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Alexander S. Brodie, Redmond, WA US

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20100054600Tagging Images With Labels - An image to be shared with other users based on input from a first user is received. A second user is identified from a tag of the image, and information is provided, based at least in part on the tag, to one or both of the first user and the second user. Additionally, after editing of an image a determination can be made as to whether a region of the image having an associated tag has been affected by the editing. The tag associated with the region is altered if the region has been affected by the editing, otherwise the tag associated with the region is left unaltered. Furthermore, the tag can include a first portion storing data identifying a region of the image to which the tag corresponds, and a second portion storing data identifying a person shown in the region.03-04-2010
20100054601Image Tagging User Interface - A global tag for an image is received identifies one or more objects in the image, and a region-specific tag for the image identifies one or more objects in a region of the image. The global tag and the region-specific tag are stored with the image. Displayed, along with the image, is an identifier for each of the one or more objects identified in the global tag, and an identifier for each of the one or more objects identified in the region-specific tag. Different users are able to maintain different names for the same person, allowing the same tag of the image to be used as the basis for displaying the image with different names for the different users. Additionally, the tags can be used as a basis for generating a credits list of people that are included in a compilation of images.03-04-2010
20110067087ORGANIZING DOCUMENTS THROUGH UTILIZATION OF PEOPLE TAGS - A method disclosed herein includes the acts of receiving a document that has a people tag assigned thereto, wherein the people tag comprises first data that is indicative of an identity of a first individual that corresponds to the document, and wherein the people tag is assigned to the document by an assignor, and accessing contact data pertaining to a second individual, wherein the contact data comprises second data that is indicative of identities of contacts of the second individual, wherein the second data comprises data that is indicative of the identity of the first individual. The method also includes comparing the contact data with the first data, and displaying the document on a computer screen in conjunction with text that identifies the first individual to the third individual, wherein the text indicates a name of the first individual as assigned to the first individual by the second individual.03-17-2011
20110252069STATUS TOOL TO EXPOSE METADATA READ AND WRITE QUEUES - A method to expose status information is provided. The status information is associated with metadata extracted from multimedia files and stored in a metadata database. The metadata information that is extracted from the multimedia files is stored in a read queue to allow a background thread to process the metadata and populate the metadata database. Additionally, the metadata database may be updated to include user-define metadata, which is written back to the multimedia files. The user-defined metadata is included in a write queue and is written to the multimedia files associated with the user-defined metadata. The status of the read and write queues are exposed to a user through a graphical user interface. The status may include the list of multimedia files included in the read and write queues, the priorities of each multimedia file, and the number of remaining multimedia files.10-13-2011

Patent applications by Alexander S. Brodie, Redmond, WA US

Alexander Sabo Brodie, Redmond, WA US

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20120011199PROVIDING WEB-BASED IMAGING SERVICES WITHIN A CLIENT-BASED APPLICATION - Embodiments are directed to a computer-implemented system and method for providing web-based features in a client-based digital imaging application. A location on a client is provided for storing a number of possible, future web-based features. The location has the capacity to accept a number of name-value pairs that define a web-based imaging feature. When a web-based feature is to be added, the name-value pairs that define the web-based imaging feature are added to the location. After a feature has been added, it is displayed for selection by a user. Upon selection of the web-based imaging feature, image data about a selected one or more images is recorded in a known location. The web-based service that is providing the web-based imaging feature is granted access to the image data in the known location. The image data in the known location is then deleted when the web-based imaging feature is closed.01-12-2012

Angela M.h. Brodie, Fulton, MD US

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20110118219NOVEL PRODRUGS OF C-17-HETEROARYL STEROIDAL CYP17 INHIBITORS/ANTIANDROGENS: SYNTHESIS, IN VITRO BIOLOGICAL ACTIVITIES, PHARMACOKINETICS AND ANTITUMOR ACTIVITY - Prodrugs of steroidal C-17 benzoazoles, pyrimidinoazoles(azabenzoazoles) and diazines. Methods of synthesis are also described, whereby a prodrug group is substituted for a functional group at A ring portion of the ABC ring structure of the steroid. Suitable prodrug groups include amino acid groups, succinate groups, phosphate groups, or sulfamate groups. The prodrugs of the disclosed compounds allow for improved oral bioavailability of the compounds that are inhibitors of human CYP17 enzyme as well as potent antagonists of both wild type and mutant androgen receptors (AR). The compounds and the corresponding prodrugs are useful for the treatment of conditions such as human prostate cancer, breast cancer, and prostate hyperplasia.05-19-2011
20120122908Novel C-4 Substituted Retinoids - C-4 substituted retinoic acid analogs, synthesis methods of C-4 substituted retinoic acid analogs and methods of using C-4 substituted retinoic acid analogs to treat various cancers and dermatological diseases and conditions. The C-4 substituted retinoic acid analogs include C-4 all-trans retinoic acid (ATRA) and 13-cis retinoic acid (13-CRA) analogs. The C-4 substituted retinoic acid analogs inhibit all-trans retinoic acid (ATRA) 4-hydroxylase activity, thereby inhibiting the catabolism of ATRA. The C-4 substituted retinoic acid analogs also have ATRA-mimetic activity. The preferred substitutions at C-4 are an azole group, a sulfur, oxygen, or nitrogen containing group, a pyridyl group, an ethinyl group, a cyclopropyl-amine group, an ester group, or a cyano group, or forms, together with the C-4 carbon atom, an oxime, an oxirane or aziridine group.05-17-2012

Benjamin C. Brodie, Kirkwood, MO US

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20090182683Method and System for Low Latency Basket Calculation - A basket calculation engine is deployed to receive a stream of data and accelerate the computation of basket values based on that data. In a preferred embodiment, the basket calculation engine is used to process financial market data to compute the net asset values (NAVs) of financial instrument baskets. The basket calculation engine can be deployed on a coprocessor and can also be realized via a pipeline, the pipeline preferably comprising a basket association lookup module and a basket value updating module. The coprocessor is preferably a reconfigurable logic device such as a field programmable gate array (FPGA).07-16-2009

Benjamin Curry Brodie, University City, MO US

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20100198850Method and Device for High Performance Regular Expression Pattern Matching - Disclosed herein is an improved architecture for regular expression pattern matching. Improvements to pattern matching deterministic finite automatons (DFAs) that are described by the inventors include a pipelining strategy that pushes state-dependent feedback to a final pipeline stage to thereby enhance parallelism and throughput, augmented state transitions that track whether a transition is indicative of a pattern match occurring thereby reducing the number of necessary states for the DFA, augmented state transition that track whether a transition is indicative of a restart to the matching process, compression of the DFA's transition table, alphabet encoding for input symbols to equivalence class identifiers, the use of an indirection table to allow for optimized transition table memory, and enhanced scalability to facilitate the ability of the improved DFA to process multiple input symbols per cycle.08-05-2010

Bradley Brodie, Milford, MI US

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20110200860BATTERY COOLING WITH MIST EVAPORATION AND CONDENSATION - A battery pack cooling system may utilize a shroud defining a throat and a body, which may contain a battery pack. An evaporator may be arranged against the battery pack. A liquid coolant delivery pipe may deliver liquid coolant from a reservoir to the throat section with the aid of gravity, a pump, or an ultrasonic misting device. A spray nozzle may also deliver liquid coolant into the throat. When in the throat, liquid coolant mixes with air blown by a fan. Gaps in the battery pack may align with gaps of the evaporator to permit liquid and air to be blown completely through the battery pack and through the evaporator. A refrigeration system including a refrigerant compressor, a condenser and an expansion device work to cool the evaporator to condense, cool and remove liquid coolant from the liquid and air mixture, and deposit it in the reservoir.08-18-2011
20110239697EVAPORATOR UNIT - An evaporator unit comprising an evaporator, an internal heat exchanger defining a high pressure flow passage and a low pressure flow passage, an expansion device connected downstream of the high pressure flow passage of the internal heat exchanger and upstream of the evaporator. The internal heat exchanger is attached to the evaporator. With the above structure, the internal heat exchanger can utilize the remaining cooling capability of the refrigerant exiting from the evaporator for its greatest benefit.10-06-2011

Chaya Brodie, Southfield, MI US

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20090110644Polymer nanoparticles coated by magnetic metal oxide and uses thereof - The invention provides nanoparticles consisting of a polymer which is a metal chelating agent coated with a magnetic metal oxide, wherein at least one active agent is covalently bound to the polymer, said nanoparticles may optionally further comprise at least one active agent physically or covalently bound to the outer surface of the magnetic metal oxide. Pharmaceutical compositions comprising these nanoparticles may be used, inter alia, for detection and treatment of tumors and inflammations.04-30-2009

Derek Brodie, Sunnyvale, CA US

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20090177310METHOD OF CONTROLLING PROCESS PARAMETERS FOR SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING APPARATUS - Methods and systems for adaptively controlling process parameters in semiconductor manufacturing equipment. An embodiment provides for gain scheduling of PID controllers across recipe steps. One embodiment provides a method for controlling a chuck temperature during a semiconductor manufacturing process, the method employing a first set of proportional-integral-derivative (PID) values in a PID controller to control the chuck temperature at a first setpoint in a first step of a process recipe and employing a second set of PID values in the PID controller to control the chuck temperature at a second setpoint, different than the first setpoint, in a second step of the process recipe. The methods and systems provide reduced controller response times where process parameter setpoint between steps of a process recipe span a wide range.07-09-2009

Eoin Brodie, Piedmont, CA US

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20110195862DEVICES, METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR TARGET DETECTION - Polymer arrays suitable to perform quantitative and qualitative detection as well as sorting of a target molecules and related devices methods and systems.08-11-2011

Eoin L. Brodie, Piedmont, CA US

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20110212850USING PHYLOGENETIC PROBES FOR QUANTIFICATION OF STABLE ISOTOPE LABELING AND MICROBIAL COMMUNITY ANALYSIS - Herein is described methods for a high-sensitivity means to measure the incorporation of stable isotope labeled substrates into RNA following stable isotope probing experiments (SIP). RNA is hybridized to a set of probes such as phylogenetic microarrays and isotope incorporation is quantified such as by secondary ion mass spectrometer imaging (NanoSIMS).09-01-2011

John Brodie, Penndel, PA US

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20090123607Self-rising dough-containing food product and related manufacturing methods - A self-rising dough-containing food product, particularly pizza, in which a non-yeast containing leavening system is combined with an uncooked dough in the presence of a moisture retention agent and dough conditioners to provide a frozen raw food product that may be cooked directly from the freezer in a microwave oven. The dough in the self-rising dough containing food product reaches full development in shorter mixing times at lower mixing speeds than conventional dough-containing products.05-14-2009

John D. Brodie, Richmond, VA US

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20110049753High molecular weight poly(alpha-olefin) solutions and articles made therefrom - A robust process for the continuous preparation of solutions of high molecular weight UHMW PO that is capable of producing strong materials at high production capacity, is conservative of capital and energy requirements, and the articles made therefrom.03-03-2011

Keith Brodie, Tustin, CA US

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20110025559METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR USING GPS SATELLITE STATE COMPUTATIONS IN GLONASS MEASUREMENT PROCESSING - The present invention is related to location positioning systems, and more particularly, to a method and apparatus for using satellite state information from two or more different satellite systems in navigation processing. According to one aspect, it makes use of GPS extended ephemeris functionality to produce satellite state vector estimates for GLONASS satellites. These satellite state vector estimates can be used alone or in combination with GPS satellite vectors to provide updates to the receiver's navigation processing. According to further aspects, the GLONASS satellite position and trajectory information is extrapolated with a GPS gravity model rather than the GLONASS model, thereby allowing it to be extrapolated more accurately and for longer periods of time than the GLONASS model allows.02-03-2011

Keith Brodie, Irvine, CA US

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20100100321SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR USE OF A VEHICLE BACK-UP CAMERA AS A DEAD-RECKONING SENSOR - Systems and methods are disclosed herein to use a vehicle back-up camera as a cost-effective dead-reckoning sensor in satellite-based vehicle navigation systems. Since the back-up camera may already use a display of the navigation system for display, the data from the back-up camera may be easily obtained and integrated into the navigation system. The data from the camera is received by a navigation receiver wirelessly or through a wired connection. The image is processed to determine the speed, heading, turn-rate of the vehicle to aid the satellite-based navigation system if the satellite signals are inadequate. Thus, enhanced vehicle navigation- performance can be obtained without adding new sensors and/or connecting to a vehicle data bus.04-22-2010
20100156545SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR USE OF A SWITCHED MODE TCXO FOR RECEIVER APPLICATIONS - Systems and methods are disclosed herein for using a switched mode TCXO or VC-TCXO in a coherent receiver application where the switched mode TCXO or VC-TCXO may operate either in an active compensation mode to compensate for temperature induced frequency error or in a second fixed compensation mode where the TCXO or VC-TCXO is not compensated for temperature. The switched mode TCXO or VC-TCXO is operated in the active compensation mode when receiver performance may be improved from a reduction in the range of oscillator frequency error. The switched mode TCXO or VC-TCXO may be switched to operate in the fixed compensation mode when receiver performance is sensitive to discontinuities in the phase, frequency, and/or frequency rate of the oscillator clock when temperature compensation is applied. In addition, the switched mode VC-TCXO may operate in a transparent mode to allow change to the oscillator or a latched mode to prevent change to the oscillator. The flexibility to switch between the operating modes allows the receiver to benefit from a reduced oscillator frequency error or a faster oscillator frequency switching, resulting in faster signal acquisition time, and still allows the receiver to operate in modes requiring a discontinuity-free oscillator.06-24-2010

Keith J. Brodie, Irvine, CA US

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20120122471SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MOBILE TERMINAL LOCATION VERIFICATION - Methods and systems for using W-code to extend anti-spoof capability to civilian GPS receivers for verifying locations of mobile terminals are disclosed. A system for verifying a reported location of a mobile terminal includes a receiver of the mobile terminal and a verification processor. The receiver processes the radio ranging signals to generate measured quantities related to the W-code to the verification processor. The receiver also provides the reported location of the mobile terminal to the verification processor. The verification processor generates expected quantities related to the W-code based on the reported location of the mobile terminal. The verification processor further compares the measured quantities related to the W-code to the expected quantities related to the W-code to verify the reported location of the mobile terminal.05-17-2012

Keith Jacob Brodie, Irvine, CA US

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20080204316MEASUREMENT FAULT DETECTION - The present invention discloses a method and an apparatus for improving measurement fault detection in a sequential measurement processing estimator, and is particularly applied to Global Positioning Receivers.08-28-2008

Patent applications by Keith Jacob Brodie, Irvine, CA US

Michael Brodie, Belleville, WI US

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20120116424ADHESIVE COMPOUNDS AND METHODS USE FOR HERNIA REPAIR - The invention describes new synthetic medical adhesives and films which exploit the key components of natural marine mussel adhesive proteins.05-10-2012

Mike Brodie, Canton, MI US

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20090306990VOICE ACTUATED AND OPERATOR VOICE PROMPTED COORDINATE MEASURING SYSTEM - A vehicle coordinate measuring system and method including a coordinate measuring device operably connected to a computer, and a voice input device for receiving prompts from the computer and enabling an operator to transmit responses to the prompts to the computer, with the computer adapted to translate the responses to digital information. The coordinate measuring device may record and transmit point location data to the computer, and the computer may correlate the point location data from the coordinate measuring device with the digital information from the responses.12-10-2009

Philip Brodie, Long Branch, NJ US

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20110161151METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DISPENSING ON DEMAND COUPONS - An apparatus and related method and system, for dispensing coupons on demand comprising a digital LCD screen for advertisements; a touch screen; a controller unit connected to a network for controlling all internal and external communication to and from the apparatus including a means for providing real time reporting of the coupons dispensed and redeemed; and a printer with a paper supply for printing the coupons; wherein the apparatus permits a user to select desired coupons displayed on said LCD screen or said touch screen and print them on demand. An integrated system for dispensing and redeeming coupons is also provided comprising the apparatus to dispense coupons from a sponsoring manufacturer to a consumer; a data warehouse outside the apparatus which stores consumer information and shopping behavior such that when the consumer uses the apparatus customized coupons based on the users past shopping behavior are presented on the apparatus touch screen; and a point of sale system to redeem coupons; wherein the redeemed coupons are automatically validated and sent to the sponsoring manufacturer for reimbursement.06-30-2011

Ross Brodie, Venice, CA US

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20080238080Medication Tracking Diary - Embodiments of the invention comprise a medication tracking diary for use in tracking medications consumed by a subject as well as for use in reminding a subject to consume medications on schedule. Embodiments of the invention may also serve as a convenient, portable, medical history, allowing health care professionals quick access to the information regarding a subject's health. Embodiments of the invention comprise a medication tracking diary further comprising front and back covers, medication description sheets, and medication consumption sheets. A user of an embodiment of the invention may record medication description information, as well as information related to medication consumption.10-02-2008

Sally H. Brodie, Stuart, FL US

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20100162757Novel process - A process for preparing a loose grain abrasive material comprising the steps of providing a mixture of electric arc furnace dust, sand and glass, and melting such mixture at a temperature of less than 1430 degrees Celsius.07-01-2010

Simon Brodie, San Diego, CA US

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20090176208Methods for detecting, identifying and reporting the presence of animal pathological agents - A business method for use in detecting the presence of one or more pathological agents in a biological sample taken from an animal, using known diagnostic methods including antibodies and PCR, marketing test kits for obtaining and transporting biological samples from animals to a processing center, and reporting the results of diagnosis of biological samples from one or more animals.07-09-2009