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Pearson Education, Inc.

Texas Instruments Corporation

Gulf Research & Development Company

Wayne Edward Bailey

Michael Nealis

Peter Pascale

Andrew Stockinger

Darrick Jensen

Matthew Maloney

Colleen M Dolan

Steven C Nordberg

Jide Fajobi

Gregory Anderson

Ronald D Lancaster, Jr

James Carl Baker

Douglas E Paradis

Emily A Groves

Homer K Cheung

Robert Kemp

Richard Cattell

Julianne Michael Schaffer

Ronald D Lancaster Jr

A housing as part of a clothes dryer's gaseous fluid exhaust system containing components for maintaining an open restriction-free airflow channel for maintaining the dryer's efficiency and sized to fit within a typical wall cavity of a building. A removable airflow filter for filtering and removing excess clothes lint, preventing entry of lint particulate into the upper exhaust vent pipe that may block exhaust airflow or blend with down falling condensate, which is generated from a clothes dryer's warm moist exhaust airflow. A diverter constructed to direct the exhaust airflow to a primary exterior location or to a secondary interior location. A condensate drain to separate falling condensate from exhaust airflow and dispose the condensate into an exclusive disposal system. The elements of this invention combine to secure the efficiency, longer life and safety of a clothes dryer and its exhaust system by removing lint particulate, separating exhaust airflow from falling condensate produced by a clothes dryer into the clothes dryer exhaust system.

Condensate and lint separator within a gaseous fluid exhaust system of a clothes dryer

A system includes one or more server hardware computing devices includes one or more processors and memory storing instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the system to receive a request to verify an identity of a user attempting to complete an examination provided by an online proctored examination platform to a candidate user authorized to complete the examination and repeatedly, at a predefined interval during the examination, determine, based at least in part on user data collected by the online proctored examination platform during the examination, the user data identifying the user at a time that the interval elapses, whether the user is the candidate user, and, responsive to a determination that the user is not the candidate user, perform one or more of a plurality of actions associated with a failed identity verification, the plurality of actions including stopping the examination.

Security and content protection by continuous identity verification

A system includes a candidate device including a processor configured to implement a candidate evaluation software application and a server computer configured to communicate with the candidate device using a network. The server computer is configured to receive, from the candidate device, a request to access an evaluation service. The request includes a candidate identifier. The server computer is configured to access historical candidate data in a memory accessible by the server computer to determine a trust score for a candidate associated with the candidate identifier, and when the trust score exceeds a threshold, transmit a credential to the candidate device enabling an evaluation of the candidate to be performed on the candidate device via a secured local area network.

Proctor test environment with user devices

A system includes one or more server hardware computing devices communicatively coupled to a network. The one or more server hardware computing devices include one or more processors and memory storing specific computer-executable instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the system to receive a first request to calculate a trust score for a user associated with a user account of an online proctored examination platform. The trust score represents results of a risk analysis of the user. The instructions cause the system to obtain internal data of the online proctored examination platform, the internal data describing usage of the online proctored examination platform by the user, perform the risk analysis using at least the internal data to produce the trust score, associate the trust score with the user account, and perform an action based on the trust score.

Security and content protection using candidate trust score

A system includes a candidate client device including a processor, a camera, and a microphone. The system includes one or more server hardware computing devices communicatively coupled to a network and in communication with the candidate client device. Each of the one or more server hardware computing devices includes at least one processor executing specific computer-executable instructions within a memory that, when executed, cause the one or more server hardware computing devices to receive the sequence of images and the audio data from the candidate client device, extract a first video attribute from the sequence of images, extract a first audio attribute from the audio data, determine that at least one of the first video attribute violates a first video condition and the first audio attribute violates a first audio condition, and prevent the candidate client device from performing a candidate evaluation function using candidate evaluation software application.

Security and content protection by test environment analysis

A system includes a client device and a server computer coupled to a network and in communication, via the network, with the client device. The server computer is configured to receive, from the client device, a queue request. The queue request includes a candidate identifier. The server computer is configured to determine a risk factor for a candidate associated with the candidate identifier, and, upon determining that the risk factor indicates a high probability of inappropriate behavior during evaluation by the candidate by comparing the risk factor to a risk threshold encode into a first array defining a first candidate queue a reference to the candidate identifier, identify, in a first administrative queue, a first administrator identifier, the first administrative queue being designated as an administration escalation queue, and establish at least one of a first video connection and a first audio data connection between the client device and a first administrator device associated with the first administrator identifier.

Automated registration and greeting process&#x2014;custom queueing (security)

A system includes a client device including a processor configured to implement a candidate evaluation software application and a server computer in communication, via a network, with the client device. The server computer is configured to receive, from the client device, a queue request. The queue request includes a candidate identifier. The server computer includes determine, using the candidate identifier, a candidate target attribute, identify a first candidate queue from a plurality of candidate queues using the candidate target attribute, and encode into the first candidate queue a reference to the candidate identifier. The server computer is configured to identify, in a first administrative queue, an administrator identifier, the first administrative queue being associated with the candidate target attribute, and establish at least one of a video and an audio data connection between the client device and an administrator device associated with the administrator identifier.

Automated registration and greeting process&#x2014;custom queueing(accommodations)

A radon exhaust system comprising a cylindrical shaped vent housing, diagnostic filter fan housing, inline fan with redirecting vanes, ice filter, observation windows, access opening and closure cap, air flow indicators, water gutter, drain spout and an enlarged elliptical bulge area for additional air passage through the fan housing. The inline fan, located within the elliptical bulge, pumps radon laced air into redirecting vanes, which directs same air through exhaust side and out through expanded exhaust openings of the vent housing. Additionally, redirecting vanes protect the fan from falling ice which may be formed on the ice filter located above the fan. Water is prevented from entering the fan by a water gutter and drain. Observation windows allow visual interior monitoring without entering the fan housing. An access opening with closure cap allows interior maintenance, testing and off venting. These embodiments combine to protect radon systems from damage.

Radon exhaust system with internial gaseous fluid fan within diagnostic bypass filter fan apparatus

A radon exhaust system comprising an exhaust side with a vent housing, a diagnostic bypass filter apparatus providing observation windows, a removable observation window, internal ice and object filter, internal ribbon flow indicators, internal water gutter with drain spout, an exhaust fan and a suction side coupled together to form a conduit through which gaseous fluid may be conveyed. The diagnostic bypass filter apparatus provides an enlarged elliptical air passage bulge and angular bend configuration having three observation windows, a fourth removable observation window, an internal ice and object filter, ribbon flow indicators, and an internal water gutter with drain spout for providing protection of the exhaust fan from falling ice, water and objects and visual inspection for flow in the exhaust system and access to the filter for cleaning.

Radon exhaust system with a diagnostic bypass filter apparatus

This apparatus protects a radon fan from damage due to falling water, ice, birds and animals and debris and is installed above the radon fan and protects the fan in several ways. It is installed just above the radon fan, thus taking advantage of warm 'Earth Temperature' air to reduce ice build-up. Its screen replaces the birds and animals screen often installed at the top of the exhaust pipe where ice is formed. The screen additionally prevents ice and debris from falling into the fan. The water bypass catches back-flowing water and directs it around the fan. The access port serves as an opening for testing, observations and cleaning of any debris that is collected by the screen and the access port is sealed with a removable plug. This apparatus protects and extends the life of a radon fan and is made part of the radon mitigation system.

Apparatus to protect a radon fan from mechanical failure due to damage from falling objects from within the radon mitigation system

A method of forming a semiconductor device and the device, the method comprising the steps of providing a silicon substrate of predetermined conductivity type having a layer of silicon oxide with a first mask thereon, implanting a first impurity of the predetermined conductivity type into the substrate in unmasked regions of the substrate, masking the substrate except for a small region immediately adjacent the first mask with a second mask, implanting a second impurity of the predetermined conductivity type into the substrate in the unmasked regions of the substrate to cause some of the impurity to extend in the substrate beneath the first mask, removing the second mask, oxidizing the substrate with the first mask thereon to form a bird's beak extending beneath the first mask with the impurities extending along the bird's beak both beneath and external to the first mask and completing fabrication of a semiconductor device on substrate. The device is a semiconductor device having a silicon substrate of predetermined conductivity type with a semiconductor device structure therein, and a bird's beak region on the substrate wherein the substrate has a higher level of impurity of the predetermined conductivity type along and directly beneath the bird's beak region than in the bulk of the substrate.

Ion implant of the moat encroachment region of a LOCOS field isolation

An improved support post (16, 23) for micro-mechanical devices (10). A conductive layer (33, 71) is deposited on a substrate at all places where the support posts (16, 23) are to be located. A spacer layer (41, 81) is then deposited and etched to form vias (41a, 81a). Each via (41a, 81a) defines the outer surface of a support post (16, 23). The bottom surface of each via is at the conductive layer (33, 71). This permits an aluminum CVD process to selectively fill the vias (41a, 81a), thereby forming the support posts (16, 23).

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Wayne Edward Bailey