Richards, CA
Bob Richards, Ontario CA
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20090070338 | Centralized production management for measuring mail industry processing performance - In the disclosed example, an Intelligence Management System (IMS) collects data pertaining to operations of resources of various document processing environments operated by different entities into a database. The IMS processes data from the database according to criteria, to generate at least one anonymous performance metric representing operational performance of resources within a number of the document processing environments. The anonymous metric may be presented to a user, such as personnel of one of the operating entities. If the user has sufficient access privileges, the IMS may also generate a similar client specific metric from data for one or more environments with which the user is associated, for example, to allow benchmark comparison of the operational performance of the associated environment(s) against the anonymous performance metric. | 03-12-2009 |
Bob Richards, Kitchener CA
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20100315692 | FEEDER CONTROL SYSTEM AND METHOD - A feeder control system and method are disclosed. The system includes a feeder information detector, and a feeder information leverager to provide integrity verification, system control and/or reporting. The method includes the steps of detecting feeder information, and leveraging the feeder information to provide integrity verification, system control and/or reporting. | 12-16-2010 |
20110098847 | VERIFICATION SYSTEM AND METHOD IN A DOCUMENT PROCESSING ENVIRONMENT - A feeder control system and method are disclosed. The system includes a feeder information detector, and a feeder information leverager to provide integrity verification, system control and/or reporting. The method includes the steps of detecting feeder information, and leveraging the feeder information to provide integrity verification, system control and/or reporting. | 04-28-2011 |
Brian G. Richards, N. Vancouver CA
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20100047857 | MULTIPLE ANALYTE IMMUNOASSAY - Methods for measuring the amount of two or more analytes of interest in a fluid sample, and kits useful in the methods, are disclosed. The methods involve determining a ratio of a detected amount of a single analyte of interest, to the sum of a detected amount of each of the analytes of interest plus a detected amount of a control, wherein the amount of each analyte of interest is directly or inversely related to the ratio for each analyte of interest. | 02-25-2010 |
Christopher Richards, Port Coquitlam CA
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20130196241 | FREEZE START METHOD FOR FUEL CELLS - A method for starting operation of a solid polymer fuel cell from a temperature below 0° C. is disclosed that prevents certain problems with ice formation as the fuel cell thaws. During startup, the method involves providing the volumetric oxidant flow at a rate less than two thirds of its maximum when the coolant temperature is near 0° C. | 08-01-2013 |
Christopher Richards, Ottawa CA
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20130322275 | MONITORING AND ALLOCATION OF INTERFACE RESOURCES IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - Methods and systems for centralizing transport and control, T&C, functions for management of a plurality of enhanced nodeBs, eNBS, and their associated cells are disclosed. According to one aspect, the invention provides a method that includes providing the T&C functions associated with each of the plurality of eNBs at at least one T&C pool entity. Mobility events associated with the plurality of the eNBs are coordinated between the at least one T&C pool entity using an interface. Available resources of each of a plurality of links of a shared network connecting the plurality of eNBs and the at least one T&C pool entity are determined. Control signaling and data packets between the plurality of eNBs and the at least one T&C pool entity are transmitted using a protocol across the shared network to facilitate communication between eNBs and user equipment. | 12-05-2013 |
20130322346 | POOLED TRANSPORT AND CONTROL FUNCTIONS IN A 3GPP LTE NETWORK - Presented are methods and apparatus for decoupling transport and control (T&C) functions from a plurality of eNBs and collecting the T&C functions in a centralized entity for managing the T&C functions for a larger pool of eNBs. An enhanced interface and protocol is defined for allowing the new T&C pool entity to communicate with the eNBs over a shared IP based network. The redistributed functionality provides for optimizing both data compression capabilities and security by compressing data earlier in its transmission path and by encrypting data before it is sent to an eNB. | 12-05-2013 |
20140160937 | COMMON RADIO RESOURCE CONTROL FOR CELLULAR RADIO AND WIFI - A method and system for combined control and management of radio resources of a cellular radio network and a WiFi network are disclosed. According to one aspect, a method includes performing, by a combined radio resource control unit, radio resource control functions controlling utilization of radio resources of the cellular radio network and the WiFi network. The method includes establishing communication between the combined radio resource control unit and 1) at least one cellular radio base station 2) at least one WiFi access point and 3) a backhaul communication network. | 06-12-2014 |
20140199994 | REPORTING WiFi CHANNEL MEASUREMENTS TO A CELLULAR RADIO NETWORK - A method and devices for providing measurements of WiFi network channels to a cellular radio network are disclosed. According to one aspect, the invention provides a method that includes preparing, at a node of the cellular radio network, a request for measurement of at least one WiFi channel. The measurement is to be provided by at least one user equipment having a WiFi transceiver and a cellular radio transceiver. The method includes transmitting, from the node of the cellular radio network, the request to the at least one user equipment. The node of the cellular radio network receives, from the at least one user equipment, at least one measurement of the at least one WiFi channel. | 07-17-2014 |
20140370922 | METHOD AND APPARATUS OF PAGING - Systems and methods for optimizing paging are disclosed. In one embodiment, a Data Structure with at least one entry mapping at least one identifier representing a candidate wireless device node to at least one identifier representing a candidate paging base station node whereat the candidate wireless device node has some likelihood of being successfully paged by the candidate base station. At least one related paging communication is optimized by using the Data Structure. | 12-18-2014 |
Christopher J. Richards, New Westminster CA
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20100062289 | Apparatus and Method for Managing Fluids in a Fuel Cell Stack - A plurality of flow field plate assemblies forms a fuel cell stack. Each flow field plate assembly has a first flow field plate positionable on an anode side of a membrane electrode assembly (MEA) of a first fuel cell, a second flow field plate positionable on a cathode side of an MEA of a second fuel cell, adjacent the first fuel cell. At least one back-feed channel is interposed between the first and second flow field plates. At least a portion of the back-feed channel or a reactant manifold opening formed by the first and second flow field plates has a geometry that forms regions of high and low capillary forces, promoting liquid migration toward regions substantially isolated from a flow of reactants, to prevent water collection and ice formation. The migrated liquid being is purged during a purge of the fuel cell stack after operation. | 03-11-2010 |
Christopher J. Richards, Port Coquitlam CA
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20110269040 | SHUTDOWN METHODS AND DESIGNS FOR FUEL CELL STACKS - Improved water distribution can be obtained within the cells of a fuel cell series stack by maintaining a suitable temperature difference between the cathode and anode sides of each cell in the stack during shutdown. This can be accomplished by thermally insulating the “hot” end and sides of the stack and by providing a thermal mass adjacent to the “hot” end. | 11-03-2011 |
Gavin Victor Charles Richards, Everett CA
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20150121673 | DEVICE FOR EFFECTING AND VERIFYING FULL MATING ENGAGEMENT BETWEEN A COUPLER AND A COMPLEMENTARY CORRESPONDING SOCKET AND METHOD THEREFOR - A device for effecting and verifying a full mating operable engagement between a slidable coupler and a complementary corresponding socket. The coupler and the complementary corresponding socket are received into a receiving region defined between first and second opposing sidewall portions which squeeze the coupler and the complementary corresponding socket together to effect the full mating operable engagement from a partial mating engagement relationship. A method for use of the device to verifying a full mating operable engagement between a slidable coupler and a complementary corresponding socket is also provided. | 05-07-2015 |
James Richards, Ottawa CA
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20080317775 | Bacterial Antigens and Uses Thereof - Novel enzymes, processes and antigenic structures useful in producing vaccines and compounds useful in combating gram-negative bacteria are described. Enzymes were isolated from the slime mould | 12-25-2008 |
James C. Richards, Ottawa CA
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20100010211 | Vaccine - The invention relates to a vaccine for the treatment of disease caused by | 01-14-2010 |
20100015175 | Vaccine - The invention relates to a vaccine for the treatment of disease caused by | 01-21-2010 |
20100016560 | Vaccine - The invention relates to a vaccine for the treatment of disease caused by | 01-21-2010 |
20110165163 | IDENTIFICATION OF A CONSERVED INNER CORE OLIGOSACCHARIDE OF MORAXELLA CATARRHALIS LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE AS A VACCINE ANTIGEN - There are disclosed herein antigenic structures useful in producing vaccines against and compounds helpful in combating diseases caused by the bacterium | 07-07-2011 |
20110229513 | LPS Based Vaccines - The removal of the glycosidic phosphate from the reducing end of the derived LPS molecule creates an aldehydo functionality which causes the formation of an immunologically dominant neo-epitope. Conjugation to the reducing end of a carbohydrate molecule following removal of the glycosidic phosphate traps the reducing glucosamine residue in an open-chain form which surprisingly was found to dominate the immune response. We therefore modified our conjugation strategy to avoid this open-chain form, by utilising the amino functionality created by the isolated amidase activity from | 09-22-2011 |
James Clare Richards, Ottawa CA
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20100010210 | Vaccine - The invention relates to a vaccine for the treatment of disease caused by | 01-14-2010 |
20110171234 | Vaccine - The invention relates to a vaccine for the treatment of disease caused by | 07-14-2011 |
20120121646 | Vaccine - The invention relates to a vaccine for the treatment of disease caused by | 05-17-2012 |
20140050731 | Vaccine - The invention relates to a vaccine for the treatment of disease caused by | 02-20-2014 |
John Richards, Port Coquitlam CA
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20110021173 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS - A personal communications device configured to communicate with a wide area network in response to an alternate mode activation signal is provided. The personal communications device also comprises a signal broker operatively connected to a monitored interface from among the one or more interfaces along a control path. The signal broker is configured to monitor signals at the monitored interface and upon observing an alternate mode activation signal at the monitored interface, inject an alternate mode signal configured to initiate the alternate communication over the wide area network. In some embodiments, the alternate communication is different from a communication that would have occurred in the absence of the injected alternate mode signal. The alternate mode signal may comprise an emergency mode signal configured to initiate an emergency communication over the wide area network. The emergency communication may comprise an SMS message, a telephone call, an HTTP command, an email, or the like. | 01-27-2011 |
20120059911 | HEALTH KIOSK - A health kiosk system is provided. A kiosk has a computing unit and a physiological measurement apparatus connected to the computing unit. A Web browser of the computing unit transmits information corresponding to the physiological measurement apparatus and a request for a resource to a Web server. In response to receiving the request, the Web server transmits to the kiosk profile-specific Web content responsive to the request and specific to the received profile information. The information corresponding to the physiological measurement apparatus may be transmitted in a URL or HTTP Cookie of an HTTP request. | 03-08-2012 |
Ken W. Richards, Saskatoon CA
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20100056470 | PLANT COMPOSITIONS ENRICHED IN DEHYDROSOYASAPONIN I (D-I) AND METHODS OF PRODUCING SUCH COMPOSITIONS - There is provided a method of producing a plant composition comprising dehydrosoyasaponin I (D-I), the method comprising the steps of extracting a plant flour with a solvent capable of extracting soyasaponins to produce an extract, and treating the extract with light. Also provided are compositions produced according to the method of the present invention. | 03-04-2010 |
Phil Richards, London CA
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20090301162 | Method of making a ring - A method of making a ring comprising cutting a raw material stock to a predetermined length, cutting a slit through the raw material stock along its length to form a blank, inserting the blank into a tool, expanding the middle of the slit while simultaneously applying a compressive force to the ends of the blank, and expanding the middle of the slit until the blank is round. | 12-10-2009 |
Robert Richards, Ontario CA
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20100106282 | ITEM WORKFLOW TRACKING IN AN AUTOMATED PRODUCTION ENVIRONMENT - The progressive tracking of items in relation to other items as they are processed and transformed through a sequence of processes executed in a workflow procedure intended to produce a finished hard copy document product for transport to a destination location, as a result of a production run, enables permission based control of one or more processing steps during the production run and/or effective scheduling of any re-do operations that may be desired upon detection of any discrepancies in the item processing operations. | 04-29-2010 |
20100106290 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR APPLYING A POSTAL AUTHORITY BARCODE ON A DOCUMENT PROCESSING SYSTEM - Systems, methods, and an article of manufacture for printing a new postal authority code on a mail piece prepared by and received from an inserter or wrapper. A barcode post-processing system receives a mail piece from an inserter and communicates with the image capture equipment. The barcode post-processing system during performs various functions. The functions can include receiving legacy address block information from the mail piece from the image capture equipment, processing the captured legacy address block information to determine one or more missing parameters of the new postal authority code to create processed data, and supplementing the captured legacy address block information data with the one or more missing parameters of the new postal authority code received from one or more data source. | 04-29-2010 |
Ronald W. Richards, Vancouver CA
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20100150342 | ENCRYPTION AND DECRYPTION OF RECORDS IN ACCORDANCE WITH GROUP ACCESS VECTORS - According to some embodiments, a system, method, means, and/or computer program code are provided to facilitate an appropriate access to secure information by a plurality of users categorized into a plurality of groups. For example, a group access vector may be determined for each of a plurality of records in a data report, each group access vector including a plurality of indicators that indicate if an associated group is authorized to access that record. It may then be arranged for an encryption key to be assigned to each unique group access vector associated with the data report. It may further be arranged for each record in the data report to be encrypted in accordance with the encryption key assigned to the group access vector of that record, the combined encrypted records comprising an encrypted data report. | 06-17-2010 |
Ronald Wade Richards, Vancouver CA
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20100287512 | VISUAL HIERARCHY EXPLORER - A method and a system are described that involve generating a graphical tree hierarchy of a data structure and its accompanying metadata. In one embodiment, the method includes building a graphical tree hierarchy with a plurality of levels, wherein the graphical tree hierarchy includes at least a root node, a plurality of non-leaf nodes, and a plurality of leaf nodes. Further, the method includes aggregating at least a portion of the plurality of non-leaf nodes at a level of the graphical tree hierarchy, if a subset of the plurality of non-leaf nodes residing at the level exceeds a maximum number of nodes per the level. The method also includes scaling down the plurality of leaf nodes, if the plurality of levels of the graphical tree hierarchy exceeds a maximum number of levels. | 11-11-2010 |
Tyler Richards, St. Albert CA
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20140379868 | HOME SCOREBOARD SYNCHRONIZED IN REAL-TIME TO GAME-SPECIFIC DATA - A system delivers game-specific data via a network from a database to a home scoreboard, which displays the data to its user. In response to receiving an order linked to the home scoreboard via the network from a network-connected device, the system retrieves the data from a database and transmits the data to the home scoreboard in real-time. Upon receiving the data, the display configures the display to display the data in real-time. The home scoreboard has a transparent fascia that covers the display, while allowing its display fields to be visible to its user. The home scoreboard also has a light source that illuminates in response to receiving data indicative of a specified game event. | 12-25-2014 |
Wade Richards, Vancouver CA
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20120102282 | VARIABLE LENGTH DATA PROTECTED BY SEQLOCK - Various embodiments of systems and methods for variable length data protected by Seqlock are described herein. Seqlock is a special locking mechanism used in data structures for multithreaded applications that can be read very quickly, when there are no changes being made, at the cost of needing to repeat a read operation when writing has occurred. A Seqlock, in normal use, can only protect a fixed-size data structure with no pointers. This is because the writing thread may invalidate a pointer after a reading thread has followed it. The embodiments specify an algorithm where a Seqlock-protected pointer, once written, is never invalidated. This removes the “no pointers” restriction, allowing the Seqlock to protect a simple singly-linked list, which can be safely increased in size while being read by other threads. The innovation includes the use of the write-once head and next pointers, and the always valid end iterator. | 04-26-2012 |