Patents by Inventor Mark Mueller
Mark Mueller 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).
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Patent number: 6904137Abstract: A system and a method store, display and report outgoing call log data associated with telephone calls from a subscriber's telephone. The system includes a switch in one network that receives a telephone call from the subscriber's telephone and launches a query in response to an AIN trigger to a service control point. In response, the service control point forwards associated call data to an interface server in another network via a generic data interface. The interface server obtains additional information from a directory database and sends the call data and the additional information to an outgoing call log database, which stores the call data and the additional information as the outgoing call log data. A web server retrieves the outgoing call log data and displays it to the subscriber at a web client.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 2001Date of Patent: June 7, 2005Assignees: SBC Technology Resources, Inc., SBC Services, Inc.Inventors: Jeffrey Lewis Brandt, Bojana Mamuzic, James Thomas Miller, Stephen Mark Mueller
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Publication number: 20050103021Abstract: A method for operating a gas turbine engine facilitates reducing an amount of emissions from a combustor. The combustor includes a mixer assembly including a pilot mixer, a main mixer, and an annular centerbody extending therebetween. The method comprises injecting at least one of fuel and airflow into the combustor through at least one swirler positioned within the pilot mixer, and injecting fuel into the combustor through at least one swirler positioned within the main mixer, such that the fuel is directed into a combustion chamber downstream from the main mixer.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 30, 2004Publication date: May 19, 2005Inventors: Timothy Held, Mark Mueller, Jun Xu
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Patent number: 6891940Abstract: A system and method are provided for reviewing and updating a subscriber's telecommunications services, including a Caller ID service, using a graphical user interface via multiple data networks. The method includes presenting service data to the subscriber via the data networks and transmitting a data message from the subscriber to an intelligent peripheral via at least one of the data networks. The data message indicates a subscriber's desired update to a selected telecommunications service. The method also includes converting the data message into a protocol compatible with an integrated service control point. The converted data message is identical to a data message that the intelligent peripheral would create if the subscriber had entered the desired update via an interactive voice response system.Type: GrantFiled: July 19, 2000Date of Patent: May 10, 2005Assignee: SBC Technology Resources, Inc.Inventors: Anil Kumar Bhandari, Xiaolian Bi, Jeffrey Lewis Brandt, Alexander Lisheng Huang, Jeffrey Paul Johnson, James Thomas Miller, Stephen Mark Mueller, Jeffrey L. Scruggs
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Patent number: 6871501Abstract: A method enables a gas turbine engine including a combustor to be operated. The combustor includes a mixer assembly including an air swirler, a premixer, a dome plate, and a heat shield. The method comprises discharging fluids from the air swirler into the premixer, and directing cooling fluids through a cooling opening defined in at least one of the swirler and the dome plate towards an upstream side of the heat shield for impingement cooling of the heat shield.Type: GrantFiled: December 3, 2002Date of Patent: March 29, 2005Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: John D. Bibler, Timothy J. Held, Mark A. Mueller
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Publication number: 20040211658Abstract: This invention concerns a process for removing carbonyl-containing impurities from impure extractive distillation solvent such as a glycol, comprising: contacting the impure extractive distillation solvent with an acidic ion exchange resin. The purified extractive distillation solvent can be recycled for use as a solvent in an extractive distillation process that removes impurities from alkylene oxide. The extractive distillation solvent can be ethylene glycol monomethyl ether (EGME) used to purify propylene oxide.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 23, 2003Publication date: October 28, 2004Applicant: Huntsman Petrochemical CompanyInventors: John R. Sanderson, Mark Mueller, James P. Farone
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Patent number: 6785265Abstract: A digital subscriber line access network comprises a remote Ethernet device disposed in a serving area interface. The remote Ethernet device serves as an Ethernet bridge for a neighborhood service area. The remote Ethernet device communicates with a plurality of customer premises modems in the neighborhood service area using an Internet Protocol over an Ethernet standard with a digital subscriber line physical layer. An Ethernet switch disposed at a central office communicates with the remote Ethernet device via a fiber optic medium using an Internet Protocol over a second Ethernet standard. The Ethernet switch provides a packet data core network termination.Type: GrantFiled: July 8, 2002Date of Patent: August 31, 2004Assignee: SBC Properties, L.P.Inventors: Russell William White, Alicia Marie Russell, Ahmad Ansari, Weijing Chen, Stephen Mark Mueller, Dinesh Nadaralah, Chin Yuan
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Publication number: 20040103668Abstract: A method enables a gas turbine engine including a combustor to be operated. The combustor includes a mixer assembly including an air swirler, a premixer, a dome plate, and a heat shield. The method comprises discharging fluids from the air swirler into the premixer, and directing cooling fluids through a cooling opening defined in at least one of the swirler and the dome plate towards an upstream side of the heat shield for impingement cooling of the heat shield.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 3, 2002Publication date: June 3, 2004Inventors: John D. Bibler, Timothy J. Held, Mark A. Mueller
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Publication number: 20040032946Abstract: A subscriber associates a ring-tone media selection based on a media genre, author, or title to a calling number. When an incoming call is detected, a particular ring-tone media selection, based on the subscriber's association, may be streamed from a central server to the subscriber's customer premises equipment and then played. Alternatively, when an incoming call is detected, a particular ring-tone selection indicator, based on the subscriber's association, may be sent from a central server to the subscriber's customer premises equipment which then plays a pre-stored ring-tone selection media associated with the indicator.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 13, 2002Publication date: February 19, 2004Inventors: Thomas Daniel Koser, Jeffrey L. Scruggs, Stephen Mark Mueller
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Publication number: 20040005039Abstract: A digital subscriber line access network comprises a remote Ethernet device disposed in a serving area interface. The remote Ethernet device serves as an Ethernet bridge for a neighborhood service area. The remote Ethernet device communicates with a plurality of customer premises modems in the neighborhood service area using an Internet Protocol over an Ethernet standard with a digital subscriber line physical layer. An Ethernet switch disposed at a central office communicates with the remote Ethernet device via a fiber optic medium using an Internet Protocol over a second Ethernet standard. The Ethernet switch provides a packet data core network termination.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 8, 2002Publication date: January 8, 2004Inventors: Russell William White, Alicia Marie Russell, Ahmad Ansari, Weijing Chen, Stephen Mark Mueller, Dinesh Nadaralah, Chin Yuan
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Publication number: 20040005045Abstract: A system and method include implementing and accessing a subscriber's telecommunications services, using a graphical user interface (GUI) via the Internet, and an interactive voice response (IVR) system via the public switched telecommunications network (PSTN). The system and method enable a subscriber to review, schedule and modify call forwarding information stored and implemented by a service control point (SCP) through a common server from any dual tone multi-frequency (DTMF) telephone and IVR system via the PSTN or any GUI and Web client via the Internet. The subscriber is able to build and edit call forwarding data, such as a scheduler and priority and rejection screening lists, by the GUI via the Internet for subsequent implementation.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 12, 2003Publication date: January 8, 2004Applicant: SBC Technology Resources, Inc., Austin, TexasInventors: Thomas Lee Adams, Xiaolian Yang Bi, Gordon Lynn Blumenschein, Nancy Ann Book, Rodney T. Brand, Susanne Marie Crockett, Laura Kay Culli, Mary Louise Hardzinski, Michael Albert Machacek, Thomas Joseph McBlain, John Wesley Moss, Stephen Mark Mueller, Karen Jeanne Pelletier, Richard Everett Sabinson, Paul Wilczynski, Elizabeth Goldwyn Gibson
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Publication number: 20040000535Abstract: Method and apparatus for etching a metal layer disposed on a substrate, such as a photolithographic reticle, are provided. In one aspect, a method is provided for processing a substrate including positioning a substrate having a metal photomask layer disposed on a silicon-based material in a processing chamber, introducing a processing gas at a flow rate of greater than about 350 sccm with the processing gas comprising an oxygen containing gas, a halogen containing gas, and optionally, an inert gas, into the processing chamber, generating a plasma of the processing gas in the processing chamber, generating a bias of about 50 watts or less, and etching exposed portions of the metal layer disposed on the substrate.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 18, 2003Publication date: January 1, 2004Inventors: Mark Mueller, Serguei Komarov, Ki-Ho Baik
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Patent number: 6631186Abstract: A system and method include implementing and accessing a subscriber's telecommunications services, using a graphical user interface (GUI) via the Internet, and an interactive voice response (IVR) system via the public switched telecommunications network (PSTN). The system and method enable a subscriber to review, schedule and modify call forwarding information stored and implemented by a service control-point (SCP) through a common server from any dual tone multi-frequency (DTMF) telephone and IVR system via the PSTN or any GUI and Web client via the Internet. The subscriber is able to build and edit call forwarding data, such as a scheduler and priority and rejection screening lists, by the GUI via the Internet for subsequent implementation.Type: GrantFiled: November 21, 2000Date of Patent: October 7, 2003Assignee: SBC Technology Resources, Inc.Inventors: Thomas Lee Adams, Xiaolian Yang Bi, Gordon Lynn Blumenschein, Nancy Ann Book, Rodney T Brand, Susanne Marie Crockett, Laura Kay Culli, Mary Louise Hardzinski, Michael Albert Machacek, Thomas Joseph McBlain, John Wesley Moss, Stephen Mark Mueller, Karen Jeanne Pelletier, Richard Everett Sabinson, Paul Wilczynski, Elizabeth Goldwyn Gibson
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Patent number: 6518474Abstract: A process for producing substantially pure isobutylene containing relatively small amounts of higher oligomer byproducts. The process may employ a Y-zeolite catalyst having a silica to alumina ratio of less than or equal to about ten.Type: GrantFiled: October 19, 2000Date of Patent: February 11, 2003Assignee: Huntsman International LLCInventors: John R. Sanderson, Mark A. Mueller
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Publication number: 20030026413Abstract: A system and a method store, display and report outgoing call log data associated with telephone calls from a subscriber's telephone. The system includes a switch in one network that receives a telephone call from the subscriber's telephone and launches a query in response to an AIN trigger to a service control point. In response, the service control point forwards associated call data to an interface server in another network via a generic data interface. The interface server obtains additional information from a directory database and sends the call data and the additional information to an outgoing call log database, which stores the call data and the additional information as the outgoing call log data. A web server retrieves the outgoing call log data and displays it to the subscriber at a web client.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 31, 2001Publication date: February 6, 2003Applicant: SBC TECHNOLOGY RESOURCES, INC.Inventors: Jeffrey Lewis Brandt, Bojana Mamuzic, James Thomas Miller, Stephen Mark Mueller
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Patent number: 6258219Abstract: A method of deposition for W or TiW on a silicon wafer in a physical vapor deposition chamber equipped with a clamping ring without incurring arcing problem between the wafer and the clamping ring by utilizing a novel two-step high-pressure/low-pressure process in which a first depositing step is carried out at a relatively high pressure above 11 mTorr so as to form an electrical bridge between the wafer and the clamping ring and a second depositing step is carried out at a lower pressure so as to form a high-quality conductive film.Type: GrantFiled: January 13, 1995Date of Patent: July 10, 2001Assignee: Applied Materials, Inc.Inventor: Mark A. Mueller
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Patent number: 6023001Abstract: Peroxides are prepared from organic compounds and oxygen in a reaction vessel by introducing organic compound and oxygen to the reaction vessel and by simultaneously withdrawing a first liquid product stream from adjacent the top of the reactor and a second liquid product stream from adjacent the bottom of the reaction vessel. Suitable organic compounds include, but are not limited to, alkanes and all aryl compounds.Type: GrantFiled: March 18, 1998Date of Patent: February 8, 2000Assignee: Huntsman ICI Chemicals LLCInventors: William K. Culbreth, III, Mark E. Taylor, Kyle L. Preston, Mark A. Mueller
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Patent number: 5733400Abstract: An intravascular catheter carries a helical reinforcement member embedded within at least a portion of the tubular wall of the catheter. The helical reinforcement member comprises a helical first portion having coils of greater pitch than the pitch of helical coils of a second portion. Preferably, the catheter is for insertion into brain arteries, and comprises a flexible tube having an outer diameter of no more that about 0.05 inch, for example 3 French or smaller. The flexible tube defines outer and inner tubular layers. The inner tubular layer surrounds a catheter lumen and comprises chemically inert fluorinated polymer such as PTFE. The outer tubular layer comprises at least three longitudinally spaced, connected tubular sections. The sections are of successively increasing flexibility from the proximal toward the distal catheter end.Type: GrantFiled: May 8, 1996Date of Patent: March 31, 1998Assignee: Cordis CorporationInventors: Susana M. Gore, Mark Mueller, Nicholas Green, Jeffrey G. Gold, Peter P. Soltesz
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Patent number: 5711909Abstract: An intravascular catheter carries a helical reinforcement member embedded within at least a portion of the tubular wall of the catheter. The helical reinforcement member comprises a helical first portion having coils of greater pitch than the pitch of helical coils of a second portion. Preferably, the catheter is for insertion into brain arteries, and comprises a flexible tube having an outer diameter of no more that about 0.05 inch, for example 3 French or smaller. The flexible tube defines outer and inner tubular layers. The inner tubular layer surrounds a catheter lumen and comprises chemically inert fluorinated polymer such as PTFE. The outer tubular layer comprises at least three longitudinally spaced, connected tubular sections. The sections are of successively increasing flexibility from the proximal toward the distal catheter end.Type: GrantFiled: May 9, 1996Date of Patent: January 27, 1998Assignee: Cordis CorporationInventors: Susana M. Gore, Mark Mueller, Nicholas Green, Jeffrey G. Gold, Peter P. Soltesz
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Patent number: 5662622Abstract: An intravascular catheter carries a helical reinforcement member embedded within at least a portion of the tubular wall of the catheter. The helical reinforcement member comprises a helical first portion having coils of greater pitch than the pitch of helical coils of a second portion. Preferably, the catheter is for insertion into brain arteries, and comprises a flexible tube having an outer diameter of no more that about 0.05 inch, for example 3 French or smaller. The flexible tube defines outer and inner tubular layers. The inner tubular layer surrounds a catheter lumen and comprises a chemically inert fluorinated polymer such as PTFE. The outer tubular layer comprises at least three longitudinally spaced, connected tubular sections. The sections are of successively increasing flexibility from the proximal toward the distal catheter end.Type: GrantFiled: April 4, 1995Date of Patent: September 2, 1997Assignee: Cordis CorporationInventors: Susana M. Gore, Mark Mueller, Nicholas Green, Jeffrey G. Gold, Peter P. Soltesz
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Patent number: 5620568Abstract: An extractive distillation agent of 1-propanol is fed to an extractive distillation column used for the distillation of propylene oxide contaminated with water, acetone and methanol to obtain an overhead distillate fraction of essentially anhydrous propylene oxide contaminated with reduced quantities of acetone and methanol, and a heavier bottoms distillation fraction containing substantially all of the 1-propanol, water and acetone, some of the methanol and heavier by-products of propylene oxide formed in the distillation column.Type: GrantFiled: June 3, 1996Date of Patent: April 15, 1997Assignee: Texaco Chemical, Inc.Inventors: William A. Smith, Mark A. Mueller