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Christopher Dean, San Rafael, CA US
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| 20090056778 | Crutch foot - Crutch foot with a foot or shoe shaped housing made of molded elastomeric plastic, the housing including an aperture that can slidably and fricionally engage with the lower portion of a crutch or cane shaft The aperture's lowest surface is sized to abut the top most surface of the cane's or the crutch's rubber tip so that the bottom most surface of the housing remains approximately one half of an inch above the ground plane when the crutch or cane is in use by a person. A preferred embodiment includes the housing being constructed of a low durometer plastic so that the aperture is capable of stretching over the crutch or cane rubber tip during installation and then returning to a shaft hugging dimension. | 03-05-2009 |
Christopher T. Dean, Montara, CA US
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| 20100162039 | High Availability and Disaster Recovery Using Virtualization - There is disclosed apparatus and processes which address problems in the area of providing high availability and disaster recovery for computing systems and the data in them. These apparatus and processes can be used to provide high availability and disaster recovery for a computing system to be protected. The protected computing systems may be virtual computing systems. | 06-24-2010 |
Cynthia Dean, Murrieta, CA US
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| 20100293707 | Bath n bed spa - The present invention comprises a collapsible shell and features a cushiony soft waterproof lining that is rolled into a compact coil when not in use. The Bath N Bed Spa measures approximately 78 inches in length, with the sides of the unit expandable to accommodate most adult body types. When rolled onto a bed and fully assembled, the Bath N Bed Spa features a tub-like appearance. Included for sale with the Bath N Bed Spa is an elongated, flexible hose for use in filling and draining the tub. In one embodiment, this hose is connected to one of the side walls of the tub via a threaded, waterproof gasket, thus preventing leakage during use. | 11-25-2010 |
David Franklin Dean, Visalia, CA US
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| 20110131720 | Wall Mounted Lift Chair - A wall mounted lift chair for assisting users with lowering themselves to the bottom surface of a bathtub or raising themselves out of the bathtub. The lift chair has a first frame securely attached to a wall at one end of the bathtub. A second frame is slidably adjacent to the first frame to support a seat assembly having a chair on which the user sits while moving and bathing. A lift mechanism connects the second frame to the first frame and moves the second frame between an upper position at a top edge of the bathtub and a lower position at the bottom surface of the bathtub. The seat assembly pivots outward for ease of getting on the chair and a lower chair section pivots upward when not in use. Preferably, the lift mechanism is electrically powered and the controls are on an arm member attached to the chair. | 06-09-2011 |
Deborah Dean, Oakland, CA US
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| 20090214582 | METHODS FOR IDENTIFYING AN EPITOPE OF A POLYPEPTIDE, CHLAMYDIAL ANTIGENIC POLYPEPTIDES IDENTIFIED THEREBY, AND METHODS OF USE THEREOF - The present invention provides a method of classifying an epitope displayed by a polypeptide; a method of determining the presence of an epitope on a polypeptide encoded by a test nucleotide sequence; and a method of generating a nucleotide sequence encoding a polypeptide that exhibits a selected epitope. The present invention provides antigenic polypeptides that display selected epitope(s); chimeric macromolecules comprising such polypeptides; and compositions comprising the antigenic polypeptides or chimeric macromolecules. The present invention further provides methods of inducing an immune response to a | 08-27-2009 |
Deborah Dean, San Anselmo, CA US
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| 20090214570 | METHODS AND COMPOSITIONS FOR IMMUNIZING AGAINST CHLAMYDIA INFECTION - The present invention relates, in part, to methods and compositions for immunizing against infection by | 08-27-2009 |
Floyd D. Dean, Sausalito, CA US
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| 20110212423 | Adjustable Multi-Sensory Fly Casting Trainer and Teaching Method - A fly casting training apparatus includes a shaft, a ball movable within the shaft, and adjustable limit stops for setting the range of motion of the ball within the shaft. The apparatus is used to simulate a fly casting experience, with the limit stops adjustable to simulate long casting motions, short casting motions, and casting motions therebetween. The device also includes an elastic band that may be used to simulate the double haul casting method. | 09-01-2011 |
Frederick Dean, Sunnyvale, CA US
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| 20090003253 | Controlling wireless network beacon transmission - Methods of an access node of a wireless network controlling beacon transmission are disclosed. The method includes the access node detecting a presence of a client device, and the access node controlling air-time of beacon transmission based on whether the access node detects the presence of a client device. | 01-01-2009 |
| 20110188402 | Adaptively Capping Data Throughput of Client Devices Associated with a Wireless Network - A methods and apparatuses of adaptively capping data throughput of client devices associated with a wireless network are disclosed. One method includes monitoring an air-time per bit efficiency of each client device associated with the wireless network. A data throughput cap for each client device is adaptively determined based on the air-time per bit efficiency of the client device. | 08-04-2011 |
Irina Dean, El Segundo, CA US
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| 20100154471 | Imported LNG treatment - The process of treating imported heating grade source LNG to form engine fuel grade LNG, and/or produce power. | 06-24-2010 |
Janet F. Dean, Sausalito, CA US
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| 20110212423 | Adjustable Multi-Sensory Fly Casting Trainer and Teaching Method - A fly casting training apparatus includes a shaft, a ball movable within the shaft, and adjustable limit stops for setting the range of motion of the ball within the shaft. The apparatus is used to simulate a fly casting experience, with the limit stops adjustable to simulate long casting motions, short casting motions, and casting motions therebetween. The device also includes an elastic band that may be used to simulate the double haul casting method. | 09-01-2011 |
Jeffrey Dean, Palo Alto, CA US
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| 20080243481 | Large Language Models in Machine Translation - Systems, methods, and computer program products for machine translation are provided. In some implementations a system is provided. The system includes a language model including a collection of n-grams from a corpus, each n-gram having a corresponding relative frequency in the corpus and an order n corresponding to a number of tokens in the n-gram, each n-gram corresponding to a backoff n-gram having an order of n-1 and a collection of backoff scores, each backoff score associated with an n-gram, the backoff score determined as a function of a backoff factor and a relative frequency of a corresponding backoff n-gram in the corpus. | 10-02-2008 |
| 20080262828 | Encoding and Adaptive, Scalable Accessing of Distributed Models - Systems, methods, and apparatus for accessing distributed models in automated machine processing, including using large language models in machine translation, speech recognition and other applications. | 10-23-2008 |
| 20100005080 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ANALYZING DATA RECORDS - A method and system for analyzing data records includes allocating groups of records to respective processes of a first plurality of processes executing in parallel. In each respective process of the first plurality of processes, for each record in the group of records allocated to the respective process, a query is applied to the record so as to produce zero or more values. Zero or more emit operators are applied to each of the zero or more produced values so as to add corresponding information to an intermediate data structure. Information from a plurality of the intermediate data structures is aggregated to produce output data. | 01-07-2010 |
| 20100114965 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IMPROMPTU SHARED COMMUNICATION SPACES - Communications between entities who may share common interests. For entities determined to be sharing common interests (e.g., searching using the same terms or topics, browsing a page, a site or a groups of topically related sites), options for communication among the entities are provided. For example, a chat room may be dynamically created for persons who are currently searching or browsing the same or related information. As another example, a “homepage” may be created for each query and contain various types of information related to the query. A permission module controls which entities may participate, what types of information (and from what sources) an entity can (or desires to) receive, what types of information the entity may (or desires to) share. | 05-06-2010 |
| 20110022605 | DOCUMENT SCORING BASED ON LINK-BASED CRITERIA - A method may include receiving a document and an initial score for the document; determining that there has been a decrease in a rate or quantity of new links that point to the document over time; classifying the document as stale in response to the determining; decreasing the initial score for the document, resulting in an updated score; and ranking the document with regard to at least one other document based, at least in part, on the score. | 01-27-2011 |
| 20110029542 | DOCUMENT SCORING BASED ON DOCUMENT INCEPTION DATE - A system may determine a document inception date associated with a document, generate a score for the document based, at least in part, on the document inception date, and rank the document with regard to at least one other document based, at least in part, on the score. | 02-03-2011 |
| 20110153577 | Query Processing System and Method for Use with Tokenspace Repository - A search engine server system receives from a client system a search query and identifies a set of documents in accordance with the search query. A content snippet corresponding to content in a respective document of the identified set of documents is generated, the content snippet associated with at least one query term of the one or more query terms in the search query. A response to the search query is returned to the client system, the response including information identifying at least the respective document and including the content snippet. Generating the content snippet includes performing a first decompression operation on first token identifiers, from a compressed document repository, to provide a set of second token identifiers, and performing a second decompression operation on the set of second token identifiers to recover uncompressed content comprising a portion of the respective document. | 06-23-2011 |
| 20110179118 | Shared Communication Space Invitations - A computer-implemented method of providing invitations to a shared communication space, performed by a server system, includes providing the shared communication space, which includes content associated with a set of characteristics, and identifying a user, in accordance with a set of characteristics associated with the user and the set of characteristics associated with the content in the shared communication space. The method further includes sending to the identified user a invitation to participate in the shared communication space, and upon acceptance of the invitation by the user, enabling access by the user to the shared communication space by the user and enabling the user to exchange information with other participants in the shared communication space via the shared communication space. | 07-21-2011 |
Jeffrey Dean, Menlo Park, CA US
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| 20100122065 | System and Method for Large-Scale Data Processing Using an Application-Independent Framework - A large-scale data processing system and method for processing data in a distributed and parallel processing environment. The system includes an application-independent framework for processing data having a plurality of application-independent map modules and reduce modules. These application-independent modules use application-independent operators to automatically handle parallelization of computations across the distributed and parallel processing environment when performing user-specified data processing operations. The system also includes a plurality of user-specified, application-specific operators, for use with the application-independent framework to perform a user-specified data processing operation on a user-specified set of input files. The application-specific operators include: a map operator and a reduce operator. The map operator is applied by the application-independent map modules to input data in the user-specified set of input files to produce intermediate data values. The reduce operator is applied by the application-independent reduce modules to process the intermediate data values to produce final output data. | 05-13-2010 |
Jeffrey A. Dean, Palo Alto, CA US
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| 20110040733 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR GENERATING STATISTICS FROM SEARCH ENGINE QUERY LOGS - A computer-implemented method includes calculating first statistics about a user-identified event within a first subset of a database of events; selecting a second subset of the database of events based on said first statistics; calculating second statistics about the user-identified event within the second subset of the database of events; merging the first and second statistics as statistics of the user-identified event within the entire database of events; and generating a result including at least a portion of the merged statistics of the user-identified event. | 02-17-2011 |
| 20110119139 | Identifying related information given content and/or presenting related information in association with content-related advertisements - The usefulness of content (target content), such as advertisements, may be increased by determining additional content and providing such additional content in association with the content. The target content may be text, a Web page, a URL, a search query, etc. The additional content might be related suggested queries (e.g. “Try a search for ______”), news articles (or excerpts or summaries thereof), reviews (or excerpts or summaries thereof), advertisements, user group messages, etc. | 05-19-2011 |
| 20110179023 | Methods and Apparatus for Employing Usage Statistics in Document Retrieval - Methods and apparatus consistent with the invention provide improved organization of documents responsive to a search query. In one embodiment, a search query is received and a list of responsive documents is identified. The responsive documents are organized based in whole or in part on usage statistics. | 07-21-2011 |
Jeffrey A. Dean, Menlo Park, CA US
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| 20100076954 | Representative Document Selection for Sets of Duplicate Dcouments in a Web Crawler System - Duplicate documents are detected in a web crawler system. Upon receiving a newly crawled document, a set of documents, if any, sharing the same content as the newly crawled document is identified. Information identifying the newly crawled document and the selected set of documents is merged into information identifying a new set of documents. Duplicate documents are included and excluded from the new set of documents based on a query independent metric for each such document. A single representative document for the new set of documents is identified in accordance with a set of predefined conditions. | 03-25-2010 |
| 20100100437 | Suggesting and/or providing ad serving constraint information - Targeting information (also referred to as ad “serving constraints”) or candidate targeting information for an advertisement is identified. Targeting information may be identified by extracting topics or concepts from, and/or generating topics or concepts based on, ad information, such as information from a Web page to which an ad is linked (or some other Web page of interest to the ad or advertiser). The topics or concepts may be relevant queries associated with the Web page of interest, clusters, etc. | 04-22-2010 |
| 20100174605 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR SERVING RELEVANT ADVERTISEMENTS - The relevance of advertisements to a user's interests is improved. In one implementation, the content of a web page is analyzed to determine a list of one or more topics associated with that web page. An advertisement is considered to be relevant to that web page if it is associated with keywords belonging to the list of one or more topics. One or more of these relevant advertisements may be provided for rendering in conjunction with the web page or related web pages. | 07-08-2010 |
| 20100185513 | SERVING ADVERTISEMENTS BASED ON CONTENT - Advertisers are permitted to put targeted ads on page on the web (or some other document of any media type). The present invention may do so by (i) obtaining content that includes available spots for ads, (ii) determining ads relevant to content, and/or (iii) combining content with ads determined to be relevant to the content. | 07-22-2010 |
| 20110145731 | SERVING CONTENT-RELEVANT ADVERTISEMENTS WITH CLIENT-SIDE DEVICE SUPPORT - A client-side application (such as a browser, a browser plug-in, a browser toolbar plug-in, etc. on an end user's computer) is used to support the serving of content-relevant ads to the client device. The client-side application may provide such support by sending document information (such as a document identifier, document content, content relevance information, etc.) to a content ad server. The client-side application may also be used to combine content of the document and the content-relevant ads. For example, the client-side application may combine content of the document and the ads in a window (e.g., in a browser window), may provide the ads in a window above, below, adjacent to a document window, may provide the ads in “chrome” of the browser, etc. | 06-16-2011 |
| 20110191309 | SERVING ADVERTISEMENTS BASED ON CONTENT - Advertisers are permitted to put targeted ads on page on the web (or some other document of any media type). The present invention may do so by (i) obtaining content that includes available spots for ads, (ii) determining ads relevant to content, and/or (iii) combining content with ads determined to be relevant to the content. | 08-04-2011 |
Jeffrey Adgate Dean, Palo Alto, CA US
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| 20090037393 | System and Method of Accessing a Document Efficiently Through Multi-Tier Web Caching - Upon receipt of a document request, a client assistant examines its cache for the document. If not successful, a server searches for the requested document in its cache. If the server copy is still not fresh or not found, the server seeks the document from its host. If the host cannot provide the copy, the server seeks it from a document repository. Certain documents are identified from the document repository as being fresh or stable. Information about each these identified documents is transmitted to the server which inserts entries into an index if the index does not already contain an entry for the document. If and when this particular document is requested, the document will not be present in the server, however the server will contain an entry directing the server to obtain the document from the document repository rather than the document's web host. | 02-05-2009 |
Jennifer Lynn Dean, Corona, CA US
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| 20100080946 | LABEL SHEET CONSTRUCTION AND METHOD - A label sheet construction including a liner sheet and a facestock sheet releasably adhered to the liner sheet. A plurality of labels and fold lines are die cut in the facestock sheet but not the liner sheet. The fold lines extend between the labels. After the sheet construction has been passed through a printer or copier and the desired indicia printed on the labels, the construction (an upper portion thereof) is bent back along one of the fold lines. This separates a(n) (upper) portion of the label from the underlying liner sheet. The user then easily grasps the upper portion and peels the label off of the liner sheet without tearing the label. When the label has a burst design, it is preferable to have a pair of fold lines for folding the liner sheet away from a portion of the label. The burst design preferably has alternating long and short points. | 04-01-2010 |
Jennifer Lynn Dean, Santa Cruz, CA US
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| 20110005469 | Hanging toy for horses and animals - To alleviate stall boredom, cribbing and other deleterious behaviors of many farm animals kept in stalls and pens, this invention provides entertainment and stimulates mental activity as well as food occupation. These key aspects of equine enrichment applies to any animal in limited living quarters that can benefit from such entertainment. Additionally, the ability for the owner to utilize any treat or food object of their choosing, as well as controlling the amount given, said animals' dietary needs and requirements will not be negatively affected by use of this invention and even improved. | 01-13-2011 |
Jennifer Marie Dean, San Mateo, CA US
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| 20100047039 | MANUFACTURING SYSTEM FOR PERSONALIZED PHOTO BOOKS - A manufacturing system for manufacturing a personalized photo book includes a computer configured to receive image data from a user, a digital offset printer configured to print a first image on a book page in response to the image data received from the user, a digital silver-halide printer that can print a second image on a book cover in response to the image data received from the user, and a book binder configured to bind the book page and the book cover to form a personalized photo book. | 02-25-2010 |
| 20100073396 | SMART PHOTOBOOK CREATION - A method for producing a photo album includes sorting images according to a primary predetermined criterion, separating the sorted images into a first page group and a second page group using one or more secondary criteria, and automatically selecting a first page layout from a library of page layouts. The first page layout includes a same number of one or more image receiving areas as the number of one or more images in the first page group. The one or more images in the first page group are automatically placed into the one or more image receiving areas in the first page layout. | 03-25-2010 |
Jon M. Dean, Torrance, CA US
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| 20090259957 | CONFIGURABLE ICONS FOR CONTENT PRESENTATION - Overlay applications for use in a media presentation system are described. An example method for use with broadcast media includes maintaining a collection of overlay applications to be displayed in connection with the broadcast media; enabling a user to select and configure one or more of the overlay applications for presentation on a media presentation system; executing one or more selected overlay applications to display periodically updated information associated with the overlay applications. | 10-15-2009 |
Mary Dean, Gardena, CA US
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| 20090260635 | Fragrance masks - A specially designed face mask is provided which provides an impenetrable barrier between the wearer and noxious odors. Manufactured of any suitable material, such as durable, disposable paper, fabric, woven or felted material, for example, the fragrance face mask of the present invention is essentially rectangular in shape. The mask provides fragrance to block unwanted odors alone or in combination with anti-bacterial, anti-microbial or anti-fungal agents. | 10-22-2009 |
Nicholas Mark Dean, Encinitas, CA US
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| 20080318891 | Antisense oligonucleotides against thymidylate synthase - Antisense oligonucleotides targeted to sequences in thymidylate synthase (TS) mRNA. In particular the invention relates to antisense oligonucleotides targeted to sequences in the 3′ end of TS mRNA, which are both cytostatic on their own when administered to human tumour cell lines, and which also enhance the toxicity of anticancer drugs. The invention further relates to a combination product comprising an antisense oligonucleotide in combination with an anticancer agent such as Tomudex or pemetrexed and to the use of such a combination product in the treatment of cancer. | 12-25-2008 |
Patricia S. Dean, Redondo Beach, CA US
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| 20090008147 | Electrically conductive dynamic environmental seal - A seal including a base and a conductor mounted to conduct current from a source disposed on a first side of said base to a sink disposed on a second side of said base. In the illustrative embodiment, the base is annular (ring-shaped) and fabricated of airtight, watertight and/or electrically insulating and/or conductive material such as rubber, Teflon®, silver impregnated Teflon®, or other suitable substance. In the illustrative embodiment, the conductor is a single strip of conductive material and the base has a recess to allow for deflection thereof. In the best mode, plural conductors are mounted within the annular base. Each conductor has a brush at each end thereof. The brushes are provided by a split(s) at the end of each strip effective to create multiple fingertips. Each strip is secured at an angle in a slot in the base and retained further by an anchor. The anchor is integral with the strip and transverse to the longitudinal axis thereof. | 01-08-2009 |
Peter Joseph Dean, Oakdale, CA US
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| 20100268627 | Dating service system and method increasing member profile development and reducing unwanted communications - The present invention provides a system and method to increase the number of members in a dating service developing their profiles by providing a financial incentive. The invention further reduces unwanted communications from other members by allowing member recipients of the unwanted communication to receive a fee, paid by the sender, for receiving the communication. The invention further reduces unwanted communications from other members by allowing a member sending a communication to place on the profile of the member receiving the communication a comment which the receiving member cannot remove unless the received fee is returned, if the fee is not returned the member receiving the communication may post a responding comment. The invention further increases the safety of the members by providing the sender and receiver of a message a code that may be used by each to identify the other. | 10-21-2010 |
Richard A. Dean, La Jolla, CA US
Thomas M. Dean, San Juan Capistrano, CA US
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| 20090183226 | Systems and Methods for Identity-Based Communication Gate for Social Networks - Systems and methods are disclosed that provide for control of online communication services, including social networks and video games. In some embodiments, parents of children engaging in activities using online communication services can control who their child can engage in communications with, while using online communication services. In some embodiments, parents can monitor potentially problematic communications between their child and other subscribers of an online communication service. Thus, subscribers of online communication services can be prevented from misrepresenting themselves or concealing important information, including age and gender. | 07-16-2009 |