Patents Assigned to Genesis
  • Patent number: 6147668
    Abstract: A digital display unit for minimizing the display artifacts which may be caused by aliasing of high frequency distortions present in wide bandwidth analog display signals. The minimization is achieved by modulating a sampling clock signal by different phase delay amounts for successive lines or frame. Due to such modulation, the analog display signal is sampled at different sampling points in different frames for the same pixel position. As digital display screens are typically designed to respond slowly to differing scanning intensities and as the human eye generally averages different color intensities at the same point, a low-pass filter effect may be in place with respect to the samples taken at the same pixel position. Display artifacts are minimized due to the sampling at different sampling points and the low-pass filter effect.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 1998
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2000
    Assignee: Genesis Microchip Corp.
    Inventor: Alexander Julian Eglit
  • Patent number: 6146979
    Abstract: A technique for forming films of material (14) from a donor substrate (10). The technique has a step of introducing gas-forming particles (12) through a surface of a donor substrate (10) to a selected depth underneath the surface. The gas-forming particles form a layer of microbubbles within the substrate. A global heat treatment of the substrate then creates a pressure effect to separate a thin film of material from the substrate. Additional gas-forming particles are introduced into the donor substrate and a second thin film of material is then separated from the donor substrate. In a specific embodiment, the gas-forming particles are implanted using a plasma immersion ion implantation method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 1998
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2000
    Assignee: Silicon Genesis Corporation
    Inventors: Francois J. Henley, Nathan W. Cheung
  • Patent number: 6148074
    Abstract: A client-server telephone call router system as part of a customer premises system has a client-server router adapted to execute on a telephony switch, such as a public branch exchange (PBX) or other telephony switch, or on a processor connected by CTI link to a telephony switch. The telephony switch or processor executing the router is connected to a local area network (LAN) that also interconnects computer workstations proximate to telephones connected to the telephony switch. Client user interface applications run on the computer workstations, allowing clients to edit routing rules for the router, which has a list of routing rules keyed to users and workstations of the customer premises system. The editing rules are kept by the router in portions dedicated to individual users. With this system a user can edit at a workstation on the LAN his/her own routing rules, and transmit the edits to the client-server router where the rules will be followed to route calls for that user and protocol.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 1997
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2000
    Assignee: Genesys Telecommunications Laboratories, Inc.
    Inventors: Alec Miloslavsky, Igor Neyman
  • Patent number: 6142862
    Abstract: A de-boning apparatus and method for removing bones and other undesirable elements from meat. The apparatus preferably includes a conveyor assembly conveying meat to and from a head assembly which removes the bones, one or more rail assemblies located beside the conveyor assembly for keeping meat on the conveyor assembly as it passes through the apparatus, a conveyor drive system for powering the conveyor assembly, and a head drive assembly for powering the head assembly. The conveyor assembly preferably has a conveyor drum and an idler wheel about which a conveyor belt runs. The conveyor belt conveys meat to the head assembly preferably located beside the conveyor drum at a point when the conveyed meat is bowed as it passes around the conveyor drum, thereby better exposing bones for removal. The head assembly preferably includes a pin bone wheel (driven by the head drive system) and a head block spaced from the pin bone wheel to define a gap therebetween.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 1999
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2000
    Assignee: Genesis Custom Machinery, Inc.
    Inventors: Lonnie Joe Dalgord, Eric Orville Evenson
  • Patent number: 6142854
    Abstract: A deburring head is mounted on a frame for movement toward and away from a workpiece also mounted on the frame. The deburring head includes a plurality of deburring brushes which are rotated and which are adapted to engage the workpiece and remove burrs from the workpiece.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 1999
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2000
    Assignee: Genesis SystemsGroup Ltd
    Inventors: Fred K. Remley, Jan C. Mangelsen
  • Patent number: 6139835
    Abstract: Homologous recombination is employed to inactivate genes, particularly genes associated with MHC antigens. Particularly, the .beta..sub.2- microglobulin gene is inactivated for reducing or eliminating the expression of functional Class I MHC antigens. The resulting cells may be used as allogeneic donor cells. Methods for homologous recombination in non-transformed mammalian somatic cells are also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 1995
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2000
    Assignee: Cell Genesys, Inc.
    Inventors: Raju Kucherlapati, Beverly H. Koller, Oliver Smithies, Robert B. Dubridge, Gary Greenburg, Daniel J. Capon, Steven R. Williams, Mariona Lourdes Arbones De Rafael
  • Patent number: 6140111
    Abstract: Retroviral vectors are disclosed which include an insertion site for genes of interest and are capable of expressing high levels of the protein derived from the genes of interest in a wide variety of transfected cell types. Also disclosed are retroviral vectors lacking a selectable marker, thus rendering them suitable for human gene therapy in the treatment of a variety of disease states without the co-expression of a marker product, such as an antibiotic. These retroviral vectors are especially suited for use in certain packaging cell lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 1995
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2000
    Assignees: Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, Cell Genesys, Inc.
    Inventors: Isabelle Riviere, Lawrence K. Cohen, Brad Guild, Lori F. Rafield, Paul Robbins, Richard C. Mulligan
  • Patent number: 6141275
    Abstract: An equalization and precharge circuit precharges and equalizes local input/output (LIO) signal lines between each memory access operation within a memory circuit. The equalization and precharge circuit includes a local voltage circuit which maintains the level of the LIO signal lines at a standby voltage level during standby periods. Preferably, the standby voltage level is approximately equal to half of the supply voltage VCC. Separate precharge and equalization circuits are included to precharge and equalize the LIO signal lines between memory access operations. During precharge periods, a precharge control signal LIOPC is preferably at a logical high voltage level for a predetermined period of time between memory access operations, thereby forming a fixed-width pulse and raising the LIO signals to a known precharge level. The LIO signal lines are charged to a known level equal to the standby voltage level plus a voltage V(t) during the precharge and equalization period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 1999
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2000
    Assignee: Genesis Semiconductor
    Inventors: Terry T. Tsai, Daniel F. McLaughlin
  • Patent number: 6138139
    Abstract: A programmable diverse interaction code module (DIM) in an enterprise-hosted multimedia call center (MMCC) for facilitates and monitors diverse interactions between parties communicating through the MMCC, and includes a database interface for access to an MMCC data repository; and an association facility for associating parties to transactions with agents and projects. The association facility assigns association identifiers to parties according to defined projects and issues, and the database interface stores transactions in the data repository. Parties to transactions include customers and business associates remote from the MMCC and agents and knowledge workers local to the MMCC, and transactions are supported in any combination between any parties. The database interface stores transactions on threaded strings, the threading associated by one or more of project, issue, and chronology, and the DIM is programmable to apply to a single enterprise project.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 1998
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2000
    Assignee: Genesys Telecommunications Laboraties, Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher Clemmett Macleod Beck, Jonathan Michael Berke, Joel A Johnstone, Robin Marie Mitchell, James Karl Powers, Mark Franklin Sidell, Charles Dazler Knuff
  • Patent number: 6134315
    Abstract: A customer-maintained routing system for providing routing to a network provider for incoming calls from clients to the customer comprises a processor having a data link adapted for connection to a customer access point provided by the network provider, a router adapted to execute on the processor and to provide routing to the network via the customer access point, and a metadata-based information system maintained in RAM accessible to the processor and containing condensed client characteristics. Upon receiving a request from the network including a call identifier, the router accesses the database using the identifier as a key, retrieves client characteristics from the information system, and provides a destination for the call to the network based on the retrieved client characteristics. In some embodiments the processor is linked to plural customer sites by a wide area data network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 1997
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2000
    Assignee: Genesys Telecommunications Laboratories, Inc.
    Inventor: Brian Galvin
  • Patent number: 6130933
    Abstract: A telephony call center system comprises an Internet connection adapted for receiving data from a WEB server, the data originating from the computer platform of a person browsing the Internet, including data identifying the browsing person, such as a telephone number, and indicating to the WEB server a desire of the browsing person to communicate with an agent at the call center. The communication desired may be (a) a request for an agent at the call center to receive a telephone call from a browsing person, or (b) a request for a call to be placed to the browsing person from the call center. In both (a) and (b) the practical result is a telephone conference between the browsing person and an agent at the call center. In the first instance (a), in response to the data from the WEB server to the call center, the call center provides to the WEB server, for transfer to the browsing person via the Internet, a telephone number of a routing point at the call center.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 1996
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2000
    Assignee: Genesys Telecommunications Laboratories, Inc.
    Inventor: Alec Miloslavsky
  • Patent number: 6128646
    Abstract: A system for routing electronic mails to one of a plurality of support persons in a processing center is disclosed. Each person has a skill set that is suitable for responding to a certain type of e-mails. The system comprises an e-mail server for receiving the e-mail from a sender, an information extractor for extracting relevant information from the e-mail, and a router for routing the e-mail. The system contains a database for storing information related to all persons who can answer e-mails. The system also contains a server for storing the history of all activities in the system. The router can make routing decisions and perform load-balancing and alert functions based on the information stored in the database and the server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 1997
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2000
    Assignee: Genesys Telecommunications Laboratories Inc.
    Inventor: Alec Miloslavsky
  • Patent number: 6119970
    Abstract: A heavy-duty shearing and crushing demolition apparatus for attachment to a boom structure and hydraulic system of an excavator. The apparatus includes a lower jaw with a primary blade, an upper jaw with primary and secondary blades oblique with respect to each other, and a shearing and crushing tip on the upper jaw secondary blade with a shearing point, a crushing point, and a support and shearing tip blade portion between the shearing point and the crushing points. This structure exposes the crushing point for crushing when the upper jaw is open from the lower jaw with the shearing tip out of the way and also exposes the shearing tip for shearing when the upper jaw is closing into the lower jaw. This permits shearing beginning at the shearing tip and shearing rearwardly. The support and shearing tip blade portion supports the workpiece while shearing it, producing a substantially flat non-contoured or twisted workpiece.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 1999
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2000
    Assignee: Genesis Equipment & Manufacturing, Inc.
    Inventors: Kenneth R. LaBounty, Ross D. Christenson, Daniel P. Jacobson
  • Patent number: 6122365
    Abstract: A telephone switching and routing system has a first switching apparatus for receiving incoming calls, a first processor connected to the first switching apparatus, and a plurality of destination sites each connected to the first switching apparatus by a telephony trunk, each destination site including a destination processor coupled to the first processor by a communication link separate from the telephony trunk. The first processor connected to the first switching apparatus maintains a list of incoming calls received at the first switching apparatus as a virtual queue, wherein individual ones of the destination processors at the destination sites monitor local agent status and skill sets, and request switching of calls from the published lists as agents become available to handle new calls, and the first processor in response to requests from the destination processors controls the first switching apparatus to switch calls to the requesting destination sites.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 1998
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2000
    Assignee: Genesys Telecommunications Laboratories, Inc.
    Inventor: Leonid A. Yegoshin
  • Patent number: 6120660
    Abstract: A plasma treatment system (200) for implantation with a novel susceptor with a silicon coating (203). The system (200) has a variety of elements such as a chamber, which can have a silicon coating formed thereon, in which a plasma is generated in the chamber. The system (200) also has a susceptor disposed in the chamber to support a silicon substrate. The silicon coating reduces non-silicon impurities that may attach to the silicon substrate. The system (200) also includes a silicon liner, which is used to line inner portions of the chamber walls.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 1998
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2000
    Assignee: Silicon Genesis Corporation
    Inventors: Paul K. Chu, Chung Chan
  • Patent number: 6122360
    Abstract: A telephone call distribution system for determining destination for an incoming telephone call in a telephony network including a service control point (SCP) operates with a plurality of workstations each comprising a telephone coupled to the telephony network and a proximate computer station having a video display unit (PC/VDU), the PC/VDU connected to the SCP via a wide area network (WAN), and a personal router associated with each PC/VDU. The SCP broadcasts data pertaining to the incoming telephone call and a request for a destination to individual ones of the PC/VDUs via the WAN, and the personal routers negotiate a destination based on individual routing rules and the data pertaining to the call. At least one of the individual routers responds to the SCP with a destination for the call. In some instances the workstations are associated with a call center, and the call center may be CTI-enhanced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 1999
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2000
    Assignee: Genesys Telecommunications Laboratories, Inc.
    Inventors: Igor Neyman, Alec Miloslavsky
  • Patent number: 6118865
    Abstract: A call center is adapted to select calls on a preprogrammed basis for possible participation in a survey. Selected calls are transferred to an interrogation point, which may be by Interactive Voice Response, where the callers are asked if they will participate. For those callers who do not wish to participate, the calls are routed by normal routing rules. For those callers who do wish to participate, the calls are transferred according to survey routing rules, and after transaction with an agent, to a survey point where the survey is conducted. In one embodiment callers who indicate a willingness to participate, but hang up before being transferred to a survey point, are automatically called back, and then, if willing, transferred to the survey point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 1999
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2000
    Assignee: Genesys Telecommunications Laboratories, Inc.
    Inventor: Doug Gisby
  • Patent number: 6115624
    Abstract: An intrauterine catheter device for monitoring fetal and/or maternal heart rate, including an elongate housing having proximal and distal portions, an array of ECG electrodes on the distal portion and one or more acoustic or other mechanical sensors on the distal portion. A pressure transducer may also be provided on the distal portion. Processor circuitry compares the ECG signal with the output signal of the acoustic sensor to derive fetal and/or maternal heart rate. An intrauterine catheter device is also provided, including a reference electrode on its distal portion, and an array of active electrodes spaced apart from one another on the distal portion. The device may also include a pressure transducer on the distal portion and processor circuitry coupled to the array of active electrodes and/or to the reference electrode for deriving fetal ECG from signals produced by the array of active electrodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 1998
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2000
    Assignee: Genesis Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Donald E. Lewis, George D. Park, Randall I. Park
  • Patent number: 6113735
    Abstract: A plasma immersion implantation system (100), including a network for controlling the system. The network communicates to the system by way of packets, which are used to pass signals to and from one of a plurality of controllers. The controllers are used to oversee one of a plurality of processing parameters or field processes such as rf voltage, pressure, etc.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 1999
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2000
    Assignee: Silicon Genesis Corporation
    Inventors: Paul K. Chu, A. G. Liu
  • Patent number: 6108711
    Abstract: A customer-interaction network operating system for managing interactions in a multimedia communication center has an external media layer for managing media contact between customers and the communication center, a workflow layer for processing customer interactions and routing events to enterprise agents and knowledge workers; and an internal media layer for managing media contact with the agents and knowledge workers. The workflow layer captures each transaction, prepares a text version of at least a portion of each non-text transaction, and extracts knowledge from the text transaction or text version of a non-text transaction to be stored in a knowledge base for later use in routing and other management functions. All transactions, text versions, and extracted knowledge is related in storage for future analysis and use.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 1998
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2000
    Assignee: Genesys Telecommunications Laboratories, Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher Clemmett Macleod Beck, Jonathan Michael Berke, Joel A. Johnstone, Robin Marie Mitchell, James Karl Powers, Mark Franklin Sidell, Charles Dazler Knuff