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Charles Kelly, New Berlin, WI US
| Patent application number | Description | Published |
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| 20100210254 | System and Method for Regulating Mobile Communications Use by Drivers - The present invention relates to a system for regulating use of mobile communication functions while driving. The system includes a vehicle diagnostic device configured to generate vehicle diagnostic data indicating a current state of a vehicle, a vehicle diagnostic information port configured to provide the vehicle diagnostic data, a transceiver configured to plug into the vehicle diagnostic information port and transmit the vehicle diagnostic data using a wireless communication protocol; and a vehicle responsive phone including communication blocking software configured to receive the vehicle diagnostic data and to terminate the operation of at least one function of the vehicle responsive phone based on the received vehicle diagnostic data. | 08-19-2010 |
Christopher W. Kelly, Madison, WI US
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| 20100149094 | Snow Globe Interface for Electronic Weather Report - A portable computing device for displaying weather information. The device includes a transceiver configured to send and receive weather information, a display controller configured to generate a weather scene display including the weather information based on a received shaking input provide to the portable computing device and a display configured to present the generated weather scene display. The display controller is configured to display flitter configured to obscure the generated weather scene display during the receiving of the weather information and/or updating of the generated weather scene display. | 06-17-2010 |
Chuck Kelly, New Berlin, WI US
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| 20100233959 | System for Limiting Use of Mobile Communication Devices within a Vehicle - A system and apparatus for limiting use of mobile communication devices which utilizes vehicle diagnostic information transmitted via the Bluetooth™ communications protocol to a mobile device (PDA, cell phone, laptop, portable printer, GPS, iPod, etc.). If the vehicle diagnostic data meets predetermined criteria, the software configured to evaluate vehicle diagnostic data selectively authorizes telephone calls, incoming text messages, incoming pager messages, incoming e-mails, outgoing telephone calls, outgoing text messages, etc. If the predetermined criteria are not met, the functionality of mobile communication devices will be limited. | 09-16-2010 |
James P. Kelly, East Troy, WI US
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| 20090135590 | Selectively-Extendable Modular Lighting Fixture and Method - A modular lighting fixture may include a housing having opposite ends, an endplate for fastening to one end of the housing, the endplate having a lens receiving face on a first side and an additional-structure-connecting face on a second side. The second side has an outer perimeter portion and a first peripheral surface, the first peripheral surface being inward of the outer perimeter portion. An additional structure is provided having a second peripheral surface with substantially similar contour as the first peripheral surface on the second side of the endplate. The additional structure is connected to the endplate with the second peripheral surface being proximate to the first peripheral surface of the second side of the endplate. A modular lighting fixture may include first and second elongate housings each having ends, pairs of endplates for being respectively mated with the first and second ends of the first and second elongate housings, the endplates each having a rim, and a bridge adapted for joining one of the endplates of the first elongate housing with one of the endplates of the second elongate housing by sealing cooperation with the respective rims thereof. A lighting fixture may have one or more isolated raceways therein. | 05-28-2009 |
Terence F. Kelly, Madison, WI US
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| 20090243918 | System and Method for Presenting Wind Speed Information - A system and method for presenting wind speed information in a manner so as to be easily understood and appreciated by viewers of televised weather report presentations and the like. Wind speed information is presented as two or three-dimensional wind speed contour lines, delineating geographic areas corresponding to different wind speeds, overlaid on a geographic map display either alone, or in combination with radar reflectivity information. Wind velocity information received from a weather radar system, such as NEXRAD, relative to the weather radar is converted to absolute wind speed information for display. | 10-01-2009 |
| 20090312943 | System and Method for Weather Mapping to Road Segments - A computer-implemented method for generating a weather index mapped to a road segment for a particular time frame includes receiving weather condition information for a plurality of time periods, parsing the weather condition information to determine weather conditions for a road segment defined by a starting point and an ending point for the plurality of time periods, and generating a plurality of weather indices for the road segment. Each weather index is associated with one of the plurality of time periods and is representative of a predicted traffic impact based on historical information of the received weather conditions for the road segment. The plurality of time periods includes at least one future time period and the weather condition information includes forecasted weather information. | 12-17-2009 |
| 20100238179 | Presentation of Personalized Weather Information by an Animated Presenter - A computer-implemented personalized weather presentation method. The method includes generating personalized weather information ( | 09-23-2010 |
| 20100265125 | System and Method for Presenting Wind Speed Information in a Planar Representation - A system and method for presenting wind speed information in a manner so as to be easily understood and appreciated by viewers of televised weather report presentations and the like. Wind speed information is presented as a planar representation of three-dimensional wind speed data using contour lines, delineating areas with a planar location in the three dimensional data, overlaid on a geographic map display either alone, or in combination with radar reflectivity information. Wind velocity information received from a weather radar system, such as NEXRAD, relative to the weather radar is converted to absolute wind speed information for display. | 10-21-2010 |
| 20110074814 | System And Method For Presenting Lightning Strike Information - A system and method for presenting lightning strike information in a manner so as to be easily understood and appreciated by viewers of televised weather report presentations and the like. Lightning strike information is displayed with a marker and textual indication of the lightning strike location in a viewer friendly format, e.g., a street address. Lightning strike data from a lightning strike data source is filtered to select individual lightning strikes to be displayed and processed to obtain the viewer friendly lightning strike location information to be presented overlaid on a geographic map or satellite image background. Personalized lighting strike information indicating the distance of a lighting strike from a viewer location of interest may be generated and provided directly to individual viewers via the interne, cellular phones, and/or other wired or wireless communication channels. | 03-31-2011 |