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Holland, Jr.

Cecil Ray Holland, Jr., Ardmore, TN US

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20100004790Water Heater Demand Side Management System - A system for shifting energy demand from on-peak time windows to off-peak time windows by using hot water heater load shifting, while providing the end user with the level of service (i.e., availability of hot water) according to the user's customary use described by service quality criteria. The shift is accomplished by a controller located at the end user establishment and in communication with a central control server. The controller monitors local water heater upper and/or lower temperature and controls upper and/or lower water heater heating elements in accordance with a demand shift process commanded by the central control server. The controller may determine usage and remaining capacity for reporting back to the central control server. A volumetric capacity and usage determination is disclosed. The control server may select water heaters according to use patterns and/or measured capacity. One embodiment is adapted for use with existing water heaters without disrupting safety features of the existing water heater.01-07-2010

Charles Thurman Holland, Jr., New Albany, IN US

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20090320357Green fuel, a gasoline replacement, E98 - The primary purpose of this present invention is to provide a product that can replace gasoline in spark ignition, internal combustion engines. More particularly, the invention relates to a method for lowering the oxidizing properties of Ethanol that will allow it to function without destroying engine parts.12-31-2009

John Lawrence Holland, Jr., Berkeley, CA US

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20090300051Systems and Methods for Building Albums Having Links to Documents - Under one aspect, a method for building an album includes: obtaining a plurality of documents from a remotely located document repository; displaying a first document in the plurality of documents in a center position of a graphic output device; displaying a second document in the plurality of documents in a first off-center position of the graphic output device; wherein the second document is displayed rotated about a first axis of rotation that lies between the center position and the first off-center position of the graphic output device; accepting user input to add a link to the document in the remotely located document repository to said album; and storing said album in a remotely located album repository.12-03-2009
20090300473Systems and Methods for Displaying Albums Having Links to Documents - Under one aspect, a method of displaying information includes: obtaining, responsive to a user query, an album from a remote computer, wherein the album comprises a plurality of links. Each link is to a static graphic representation, and each static graphic representation is stored in a document repository in a remote location. Each static graphic representation is a static graphic representation of a document retrieved from the Internet at a time before the obtaining. The method also includes getting, responsive to said user query, a subset or all of the static graphic representations using a corresponding subset or all of the links. The subset or all of the static graphic representations in the album is at least two static graphic representations in the album. The method also includes displaying the subset of static representations on a graphic output device.12-03-2009
20090307086SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR VISUALLY GROUPING LINKS TO DOCUMENTS - Systems and methods for sharing albums are provided. An album has a plurality of links to documents, such as static graphic representations of web pages, or web pages themselves. Users may graphically add links to documents to albums by dragging graphic representations of such documents to a designated place on a computer interface. When a user shares an album, a link to the album is sent to a recipient. When the recipient activates the album link, documents linked by the album are presented as a graphical presentation can then be reviewed. Each of these documents can be in a document repository addressable and each of these documents may be categorized. Advertisements can be served when albums are shared. Such advertisements are chosen from an advertisement repository based on a characterization of the album or a characterization of one or more documents linked by the album.12-10-2009

Richard Holland, Jr., Lapeer, MI US

Wayne H. Holland, Jr., North Hollywood, CA US

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20100314506RISER LOCK UNIT FOR SPRINKLERS - A riser lock unit is provided for quick and easy mounting onto an elevated sprinkler riser. The riser lock unit functions to retain or maintain the sprinkler riser in an elevated position, without normal spring-loaded retraction into an underlying sprinkler housing, to facilitate service and/or replacement of a sprinkler nozzle head mounted at the upper end of the riser. When desired, the riser lock unit is quickly and easily removed from the sprinkler riser.12-16-2010