Patents by Inventor Michel Horn

Michel Horn 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: 8150736
    Abstract: A comprehensive system effectuates global electronic commerce on the Internet across frontiers of nations, cultures, and languages. Referral Websites serving various locales offer Buyers the opportunity to view products for purchase. A Buyer selects categories of products for viewing by using drop-down menus that organize products into a clear taxonomy that can be expressed across all languages. Having selected a category of products for viewing, a Buyer receives, from a multi-version relational database, a version of marketing information about each product. The version is one automatically sent from the database to match the Buyer's language, culture, and nationality, as deduced from the use of a particular Referral Website. A shopping cart allows Buyers to select a product for purchase in an interactive way that encourages completion of the purchase. Products can be offered with custom options and in wholesale quantities. Personalized Web pages allow comprehensive customer service after a sale.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2012
    Assignee: S.F. Properties 58 LLC
    Inventors: Michel Horn, Thomas Scott Manaugh
  • Publication number: 20060136309
    Abstract: A comprehensive system effectuates global electronic commerce on the Internet across frontiers of nations, cultures, and languages. Referral Websites serving various locales offer Buyers the opportunity to view products for purchase. A Buyer selects categories of products for viewing by using drop-down menus that organize products into a clear taxonomy that can be expressed across all languages. Having selected a category of products for viewing, a Buyer receives, from a multi-version relational database, a version of marketing information about each product. The version is one automatically sent from the database to match the Buyer's language, culture, and nationality, as deduced from the use of a particular Referral Website. A shopping cart allows Buyers to select a product for purchase in an interactive way that encourages completion of the purchase. Products can be offered with custom options and in wholesale quantities. Personalized Web pages allow comprehensive customer service after a sale.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2005
    Publication date: June 22, 2006
    Inventors: Michel Horn, Thomas Manaugh
  • Patent number: 7013289
    Abstract: A comprehensive system effectuates global electronic commerce on the Internet across frontiers of nations, cultures, and languages. Referral Websites serving various locales offer Buyers the opportunity to view products for purchase. A Buyer selects categories of products for viewing by using drop-down menus that organize products into a clear taxonomy that can be expressed across all languages. Having selected a category of products for viewing, a Buyer receives, from a multi-version relational database, a version of marketing information about each product. The version is one automatically sent from the database to match the Buyer's language, culture, and nationality, as deduced from the use of a particular Referral Website. A shopping cart allows Buyers to select a product for purchase in an interactive way that encourages completion of the purchase. Products can be offered with custom options and in wholesale quantities. Personalized Web pages allow comprehensive customer service after a sale.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2001
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2006
    Inventors: Michel Horn, Thomas Scott Manaugh
  • Publication number: 20020156688
    Abstract: A comprehensive system effectuates global electronic commerce on the Internet across frontiers of nations, cultures, and languages. Referral Websites serving various locales offer Buyers the opportunity to view products for purchase. A Buyer selects categories of products for viewing by using drop-down menus that organize products into a clear taxonomy that can be expressed across all languages. Having selected a category of products for viewing, a Buyer receives, from a multi-version relational database, a version of marketing information about each product. The version is one automatically sent from the database to match the Buyer's language, culture, and nationality, as deduced from the use of a particular Referral Website. A shopping cart allows Buyers to select a product for purchase in an interactive way that encourages completion of the purchase. Products can be offered with custom options and in wholesale quantities. Personalized Web pages allow comprehensive customer service after a sale.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2001
    Publication date: October 24, 2002
    Inventors: Michel Horn, Thomas Scott Manaugh
  • Patent number: 5574368
    Abstract: In order to control the direction of a magnetic field induced by a current sheet in a sheet conductor, relative to anomalies in a test sample, the current sheet is either rotated relative to the sheet conductor, by using either electrical or mechanical commutation of the current sheet, or the phases of plural independent current sheets in the sheet conductor are shifted relative to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 1995
    Date of Patent: November 12, 1996
    Assignee: Northrop Grumman Corporation
    Inventors: Michel Horn, Stanley M. Reich