Patents by Inventor Torsten Schulz
Torsten Schulz 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: 8417782Abstract: System and method for handling calendar events among a plurality of user devices in a communication network are disclosed. The system includes a device manager for interfacing with the plurality of user devices, where the plurality of user devices use different calendar applications and have calendar events in different data formats, and the plurality of user devices include at least a meeting organizer device and one or more attendee devices. The system further includes a calendar gateway for processing the calendar events to form a corresponding connected calendar-data-set for each connected user, where the connected calendar-data-set is stored in a calendar backend server and is shared among one or more devices of each connected user, and an email gateway for communicating the calendar events between the calendar gateway and the plurality of user devices.Type: GrantFiled: July 14, 2005Date of Patent: April 9, 2013Assignee: Yahoo! Inc.Inventors: Meher Tendjoukian, Marco Boerries, Venkatachary Srinivasan, Matthias Breuer, Torsten Schulz
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Patent number: 8349616Abstract: A method for assaying a sample for each of multiple analysis is described. The method includes contacting an array of spaced-apart test zones with a liquid sample (e.g., whole blood). The test zones are disposed within a channel of a microfluidic device. The channel is defined by at least one flexible wall and a second wall which may or may not be flexible. Each test zone includes a probe compound specific for a respective target analyte. The microfluidic device is compressed to reduce the thickness of the channel, which is the distance between the inner surfaces of the walls within the channel. The presence of each analyte is determined by optically detecting an interaction at each of multiple zones for which the distance between the inner surfaces at the corresponding location is reduced. The interaction at each test zone is indicative of the presence in the sample of a target analyte.Type: GrantFiled: November 22, 2007Date of Patent: January 8, 2013Assignee: Clondiag GmbHInventors: Torsten Schulz, Thomas Kaiser, Thomas Uhlig, Klaus Peter Möbius, Alexander Von Schenk Zu Schweinsberg
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Publication number: 20120321518Abstract: The present invention relates to devices and methods for performing assays, especially for determining the presence and/or amount of one or more analytes. In particular, the invention relates to a device for the detection of analytes, comprising a reversibly compressible matrix located between a first surface and a second surface, wherein the second surface is located opposite to the first surface, and wherein the distance between the first surface and the second surface is variable. The invention also relates to a corresponding method using such a device for the detection of one or more species of analytes.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 28, 2012Publication date: December 20, 2012Applicant: CLONDIAG GMBHInventors: Eugen ERMANTRAUT, Torsten Schulz, Thomas Ellinger, Daniel Weicherding
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Publication number: 20120264427Abstract: Embodiments are directed towards SMS-initiated mobile registration. A mobile device sends an SMS message to a mobile registration device. In response, the mobile registration device generates a random identifier and associates it with the mobile device identifier of the mobile device. Then, the mobile registration device sends a response SMS message to the mobile device, the response SMS message containing a Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) to a mobile registration web page, where the URI contains the generated random identifier. The mobile device uses the URI to navigate to the mobile registration web page, where additional registration information is provided. The mobile registration device associates the additional registration information with the mobile device based on the generated random identifier included in the URI, and creates a user account based on the mobile number from which the SMS message was received and the additional registration information.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 20, 2011Publication date: October 18, 2012Applicant: Yahoo! Inc.Inventors: Rahim Ismail ADATIA, Iain Andrew Huxley, Alexander Nickolas Linde, Torsten Schulz, Travis Scott Young
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Patent number: 8278113Abstract: The present invention relates to devices and methods for performing assays, especially for determining the presence and/or amount of one or more analytes. In particular, the invention relates to a device for the detection of analytes, comprising a reversibly compressible matrix located between a first surface and a second surface, wherein the second surface is located opposite to the first surface, and wherein the distance between the first surface and the second surface is variable. The invention also relates to a corresponding method using such a device for the detection of one or more species of analytes.Type: GrantFiled: July 14, 2009Date of Patent: October 2, 2012Assignee: Clondiag GmbHInventors: Eugen Ermantraut, Torsten Schulz, Thomas Ellinger, Daniel Weicherding
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Publication number: 20120190005Abstract: Biopharmaceutical process development with recombinant protein producing mammalian cells has realized a tremendous increase in both productivity and product yields in the past years. These achievements can be mainly attributed to the advancements in cell line development, media, and process optimization. Only recently, genome-scale technologies enable a system-level analysis to elucidate the complex biomolecular basis of protein production in mammalian cells promising an increased process understanding and the deduction of knowledge-based approaches for further process optimization. The present invention describes a method for a rational cell culturing process using such a knowledge-based approach.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 27, 2010Publication date: July 26, 2012Applicant: BOEHRINGER INGELHEIM INTERNATIONAL GMBHInventors: Jochen Schaub, Torsten Schulz
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Publication number: 20120088252Abstract: The present invention relates to devices and methods for the qualitative and/or quantitative detection of particles. In particular, the invention relates to devices for the detection of particles, comprising a reaction chamber formed within a chamber body between a first surface and a second surface, wherein the second surface is located opposite to the first surface, and one or more displacers, wherein the distance between the first surface and the second surface is variable via the one or more displacers at least in one or more parts of the surface area of the first surface and/or second surface. The invention also relates to corresponding methods for the detection of particles.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 14, 2011Publication date: April 12, 2012Applicant: ALERE TECHNOLOGIES GmbHInventors: Eugen Ermantraut, Ralf Bickel, Torsten Schulz, Thomas Ullrich, Jens Tuchscheerer
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Publication number: 20120058464Abstract: A method for assaying a sample for each of multiple analytes is described. The method includes contacting an array of spaced-apart test zones with a liquid sample (e.g., whole blood). The test zones disposed within a channel of a microfluidic device. The channel is defined by at least one flexible wall and a second wall which may or may not be flexible. Each test zone comprising a probe compound specific for a respective target analyte. The microfluidic device is compressed to reduce the thickness of the channel, which is the distance between the inner surfaces of the walls within the channel. The presence of each analyte is determined by optically detecting an interaction at each of multiple test zones for which the distance between the inner surfaces at the corresponding location is reduced. The interaction at each test zone is indicative of the presence in the sample of a target analyte.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 16, 2010Publication date: March 8, 2012Inventors: Eugen Ermantraut, Thomas Kaiser, Jens Tuchscheerer, Vico Baier, Torsten Schulz, Anke Wostemeyer
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Patent number: 8112549Abstract: System and method for notifying a user status of communications between a server and the user having one or more user devices in a communication network are disclosed. The system includes a server for communicating with the user, where the server includes a connected-data-set and the one or more user devices share portions of the connected-data-set, logic for monitoring communications between the server and the one or more user devices for a predetermined set of notification conditions, and logic for sending a notification message to the one or more user devices when a notification condition is detected.Type: GrantFiled: July 14, 2005Date of Patent: February 7, 2012Assignee: Yahoo! Inc.Inventors: Venkatachary Srinivasan, Marco Boerries, Matthias Breuer, Markus Meyer, Torsten Schulz
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Patent number: 8040494Abstract: The present invention relates to devices and methods for the qualitative and/or quantitative detection of particles. In particular, the invention relates to devices for the detection of particles, comprising a reaction chamber formed within a chamber body between a first surface and a second surface, wherein the second surface is located opposite to the first surface, and one or more displacers, wherein the distance between the first surface and the second surface is variable via the one or more displacers at least in one or more parts of the surface area of the first surface and/or the second surface.Type: GrantFiled: November 6, 2006Date of Patent: October 18, 2011Assignee: Clondiag GmbHInventors: Eugen Ermantraut, Ralf Bickel, Torsten Schulz, Thomas Ullrich, Jens Tuchscheerer
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Publication number: 20110124114Abstract: A method for assaying a sample for each of multiple analytes is described. The method includes contacting an array of spaced-apart test zones with a liquid sample (e.g., whole blood). The test zones disposed within a channel of a microfluidic device. The channel is defined by at least one flexible wall and a second wall which may or may not be flexible. Each test zone comprising a probe compound specific for a respective target analyte. The microfluidic device is compressed to reduce the thickness of the channel, which is the distance between the inner surfaces of the walls within the channel. The presence of each analyte is determined by optically detecting an interaction at each of multiple test zones for which the distance between the inner surfaces at the corresponding location is reduced. The interaction at each test zone is indicative of the presence in the sample of a target analyte.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 16, 2009Publication date: May 26, 2011Inventors: Eugen Ermantraut, Thomas Kaiser, Jens Tuchscheerer, Vico Beier, Torsten Schulz, Anke Wöstemeyer
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Publication number: 20110071038Abstract: The present invention relates to devices and methods for performing assays, especially for determining the presence and/or amount of one or more analytes. In particular, the invention relates to a device for the detection of analytes, comprising a reversibly compressible matrix located between a first surface and a second surface, wherein the second surface is located opposite to the first surface, and wherein the distance between the first surface and the second surface is variable. The invention also relates to a corresponding method using such a device for the detection of one or more species of analytes.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 14, 2009Publication date: March 24, 2011Applicant: CLONDIAG GMBHInventors: Eugen Ermantraut, Torsten Schulz, Thomas Ellinger, Daniel Weicherding
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Patent number: 7888074Abstract: The aim of the invention is to provide a device for duplicating and characterizing nucleic acids almost simultaneously and with a high sample throughput rate. The device consists of a chamber body with a recess whose edge sealingly holds an optically transparent chip. Said chip holds nucleic acids in individual spots on a detection surface. The chamber body is placed on an optically transparent chamber support with a bearing surface, in such a way that a capillary gap, which can be filled with a liquid sample, is formed between the detection surface of the chip facing towards the chamber support and said chamber support. The chamber body is provided with an inlet and an outlet, which are spatially separate from each other, and has a space, which laterally encompasses the chip and which has a gas reservoir. The chamber support is provided with heating elements.Type: GrantFiled: January 2, 2002Date of Patent: February 15, 2011Assignee: Clondiag Chip Technologies GmbHInventors: Ralf Ehricht, Thomas Ellinger, Jens Tuchscherer, Eugen Ermantraut, Siegfried Poser, Torsten Schulz
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Publication number: 20110014606Abstract: A device comprising a rigid substrate, a flexible cover element at least partially covering the substrate, a first structure formed in the substrate, adapted for accommodating liquids and adapted for releasing contents of one or more cells, spores, or viruses, the contents including the target molecules, a second structure formed in the substrate, adapted for accommodating liquids and comprising at least one binding member adapted for capturing the target molecules and for determining a value indicative of the presence and/or amount of the target molecules, a micro fluidic network interconnecting at least the first structure and the second structure, and an actuator member adapted for effecting a fluid flow between the first structure and the second structure by pressing the flexible cover element against the substrate to selectively close a portion of the micro fluidic network.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 6, 2007Publication date: January 20, 2011Applicant: CLONDIAG GMBHInventors: Katrin Steinmetzer, Eugen Ermantraut, Torsten Schulz, Thomas Kaiser
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Patent number: 7873696Abstract: A system and method for servicing user accounts are disclosed. The system includes one or more blades for servicing the user accounts, where each blade includes software components and hardware components, and each blade serves a group of user accounts, a blade manager for managing states of the one or more blades, and logic for incrementally adding one or more new blades in response to increase in the number of new user accounts.Type: GrantFiled: October 28, 2005Date of Patent: January 18, 2011Assignee: Yahoo! Inc.Inventors: Venkatachary Srinivasan, Markus Meyer, Torsten Schulz, Marco Boerries
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Patent number: 7870288Abstract: A system and method for sharing data between two users on different blades in scalable software blade architecture are disclosed. The system includes a plurality of blades, where each blade includes software components and hardware components, each blade serves a predefined group of users, and each user is associated with one or more user devices. The system further includes a first blade and a second blade, where the first blade connects a first user to a first connected dataset and the second blade connects a second user to a second connected dataset, and the first blade and the second blade operate independent of each other, a blade manager for managing the first and second blades, a pipe device for connecting the first and second blades, and logic for sharing portions of the first connected dataset of the first user with the second user using the pipe device.Type: GrantFiled: October 28, 2005Date of Patent: January 11, 2011Assignee: Yahoo! Inc.Inventors: Torsten Schulz, Venkatachary Srinivasan, Marco Boerries, Markus Meyer
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Patent number: 7849199Abstract: A method, apparatus and system for routing changes to information between a plurality of content nodes and a command memory of a content router. Content nodes may be user devices (such as mobile phones) and user accounts (such as email accounts). Content nodes may hold one or more content types such as email, contacts, tasks, events and library items. A command memory centralizes conflict detection, resolution and error handling within a content routing system.Type: GrantFiled: July 14, 2005Date of Patent: December 7, 2010Assignee: Yahoo ! Inc.Inventors: Torsten Schulz, Marco Boerries, Matthias Breuer, Bjørn Ebbesen, Markus Meyer, Venkatachary Srinivasan
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Patent number: D629907Type: GrantFiled: May 27, 2009Date of Patent: December 28, 2010Assignee: Clondiag GmbHInventors: Horst Boessneck, Eugen Ermantraut, Thomas Kaiser, Torsten Schulz
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Patent number: D633209Type: GrantFiled: May 27, 2009Date of Patent: February 22, 2011Assignee: Clondiag GmbHInventors: Horst Boessneck, Eugen Ermantraut, Thomas Kaiser, Torsten Schulz
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Patent number: D641477Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2010Date of Patent: July 12, 2011Assignee: Clondiag GmbHInventors: Horst Boessneck, Eugen Ermantraut, Thomas Kaiser, Torsten Schulz