Patents Represented by Attorney The Van Winkle Law Firm
  • Patent number: 8335696
    Abstract: There is provided a method for producing a price competitive health care system. A website, which is hosted on a computer server, is created for establishing a health care network. Providers are solicited to join the health care network and a plurality of providers apply by sending applications, including credentials, to the website from the providers' computers via the internet. The credentials of the providers are examined. Those with appropriate credentials are approved. The approved providers send to the website a number equal to the percentage of a known index which the approved providers are willing to charge for their goods and/or services. The website is accessed by patients who may be interested in purchasing the services or the goods of one or more of the approved providers, which access is accomplished from the patients' computers via the internet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2012
    Inventor: David A. Brown
  • Patent number: 8325691
    Abstract: A wireless distribution secured cabling system includes faceplates, each of which contains an antenna or other radiating element and an active amplifier, which serves as a bi-directional repeater for the wireless communication system. The system further includes a patch panel or distribution module which connects multiple cables, which may be either twisted pair or coaxial, to amplifier, acting as a power divider and/or an impedance matching device. An antenna, which may be mounted either outside of a building structure or inside the building structure, provides communications between the structured cabling system and a service provider base station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2012
    Assignee: Optical Cable Corporation
    Inventors: William R. Reynolds, Ian J. Timmins, Sterling Vaden, James Yanik, Sumio Seo