Patents by Inventor William H. Beckmann

William H. Beckmann 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).

  • System and method for personalization implemented on multiple networks and multiple interfaces
    Patent number: 7788212
    Abstract: Personalization of an interface with a network is facilitated through an application of a User Profile to Web page generation, information location, information retrieval, information presentation, and on-line commerce. Additionally, the User Profile may be continuously generated, maintained, and updated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2001
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2010
    Assignee: Big Think LLC
    Inventors: William H. Beckmann, Diana F. Kuhl, Gerard E. Philipp
  • Tax deduction revaluation system
    Patent number: 7769662
    Abstract: A method and system for calculating a tax credit obtains a tax function T(A), a value for deduction (D), and a value for an income amount (A) at which a computation is based. The method and system computes a tax credit C=k(T(A)?T(A?(D?C))). The calculation may be done non-recursively or recursively by calculating values Cn+1=k(T(A)?T(A?(D?Cn))).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2010
    Inventor: William H. Beckmann
  • Tax deduction revaluation system
    Publication number: 20080040247
    Abstract: A method and system for calculating a tax credit obtains a tax function T(A), a value for deduction (D), and a value for an income amount (A) at which a computation is based. The method and system computes a tax credit C=k(T(A)?T(A?(D?C))). The calculation may be done non-recursively or recursively by calculating values Cn+1=k(T(A)?T(A?(D?Cn))).
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 14, 2006
    Publication date: February 14, 2008
    Inventor: William H. Beckmann
  • Data distribution system using coordinated analog and digital streams
    Patent number: 6675388
    Abstract: The present invention uses multiple broadcast television channels to distribute high volume of data to a client device from a server. Multiple analog channels are broadcast, at least one of which contains video/audio programs and control data inserted into the analog signal's VBI; and at least one separate channel contains a digital data stream which is modulated onto an analog channel and associated with channels containing those video/audio programs. STBs designed to implement this invention are equipped with at least two tuners in order to tune to two of those channels simultaneously. One tuner is used to tune to the video/audio channel, and extract the control data in the VBI. The second tuner is used to tune to the channels containing the data itself.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 1999
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2004
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: William H. Beckmann, Steven W. Depp, Jurij R. Paraszczak, Frank A. Schaffa, David I. Seidman
  • System and method for personalization implemented on multiple networks and multiple interfaces
    Publication number: 20020073088
    Abstract: Personalization of an interface with a network is facilitated through an application of a User Profile to Web page generation, information location, information retrieval, information presentation, and on-line commerce. Additionally, the User Profile may be continuously generated, maintained, and updated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 4, 2001
    Publication date: June 13, 2002
    Inventors: William H. Beckmann, Diana F. Kuhl, Gerard E. Philipp