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Cindy Hurst, Vancouver, WA US
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| 20100015415 | Individual user identification system and appliance for a towel - A towel user identification system or appliance includes one or more identification devices each configured to be removably affixed to a towel or the like, wherein each of the identification devices bears an individual-specific indicium on an outer surface thereof, and wherein each of the identification patches bears a first affixment means permanently attached on an inner surface thereof; and a second affixment means configured to be permanently attached to a towel or the like, the second affixment means configured further to removably capture one of the one or more identification devices thereto by cooperation of the first and second affixment means. Optionally, the system includes a stowing substrate configured to stow a plurality of the one or more identification devices in an array. | 01-21-2010 |
Howard A. Hurst, Redmond, WA US
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| 20100262632 | DATA TRANSFER FROM ON-LINE TO ON-PREMISE DEPLOYMENT - A customer can request migration of its data from a multi-tenant hosting environment to a local environment. The customer's data is pulled from the multi-tenant hosting environment and scrubbed so that it is compatible with a local version of the application previously hosted in the multi-tenant hosting environment. The data is made available to the customer at a secure location in the hosting environment. The customer retrieves the data, after proper authentication, to its local data store, and then imports the data into the local version of the application. Users of the local version of the application are then mapped from previous multi-jurisdictional identifications to local user identifications in the application. | 10-14-2010 |
Howard Alexander Hurst, Redmond, WA US
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| 20090254386 | INNOVATION MARKET - An innovation market is described. An apparatus may comprise an innovation market subsystem arranged to manage an innovation marketplace for the exchange of virtual shares in a project for virtual currency to measure project value. The innovation market subsystem may comprise an innovator manager module operative to allocate virtual shares to a project. The innovation market subsystem may also comprise an innovation exchange module communicatively coupled to the project manager module, the innovation exchange module operative to exchange virtual shares for virtual currency at a virtual market price. The innovation market subsystem may further comprise a price generator module communicatively coupled to the innovation exchange module, the price generator module operative to modify the virtual market price for the project based on the exchange. The innovation market subsystem may still further comprise an investor manager module communicatively coupled to the price generator module, the inventor manager module operative to generate a project value for an investor by multiplying the virtual market price for the virtual shares and a number of virtual shares owned by the investor. Other embodiments are described and claimed. | 10-08-2009 |
Matthew F. Hurst, Seattle, WA US
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| 20090319449 | PROVIDING CONTEXT FOR WEB ARTICLES - An overwhelming number of articles are available everyday via the internet. Unfortunately, it is impossible to peruse more than a handful, and it is difficult to ascertain an article's social context. The techniques disclosed herein address this problem by harnessing implicit and explicit contextual information from social media. By extracting text surrounding a hyperlink to an article in a post and assessing the article as a function of content surrounding the hyperlink, an article's social context is determined and presented. Additionally, articles that are sufficiently similar in content may be grouped to establish a many-to-one relationship between posts and an article, creating a more accurate assessment. | 12-24-2009 |
| 20100042910 | Social Media Guided Authoring - Techniques and systems for assisting an author in creating content for social media (e.g., blog posts, microblogs, tweets, etc.) are disclosed, wherein hints are provided to the author as a function of social media stored in a social media knowledge store. Social media is collected and stored in a social media knowledge store according to some criteria. Upon the happening of some predetermined event, for example, relevant information is retrieved from the social media knowledge store. The relevancy of information may be a function of editing context (provided by the author) and/or social media behavior, for example. The relevant information may be translated into hints that provide an author with suggestions and/or corrections, for example. This information is provided to the author through a social media environment (e.g., an authoring tool) that may be also be capable of receiving input from the author and outputting editing context. | 02-18-2010 |
| 20100094831 | NAMED ENTITY RESOLUTION USING MULTIPLE TEXT SOURCES - An arrangement for resolving ambiguity among named entities in web based text documents is provided in which multiple documents are utilized that are of different genres and will thus typically use different degrees of precision when referring to named entities. When an ambiguous named entity is located in a document, any links contained in that document are followed to other documents. If a linked document includes a named entity that is fully specified (i.e., includes both a first and last name), then this information can be used to resolve the ambiguity of the named entity in the original document. | 04-15-2010 |
| 20100250516 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR WEB CRAWLING - A method and system for retrieving data from a webpage is described herein. A scheduler organizes, or rather orders, a group of webpage identifiers according to some predetermined criteria. Based upon this ordering, a fetcher may be configured to fetch data from webpages identified by the identifiers. To promote efficiency and reduce the latency between when a webpage is updated and when the fetcher retrieves data from the webpage, the scheduler may be configured to reorder the identifiers in such a manner that it causes an identifier that was less relevant, and would not have been sent to the fetcher, to become more relevant. In this way, the method and system may be particularly useful for retrieving data related to webpages that are updated frequently, such as social media webpages, for example. | 09-30-2010 |
| 20110131244 | EXTRACTION OF CERTAIN TYPES OF ENTITIES - Certain types of entities may be extracted from a document. In one example, the entities to be recognized are cultural entities, such as the names of movies, video games, books, etc. For each such entity, a concept graph may be built that shows the relationship between the entity itself and other entities, such as the relationship between a movie and the actor(s) who act in the movie. When a candidate entity name is detected in the document, the concept graph may be used to look for other entities that appear in the context of the candidate entity. The presence of related entities in the context of the candidate may be used to disambiguate the meaning of the candidate. For example, a common word like “up” might be recognized as the name of a movie if the names of actors or characters in that movie appear near the word “up”. | 06-02-2011 |
Matthew Francis Hurst, Seattle, WA US
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| 20120078945 | INTERACTIVE ADDITION OF SEMANTIC CONCEPTS TO A DOCUMENT - One or more techniques and/or systems are provided for interactively associating a semantic concept with a unique term that is input by a user. As the user is creating a document and/or once the user has completed a draft of the document, the document is parsed to identify unique terms (e.g., persons, places, things, services, etc.) in the document. When a unique term is identified, a query is generated to locate one or more semantic concepts (e.g., URLs, URNs, or other identifiers, for example) that are associated with the identified unique term and a notification indicative of the results is generated. From this notification, the user can select whether to associate the unique term with any and/or all of the located semantic concepts. In this way, supplemental content may be added to a document that the user is creating, for example. | 03-29-2012 |
Ryan Hurst, Woodinville, WA US
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| 20120079585 | PROXY AUTHENTICATION AND INDIRECT CERTIFICATE CHAINING - Embodiments of proxy authentication and indirect certificate chaining are described herein. In an implementation, authentication for a client occurs via a proxy service. Proxy service communicates between client and server, and caches security tokens on behalf of the client. In an implementation, trustworthiness of certificate presented to a client to establish trust is determined utilizing a signed data package which incorporates a plurality of known certificates. The presented certificate is verified without utilizing root certificates installed on the client device. | 03-29-2012 |
Ryan M. Hurst, Woodinville, WA US
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| 20120102407 | DISPLAYING BATTERY LIFE RESULTING FROM SETTING CHANGES - An indication of a remaining battery life currently available based on a current resource setting for a resource of a computing device is displayed. A user input to change the resource to a new resource setting is received, and in response to the user input an indication of the remaining battery life currently available based on the new resource setting is identified and an indication of the remaining battery life currently available based on the new resource setting is displayed. In situations where the resource is a screen of the computing device, the new resource setting can be a new screen brightness setting, and the screen brightness can be changed concurrently with displaying the remaining battery life currently available based on the new screen brightness setting. | 04-26-2012 |
Ryan M. Hurst, Woodinvill, WA US
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| 20100218260 | Provisions for Validating Content Using a Content Registration Authority - Strategies are described for validating content transferred over a communication channel using a more effective approach than heretofore provided in the art. A content registration authority is provided which registers the content disseminated by one or more content providers to one or more client devices. A client device which receives content that has been registered can securely consume the content, based on an assumption that a content provider which furnishes the content is entrusted by the content registration authority to provide the content, and without prompting a user of the client device to expressly approve the content provider. In a first solution, the content registration authority registers the content by issuing a certification stamp; in a second solution, the content registration authority registers the content by storing registration information in a central repository. The content may contain instructions which perform operations in the context of an instant messenger application. | 08-26-2010 |
Susan Hurst, Seattle, WA US
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| 20090280234 | Tomatoes Having Reduced Polygalacturonase Activity Caused by Non-Transgenic Mutations in the Polygalacturonase Gene - A series of independent non-transgenic mutations found in the fruit PG gene of tomato; tomato plants having these mutations in their fruit PG gene; and a method of creating and identifying similar and/or additional mutations in the PG gene by screening pooled and/or individual tomato plants. The tomato plants of the present invention exhibit reduced PG enzyme activity and fruit that soften more slowly post harvest without having the inclusion of foreign nucleic acids in their genomes. | 11-12-2009 |
Susan R. Hurst, Seattle, WA US
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| 20110113507 | Tomatoes That Soften More Slowly Post-Harvest Due To Non-Transgenic Alterations In An Expansin Gene - A series of independent human-induced non-transgenic mutations found in an expansin gene (LeExp1) of tomato; tomato plants having these mutations in their LeExp1 genes; and a method of creating and identifying similar and/or additional mutations in the LeExp1 gene by screening pooled and/or individual tomato plants. The tomato plants of the present invention exhibit fruit that soften more slowly post-harvest without having the inclusion of foreign nucleic acids in their genomes. | 05-12-2011 |
| 20110159168 | Non-transgenic Tomato Varieties Having Increased Shelf Life Post-Harvest Due to Alterations in Beta-Galactosidase 4 - The present invention provides a series of independent human-induced, non-transgenic mutations found in at least one tomato β-galactosidase 4 gene, tomato plants having these mutations in at least one of their tomato β-galactosidase 4 genes, and a method of creating and identifying similar and/or additional mutations in the tomato β-galactosidase 4 gene by screening pooled and/or individual tomato plants. Tomato plants identified and produced in accordance with the present invention have fruit that are firmer when ripe with reduced post-harvest softening compared to fruit from wild type tomato plants as a result of non-transgenic mutations in at least one of their tomato β-galactosidase 4 genes. | 06-30-2011 |
| 20110289621 | Non-transgenic Tomato Varieties Having Increased Shelf Life Post-harvest - A series of independent human-induced, non-transgenic mutations found in at least one non-ripening (NOR) gene of tomato; tomato plants having these mutations in at least one of their NOR genes; and a method of creating and identifying similar and/or additional mutations in the NOR gene by screening pooled and/or individual tomato plants. The tomato plants of the present invention exhibit fruit that ripen more slowly, rot more slowly, are firmer, and have a longer shelf life post-harvest as a result of non-transgenic mutations in at least one of their NOR genes. | 11-24-2011 |
Tom Hurst, Vancouver, WA US
| Patent application number | Description | Published |
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| 20100015415 | Individual user identification system and appliance for a towel - A towel user identification system or appliance includes one or more identification devices each configured to be removably affixed to a towel or the like, wherein each of the identification devices bears an individual-specific indicium on an outer surface thereof, and wherein each of the identification patches bears a first affixment means permanently attached on an inner surface thereof; and a second affixment means configured to be permanently attached to a towel or the like, the second affixment means configured further to removably capture one of the one or more identification devices thereto by cooperation of the first and second affixment means. Optionally, the system includes a stowing substrate configured to stow a plurality of the one or more identification devices in an array. | 01-21-2010 |