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Adam Horton, San Francisco, CA US
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20140332085 | Self-Activated Draining System - A method of managing leakage of liquid inside a battery system comprises: containing leaking liquid in a non-liquid sensitive region of the battery system so as to protect internal electrical components of the battery system from coming in contact with the leaking liquid; and in direct response to the leakage, expunging the leaking liquid from the battery system. A drain device includes: a body with a port therethrough, the body configured to be positioned in a wall of a container; means for opening the port in response to a first liquid contacting the drain device on an inside of the container; and means for resisting ingress into the container by a second liquid that contacts the drain device on an outside of the container. | 11-13-2014 |
Andrew Horton, San Francisco, CA US
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20090119143 | BRAND NOTIFICATION SYSTEMS AND METHODS - Tools and techniques for identifying brand misuse and/or for distributing information about such misuse. Certain of the tools and techniques can be used to determine that a set of online content (e.g., a web site, web page, or portion thereof) is untrustworthy (for example, because that set of online content misuses a brand) and generate a brand notification feed indicating the untrustworthiness of the set of online content. This brand notification feed might be distributed to a security vendor, who can incorporate information from the brand notification feed into the information it provides to clients. | 05-07-2009 |
Brian Horton, San Diego, CA US
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20090079778 | INTELLIGENT PRINT MASK - A multi swath printing method for printing an image on an ink jet printing system is used to reduce image banding. The ink jet printing system includes a printhead with one or more ink ejection nozzles. The method entails forming a set of individual print masks. Each individual print mask has one or more groupings of two dimensional patterns of different frequencies and is assigned to a color of the ink jet printing system. The method ends by inputting the set of individual print masks formed into the ink jet printing system to form an input mask set and printing images using the input mask set to create an out-of-phase composite of the image printed. Banding is substantially reduced in the printed image and the printed image comprises a resolution between 300 dpi and 4800 dpi. | 03-26-2009 |
Bruce Kelley Horton, Redwood City, CA US
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20140313857 | Acoustic propagation method - Array of acoustic infrasonic transmitters are deployed around an area of target interest and continuously transmit acoustic time marked signals. An unintentional transduction of these acoustic time mark signals is made by a person of nefarious intent, and the resultant live or recorded signal is delivered to the receiver. In the case of many terrorist recordings the transduction is a handheld VTR recording of some political speech or event and the recording of that event is made available thought videotapes delivered to local media. The transduction is analyzed for acoustic time mark signals, which when processed using reverse TDOA methods provides the location of the signal transduction. | 10-23-2014 |
Christopher Horton, Culver City, CA US
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20100299151 | Advanced Encoding Of Music Files - Example embodiments allow for the creation, distribution, and use of flexible media formats. Example embodiments may allow individual content files to be rendered in multiple formats and versions. In addition, example embodiments may provide for granular rights management, which may allow users to access content files on a feature-by-feature basis. | 11-25-2010 |
20100312810 | SECURE IDENTIFICATION OF MUSIC FILES - Digital content files may include media content, metadata uniquely identifying a transaction in which the content file was obtained, and a digital signature of at least a portion of the metadata. The metadata may include a distributor ID, a date and time of the transaction, an asset ID, a secure hash of the media content, a nonce, and one of a user ID, uniquely identifying a user who obtained the content file in the transaction, and a transaction ID uniquely identifying the transaction. | 12-09-2010 |
20120253827 | ADVANCED ENCODING OF MUSIC FILES - Example embodiments allow for the creation, distribution, and use of flexible media formats. Example embodiments may allow individual content files to be rendered in multiple formats and versions. In addition, example embodiments may provide for granular rights management, which may allow users to access content files on a feature-by-feature basis. | 10-04-2012 |
20130294606 | ADVANCED ENCODING OF MUSIC FILES - Example embodiments allow for the creation, distribution, and use of flexible media formats. Example embodiments may allow individual content files to be rendered in multiple formats and versions. In addition, example embodiments may provide for granular rights management, which may allow users to access content files on a feature-by-feature basis. | 11-07-2013 |
Darlene P. Horton, San Mateo, CA US
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20120265136 | Preservative-Free Follicle Stimulating Hormone Solution Delivery Device - A one-time use device to deliver preservative-free follicle stimulating hormone (FSH) solution is disclosed. The device includes a needle covered by a sliding needle shield, which covers the needle in all modes of the device. The device can be placed into a ready-to-use position in four or fewer user steps. The device has a knob for setting a desired dose of FSH. The knob includes longitudinally spaced elements respectively corresponding to the lock position and the seven or fewer discrete dosing positions. The device locks after one use and cannot be reused thereafter. | 10-18-2012 |
20130324965 | Preservative-Free Follicle Stimulating Hormone Solution Delivery Device - A one-time use device to deliver preservative-free follicle stimulating hormone (FSH) solution is disclosed. The device includes a needle covered by a sliding needle shield, which covers the needle in all modes of the device. The device can be placed into a ready-to-use position in four or fewer user steps. The device has a knob for setting a desired dose of FSH. The knob includes longitudinally spaced elements respectively corresponding to the lock position and the seven or fewer discrete dosing positions. The device locks after one use and cannot be reused thereafter. | 12-05-2013 |
David Horton, Dublin, CA US
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20160092871 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR ASSET OBFUSCATION - Techniques for obfuscating and deploying digital assets (e.g., mobile applications) are provided to mitigate the risk of unauthorized disclosure. An asset can be received that is to be deployed to a plurality of mobile devices, each of the mobile devices associated with a corresponding account having account attributes. A deployment group of one or more mobile devices for deploying the asset can be identified based on a set of one or more obfuscation parameters, comprising account attributes shared among the one or more mobile devices within the deployment group. A customized obfuscation scheme to be applied to the asset can be determined based at least in part on the set of obfuscation parameters. The customized obfuscation scheme can be applied to the asset to generate an obfuscated asset. The obfuscated asset can be transmitted and/or updated over a network to the one or more mobile devices within the deployment group. | 03-31-2016 |
Deanna Lynn Horton, Corona Del Mar, CA US
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20150089739 | BUNK BED SLAT COVER - A cover for hiding slats of an upper bunk is disclosed. The cover may be wrapped around the head and foot slats of the upper bunk or around left and right rails of the upper bunk. The cover is tensioned with a strapping mechanism to hold the bottom side of the cover in a substantially flat configuration. Moreover, an intermediate strap may be strapped around an intermediate slat to further maintain the substantially flat configuration of the bottom side of the cover. Flaps may also be attached to the bottom side of the cover and be traversable between first and second positions to display two or more motifs. The cover serves to conceal the aesthetically displeasing slats and also to provide a protective barrier over the splinters on wooden slats. | 04-02-2015 |
Denise Horton, Weetlake Village, CA US
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20090111357 | COSMETIC APPLIANCE AND METHOD OF USE - A cosmetic appliance and method of use for temporarily lifting, supporting or smoothing the skin of selected areas of a user's body, including the eyebrows, eyelids, throat, neck, breasts and other areas, and which is not readily apparent once applied, formed in predetermined shapes from thin, generally translucent flexible sheeting to one side of which adhesive has been applied and covered with a peel-away layer. | 04-30-2009 |
Denise Horton, Westlake Village, CA US
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20090149114 | COSMETIC APPLIANCES AND METHODS OF USE - A cosmetic appliance and method of use for temporarily lifting, gathering human skin of the breast or smoothing the human breast and skin of the breast, and which is not readily apparent once applied, formed in predetermined shapes from thin, generally translucent flexible sheeting or tape and or of a silicone gel formed into the shape of cup, to one side of which a reusable adhesive has been applied and covered with a peel-away layer for temporarily lifting, gathering, covering or smoothing the skin of the breast, nipple and areola areas, and which is not readily apparent once applied. | 06-11-2009 |
Donald Horton, Canoga Park, CA US
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20090294262 | LOW PROFILE ROTARY SWITCH WITH AN ENCLOSED DETENT SUB-ASSEMBLY - The panel mounted low profile rotary switch includes a knob, a detent sub-assembly, a shaft, a bushing, and a panel. The knob is held to the shaft by one or more locking screws and the operation of the detent sub-assembly is enclosed and is not altered by removal of the knob. The entire detent sub-assembly is located on the knob side or user's side of the panel. Only the bushing and the shaft extend through the panel. The shaft is connected to a rotary component such as a rotary switch contact which engages circuitry on a printed circuit board. The switch or electrical connection is located on the undersurface of the panel. | 12-03-2009 |
Fred C. Horton, Santa Rosa, CA US
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20100208501 | POWER TRANSFER MANAGEMENT FOR LOCAL POWER SOURCES OF A GRID-TIED LOAD - A power transfer system provides power factor conditioning of the generated power. Power is received from a local power source, converted to usable AC power, and the power factor is conditioned to a desired value. The desired value may be a power factor at or near unity, or the desired power factor may be in response to conditions of the power grid, a tariff established, and/or determinations made remotely to the local power source. Many sources and power transfer systems can be put together and controlled as a power source farm to deliver power to the grid having a specific power factor characteristic. The farm may be a grouping of multiple local customer premises. AC power can also be conditioned prior to use by an AC to DC power supply for more efficient DC power conversion. | 08-19-2010 |
20140350742 | POWER TRANSFER MANAGEMENT FOR LOCAL POWER SOURCES OF A GRID-TIED LOAD - A power transfer system provides power factor conditioning of the generated power. Power is received from a local power source, converted to usable AC power, and the power factor is conditioned to a desired value. The desired value may be a power factor at or near unity, or the desired power factor may be in response to conditions of the power grid, a tariff established, and/or determinations made remotely to the local power source. Many sources and power transfer systems can be put together and controlled as a power source farm to deliver power to the grid having a specific power factor characteristic. The farm may be a grouping of multiple local customer premises. AC power can also be conditioned prior to use by an AC to DC power supply for more efficient DC power conversion. | 11-27-2014 |
20160079752 | HIERARCHICAL AND DISTRIBUTED POWER GRID CONTROL - A control node enables distributed grid control. The control node monitors power generation and power demand at a point of common coupling (PCC) between a utility power grid and all devices downstream from the PCC. The control node can have one or more consumer nodes, which can be or include customer premises, and one or more energy sources connected downstream. The control node monitors and controls the interface via the PCC from the same side of the PCC as the power generation and power demand. The control can include adjusting the interface between the control node and the central grid management via the PCC to maintain compliance with grid regulations at the PCC. | 03-17-2016 |
20160079757 | DISTRIBUTED POWER GRID CONTROL WITH LOCAL VAR GENERATION - A distributed control node enables local control of reactive power. A consumer node generates local real power on a consumer side of a point of common coupling (PCC). The control node converts local real power into reactive power with a conversion device on the consumer side of the PCC. The control node can deliver the reactive power to the grid to provide VARs to the grid from locally generated real power. | 03-17-2016 |
20160087432 | LOCAL METERING RESPONSE TO DATA AGGREGATION IN DISTRIBUTED GRID NODE - Data aggregation enables a local control response at a consumer node of a distributed grid network. A consumer node includes a local energy meter. The meter receives multiple inputs indicating an electrical condition of the grid network and local operating conditions. The meter can aggregate the grid network and local operation conditions inputs with power demand for a local load coupled to the consumer side of the point of common coupling monitored by the energy meter. The energy meter calculates a mix of real and reactive power to output from a local energy source, based on the aggregated data. A local power converter outputs the calculated power from the local energy source. | 03-24-2016 |
20160087433 | DATA AGGREGATION WITH OPERATION FORECASTS FOR A DISTRIBUTED GRID NODE - Data aggregation enables a local control response based on forecasted actions at a consumer node of a distributed grid network. A consumer node includes a local energy meter that receives grid condition information, including an aggregation of multiple inputs indicating an electrical condition of the grid network, local operating conditions at the PCC, and local power demand. The consumer node accesses rate information for the grid network indicating a consumer power price and a market power price. Based on the rate information and the aggregation information, the consumer node calculates an output power to generate with a local power converter, which outputs the power based in accordance with the calculation. | 03-24-2016 |
20160087434 | DATA AGGREGATION WITH FORWARD PREDICTION FOR A DISTRIBUTED GRID NODE - Data aggregation enables a local control response based on forward prediction at a consumer node of a distributed grid network. A consumer node includes a local energy meter that receives grid condition information, including an aggregation of multiple inputs indicating an electrical condition of the grid network, local operating conditions at the PCC, and local power demand. The consumer node accesses operating history for a local control node, the operating history including records of previous power output for various grid conditions and operating conditions. Based on the operating history and the aggregation information, the consumer node calculates an output power to generate with a local power converter, which outputs the power based in accordance with the calculation. | 03-24-2016 |
20160087436 | TOTAL HARMONIC CONTROL - A distributed control node enables total harmonic control. The control node measures current drawn by a load, including harmonics of the primary current. A metering device can generate an energy signature unique to the load including recording a complex current vector for the load in operation identifying the primary current with a real power component and a reactive power component, and identifying the harmonics with a real power component, a reactive power component, and an angular displacement relative to the primary current. The control node can control a noise contribution of the load due to the harmonics as seen at a point of common coupling to reduce noise introduced onto the grid network from the load. | 03-24-2016 |
20160087439 | ENERGY SIGNATURES TO REPRESENT COMPLEX CURRENT VECTORS - A distributed control node enables monitoring of complex energy signatures for local loads. The control node can identify energy signatures unique to local loads. The energy signature includes a complex current vector for the load in operation identifying the primary current with a real power component and a reactive power component, and identifying one or more harmonics each with a real power component, a reactive power component, and an angular displacement relative to the primary current. Based on the energy signature, the control node can control a noise contribution of the load due to the harmonics as seen at a point of common coupling to reduce noise introduced onto the grid network from the load. | 03-24-2016 |
20160087440 | POWER GRID SATURATION CONTROL WITH DISTRIBUTED GRID INTELLIGENCE - Distributed grid intelligence enables grid saturation control. A distributed control node can determine that a segment of the power grid exceeds a saturation threshold. A power grid can be saturated by real power when local power sources at customer premises are connected to the grid. The grid saturation threshold can be a point at which real power generation capacity of local energy sources exceeds a threshold percentage of peak real power demand for the power grid segment where the power generation capacity exists. The control node at a consumer node can dynamically adjust a ratio of real power to reactive power for the segment of the power grid as seen from the grid, and reduce grid saturation. | 03-24-2016 |
20160087441 | VIRTUAL POWER GRID - Distributed grid intelligence can enable a virtual power grid. Multiple consumer nodes can have local power sources, and be coupled to a same point of common coupling (PCC). The consumer nodes can be controlled by distributed control nodes at the consumer nodes. The control nodes control the distribution of power from the local power sources based on local power demand of each respective consumer node, and also based on distribution of power from the other respective control node. Thus, consumer nodes can share power generated locally, but operate independently without the need for central management or a central power plant. | 03-24-2016 |
20160087442 | MODULAR POWER GRID - Distributed grid intelligence can enable a modular power grid. Multiple consumer nodes are coupled to a same point of common coupling (PCC). Local power sources are coupled to the PCC. None of the power sources has sufficient generation capacity alone to meet peak demand of the multiple consumer nodes of the grid segment. The grid segment includes multiple control nodes to control distribution of power from the power sources to the multiple consumer nodes based on power demand from the multiple consumer nodes and based on operation of the other power sources. Thus, consumer nodes can share power generated locally, but operate independently without the need for central management or a central power plant, and different independent segments can be coupled to each other to expand the grid network. | 03-24-2016 |
20160087522 | DISTRIBUTED POWER GRID CONTROL WITH LOCAL VAR CONTROL - A distributed control node enables local control of reactive power. A metering device of the control node measures energy delivered by a grid network at a point of common coupling (PCC) to which a load is coupled. The metering device determines that the load draws reactive power from the grid network. The control node draws real power from the grid and converts the real power from the grid into reactive power. The conversion of real to reactive power occurs on the consumer side of the PCC. The conversion of real to reactive power enables delivery of reactive power to a local load from real power drawn from the grid. | 03-24-2016 |
Holly M. Horton, Pasadena, CA US
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20100080814 | NOVEL COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR TREATING IgE-MEDIATED DISORDERS - The present invention relates to immunoglobulins that bind IgE and FcγRIIb with high affinity, said compositions being capable of inhibiting cells that express membrane-anchored IgE. Such compositions are useful for treating IgE-mediated disorders, including allergies and asthma. | 04-01-2010 |
20110189178 | Immunoprotection of Therapeutic Moieties Using Enhanced Fc Regions - The present application relates to therapeutic moieties displaying reduced immunogen response, particularly for therapeutic purposes. | 08-04-2011 |
John Horton, Santa Barbara, CA US
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20110146460 | NUT DRIVER DRILL BIT - A nut driver bit is designed to install nuts onto threaded shafts, such as all-thread rods and bolts. The nut driver bit may be driven by a power drill which causes a driver end of the nut driver bit to rotate. The driver end may contact a nut, thereby causing the nut to rotate. The driver end may be covered in with a contact grip for gripping the nut during use. A worker may install and spin a nut on a threaded shaft without requiring their fingers to manually rotate the nut. The nut driver bit may drastically reduce the time required to install nuts onto threaded rods. | 06-23-2011 |
Kathryn E. Horton, Rohnert Park, CA US
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20130124427 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ADMINISTERING A LEGAL PROCEEDING USING A POSTCARD MAILER WITH A QR CODE - According to some embodiments of the present disclosure, systems and methods for administering a legal proceeding are disclosed. The method includes receiving recipient data including a recipient name, a recipient address, and a unique recipient identifier. The recipient is one of a plurality of recipients associated with the proceeding. The unique recipient identifier distinguishes the recipient from the other recipients of the plurality of recipients. The method further includes receiving sender data including a sender name and a sender address. The method further includes receiving a network location identifier identifying a network address of a website that the recipient is to access and perform a requested action and generating a QR code based on the network location and the unique recipient identifier. The method further includes generating a layout of postcard based on the QR code, the recipient data, and the sender data, printing the postcard, and mailing the postcard. | 05-16-2013 |
Martin Horton, San Diego, CA US
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20090195037 | RECONFIGURABLE VEHICLE SEATING SYSTEM - A vehicle seating system including a seating assembly and a first adjustment assembly. The seating assembly has a first seat portion and a second seat portion. The first adjustment assembly is configured to move the first seat portion with respect to the second seat portion between an extended position, wherein the seating assembly has a first width and a gap is defined between the first seat portion and the second seat portion, and a retracted position, wherein the seating assembly has a second width that is smaller than the first width. | 08-06-2009 |
Michael A. Horton, Santa Clara, CA US
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20100157879 | SURVEILLANCE SYSTEM AND METHOD - A plurality of modules interact to form an adaptive network in which each module transmits and receives data signals indicative of proximity of objects. A central computer accumulates the data produced or received and relayed by each module for analyzing proximity responses to transmit through the adaptive network control signals to a selectively-addressed module to respond to computer analyses of the data accumulated from modules forming the adaptive network. | 06-24-2010 |
Michael A. Horton, Mountain View, CA US
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20120232832 | Inertial Sensing With Spatially Distributed Sensor Array And Two Dimensional Data Processing - A spatially distributed MEMS inertial sensor array is designed to reduce or cancel measurement errors and to increase the signal detection accuracy. By combining the measurements from a pair of sensors having sensing axes in two different, non-orthogonal directions, the correlated error due to the environmental changes are cancelled or reduced and the uncorrelated random noise is also reduced by the square root of two. By sequentially sampling the sensor array in the time domain, the number of the ADC circuits can be largely reduced. A two dimensional signal processing method is used to process the sensor array output data, in order to further reduce the remaining errors. Namely, one dimension uses the outputs from multiple spatially distributed sensor sets and the other dimension is the time domain. The signal to noise ratio is increased by using the signal correlation in both the spatial domain and the time domain. | 09-13-2012 |
20120232847 | High Accuracy And High Dynamic Range MEMS Inertial Measurement Unit With Automatic Dynamic Range Control - Embodiments relate to a MEMS IMU having an automatic gain control. The dynamic measurement range of the MEMS IMU is controlled by controlling the gain of a signal amplifier before the analog to digital converter (ADC) to make full use of the ADC range. In one embodiment, two or more MEMS inertial sensor sets are installed in the IMU. One of the sensor sets is for high accuracy with low dynamic range, and the other set or sets is for higher dynamic range with less resolution or accuracy. In one implementation, a digital processor determines which of the sensor sets to be used according to the system dynamic estimation. In another implementation, the system weights the sensor outputs from the sensor sets according to the system dynamics. | 09-13-2012 |
Noah Horton, San Francisco, CA US
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20140074551 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR IMPLEMENTING A SOCIAL MEDIA MARKETING AND ENGAGEMENT APPLICATION - Disclosed is an approach for allowing a business entity to access and integrate with social media data, which is capable of accessing data across multiple types of internet-based sources of social data and commentary and to perform semantic analysis upon that data. Tags are associated with the analyzed content that pertain to actionable categorization of the data. Community managers can then view and take action with respect to the data. In addition, enterprise business applications can utilize the tagged data to perform business processing. | 03-13-2014 |
20140074844 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR IMPLEMENTING SEMANTIC ANALYSIS OF INTERNAL SOCIAL NETWORK CONTENT - Disclosed is a method, system, and computer program product for semantically analyzing the content within an internal social network. Using the results of the analysis, the executives can gain a better understanding of, and insight into, the organization and its employees. A dashboard tool may be used in some embodiments of the invention to visualize the results of the semantic analysis. | 03-13-2014 |
20140180788 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR IMPLEMENTING A CLOUD-BASED SOCIAL MEDIA MARKETING METHOD AND SYSTEM - Disclosed is an approach for implementing a system, method, and computer program product for performing social marketing using a cloud-based system. The approach is capable of accessing data across multiple types of internet-based sources of social data and commentary and to perform analysis upon that data. A social marketing campaign can then be generated and implemented in an integrated manner using the system. This permits realtime reaction to trends, with rapid ability to react to opportunities in the marketplace. | 06-26-2014 |
20140258836 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR IMPLEMENTING NESTED DROP ZONES - Therefore, what has been described is an improved for visually implementing a web page layout, where the web page layout includes a nested drop zone. Allowing the user to interactively implement nested drop zones provides numerous benefits, including the benefit of being able to create specialized layout configurations for a web page without requiring the need for expert programmers to write computer code for the new configuration. This permits the user to implement highly customized layout in a very easy and efficient way. In addition, an improved approach has been described to implement a new type of widget that obtains its context information from another widget. For example, when a contextual widget is dropped into a drop zone, that contextual widget would obtain its context data from its parent drop zone widget. | 09-11-2014 |
20140258837 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR IMPLEMENTING CONTEXTUAL WIDGETS - An improved approach is described to implement a new type of widget that obtains its context information from another widget. For example, when a contextual widget is dropped into a drop zone, that contextual widget would obtain its context data from its parent drop zone widget. Also described is an improved for visually implementing a web page layout, where the web page layout includes a nested drop zone. | 09-11-2014 |
Peter John Horton, Carlsbad, CA US
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20110285204 | Method and apparatus for electrical load control network - The methods and apparatus described enable automatic configuration, or commissioning, of controller devices and load control devices through a low voltage communication network controlled by one or more controller devices. These methods and apparatus further enable expansion of the load control system by connection of additional loads and or load control devices and or controller devices which will reinitialize the low voltage communication network and automatically reconfigure the controller devices and load control devices connected to the network. | 11-24-2011 |
20130300199 | Method and Apparatus for Electrical Load Control Network - The methods and apparatus described enable automatic configuration, or commissioning, of controller devices and load control devices through a low voltage communication network controlled by one or more controller devices. These methods and apparatus further enable expansion of the load control system by connection of additional loads and or load control devices and or controller devices which will reinitialize the low voltage communication network and automatically reconfigure the controller devices and load control devices connected to the network. | 11-14-2013 |
Roger Horton, Sunnyvale, CA US
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20130125634 | MECHANICAL PACKAGING TECHNIQUE OF ATTACHING MEMS AND FLEX CIRCUIT - The present invention disclosed provides for a rugged, compact sensing device for various implementations including those of automotive, marine, and other combustion technologies that require low cost accurate pressure sensing during internal combustion engine process. In one or more aspects of the present invention, a MEMS sensor connection with a flexible circuit is presented and the communication of which is preferably achieved through the use of wire bond technology. | 05-23-2013 |
20130130424 | PROCESS FOR MINIMIZING CHIPPING WHEN SEPARATING MEMS DIES ON A WAFER - A method for separating a plurality of dies on a Micro-Electro-Mechanical System (MEMS) wafer comprising scribing a notch on a first side of the wafer between at least two of the plurality of dies on a first surface and depositing a metal on the first surface of the plurality of dies. The method further comprises scribing a second side of the wafer between at least two of the plurality of dies from a second surface thereof through the notch. The first side and second side are substantially parallel and opposite each other and the first surface and the second surface are substantially parallel and opposite each other. In a process in accordance with the present invention, a method to minimize chipping of the bonding portion of a MEMs device during sawing of the wafer is provided, which minimally affects the process steps associated with separating the die on a wafer. | 05-23-2013 |
Roger Horton, San Jose, CA US
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20100044809 | Sensor Device Packaging And Method - A sensor device and a method of forming comprises a die pad receives a sensor device, such as a MEMS device. The MEMS device has a first coefficient of thermal expansion (CTE). The die pad is made of a material having a second CTE compliant with the first CTE. The die pad includes a base and a support structure with a CTE compliant with the first and second CTE. The die pad has a support structure that protrudes from a base. The support structure has a height and wall thickness which minimize forces felt by the die pad and MEMS device when the base undergoes thermal expansion or contraction forces from a header. | 02-25-2010 |
Russell Horton, La Jolla, CA US
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20140278357 | WORD GENERATION AND SCORING USING SUB-WORD SEGMENTS AND CHARACTERISTIC OF INTEREST - Methods for scoring a word or generating new words according to a characteristic of interest can use a computer system to access a corpus of words exemplifying a characteristic of interest. Each word is broken into a type of subword segments. Each subword segment in the corpus of words has a value score. The word to be scored is broken into the type of sub-word segment and value score for each is determined and is used to create a characteristic of interest score for the word. For generating new words, a number of first subword segments are chosen based at least in part upon value scores. At least one additional subword segment is combined with the first subword segments to create a set of potential new words, a second value score is generated for each, and a new word is selected and provided to a user. | 09-18-2014 |
Ryan C. Horton, Camarillo, CA US
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20100281467 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR AUTOMATIC SOFTWARE TESTING - System and method for automated testing of computer software, especially for business process (enterprise) computer software applications. The present system generates scripts for testing software in an automated manner. Business process testing scripts, for instance for functional automated software testing, are thereby converted by an adapter to other types of testing scripts, for instance for testing performance or security or application monitoring. | 11-04-2010 |
Scott Horton, San Jose, CA US
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20150099262 | FLOW CYTOMETER BIOSAFETY HOOD AND SYSTEMS INCLUDING THE SAME - Flow cytometer systems are provided that mitigate aerosols generated during operation of a flow cytometer. A flow cytometer system can include various combinations of: a flow cytometer instrument base, a flow cytometer, and a biosafety hood (BSH). In some embodiments, a subject flow cytometer system includes a flow cytometer instrument base, a flow cytometer, and a BSH. In some embodiments, a subject flow cytometer system includes a flow cytometer instrument base and a flow cytometer. In some cases, a BSH includes an aerosol management system, which provides a redundant air filtration system. Also provided are components of a flow cytometer system (e.g., a BSH configured to attach to a flow cytometer instrument base, a flow cytometer instrument base configured to attach to a BSH, etc.). Also provided are methods, including methods of performing a flow cytometric procedure using a flow cytometer system; and methods of decontaminating a flow cytometer system. | 04-09-2015 |
Stephen Horton, San Diego, CA US
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20090212113 | IMAGE CAPTURE DEVICE WITH INTEGRATED BARCODE SCANNING - This disclosure describes barcode scanning techniques for an image capture device. The image capture device may automatically detect a barcode within an image while the image capture device is operating in a non-barcode image capture mode, such a default image capture mode. In one aspect, the detection of the barcode within the image may be based on a combination of identified edges and low intensity regions within the image. The image capture device may configure, based on the detection of the barcode, one or more image capture properties associated with the image capture device to improve a quality at which the images are captured. The image capture device captures the image in accordance with the configured image capture properties. The techniques may effectively provide a universal and integrated front-end for producing improved quality images of barcodes without requiring significant interaction with a user via a complicated user interface. | 08-27-2009 |
Steve Horton, Westlake Village, CA US
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20080215445 | CUSTOMER SERVICE MARKETING - Customer service marketing is disclosed. After a customer communication is received and the customer is assigned to a service agent, service request information may be received from the service agent after the service request information is obtained by the service agent from the customer. A service response information may be provided to the service agent. A plurality of current offers may be obtained. A compendium score for each of the current offers may be prepared. At least one of the current offers may be selected to be provided to the customer based on the compendium scores. Cue information may be provided to a service agent based on the selected offer. The customer may be transferred to a specialist to facilitate the customer's purchase of a product or service described in the selected offer. | 09-04-2008 |