Patents by Inventor Robert Main

Robert Main 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: 7546249
    Abstract: The present invention relates to managing advertising inventory. More specifically, the present invention relates to a system and method for managing advertising inventory so as to enhance total ad revenue. In a preferred embodiment, one or more restrictions are selectively applied to limit the respective availability levels of one or more selected categories of advertisements within the advertising inventory. Typically, the selected categories of advertisements which are subject to the restrictions are at the lowest end of the pricing levels. By limiting the respective availability levels of selected categories of advertisements, unnecessary displacements of other categories of advertisements which are priced at the higher end of the pricing levels are reduced, thereby enhancing the total ad revenue that can be generated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2001
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2009
    Assignee: Yahoo! Inc.
    Inventor: Robert Main
  • Publication number: 20050177357
    Abstract: A method of modeling a combinatorial gate which includes providing a data signal input at the combinatorial gate, providing a clock signal input at the combinatorial gate, propagating the clock signal as an output signal when the output of the combinatorial gate corresponds to the clock signal, and propagating the data signal as an output when the output of the combinatorial gate corresponds to the data signal, the propagating the data signal modeling a near domino function.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 9, 2004
    Publication date: August 11, 2005
    Inventors: Matthew Amatangelo, Jeannette Sutherland, Robert Mains
  • Publication number: 20050091555
    Abstract: A method of using static timing analysis to extract implicit connectivity graph information. The method includes creating a unique clock waveform, defining a clock domain for the clock waveform, injecting the clock domain into a control node, propagating timing events from the control node to a transitively adjacent observation node, and retrieving transitively adjacent control node information to determine path delay information from the control node to the transitively adjacent observation node based upon propagation of timing events.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2003
    Publication date: April 28, 2005
    Inventors: Tong Xiao, Robert Mains
  • Patent number: 6554161
    Abstract: A dispensing apparatus for a liquid which relies on molded components capable of being interchanged to provide, in addition to incremental adjustment within a range of dosages allowed by stroke limiting rotational adjustment of the relativity of escarpment and abutment members, the change of one or both the spread of the dosage range and at least one limit of the range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2003
    Assignee: Prima Technologies Limited
    Inventor: John Robert Main
  • Publication number: 20020011501
    Abstract: A dispensing apparatus for a liquid which relies on moulded components capable of being interchanged to provide, in addition to incremental adjustment within a range of dosages allowed by stroke limiting rotational adjustment of the relativity of escarpment and abutment members, the change of one or both the spread of the dosage range and at least one limit of the range.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2001
    Publication date: January 31, 2002
    Inventor: John Robert Main