Patents by Inventor Ron Hill

Ron Hill 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).

  • Publication number: 20240079209
    Abstract: A plasma source is provided that is configured to form a section of a wall of a vacuum component. The plasma source comprises a body including a dielectric member, a first surface exposed to an exterior region of the vacuum component, and a second surface exposed to an interior region of the vacuum component. The plasma source also comprises at least one electrode disposed in a receiving channel of the body with at least a portion of the dielectric member located adjacent to the at least one electrode in the receiving channel. The plasma source further comprise at least one discharge region adjacent to the receiving channel within the body. The at least one discharge region is exposed to the interior region of the vacuum component via an opening on the second surface of the body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 2, 2022
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Inventors: Ron Collins, Andrew Cowe, Gordon Hill
  • Publication number: 20170169484
    Abstract: Adservers with the ability to access advertiser cookies and vice versa when both are serving from the advertiser's domain are provided, thereby avoiding the overhead and delay in backend cookie synchronization efforts. Further, advertising cookie data can be gathered regardless of whether a user is browsing a publisher's web site with an advertisement served by an adserver, or browsing the advertiser's web site, because the cookies were previously set when the user visited the advertiser's web site in the context of a first-party cookie. Even if the user has configured his or her browser to limit the setting of third-party cookies, the cookies can still be read by the adserver. By making cookie and advertising data immediately available in real time to both the advertiser and the adserver, the solution also provides for instantaneous and accurate targeting of web advertising to allow an educated ad selection process by either party.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 22, 2016
    Publication date: June 15, 2017
    Applicant: TruEffect, Inc.
    Inventors: Greg Neal, Glynne Casteel, Ron Hill, Bruce Droste
  • Patent number: 9659307
    Abstract: Cookie derivatives and methods for generating cookie derivatives are provided. A cookie derivative comprises a transformation of at least one portion of data associated with a cookie (e.g., a name and/or data value). The cookie derivative may comprise a persistent or non-persistent cookie derivative that may be stored on a user's computing device (e.g., within a browser). The cookie derivative may alternatively comprise a virtual cookie derivative that is stored on a server (e.g., in a log file, a cache, or other data storage of the server).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2017
    Assignee: TRUEFFECT, INC.
    Inventors: Glynne Casteel, Greg Neal, Ron Hill
  • Publication number: 20160364755
    Abstract: Cookie derivatives and methods for generating cookie derivatives are provided. A cookie derivative comprises a transformation of at least one portion of data associated with a cookie (e.g., a name and/or data value). The cookie derivative may comprise a persistent or non-persistent cookie derivative that may be stored on a user's computing device (e.g., within a browser). The cookie derivative may alternatively comprise a virtual cookie derivative that is stored on a server (e.g., in a log file, a cache, or other data storage of the server).
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 10, 2015
    Publication date: December 15, 2016
    Inventors: Glynne Casteel, Greg Neal, Ron Hill
  • Patent number: 9424592
    Abstract: Adservers with the ability to access advertiser cookies and vice versa when both are serving from the advertiser's domain are provided, thereby avoiding the overhead and delay in backend cookie synchronization efforts. Further, advertising cookie data can be gathered regardless of whether a user is browsing a publisher's web site with an advertisement served by an adserver, or browsing the advertiser's web site, because the cookies were previously set when the user visited the advertiser's web site in the context of a first-party cookie. Even if the user has configured his or her browser to limit the setting of third-party cookies, the cookies can still be read by the adserver. By making cookie and advertising data immediately available in real time to both the advertiser and the adserver, the solution also provides for instantaneous and accurate targeting of web advertising to allow an educated ad selection process by either party.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2016
    Assignee: TRUEFFECT, INC.
    Inventors: Greg Neal, Glynne Casteel, Ron Hill, Bruce Droste
  • Publication number: 20150348104
    Abstract: Cookie derivatives and methods for generating cookie derivatives are provided. A cookie derivative comprises a transformation of at least one portion of data associated with a cookie (e.g., a name and/or data value). The cookie derivative may comprise a persistent or non-persistent cookie derivative that may be stored on a user's computing device (e.g., within a browser). The cookie derivative may alternatively comprise a virtual cookie derivative that is stored on a server (e.g., in a log file, a cache, or other data storage of the server).
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 10, 2015
    Publication date: December 3, 2015
    Inventors: Glynne Casteel, Greg Neal, Ron Hill
  • Publication number: 20150262235
    Abstract: Adservers with the ability to access advertiser cookies and vice versa when both are serving from the advertiser's domain are provided, thereby avoiding the overhead and delay in backend cookie synchronization efforts. Further, advertising cookie data can be gathered regardless of whether a user is browsing a publisher's web site with an advertisement served by an adserver, or browsing the advertiser's web site, because the cookies were previously set when the user visited the advertiser's web site in the context of a first-party cookie. Even if the user has configured his or her browser to limit the setting of third-party cookies, the cookies can still be read by the adserver. By making cookie and advertising data immediately available in real time to both the advertiser and the adserver, the solution also provides for instantaneous and accurate targeting of web advertising to allow an educated ad selection process by either party.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2015
    Publication date: September 17, 2015
    Applicant: TRUEFFECT, INC.
    Inventors: Greg Neal, Glynne Casteel, Ron Hill, Bruce Droste
  • Patent number: 9104778
    Abstract: Cookie derivatives and methods for generating cookie derivatives are provided. A cookie derivative comprises a transformation of at least one portion of data associated with a cookie (e.g., a name and/or data value). The cookie derivative may comprise a persistent or non-persistent cookie derivative that may be stored on a user's computing device (e.g., within a browser). The cookie derivative may alternatively comprise a virtual cookie derivative that is stored on a server (e.g., in a log file, a cache, or other data storage of the server).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2015
    Assignee: TruEffect, Inc.
    Inventors: Glynne Casteel, Greg Neal, Ron Hill
  • Patent number: 8990330
    Abstract: Adservers with the ability to access advertiser cookies and vice versa when both are serving from the advertiser's domain are provided, thereby avoiding the overhead and delay in backend cookie synchronization efforts. Further, advertising cookie data can be gathered regardless of whether a user is browsing a publisher's web site with an advertisement served by an adserver, or browsing the advertiser's web site, because the cookies were previously set when the user visited the advertiser's web site in the context of a first-party cookie. Even if the user has configured his or her browser to limit the setting of third-party cookies, the cookies can still be read by the adserver. By making cookie and advertising data immediately available in real time to both the advertiser and the adserver, the solution also provides for instantaneous and accurate targeting of web advertising to allow an educated ad selection process by either party.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2015
    Assignee: TruEffect, Inc.
    Inventors: Greg Neal, Glynne Casteel, Ron Hill, Bruce Droste
  • Publication number: 20140122223
    Abstract: A user can view creative from multiple locations (same laptop) and multiple devices (work computer, home computer, tablet, smartphone). The user can also adjust their privacy settings on their browser to accept or reject cookies and/or have anti-spam/spyware software that regularly deletes cookies. An enhanced counting method uses first-party cookie technology to track users across access channels and across privacy settings on their browser. The non-acceptance and deletion of cookies causes the accuracy of the traditional third-party cookie calculated reach and frequency calculations to vary widely. First-party cookies reduce this variability but are still subject to non-acceptance or deletion so additional actions need to be taken to provide the opportunity for accurate reports. Additional steps to increase the accuracy of reach and frequency reporting are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 2, 2013
    Publication date: May 1, 2014
    Applicant: TRUEFFECT, INC.
    Inventors: Martin Smith, Ron Hill, Greg Neal, David Olson
  • Publication number: 20140108165
    Abstract: Adservers with the ability to access advertiser cookies and vice versa when both are serving from the advertiser's domain are provided, thereby avoiding the overhead and delay in backend cookie synchronization efforts. Further, advertising cookie data can be gathered regardless of whether a user is browsing a publisher's web site with an advertisement served by an adserver, or browsing the advertiser's web site, because the cookies were previously set when the user visited the advertiser's web site in the context of a first-party cookie. Even if the user has configured his or her browser to limit the setting of third-party cookies, the cookies can still be read by the adserver. By making cookie and advertising data immediately available in real time to both the advertiser and the adserver, the solution also provides for instantaneous and accurate targeting of web advertising to allow an educated ad selection process by either party.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2013
    Publication date: April 17, 2014
    Applicant: TRUEFFECT, INC.
    Inventors: Greg Neal, Glynne Casteel, Ron Hill, Bruce Droste
  • Publication number: 20140108092
    Abstract: A user can view creative from multiple locations (same laptop) and multiple devices (work computer, home computer, tablet, smartphone). The user can also adjust their privacy settings on their browser to accept or reject cookies and/or have anti-spam/spyware software that regularly deletes cookies. An enhanced counting method uses first-party cookie technology to track users across access channels and across privacy settings on their browser. The non-acceptance and deletion of cookies causes the accuracy of the traditional third-party cookie calculated reach and frequency calculations to vary widely. First-party cookies reduce this variability but are still subject to non-acceptance or deletion so additional actions need to be taken to provide the opportunity for accurate reports. Additional steps to increase the accuracy of reach and frequency reporting are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 2, 2013
    Publication date: April 17, 2014
    Applicant: TRUEFFECT, INC.
    Inventors: Martin Smith, Ron Hill, Greg Neal, David Olson
  • Publication number: 20140108131
    Abstract: A user can view creative from multiple locations (same laptop) and multiple devices (work computer, home computer, tablet, smartphone). The user can also adjust their privacy settings on their browser to accept or reject cookies and/or have anti-spam/spyware software that regularly deletes cookies. An enhanced counting method uses first-party cookie technology to track users across access channels and across privacy settings on their browser. The non-acceptance and deletion of cookies causes the accuracy of the traditional third-party cookie calculated reach and frequency calculations to vary widely. First-party cookies reduce this variability but are still subject to non-acceptance or deletion so additional actions need to be taken to provide the opportunity for accurate reports. Additional steps to increase the accuracy of reach and frequency reporting are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 2, 2013
    Publication date: April 17, 2014
    Applicant: TRUEFFECT, INC.
    Inventors: Martin Smith, Ron Hill, Greg Neal, David Olson
  • Patent number: 8583749
    Abstract: Adservers with the ability to access advertiser cookies and vice versa when both are serving from the advertiser's domain are provided, thereby avoiding the overhead and delay in backend cookie synchronization efforts. Further, advertising cookie data can be gathered regardless of whether a user is browsing a publisher's web site with an advertisement served by an adserver, or browsing the advertiser's web site, because the cookies were previously set when the user visited the advertiser's web site in the context of a first-party cookie. Even if the user has configured his or her browser to limit the setting of third-party cookies, the cookies can still be read by the adserver. By making cookie and advertising data immediately available in real time to both the advertiser and the adserver, the solution also provides for instantaneous and accurate targeting of web advertising to allow an educated ad selection process by either party.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2013
    Assignee: Trueffect, Inc.
    Inventors: Greg Neal, Glynne Casteel, Ron Hill, Bruce Droste
  • Patent number: 8123254
    Abstract: A non-cellulose based deformable substrate having at least one fold line is configured to be able to be directly mounted on a frame or included in a publication. The substrate is configured to reduce the propagation of stress along the at least one fold line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2005
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2012
    Assignee: G.B.D. Corp.
    Inventors: Helmut Horst Gerhard Conrad, Ron Hills, Wayne Ernest Conrad, Nina Kanevsky Conrad
  • Publication number: 20110125595
    Abstract: Adservers with the ability to access advertiser cookies and vice versa when both are serving from the advertiser's domain are provided, thereby avoiding the overhead and delay in backend cookie synchronization efforts. Further, advertising cookie data can be gathered regardless of whether a user is browsing a publisher's web site with an advertisement served by an adserver, or browsing the advertiser's web site, because the cookies were previously set when the user visited the advertiser's web site in the context of a first-party cookie. Even if the user has configured his or her browser to limit the setting of third-party cookies, the cookies can still be read by the adserver. By making cookie and advertising data immediately available in real time to both the advertiser and the adserver, the solution also provides for instantaneous and accurate targeting of web advertising to allow an educated ad selection process by either party.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2011
    Publication date: May 26, 2011
    Applicant: TRUEFFECT, INC.
    Inventors: Greg Neal, Glynne Casteel, Ron Hill, Bruce Droste
  • Patent number: 7904520
    Abstract: Adservers with the ability to access advertiser cookies and vice versa when both are serving from the advertiser's domain are provided, thereby avoiding the overhead and delay in backend cookie synchronization efforts. Further, advertising cookie data can be gathered regardless of whether a user is browsing a publisher's web site with an advertisement served by an adserver, or browsing the advertiser's web site, because the cookies were previously set when the user visited the advertiser's web site in the context of a first-party cookie. Even if the user has configured his or her browser to limit the setting of third-party cookies, the cookies can still be read by the adserver. By making cookie and advertising data immediately available in real time to both the advertiser and the adserver, the solution also provides for instantaneous and accurate targeting of web advertising to allow an educated ad selection process by either party.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2011
    Assignee: Trueffect, Inc.
    Inventors: Greg Neal, Glynne Casteel, Ron Hill, Bruce Droste
  • Publication number: 20100145960
    Abstract: Cookie derivatives and methods for generating cookie derivatives are provided. A cookie derivative comprises a transformation of at least one portion of data associated with a cookie (e.g., a name and/or data value). The cookie derivative may comprise a persistent or non-persistent cookie derivative that may be stored on a user's computing device (e.g., within a browser). The cookie derivative may alternatively comprise a virtual cookie derivative that is stored on a server (e.g., in a log file, a cache, or other data storage of the server).
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2009
    Publication date: June 10, 2010
    Applicant: TruEffect, Inc.
    Inventors: Glynne Casteel, Greg Neal, Ron Hill
  • Publication number: 20080265559
    Abstract: A non-cellulose based deformable substrate having at least one fold line is configured to be able to be directly mounted on a frame or included in a publication. The substrate is configured to reduce the propagation of stress along the at least one fold line.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2005
    Publication date: October 30, 2008
    Applicant: 2089275 ONTARIO LTD.
    Inventors: Wayne Ernest Conrad, Kina Kanevsky Conrad, Helmut Horst G. Conrad, Ron Hills
  • Publication number: 20080129032
    Abstract: A plastic or metal substrate is included in a publication.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 9, 2007
    Publication date: June 5, 2008
    Applicant: 2089275 ONTARIO LTD.
    Inventors: Wayne Ernest Conrad, Nina Kanevsky Conrad, Helmut Horst G. Conrad, Ron Hills