John W Kiowski, 63617 Tealwood Ln, Lewisville, TX 75028

2002003, Mar 28, 2002

Dec 22, 2000

09/746362

David Green - Richmond TX, US
Kevin Banks - Austin TX, US
John Kiowski - Houston TX, US

G06F009/44

717/001000

A system and method for designing an extensible N-tier oil software application to model selected assets of a petroleum company is described. The system comprises at least one processing unit; at least one memory store operatively connected to the processing unit; N-tier software executable within the at least one processing unit; an inventory of software components resident in the memory store for use by the N-tier software, each software component selectively representing one element of an oil field; an input device, operatively in communication with the processing unit; an output device, operatively in communication with the processing unit; a communications pathway operatively connected to the processing unit; and at least one tier, the tier comprising at least one software component, the tier further representing at least one element of an oil field and performing a well-defined business function. The method comprises selecting a well component from an inventory of software components for a predetermined number of wells; selecting a log component from an inventory of software components for a predetermined number of log components; selecting a field component from an inventory of software components for a predetermined number of fields; and associating one or more well components with one or more field components and one or more log components.

2002009, Jul 18, 2002

Dec 22, 2000

09/746155

David Green - Richmond TX, US
Kevin Banks - Austin TX, US
John Kiowski - Houston TX, US

G06F009/44

717/104000, 717/107000

A system and method for designing a software architecture for utilizing software components in building extensible N-tier software applications is described, the method comprising specifying a set of software component rules for creating software components; specifying a set of tier rules for creating tiers; and specifying a set of assembly rules further comprising association rules by which each tier may be associated with at least one software component and linkage rules by which each tier may be linked to at least one other tier. The tier rules may further comprise a set of association rules by which each tier created with the set of tier rules may be associated with at least one software component created using the software component rules; a set of tier framework rules to provide an architected context for software components within a tier; and a set of package rules to provide for logical grouping of interfaces within a framework defined by the tier framework rules to provide a set of specific behaviors for the tier.

2002010, Aug 1, 2002

Dec 22, 2000

09/746157

David Green - Richmond TX, US
Kevin Banks - Austin TX, US
John Kiowski - Houston TX, US

G06F009/44

717/101000, 717/107000, 717/104000

A computing system for creating an extensible N-tiered software application is described, comprising at least one processing unit, at least one memory store operatively connected to the processing unit, extensible N-tiered software executable within the at least one processing unit, a communications pathway operatively connected to the processing unit, and at least one extensible tier capable of residing in the memory store, the tier further comprising a logically grouped set of a predetermined number of executable software components, each executable software component further comprising an external interface, each software component further capable of communicating with each other software component. A method for generating a software application in a computing system for creating an extensible N-tiered software application using the system comprises determining a set of application requirements and then, for each of the set of application requirements, reviewing the inventory of software components for software components that match at least one of the set of application requirements. For each application requirement in the set of application requirements for which a software component match does not exist in the software component inventory, a new software component is created to match that application requirement and then stored in the software component inventory. Each of the matching or new software components is associated with a respective tier of the predetermined set of tiers and the software application created by assembling the predetermined set of tiers.

4276620, Jun 30, 1981

Oct 27, 1978

5/955261

John W. Kiowski - Houston TX
Douglas G. Lang - Bellaire TX

Geosource Inc. - Houston TX

G01V 128

367 60

A multi-channeled digital seismic field stacking system is disclosed for obtaining the composite response to a variable source array. A variable source array is synthesized by applying preselected weighting coefficients to the seismic signals produced in response to a selected number of surface energy impulses. The seismic signals produced by these impulses are amplified, multiplexed and digitized to obtain digital samples to which are applied the weighting coefficients. A digital multiplier is used to multiply each digital sample by a weighting coefficient to obtain a weighted digital sample. Each digital sample is multiplied by two weighting coefficients, a partial and a final. The partial weighted samples from each of the impulses are summed together to form a partial stack, while the final weighted samples are summed together to form a final stack. The variable source array which is synthesized covers two station intervals. At each station, the partial stack represents the first half of a variable source array, while the final stack represents a complete source array covering the two previous station intervals.

4316702, Feb 23, 1982

Mar 17, 1980

6/130977

John W. Kiowski - Denton TX
John V. Rolando - Dallas TX

Electronic Systems Division, Geosource, Inc. - Houston TX

F04B 4900

417 12

An improved oil well pump timer including means for detecting periods of power outage and providing a pumping period following the outage of sufficient length to maintain an essentially constant duty cycle. Clock controlled timers determine preselected on and off cycle periods. Power failure detecting circuitry inhibits on timer operation and counts the number of off time cycles occurring during the outage. Upon reestablishment of power, control circuitry inhibits the off timer and provides a number of on time cycles equal to the number of off cycles during the outage.