JAMES DURLAND SMITH
Pilots at Pika Rd, Boulder, CO

2008005, Mar 6, 2008

Sep 1, 2006

11/469833

Suzanne L. Price - Longmont CO, US
Vladimir V. Shestak - Fort Collins CO, US
Howard Jay Siegel - Fort Collins CO, US
James T. Smith - Boulder CO, US
Prasanna V. Sugavanam - Newbury Park CA, US
Larry D. Teklits - Loveland CO, US

G06F 3/12

358 113

Methods, systems, and apparatus for improved dispatching of sheetsides in a high-speed (e.g., continuous form) printing environment using multiple, clustered processors in a print controller. Features and aspects hereof generate, update, and utilize a mathematical model of multiple processors (compute nodes) each adapted to RIP (rasterize) raw sheetside data provided to it. A head node or control processor receives the raw sheetside files from an attached host or server, determines current processing capacity of each of the multiple compute nodes to RIP the next sheetside, and dispatches the sheetside to the compute node identified as providing the minimum RIP completion time. Various conditions may invalidate a compute node from further consideration in dispatch of a particular sheetside. Thus a valid compute node is selected based on the minimum RIP completion time.

4544090, Oct 1, 1985

Mar 29, 1983

6/479968

Thomas E. Warman - Williamsburg OH
Gordon P. Baker - Amelia OH
James E. Smith - Boulder CO

Sencorp - Cincinnati OH

B25C 502, B25C 506, B25F 700

227131

A driver return assembly for an electro-mechanical fastener driving tool. The tool is of the type provided with a driver which is frictionally moved through a working stroke by means of an electrically driven flywheel which presses the driver against a support element, such as a counter rotating flywheel, a low inertia roller, or the like. The driver return assembly comprises at least one elastomeric cord being attached at one of its ends to the driver and at the other of its ends to an anchor within the tool. The at least one elastomeric cord, between its ends, passes about at least two pulleys. One of the pulleys is mounted on a spring supported shaft to compensate for stretch of the at least one elastomeric cord to assure that the driver is returned to its normal, retracted position after each working stroke.

4030136, Jun 14, 1977

Feb 13, 1976

5/658134

James Taylor Smith - Boulder CO
Frank Eberhard Talke - Morgan Hill CA

International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY

G11B 5012, G11B 2302

360 98

Record storage apparatus including a pack of coaxially arranged rotating flexible disks uniformly spaced by means providing interstices through which pressure fluid is normally supplied at a preselected flow rate to maintain the disks stabilized in substantial parallelism during rotation. The pack is split at a selected axial position to cause a disk at each side of the split to spread and create a gap into which a transducer is insertable. A movable means concentrically disposed within the pack and positioned at the said selected position sealingly isolates the interstices at one side of the split from those at the opposite side. After insertion of the transducer, flow rate of pressure fluid to the disks at one side of the movable means is increased to restore the disks at said side to stabilized condition and concurrently fluid pressure load the particular disk at one side of said gap operatively against the transducer. Upon withdrawal of the transducer, flow rate of pressure fluid to the disks at the opposite side of the movable means is temporarily increased to restore said disksto stabilized substantial parallelism; then flow rate is concurrently reduced to said preselected rate at both sides of said movable means preparatory to accessing another of the disks.

6992789, Jan 31, 2006

Jun 15, 2001

09/882243

Joseph Stanley Czyszczewski - Longmont CO, US
Ravishankar Rao - Westchester NY, US
James Thomas Smith - Boulder CO, US
Gerhard Robert Thompson - Wappingers Falls NY, US

International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY

G06F 15/00

358 118, 358 115, 358448, 358462, 382176

Provided is a method, system, and program for managing a multi-page document. A plurality of input files are received including digital representations of multiple pages of a document. The content of each entire page is represented in a first representation format. The entire page content is capable of including content of a first content type and second content type. For each page of the document represented in the input files, a determination is made of regions in the page including content of the second content type. Each determined region in the page is processed to generate the content for each region in a second representation format. The content of the entire page in the first representation format and the content of each region in the second representation format is added to at least one output file. The output file is then stored.

4121745, Oct 24, 1978

Jun 28, 1977

5/810903

James E. Smith - Boulder CO
Carl T. Becht - Cincinnati OH

Senco Products, Inc. - Cincinnati OH

B25C 106

227 8

An electro-mechanical impact device, useful for driving nails, staples and other fastening elements. The driving member is driven by frictional engagement between a pair of counter-rotating high speed flywheels. The device has a safety provision whereby it cannot be actuated until the nose of the device is pressed against a work piece. This action also produces a movement of one of the flywheels toward the other. Actuation of the trigger moves the driving member into engagement between the counter-rotating flywheels, and these propel the driving element in a fastener driving direction. The inertia of the movable flywheel aids in efficient engagement of the flywheels with the driving member, and the movable flywheel is provided with a leaf spring permitting it to yield so that the driving member can pass between the flywheels while maintaining frictional engagement between the flywheels and the driving member. The driver is connected to an elastic member, so that when the tool is lifted from the work, the movable flywheel is moved away from the fixed flywheel, and the elastic member then retracts the driving member between the flywheels to a position out of contact therewith. The two flywheels are driven in synchronism by a single electric motor.

2006021, Sep 21, 2006

Mar 16, 2005

11/083384

Michael Haller - Niwot CO, US
Joan Mitchell - Longmont CO, US
Nenad Rijavec - Longmont CO, US
James Smith - Boulder CO, US

International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY

G06F 9/46

718107000

Method and system aspects for mapping tasks to iteratively improve task assignment in a heterogeneous computing (HC) system include identifying a current machine that defines a makespan in the HC system. Further included is the reassigning of at least one task from the current machine to at least one alternate machine in the HC system according to a predefined reassignment constraint. Reassigning also includes reassigning the at least one task when the at least one alternate machine can perform the at least one task in addition to previously assigned work while finishing in less time than the time of the makespan reduced by time required for the task being reassigned.

2007030, Dec 27, 2007

Jun 22, 2006

11/472788

Erin A. Boyd - Three Forks MT, US
Stewart J. Hyman - Richmond Hill, CA
Heiko Ludwig - New York NY, US
James T. Smith - Boulder CO, US
Michael J. Spisak - East Northport NY, US

G06F 9/46

719330

A method defines an execution of a business service by an electronic service. The method includes steps of: defining at least one canonical data schema containing data type specifications in an electronic services registry; defining at least one electronic service interface specification in the electronic services registry, the electronic service interface specification defining messages being received and sent by a service, the message definitions referring to one or more of the data type specifications, and also containing addressing and encoding information for the delivery and receiving of messages to and from the service; and defining business service specifications in a business services registry, referring in the specification to an electronic service specification.

2007004, Mar 1, 2007

Aug 25, 2005

11/212371

Joseph Czyszczewski - Longmont CO, US
Hong Li - Boulder CO, US
James Smith - Boulder CO, US

G06K 9/34

382176000

An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for identifying content within a scanned document. The apparatus includes a modification module, an identification module, and a segmentation module. The modification module creates a modified content data set through application of a sigmoid function to a scanned content data set. The identification module identifies a content segment within the modified content data set. The segmentation module identifies a content segment type of the content segment. Exemplary content segment types include text, line art, and images.

2007026, Nov 15, 2007

Apr 28, 2006

11/380834

Joseph Czyszczewski - Longmont CO, US
Mark Finlan - Atlanta GA, US
James Smith - Boulder CO, US

International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY

H04M 3/42

379201120

A computer workfiow services manager includes a data input coupled to receive unprocessed data from a customer, a data output coupled to transmit processed data to the customer, a control input coupled to receive instructions from a workfiow scheduler associated with a grid services broker and a grid service adapters responsive to the control input. A first grid service adapter is operable to provide a link to a first registered grid service, transmit unprocessed customer data to the first registered grid service and receive first processed data from the first registered grid service. The second grid service adapter is responsive to the control input and operable to provide a link to a second registered grid service, transmit the first processed data to the second registered grid service, receive second processed data from the second registered grid service and transmit the second processed data to the data output.

4189080, Feb 19, 1980

Feb 23, 1978

5/880448

James E. Smith - Boulder CO
Carl T. Becht - Cincinnati OH

Senco Products, Inc. - Cincinnati OH

B25C 106

227 8

An impact device, useful for driving nails, staples and other fastening elements. The driving member is driven by frictional engagement with a rotating high speed flywheel. The device has a safety provision whereby it cannot be actuated until the nose of the device is pressed against a work piece. This action also produces a movement of a support means, such as a roller, towards the rotating flywheel. It should be pointed out that the tool could be designed, in the alternative, with a fixed support means and movable flywheel. Actuation of the trigger moves the driving member into engagement between the support and the rotating flywheel, and the flywheel propels the driving element in a fastener driving direction. The support means is provided with a leaf spring permitting it to yield so that the driving member can pass between the flywheel and the support means while maintaining frictional engagement between the flywheel and the driving member. Inertia of the support means aids in efficient engagement of the flywheel with the driving member.