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Brian Dougherty, Menlo Park, CA US
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| 20080233484 | Battery with Gelled Electrolyte - An electric device comprises a gelled acid electrolyte in complex with a lanthanide that forms a redox pair with a second element. Preferred electric devices include batteries, and especially primary batteries, while preferred acid electrolytes have a sulfonic acid group. Contemplated lanthanides especially include cerium, and preferred second elements particularly include zinc. Alternatively, contemplated electric devices may comprise a gelled electrolyte in which with a lanthanide forms a redox pair with zinc. | 09-25-2008 |
Brian J. Dougherty, Menlo Park, CA US
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| 20090008333 | Perchlorate Destruction - Perchlorate is removed and effectively destroyed in devices and methods that employ a eluting solvent in which the anion of an acid solubilizes Ti (III), which may be electrochemically generated or added in situ. Using such solvents, destruction of perchlorate is unexpectedly and several orders of magnitude faster than using solvents without solubilizing acids. In most preferred aspects, the solubilizing acid is methane sulfonic acid and/or sulfamic acid, and Ti (III) is electrochemically generated. Perchlorate destruction will then result in formation of Ti (IV), which may be present in the eluent in a subsequent elution. | 01-08-2009 |
| 20090159459 | Electrochemical Recovery of Arsenic - Contemplated devices and methods for arsenic recovery employ a two-step process in which an arsenite and arsenate-containing solution is first subjected to a non-electrochemical reduction that reduces arsenate and arsenite. The arsenate-depleted arsenite-containing solution is the subjected to electrochemical reduction at alkaline pH using a cathode with a high-surface carbon portion. Most preferably, the treated solution is then used as eluent for an adsorbent that removed arsenate and arsenite from a water supply. | 06-25-2009 |
Brian J. Dougherty, Emeryville, CA US
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| 20100089763 | Devices and methods of copper recovery - Contemplated configurations and methods allow for effective removal of copper from aqueous media by selectively concentrating copper in a first stage, wherein competing metal ions are subjected to a redox reaction to thereby increase selective concentration. Copper is then plated in a flow through electrode from a relatively concentrated copper solution that is depleted from competing non-copper metals. In preferred aspects, the first stage provides a copper-depleted effluent that includes zinc and/or manganese for further recovery. | 04-15-2010 |
Casey Dougherty, San Francisco, CA US
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| 20090113005 | Systems and methods for controlling pre-communications interactions - The present invention can permit a communications request initiator to control pre-communications interactions. For example, the present invention can permit a communications request initiator to instruct a recipient communications device to present specific information to a communications request recipient when the initiator sends the communications request to the recipient. The present invention also can permit a communications request initiator to control the information presented to the initiator when he is waiting for a communications request recipient to respond to the communications request. | 04-30-2009 |
Casey Maureen Dougherty, San Francisco, CA US
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| 20090170532 | Event-based modes for electronic devices - Event-based modes of operation are supported on an electronic device. One or more event-based modes of operation may be automatically or selectively applied to the device when a new life event is detected. The device's previous mode of operation may be backed up to the device or a network location and restored after the event-based mode of operation is no longer applied. The event-based modes of operation may be used to restrict access to certain applications or functionalities on the device, enforce or restrict certain user interface or other types of settings, and add or remove or rearrange the priority of device assets. The new life events associated with event-based modes of operation may be of various types, including location-based events, environment-based events, calendar-based events, news-based events, and usage-based events. | 07-02-2009 |
| 20100017118 | PARKING & LOCATION MANAGEMENT PROCESSES & ALERTS - Aspects include using present location information for a mobile device and real-time access to sources of data about future constraints pertaining to the present location to establish the occurrence of a future event. Examples include using a present location of the mobile device to infer a vehicle location, accessing a source of data relating to parking regulations at the present location and setting a reminder for avoiding violation thereof. The mobile device can track a present position and adjust an absolute reminder time to account for travel times. The travel times can be arrived at by obtaining data concerning public transportation schedules and present locations of elements of such public transportation. Another example aspect includes correlating a user profile concerning parking requirements with a desired destination area and parking regulations pertinent to the area for guiding a user to potential parking locations. | 01-21-2010 |
David J. Dougherty, Pleasanton, CA US
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| 20090324163 | High confinement waveguide on an electro-optic substrate - The invention relates to an optical device including a passive high confinement waveguide, such as of silicon-rich silicon nitride, on an electro-optic substrate, like lithium niobate, optically coupled to a waveguide in the electro-optic substrate. A wide range of electro-optic devices are enabled by this high confinement waveguide structure, including: directional couplers, compact tap couplers, folded electro-optic devices, electro-optic modulators including ring resonators, electro-optic gratings. Further applications enabled by the present invention include hybrid passive planar lightwave circuits (PLC) integrated with electro-optically active waveguides, using the high confinement waveguide as an intermediary waveguide to transfer optical power between the passive and active components. | 12-31-2009 |
| 20100014802 | COHERENT OPTICAL MIXER AND A METHOD OF COHERENT DETECTION OF LIGHT - A coherent planar lightwave circuit (PLC) optical mixer chip is described comprising a matched pair of symmetrical four-coupler interferometers for in-phase and in-quadrature detection of two polarization components of light using a polarization diversity arrangement. The waveguide structure of the chip is symmetrical about two orthogonal central axes of the chip, whereby the effect of temperature gradients on the mixer is reduced. A light traveling from an input to an output of any of the two interferometers is cross-coupled by one of the two couplers it passes through, and is bar-coupled by the other of the two couplers, so as to compensate for polarization, wavelength, and manufacturing process dependence of bar-coupling with that of cross-coupling. | 01-21-2010 |
David J. Dougherty, Mountain View, CA US
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| 20090003767 | Spectrally Resolved Fast Monitor - A method and apparatus for monitoring spectral tilt uses an arrayed waveguide grating (AWG) to separate a multiplexed optical signal having a plurality of wavelength channels into a plurality of sub-bands, where each sub-band spans a different wavelength range and includes more than one wavelength channel. A photodetector array is provided to measure the optical power in each of the sub-bands, while control electronics calculate spectral tilt of the multiplexed optical signal using the measured optical power in each of the sub-bands. The spectral tilt monitor in accordance with the instant invention provides spectral resolution, increased monitoring speeds, and decreased manufacturing costs. | 01-01-2009 |
George M. Dougherty, Albany, CA US
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| 20090194420 | Systems and Methods for Separating Particles and/or Substances from a Sample Fluid - Systems and methods for separating particles and/or toxins from a sample fluid. A method according to one embodiment comprises simultaneously passing a sample fluid and a buffer fluid through a chamber such that a fluidic interface is formed between the sample fluid and the buffer fluid as the fluids pass through the chambers the sample fluid having particles of interest therein; applying a force to the fluids for urging the particles of interest to pass through the interface into the buffer fluid; and substantially separating the buffer fluid from the sample fluid. | 08-06-2009 |
James Dougherty, Morgan Hill, CA US
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| 20110216162 | Multi-View Video Format Control - Techniques for multi-view video format control are provided. In some embodiments, a display video format supported by a display panel is determined. A video format code is extracted from a coded bitstream in which a plurality of images is encoded in two or more source video formats. The video format code identifies a source video format in which a set of images in the plurality of images is encoded. A video format filter is selected to modify the set of images encoded in the source video format to generate another set of images encoded in the display video format. The other set of images encoded in the display video format is sent to the display panel. | 09-08-2011 |
| 20110216163 | Methods For Carrying And Transmitting 3D Z-Norm Attributes In Digital TV Closed Captioning - Methods for carrying and transmitting overlay depth data of an overlay of a stereoscopic image of a display device as a fraction of a viewer distance from the overlay are described. | 09-08-2011 |
| 20110221864 | Multiscalar Stereo Video Format Conversion - Techniques for converting 3D images using alpha maps are described. A left-view image and a right-view image may be determined from media data received by a 3D display system. An alpha map specifying a plurality of operations for a plurality of locations that correspond to the first plurality of locations in the images may also be determined. The plurality of operations specified in the alpha map may be applied by the 3D display system to process the left-view and right-view images, and to generate, based on the left-view and right-view images, a third image in an appropriate 3D format. | 09-15-2011 |
| 20110222835 | Application Tracks in Audio/Video Containers - Techniques for providing application tracks in a media data container are described. An application descriptor may be extracted from a coded bitstream. The coded bitstream comprises media data to be played by a media presentation system. The application descriptor identifies an application archive (i) that is retrievable by the media presentation system from one or more sources and (ii) that is required by the media presentation system at a set media time associated with the media data. While playing the media data, the media presentation system causes retrieving all of the application archive from the one or more sources before the set media time. | 09-15-2011 |
James F. Dougherty, Morgan Hill, CA US
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| 20110219067 | Internetworking Domain and Key System - A DNS component functions privately in relation to a group of client devices, each associated with a unique URL maintained with the DNS component that privately identifies the devices within the group. The URL identifies a hierarchy of private domains enforced within the group which, at least implicitly, represents private relationships therein between the devices. Network rules are applied over the group based on the private relationships or the private domains. The devices are securely authenticated within the group. A content sharing service component allows devices within the group to access information content associated with other group devices based, at least partially, on the devices' URLs. A private IP based internet allows group devices secure access to the group from external networks and free access to other devices within the group. | 09-08-2011 |
Kristine Anna Dougherty, San Diego, CA US
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| 20110287391 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING A FACE CHART - A system and method for providing a personalized face chart. A digital image of the subject's face is obtained. A facial region of the digital image is identified. A line drawing is generated based on at least the facial region of the digital image. | 11-24-2011 |
Michael S. Dougherty, Burlingame, CA US
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| 20090187936 | Social broadcasting - A method of providing a broadcast is disclosed. One or more network communications is received via a network from each of a plurality of users of a broadcast provided at least in part other than via the network, each indicating a preference of the sending user with respect to a content of the broadcast. The network communications is processed to determine and update dynamically, and to provide for possible inclusion in the broadcast, a broadcast stream that reflects at least in part the network communications received from the plurality of users. | 07-23-2009 |
| 20110082807 | SOCIAL BROADCASTING USER EXPERIENCE - A method of providing user participation in a social broadcast environment is disclosed. A network communication is received from a user of a broadcast that includes a preference data indicating a preference of the user that a promoted content be included in the broadcast. Via a responsive network communication, a feedback data is provided to the user that includes a predicted future time at which the promoted content may be included in the broadcast. | 04-07-2011 |
Thomas J. Dougherty, Los Altos, CA US
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| 20100194684 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR PROVIDING PROGRAMMABLE COMPUTERIZED INTERACTORS - A computerized interactor system uses physical, three-dimensional objects as metaphors for input of user intent to a computer system. When one or more interactors are engaged with a detection field, the detection field reads an identifier associated with the object and communicates the identifier to a computer system. The computer system determines the meaning of the interactor based upon its identifier and upon a semantic context in which the computer system is operating. | 08-05-2010 |
Thomas K. Dougherty, Playa Del Rey, CA US
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| 20100255312 | X-Ray Opaque Coating - The disclosure relates to an X-ray opaque coating containing an epoxy resin including an iodinated phenol covalently bonded to a glycidyl ether. Iodinated phenol covalently bonded to a glycidyl ether may include iodinated bisphenol A, such as tetraiodobisphenol A, a glycidyl ether of mono-iodophenol, bis-iodophenol, tri-iodophenol, or combinations thereof. The coating may include an X-ray opaque inorganic filler. The disclosure also relates to an electronic component including a substrate and at least one device coupled to the substrate with an obfuscation layer disposed over the substrate for obscuring the device from an X-ray source. The obfuscation layer may include an X-ray opaque coating. The disclosure additionally relates to a method of obscuring at least a portion of an electronic component by depositing an obfuscation layer that may include an X-ray opaque coating and a method of forming an X-ray opaque coating. | 10-07-2010 |