Brian D O'Connell

US Patent:

20210287164, Sep 16, 2021

Filed:

Mar 16, 2020

Appl. No.:

16/819267

Inventors:

- Farmington CT, US
Nicholas Cope - Brooklyn NY, US
Brian O'Connell - Philadelphia PA, US

International Classification:

G06Q 10/08
B25J 11/00
B25J 9/16
B66B 1/46

Abstract:

A method of delivering packages using a robot delivery system including: obtaining information about a package from an online ordering platform application programing interface, the information about the package including at least a destination of the package; transmitting the information about the package to a first robot; instructing the first robot to obtain the package or retain the package; and instructing the first robot to deliver the package to the destination using a conveyance system.

US Patent:

20170124148, May 4, 2017

Filed:

Oct 29, 2015

Appl. No.:

14/926997

Inventors:

- Armonk NY, US
Jeffrey R. Hoy - Gibsonia PA, US
Brian M. O'Connell - Cary NC, US
Clifford A. Pickover - Yorktown Heights NY, US
Keith R. Walker - Austin TX, US

International Classification:

G06F 17/30
G06F 1/32

Abstract:

Embodiments of the present invention disclose optimizing resources of distributed database replicas in which one or more processors receive resource information associated with a plurality of database replicas hosted on a plurality of servers, the resource information includes identification of indexes of database tables of each database replica. The instances of indexes residing in memory of the plurality of servers is determined, based on the state of each index, which indicates whether the index resides in memory. The instances of indexes that reside in memory and are redundant among the plurality of database replicas are determined, and in response to receiving a query directed to a database replica, if an index of a database table having the query-requested data resides in memory, the query is routed to the database replica on which the index resides in memory.