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Catherine Meryl Norwood, Somerville, MA US
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| 20110206471 | Aerogel Composites and Methods for Making and Using Them - Composites such as self-supporting rigid composites that include aerogel have low thermal conductivity and attractive mechanical properties. Methods for preparing such composites include, for example, combining an aerogel-containing material with a binder to form a slurry and allowing the slurry to harden. At least part of the hardening process in conducted under compression. | 08-25-2011 |
Craig Norwood, Chicago, IL US
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| 20100010841 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATICALLY DETERMINING TRAVEL PRODUCT PRICE REBATES - A computer-implemented system and method are provided for automatically determining rebate eligibility for purchased products. In one example, the purchased products may be travel-rebated products such as booked air travel itineraries. A database stores purchase information associated with purchased products purchased at corresponding purchase prices. A product administration system having a computer software-based product administration application interacts with the database and purchase information of a first purchased product is compared with purchase information of subsequently purchased products. The product administration application interacts with the database to determine if the first purchased a product matches a subsequently purchased product based on a set of matching criteria. The first purchased product may be eligible for a rebate if the product administration application determines that the subsequently purchased product was purchased at a lower purchase price than the purchase price for the first purchased product. | 01-14-2010 |
Dana M. Norwood, Atlanta, GA US
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| 20100332600 | System and Method to Enhance User Presence Management to Enable the Federation of Rich Media Sessions - A method and system is provided to enhance user presence management to enable the federation of rich media sessions. The method is implemented on a system and includes a presence manager server receiving a notification of user activity of one or more users taking place on one or more participating ecosystem sites in a participant ecosystem. The method further includes processing the user activity of the one or more users based on preferences of the one or more participating ecosystem sites established during a registration process and stored in a preference repository. The method further includes sending a notification of the user activity of the one or more users to the one or more participating ecosystem sites in the participant ecosystem to enable the participating ecosystem sites to at least one of communicate the user activity of the one or more users to one or more users and maintain a session of the one or more users. | 12-30-2010 |
Greg Norwood, Houston, TX US
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| 20110280668 | Hang-Off Adapter for Offshore Riser Systems and Associated Methods - Hang-off adapters for use in offshore riser systems are provided that seat in a tension ring while allowing for relative rotation between the tension ring and the riser. In one embodiment, the hang-off adapter may comprise a tension ring interface configured to engage an inner landing of a tension ring, the tension ring interface being in the shape of a ring. | 11-17-2011 |
Hugh Norwood, Sykesville, MD US
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| 20100167257 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR CREATING EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES AND ALIGNING EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES WITH BENCHMARKS - A system for creating and managing educational resources, and aligning those educational resources with at least one educational benchmark, includes a resource builder executing on a computing machine. The resource builder includes at least two disparate educational devices in the educational resource. The two disparate educational devices include a first educational device that has a first media format, and a second educational device that has a second media format different from the first media format. The resource builder includes in the educational resource a version of an educational device that corresponds to a selected language preference. An educational alignment engine selects at least one educational benchmark that corresponds to a student, a student cohort or a class. The educational alignment engine assigns the educational resource to the selected educational benchmark, and configures a date range of the selected educational benchmark according to a curriculum map. | 07-01-2010 |
James Norwood, Kansas City, MO US
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| 20090281855 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR INTERACTIVE BEEF CATTLE MARKETPLACE - A system and method for dynamically marketing cattle is provided comprising a buyer interface, a producer interface, a network, and a cattle information server. The cattle information server receives information from the buyer interface defining a plurality of demand profiles at least one which contains information specifying a first pre-conditioning program. The cattle information server also receives information from the producer interface defining a supply profile that specifies a second pre-conditioning program and stores the demand profiles and supply profile in a database. The cattle information server searches the database to determine if one or more of the demand profiles match the supply profile based at least in part on a comparison of the first and second pre-conditioning programs and identifies at least one demand profile in response to a match between the supply profile and the demand profile. | 11-12-2009 |
Jennifer Norwood, Westville, NJ US
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| 20110314997 | CERAMIC BALLISTIC ARMOR PRODUCT - A ceramic ballistic material and method of manufacture is disclosed. A filler material is provided. The filler material is divided into filler granules collectively having a median diameter approximately 10 microns or less. An amount of carbon is provided. The carbon is divided into carbon particles and the carbon particles are allowed to coat the filler granules. The mixture of carbon-coated filler granules is formed into a ballistic armor shape. The formed mixture is placed in a substantial vacuum. The mixture is introduced to a pre-selected amount of silicon and the mixture of carbon-coated filler granules and silicon is heated to a temperature at or above the melting point of the silicon. | 12-29-2011 |
John Norwood, Houston, TX US
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| 20110198187 | Coupler for Viscometer Bob Shaft - A coupler for attaching a lower segment of a viscometer bob shaft to an upper segment of a viscometer bob shaft includes an upper assembly connected to the upper segment, a lower assembly connected to the lower segment, a magnetic coupler, and a rotation connection. | 08-18-2011 |
John D. Norwood, Houston, TX US
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| 20120072133 | Testing Apparatus and Method - In an exemplary embodiment of the present invention, a materials testing method and apparatus comprises a test cell, a temperature control system, a pressure control system, a volume measurement system, a strength indicator system, at least one processor and an output device. The apparatus provides real-time output of temperature and pressure conditions, volume change of a test sample, and strength indication. A method of sample testing includes concurrent measurement of pressure, temperature, volume measurement and strength indication. Processed data is output to at least one graphic user interface as a function of time. | 03-22-2012 |
Michael Roy Norwood, Sedona, AZ US
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| 20100250322 | SIMPLIFIED USER INTERFACE AND METHOD FOR COMPUTERIZED TASK MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS - A system, method, and improved user interface for operating a computerized task management database, typically running on a networked server-client system such as the Internet. The system is designed to simultaneously present, on a single user interface screen, often running within a web browser, key items such as the worker (task assignee) name, and key task information items relevant to the various tasks that are assigned to this worker. Such key task information can include, for example, for each given task, the task name or distinguishing task commentary, and an instant update on the status of the task, which will usually contain at least a latest comment field that contains the most recent communication between the task worker and the task manager. The invention conserves user working memory by presenting key comments for multiple tasks on a single screen, enabling better user comprehension of complex projects. | 09-30-2010 |
Peter Norwood, Austin, TX US
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| 20080209561 | METHOD, COMPUTER SOFTWARE, AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING END TO END SECURITY PROTECTION OF AN ONLINE TRANSACTION - A method for implementing an online transaction security product includes downloading an online transaction security product program from a web site to an information handling system. The security product program includes an anti-malicious code program configured to detect malicious code on the information handling system. Lastly, the security product program is executed, wherein the anti-malicious code program of the security product program operates to detect malicious code on the information handling system. | 08-28-2008 |
Richard L. Norwood, Racine, WI US
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| 20090196586 | Heater Contact Assembly for Volatile Liquid Dispenser - Disclosed herein are heaters for dispensing volatile air treatment chemicals. Semi-circular electrical contacts are provided in a ring-type heater, and alignment and anchoring features are provided to facilitate use of a spring to accommodate thermal expansion. | 08-06-2009 |
| 20120003025 | Heated Flowable Product Dispenser - A bottle is disclosed that includes a product stored therein. It is configured to be removably engaged with a docking station in an inverted arrangement to be activated by the docking station and heat the product. The bottle may include a pump structure (e.g. in the form of a bellows), or be a squeezable bottle, or be a bowable bottle, or have other pumping features. Structures are provided to prevent drool after use, to help apply the heated product to the skin, and to insure proper heating and dispensing. Also disclosed are combined docking stations and bottles where the bottle is positioned in an inverted manner, and methods for using these devices. | 01-05-2012 |
Robert A. Norwood, Tucson, AZ US
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| 20090046333 | System and Method Using a Voltage Kick-Off to Record a Hologram on a Photorefractive Polymer for 3D Holographic Display and Other Applications - An updateable system and method of recording a hologram on a media simultaneously reduces the writing time and increases persistence without sacrificing diffraction efficiency. A voltage kick-off technique controls the bias electric field applied to a photorefractive polymer media in conjunction with the application of the writing beams and dark decay. Essentially the voltage kick-off technique applies a high electric field above the optimal field while the writing beams are on and reduces the electric field when the writing beams are off during dark decay. The voltage kick-off technique produced two separate unexpected results. First, when the writing beams are turned off and the electric field is lowered the diffraction efficiency continues to increase until it reaches a maximum efficiency that is within a few percent of that achieved by writing at the optimal field until steady-state is achieved. Second, the decay time constant is much larger than expected producing a much longer persistence without sacrificing diffraction efficiency or writing time. | 02-19-2009 |
| 20090074346 | Hybrid Electro-Optic Polymer/Sol-Gel Modulator - A hybrid EO polymer/sol-gel modulator in which the sol-gel core waveguide does not lie below the active EO polymer waveguide increases the higher electric field/optical field overlap factor Γ and reduces inter-electrode separation d thereby lowering the modulator's half-wave drive voltage Vπ, reducing insertion loss and improving extinction. | 03-19-2009 |
| 20100014800 | Hybrid Strip-Loaded Electro-Optic Polymer/Sol-Gel Modulator - A hybrid strip-loaded EO polymer/sol-gel modulator in which the sol-gel core waveguide does not lie below the active EO polymer waveguide increases the higher electric field/optical field overlap factor Γ and reduces inter-electrode separation d thereby lowering the modulator's half-wave drive voltage Vπ, reducing insertion loss and improving extinction. The strip-loaded modulator comprises an EO polymer layer that eliminates optical scattering caused by sidewall roughness due to etching. Light does not encounter rough edges as it transitions to and from the sol-gel and EO polymer waveguides. This reduces insertion loss. | 01-21-2010 |
| 20100276612 | TERAHERTZ EMITTERS - A tunable radiation emitting structure comprising a discontinuous conducting interface having periodic or quasi-periodic features, wherein the structure emits narrowband terahertz radiation when heated is disclosed. | 11-04-2010 |
| 20110042589 | NANOAMORPHOUS CARBON-BASED PHOTONIC CRYSTAL INFRARED EMITTERS - Provided is a tunable radiation emitting structure comprising: a nanoamorphous carbon structure having a plurality of relief features provided in a periodic spatial configuration, wherein the relief features are separated from each other by adjacent recessed features, and wherein the nanoamorphous carbon comprises a total of from 0 to 60 atomic percent of one or more dopants of the dopant group consisting of: transition metals, lanthanoids, electro-conductive carbides, silicides and nitrides. In one embodiment, a dopant is selected from the group consisting of: Sc, Ti, V, Cr, Mn, Fe, Co, Ni, Cu, Zn, Y, Zr, Nb, Mo, Tc, Ru, Rh, Pd, Ag, Cd, La and other lanthanides, Hf, Ta, W, Rh, Os, Ir, Pt, Au, and Hg. In one embodiment, a dopant is selected from the group consisting of: electro-conductive carbides (like Mo | 02-24-2011 |
| 20120043495 | MAGNETIC-CORE POLYMER-SHELL NANOCOMPOSITES WITH TUNABLE MAGNETO-OPTICAL AND/OR OPTICAL PROPERTIES - Methods are disclosed for synthesizing nanocomposite materials including ferromagnetic nanoparticles with polymer shells formed by controlled surface polymerization. The polymer shells prevent the nanoparticles from forming agglomerates and preserve the size dispersion of the nanoparticles. The nanocomposite particles can be further networked in suitable polymer hosts to tune mechanical, optical, and thermal properties of the final composite polymer system. An exemplary method includes forming a polymer shell on a nanoparticle surface by adding molecules of at least one monomer and optionally of at least one tethering agent to the nanoparticles, and then exposing to electromagnetic radiation at a wavelength selected to induce bonding between the nanoparticle and the molecules, to form a polymer shell bonded to the particle and optionally to a polymer host matrix. The nanocomposite materials can be used in various magneto-optic applications. | 02-23-2012 |
Robin L. Norwood, Garner, NC US
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| 20090327211 | Virtualization management using a centralized server - Some embodiments of virtualization management using a centralized server have been presented. In one embodiment, a centralized server obtains metadata of an operating system and information on provisioning computing resources from a software vendor. The centralized server is deployed within an internal network of a customer of the software vendor, where the internal network further includes a set of at least one physical machine. The centralized server may further generate a graphical user interface to allow users of the centralized server to manage a set of virtual machines running on the set of at least one physical machine. The set of virtual machines may include at least one virtual host and at least one virtual guest. | 12-31-2009 |
| 20090328056 | Entitlement model - Some embodiments of an entitlement model have been presented. In one embodiment, a centralized server distributes copies of an operating system from a software vendor to a set of virtual guests of a virtual host running on a physical computing machine. The centralized server and the physical computing machine are coupled to each other within an internal network of a customer of the software vendor, whereas the centralized server has access to the software vendor external to the internal network of the customer. The centralized server may interact with a hypervisor of the physical computing machine to determine what type of license of the operating system the virtual host has and a number of copies of the operating system requested by the virtual guests. | 12-31-2009 |
Ryan Norwood, Blacksburg, VA US
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| 20090133099 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR TRANSPARENT SOFTWARE LICENSE SUSPENSION - Methods and systems for license sharing in a computing system that include receiving a request for a license being currently used by a process in execution, pausing the execution of the process, and releasing the license to a shared pool. | 05-21-2009 |
Ryan Pershing Norwood, Blacksburg, VA US
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| 20100174815 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR NETWORK LICENSE ENFORCEMENT - A method for license enforcement is provided. The method includes receiving a license request from an application instance; determining whether the license request is permitted by generating a first response permitting or denying the license request; delivering the license request to a server based upon the first response; receiving a server response from the server permitting or denying the license request; and determining whether the license request is permitted by generating a second response permitting or denying the license request based on the server response. An apparatus for performing the method is also disclosed herein. | 07-08-2010 |
| 20100174822 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR NETWORK LICENSE ENFORCEMENT - A method for license enforcement is provided. The method includes receiving a request for a license from an instance; determining whether the request for the license is permitted by generating a first response permitting or denying the license request; delivering the request to a server based upon the first response; receiving a server response from the server permitting or denying the license request; and determining whether the request for the license is permitted by generating a second response permitting or denying the license request. An apparatus for performing the method is also disclosed herein. | 07-08-2010 |
Timothy Norwood, Lafayette, IN US
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| 20100145627 | SYSTEM WITH EXTENDED RANGE OF MOLECULAR SENSING THROUGH INTEGRATED MULTI-MODAL DATA ACQUISITION - A multi-modal data acquisition system for detecting target material on a biological reaction surface, the system comprising a radiation source for generating an incoming beam that impinges on the biological reaction surface at an oblique incidence angle and produces a reflected beam, an interferometric detector for detecting an interferometric signal from the illuminated surface, the reflected beam being directed to the interferometric detector, a fluorescence detector for detecting a fluorescence signal from the illuminated surface; the fluorescence detector being positioned to substantially minimize the incidence of the reflected beam; and a processing system for receiving the interferometric and fluorescence signals and determining the presence or absence of target material on the biological reaction surface. A reaction surface conditioned for the simultaneous collection of fluorescence, interferometric and other signals. A multi-modal data acquisition system for collecting and processing additional modes, including multiple interferometric, fluorescence and scattering channels. | 06-10-2010 |
Timothy Joseph Norwood, West Lafayette, IN US
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| 20090320527 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR TAPERING OPTICAL FIBERS TO CONFORM TO A DESIRED RADIAL PROFILE - An apparatus and method for tapering an optical fiber segment having an initial radial profile to substantially conform to a pre-specifiable desired radial profile for controlling mutually coordinated elongation and softening of different axial portions of the segment according to control parameters derivable based on a normalized axial coordinate reference by which points of the initial profile map to corresponding points of the desired profile. The softening and/or elongation may progress substantially in either a step-wise, time-discrete manner or time-continuously. The invention is useful for forming tapered fused couplers as well as for tapering individual fibers. | 12-31-2009 |