Joseph P Spano

US Patent:

8001175, Aug 16, 2011

Filed:

Oct 22, 2004

Appl. No.:

10/904090

Inventors:

Michel Betancourt - Durham NC, US
Bijal D. Patel - Morrisville NC, US
Dipak M. Patel - Morrisville NC, US
Joseph Spano - Red Hook NY, US

Assignee:

International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY

International Classification:

G06F 15/16

US Classification:

709203, 709224, 709246, 711118, 455 72

Abstract:

An algorithm facilitates optimization functionality for generating optimized response information. In facilitating such optimization, non-essential elements of the response information (i. e. , unneeded for system interpretation) are eliminated thereby reducing the size of the response information and generating optimized response information as well as reducing the memory footprint of cache required for storing such optimized response information. Examples of such non-essential elements of response information include, but are not limited to, indention characters, tab characters, blank space characters and the like. Such optimization functionality is tailored to optimizing the size of response information being transmitted from a server. More specifically, it provides for reduction in bandwidth occupied by outgoing response information from a transmitting a server. Examples of such response information include, but are not limited to, HTML formatted information, XML formatted information, JavaScript formatted information and SOAP formatted information.

US Patent:

8539022, Sep 17, 2013

Filed:

May 5, 2011

Appl. No.:

13/102010

Inventors:

Michel Betancourt - Durham NC, US
Bijal D. Patel - Morrisville NC, US
Dipak M. Patel - Morrisville NC, US
Joseph P. Spano - Red Hook NY, US

Assignee:

International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY

International Classification:

G06F 15/16

US Classification:

709203, 709224, 709246, 711118, 455 72

Abstract:

A configuration of cached information stored within a cache is determined. One or more character omission rules are determined by: identifying the one or more optimizable characters based on the configuration, where the one or more optimizable characters are characters in the stored cached information that do not have an effect on an interpretation of the stored cached information by a requester computer; and determining, based on the configuration, one or more conditions under which omission of the one or more optimizable characters from the stored cached information produces a valid result in view of the configuration. One or more character omission rules are applied to the stored cached information by removing from the stored cached information the one or more optimizable characters that meet the one or more conditions.

US Patent:

20030029927, Feb 13, 2003

Filed:

Jul 8, 2002

Appl. No.:

10/191009

Inventors:

Joseph Spano - Hoboken NJ, US

International Classification:

E01B023/00

US Classification:

238/01000R

Abstract:

Scenery apparatus for a toy train track array formed from a series of oblong panels which can be folded for storage and interconnected for erecting in a wide variety of layouts. The panels contain structure for interconnecting the panels, for adjusting the size of the array, for securing the panels to the track and for ensuring that the panels will not interfere with the track and or the model trains running on the track with which the scenery is associated.

US Patent:

44062966, Sep 27, 1983

Filed:

Jan 15, 1982

Appl. No.:

6/339824

Inventors:

Howard Wexler - New York NY
Joseph Spano - Bronx NY

International Classification:

A44C 700

US Classification:

132148

Abstract:

A system of jewelry intended primarily though not exclusively for children incorporating an improved interconnectable bead. The improved interconnectable bead consists of a bead body having a male and a female connector and an opening through the bead body which is substantially perpendicular to an axis drawn through the male and female connectors. The bead body is strung on a string passed through the opening. The string ends are passed through a ring opening larger than the male connector and secured. The bead body may swivel freely until the male connector abuts the outer wall of the ring. If tension is applied to the string, the male connector will slip into the opening in the ring and thereby will be partially concealed. The improved bead may be used with hats and hair attachments and means for suspending it therefrom may be hook and loop fastening means.

US Patent:

51093367, Apr 28, 1992

Filed:

Apr 28, 1989

Appl. No.:

7/344715

Inventors:

Robert L. Guenther - Kingston NY
Stephen B. Rondeau - Kingston NY
Joseph P. Spano - Red Hook NY
Paul W. Van Leer - Highland NY
Mark C. Zelek - Kingston NY

Assignee:

International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY

International Classification:

G11C 800
G06F 1300

US Classification:

395425

Abstract:

A process of efficiently managing working storage that unifies the use of queues of fixed size free storage blocks and a global list of blocks of random size. The process implements continuous garbage collection that continually purges unused storage blocks from the fixed size queues to ensure maximum free storage availability. Data processing system throughput is enhanced by reducing the processor overhead required to allocate and return free storage blocks and by reducing the overhead required to manage temporary extensions of working storage.

US Patent:

40870162, May 2, 1978

Filed:

Jul 22, 1977

Appl. No.:

5/818157

Inventors:

Edward Johnson Towns - Convent Station NJ
Edward Morris Brown - Livingston NJ
Leonard Dykstra - Hasbrouck Heights NJ
Joseph Frank Spano - Westfield NJ
John Daniel Proctor - Summit NJ

Assignee:

Lermer Packaging Corporation - Garwood NJ

International Classification:

B65D 5502
B65D 8556
A61J 100

US Classification:

215211

Abstract:

A safety type cap for medicinal and similar containers capable of effecting a tight seal upon the container opening by means of a sealing flange extending laterally from the inner surface of the cap top, and which is deflected centripetally upon contact with the inner surface of the mouth of the container to result in resiliently bowing the top wall of the cap to result in increased outward pressure applied to the flange against the inner mouth surface. The radial thickness of the flange is substantially greater than the thickness of the cap top, so that the flange maintains a substantially undistorted shape during compression.