Patents Assigned to Service
  • Patent number: 9818165
    Abstract: A system for registering a birth includes a processor and storage device. A location of a user is determined, using a first location detection method. The location of the user is verified, using a second location detection method. A security key is established with a registration authority according to the location. A birth registration report is generated in compliance with the birth registration requirements according to the location. The birth registration report comprises identification of the location, a picture of the newborn child, and a time stamp that identifies a time and date of the birth. The birth registration report is encrypted according to the security key, which prevents altering the birth registration report. The birth registration report is transmitted in encrypted format to a registrar of birth records for the location. The birth registration report is stored in encrypted format on a computerized device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: Conduent Business Services, LLC
    Inventor: Denise L. Fletcher
  • Patent number: 9818118
    Abstract: Systems and methods for determining and reporting aggregated transaction level data regarding a particular user are disclosed. Based on the requests of one or more information requesters, an aggregator server can request transaction level data for all accounts associated with a particular user or a group of users from a transaction database. The transaction database returns raw transaction level data for accounts associated with the particular user to the aggregator server. The aggregator server can then parse the raw transaction level data based on a number of transaction level data elements and information requester input. The parsed raw transaction level data can then be used to determine the number of predefined or information requester defined transaction level data aggregates. The resulting transaction level data aggregates can then be sent in a report to the one or more information requesters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: Visa International Service Association
    Inventors: Melyssa Barrett, Joe Scott, Nancy Hilgers
  • Patent number: 9814968
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to facilitating presentation of a combination of virtual units as a single entity during a battle in an online game. A user may be in control of and/or be associated with a first set of virtual units in the game space of the online game. Some of the virtual units of the user may be involved in a battle facilitated in the game space. A plurality of the virtual units controlled by and/or associated with the user may be combined as a single virtual entity, such that the plurality of virtual units is portrayed in the view of the game space of the online game as the single virtual entity. The attributes of the single virtual entity in the game space may be dictated by the collective set of attributes of the respective virtual units of the plurality of virtual units combined as the single virtual entity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: Aftershock Services, Inc.
    Inventors: John Kim, Kevin Chanthasiriphan, Joshua Forester, David McNeill
  • Patent number: 9815887
    Abstract: Monoclonal neutralizing antibodies are disclosed that specifically bind to a Norovirus. In some embodiments, the Norovirus is a genogroup II Norovirus or a Genogroup II Norovirus. In some embodiments, the Norovirus is Nowalk virus. In some embodiments, the monoclonal antibodies specifically bind VP1. Also disclosed are compositions including the disclosed antibodies, nucleic acids encoding these antibodies, expression vectors including the nucleic acids, and isolated host cells that express the nucleic acids. The antibodies and compositions disclosed herein can be used for detecting the presence of a Norovirus in a biological sample, or detecting a Norovirus infection. In addition, the neutralization ability of the disclosed antibodies makes them ideal for treating a subject with a Norovirus infection. Thus, disclosed are methods of treating and/or preventing these infections.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: The United States of America, as Represented by the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services
    Inventors: Zhaochun Chen, Robert H. Purcell, Lisbeth Kim Green, Stanislav Sosnovtsev, Karin Bok
  • Patent number: 9816265
    Abstract: A pre-fabricated construction panel (100) for use on an external surface and/or as part of a building or construction is provided. The panel comprises at least a first layer (110) which is at least partially provided from thermally insulating material having a first surface, said panel comprising at least a second layer (120), said at least second layer being provided from fiber cement board said second layer having a second surface facing said first surface, said first and second layers being connected one to the other by a spacing means located between and adhering to said first and said second surface, which spacing means provides at least one interspace (140) between the first and second surface, said at least one interspace having at least two openings to the external of said panel for enabling air to flow into and out of the interspace towards the external of said panel. The thermally insulating material means material has a thermal conductivity (lambda) less than or equal to 0.05 W/mK.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: Etex Services NV
    Inventor: Frans Vermeren
  • Patent number: 9816365
    Abstract: A method of servicing a wellbore in a subterranean formation comprising placing in the wellbore and/or subterranean formation a pad fluid and forming a fracture in the subterranean formation. Next, a first slurry fluid may be placed into the fracture in the subterranean formation. The first slurry fluid may comprise a reducible material and a first particulate material. Next, a second slurry fluid and a spacer fluid may be placed into the fracture in the subterranean formation in an alternating sequence. The second slurry fluid may comprise a second particulate material. Then, the fracture is allowed to close and the fluids are allowed to break. Finally, the reducible materials degrade, to form a particulate-laden proppant pack (PLPP).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Philip D. Nguyen, Jason E. Bryant
  • Patent number: 9818100
    Abstract: The present invention relates particularly to a method and system for consolidating a plurality of a consumer's payment and non-payment source accounts into a consolidated platform with a customer identification or available proxy account numbers that can be assigned to source accounts. The source accounts can be, for example, credit card accounts, ATM accounts, debit card accounts, demand deposit accounts, stored-value accounts, merchant-loyalty card accounts, membership accounts, and identification card numbers. The consumer can access and modify any of the source accounts and manage funds across the source accounts by accessing the consolidated platform with a single access device or mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: Citicorp Credit Services, Inc. (USA)
    Inventors: Susan Moon, Hugh Aller, Eric Yellin, Kellie Knox, Jeff Schumacher
  • Patent number: 9817584
    Abstract: A storage system having nodes with light weight containers is disclosed by the present invention. The storage system includes: at least one cluster, having a number of nodes linked to one another, each node having: a node host, operated by a storage operating system, and installed with a number of service containers, which are used for providing specific services to clients and/or operations of the node out of the service containers; and at least one node storage device, operated by the storage operating system, for providing storing and accessing of data for the service containers; and a messaging module, linked to each node host, for bridging the node hosts and/or node hosts in different clusters. Coarse-grained REST APIs are used for communication between any two service containers to reduce chatty communication in the storage system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: Prophetstor Data Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Wen Shyen Chen, Ming Jen Huang
  • Patent number: 9817875
    Abstract: A system and method for characterizing textual data by generating a first data abstraction based on a set of textual data. The first data abstraction can be presented to a user, and the user can provide instructions to make changes to the first data abstraction to generate a second data abstraction. The textual data can be extracted and characterized from the set of textual data using the second data abstraction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: Conduent Business Services, LLC
    Inventors: Andres Quiroz Hernandez, Yasmine Charif, Julien Jean Lucien Bourdaillet
  • Patent number: 9816369
    Abstract: A wellbore assembly is provided that can include a first motor housing assembly member and a second motor housing assembly member that can bend relative to the first motor housing assembly at a bend location. The assembly can also include a strain gauge positioned on a first side of the bend location to determine an amount of bend of the second motor housing assembly member relative to the first motor housing assembly member by determining a strain. Based on the strain, the amount of bend or bend direction of the second motor housing assembly member relative to the first motor housing assembly member can be determined.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Gustav Edward Lange, Kennedy John Kirkhope
  • Patent number: 9816362
    Abstract: A method of treating a well, the method including forming in-situ or using a polymeric material in a treatment fluid that is introduced into a well, wherein the polymeric material is produced by reacting: (a) a polysaccharide, wherein each molecule of the polysaccharide has at least one reducing chain end; and (b) a chain connector, wherein each molecule of the chain connector has at least two functional groups for reacting with the reducing end of the polysaccharide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Jimmie Dean Weaver, David Loveless
  • Patent number: 9815682
    Abstract: A system for discharging a chemical from a drum that is coupled to a drum retainer is provided. The system includes a booth having a floor, a ceiling, and walls defining an enclosure therein and configured to enclose the drum and the drum retainer. A first gas source is coupled to the booth and in flow communication to the enclosure and configured to discharge a first inert gas into the enclosure. A second gas source is coupled in flow communication to the drum and configured to discharge a second inert gas into the drum and to pressurize the chemical. The system further includes a pump coupled in flow communication to the drum and configured to discharge the chemical from the drum under at least one predetermined characteristic and out of the enclosure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: Heartland Industrial Services, LLC
    Inventor: Harry James Miller
  • Patent number: 9816374
    Abstract: An example telemetry signal detection apparatus may include a optical splitter, a light source optically coupled to the optical splitter, and a light detector optically coupled to the optical splitter. The apparatus further may include a reference loop optically coupled to the optical splitter and a sensor loop optically coupled to the reference loop and the optical splitter. The reference loop may be contained within a reference loop enclosure. The sensor loop and reference loop may comprise a zero-area Sagnac loop with folded optical fiber or dual fiber cable configurations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Zbigniew Stanislaw Sobolewski, Douglas Mark Knight, John Laureto Maida, Neal Gregory Skinner
  • Publication number: 20170321661
    Abstract: A fully insulated tip unit (1) for a lightning protection system for a wind turbine blade (2) is disclosed, comprising an electrically conducting tip (3), which tip consists of an external part (4) and an internal part (5), at least one side receptor base (6), an internal tip unit conductor (8), an insulated electric cable (9) for forming the outermost part of a down conductor (10), and a connection element (12) for establishing electrical connection between the insulated electric cable and the other conducting parts of the tip unit, wherein the internal part of the tip, the side receptor base(s), the internal tip conductor, the connection element and one end of the insulated electric cable are all embedded by casting in an insulating material (13) leaving only the external part of the tip and the other end of the insulated electric cable uncovered by the insulating material. Furthermore, a wind turbine blade comprising such a tip unit is disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2014
    Publication date: November 9, 2017
    Applicant: Global Lightning Protection Services A/S
    Inventors: Casper Falkenstrøm MIERITZ, Kim BERTELSEN, Søren Find MADSEN, Thomas Holm KROGH
  • Publication number: 20170324491
    Abstract: An automotive radio receiver includes an over-the-air radio tuner and a network interface. When a broadcast received at the radio receiver, it includes embedded information that can be used to identify the radio station providing the broadcast. The radio receiver uses the embedded information to identify a streaming station that corresponds to the broadcast station. The radio receiver transmits information associated with the streaming station to a web service, which returns an address at which the radio receiver can access the streaming station. The address of the streaming station is stored in a memory accessible to the radio receiver for later use. The next time the radio receiver is tuned to the same broadcast station, the radio receiver instead connects to the streaming station at the stored address.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 6, 2016
    Publication date: November 9, 2017
    Applicant: iHeartMedia Management Services, Inc.
    Inventor: Jeffrey Lee Littlejohn
  • Publication number: 20170321349
    Abstract: A system and method for testing of active molecules using simulation of skin membrane have been provided. The present disclosure provides a molecular level model of the skins upper protective layer Stratum-Corneum. The systems consist of a molecular model of the skins upper layer stratum corneum and permeate molecules. A protocol have been developed to perform molecular dynamics simulations which can be automated. The system predicts the permeability, partition coefficient and diffusivity of different active molecules like drugs and cosmetics through mentioned skin model using multiple molecule in single window constrained molecular dynamics simulations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2017
    Publication date: November 9, 2017
    Applicant: Tata Consultancy Services Limited
    Inventors: Rakesh GUPTA, Balarama Sridhar DWADASI, Beena RAI
  • Publication number: 20170321105
    Abstract: Various embodiments disclosed relate to a weighted composition for treatment of a subterranean formation. In various embodiments, the present invention provides a method of treating a subterranean formation. The method can include placing in a subterranean formation a weighted composition. The weighted composition can include a weighting agent and an inorganic coating material on the weighting agent. The inorganic coating material can be a crystalline inorganic coating material. The inorganic coating material can be an amorphous inorganic coating material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2014
    Publication date: November 9, 2017
    Applicant: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Cato Russell McDaniel, Dale E. Jamison, Timothy N. Harvey, Xiangnan Ye
  • Publication number: 20170321505
    Abstract: A wellbore fluid sampling system and method of operation are provided. A wellbore fluid sampling system may comprise a mixing system coupled to a wellbore sample supply and a recycled diluent supply, a fluid analysis system coupled to the mixing system, and a diluent recycle system coupled to the fluid analysis system and the mixing system, wherein the diluent recycle system comprises an evaporator and a condenser. A method for recycling diluent may comprise combining a wellbore fluid sample with a diluent to form a diluted wellbore fluid sample, analyzing the diluted wellbore fluid sample to determine one or more fluid properties, separating at least a portion of the diluent from the wellbore fluid sample in the diluted wellbore fluid sample, and recycling the separated portion of the diluent for re-use.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2014
    Publication date: November 9, 2017
    Applicant: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert J. Murphy, Sandeep D. Kulkarni
  • Patent number: D802758
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: Hill-Rom Services, PTE Limited
    Inventors: John Alan Bobey, Brian E. Byrd
  • Patent number: D802833
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: Altria Client Services LLC
    Inventors: Christopher S. Tucker, Geoffrey Brandon Jordan, Barry S. Smith, Ali A. Rostami