Pickering, GB
Andrew Pickering, Hillmorton, Rugby, Warwickshire GB
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20150294714 | LOW-POWER SRAM CELLS - The present invention provides a memory unit ( | 10-15-2015 |
20150371708 | SRAM CELLS - There is provided a memory unit that comprises a plurality of memory cell groups, each memory cell group comprising a plurality of memory cells that are each operatively connected to a first local bit line and a second local bit line by respective first and second access transistors, and each memory cell being associated with a word line configured to control the first and second access transistors of the memory cell. The first and second local bit lines of each memory cell group being operatively connected to respective first and second column bit lines by respective first and second group access switches, the first group access switch being configured to be controlled by the second column bit line, and the second group access switch being configured to be controlled by the first column bit line. | 12-24-2015 |
Andrew Pickering, Warwickshire GB
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20130200936 | PHASE INTERPOLATOR WITH INDEPENDENT QUADRANT ROTATION - The present invention provides an improvement of a 4-quadrant clock phase interpolator design to allow independent rotation of the output clocks in steps of 90°. This feature is useful in clock/data recovery where the 90° “jumps” can be used as a coarse control to re-align the data capture clock to achieve any desired data word alignment and/or receive bus clock alignment. The phase interpolator has a switching circuit comprising a single level of switches; a set of four transistor loads; and a set of four current sources operable to be switched by the switching circuit through to any of the set of four transistor loads. | 08-08-2013 |
20130285727 | OCTAL CLOCK PHASE INTERPOLATOR ARCHITECTURE - The present invention provides an apparatus and method of generating a set of 8 clock signals nominally spaced at equal 45° intervals by phase interpolation from a set of 4 quadrature reference clocks. The scheme is useful for clock generation for data capture in an oversampled clock/data recovery (CDR) system where the frequency of data sampling is twice that of the frequency of reference clock edges. | 10-31-2013 |
Andrew J. Pickering, Rugby GB
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20080215947 | Debug Circuit and a Method of Debugging - A debug circuit for a multi-mode circuit driven by a clock signal, with an input for a clock signal, and a debug signal generator arranged to generate for each of a subset of the modes of the multi-mode circuit a corresponding debug signal based on a clock signal provided at the input. The frequency of debug signals is dependent on the frequency of a clock signal provided at the input, and each debug signal selects its respective mode for a length of time longer than that of each other mode of the multi-mode circuit, or each debug signal selects its respective mode for a length of time shorter than that of each other mode of the multi-mode circuit. | 09-04-2008 |
Andrew J. Pickering, Warwickshire GB
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20090102692 | Clock Generator - The present invention relates to controlling the timing of a clock signal in high speed circuits, such as an analogue-digital converter (ADC). In some high speed data transfer techniques, the incoming data is latched using a clock signal. Often, the delay between the incoming data being clocked into the circuit and being ready to use (referred to as the “clock-to-Q period”) is large enough to cause problems. In particular, the clock-to-Q period may be sufficient to result in the original clock signal being inappropriate to clock the latched signal. The present invention provides a data capture circuit with matched latch to address this issue, particularly a first latch having an input for receiving a data input signal; a first sense amplifier having an input coupled to an output of the first latch; a second latch having an input coupled to the output of the first sense amplifier and an output providing a first data output; and a clock generator, the clock generator comprising: a third latch having an input for receiving a first clock signal; a second sense amplifier having an input coupled to an output of said third latch; and a fourth latch having an input coupled to an output of said second sense amplifier and an output providing a first adjusted clock signal, wherein said first and third latches are substantially the same, the first and second sense amplifier are substantially the same and the second and fourth latches are substantially the same. | 04-23-2009 |
Ashley Pickering, Londong GB
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20130201836 | DATA COMMUNICATION - A method of operating an access network including a plurality of data connections ( | 08-08-2013 |
Ashley Pickering, Ispwich GB
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20090262647 | Method and Apparatus for Communication Data Over a Data Network - A Digital Subscriber Line Access Multiplexer (DSLAM) is modified to monitor when a line synchronizes (i.e. sets up a DSL connection) and to automatically generate a notification to be sent to a management device of the access network if the rate has changed from the last time the line synchronized. | 10-22-2009 |
Ashley Pickering, London GB
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20130028392 | DATA COLLECTION IN AN ACCESS NETWORK - A telecommunications access network includes a plurality of telecommunications lines ( | 01-31-2013 |
20150063141 | ESTIMATING LINE RATE - The invention measures the rates of a whole population of existing lines together with a line characteristic, such as capacitance, that can be measured prior to provisioning. Using these measures, a rating we refer to as a “quality figure” is generated for each distribution point by looking at the rate of the lines running through that distribution point, and comparing those rates to the rates of other lines having the same line characteristic across the whole population of lines. Distribution points that have lines operating better (faster) than the average for their given line characteristic will have higher quality figures. To estimate the rate of a new line, the quality figure of the distribution point that the new line passes through is used in conjunction with the measured line characteristic as a look up on the whole population of lines, which have also been given quality figures according to their line characteristic and line rate measurements. | 03-05-2015 |
Ashley Pickering, Ipswich GB
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20090103559 | Method and Apparatus for Communicating Data Over a Data Network - A management device for automatically provisioning a Broadband Remote Access Server (BRAS) for use in connecting Customer Premises Equipment (CPE) to an Internet Protocol (IP) network via a Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) a Digital Subscriber Line Access Multiplexor (DSLAM) and the BRAS, the management device comprising: a first interface for receiving from time to time data readings from the DSLAM indicative of the current or recent line rate of the DSL; a processor unit for calculating from the received data readings a consistent rate indicative of a consistent line rate of the DSL based on a plurality of data readings for the DSL from the DSLAM; and a second interface for transmitting provisioning messages to the BRAS for provisioning the BRAS to restrict data flowing to the DSL to a maximum rate selected by the management device in accordance with the calculated consistent rate. | 04-23-2009 |
20100034216 | DATA COMMUNICATION - A management device ( | 02-11-2010 |
20100183062 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR COMMUNICATING DATA OVER A DATA NETWORK - A method of provisioning an interface device ( | 07-22-2010 |
20110010444 | DATA COMMUNICATION - A management device ( | 01-13-2011 |
20120099424 | DYNAMIC LINE MANAGEMENT - A Digital Subscriber Line Access Multiplexor (DSLAM) for operation within an access network includes a plurality of digital subscriber line modems for terminating a plurality of corresponding digital subscriber lines and aggregating them for onward connection through the access network. The DSLAM is operable, each time a data connection is established or re-established over one of the digital subscriber lines, to generate line data about the data connection at the DSLAM, to store the line data, to wait a predetermined period of time, to determine if the data connection is still operating successfully since the establishment of the connection without having suffered loss of connection during the predetermined period and then to transmit the line data to a management device | 04-26-2012 |
20130215773 | DATA COMMUNICATION - A management device is used in an access network including a plurality of data connections between end user devices and an aggregation transceiver device where the connections are aggregated for onward connection through the access network. The access network stores a plurality of different profiles, each of which specifies a set of values for a plurality of parameters associated with each data connection. The device applies one of the stored profiles to each connection, and receives a notification in the event of one of a predetermined set of notifiable events occurring on the connection. It is determined if more than a predetermined number of notifications are received within a predetermined period for a respective connection and, in the event of such a determination being made, a different one of the profiles is caused to be applied to the connection. | 08-22-2013 |
Ashley Pickering, Suffolk GB
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20100293274 | DATA COMMUNICATION - A management device ( | 11-18-2010 |
20110019575 | DATA COMMUNICATIONS - In a method and system for operating an ADSL access network which has a plurality of data connections ( | 01-27-2011 |
20110191472 | DYNAMIC LINE MANAGEMENT - A management device for use in an access network including a plurality of data connections between end user devices and an aggregation transceiver device where the connections are aggregated for onward connection through the access network, the access network storing in association with each data connection a Dynamic Line Management, DLM, profile which specifies a set of values for a plurality of parameters associated with the respective data connection, together with a stability level specifying a desired level of stability for the data connection. The device includes means for receiving monitoring data specifying the stability of each respective data connection over a predetermined period of time; means for selecting a DLM profile to be applied to the connection in dependence on both the monitoring data and the stored stability level associated with the data connection; and means for requesting an OSS system of the access network to apply the selected profile to the data connection. The DLM profile selection means disregards any resynchronizations or errors estimated to have occurred as a result of an area wide event such as a thunderstorm. It performs this estimation by detecting a large number of retrains and or errors occurring within a predetermined short test period. | 08-04-2011 |
Benjamin Thomas Pickering, Londong GB
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20110184905 | METHOD OF STORING AND ANALYSING DATA PRODUCED FROM INTERACTIONS BETWEEN EXTERNAL AGENTS AND A SYSTEM - The present invention relates to a method of storing data records produced from monitoring interactions between external agents and a system. The method comprises defining specific interactions that can occur between the external agents and the system as potential events of interest. A chain of interactions occurring during respective interaction sessions between a respective external agent and the system are monitored and potential events of interest occurring in the said chain are determined. Data records from the monitored chain of interactions are produced, the respective data record including data identifying determined potential events of interest and data associated therewith. A profile identity, representative of the external agent, is assigned to each data record produced during a said interaction session. Data records of individual potential events of interest are stored in a way that is ordered according to the type of potential event of interest and data records of potential events of interest occurring during an interaction session are stored in a way that is ordered according to assigned profile identity. | 07-28-2011 |
Carl Pickering, Whitley Coventry Warwickshire GB
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20130141212 | VEHICLE ACCESS - A case for a mobile telephone or other nomadic device, the case comprising communication means for wirelessly communicating with a security and/or access system of a vehicle or property. The communication means may be embedded within the material forming the case or may be retained in a slot or recess within the case. The communication means comprises means arranged to transmit control or operation commands to the vehicle or property so as to operate or control one or more functions or devices. The case may comprise one or more buttons or switches configured to be actuated by the user to transmit said commands. A mobile telephone or other nomadic device having such a case. A vehicle adapted to work with a mobile telephone or a case as described hereinbefore. | 06-06-2013 |
20130211623 | Vehicle Communications - A method and apparatus | 08-15-2013 |
Carl Pickering, Coventry GB
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20160129882 | Vehicle Communications - A method and apparatus | 05-12-2016 |
Carl Pickering, Warwickshire GB
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20110119614 | METHOD FOR PROVIDING INFORMATION TO A USER OF A MOTOR VEHICLE - A method is disclosed in which a configuration code identifying the type and specification of a vehicle ( | 05-19-2011 |
Carl Pickering, Kenilworth GB
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20090271080 | Selector Mechanism for a Motor Vehicle Transmission - A rotatable selector mechanism for a motor vehicle transmission has a selector knob rotatable in a housing to select an operating mode of the transmission among a number of selector positions indicated by a label (P, R, N, D, M). The selector mechanism further includes a detent plate which cooperates with a detent pin for maintaining the selector knob in each of positions. The detent plate is connected to position sensors for generating selector signals to a transmission control unit which supplies control signals to an actuator for operate the transmission according to the operating mode selected. The detent plate is also associated to the selector knob and to a drive correction means by means of clutch devices respectively to engage the detent plate to one of the selector knob and the drive correction means. The clutch devices and the drive corrections means are controlled by the transmission control unit to move the detent plate from a selector position selected by the driver to another selector position representative of the operating mode of the transmission by means of the drive correction means without moving the selector knob. The selector knob further includes an illuminated pointer constituted by one of several LEDs controlled by the transmission control unit so as to change the LED illuminated in front of the label according to the position of the detent plate when the latter has been moved by the drive correction means in order to indicate the operating mode of the transmission. | 10-29-2009 |
20100179725 | INTERACTIVE VEHICLE GLAZING - A laminated vehicle glazing comprising: at least two glazing panes laminated together by at least one interlayer therebetween; at least one sensor which is manually operable by the presence of a user's hand contacting or proximal to at least one of the panes; at least one shield associated with the at least one sensor whereby the at least one sensor is manually operable by the presence of a user's hand from only one side of the vehicle glazing; and at least one connector electrically connected to the at least one sensor connectable to an external device for control of the external device by manual operation of the at least one sensor. | 07-15-2010 |
Carl Anthony Pickering, Warwickshire GB
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20080231603 | Touch Screens - A touch screen control system comprising a touch screen ( | 09-25-2008 |
20110141041 | TOUCH SCREENS - A touch screen control system comprising a touch screen having first and second conductive layers arranged to be brought together by touching of the screen. A detection system is arranged to detect a contact position at which the screen is touched by monitoring electrical signals from at least one of the layers. The system further comprises an antenna, and the detection system includes a proximity sensing signal generator arranged to generate a proximity sensing signal to be transmitted between the antenna and the first layer via a user of the system. The detection system is further arranged to receive the transmitted proximity sensing signal and determine therefrom the distance between a part of the user and the touch screen. | 06-16-2011 |
Carl Anthony Pickering, Kenilworth GB
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20080224836 | SECURITY SYSTEM FOR A MOTOR VEHICLE - A security system for remotely locking and unlocking closure members of a motor vehicle | 09-18-2008 |
Carly Pickering, Tyne & Wear GB
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20130324454 | LAUNDRY DETERGENT COMPOSITIONS - The present invention is to a laundry detergent powder comprising: (i) from 20 to 80 wt % of a first particle comprising less than 55 wt % sulphate, anionic detersive surfactant, and having a bulk density of from 300 g/l to 1100 g/l: and (ii) from 20 to 80 wt % of a second particle comprising at least 55 wt % sulphate and, having a bulk density of from 350 g/l to 600 g/l, and a process to making the laundry detergent powder. | 12-05-2013 |
Carly Pickering, Tyne And Wear GB
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20110257064 | Solid Laundry Detergent Composition Having a Dynamic In-Wash PH Profile - A free-flowing solid laundry detergent composition including: (a) detersive surfactant; (b) essentially free from zeolite builder; (c) essentially free from phosphate builder; and (d) optionally, essentially free from silicate salt; wherein the composition has a reserve alkalinity to pH 7.5 of less than 15, and wherein upon dilution in de-ionised water to form a wash liquor at 10° C. temperature and at 1 g/L concentration has a pH profile such that: (i) 3 minutes after contact with water, the pH of the wash liquor is greater than 10; (ii) 10 mins after contact with water, the pH of the wash liquor is less than 9.5; (iii) 20 mins after contact with water, the pH of the wash liquor is less than 9.0; and (iv) optionally, wherein, the equilibrium pH of the wash liquor is in the range of from above 7.0 to 8.5. | 10-20-2011 |
20150018263 | LAUNDRY DETERGENT COMPOSITION - A laundry detergent composition comprising an agglomerate particle wherein the agglomerate particle comprises; | 01-15-2015 |
20150018264 | LAUNDRY DETERGENT COMPOSITION - A laundry detergent composition comprising; | 01-15-2015 |
Carly Pickering, Whitley Bay GB
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20110009304 | COMPOSITIONS CONTAINING BLEACH CO-PARTICLES - Compositions that contain a co-particle, a bleach catalyst, and optionally, a detergent adjunct material are disclosed. The disclosed co-particles contain a binder, a hydrogen peroxide source, such as sodium percarbonate or the like, and a bleach activator such as TAED. Methods of making and using these compositions are also disclosed. | 01-13-2011 |
John B. Pickering, Winchester GB
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20090154773 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR REDUCING THE COST OF SAMPLING A MOVING IMAGE - An energy-efficient and cost-reducing method and system to enable the successful sampling of a moving image are disclosed. The method and system use movement detection and analysis within a feedback loop to control subsequent sensor movement/lighting/radiation for control of future sampling of the image. | 06-18-2009 |
20100275179 | EXTRACTING A SYSTEM MODELLING META-MODEL LANGUAGE MODEL FOR A SYSTEM FROM A NATURAL LANGUAGE SPECIFICATION OF THE SYSTEM - A system modeling meta-model language model for a system is extracted from a natural language specification of the system. Syntactic structure is extracted from the specification of a system. The syntactic structure represents a set of at least one syntactic subject. A first mapping is created between a predetermined set of the at least one syntactic subject and respective meta-model elements for a system modeling meta-model language. At least one of the meta-model elements is constructed in accordance with the mapping for each identified syntactic subject. The created meta-model structural elements are created for conversion into a model of the system. | 10-28-2010 |
20100312827 | METHOD AND APPARATUS TO ENABLE PROTOCOL VERIFICATION - After a client device issues a request, a verification stub component receives the request. Then, the verification stub component obtains a current state of the client device from a client state table. The verification stub component evaluates whether the request is valid or not by analyzing a content and context of the request and checking the request against a protocol matrix. If the request is valid, the verification stub component updates the current state of the client device in the current state table, and forwards the request to a server device. Otherwise, the verification stub component creates a report describing the request is invalid, and evaluates whether the server can process the request. If the server cannot process the request, the verification stub component interrupts the request and forwards the report to the client device. Otherwise, the verification stub component provides the request to the server device. | 12-09-2010 |
20110208820 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MESSAGE HANDLING - A method and system for message handling wherein a structured message is transmitted as a reduced message with the structure removed. The method includes: monitoring messages to be transmitted, the step of monitoring comprising: for each message, identifying one or more elements within the message and identifying the format of content and/or structure encapsulated by those elements; determining the probability that a message will conform to a previously identified format; and using the determined probability to decide when to transmit a format template for the message, wherein the format template is for use by a destination to add the structure removed by a message source back into the message. | 08-25-2011 |
20120030201 | QUERYING DOCUMENTS USING SEARCH TERMS - Techniques are disclosed for searching a set of documents using search terms. In one embodiment, a summary is provided for each document in the set. Search terms are received, and the set of documents are parsed using the received search terms. A first relevance value is calculated using only the summary of each document. A subset of documents having the highest relevance is provided by using the first relevance value. The subset of documents is parsed using the received search terms, to calculate a second relevance value for each document using the respective document. Query results are provided, the query results including documents having the highest relevance according to the second relevance value. | 02-02-2012 |
John B. Pickering, Hampshire GB
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20090099846 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PREPARING A DOCUMENT TO BE READ BY TEXT-TO-SPEECH READER - There is disclosed a method and system for preparing a document to be read by a text-to-speech reader. The method can include identifying two or more voice types available to the text-to-speech reader, identifying the text elements within the document, grouping related text elements together, and classifying the text elements according to voice types available to the text-to-speech reader. The method of grouping the related text elements together can include syntactic and intelligent clustering. The classification of text elements can include performing latent semantic analysis on the text elements and characteristics of the available voice types. | 04-16-2009 |
John Brian Pickering, Hampshire GB
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20080248801 | ACCESS TO LOCALLY RELEVANT SERVICES AND PERSONALLY RELEVANT SERVICES WITHIN A MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS ENVIRONMENT - Accesses to locally-relevant and contextually-relevant services information within a mobile communications environment are enabled. The solutions include an improved location determination in which a first mobile communications device processes location information broadcast by other devices via short-range wireless signals to determine its approximate location. The described solutions include a context-based selection of the most relevant of a set of locally-available services, including filtering services according to whether the first mobile device is currently moving and filtering according to a personal profile of the device user. | 10-09-2008 |
20090111490 | ALERTS BASED ON SIGNIFICANCE OF FIXED FORMAT SMS TEXT MESSAGES - A method and system for processing a fixed format short message service (SMS) text message for alerting a user of a mobile phone to significant information in the message received by the mobile phone. Program code stored in memory on the mobile phone executes the method on a processor. A value of each preset variable of at least two preset variables is retrieved from the memory on the mobile phone. The mobile phone receives the message from a sender. The message is ascertained to be significant by ascertaining that the received message passes at least one test. Each test utilizes at least one aspect of the received message and the retrieved value of at least one preset variable. Responsive to the ascertaining, default handset settings of the mobile phone are overridden and the user is alerted by an audio tone or vibration that the received message is significant. | 04-30-2009 |
20090117922 | ALERTS BASED ON SIGNIFICANCE OF FREE FORMAT TEXT MESSAGES - A method and system for processing a free format short message service (SMS) text message for alerting a mobile phone's user to significant information in the message received by the mobile phone from a sender. Program code stored in memory on the mobile phone executes the method on a processor. A theme, a rheme, at least one structural component, and a sentence type of the normalized message are generated from which a FEATURE FACTOR priority is determined. Semantic content of the normalized message is determined from which an EMOTIONAL FACTOR priority is determined. A TOTAL PRIORITY computed as a sum of the FEATURE FACTOR priority and the EMOTIONAL FACTOR priority is determined to exceed a predetermined threshold, from which it is determined that the received message is significant, which triggers overriding default handset settings of the mobile phone and alerting the user that the received message is significant. | 05-07-2009 |
John Brian Pickering, Winchester GB
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20080273674 | COMPUTER GENERATED PROMPTING - A method and apparatus for generating appropriate confirmatory prompts in a speech-enabled, interactive computer system. The method can be incorporated in an interactive voice response system that includes receiving an input audio stream over a voice channel from a users, performing keyword recognition on received input audio as subsequent input audio is being received, and prompting the user with an acknowledgement of the keyword or keywords as subsequent input audio is being received. In another aspect of the method, the volume of the speech input can be continuously monitored. In a further aspect of the method, recognition results and associated confidence values can be combined to select different confirmatory prompts, and the volume is tailored to be the same as, louder than or quieter than the volume of the speech input, so that different types of confirmation can be automatically generated to produce a natural speech-enabled interface. | 11-06-2008 |
20100274846 | Message Switching - A communication system includes a server and a client that transmits messages to the server. The messages include data and descriptive tags and may be in XML format. The server initiates a negotiation with the client relating to message format switching. If the client indicates that the client can accept message format switching, the server instructs the client to switch further messages to a simpler message format including solely data. | 10-28-2010 |
20120004912 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR USING INPUT SIGNAL QUALITY IN SPEECH RECOGNITION - A method and system for using input signal quality in an automatic speech recognition system. The method includes measuring the quality of an input signal into a speech recognition system and varying a rejection threshold of the speech recognition system at runtime in dependence on the measurement of the input signal quality. If the measurement of the input signal quality is low, the rejection threshold is reduced and, if the measurement of the input signal quality is high, the rejection threshold is increased. The measurement of the input signal quality may be based on one or more of the measurements of signal-to-noise ratio, loudness, including clipping, and speech signal duration. | 01-05-2012 |
20140249816 | METHODS, APPARATUS AND COMPUTER PROGRAMS FOR AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION - An automatic speech recognition (ASR) system includes a speech-responsive application and a recognition engine. The ASR system generates user prompts to elicit certain spoken inputs, and the speech-responsive application performs operations when the spoken inputs are recognised. The recognition engine compares sounds within an input audio signal with phones within an acoustic model, to identify candidate matching phones. A recognition confidence score is calculated for each candidate matching phone, and the confidence scores are used to help identify one or more likely sequences of matching phones that appear to match a word within the grammar of the speech-responsive application. The per-phone confidence scores are evaluated against predefined confidence score criteria (for example, identifying scores below a ‘low confidence’ threshold) and the results of the evaluation are used to influence subsequent selection of user prompts. One such system uses confidence scores to select prompts for targetted recognition training—encouraging input of sounds identified as having low confidence scores. Another system selects prompts to discourage input of sounds that were not easily recognised. | 09-04-2014 |
John Brian Pickering, St. Cross, Winchester GB
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20120290685 | High Availability Message Transmission - A system, method, apparatus, and computer program product uses a plurality of message transmitters to achieve high availability message transmission. The plurality of message transmitters are each operable to transmit a message to a subscriber. In accordance with a determination, for example, of the value of the connections, the message is copied and transmitted to the plurality of the message transmitters so that at least one of the plurality of message transmitters transmits the copy to the subscriber. The at least one message transmitter may be selected by analyzing the message and determining an associated rule based on characteristics of the message. | 11-15-2012 |
John Brian Pickering, St. Cross GB
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20080294714 | High Availability Message Transmission - A system, method, apparatus, and computer program product uses at least one of a plurality of message transmitters to achieve high availability message transmission. The plurality of message transmitters are each operable to transmit a message to a subscriber. In accordance with a determination, for example, of the value of the connections, the message is copied and transmitted to the plurality of the message transmitters so that at least one of the plurality of message transmitters transmits the copy to the subscriber. The at least one message transmitter may be selected by analyzing the message and determining an associated rule based on characteristics of the message. | 11-27-2008 |
John Daniel Robert Pickering, Devon GB
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20150245982 | NAIL POLISH DRYING METHOD AND PRODUCT THEREFOR - The invention comprises a nail drying aerosol spray that comprises a combination of solvents having different rates of volatility. One of the solvents is dimethyl ether. | 09-03-2015 |
Lea Pickering, Caxton GB
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20160032379 | ENZYME-LINKED NUCLEOTIDES - Presented herein are polymerase-linked nucleotides for improved distinguishing nucleotide sequences for different nucleic acid molecules. Also presented are methods and systems using the polymerase-linked nucleotides for improved distinguishing nucleotide sequences for different nucleic acid molecules. | 02-04-2016 |
Lesley Pickering, Liverpool GB
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20080288534 | CONTENT FEEDBACK IN A MULTIPLE-OWNER CONTENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - New functions for a contact center system include: testing user's comprehension of informational messages with a quiz; capturing insight of superior users having a KPI score above a threshold by having those users submit information on why they perform so well; dynamically ordering solutions to issues by re-ranking the solutions periodically based on recency and frequency; integrating information for use by a contact center representative while online with a customer and information for use when not online; storing content items in a telecommunications industry taxonomy; directing user feedback on a content item to the proper owner/manager of that content; communicating solution information using a solutions taxonomy; displaying a dual information system having a CRM application as well as reference material that is context-appropriate; enforcing completion of a group of templates when creating a content item to be published; ensuring a group of templates for a content item are complete before publishing them; and searching within a contact center system portal using a continuum of search functions. | 11-20-2008 |
20120150574 | CONTENT FEEDBACK IN A MULTIPLE-OWNER CONTENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - New functions for a contact center system include: testing user's comprehension of informational messages; capturing insight users having a KPI score above a threshold by having those users submit information on why they perform well; dynamically ordering solutions to issues by re-ranking the solutions periodically based on recency and frequency; integrating information for use by a contact center representative while online with a customer and information for use when not online; storing content items in a telecommunications industry taxonomy; directing user feedback on a content item to the proper owner/manager of that content; communicating solution information using a solutions taxonomy; displaying a dual information system having a CRM application and reference material that's context-appropriate; enforcing completion of a group of templates when creating a content item to be published; ensuring a group of templates for a content item are complete before publishing them; and searching within a contact center system. | 06-14-2012 |
Llewelyn Pickering, Clydach Monmouthshire GB
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20140056549 | SHOULDERLESS TOLERANCE RING - A tolerance ring can include a generally cylindrical body that can include a sidewall that defines a top and a bottom. The sidewall can include an upper unformed band and a lower unformed band opposite the upper unformed band. A plurality of shoulderless wave structures can protrude radially from the sidewall between the upper unformed band and the lower unformed band. Each shoulderless wave structure can be connected only to the upper unformed band and the lower unformed band. The sidewall of the tolerance ring can also include a plurality of unformed sections and a gap that extends along the entire axial length of the body. Each unformed section can be located between a pair of adjacent shoulderless wave structures. Moreover, the gap can establish a split in the body. | 02-27-2014 |
Llewelyn Pickering, Wales GB
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20140166423 | Torque Limiting Tolerance Ring - A torque limiting tolerance ring that is configured to be installed between an inner component and an outer component is disclosed. The torque limiting tolerance ring can include a generally cylindrical body that can have a sidewall. The sidewall can include an unformed section and a plurality of projections can extend from the unformed section of the sidewall. The projections can be configured to engage the inner component or the outer component. During use, the torque limiting tolerance ring can move from an engaged configuration, in which the inner component is statically coupled to the outer component, to a disengaged configuration, in which the inner component is disengaged from the outer component. | 06-19-2014 |
Lloyd Pickering, Durham GB
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20150088467 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR PROCESSING BUILDING INFORMATION MODELING (BIM)- BASED DATA - A method for operating a building information modeling (BIM) system, is provided. The method includes at a BIM server, receiving a data alteration request from a client computing device for altering data in one of a building model, a hierarchical structure of building model data, and a Construction Operations Building Information Exchange (COBie) spreadsheet, the building model, hierarchical structure of building model data, and COBie spreadsheet simultaneously displayed in a GUI generated by the BIM server, automatically determining validity of data in the data alteration request, and if it is determined that the data is valid, permitting the data alteration request based on predetermined permissions of the client computing device. | 03-26-2015 |
20150088916 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR MAPPING AND PROCESSING BUILDING INFORMATION MODELING (BIM)- BASED DATA - A method for operating a building information modeling (BIM) system is provided. The method includes at a BIM server, in response to receiving a save tri-dimensional data command from a client computing device, associatively mapping identification data in each of a building model, a hierarchical structure of building model data, and a Construction Operations Building Information Exchange (COBie) spreadsheet and storing a representation of the associative mapping of the identification data for display in at least one of the BIM server and a client computing device in electronic communication with the server over a network. | 03-26-2015 |
20150089344 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR GENERATING USER INTERFACE FOR PROCESSING BUILDING INFORMATION MODELING (BIM)- BASED DATA - A method for operating a BIM system is provided. The method includes at a BIM server, generating a network accessible graphical user interface (GUI) simultaneously displaying a 3-dimensional rendering of a building model, a hierarchical structure of building model data, and a Construction Operations Building Information Exchange (COBie) spreadsheet, the building model, hierarchical structure of building model data, and a COBie spreadsheet being associatively linked. | 03-26-2015 |
Matthew Pickering, London GB
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20120204276 | METHODS RELATED TO A MUTATION IN COMPLEMENT FACTOR H-RELATED PROTEIN 5 IN PATIENTS WITH GLOMERULONEPHRITIS - The invention relates to methods of regulating complement. In particular, the inventors have identified a relationship between a particular gene, CFHR5, and irregularities in complement regulation. The invention provides a method for diagnosing a complement related disease, comprising identifying a mutation in the CFHR5 gene in a sample obtained from a subject. | 08-09-2012 |
20150361183 | INHIBITION OF THE COMPLEMENT SYSTEM - Agents and compounds which can be used to modulate the activity of the complement system, novel biological targets associated with such modulation, and pharmaceutical compositions, medicaments and methods of treatment for use in preventing, ameliorating or treating diseases that are characterised by inappropriate complement activity. These diseases include age-related macular degeneration (AMD), meningitis, renal disease, autoimmune disease and inflammation. Therapeutic antibodies and screening assays for identifying agents useful in treating these diseases are also provided. | 12-17-2015 |
Phil Pickering, Willingham GB
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20080205290 | Device and method for QoS based cell capacity dimensioning - The invention relates to a method and system for monitoring QoS criteria of Traffic classes of at least one cell in a telecommunication system, comprising means for setting thresholds, means for monitoring the traffic with regard to the thresholds for the at least two different traffic classes, and means for adapting the traffic handling capacity of the monitored cell depending on the monitoring result. The monitored traffic classes preferably include circuit-switched traffic and packet-switched traffic, and/or realtime and non-realtime packet-switched traffic. Thresholds are preferably set and monitored for rate of call attempt blocking, and/or data throughput, and/or service blocking. | 08-28-2008 |
Richard Pickering, Whitchurch GB
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20090116636 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR HANDLING A TELEPHONE CALL - One embodiment of the invention provides a method of handling a telephone call. The method includes providing a multi-tenanted computer-telephony integration (CTI) server. The different tenants correspond to various outlets for one or more product or service offerings. The CTI server is located outside the customer premises for the various outlets. The method further includes receiving a call directed to one of the outlets and using CLI for the call by the CTI server to identify the calling party and a customer profile for the calling party. The customer profile is based on previous orders. The method further includes queuing the call within the network if it is determined that the outlet is unable to currently service the call, and forwarding the call to the outlet to process the call. The CTI server uses the customer profile for providing priority call handling treatment for loyal customers. | 05-07-2009 |
20120140910 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR HANDLING A TELEPHONE CALL - A system for handling a telephone call within a telephone network, comprising a multi-tenanted CTI server within a telecommunications network adapted to receive telephone calls on behalf of a plurality of outlets, wherein the CTI server is adapted for queuing an incoming call in the network when no agent is available and is further adapted to forward an incoming call to an agent when the agent becomes available. The CTI server is configured to use an indicia received with the received call to identify the caller and to retrieve a profile of the caller by matching the indicia to a previously-stored indicia in a call history database collocated with the CTI server, the profile comprising at least a plurality of previous orders processed by an outlet on behalf of the caller, the profile being used to provide priority call handling for certain callers. | 06-07-2012 |
Richard Pickering, Basingstoke GB
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20100128717 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR OPERATING A COMPUTER-TELEPHONY SYSTEM - One embodiment of the invention provides a method of operating a computer-telephony system. The method comprises providing computer-telephony support for a plurality of customers. Each customer maintains customer relationship management, CRM data. The CRM data is uploaded from the plurality of customers into a computer-telephony database. The uploading includes transforming the CRM data from an original format maintained by the respective customer into a standardised format for the computer-telephony database. Telephone calls can then be handled using the transformed CRM data in the computer-telephony database. | 05-27-2010 |
20110125498 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR HANDLING A TELEPHONE CALL - One embodiment of the invention provides a computer-implemented method of handling a telephone call. The method comprises monitoring a conversation between an agent and a customer on a telephone line as part of the telephone call to extract the audio signal therefrom. Real-time voice analytics are performed on the extracted audio signal while the telephone call is in progress. The results from the voice analytics are then passed to a computer-telephony integration system responsible for the call for use by the computer-telephony integration system for determining future handling of the call. | 05-26-2011 |
20120066175 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR OPERATING A CONTACT CENTER SYSTEM - One embodiment of the invention provides a method of operating a multimedia contact center. The method comprises providing multimedia communications session management support for a plurality of customers. Each customer maintains customer relationship management (CRM) data. The CRM data is uploaded from the plurality of customers into a multimedia database. The uploading includes transforming the CRM data from an original format maintained by the respective customer into a standardized format for the multimedia database. Communications sessions can then be handled using the transformed CRM data in the multimedia database. | 03-15-2012 |
Richard Pickering, Torquay GB
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20130136249 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR HANDLING A TELEPHONE CALL - A system for handling a telephone call within a telephone network, comprising a multi-tenanted CTI server within a telecommunications network adapted to receive telephone calls on behalf of a plurality of outlets, wherein the CTI server is adapted for queuing an incoming call in the network when no agent is available and is further adapted to forward an incoming call to an agent when the agent becomes available. The CTI server is configured to use an indicia received with the received call to identify the caller and to retrieve a profile from a cloud-based CRM system of the caller by matching the indicia to a previously-stored indicia in a call history database, the profile comprising at least a plurality of previous orders processed by an outlet on behalf of the caller, the profile being used to provide priority call handling for certain callers. | 05-30-2013 |
Richard B. Pickering, Whitchurch GB
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20100202603 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR INTEGRATING COMPUTER-TELEPHONY AND SEARCH TECHNOLOGY - Call centre, automatic call distribution (ACD), with computer telephony integration (CTI) providing a search engine that is automatically fed with the calling line identifier (CLI) such that a search can be performed to find related documents, emails, URLs using private or public databases that may be accessed for free or only after having paid a subscription. The application also mentions that the system can be applied to outgoing calls in which case the dialed number is used for performing the search. | 08-12-2010 |
Richard B. Pickering, Hampshire GB
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20110188648 | COMPUTER-TELEPHONY INTEGRATION IN A SERVICE PROVIDER ENVIRONMENT - One embodiment of the present invention provides a method and system for handling a telephone call. The method comprises receiving an incoming call at a computer-telephony server located as service provider equipment within a telephone network, followed by setting up a call from the computer-telephony server to a customer location. The customer location has a plurality of agents, each agent having an associated computer workstation. The call is forwarded at the customer location to a receiving agent selected from the plurality of agents. There is now communication between the computer-telephony server and one or more of the agents to allow the computer-telephony server to identify the receiving agent. The computer telephony server uses voice analytics on speech input from the receiving agent to identify the receiving agent. | 08-04-2011 |
Richard B. Pickering, Torquay GB
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20120057688 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR USING A SEARCH ENGINE ADVANTAGEOUSLY WITHIN A CONTACT CENTER SYSTEM - Apparatus for operating a multimedia contact center, comprising a multimedia contact center system for handling communications sessions between an organization and its customers and obtaining media-specific information relating to the communications session, and a search engine for performing a search in relation to the obtained media-specific information, wherein the multimedia contact center system is configured to use the results from the search in handling the communications session, wherein the results may include heterogeneous material not primarily intended for session handling purposes. | 03-08-2012 |
Richard B. Pickering, Basingstoke GB
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20150334237 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR USING A SEARCH ENGINE ADVANTAGEOUSLY WITHIN A CONTACT CENTER SYSTEM - Apparatus for operating a multimedia contact center, comprising a multimedia contact center system for handling communications sessions between an organization and its customers and obtaining media-specific information relating to the communications session, and a search engine for performing a search in relation to the obtained media-specific information, wherein the multimedia contact center system is configured to use the results from the search in handling the communications session, wherein the results may include heterogeneous material not primarily intended for session handling purposes. | 11-19-2015 |
Stephen Pickering, Hampton GB
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20090274004 | USING TOWED SEISMIC SURVEYS THAT DO NOT HAVE COINCIDING STREAMER POSITIONS IN THE TIME LAPSE ANALYSIS OF A PRODUCING FIELD - A technique includes performing at least one intervening towed seismic survey after a prior towed seismic survey and before a future towed seismic survey. The prior towed seismic survey has associated first streamer positions, and the future towed seismic survey has associated second streamer positions that do not coincide with the first streamer positions. The technique includes using measurements that are acquired in the intervening towed seismic survey(s) to link the prior towed seismic survey to the future towed seismic survey for time lapse analysis involving the prior and future towed seismic surveys. | 11-05-2009 |
Stephen Pickering, Coventry GB
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20150217641 | METHOD FOR CONTROLLING AN ELECTRICAL SYSTEM IN A VEHICLE - A method for controlling an electrical system in a vehicle. The electrical system ( | 08-06-2015 |
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Stephen Pickering, Hamilton GB
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20090313414 | MEMORY MANAGEMENT UNIT AND METHOD OF ACCESSING AN ADDRESS - A memory management unit comprises register and control logic and arranged to support a microprocessor controller unit accessing physical address space via an address bus wherein the microprocessor controller unit comprises a program counter having a first address size, the memory management unit wherein the register and control logic comprises a register having a second address size greater than the first address size and arranged to provide an extended address bus between the microprocessor controller unit and physical address space. | 12-17-2009 |
Stephen Robert Pickering, Coventry GB
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