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Brendyn W. Alexander, Seattle, WA US
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| 20080281754 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR FACILITATING AFFILIATE-BASED TRANSACTIONS - Enhanced methods, systems, and techniques for facilitating affiliate-based transactions are provided. Example embodiments provide an Affiliation Facilitator System, which generates and provides reference rewriter code modules based on affiliations between content providers and target sites. In some embodiments, a reference rewriter code may execute on a client computing system to automatically modify content provided by a content provider that is affiliated with one or more target sites. In some cases, the reference rewriter code may modify links that refer to designated target sites to refer instead to designated affiliation facilitators. The designated affiliation facilitators may then track accesses to the target sites and provide compensation to the content provider based on the tracked accesses. This abstract is provided to comply with rules requiring an abstract, and is submitted with the intention that it will not be used to interpret or limit the scope or meaning of the claims. | 11-13-2008 |
Bruce Alexander, Poulsbo, WA US
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| 20080215987 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IMPLEMENTING OPEN-CONTROL REMOTE DEVICE CONTROL - A system and method for implementing open-protocol remote device control are provided. A user accesses a common user interface for controlling one or more networked devices. Utilizing the interface, the user selects one or more actions. The selection is encoded in a standard protocol and transmitted to a premises server. The premises server obtains the selection, accesses a device interface database and translates the selection into a device-specific protocol. The translated instruction is transmitted to the selected device for implementation. The user interface then obtains any device return data for display on the user interface. | 09-04-2008 |
| 20090327366 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CUSTOMIZING THE STORAGE AND MANAGEMENT OF DEVICE DATA IN A NETWORKED ENVIRONMENT - A system and method for customizing the storage of data according to data attributes are provided. A user is provided with a graphical user interface for generating data archive profiles. The data archive profiles can include information regarding the attributes of the device data, specifications regarding the storage of the data, specifications regarding the retrieval of the archived data, and management of the archived data during storage. The execution of the data archive profiles facilitates the individual processing of specific data types or individual pieces of identifiable data. | 12-31-2009 |
David Lee Alexander, Seattle, WA US
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| 20100215859 | Portable dip-coating system for applying liquid coating materials, and related methods - A dip-coating system incorporates familiar materials into a totally unique configuration that provides users with a unique portable, environmentally friendly, cost effective and high quality coating application system for many liquid coating materials like stains and paints. Advantages of the dip-coating system vs. traditional coating application systems include: | 08-26-2010 |
Donald H. Alexander, Richland, WA US
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| 20100320156 | Oxidative Treatment Method - The present invention provides a method for oxidizing a substance (e.g., in a waste stream, drinking water, a paper pulp slurry, or on a surface), which uses free radicals and reactive species generated from multiple oxidants. The method comprises combining peroxynitrite or peroxynitrous acid and at least one additional oxidizing agent for a period of time sufficient to oxidize the substance of interest. The peroxynitrite or peroxynitrous acid preferably is formed by irradiation of nitrate ion and/or nitric acid (e.g., with UV or gamma rays). The yield of free radicals and reactive species, which are the intermediate species that perform the oxidation may be increased by addition of a catalysts, electromagnetic radiation, sonic waves, and/or electrolysis. | 12-23-2010 |
Jan Alexander, Duvall, WA US
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| 20100001833 | REPRESENTING SECURITY IDENTITIES USING CLAIMS - The claims based identity model provides a model which associates security identities with claims. The model represents information contained in the claims, as well as, captures relationships between the security identities described in the claims. Finally, the data model can be easily translated to the existing .NET environment without breaking the backward compatibility for existing .NET applications. | 01-07-2010 |
| 20100287603 | FLEXIBLE IDENTITY ISSUANCE SYSTEM - Techniques for implementing flexible identity issuance systems to allow users to specify one or more evaluation processes to be carried out by the issuance system based on input identity information. These evaluation processes may be specified in any suitable manner to allow an issuance system to carry out any process for generating output identity information for a content consumer. In some embodiments, an evaluation process may be specified to the issuance system as a series of tasks to be carried out, where each task corresponds to a conditions and an action to be taken when the condition is met. In this way, an evaluation process may be simply and easily specified by what operations are to be carried out, rather than how the operations are to be carried out. An issuer may interpret the specification to determine a functional process for carrying out the tasks. | 11-11-2010 |
Jason F. Alexander, Yakima, WA US
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| 20090142453 | Nutraceutical Coatings fo Fruits and Vegetables - A preharvest coating for fruits, vegetables and other plants includes a primary ingredient for protecting the fruit, vegetable or plant from physical harm or damage during growing and harvesting and/or for enhancing the appearance of the fruit, vegetable or plant. In addition, the coating includes a nutraceutical component that may provide health beneficial effects to human consumers of the fruit, vegetable or plant. Such nutraceutical components can include phytonutrients such as flavonoids, stilbenes or other phytochemicals. Preferably, the nutraceutical component is included in an otherwise conventional coating and is applied by means of preharvest thermofogging of the fruit, vegetable or plant. | 06-04-2009 |
Jeffrey M. Alexander, North Bend, WA US
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| 20090119739 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DOWNLOADING AND STORING INTERACTIVE DEVICE CONTENT USING THE HORIZONTAL OVERSCAN PORTION OF A VIDEO SIGNAL - A method and system for decoding and storing encoded control data delivered via the horizontal overscan area of a video signal. An interactive device performs behavior defined by control data encoded into a video signal that can be broadcast or played-back from video tape. The interactive device is equipped with a non-volatile memory that permits the control data to be stored for performance subsequent to, or during, the transmission session. The control data is delivered as a series of control data words that include genus codes identifying the interactive device to which the data word is directed. During a transmission session, control data words will be repeated, so that an interactive device receives several control data words with the same sequence number. Based on the relative gradings, the interactive device will replace previously received control data words of lower quality than subsequently received data words having the same sequence number. | 05-07-2009 |
Jeffrey Michael Alexander, North Bend, WA US
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| 20080275670 | HANG TIMER FOR DETERMINING TIME OF FLIGHT OF AN OBJECT - The subject matter disclosed herein relates to systems and methods for detecting, calculating, and displaying the time-of-flight or hang-time of a moving and jumping object such as a skier or snowboarder by using at least one accelerometer secured within a small wearable device. In one embodiment, the device comprises: a static acceleration detection means for detecting the static acceleration of the object over at least first, second, and-third periods of time as the object respectively moves, jumps in at least first, second, and third trajectories, and lands at least first, second, and third times along the surface thereby defining at least respective first, second, and third time-of-flight events; a calculating means for determining the approximate time-of-flight of the object during the first, second, and third time-of-flight events; and a display means for displaying in a readable format the approximate time-of-flights associated with the first, second, and third time-of-flight events. | 11-06-2008 |
Jillian Alexander, Vancouver, WA US
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| 20090309742 | DISASTER ALERT DISPLAY (DAD) EMERGENCY AND NATURAL DISASTER WARNING SYSTEM THAT AUTOMATICALLY DETECTS IF PEOPLE ARE CAUGHT IN AN EMERGENCY OR DISASTER, DETERMINES IF THEY ARE OK, AND NOTIFIES THEIR EMERGENCY CONTACTS - One embodiment of an emergency alert system consisting of a data collector ( | 12-17-2009 |
Jimmy Alexander, Bellevue, WA US
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| 20090260052 | Inter-Process Message Security - An inter-process messaging security management may be provided. A message comprising an operation to be performed may be sent from a process operating in a process chamber to a second process operating in another chamber. Before the message is allowed to be delivered, the validity of the operation contained in the message may be verified and a security policy may be examined to determine whether the message is permitted to be sent from the first process to the second process. If the security policy permits the second process to execute the operation requested by the first process, the message may be delivered to the second process. If the operation is not permitted, the message may not be delivered and an error message may be returned to the first process. | 10-15-2009 |
John Alexander, Bellevue, WA US
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| 20120089798 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GENERATING AND MANAGING QUICK RECOVERY VOLUMES - The invention relates to computer readable medium storing program code which when executed on a computer causes the computer to perform a method for creating a quick recovery volume of a primary data set used by a first computer in a backup storage system, which includes identifying a snapshot image of the primary data set generated by a snapshot application, creating the quick recovery volume of the primary data set from the snapshot image of the primary data set and controlling transfer of data from the first computer to an archival storage unit. In one embodiment, the invention provides a method for creating a quick recovery volume of a primary data set that includes creating a snapshot image of the primary data set and creating a quick recovery volume of the primary data set from the snapshot image of the primary data set. | 04-12-2012 |
Lisa Nanette Alexander, Orting, WA US
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| 20090101155 | VAGINAL SHIELD - A protective shield. The protective shield is provided in a generally cupped structure sized to accommodate and shaped with sufficient volume to receive therein adult human female genitalia. The protective vaginal shield includes a soft, flexible outer lip that is generally configured in the shape of an arcuate section made through an ovoid shape substantially along the longitudinal axis thereof. Extending inwardly and downwardly from the outer lip are outer sloping sidewalls. A longitudinally extending nose portion is provided. Inner sloping sidewalls extend from the outer sloping sidewalls to the longitudinally running nose portion. In one embodiment, the inner sloping sidewalls comprise a pair of opposing concave shaped structures, to provide a secure handle grip. In an embodiment, the protective shield may be provided in a disposable material. | 04-23-2009 |
Robin Alexander, Redmond, WA US
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| 20080263259 | HINTS MODEL FOR OPTIMIZATION OF STORAGE DEVICES CONNECTED TO HOST AND WRITE OPTIMIZATION SCHEMA FOR STORAGE DEVICES - Architecture for data communications optimization based on generating and communicating “intents” or “hints” to a storage device and faster/slower solid state memory optimization. Data destined for storage on the storage device (capable of hints processing) can be bracketed to take advantage of improved performance associated with the hints processing. Data can be communicated in block format such that individual series of block exchanges can occur. Hints processing can be optional at the storage device. When communicated to the storage device firmware facilitates optimization of internal data flow and device operation. A write optimization schema is provided for storage system such as solid state storage devices. For example, frequently-modified data can be stored in faster memory to provide more efficient overall application data processing, and less-frequently modified data can be processed into and out of lower cost (or slower) memory. | 10-23-2008 |
| 20090217188 | DYNAMIC DEVICE STATE REPRESENTATION IN A USER INTERFACE - Processes for presenting a current state of a device having device storage connected with a host system are provided. In some processes, device manufacturers or vendors define a set of operational states of a device and provide user interface (UI) elements of a custom representation of each state through information stored in the device storage. Initially, the set of states of the device and UI elements associated with each state are received from the device storage. Information regarding a current state is received from the device, and a representation of the current state, which includes the received UI elements, is presented on the host system. In other processes, UI elements of a representation of each state are obtained from a remote system using device identification information. In other processes, UI elements from the device, from the host system, and/or from a remote system are combined to form a state representation. | 08-27-2009 |
Robin A. Alexander, Redmond, WA US
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| 20080209199 | BOOT NEGOTIATION AMONG MULTIPLE BOOT-CAPABLE DEVICES - A first device discovers the capabilities of a second device. The first device determines which of the first device and the second device is to execute a controlling boot image based at least in part on the capabilities of the first device and the second device. A first boot image is executed by the first device when the first device is determined to execute the controlling boot image, the second device to be a resource for the first boot image. The first device sends a second boot image stored on the first device to the second device when the second device is determined to execute the controlling boot image, wherein the first device to be a resource for the second boot image. | 08-28-2008 |
| 20100272258 | BIDIRECTIONAL DYNAMIC OFFLOADING OF TASKS BETWEEN A HOST AND A MOBILE DEVICE - One or more functions are exposed by a mobile device to a host connected to the mobile device. A function of the one or more functions is executed at the mobile device in response to a request from the host, wherein the function is associated with a host task. The result of the function is returned to the host. | 10-28-2010 |
| 20110010487 | Health Reporting From Non-Volatile Block Storage Device to Processing Device - Methods and devices are provided for adapting an I/O pattern, with respect to a processing device using a non-volatile block storage device based on feedback from the non-volatile block storage device. The feedback may include information indicating a status of the non-volatile block storage device. In response to receiving the feedback, a storage subsystem, included in an operating system executing on processing device, may change a behavior with respect to the non-volatile block storage device in order to avoid, or reduce, a negative impact to the non-volatile block storage device or to enhance an aspect of the non-volatile block storage device. The feedback may include performance information and/or operating environmental information of the non-volatile block storage device. When the non-volatile block storage device is not capable of providing the feedback, the processing device may request information about the non-volatile block storage device from a database service. | 01-13-2011 |
| 20110099461 | DATA INTEGRITY UNITS IN NONVOLATILE MEMORY - An integrity unit can be calculated from a first data unit, and a first storage device can be requested to store the first data unit. A second storage device, which can be separate from and/or a different type of device from the first storage device, can be requested to store metadata, which includes the integrity unit, in nonvolatile memory. Also, a second data unit can be received from the first storage device in response to a request for the first data unit. The integrity unit can be received from the second storage device, and the second data unit and the integrity unit can be analyzed to determine whether the second data unit matches the first data unit. Alternatively, a first integrity unit can be stored in a metadata region of a nonvolatile memory block, where the block also stores the data from which the first integrity unit was calculated. | 04-28-2011 |
| 20110214126 | BIDIRECTIONAL DYNAMIC OFFLOADING OF TASKS BETWEEN A HOST AND A MOBILE DEVICE - One or more functions are exposed by a mobile device to a host connected to the mobile device. A function of the one or more functions is executed at the mobile device in response to a request from the host, wherein the function is associated with a host task. The result of the function is returned to the host. | 09-01-2011 |
Robin Andrew Alexander, Redmond, WA US
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| 20100287159 | Methods and systems for enhancing metadata - A method and system for utilizing metadata to search for media, such as multimedia and streaming media, includes searching for the media, receiving results, extracting metadata associated with the media, enhancing the extracted metadata, and grouping the search results in accordance with attributes of the enhanced metadata. Enhancing and grouping include adding related metadata to the database of metadata, iteratively using metadata to search for more media related data, removing duplicate URLs, collapsing URLs that are variants of each other, and masking out superfluous terms from URLs. The resultant metadata and media files are available to users and search engines. | 11-11-2010 |
| 20110246866 | METADATA QUALITY IMPROVEMENT - A method and system for improving the quality of original metadata associated with media on a computer network, such as multimedia and streaming media, includes analyzing each field of the URL of the multimedia and streaming media. Each field is analyzed to identify new metadata associated with that field. Identified new metadata is added to the original metadata. In another embodiment, the fields in the URL are reorganized in reverse order and metadata associated with a prefix of fields of the reorganized URL is added to the original metadata. In yet another embodiment, the contents of the field next to the prefix of fields is used to improve the quality of the original metadata. | 10-06-2011 |
Scott Benedict Alexander, Vancouver, WA US
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| 20090309742 | DISASTER ALERT DISPLAY (DAD) EMERGENCY AND NATURAL DISASTER WARNING SYSTEM THAT AUTOMATICALLY DETECTS IF PEOPLE ARE CAUGHT IN AN EMERGENCY OR DISASTER, DETERMINES IF THEY ARE OK, AND NOTIFIES THEIR EMERGENCY CONTACTS - One embodiment of an emergency alert system consisting of a data collector ( | 12-17-2009 |
William Allan Alexander, Mercer Island, WA US
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| 20110166550 | MEDICAL DEVICES FOR DELIVERING FLUIDS DURING SURGERY AND METHODS FOR THEIR USE - Provided is a surgical applicator and applicator tip configured to attach in fluid communication, for the delivery of beneficial fluids. The applicator tip may also be configured to reversibly attach, in fluid communication, with a pledget. For example, the applicator tip may include male or female threads, and the pledget has threads that are complementary to the thread configuration of the tip. The applicator tip may further comprise at least one fluid transfer lumen for transfer of a fluid from the tip to the pledget. In one embodiment of the invention, the tip includes male threads and the pledget includes a pledget attachment portion. There are also provided methods for connecting the tip to the pledget. In one embodiment, a tip comprising male threads is attached to the pledget, comprising a pledget attachment portion, by tapping or pressing the tip into the pledget attachment portion. There are also provided methods of use for the attached tip and pledget, including debridement, tissue translocation, delivery of fluid substances, absorption of fluid substances and combinations thereof. In a particular embodiment, the applicator places a thrombin solution into the attached pledget for delivery of an active hemostatic agent to a tissue site. | 07-07-2011 |
Zubin Alexander, Bothell, WA US
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| 20100316987 | EDUCATIONAL SERVICES AND CONTRACTS - Described is a technology in which an educational service provides contracts (an interface set) for calling functions that allow management of educational-related data. The interface set may be divided as interfaces to various services; roles associated with users of the educational service determine which interfaces/functions each user can call. The interfaces may include interfaces for calling course-related functions (e.g., of a course service), profile-related functions (e.g., of a profile service), membership-related functions (e.g., of a membership service) and task-related functions (e.g., of a task service). Other interfaces may include interfaces for calling plan-related functions, group-related functions, content-related functions, notification-related functions, provisioning-related functions, institution-related functions, department-related functions, utilities-related functions, standards-related functions, degree program-related functions, contextual communication-related functions and/or scoring related functions. | 12-16-2010 |
| 20100318589 | EDUCATIONAL ENTITY ARCHITECTURE AND OBJECT MODEL - Described is a technology in which a set of objects represent educational entities of an educational model, with relationships between objects. For example, a course object instance may have a relationship with a task instance and a user instance (such as representing a student). Other objects may include user credentials objects, group objects, degree program objects, course plan objects, institution objects, school objects, and/or department objects. The set of objects may be pre-defined and maintained in a persistent storage; this pre-defined set may be extended with an extended object that has relationships with pre-defined objects. The educational entities of an object model may be maintained in rows of a table, with each row having a field that identifies which entity is represented by that row. The table is accessed to determine relationships between an instantiated object for an entity and at least one other instantiated object for another entity. | 12-16-2010 |
| 20100318657 | Educational Adaptive Provider Architecture - The educational adaptive provider architecture described herein provides a way for an educational services framework to be built on varying underlying existing technologies without any changes in the object model and services. The provider framework supports the ability to have multiple types of providers for various services, such as, for example, for authorization, authentication, communication, grouping, scoring, social-networking, storage and user functions. The educational adaptive provider architecture provides easy integration of existing institutional and educational service deployments. | 12-16-2010 |
Zubin Alexander, Bothel, WA US
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| 20100316986 | RUBRIC-BASED ASSESSMENT WITH PERSONALIZED LEARNING RECOMMENDATIONS - A rubric-based assessment and personalized learning recommendation system and method to aid an educator in teaching an entity in an efficient manner. Embodiments of the system and method include a computational representation of a rubric that is composed of composable rubric constructs. Each composable rubric construct corresponds to a particular sub-area of a skill being learned. Embodiments of the system and method also allow the educator to select a level of granularity of the rubric. This allows grouping together of entities that are having similar problems learning the skill and are performing similarly in certain areas. Embodiments of the system and method can suggest available learning resources for a single or groups of entities struggling in the same or similar areas based on their assessment results. The idea is for the entity to use these learning resources to improve its performance and competency in a given subject area. | 12-16-2010 |