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Aaron J. Piercy, Cortaro, AZ US
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20130331969 | GOLF EVENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND METHOD - Implementations of the present disclosure involve a system and/or method for golf event management. The golf event management system may receive results from a golf event and adjust a user's score based on the weather conditions encountered by the user during the golf event. The user's score may also be modified based on the difficulty of the golf course on the given day in relation to historical scores on the golf course. The user's score may be used to adjust the user's handicap and to updated the user's consistency statistics. User's may be paired with other users according to the user's handicap and the user's consistency statistics. | 12-12-2013 |
Aimee Piercy, Mountain View, CA US
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20140253455 | TASK ASSISTANT PROVIDING CONTEXTUAL SUGGESTIONS - A method of providing a task assistant to provide an interface to an application is described. The method comprises, in one embodiment, providing a task assistant to provide an interface to an application, to receive input from a user through multimodal input including a plurality of speech input, typing input, and touch input. The method further comprises receiving a request from a user for a suggestion, determining a current transaction state, based on interactions with the user during a current session, and selecting suggestions relevant to a transaction type associated with the current transaction state. | 09-11-2014 |
20140258323 | TASK ASSISTANT - A method of providing a task assistant to provide an interface to an application is described. The method comprises receiving input from a user through multimodal input including a plurality of speech input, typing input, and touch input, interpreting the input, and providing a formatted query to the application, receiving data from the application in response to the query, and providing a response to the user through multimodal output including a plurality of: speech output, text output, non-speech audio output, haptic output, and visual non-text output. | 09-11-2014 |
20140258324 | TASK ASSISTANT UTILIZING CONTEXT FOR IMPROVED INTERACTION - A method of providing a task assistant is described. The task assistant is designed to receive input from a user through multimodal input including a plurality of speech input, typing input, and touch input, determine the meaning of the input, and determining whether there is a context based on prior interactions with the user. The method further to generate an interpreted input based on a combination of the input and the context, and providing a formatted query to an application. The method further to receive data from the application in response to the formatted query, and provide a response to the user through multimodal output including a plurality of: speech output, text output, non-speech audio output, haptic output, and visual non-text output. The method further to update the context based on the interpreted input. | 09-11-2014 |
20140258856 | TASK ASSISTANT INCLUDING NAVIGATION CONTROL - A method of providing a task assistant to provide an interface to an application is described. The method includes, in one embodiment, identifying a user and determining whether there is a push notification to be shown to the user. When there is a push notification to be shown to the user, the task assistant displaying the push notification to the user, such that when the user acknowledges the push notification, the user is directed to a push destination. When there is no push notification, receiving input from a user through multimodal input including a plurality of speech input, typing input, and touch input, interpreting the input, and providing a formatted query to the application, receiving data from the application in response to the query, and providing a response to the user through multimodal output including a plurality of: speech output, text output, non-speech audio output, haptic output, and visual non-text output. | 09-11-2014 |
20140258857 | TASK ASSISTANT HAVING MULTIPLE STATES - A method of providing a task assistant to provide an interface to an application, the method comprising activating the task assistant, the activation having an associated visual display. The method in one embodiment includes receiving input from a user through multimodal input including a plurality of speech input, typing input, and touch input, interpreting the input, and providing a formatted query to the application, receiving data from the application in response to the query, and providing a response to the user through multimodal output including a plurality of: speech output, text output, non-speech audio output, haptic output, and visual non-text output, wherein the task assistant has a plurality of active states, each of the active states having an associated visual display. | 09-11-2014 |
Ellen Piercy, Delamere GB
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20150157756 | Device for Evaporating a Volatile Fluid - An assembly for evaporating a volatile fluid is described, the assembly comprising a device and a refill which are detachable from one another: wherein the device comprises a magnetic induction coil configured to operate with an alternating current passed therethrough; and wherein the refill comprises a reservoir for the volatile fluid, a volatile fluid transport means to draw the fluid from the reservoir, and at least one susceptor arranged to heat the volatile fluid transport means when said alternating current is passed through the induction coil. Refills, devices and methods of operation are also described. | 06-11-2015 |
Ellen Piercy, Hull GB
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20110048232 | Air Cleaner - An air cleaner is described comprising a housing having an air inlet and an air exhaust extending therethrough, a refill for containing a reservoir of liquid which is releasable from the housing, a nebuliser within the housing configured, in use, to be in fluid contact with the source of liquid to generate a mist of liquid droplets, said nebuliser being configured, in use, to eject the mist upwardly, a chamber within the housing in which the mist is retained, a fan within the housing configured, in use, to generate a flow of air through the air inlet and into the chamber such that at least some of the contaminants in the air flow are urged by the mist out of the flow of air and toward the refill. A refill for the air cleaner is also described as well as the use of said air cleaner. | 03-03-2011 |
20120111966 | Devices and Methods for Emanating Liquids - The present invention describes a universal refill containing a volatile liquid adapted for use with at least two different types of emanation device; wherein the universal refill comprises a housing; | 05-10-2012 |
Joseph P. Piercy, Helotes, TX US
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20090093980 | REAL TIME SD-OCT WITH DISTRIBUTED ACQUISITION AND PROCESSING - The present invention relates to distributed computing system to acquire, process, and display OCT images at real-time frame rates. | 04-09-2009 |
Larry Piercy, St. Joseph, MO US
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20110086624 | LOCATION BASED FORMAT SELECTION FOR INFORMATION SERVICES - In a communication system, a wireless transceiver receives a request message from a caller system for an information service. The information service is associated with an Internet address and an image format. A control system determines a location of the caller system. The control system selects a text message format for the information service based on the location of the caller system. The control system transmits a setup message to the information service indicating the selected text message format. In some examples, the control system receives a text message from the information service responsive to the set-up message, and the wireless transceiver transfers the text message to the caller system. | 04-14-2011 |
Matthew Neil Piercy, Seaford, VA US
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20110074057 | Methods and Systems for Thermoforming with Billets - Methods and systems for producing thermoformed articles from pre-cut thermoformable billets are provided. The system may include a heating apparatus for heating the billets, a billet thermoformer for thermoforming the billet into an article, a discharge system for evacuated the formed articles from the thermoformer, and an inspection system for inspecting each of the formed articles for the presence of a defect. Conveyors and billet carriers are provided for transporting the billets between the various components of the system, and loaders are provided for loading the billets onto the conveyor and/or billet carriers. | 03-31-2011 |
Neil P. Piercy, Hertfordshire GB
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20100130199 | HANDOVER TO AN UNLICENSED MOBILE NETWORK - A cellular radio telecommunication handover system and method for enabling the handover of a mobile telecommunications device between a licensed (cellular) network and an unlicensed mobile network comprising a plurality of low power access points having all of them the same common cell identity (GGI) is disclosed. The mobile telecommunications device establishes a handover between one access point of the licensed network and another access point of the unlicensed network by communication of handover resources therebetween. | 05-27-2010 |
Neil Philip Piercy, Hertfordshire GB
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20100144316 | NETWORK ELEMENT AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING ACCESS CONTROL FOR A CELLULAR COMMUNICATION NETWORK - A network element ( | 06-10-2010 |
20100151870 | NETWORK ELEMENT AND METHOD FOR SETTING A POWER LEVEL IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A network element ( | 06-17-2010 |
Neil Philip Piercy, Royston GB
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20130040608 | NETWORK ELEMENT AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING ACCESS CONTROL FOR A CELLULAR COMMUNCIATION NETWORK - A network element ( | 02-14-2013 |
Neil Philip Piercy, Thriplow Hertfordshire GB
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20140357256 | NETWORK ELEMENT, INTEGRATED CIRCUIT CELLULAR COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CAPTURING USER EQUIPMENT MEASUREMENTS - A communication system comprising a core network operably coupled to a small base station (HNB) arranged to support wireless communications to a user equipment UE is described. The HNB comprises a control processor being arranged in a first embodiment to: support setting up of an air interface connection with the UE to allow the UE and the core network to exchange messages, e.g. for a Location Update procedure and to receive an instruction from the core network via a core network connection to release the connection to the core network; usually, the HNB would transmit a RRC Connection Release message to the UE; however, the UE utilizes this situation to request and receive UE measurements by using RRC Measurement Control/Report messages and thus delays the initiation of the RRC Connection Release procedure towards the UE; in a second embodiment, the control processor is arranged to autonomously page the UE: thus, the UE establishes a RRC connection for responding to the paging message and the HNB may request receive UE measurements | 12-04-2014 |
Neil Philip Piercy, Herts GB
Niel Philip Piercy, Hertfordshire GB
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20120057576 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING ACCESS TO A PACKET DATA NETWORK - An access point supports communication in a femto cell of a cellular communication network. The access point comprises transceiver circuitry arranged to enable communication with at least one wireless communication unit located within the femto cell, and a signal processing logic module comprising an access point controller interface logic module arranged to enable communication between the access point and an access point controller. The signal processing logic module further comprises a gateway logic module arranged to provide an interface between the at least one wireless communication unit located within the femto cell and a packet data network. | 03-08-2012 |
W. Brian Piercy, League City, TX US
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20090020161 | Quad-redundant Hydraulic Trip System - A voting solenoid system and method is configured to selectively apply fluid pressure above and below a threshold value, to a fluid node. The voting solenoid arrangement includes first and second solenoid valve pairs, each pair including first and second solenoid valves. The valve pairs are located in parallel fluid communication with a fluid pressure source, each of the first and second solenoid valves being alternately actuatable between energized and de-energized states. The solenoid arrangement is configured so that a change of state of the first and second valves of either of the valve pairs alternately applies fluid pressure above and below the threshold value, to the fluid node. | 01-22-2009 |