Birkelund

John R. Birkelund, Fairport, NY US

Patent application number	Description	Published
20090132264	MEDIA ASSET EVALUATION BASED ON SOCIAL RELATIONSHIPS - A method for evaluating media assets in a set of media assets including the step of obtaining information defining at least social relationships of an audience. The social relationships include relationships between a member of the audience and someone recorded in at least one of the media assets. For each media asset in the set of media assets, the method includes identifying one or more people recorded in the digital media asset, computing, for each person recorded in the digital media asset, the person's expected social significance relative to the audience based at least upon the social relationships, and computing an overall measurement of the social significance of the digital media asset as a function of the expected social significance of each person recorded in the asset. In addition, the method includes storing the overall measurement for each digital media asset in a processor-accessible memory system.	05-21-2009

Patent application number	Description	Published
20090194727	VALVE ACTUATOR ASSEMBLY - An actuator assembly for actuating a valve includes an extensible bellow having an open end and a closed end, a stem operable to contact the closed end and to actuate a stopper mechanism, and a driver configured to move the bellow. The movement of the bellow effects movement of the stem to actuate the valve. In one embodiment, the driver acts to compress the bellow, the compression causing movement of the stem to open the valve. The bellow may be hermetically sealed to the valve housing, thereby allowing a higher range of fluid pressures.	08-06-2009
20100252757	MAGNETIC ACTUATOR AND A VALVE COMPRISING SUCH AN ACTUATOR - A magnetic actuator (	10-07-2010
20100281913	REFRIGERATION SYSTEM - The invention relates to a refrigeration system having a refrigerant circuit which comprises a plurality of evaporator paths and a distributor distributing refrigerant, wherein the distributor comprises a housing and a controllable valve for each evaporator path. The intent is to achieve a predetermined mode of operation of the refrigeration system by simple means. To this end, it is provided that the distributor comprises a magnet arrangement controlling the valves.	11-11-2010
20100327202	ELECTROMAGNETIC ACTUATOR AND VALVE - The invention concerns an electromagnetic actuator (	12-30-2010

Patent application number	Description	Published
20080226679	Novel surface exposed proteins from chlamydia pneumoniae - The invention relates to the identification of members of a gene family from the human respiratory pathogen	09-18-2008