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Donald A. Pile, Cabot, AR US
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20120125493 | BISMUTH OXIDE PRIMER COMPOSITION - A priming mixture is provided having a primary explosive and an oxidizer system containing bismuth oxide. The priming mixture generally is applicable to any application or device that employs ignition of a propellant or fuel, including, but not limited to, air bag gas generator systems, signaling devices, ejection seats, small or large arms ammunition primers, and the like. | 05-24-2012 |
Donald Allen Pile, Cabot, AR US
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20140305555 | Priming Mixtures for Small Arms - A primer for small arms ammunition including a primary explosive and an oxidizer system containing bismuth oxide is provided. A method of forming the primer and a small arms ammunition cartridge also is provided. The oxidizer system can be non-hygroscopic and non-toxic. The primer can include reducing agents or fuels, sensitizers, binders and gas producing agents. | 10-16-2014 |
Geoffrey David Pile, Plainfield, IL US
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20140082836 | BODY TRANSPORT APPARATUS WITH INTEGRATED HANDLES - A body transport apparatus may include top and bottom portions that have a perimeter seal and an interior seal offset from the perimeter seal to define a non-inflatable frame portion and an inflatable air mattress portion. The bottom portion includes a plurality of air exit holes configured to provide an air cushion under the mattress portion when the mattress portion is inflated. The frame portion includes a plurality of handle openings and a channel so that the inflatable air mattress portion extends through the frame portion for a remote receptacle disposed outside the perimeter seal. A partial body transport apparatus may include the channel extending into the frame portion so that a remote receptacle is disposed within the perimeter seal and an inflatable air mattress portion having a longitudinal extent that is approximately 75% to 125% of a lateral extent. | 03-27-2014 |
James D. Pile, Farmington, NM US
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20080302577 | Drill Bit - A drill bit having a body with a stationary cutter and a rotatable cutter such that in a first position the rotatable cutter does not radially extend beyond a periphery of the stationary cutter and in a second position the rotatable cutter radially extends beyond the periphery of the stationary cutter. | 12-11-2008 |
20090033140 | Use Of Foam To Increase Resistance To Gas Flow In Mine Applications And Apparatus For Delivering Same - A process for increasing resistance to the flow of gas in underground mining operations includes providing a foam composition at desired selected locations to create a barrier to the flow of gas. | 02-05-2009 |
John Thomas Pile, Austin, TX US
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20150088607 | Tracking Offers Across Multiple Channels - Provided is a process, including: obtaining a coupon issued by a merchant, the coupon being redeemable both on-line, at the merchant's website, and in-store, at a physical location of the merchant; sending the coupon to publishers for presentation to consumers by the publishers on user devices of the consumers; and receiving indications from the user devices of the consumers that the consumers interacted with the coupon, the indications indicating a consumer selection of an in-store redemption option or an on-line redemption option. | 03-26-2015 |
Jonathon C. Pile, Foster City, CA US
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20090158242 | LIBRARY OF SERVICES TO GUARANTEE TRANSACTION PROCESSING APPLICATION IS FULLY TRANSACTIONAL - A transaction processing development methodology employs a transaction processing development framework to facilitate development of a desired transaction processing application in a particular business area. A library of service adaptors is provided. At least a first portion of the service adaptors are generically applicable to transaction processing applications that are fully transactional and at least a second portion of the service adaptors are specifically applicable to transaction processing applications in a particular business area. A user-defined business logic of the desired transaction processing application is processed to instantiate the transaction processing application, including instantiating service adaptors from the first portion of the service adaptors and from the second portion of the service adaptors, to implement services of the transaction processing application. The instantiated service adaptors are arranged to guarantee such that, when executed, the transaction processing application is accomplished in a manner that is fully transactional. | 06-18-2009 |
20090158246 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR BUILDING TRANSACTIONAL APPLICATIONS USING AN INTEGRATED DEVELOPMENT ENVIRONMENT - A transaction processing development methodology employs a transaction processing development framework to facilitate development of a desired transaction processing application. A plurality of service adaptors are provided. An infrastructure is provided via which a user defined business logic of the desired transaction processing application may be provided to the transaction processing development framework. The business logic definition is processed to instantiate the transaction processing application, including, instantiating a subset of the service adaptors to implement services of the transaction processing application, and further including arranging the instantiated service adaptors to accomplish the business logic in conjunction with generic transaction processing logic. The arrangement of service adaptors is guaranteed, when executed, to accomplish the transaction processing application in a manner that is fully transactional. | 06-18-2009 |
20090276431 | JAVA VIRTUAL MACHINE HAVING INTEGRATED TRANSACTION MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - A computing system includes at least one computing device is configured to execute computer program instructions to accomplish a fully transactional application, including managed objects. The managed objects are persisted in a shared memory of the computing system, such that a scope of the objects is global to the transactional application. Operations on the managed objects are restricted to being carried out with respect to a transaction being processed by the fully transactional application. For example, the managed objects may be JAVA objects configured to be distributed such that the managed JAVA objects are accessible from at least one JAVA Virtual Machine (JVM). | 11-05-2009 |
20090276483 | JAVA VIRTUAL MACHINE HAVING INTEGRATED TRANSACTION MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - A computing system comprises a plurality of computing nodes and is configured such that each computing node includes a processor configured to execute JAVA computer program instructions. The computing nodes cooperate to form a cluster, wherein the JAVA computer program instructions being executed by the plurality of computing nodes collectively accomplish a fully transactional application. Each application data object partition is associated with one of the computing nodes as a primary node for application data objects of that partition and further associated with at least one of the computing nodes as at least one secondary node for application data objects of that partition. Messages relative to an application data object are provided to the primary node for the application data object as well as to the at least one secondary node for that application data object, for updates. The particular application object is readable at any of the primary node and the at least one secondary node for that particular application data object. | 11-05-2009 |
20090276658 | JAVA VIRTUAL MACHINE HAVING INTEGRATED TRANSACTION MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - A computing system is configured to deploy a JAVA application for execution in a distributed manner. The computing system includes a plurality of computing nodes including a domain manager node, the plurality of computing nodes forming a computing domain configured as an administrative grouping of the nodes administered by the domain manager node. The domain manager node is configured to provide, to each of the computing nodes, a main portion of the JAVA application. The main portion defines, for each computing node, a portion of the behavior of the JAVA application to be accomplished by that computing node. Furthermore, each computing node is configured to receive at least one class file having classes appropriate for the portion of the behavior of the JAVA application defined, by the main portion, to be accomplished by that computing node. | 11-05-2009 |
20090276754 | JAVA VIRTUAL MACHINE HAVING INTEGRATED TRANSACTION MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - A computing system is provided via which a specification of user-defined business logic of a desired transaction processing application may be provided, and the computing system ensures that a resulting configured system is fully transactional. The specification of user-defined business logic is provided as JAVA program instructions (or another programming language) which does not natively provide for specification of full transactionality. The business logic definition is processed to instantiate a subset of a plurality of possible service adaptors, to implement services of the transaction processing application. The instantiated service adaptors are such that, when executed, the arranged instantiated service adaptors will accomplish the business logic in conjunction with generic transaction processing logic. In addition, the arranged instantiated service adaptors are such that, when, when executed, the transaction processing application will be accomplished in a manner that is fully transactional. | 11-05-2009 |
20110088043 | JAVA VIRTUAL MACHINE HAVING INTEGRATED TRANSACTION MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND FACILITY TO QUERY MANAGED OBJECTS - A computing system and method is a specification of user-defined business logic is provided as JAVA program instructions (or another programming language) which does not natively provide for specification of full transactionality, to accomplish a fully transactional application, including executed managed objects. The managed objects are persisted in a shared memory of the computing system, such that a scope of the objects is global to the fully transactional application. Furthermore, a catalog of the managed object is maintained. A query interface is provided for querying the managed objects, in order to receive a query from an application, to process the catalog, and to provide a result indication of at least one of the managed objects back to the querying application. Thus, for example, the application may process the managed objects that are indicated in the query result. | 04-14-2011 |
20120254867 | JAVA VIRTUAL MACHINE HAVING INTEGRATED TRANSACTION MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - A computing system is configured to deploy a JAVA application for execution in a distributed manner. The computing system includes a plurality of computing nodes including a domain manager node, the plurality of computing nodes forming a computing domain configured as an administrative grouping of the nodes administered by the domain manager node. The domain manager node is configured to provide, to each of the computing nodes, a main portion of the JAVA application. The main portion defines, for each computing node, a portion of the behavior of the JAVA application to be accomplished by that computing node. Furthermore, each computing node is configured to receive at least one class file having classes appropriate for the portion of the behavior of the JAVA application defined, by the main portion, to be accomplished by that computing node. | 10-04-2012 |
Mary Pile, Knoxville, TN US
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20130325076 | LOWER EXTREMITY FUSION DEVICES AND METHODS - A fusion implant and fusion members for fusing target fusion bones of a lower extremity. The fusion implant including internally threaded apertures of a first thread lead, and fusion members including threading of the first thread lead and threading of a second thread lead that is less than the first thread lead. The fusion implant and a targeting instrument being configured to couple to one another in a predefined orientation. The predetermined orientation resulting in alignment of aspects of the fusion implant with aspects of the targeting instrument. The targeting instrument providing both distraction and compression to the joint between the target fusion bones. A guide instrument for preparing one of the target fusion bones for fusion thereof. A surgical method for applying compression to the joint between the target fusion bones to facilitate fusion thereof utilizing a fusion implant, fusion members, a targeting instrument and a guide instrument. | 12-05-2013 |
20130331947 | UPPER EXTREMITY FUSION DEVICES AND METHODS - A fusion implant and fusion members for fusing target bones of an upper extremity. The fusion implant including internally threaded apertures of a first thread lead, and the fusion members including threading of the first thread lead and threading of a second thread lead that is less than the first thread lead. The fusion implant and a targeting instrument being configured to couple to one another in a predefined orientation. The predetermined orientation resulting in alignment of aspects of the fusion implant with aspects of the targeting instrument. A guide clamp for facilitating forming of an implant cavity in adjacent bones for implantation of the fusion implant therein. A surgical method for facilitating fusion of adjacent target bones utilizing a fusion implant, fusion members, a targeting instrument and a guide clamp to reduce space between the adjacent bones such that they at least abut one another. | 12-12-2013 |
Stephen Andrew Pile, Bel Aire, KS US
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20140216690 | LIQUID DISTRIBUTION DEVICE UTILIZING PACKED DISTRIBUTION TROUGHS AND A MASS TRANSFER COLUMN AND PROCESS INVOLVING SAME - A flow distributor for a liquid descending in a vertically elongated mass transfer column, a mass transfer column employing the same, and a method of treating a fluid stream in the mass transfer column is provided. The flow distributor includes a central distribution member for passing liquid to a plurality of outwardly extending side arm members, which, in turn, feed the liquid into a plurality of distribution troughs located below the elongated side members. The distribution troughs, which may be oriented substantially perpendicularly or substantially parallel to the elongated side members, include a bed of packing material disposed therein. Use of such distributors in vapor-liquid or liquid-liquid columns results in more uniform horizontal distribution of the liquid across the diameter of the column. | 08-07-2014 |
Steve H. Pile, Phoenix, AZ US
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20090043696 | Payment Processor Hosted Account Information - A payment processor may host account information such as an account number of a customer provided during a transaction with a point of sale of a merchant. The account information may be received by the payment processor without being stored at the point of sale. For example, the account information may be received by the payment processor via a web page that may emulate a terminal at the point of sale. The payment processor may store the account information and may establish a unique transaction identifier for the transaction. The unique identifier may be provided to the customer with a receipt and the account number may be provided to an entity that may provide payment the merchant to complete the sales transaction. | 02-12-2009 |
20120078790 | REAL-TIME INTERCHANGE FEE ESTIMATION - Few merchants are in a position to understand how changes to processes or procedures may alter the issuer risk and/or subsequent transaction processing costs. Merchants would prefer to be provided with estimated Interchange fees associated with a financial transaction in real-time. To provide a merchant with an estimated Interchange fee in real-time, a financial transaction request may be received from the merchant and used to determine the estimated Interchange fee. The estimated Interchange fee may then be transmitted to a merchant in real-time. The estimated Interchange fee may be representative of an actual Interchange fee associated with a financial transaction. Estimated Interchange fees may be provided as part of an authorization or settlement processing method. | 03-29-2012 |
Steven H. Pile, Cave Creek, AZ US
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20120203700 | TOKENIZED CONTACTLESS PAYMENTS FOR MOBILE DEVICES - According to an exemplary embodiment of the invention, a method is discloses for facilitating a credit card transaction wirelessly via a mobile device. The method includes receiving registration information for a credit card and a mobile device, the registration information for the credit card including a primary account number (PAN) of the credit card; associating the registration information for the credit card with a unique token; generating a pseudo-PAN based on the PAN, the pseudo-PAN being different than the PAN; and providing the unique token and the pseudo-PAN to the mobile device for use in one or more credit card transactions. | 08-09-2012 |