Patents by Inventor Donald F. Fischer

Donald F. Fischer has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 9183305
    Abstract: The present invention provides a federated search tool and search methods that consolidate searches to external online accounts of a user and other people that are part of the user's social network. In some embodiments, the search tool is presented as a single search box that may appear persistently on the user's desktop display or as a toolbar embedded within another application. The search tool may be embedded as part of web page. Embodiments of the present invention may provide the results in a simple real-time display stack or a static result list, such as a web page. Blocks in the stack may indicate a result and the context of the result, such as which online account originated the result, whether the result is from a linked external accounts of people associated with the user, pointers to people and groups the user has linked to, an age of the result, and the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2015
    Assignee: Red Hat, Inc.
    Inventor: Donald F. Fischer
  • Publication number: 20080319943
    Abstract: The present invention provides a federated search tool and search methods that consolidate searches to external online accounts of a user and other people that are part of the user's social network. In some embodiments, the search tool is presented as a single search box that may appear persistently on the user's desktop display or as a toolbar embedded within another application. The search tool may be embedded as part of web page. Embodiments of the present invention may provide the results in a simple real-time display stack or a static result list, such as a web page. Blocks in the stack may indicate a result and the context of the result, such as which online account originated the result, whether the result is from a linked external accounts of people associated with the user, pointers to people and groups the user has linked to, an age of the result, and the like.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 19, 2007
    Publication date: December 25, 2008
    Inventor: Donald F. Fischer
  • Patent number: 4814046
    Abstract: A process for removing transuranic elements from a waste chloride electrolytic salt containing transuranic elements in addition to rare earth and other fission product elements so the salt waste may be disposed of more easily and the valuable transuranic elements may be recovered for reuse. The salt is contacted with a cadmium-uranium alloy which selectively extracts the transuranic elements from the salt. The waste salt is generated during the reprocessing of nuclear fuel associated with the Integral Fast Reactor (IFR).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 1988
    Date of Patent: March 21, 1989
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the United States Department of Energy
    Inventors: Terry R. Johnson, John P. Ackerman, Zygmunt Tomczuk, Donald F. Fischer