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Bruce B. Bailey, Seattle, WA US
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| 20100269382 | LABEL SYSTEM - Embodiments disclosed herein can include one or more labels, each label having an indicia receiving surface adapted to receive indicium or indicia. The indicia receiving surface can provide a permanent, durable writing surface. A key for operating a mechanical lock can include one or more labels. The key can include a key main body and at least one label coupled to the key main body. The key main body comprises a head and an elongate body coupled to the head. The elongate body is configured to physically engage and operate a lock, such as a mechanical lock. The label can define an indicia receiving surface adapted to receive indicium or indicia. | 10-28-2010 |
Craig Bailey, Camas, WA US
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| 20090266829 | Disposable foam enhancing espresso drink lid - Applicant provides a disposable foam enhancing espresso drink lid which enhances the coffee and espresso drinking experience, and includes a curved dome having a drinking hole with a top and bottom in a top surface and a curved face, wherein said curved dome is formed out of said lid, a lip depression at the bottom of said curved face, wherein said lip depression is formed out of said lid, a nose depression separated from said lip depression by a support structure, wherein said nose depression and said support structure are formed out of said lid, a smell slit provided in said support structure, a rim encircling said curved dome, lip depression, nose depression, and support structure. In use a drinker's lips curve around said dome curved face and into said lip depression, and drinker's nose extends into said nose depression with nostrils in proximity to said smell slit. The lid may be formed from a contiguous plasticized material. The lid can include an annular mounting portion beneath and connected to said rim for sealingly engaging the lid of the beverage container having a circular edge with a bead thereon. | 10-29-2009 |
Craig D. Bailey, Camas, WA US
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| 20110114655 | DISPOSABLE DRINK CUP LID - An embodiment is a drink cup lid to improve a coffee, espresso, and espresso-containing beverage drinker's enjoyment when drinking from a portable, disposable, and/or “to-go” cup (e.g., formed from a paper product, plastic, foam, and/or a combination thereof) including a plasticized lid to mitigate spillage and/or splash. More specifically, the drink cup lid may substantially provide an olfactory and tactile drinking experience from a spill-resistant portable, disposable, and/or “to-go” cup akin to drinking from a glass, cup, and/or mug. In short, the drink cup lid of an embodiment may improve the taste of the beverage contained in the drink cup. | 05-19-2011 |
David P. Bailey, Woodinville, WA US
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| 20090189325 | Helicopter blade mandrel with roller assembly - Methods and apparatus are provided for making a rotor blade spar from composite material wherein a multi-component mandrel is used to form the composite spar. The mandrel is made using a number of components that are assembled and held in place using a roller assembly. The roller assembly is removed after pre-cure lay up and compaction of the composite material. Once the roller assembly is removed, the remaining mandrel components can be separated from each other and easily removed from the spar. The mandrel components, including the roller assembly, can then be re-assembled and re-used to form additional composite spars. | 07-30-2009 |
| 20120034090 | Helicopter Blade Mandrel With Roller Assembly - Methods and apparatus are provided for making a rotor blade spar from composite material wherein a multi-component mandrel is used to form the composite spar. The mandrel is made using a number of components that are assembled and held in place using a roller assembly. The roller assembly is removed after pre-cure lay up and compaction of the composite material. Once the roller assembly is removed, the remaining mandrel components can be separated from each other and easily removed from the spar. The mandrel components, including the roller assembly, can then be re-assembled and re-used to form additional composite spars. | 02-09-2012 |
David S. Bailey, Redmond, WA US
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| 20080215848 | Method and System For Caching Address Translations From Multiple Address Spaces In Virtual Machines - A method of virtualizing memory through shadow page tables that cache translations from multiple guest address spaces in a virtual machine includes a software version of a hardware tagged translation look-aside buffer. Edits to guest page tables are detected by intercepting the creation of guest-writable mappings to guest page tables with translations cached in shadow page tables. The affected cached translations are marked as stale and purged upon an address space switch or an indiscriminate flush of translations by the guest. Thereby, non-stale translations remain cached but stale translations are discarded. The method includes tracking the guest-writable mappings to guest page tables, deferring discovery of such mappings to a guest page table for the first time until a purge of all cached translations when the number of untracked guest page tables exceeds a threshold, and sharing shadow page tables between shadow address spaces and between virtual processors. | 09-04-2008 |
Don Bailey, Mead, WA US
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| 20090260271 | Visible animal scent and dispersion system - An animal scent composition contains animal generated scents and a visual indicator to allow visualization of scent travel and application. The scent may be used for repelling wild and domestic animals, for attracting game animals, and for masking the scent of humans. Dispersing means provide a pressurized aerosol canister with a dispersing nozzle axially aligned with the aerosol canister to prevent clogging of the nozzle by agglomerated visual indicator particles when the scent composition is dispersed. | 10-22-2009 |
Eric Bailey, Issaquah, WA US
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| 20090249339 | ASSOCIATING COMMAND SURFACES WITH MULTIPLE ACTIVE COMPONENTS - The same command surface on a page may be associated with unrelated components and applications. Each of the components registers the commands associated with a shared command surface that they will be utilizing. Each component may utilize an arbitrary number of commands that are associated with the command surface. The command manager acts as a message broker between the components on the page and the command surfaces. When a command that is associated with a command surface is received, the command manager dispatches the command message to the appropriate components. | 10-01-2009 |
| 20090271806 | TECHNIQUES TO MODIFY A DOCUMENT USING A LATENT TRANSFER SURFACE - Techniques to modify a document using a latent transfer surface are described. An apparatus may comprise a document editing subsystem comprising a transfer surface creation module operative to embed a latent transfer surface in the document. A transfer control module may be communicatively coupled to the transfer surface creation module. The transfer control module may be operative to receive a transfer request to transfer media content for the document, and transfer the media content using the latent transfer surface in response to the transfer request. Other embodiments are described and claimed. | 10-29-2009 |
Eric D. Bailey, Redmond, WA US
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| 20080288239 | Localization and internationalization of document resources - Automated localization (translation) and internationalization of document resources may be provided for use by various target user groups requiring different text languages and/or document settings. A document resource including pre-built textual components and document settings and properties is first passed through a translation process for translating any pre-built textual content to one or more target languages. Text strings in the document resource may be extracted, translated and replaced to the document resource. Internationalization processing may then be accomplished wherein default page sizes, margin settings, language reading direction, and other document settings and properties are modified according to each target user group for the document resource. For initial document resource assembly, source files are identified for each component of a given document resource. The source files may be localized and internationalized and then may be used to compile a document resource for each of one or more target user groups. | 11-20-2008 |
Eric Dana Bailey, Issaquah, WA US
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| 20090217158 | EDITING A DOCUMENT USING A TRANSITORY EDITING SURFACE - Technologies are described herein for editing a document using a transitory editing surface. A word processing program displays a document in a window. Upon detection of the placement of an insertion pointer within a paragraph of text in the document, an editing surface is created overlaying the paragraph in the window and containing the contents of the underlying paragraph. User input is monitored by the word processing program while the editing of the contents is processed by the editing surface. When editing is complete, the modified contents of the editing surface are copied into the document and the editing surface is destroyed. | 08-27-2009 |
Jeffrey A. Bailey, Richland, WA US
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| 20090007996 | Method for Vibrating a Substrate During Material Formation - A method and apparatus for affecting the properties of a material include vibrating the material during its formation (i.e., “surface sifting”). The method involves the steps of providing a material formation device and applying a plurality of vibrations to the material during formation, which vibrations comprise oscillations having dissimilar, non-harmonic frequencies and at least two different directions. The apparatus includes a plurality of vibration sources that impart vibrations to the material. | 01-08-2009 |
| 20090074985 | Method for Vibrating a Substrate During Material Formation - A method and apparatus for affecting the properties of a material include vibrating the material during its formation (i.e., “surface sifting”). The method involves the steps of providing a material formation device and applying a plurality of vibrations to the material during formation, which vibrations comprise oscillations having dissimilar, non-harmonic frequencies and at least two different directions. The apparatus includes a plurality of vibration sources that impart vibrations to the material. | 03-19-2009 |
Jorge R. Bailey, Vancouver, WA US
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| 20110153637 | INTEGRATED FIREARM INFORMATION SYSTEM - System and method for collecting, storing, and providing information related to firearms. More specifically, an embodiment tracks ownership and/or possession of a firearm from its manufacture onward (i.e., from cradle to grave) between and among registered firearm manufactures, firearm sellers/dealers, individual gun owners, pawn shops, law enforcement agencies, government agencies, and any other entity or individual stakeholder that may own and/or posses the firearm. An embodiment may further authenticate firearm-related transactions, provide notifications to registered users, and enable local and global reports of loss, theft, and/or the use in a crime. | 06-23-2011 |
Louis J. Bailey, Kent, WA US
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| 20090012663 | DETERMINING CURRENT METEOROLOGICAL CONDITIONS SPECIFIC TO AN AIRCRAFT - A method of providing meteorological data for aeronautical use. The method includes collecting data from a plurality of data sources, processing the data to determine current meteorological conditions of a current location of an aircraft in an airspace, and providing the current meteorological conditions to the aircraft and other users as appropriate, such as airline operations centers, air navigation service providers, and national weather service providers. Based on current aircraft behavior data and guidance systems design, beneficial wind and meteorological data can be established for a given flight and its cleared route and descent path. | 01-08-2009 |
| 20090157288 | Air Traffic Control Delay Factor - A time factor corresponding to an airspace delay or acceleration is communicated to an aircraft. A flight management computer or other computational device of the aircraft calculates a proposed change in trajectory in order to accommodate the time factor in an optimum or nearly optimum manner. One or more proposed changes in trajectory are subject to review by the pilot or other flight personnel. An operator-selected change in trajectory is then implemented in order to accommodate a new arrival time of the aircraft at its destination or a positional point. | 06-18-2009 |
| 20100241345 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR TAILORED ALLOCATION OF ARRIVALS - A tailored arrival allocation system (TAAS) for determining a descent profile for an aircraft is described. TAAS includes a gateway operable for establishing communications between TAAS and aircraft, and for establishing communications between TAAS and at least one of a source of weather data, an air traffic services facility, and an airlines operations center. A processing device communicatively coupled to the gateway calculates a descent profile based on data received from a plurality of an air traffic services coordination function, an airline operations center function, data from the aircraft, and data received from a weather station that allows the aircraft to meet the required time at one or more metering fixes during the descent. Output interfaces provide data relating to the calculated descent profile to the processing device. The gateway communicates with a flight management computer for the aircraft to incorporate the calculated descent profile onto the flight management computer. | 09-23-2010 |
| 20110050458 | DYNAMIC ENVIRONMENTAL INFORMATION TRANSMISSION - The different advantageous embodiments provide a system comprising a dynamic transmission process and a processor unit. The processor unit is configured to run the dynamic transmission process. The dynamic transmission process is configured to receive environmental information. The dynamic transmission process determines whether to send the environmental information to a subscriber. | 03-03-2011 |
| 20110054718 | DYNAMIC WEATHER SELECTION - The different advantageous embodiments provide a system comprising a weather band selection process and a processor unit. The processor unit is configured to run the weather band selection process. The weather band selection process identifies a flight trajectory associated with an aircraft, identifies weather information for the flight trajectory, and identifies a weather band selection for the aircraft using the flight trajectory, aircraft information and the weather information. | 03-03-2011 |
Matthew Bailey, Seattle, WA US
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| 20100158097 | DYNAMICALLY SCALED MESSAGING CONTENT - The claimed subject matter provides for systems, devices, and methods facilitating dynamic scaling of messaging content. Messaging content can include visual content other than the actual textual content of a message body for a messaging environment. In an aspect dynamic scaling of messaging content can allow message content such as pictures, images, emoticons, movies, maps, and the like to be presented to a user in a manner that facilities efficient comprehension of the message content. The tokens can be dynamically scaled as the messaging environment changes to maintain high levels of comprehension. | 06-24-2010 |
| 20100161738 | CONVERSATION MESSAGE ROUTING SUPPORTING DYNAMIC CLASS TRANSITIONS - The claimed subject matter provides for systems, devices, and methods for dynamic transitioning between messaging conversation classes including 1:1, 1:Many, and Many:Many (N:M) conversation protocols. These messaging topologies can be transitioned based at least in part on the number of conversants, a predetermined threshold value, and both determinations and inference related to the conversation topology, message, and conversants. The claimed subject matter can provide for effective seamless messaging conversations in unified messaging environment by reducing the overhead associated with changing numbers of conversants. | 06-24-2010 |
| 20100162138 | CONVERSATION BUBBLES INCLUDING VISUAL CUES FOR THREADED MESSAGING APPLICATIONS - The claimed subject matter provides for systems, devices, and methods employing one or more visual cues to conversation bubbles in a threaded messaging environment. As used herein, a threaded messaging environment can include “texting” and other messaging protocols. The visual cues can include indexed conversation bubble tails, color drop-shadow effects, and dynamic adaptive conversation bubble footprints. These visual cues can facilitate rapid visual user comprehension of messages related to particular conversants, the extents of a message, or combinations thereof. | 06-24-2010 |
| 20100162166 | SYSTEMS, DEVICES, OR METHODS FOR ACCESSING INFORMATION EMPLOYING A TUMBLER-STYLE GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE - Systems, methods, and devices employing tumbler-style graphical user interfaces (TSGUI) are presented. TSGUI can facilitate high context rapid selection of content objects from at least a plurality of tumbler components. Selection of content objects can relate to a path for a memory to access a related final information. TSGUI can be employed in mobile computing devices, including telephonic mobile computing devices. In an embodiment a TSGUI of a mobile device can facilitate access to content in relation to messaging applications native to the mobile device. | 06-24-2010 |
| 20110136519 | INTELLIGENT ROUTING OF SMS AND MMS MESSAGES TO SHORT CODES - Systems, methods, and apparatus that facilitate effective routing of short message service (SMS) and multimedia messaging service (MMS) messages via short codes are presented herein. A group message component can be configured to receive a message transmitted via a wireless communications device, and determine whether the message comprises at least two addressees. A short code component can be configured to identify whether the at least two addressees are associated with at least one short code, and recognize whether the message comprises only text. A routing component can be configured to convert the message to an SMS message when the message comprises the at least two addressees, the at least two addressees are associated with the at least one short code, and the message comprises only text. Further, the routing component can be configured to route the SMS message to the at least one short code. | 06-09-2011 |
Matthew James Bailey, Seattle, WA US
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| 20100159883 | MESSAGE CONTENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - Systems (and corresponding methodologies) capable of searching, pre-searching, fetching and pre-fetching multi-media content for inclusion into an SMS (Short Message Service), MMS (Multi-media Message Service), IM (Instant Message) or other message type based upon predictive- and rules-based searching techniques are provided. The systems can predict or infer an in-process message, for example, based upon a portion of the inputted text message. Thereafter, in real- or near real-time, content related to the topic of conversation can be retrieved from a local store, remote stores (e.g., servers) or cloud-based sources. The retrieved content can be incorporated into the SMS, MMS, or IM message as appropriate or desired thereby enhancing the messaging experience. | 06-24-2010 |
| 20100159944 | SELECTIVE CACHING OF REAL TIME MESSAGING THREADS - A method is provided to process data in a wireless data exchange. The method includes exchanging data between two or more wireless devices in real time and opening a thread of communications between the wireless devices, where the thread includes one or more data exchanges between the wireless devices. When the real time messaging exchange has been established, the method identifies all or portions of the thread as potential data to store. As such data is identified, the method selectively caches the identified portions of the thread for future data retrieval. | 06-24-2010 |
| 20100159965 | SCALABLE MESSAGE FIDELITY - Message content is scaled to support rich messaging. Devices and associated messaging systems can support various levels of content richness or fidelity. Message content scaling is employed to ensure sharing of content in as rich a manner as possible given limitations associated with various messaging systems, among other things. Messages can be scaled down or degraded, for instance where communicating devices do not support high fidelity content being transmitted. Alternatively, messages can be scaled up or enriched in cases, where low fidelity content is transmitted to a device supporting richer content, for example. | 06-24-2010 |
| 20100162133 | USER INTERFACE PARADIGM FOR NEXT-GENERATION MOBILE MESSAGING - Systems and methods for enabling people to more efficiently capture, process, and communicate ideas are presented herein. A display component can present multimedia content communicated via a wireless communications device as a sequential list of dialog balloons justified towards a left or right side of a display. Each dialog balloon can correspond to a message of a conversation between a user of the wireless communications device and at least one other person. A multimedia component can enable the user to include text and at least one of a picture, a video, a map, an emoticon, or audio within a dialog balloon corresponding to a message communicated by the user. A message communicated by the user can be justified towards the right side of the display, and a message communicated by the at least one other person can be justified towards the left side of the display. | 06-24-2010 |
| 20110136492 | INTELLIGENT ROUTING OF COMMUNICATIONS TO AN INTERNATIONAL NUMBER IN A MESSAGING SERVICE - System(s) and method(s) are provided for intelligent routing of communication(s) to international number(s) in a messaging service. To route a communication that includes an international number, format of the communication is established. A text-only communication is delivered through a messaging service transport protocol (MSTP) suitable for text. A media-based communication intended for a plurality of recipients, e.g., a group message, is ungrouped, the international number is identified, and a new message is generated for a group of recipients that excludes a recipient associated with the international number. The new message is delivered through a MSTP suitable for media, whereas an exception handling procedure is conducted for the international number. In addition, to route the communication that includes an international number, network interoperability of predetermined MSTP can be assessed. The communication is delivered through the predetermined MSTP if it is interoperable. Conversely, the communication is routed as a media-based group message. | 06-09-2011 |
Michael Bailey, Seattle, WA US
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| 20090299187 | ULTRASOUND BASED METHOD AND APPARATUS TO DETERMINE THE SIZE OF KIDNEY STONE FRAGMENTS BEFORE REMOVAL VIA URETEROSCOPY - A transducer is used to send an ultrasound pulse toward a stone and to receive ultrasound reflections from the stone. The recorded time between a pulse that is reflected from the proximal surface and a pulse that is reflected either from the distal surface of the stone or from a surface supporting the stone is used to calculate the stone size. The size of the stone is a function of the time between the two pulses and the speed of sound through the stone (or through the surrounding fluid if the second pulse was reflected by the surface supporting the stone). This technique is equally applicable to measure the size of other in vivo objects, including soft tissue masses, cysts, uterine fibroids, tumors, and polyps. | 12-03-2009 |
| 20110263967 | ULTRASOUND BASED METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR STONE DETECTION AND TO FACILITATE CLEARANCE THEREOF - Described herein are methods and apparatus for detecting stones by ultrasound, in which the ultrasound reflections from a stone are preferentially selected and accentuated relative to the ultrasound reflections from blood or tissue. Also described herein are methods and apparatus for applying pushing ultrasound to in vivo stones or other objects, to facilitate the removal of such in vivo objects. | 10-27-2011 |
Michael L. Bailey, Gig Harbor, WA US
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| 20100246358 | OPTICAL DATA STORAGE MEDIA HAVING HIGH PRESSURE-AT-BREAK STRENGTH - Optical information media having high pressure-at-break values, and methods for determining pressure-at-break values are disclosed. The media have high structural integrities, and are designed to confer greater resistance to delamination forces as compared to conventional optical information media. | 09-30-2010 |
| 20110080819 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR RELIABILITY TESTING OF OPTICAL MEDIA USING SIMULTANEOUS HEAT, HUMIDITY, AND LIGHT - Methods and systems for the rapid evaluation of optical media reliability are disclosed. Simultaneous exposure of optical media to heat, humidity, and light has been found to be an effective test to differentiate more stable media from less stable media in a reasonable amount of time. | 04-07-2011 |
Michael R. Bailey, Seattle, WA US
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| 20110251528 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR NON-INVASIVE TREATMENT OF TISSUE USING HIGH INTENSITY FOCUSED ULTRASOUND THERAPY - Methods and systems for non-invasive treatment of tissue using high intensity focused ultrasound (“HIFU”) therapy. A method of non-invasively treating tissue in accordance with an embodiment of the present technology, for example, can include positioning a focal plane of an ultrasound source at a target site in tissue. The ultrasound source can be configured to emit HIFU waves. The method can further include pulsing ultrasound energy from the ultrasound source toward the target site, and generating shock waves in the tissue to induce boiling of the tissue at the target site within milliseconds. The boiling of the tissue at least substantially emulsifies the tissue. | 10-13-2011 |
| 20120071795 | DERATING METHOD FOR THERAPEUTIC APPLICATIONS OF HIGH INTENSITY FOCUSED ULTRASOUND - Methods of derating a nonlinear ultrasound field and associated systems are disclosed herein. A method of derating a nonlinear ultrasound field in accordance with an embodiment of the present technology can include, for example, calibrating an ultrasound source to a first source voltage (V | 03-22-2012 |
Mike Bailey, Gig Harbor, WA US
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| 20120085415 | WELL DRAIN SYSTEM FOR USE WITH MULTI-WELL SYNTHESIZER - A well drain system for use with a synthesizer. The well drain system comprises a well plate, a well adapter plate and a drain plate detachably coupled together. The well plate comprises a matrix of wells for receiving one or more vials, wherein the matrix has a plurality of rows. The well adapter plate comprises an arched plate body and a plurality of apertures in communication with one or more of the wells. The drain plate comprises a plurality of channels in communication with one or more of the apertures. As a result, a user is able to selectively drain the vials found within individual rows of the well plate instead of all the vials at once. | 04-12-2012 |
Mike Bailey, Seattle, WA US
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| 20100160781 | DOPPLER AND IMAGE GUIDED DEVICE FOR NEGATIVE FEEDBACK PHASED ARRAY HIFU TREATMENT OF VASCULARIZED LESIONS - A noninvasive technique that can be used to deny blood flow to a particular region of tissue, without the inherent risks associated with invasive procedures such as surgery and minimally-invasive procedures such as embolization. Blood flow in selected portions of the vasculature can be occluded by selectively treating specific portions of the vasculature with high intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU), where the HIFU is targeted Doppler ultrasound data, and a duration of the therapy is automatically controlled using a negative feedback loop provided by Doppler ultrasound data collected during the HIFU therapy. A portion of the vasculature providing blood flow to the undesired tissue is selected by a clinician, or automatically selected based on Doppler data, and HIFU is administered to the selected portion of the vasculature to occlude blood flow through that portion of the vasculature. | 06-24-2010 |
Peter Bailey, Kirkland, WA US
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| 20100114908 | RELEVANT NAVIGATION WITH DEEP LINKS INTO QUERY - Methods and computer-readable media for determining relevant search categories, such as images, videos, news, health, maps, products, etc., and subcategories that are associated with the search categories based on a query submitted by a user on a search page and displaying the relevant search categories and subcategories on an initial search results page. A query may be inputted by a user and may be received. A set of suggested refinement links, which may include search categories and subcategories, may be identified as being relevant to the query. Further, the subcategories, when selected, may return narrower search results than when a selection is made of a search category. Additionally, the initial search results page may be generated and may include the set of suggested refinement links determined to be relevant to the query, as well as search results. | 05-06-2010 |
| 20110153528 | PROVIDING COMPARISON EXPERIENCES IN RESPONSE TO SEARCH QUERIES - Computer-readable media, computer systems, and computing devices facilitate providing a comparison experience to a user in response to a search query. Upon receiving a search query from the user, entities are extracted from the query. The entities are associated with entity classes. The entities, entity classes, previous user behavior, and other information are used to infer whether the user likely is engaging in a comparison task. If the inference indicates that the user likely is engaging in a comparison task, a comparison experience is generated and access to the comparison experience is provided to the user. | 06-23-2011 |
| 20110264673 | ESTABLISHING SEARCH RESULTS AND DEEPLINKS USING TRAILS - Search and browse trails are temporally-ordered sequences of web pages visited by a user during post-search query navigation beginning with a page associated with one of the search results. The trails can provide useful information for a number of search-related purposes. For example, these trails can be used to leverage the post-query behavior of other users to help the current user search more effectively and allow them to make more informed search interaction decisions. The trails can also be used to establish search results and refine search result rankings, select and evaluate deeplinks, and recommend multi-step trails as an alternative to or enhancement for existing search result presentation techniques. | 10-27-2011 |
| 20110302521 | RELATED TASKS AND TASKLETS FOR SEARCH - Systems and methods are provided for performing tasks and related tasks. While a user is performing a task, a group of related tasks is presented. When a new task is selected, a new group of related tasks is provided. This allows a user to perform a series of tasks without having to separately search for each task. As the user moves between tasks, task information items are passed between the tasks so that previously provided information can be preserved. | 12-08-2011 |
Peter R. Bailey, Kirkland, WA US
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| 20110225192 | AUTO-DETECTION OF HISTORICAL SEARCH CONTEXT - Architecture that automatically detects historical search contexts as well as behaviors related to a search query. Machine learning and hand-authored rules are employed to automatically identify search contexts. Historical information likely to be useful in the current context is surfaced. When a user enters a search query or executes another search behavior, past behaviors are exposed which are contextually related to the current behavior. The architecture also provides automatic discovery of historical contexts, features related to the contexts, and training or authoring of a system for classifying behavior into contexts, using some combination of the machine learning and/or hand-authored rules. A runtime system classifies the current user behavior into a context and surfaces contextual information to the user. | 09-15-2011 |
Peter Richard Bailey, Kirkland, WA US
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| 20110167054 | AUTOMATED DISCOVERY AGGREGATION AND ORGANIZATION OF SUBJECT AREA DISCUSSIONS - An aggregation service aggregates discussions of events and topics within a given subject area using seed search queries, seed URLs, and/or search engine data. A subject area is selected and a set of seed search queries and/or seed URLs relevant to that subject area are manually generated. The set of seed search queries and/or seed URLs are used to identify URLs containing content relevant to the subject area. The URLs are crawled at given intervals to identify content items, which are analyzed using a classifier to identify content items relevant to the subject area. The content items are grouped into clusters surrounding events and/or topics within the subject area. The various clusters are ranked against one another to facilitate ordering clusters for presentation to end-users. | 07-07-2011 |
Richard S. Bailey, Kirkland, WA US
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| 20100008513 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR AUTOMATICALLY GENERATING WORLD ENVIRONMENT REVERBERATION FROM A GAME GEOMETRY - Reverberation parameters for one or more positions of interest are derived from graphics data used for displaying a computer-generated environment. For each position of interest for which reverberation parameters are desired, environmental parameters including distances and the hardness of features in a range of interest and at points on cubemap faces are automatically determined from the graphics data. The environmental parameters are stored with the graphics data and associated with each position of interest. Upon rendering of the computer-generated environment, reverberation property set values usable by a reverberation engine are calculated or interpolated between predetermined values according to the environmental parameters. Thus, values such as reverb, reverb delay, reflections, decay time, reflection delay, and other reverb parameters are automatically calculated, subject to selective operator tuning, and provide realistic reverberation effects in the sounds heard by a user who is experiencing the rendered environment. | 01-14-2010 |
Scott J. Bailey, Seattle, WA US
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| 20100247062 | INTERACTIVE MEDIA PLAYER SYSTEM - An interactive media player system and method is disclosed that permits a user to interact with audiovisual media (“videos”) during playback, by allowing the user to integrate audio or visual filters at certain temporal points and screen positions in the playback of the videos. The system is preferably designed to control playback via touch-screen devices like mobile phones, mobile media players, computers and free-standing video gaming devices, or desktop systems using a mouse. The system records the user interaction to generate a history track that can be shared or applied to other videos. In an alternative embodiment, the system is designed to control playback through the use of other user-input devices, such as a mouse on a traditional desktop platform. | 09-30-2010 |
Steven Bailey, Sammamish, WA US
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| 20100198800 | ALLOCATION LOCKS AND THEIR USE - Systems and methodologies are provided that employ an allocation lock, which permits only a single transaction to acquire space on a particular page at any one time. The allocation lock of the present invention facilitates operations of concurrent transactions at a subpage level (e.g., a row level), and in conjunction with a heap manager can enforce a set of conditions such that prior to a commit stage of a transaction, a space availability for a particular page can be typically assured (e.g., that transactions operating on various copies of the page do not consume all of storage space on that page), and reorganization of data around the page is mitigated (e.g., that a transaction need not move data around the page for purpose of merging various copies.) | 08-05-2010 |
Thomas A. Bailey, Kirkland, WA US
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| 20080228982 | Modular Expandable Mobile Navigation Device - An expandable system for mobile navigation facilitates a modular implementation of structural units to add desired functionality to a base navigation device. The system is embodied as a handheld mobile navigation device in one arrangement, including a base unit housing containing circuitry for determining a geographic location of the navigation device and a module unit housing containing circuitry for delivering additional functional activity. In particular, the base unit housing includes a primary interface for interconnecting with a secondary interface of the module unit housing, to enable signals generated or handled by a circuitry component of the module unit to be relayed to the circuitry of the base unit housing. Additionally, the module unit housing is configured to be releasably attached directly with the base unit housing upon the primary interface and secondary interface interconnecting with one another, to form the mobile navigation device as a physically connected package. | 09-18-2008 |