Patents Represented by Attorney, Agent or Law Firm Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.
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Patent number: 8271297Abstract: A computer-implemented method for facilitating placement of health care order entry is provided. The method includes receiving input indicative of a desired healthcare order. The order has certain terms therein that are normalized. The method also finds possible order matches for the normalized terms, and calculates a rough score for the possible order matches. The method refines the rough score with a rough score adjustment, and then ranks the found possible order matches from the most-likely to match the desired order to the least-likely based upon the refined rough score. These possible order matches can then be displayed to the user for selection.Type: GrantFiled: December 29, 2010Date of Patent: September 18, 2012Assignee: Cerner Innovation, Inc.Inventors: Steven S. Crooks, Christopher S. Finn, David P. McCallie, Jr.
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Patent number: 8271502Abstract: Methods and computer-readable media are provided for summarizing the content of a plurality of documents and presenting the results of such multiple-document summarization to a user in such a way that the user is able to quickly and easily discern what, if any, unique information each document contains. Each sentence of each document is assigned a score based upon the perceived importance of the information contained therein. The sentences receiving the highest scores are then compared with one another to identify and remove any duplicate sentences. The remaining high-scoring sentences are extracted from the corresponding documents and presented to the user, for instance, in a bulleted list format. The user can then simply scan the list and can quickly and easily discern the unique information contained in each document.Type: GrantFiled: June 26, 2009Date of Patent: September 18, 2012Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Krysta Marie Svore, Jamil Amirali Valliani, Deqing Chen, Lucretia H. Vanderwende
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Patent number: 8271868Abstract: An embodiment of the current invention is directed to inserting content from a source website into a destination website. Content from the source website is selected as selected content. A destination website is navigated to and, thereafter, a script is executed in a window displaying the destination website. In embodiments, the script performs a process that includes retrieving the selected content and displaying the selected content on the destination website.Type: GrantFiled: March 25, 2009Date of Patent: September 18, 2012Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Aleksey Y. Sinyagin, Kevin James Riedy, Eric Jon Juvet
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Patent number: 8265948Abstract: Proactive and interactive clinical decision support events are provided. When a clinical decision support event is initiated for a patient, relevant stored clinical information associated with the patient is accessed. A user interface is generated using the stored clinical information. A clinician may interact with the user interface by providing user-provided clinical information that may add to and/or modify the stored clinical information in the user interface. Clinical advice is provided based on the stored clinical information and the user-provided clinical information.Type: GrantFiled: January 16, 2007Date of Patent: September 11, 2012Assignee: Cerner Innovation, Inc.Inventors: Michael D. Schmitt, Keith A. Huffman, Leo V. Perez, J. Christopher Murrish
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Patent number: 8262432Abstract: A lightweight enhanced modesty sports bra is provided. The sports bra comprises an interior liner layer having two faces and an exterior shell layer having two faces and a printed obscuration pattern in between the interior liner layer and the exterior shell layer. The interior liner layer and the exterior shell layer with the printed obscuration pattern are assembled in a way that provides modesty and the printed pattern is not visible from the outside. An optional layer called the intermediate liner layer may be placed in between the exterior shell layer and the interior liner layer.Type: GrantFiled: December 15, 2009Date of Patent: September 11, 2012Assignee: Nike, Inc.Inventor: Susan L. Sokolowski
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Patent number: 8266289Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer media for scheduling vertices in a distributed data processing network and allocating computing resources on a processing node in a distributed data processing network are provided. Vertices, subparts of a data job including both data and computer code that runs on the data, are assigned by a job manager to a distributed cluster of process nodes for processing. The process nodes run the vertices and transmit computing resource usage information, including memory and processing core usage, back to the job manager. The job manager uses this information to estimate computing resource usage information for other vertices in the data job that are either still running or waiting to be run. Using the estimated computing resource usage information, each process node can run multiple vertices concurrently.Type: GrantFiled: April 23, 2009Date of Patent: September 11, 2012Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Bikas Saha, Ronnie Chaiken, James David Ryseff
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Patent number: 8266290Abstract: A cloud computing platform contains a structured storage subsystem the provides scalable queues. The cloud computing platform monitors message throughput for the scalable queues and automatically increases or decreases subqueues that provide the operational functionality for each scalable queue. A visibility start time and cloud computing platform time are maintained for each message to provide an approximate first-in-first-out order for messages within each subqueue. A message in a subqueue may be available for processing when the current cloud computing time is greater than the visibility start of the message.Type: GrantFiled: October 26, 2009Date of Patent: September 11, 2012Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Bradley Gene Calder, Niranjan Nilakantan, Padmanabha Chakravarthy Uddaraju
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Patent number: 8266204Abstract: Cloud computing platforms having computer-readable media that perform methods for direct addressability and direct server return are provided. The cloud computing platform includes a load balancer and several servers. The servers are configured with public addresses, private addresses, and an address of the load balancer. The loopback interface of the servers is configured with the address of the load balancer. This allows a server to bypass the load balancer when replying to communication messages. Additionally, the public and private addresses of the servers enable direct addressability in the cloud computing platform. Accordingly, an application executing in the cloud computing platform may connect two or more clients on the same server.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2010Date of Patent: September 11, 2012Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Deepak Bansal, Priyank Ramesh Warkhede, Thiruvengadam Venketesan
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Patent number: 8260664Abstract: Advertisements are selected for presentation on search result pages and web pages based on phrases generated from lateral concepts and topics identified for the search result pages and web pages. A search query or an indication of a web page is received for which advertisements are to be provided. Lateral concepts and topics are identified based on the search query or content of the web page. The lateral concepts and topics are used as phrases for selecting advertisements from an advertisement inventory. Selected advertisements are provided for presentation on a search results page in response to a search query or on a web page initially identified.Type: GrantFiled: February 5, 2010Date of Patent: September 4, 2012Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Viswanath Vadlamani, Abhinai Srivastava, Tarek Najm, Munirathnam Srikanth, Phani Vaddadi, Arungunram Chandrasekaran Surendran, Rajeev Prasad
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Patent number: 8257087Abstract: Methods and equipment to improve the visual ability of a subject during athletic activities are provided. One such method includes configuring a sporting object to visually approximate the appearance of a background or configuring a background to visually approximate the appearance of a sporting object. A subject may then train using the sporting object visually in front of the low contrast background. A background where the visual appearance of the background comprises at least one depiction of the sporting object may be used. A subject may then train using the sporting object visually in front of the background.Type: GrantFiled: May 8, 2008Date of Patent: September 4, 2012Assignee: Nike, Inc.Inventors: Alan W. Reichow, Richard Avis
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Patent number: 8260775Abstract: Computer-readable media and a computing device are described for providing geotemporal search and a search interface therefor. A search interface having a location portion and a timeline portion is provided. A geographic area is selected in the location portion by adjusting the visible area of a map. A temporal window is selected in the timeline portion by adjusting sliders along a timeline to a desired start and end time. The start and end times can be in the past, present, or future. A geotemporal search is executed based on the selected geographic area and temporal window to identify search results having associated metadata indicating a relationship to the selected geographic area and temporal window. One or more search terms are optionally provided to further refine the geotemporal search.Type: GrantFiled: January 12, 2010Date of Patent: September 4, 2012Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: David Dongjah Ahn, Michael Paul Bieniosek, Ian Robert Collins, Franco Salvetti, Toby Takeo Sterrett, Giovanni Lorenzo Thione, Grigor Shirakyan, Hamed Esfahani
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Patent number: 8255785Abstract: Embodiments of the invention provide a communication network having a plurality of communication devices capable of transferring content wirelessly. The communication network comprises at least two communication devices and a mediator. The first communication device receives streaming content. The second communication device receives content different from the content streaming to the first communication device. In turn, the mediator determines whether the streaming content should take precedence over the content different from the content streaming on the first communication device.Type: GrantFiled: April 18, 2008Date of Patent: August 28, 2012Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: David W. Baumert, Flora P. Goldthwaite, Gregory L. Hendrickson, Jonathan Cluts
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Patent number: 8253708Abstract: User interfaces, methods, systems, and computer-readable media for activating and/or displaying text input systems on display devices may include: (a) displaying a text input system activation target at a user changeable location on a display device; (b) receiving user input directed to the activation target; and (c) activating a text input system in response to the user input. Such user interfaces, methods, and systems further may include (d) displaying a pre-interaction condition of the activation target; (e) receiving user input directed to the activation target in this pre-interaction condition; and (f) changing an appearance of the activation target from the pre-interaction condition to a larger size and/or a different visual appearance in response to this user input. Additional aspects of this invention relate to computer-readable media for providing user interfaces, systems, and methods as described above.Type: GrantFiled: July 13, 2009Date of Patent: August 28, 2012Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Adrian J. Garside, F. David Jones, Josh A. Clow, Judy C. Tandog, Leroy B. Keely, Tracy Dianne Schultz
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Patent number: 8255827Abstract: Computer-readable media, computerized methods, and graphical user interfaces (GUI's) for interactively presenting features within the panes of a display area rendered in a GUI workspace are provided. Initially, a computing device memory is inspected to discover a profile that accommodates a user-visual pattern. When the profile is not discovered, a default page layout is retrieved and communicated to the display device for presentation within the display area. If the profile is discovered, commonly viewed screen locations, based upon a frequency of eye fixation upon each of the screen locations, are ordered. Contextually relevant features are selected for presentation within the display area. The selected features are ranked based on predetermined criteria and each associated with the commonly viewed screen locations by comparing the ranking with the ordering.Type: GrantFiled: January 26, 2009Date of Patent: August 28, 2012Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventor: Manish Malik
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Patent number: 8255373Abstract: Atomic multiple modifications of streams is provided. Streams are selected for the application of an atomic multiple modification. A lock is acquired on the meta-data associated with the streams. Each stream is de-coupled from its name. Multiple modifications are applied to the selected streams. After performing the modifications, names are coupled to the streams. The lock on the meta-data associated with each stream is released.Type: GrantFiled: October 24, 2008Date of Patent: August 28, 2012Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Samuel James McKelvie, Bradley Gene Calder, Ju Wang, Xinran Wu
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Patent number: 8255385Abstract: Methods and systems for determining an adaptive crawl rate for a Web crawler based on historical publication data from a Web source are provided. A frequency of publication of the Web source is determined over a specified period of time, and an adaptive crawl rate is calculated using the frequency of publication. The Web crawler is then deployed at the calculated adaptive crawl rate.Type: GrantFiled: March 22, 2011Date of Patent: August 28, 2012Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Walter Sun, Yipeng Li, Xiao Zhang, Junaid Ahmed
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Patent number: 8250769Abstract: A distance indicating mechanism can be used in combination with a bow sight to quickly determine distances to targets from an elevated position. The distance indicating mechanism has a generally circular, fluid-filled tubular device with one or more adjustable indicators located thereon. The indicators are positionable to correspond with the fluid level in the tubular device to indicate the orientation of the mechanism when aiming at a known distance. Each indicator generally corresponds to a sight pin of a bow site that indicates a corresponding linear distance for which an arrow will be at a desired vertical position when shot by a bow operator.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2011Date of Patent: August 28, 2012Assignee: Jerrmatt, LLCInventor: Jerry Edmundson
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Patent number: 8255262Abstract: The assessment of security risks associated with linear corridors, such as transportation corridors and utilities corridors, is provided. Initially, a site is selected for evaluation. Survey data and context sensitive information, such as demographic information, environmental information, corridor asset information, and the like, is collected for the site. Linear corridors are identified within the data, and critical assets within each linear corridor are also identified. Security risks associated with linear corridors may then be assessed using the survey data and context sensitive information. In addition, mitigation strategies, response strategies, and recovery strategies may be developed for the security risks assessed for the linear corridors.Type: GrantFiled: January 20, 2006Date of Patent: August 28, 2012Assignee: HNTB Holdings LtdInventors: Jeffrey L. Siegel, Charles H. Quandel, W. Robert Moore, Douglas Wayne Morrison, Glen Arthur Herman, Robert J. Marros, Michael Richard Ostrom
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Patent number: 8250481Abstract: A method, system, and medium are provided for presenting aspects of change associated with a geographic area that has been captured by high-resolution, remotely sensed imagery.Type: GrantFiled: October 20, 2008Date of Patent: August 21, 2012Assignee: The Curators of the University of MissouriInventors: Matthew Nicholas Klaric, Curtis Herbert Davis, Grant Jason Scott, Chi-Ren Shyu, Brian Christopher Claywell
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Patent number: D666817Type: GrantFiled: August 20, 2010Date of Patent: September 11, 2012Assignee: Quality Craft Industries Inc.Inventor: Vincent G. Koehn