Patents Represented by Attorney McGinn Intellecutal Property Law Group, PLLC
  • Patent number: 8180682
    Abstract: A system for generating a view of a purchase history, includes an electronic receipt generator for generating an electronic receipt including information regarding a purchase by a customer, a storage device for storing the electronic receipt, and a display screen generator which accesses the electronic receipt in the storage device to generate a display screen which displays a map corresponding to the information included in the electronic receipt.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2012
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Chandrasekhar Narayanaswami, Alpana Tiwari
  • Patent number: 8091211
    Abstract: A reactor coil includes first and second coil elements each formed by edgewise and rectangular winding of one piece of rectangular wire rod in a manner in which the wound rectangular wire rod is stacked rectangularly and cylindrically and, at a winding terminating end point of the first coil element, the rectangular wire rod is bent approximately 90 degrees in a direction opposite to the winding direction of the first coil element so that the rectangular wire rod is stacked in a direction opposite to the stacking direction of the first coil element and is wound edgewisely and rectangularly in a direction opposite to the winding direction of the first coil element to form the second coil element and, as a result, the first coil element and second coil element are aligned in parallel to each other in a continuous state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2012
    Assignees: Tamura Corporation, Tamura Fa System Corporation
    Inventors: Masatoshi Hasu, Kaoru Hattori, Ryo Nakatsu, Sei Urano, Kensuke Maeno
  • Patent number: 8027870
    Abstract: A method, framework, and system for providing formalized Information Technology (IT) business decision making, which includes determining a relationship between at least one Information Technology (IT) environmental element and at least one Information Technology (IT) performance metric, and determining a business value based on the at least one Information Technology (IT) environmental element and the at least one Information Technology (IT) performance metric to optimize an Information Technology (IT) business decision based on at least one predetermined business objective. The at least one predetermined business objective is based on a set of system constraints.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2011
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Bonnie K. Ray, Mary E. Helander, Richard C. Henderson