Steven Patrick Reynolds

US Patent:

6832249, Dec 14, 2004

Filed:

May 18, 2001

Appl. No.:

09/860801

Inventors:

Larry Ciscon - Houston TX
Steven Reynolds - Houston TX
F. Scott Yeager - Sugarland TX

Assignee:

Intellectual Ventures Patent Holdings III, LLC - Bellevue WA

International Classification:

G06F 1300

US Classification:

709223

Abstract:

A method for providing broadband communications over a multi-layered network having a plurality of Open System Interconnection (OSI) Reference Model layers functioning therein includes monitoring at least one OSI reference model layer functioning in the multi-layered network. A quality of service event is determined whether to have occurred in the multi-layered network. The quality of service event is determined to have occurred at a layer N in the OSI reference model. Network provisioning is changed at a layer less than N in response to the quality of service event, and a signal is provided when the network provisioning at the layer less than N has been changed. A system for providing broadband communications includes a multi-layered network, a network monitor, and a network controller. The multi-layered network has a plurality of Open System Interconnection (OSI) reference model layers functioning therein. The network monitor is coupled to the multi-layered network, and the network monitor is adapted to monitor at least one OSI reference model layer functioning in the multi-layered network, determine that a quality of service event has occurred in the multi-layer network, and determine that the quality of service event occurred at a layer N in the OSI reference model.

US Patent:

8423630, Apr 16, 2013

Filed:

Nov 1, 2004

Appl. No.:

10/978953

Inventors:

Larry Ciscon - Houston TX, US
Steven Reynolds - Houston TX, US
F. Scott Yeager - Sugarland TX, US

Assignee:

Corps of Discovery Patent Holding LLC - Bellevue WA

International Classification:

G06F 13/00

US Classification:

709223

Abstract:

A method for providing broadband communications over a multi-layer network having a plurality of Open System Interconnection layers. The method stores information in a memory, the information indicating for each of a plurality of communication resources within the multi-layer network, one or more layers of the network with which that communication resource is associated. The method monitors the multi-layer network to detect a quality of service event that has occurred at a first of a plurality of communication resources, and in response to the monitoring, uses the information to determine a layer of the multi-layer network that is associated with the first of the plurality of communication resources. The method responds to the quality of the service event by changing provisioning of the multi-layer network at a layer that is different from the layer of the multi-layer network that is associated with the first of the plurality of communication resources.

US Patent:

20110240561, Oct 6, 2011

Filed:

Dec 1, 2008

Appl. No.:

13/128829

Inventors:

Steven Reynolds - Raleigh NC, US
Graham Maclean - Richland WA, US
Clay Coleman - Sugarland TX, US

Assignee:

FLUOR TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION - Aliso Viejo CA

International Classification:

C02F 1/52

US Classification:

210723, 2101981

Abstract:

Contemplated wastewater treatment plants and processes comprise a unit in which a silicate-containing waste stream is combined with an alkaline process stream to so form a pH-controlled intermediate that is then fed to a reactor in which carbonization effects precipitation of the silicate. Following a particle growth step in the reaction vessel that renders the precipitate suitable for filtration, the so produced silicon dioxide can be safely disposed of in a landfill while the liquid can be discharged or sent to a zero liquid discharge pond to precipitate sodium carbonates.

US Patent:

61493740, Nov 21, 2000

Filed:

Sep 25, 1998

Appl. No.:

9/161351

Inventors:

Brian R. Dershem - Snaford NC
Steven F. Reynolds - Cary NC
Matthew P. Rosefsky - Chapel Hill NC

Assignee:

Caterpillar S.A.R.L. - Geneva

International Classification:

B66C 2300

US Classification:

414685

Abstract:

A releasable locking mechanism has a lockbar which locks a hydraulic cylinder in an extended position for holding a liftarm assembly of a machine in a raised position. The lift cylinder has a body and an extendable rod which incorporates structure thereon acting upon the lockbar to release the locked hydraulic cylinder so that the liftarm assembly is moved from the raised position to a lowered position with minimal operator intervention. The operator intervention occurs only when the liftarm assembly is in the lowered position or when the lift cylinder is locked in the extended position. The lockbar is movable between an inoperative position wherein the lockbar is releasably connected to the liftarm assembly and an operative position wherein the lockbar is in bearing engagement with the body of the lift cylinder to prevent retraction of the rod. A release lever is connected to a lift cylinder and is movable between a rest position wherein the release lever is adjacent and substantially parallel with the lift cylinder and a working position wherein a notched end portion of the release lever is forced against a pin assembly releasably connected on the lockbar to lift the lockbar out of bearing engagement with the body of the lift cylinder.