the same address space and the faulting instruction is re-executed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 12, 2004
    Publication date: August 18, 2005
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Philip Langdale, Mikael Orn, James Robbins, William Tracey
  • Publication number: 20050165837
    Abstract: A system and method are provided to allow demand loading and discarding of Java executable image (JXE) files. The virtual machine allocates an address space for a requested JXE program. The read-only portion of the JXE file is memory mapped from its nonvolatile location to the allocated memory space using read-only mapping and the read/write section of the JXE file are loaded into memory. When a page of the JXE program is needed, a page fault occurs if the read-only portion has not been loaded into memory. The operating system's page fault handler retrieves the needed page(s) from the nonvolatile storage location based upon the mapping data that resulted from the previously performed memory mapping. Because the read-only section of the JXE file is memory mapped using read-only mapping, the operating system's paging process is free to discard previously loaded memory pages that contain read-only portions of the JXE file.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2004
    Publication date: July 28, 2005
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Janet Dmitrovich, Philip Langdale, James Robbins, William Tracey
  • Patent number: 5113341
    Abstract: A method for hierarchically expanding and contracting element marks in a structured document. The structured document is hierarchically organized, such as documents written in Standardized General Markup Language (SGML). An element consists of a begin tag and its associated content, and may optionally include an end tag. The editor can mark an element, to produce an element mark, to indicate its selection for document processing operations such as moving, copying or deleting the content of the element mark. The element mark can be hierarchically expanded to higher-level element marks by invoking the expand code as appropriate. The method also can be used to adjust a stream mark to an element mark.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 1989
    Date of Patent: May 12, 1992
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Michael Kozol, Chan Lim, Willard L. Strong, Jr., William Tracey