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Gary Hampel, Ogden, UT US
| Patent application number | Description | Published |
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| 20090250914 | Module housing inflator flange - A fastener-less inflator apparatus may be used with an airbag. This apparatus includes an inflator. The inflator has a cap, a body, and a lip. An encompassing filter is also used. The filter may circumscribe the body of the inflator. Neither the inflator nor the encompassing filter has an inflator flange that anchors the inflator. The apparatus also includes a module housing. The module housing includes an opening, wherein the inflator and the encompassing filter are tightly fit into the opening. | 10-08-2009 |
Georg K. Hampel, New York, NY US
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| 20110145325 | RUNNING AN INTERACTIVE MULTI-USER APPLICATION AT A MOBILE TERMINAL - A method of running an interactive multi-user application at a terminal of a communication system, according to which the terminal accesses a server of the communication system to create or update thereat, using a set of application-agnostic tools implemented at the server, a slave process corresponding to the interactive multi-user application. The terminal then communicates with the slave process to provide and receive state-vector updates corresponding to the application group running this interactive multi-user application. The state-vector updates are used by this terminal and each of the other terminals from the application group to concurrently calculate and track the global state of the application in a mutually consistent manner. | 06-16-2011 |
| 20110145341 | SERVER PLATFORM TO SUPPORT INTERACTIVE MULTI-USER APPLICATIONS FOR MOBILE CLIENTS - An application-agnostic server platform that can be used to support different interactive multi-user applications. The server platform enables an application client to create a new application group or select and join an existing application group. Inter-client interactions within the application group are managed through a dedicated slave process, which is created by the server platform by invoking and configuring a set of application-agnostic tools. By combining and customizing the application-agnostic tools in an appropriate manner, the server platform is capable of creating a suitable slave process for any compliant interactive multi-user application. Once created, the slave process enables the client members of the corresponding application group to (i) interact with one another in a manner defined by the application and (ii) achieve results that are consistent across the entire application group despite the fact that all application-specific processing is carried out by the client terminals, often concurrently and in parallel to one another. | 06-16-2011 |
Karl Georg Hampel, New York, NY US
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| 20090170531 | Method and apparatus for transmitting meeting opportunity alert messages to users of mobile terminals located in the same geographical area - A LBS (location-based service) in which users equipped with a localizable mobile communication terminal advantageously receive “alert” messages when they have an opportunity to meet someone located in their geographic vicinity and having a profile matching their own profile. In particular, users, who may be associated with a given group of users, can be alerted via their mobile communication terminal when another user with a matching profile, and who may also be associated with the same group of users, is located in the same predetermined geographical area. The alert message may, for example, include the mobile phone number of the other user located in the same geographical area. | 07-02-2009 |
| 20090298513 | Mobile-Server Protocol for Location-Based Services - Location-based services are provided in a communication system comprising a wireless network. In one aspect, a mobile user device sends a trigger message to a server over a wireless link of the network. The server in response to the trigger message sends an update message to the mobile user device over the wireless link. The update message is sent within a period of time after the trigger message that is less than a dormancy time of the wireless link. The update message may specify, for example, a defined area around a location identified in the trigger message, one or more stationary fences associated with the mobile user device that overlap with the defined area and that are active or become active within a designated time frame, and a projected time frame within which a proximity-crossing event is likely to occur for at least one user device pair that includes the mobile user device. | 12-03-2009 |
Kenneth Hampel, Yardley, PA US
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| 20110196670 | INDEXING CONTENT AT SEMANTIC LEVEL - Systems and methods are disclosed that perform automated semantic tagging. Automated semantic tagging produces semantically linked tags for a given text content. Embodiments provide ontology mapping algorithms and concept weighting algorithms that create accurate semantic tags that can be used to improve enterprise content management, and search for better knowledge management and collaboration. | 08-11-2011 |
Lance T. Hampel, Land O'Lakes, WI US
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| 20080209625 | Oversized Portable Restroom With Standardized Footprint - A portable plastic resin restroom has an expanded interior space while maintaining a footprint with a standard depth dimension facilitating transport of the structure with conventional equipment. The depth dimension corresponds to that of conventional “utility” sized portable restrooms, and increased interior space is achieved by providing a width dimension half again as big. Its base has two or more runners, at least two of which are spaced at another industry standard dimension for transport equipment used to haul utility sized structures. | 09-04-2008 |
| 20090272330 | Livestock Confinement Pen - The invention provides an indoor livestock confinement system that includes a plurality of hollow plastic panels. Each panel includes a plurality of spaced tabs at its ends. A first end of each panel includes a first set of tabs, and a second end of each panel includes a second set of tabs. Each set of tabs includes at least one tab at a top portion of the end, at least one tab at an intermediate portion of the end, and at least one tab at a lower portion of the end. The tabs of the first set are offset vertically from the tabs of the second set such that the first set of tabs of a first panel fit vertically between the second tabs of another panel when the ends of the panels are put together. Each tab includes a hole such that a rod can be inserted down through the tabs to lock the panels together. The livestock confinement system may include additional features, such as ventilation components, reinforced panels, and bucket holders. | 11-05-2009 |
Lance T. Hampel, Land O' Lakes, WI US
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| 20080210141 | Skid Base for Portable Building - A molded plastic skid base for a resin building is formed with all of its openings facing downward and with runners integral with a deck that forms a floor of the base. Replaceable wear plates cover the bottoms of the runners and have truck loading notches molded at their ends and a longitudinal channel in which fastener heads are positioned. Stake down slots are provided in the ends of the runners and wear plates in a diagonal orientation so as to be aligned toward the center of the building, below the base. The floor of the base is a grid formed of diagonally oriented ribs, at least some of which may be shorter in their center than at their ends, is crowned in the center and has openings which taper upwardly. A solid sheet may be placed over the grid to close it. Bosses for receiving the wear plate mounting fasteners are positioned at the same locations along the sides of the base as the fastener mounting locations for attaching the building side walls to the base, to provide a greater thickness of material at those locations for the building sidewall fasteners to penetrate. Edges of a septic tank opening formed in the base are slanted downwardly and rear corners of the opening are triangular in shape. Downwardly opening openings are also formed in the base into which weights and weight covers may be fixed. | 09-04-2008 |
| 20080276443 | Method of Making a Vehicle Cab - A cab for a vehicle, such as an all terrain vehicle, a tractor, or small construction vehicle, is constructed of twin-sheet thermo-plastic panels that can be easily assembled, preferably with snap-together interlocking features. One of the panels can be a door panel having a door hinged to a door frame to control passage through a doorway. Both the door and the door frame have spaced apart hinge knuckles that interleave along a hinge axis to allow the door to pivot about a hinge pin. The door and door frame can be molded in a single twin-sheet panel. The two walls of the panel are fused together along the outer periphery of the panel door portion and the inner periphery of the panel door frame portion. The door is separated from the door frame by cutting the each of the walls along a door perimeter between the door and door frame portions of the molded panel. Preferably, the walls are not fused along the non-hinge sides of the door perimeter so that the walls can be cut in a manner to provide an overlap at the door/door frame interface. | 11-13-2008 |
| 20100327478 | OFFSET MOLD TWINNING - Thermoplastic parts are made of predominantly single unit thickness but with marginal areas of increased thickness by molding two parts in a common mold having overlapping mold portions. Two thicknesses of thermoplastic material are molded together in the areas of increased thickness at opposite ends of the common mold and the parts are separated from one another by trimming such that each part has an area of increased solid wall thickness and an area of reduced thickness. | 12-30-2010 |
Robert Roy Hampel, Tualatin, OR US
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| 20090102871 | Method for measuring a gap between an intermediate imaging member and a print head using thermal characteristics - A method uses temperature measurements for a print head and an imaging member to identify a distance between a print head and an imaging member and a heat transfer function. The method includes heating an imaging member to a predetermined imaging member temperature, activating a heat source to heat a print head to a predetermined print head temperature while the print head is at a non-imaging position with reference to the imaging member, moving the heated print head to a print position with reference to the imaging member, the print position being closer to the imaging member than the non-imaging position, deactivating the heat source, measuring a first temperature for the print head in response to a first time period expiring, and identifying a distance between the print head in the print position and the imaging member from the temperature measured for the print head, the predetermined imaging member temperature, and a difference between the predetermined print head temperature and the temperature measured for the print head. | 04-23-2009 |
| 20110181647 | Method for Measuring a Gap Between an Intermediate Imaging Member and a Print Head Using Thermal Characteristics - A method uses temperature measurements for a print head and an imaging member to identify a distance between a print head and an imaging member. The method determines whether the print head at the print position is too close to the imaging member to identify the gap distance without damage to the print head. Then, if the print head is not too close, the print head is heated to quantify the heat sink effect of the imaging member on the print head. This effect is related to a heat transfer function that identifies the gap distance between the imaging member and the print head. | 07-28-2011 |