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Douglas Alan Crow, Issaquah, WA US
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| 20090319321 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SCHEDULING INSTRUCTIONAL COURSES HAVING ASSOCIATED COMPLIANCE RULES - Embodiments of the present invention provide methods and systems for scheduling an instructional course for a student where the instructional course requires completion of a plurality of events in accordance with at least one rule associated with a regulatory authority. Students may advantageously be shown a set of available events with an indication that certain events are compliant with the rules of the regulatory authority. Following completion of the required events, compliance information may be transmitted to the regulatory authority. Further, access may be provided to one or more student accounts for auditing purposes. | 12-24-2009 |
Howard Crow, Sammamish, WA US
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| 20090249280 | UPGRADING SIMPLE APPLICATIONS TO FULL SCALE SOLUTIONS - The architecture provides development tools for the occasional developer to build a substantial portion of an application interface for accessing and interacting with actual data. The lack in knowledge of the occasional developer to complete the project is then supplemented by a development service provider such that experienced developers complete the interface and integrate the interface into the application environment so the occasional developer can use the application to access data for which the interface was developed. The architecture provides tools that are understandable for building in a guided way the framework and the user experience for the application, and then passes on the more complex pieces to IT because coding may be needed or a model should be generated that is scalable for a large number of users, for example. IT then completes the development process and integrates the final solution into the application environment. | 10-01-2009 |
Howard M. Crow, Sammamish, WA US
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| 20090319602 | MAINTAINING ENTITY COLLABORATION SITES - Logical collaboration sites are structured to simplify creation and subsequent discovery by arranging them hierarchically to reflect entity types. Mapping tables enable quick, direct access to both collaboration sites and to the entity type sites. Persistent state data in client application documents link the documents to associated sites. The collaboration sites can be manipulated from the client applications by leveraging the data in the mapping tables and site structures. | 12-24-2009 |
| 20090328032 | PROJECTING SOFTWARE AND DATA ONTO CLIENT - A software application written for a server environment is transformed into one which runs in a rich client environment. An entity model defines data sources as they are accessed from the server and as they are accessed from the clients. An application programming interface defines stereotyped interfaces which provide the same functionality on the server and the clients. A metadata model describes the components which make up the application and defines the differences in structure between the server and clients. The metadata model also defines mappings between components used on the server and clients. Settings and context information which tailor the activation and functionality of the components is also captured in the metadata model. Automated transformation is performed by using the mappings to identify the component set to use for the clients, selecting the client version of the application programming interfaces, and selecting the appropriate settings and context information. | 12-31-2009 |
Terry K. Crow, Issaquah, WA US
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| 20110005257 | GEOTHERMAL HEAT PUMP SYSTEM HAVING A DOWNFLOW APPLIANCE CABINET - A compact, down-flow appliance cabinet for indirect-exchange heat pump systems has a bottom panel that incorporates a mounting plate for the compressor and a lower rectangular aperture for the exit of conditioned air. A center shelf parallel to the bottom platform divides the cabinet into upper and lower chambers and provides a mounting location for a blower assembly within the upper chamber on top of a middle aperture. An air duct interconnects the middle and lower rectangular apertures. A top cover incorporates an air filter mount and an upper rectangular aperture that couples to the return air duct. Diagonally-positioned radiator mounts, which are secured to the cabinet frame, provide a mounting location for the evaporator coil. A desuperheater heat exchanger mounts within the lower chamber adjacent the heat pump; a refrigerant/ground loop heat exchanger mounts within the upper chamber beneath the radiator mounts. | 01-13-2011 |
Vernon L. Crow, Richland, WA US
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| 20110004465 | Computation and Analysis of Significant Themes - Systems and computer-implemented processes for computation and analysis of significant themes in a corpus of documents. The computation and analysis of significant themes can be executed on a processor and involves generating a lexical unit document association (LUDA) vector for each lexical unit that has been provided and quantifying similarities between each unique pair of lexical units. The LUDA vector characterizes a measure of association between its corresponding lexical unit and documents in the corpus. The lexical units can then be grouped into clusters such that each cluster contains a set of lexical units that are most similar as determined by the LUDA vectors and a predetermined clustering threshold. | 01-06-2011 |
| 20110060747 | Rapid Automatic Keyword Extraction for Information Retrieval and Analysis - Methods and systems for rapid automatic keyword extraction for information retrieval and analysis. Embodiments can include parsing words in an individual document by delimiters, stop words, or both in order to identify candidate keywords. Word scores for each word within the candidate keywords are then calculated based on a function of co-occurrence degree, co-occurrence frequency, or both. Based on a function of the word scores for words within the candidate keyword, a keyword score is calculated for each of the candidate keywords. A portion of the candidate keywords are then extracted as keywords based, at least in part, on the candidate keywords having the highest keyword scores. | 03-10-2011 |
Wesley B. Crow, Bellevue, WA US
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| 20100018271 | Forming Method And Apparatus And An Associated Preform Having A Hydrostatic Pressing Medium - A method and apparatus for forming a workpiece having a desired configuration as well as an associated preform assembly are provided. The forming method and apparatus as well as the preform assembly include a hydrostatic pressing medium, such as a layer of glass, disposed within the die cavity proximate to at least one side of the workpiece. The hydrostatic pressing medium is configured to have a relatively low viscosity at the temperatures at which the workpiece is processed, thereby facilitating the relatively even application of pressure to the workpiece. As such, a workpiece having a complex configuration may be formed utilizing a single acting die. | 01-28-2010 |
| 20100200123 | HARDENED TITANIUM STRUCTURE FOR TRANSMISSION GEAR APPLICATIONS - A method and apparatus are present for manufacturing a part. The part is comprised of a metal alloy and is positioned to form a positioned part. An electromagnetic field is generated that heats the positioned part. A surface of the positioned part is exposed to an inert gas, while the electromagnetic field is generated to create an inverse thermal gradient between an exterior of the positioned part and an interior section of the positioned part to form a heat treated part. | 08-12-2010 |
| 20110135418 | SELF EXPANDING FASTENER - In one embodiment a method to join a first structure to a second structure, comprises aligning a first hole in the first structure with a second hole in the second structure and inserting a fastener into the first hole and the second hole. The fastener comprises a shape memory alloy which was formed into a first shape having a diameter slightly larger than a diameter of the first hole and the second hole when the shape memory alloy was in an austenite state and reduced to a second shape having a diameter less than the diameter of the first hole and the second hole when the shape memory alloy was in a martensite state. The method further comprises heating the fastener above an austenite start transition temperature, such that the fastener initiates free expansion from the second shape back to the first shape and establishes physical contact with the surface of the first hole and the second hole and continuing to heat the fastener such that first structure and the second structure proximate the holes and the fastener undergo plastic deformation. | 06-09-2011 |
William M. Crow, Sequim, WA US
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| 20080275915 | Image File Container - An image container file has at least first and second multimedia streams (MSs). The first MS includes first image data representing an image. The second MS includes arbitrary data, which can for example, correspond to: a different representation of the same image; annotations to the first image data; second image data that together with the first image data form a new image with greater dynamic range, resolution, field of view or other attributes that can be derived from processing two or more independent images; or an executable file related to the first MS. The image container file can also include an extensible metadata to hold information describing one or more multimedia streams of the image container file. Further, the image container file may include DRM information to provide information related to obtaining a license to access encrypted data or verifying the authenticity of encrypted or unencrypted data. | 11-06-2008 |