Salisbury, CA
Christopher Salisbury, Laguna Hills, CA US
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20110192294 | EZ-CRUSH - A beverage container crushing appliance which increases individual's efficiency in storing and transporting recyclables. The appliance quickly compacts/compresses aluminum cans and plastic bottles down to about one tenth of their original size. The beverage container crushing appliance comprises a housing having an internal liner; a sliding door; an electric motor; a gear set; a plunger; and an electric power communicator cord. The sliding door is slidably manipulatable between open and closed conditions to provide access to the internal liner for placement or removal of beverage containers. The electric motor is in electrical communication with a power source via the electric power communicator cord and when activated, causes rotation of the gear set causing the plunger to move in either a downward-crush motion thereby compressing the beverage container or in an upward non-crush motion allowing a user to remove the beverage container for recycling. | 08-11-2011 |
Cleo Salisbury, Emeryville, CA US
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20130109581 | POSITIVELY CHARGED SPECIES AS BINDING REAGENTS IN THE SEPARATION OF PROTEIN AGGREGATES FROM MONOMERS | 05-02-2013 |
Dylan Salisbury, San Francisco, CA US
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20120130829 | Bidding for placement of advertisements in real time - An advertisement is selected when an advertising opportunity arises through a competitive bidding process. A computer system receives an indication of the advertising opportunity, and in response to receiving the indication, the computer system selects a bid from a plurality of bids. An advertisement associated with the selected bid is served to a browser to be viewed in conjunction with a web page. | 05-24-2012 |
Dylan Salisbury, Mountain View, CA US
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20150095453 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR INCREASED CALL QUALITY AND SUCCESS RATE - A system and method for providing a communication session is provided. The system and method include a client device in communication with a plurality of communication networks. The system and method further includes a server also in communication with the plurality of communication networks. The client device includes a network monitor module and a dialer module. The network monitor module determines which networks to utilize in the communication session, and the dialer module initiates and terminates the communication session. The server receives a data signal associated with the communication session from the selected communication network. The server places a separate call to the recipient client device and completes the connection from the client device to the recipient client device by sending the data signal over the phone call to the recipient client device. | 04-02-2015 |
Dylan F. Salisbury, Morgan Hill, CA US
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20120004914 | AUDIO HUMAN VERIFICATION - A system generates an audio challenge that includes a first voice and one or more second voices, the first voice being audibly distinguishable, by a human, from the one or more second voices. The first voice conveys first information and the second voice conveys second information. The system provides the audio challenge to a user and verifies that the user is human based on whether the user can identify the first information in the audio challenge. | 01-05-2012 |
J. Kenneth Salisbury, Los Altos, CA US
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20090030429 | ROBOTIC APPARATUS - A robotic apparatus has eight actuators (M | 01-29-2009 |
20140107666 | ROBOTIC APPARATUS - A robotic apparatus has eight actuators (M0-M7) and a linkage (LINK 0-LINK 5) that actuates an end effector. Three serial macro freedoms have large ranges of motion and inertias. Four serial micro freedoms have small ranges of motion and inertias. Translation of the end effector in any direction is actuated by at least one micro joint and at least one macro joint. The apparatus can be part of a master and slave combination, providing force feedback without any explicit force sensors. The slave is controlled with an Inverse Jacobian controller, and the master with a Jacobian Transpose controller. A slave having more degrees of freedom (DOFs) than the master can be controlled. A removable effector unit actuates its DOFs with cables. Beating heart surgery can be accomplished by commanding the slave to move with a beating heart and cancelling out any such motion in the motions perceived by the master. | 04-17-2014 |
J. Kenneth Salisbury, Mountain View, CA US
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20100292708 | Articulated Surgical Instrument for Performing Minimally Invasive Surgery with Enhanced Dexterity and Sensitivity - An articulated surgical instrument for enhancing the performance of minimally invasive surgical procedures. The instrument has a high degree of dexterity, low friction, low inertia and good force reflection. A unique cable and pulley drive system operates to reduce friction and enhance force reflection. A unique wrist mechanism operates to enhance surgical dexterity compared to standard laparoscopic instruments. The system is optimized to reduce the number of actuators required and thus produce a fully functional articulated surgical instrument of minimum size. | 11-18-2010 |
20130110131 | Articulated Surgical Instrument for Performing Minimally Invasive Surgery With Enhanced Dexterity and Sensitivity | 05-02-2013 |
20140194899 | ARTICULATED SURGICAL INSTRUMENT FOR PERFORMING MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY WITH ENHANCED DEXTERITY AND SENSITIVITY - An articulated surgical instrument for enhancing the performance of minimally invasive surgical procedures. The instrument has a high degree of dexterity, low friction, low inertia and good force reflection. A unique cable and pulley drive system operates to reduce friction and enhance force reflection. A unique wrist mechanism operates to enhance surgical dexterity compared to standard laparoscopic instruments. The system is optimized to reduce the number of actuators required and thus produce a fully functional articulated surgical instrument of minimum size. | 07-10-2014 |
John Salisbury, Carisbad, CA US
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20110227810 | PORTABLE COMMUNICATION DEVICE WITH SECONDARY PERIPHERAL DISPLAY - A portable communication device includes a primary display and a secondary display where the secondary display surrounds the primary display. The secondary display is translucent allowing at least some light to pass through the display to form a clear, or nearly clear, bezel around the primary display. A dot matrix system or clear LCD generates images on the secondary display and a sensing mechanism, such as a set of capacitor sensors, detects user input. User interaction with objects presented on the secondary display allows the user to manage content in the primary display. | 09-22-2011 |
John Salisbury, Carlsbad, CA US
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20090174717 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR GENERATING A STORYBOARD THEME FOR BACKGROUND IMAGE AND VIDEO PRESENTATION - A method and apparatus for using a non-active (background) state of a display-enabled device to animate images and video elements within a themed storyboard from selected sources. States described in the method include: tuning to select viewable content, population of the storyboard matrix, animation of storyboard elements using animation effects, such as lens flare and live video texturing, and evaporation of the elements. By way of example, the storyboard is populated with freeze frames of video content, one or a portion of which are then played to animate that element. The storyboard preferably cycles with additional content as the prior content evaporates, until the background mode is terminated. The method is particularly well-suited for use in television sets, although it can be integrated into any display-enable apparatus having a computer and access to content sources that can be used for storyboard elements. | 07-09-2009 |
20090204929 | FAVORITE GUI FOR TV - A favorites GUI for a TV includes a carousel-type display of icons representing user-defined favorites that is overlaid on the current background video of the TV, with the center-most icon being the “current” icon and being enlarged relative to the other icons. Live video appears in icons representing TV channels. Other icons can represent, e.g., favorite photo/music files, favorite games from a game console, favorite content from an ambient player, etc. | 08-13-2009 |
20090262135 | OVERLAID IMAGES ON TV - An ambient, beautiful, entertaining visual experience that can be displayed on a TV requiring little or no user interaction beyond initiation. Multiple image layers that may be still or moving video, photos, etc, or a combination thereof can be overlaid on each other. | 10-22-2009 |
20090262257 | BACKGROUND TV - An ambient, beautiful, entertaining visual experience that can be displayed on a TV requiring little or no user interaction beyond initiation. One theme is a mosaic of panes of; e.g., video from the last-watched channel, with the mosaic covering the screen. Another theme is a clock image with a single moving, fade-in fade-out pane that does not cover the entire screen. | 10-22-2009 |
20090273613 | Method and Apparatus for Presentation of Mosaic Theme - The present invention pertains to a method and apparatus for the display of an animated mosaic theme utilizing user images or video. In one embodiment, the method may include electing a mosaic template that includes a plurality of tile regions. The method may also include loading a source image from a memory. Furthermore, the method may include displaying a plurality of regions of the source image that correspond to the plurality of tile regions of the selected mosaic template to display a source image mosaic. | 11-05-2009 |
20110173540 | DYNAMIC USER INTERFACE FOR WIRELESS COMMUNICATION DEVICES - A user interface for a wireless communication device has a visual interface that includes multiple visual elements representing events of the same type where non-textual visual characteristics represent unique information of the events. Accordingly, the visual interface includes at least a first visual element representing a first event occurring at a wireless communication device and a second visual element representing a second event occurring at the wireless communication device and being of the same event type as the first event. The first visual element has a first non-textual visual characteristic representing first information related to the first event and the second visual element has a second non-textual visual characteristic representing second information related to the second event different from the first information. The event type is one of a received email event, a transmitted email event, a voice mail event, a missed call event, a received text message event, a sent text message event, a dialed call event, or a received call event. | 07-14-2011 |
20110241998 | FLEXIBLE PORTABLE COMMUNICATION DEVICE - A portable communication device includes a housing having at least three housing portions where a first housing portion is rotatably connected to a second housing portion and the second housing portion is rotatably connected to a third housing portion. A flexible display screen is connected to the first, second, and third housing portions to form a continuous surface having a first screen portion connected to the first housing portion, a second screen portion connected to the second housing portion and a third screen portion connected to the third housing portion. The portable communication device is configurable into at least three configurations including an open position where the entire screen surface is exposed and visible to the user and a closed position where the housing portions are folded to each other such that the entire screen surface is unexposed. A partially closed position allows the user to view a portion of the display screen. | 10-06-2011 |
John Salisbury, San Diego, CA US
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20140045473 | INTELLIGENT CALL FORWARDING - Systems and methods for providing alternate communication paths for telephone calls. Calls directed to a telephone are relayed to a second electronic communication device, which may be a second telephone, based on the physical relationship of the telephone and the second device. According to one aspect, the physical relationship is automatically detected and compared with one or more conditions. When one of the conditions is met, an incoming call directed to the telephone is relayed to the second electronic communication device. Detection of the physical relationship may include detecting whether the telephone and the second device are in close proximity, whether one or both of the telephone and the second device is moving, or other aspects of the relationship. Relaying a call to the second device may be accomplished by call forwarding, a ring-no-answer treatment, three-way calling, or other methods. | 02-13-2014 |
20150024726 | INTELLIGENT CALL FORWARDING - Systems and methods for providing alternate communication paths for telephone calls. Calls directed to a telephone are relayed to a second electronic communication device, which may be a second telephone, based on the physical relationship of the telephone and the second device. According to one aspect, the physical relationship is automatically detected and compared with one or more conditions. When one of the conditions is met, an incoming call directed to the telephone is relayed to the second electronic communication device. Detection of the physical relationship may include detecting whether the telephone and the second device are in close proximity, whether one or both of the telephone and the second device is moving, or other aspects of the relationship. | 01-22-2015 |
20150121289 | USER INTERFACE FOR PORTABLE DEVICE - A user interface for a portable electronic device. In an example implementation, a first screen presents selections for launching applications executable by the portable device, the selections being presented in a plurality of horizontal screen regions, and a second screen presents selections related to stored contacts, these selections also being presented in a plurality of horizontal screen regions. Each of the first and second screens is accessible from the other by actuating a respective tab. A selection on the first screen may include an icon representing an application, and a textual description of the application, and the textual description may be prominent in relation to the icon. Actuating a selection on the second screen may access an individual contact screen that presents a chronological history of communications with the corresponding contact. | 04-30-2015 |
John David Salisbury, Carlsbad, CA US
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20080204412 | USER INTERFACE NAVIGATION MECHANISM AND METHOD OF USING THE SAME - A user interface navigation mechanism for a non-touch screen display of a computing device includes a vertical tracking input disposed in a front of the computing device in a right margin between a right of the non-touch screen display and a right of the computing device, the vertical tracking input including an up input, a down input, and a vertical selection point; and a horizontal tracking input disposed in the front of the computing device in a bottom margin between a bottom of the non-touch screen display and a bottom of the computing device, the horizontal tracking input including a left input, a right input, and a horizontal selection point; and a main menu input disposed in the front of the computing device. | 08-28-2008 |
Kenneth J. Salisbury, Los Altos, CA US
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20160100900 | ROBOTIC APPARATUS - A robotic apparatus has eight actuators (M | 04-14-2016 |
Michael Salisbury, San Jose, CA US
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20090063984 | Customized today module - A method and apparatus for customizing content presented to individual users or user segments is provided. There may be three components, a web portal and toolbar component, a modeling component, and a scoring component. The web portal and toolbar component presents content items and collects data. The web portal and toolbar component generates user event data based on the user actions. The user event data is forwarded to the modeling component. The modeling component generates content scoring functions based on user event data and attributes of content items. Content scoring functions may be unique to individual user segments. The content scoring functions based on content features generate probability a content item will be viewed. The scoring component decides which content items are placed in a portal. The scoring component uses the scoring functions generated by the modeling component to rank content items in real time. | 03-05-2009 |