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Kenton Chickering, Iii, Houston, TX US
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20150354717 | ROTARY MULTI-PORT VALVE - A rotary multi-port valve has a valve body having a primary flow port and a plurality of secondary flow ports. A rotary diverter is rotatable within the valve body and has an internal piston receptacle. A port selector piston is linearly moveable by hydraulic pressure from a de-energized position within the piston receptacle to an energized position for sealing with a selected flow port and accomplishes development of a spring force during hydraulically energized piston movement. Upon reduction of the hydraulic pressure the stored spring force returns the port selector piston to its de-energized position freeing the rotary diverter member for selective rotation to another selected flow port. | 12-10-2015 |
Kenton Fleming, Marietta, GA US
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20150308211 | Systems and Methods for Catastrophe Mitigation for Deep Water Oil Drilling during Blowout Preventer Failure - Disclosed herein in example embodiments is a simple Drill-Through-Equipment (DTE) system for deep water drilling of oil, to intervene in the event of Blowout Preventer (BOP) failure, and mitigate spill disaster. Example embodiments of systems and methods of failed BOP intervention, and oil spill disaster mitigation disclosed herein may be used to mount a housing within the existing BOP below the blind shear ram, whereby the failed BOP is made accessible just below the blind shear ram through access ports, opening or closing in the housing. Through these ports blowout is diverted, thus protecting the rig. Through these same ports access is granted to the drill pipe allowing external manipulation or cutting of the drill pipe in effort to render the BOP operational. Once this is accomplished, the access ports are closed, and normal BOP and/or drilling operations are resumed. Example embodiments integrate and make use of existing BOP machinery. | 10-29-2015 |
Kenton Gidewall, Snohomish, WA US
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20090259618 | SLICING OF RELATIONAL DATABASES - A method and a processing device may be provided for creating a shadow database, having a size being approximately a desired percentage of a size of a relational database. Referential integrity of tables of the relational database may be preserved in the created shadow database. A representation of a connected graph may be created, based on a schema description of the relational database, and may be used to find driving tables and related tables of the relational database. Portions of driving tables of the relational database may be copied to corresponding tables of the shadow database and rows of tables of the relational database, related to the copied portions of the driving tables, may be copied to corresponding tables of the shadow database in a number of iterations until the size of the shadow database is approximately the desired percentage of the size of the relational database. | 10-15-2009 |
Kenton Kivestu, San Francisco, CA US
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20140155141 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS TO DETERMINE A GAME PAYMENT - A method of selecting players to make payments associated with a session of a game is disclosed. A player is selected to make a payment. The selecting of the player is based on a session counter of the player having a higher value than a session counter of an additional player seeking to participate in the session of the game. Based on a receiving of the payment from the selected player, the session counter of the selected player is decremented by an amount corresponding to the payment, the value of the session counter of the additional player is incremented by an amount corresponding to the payment, and the selected player and the unselected player are allowed to participate in the session of the instance of the game. | 06-05-2014 |