Patents by Inventor A. Adam

A. Adam 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).

  • Patent number: 8798595
    Abstract: A system for targeting advertising content includes the steps of: (a) receiving respective requests for advertising content corresponding to a plurality of mobile communication facilities operated by a group of users, wherein the plurality includes first and second types of mobile communication facilities with different rendering capabilities; (b) receiving a datum corresponding to the group; (c) selecting from a first and second sponsor respective content bases on a relevancy to the datum, wherein each content includes a first and second item requiring respective rendering capabilities; (d) receiving bids from the first and second sponsors; (e) attributing a priority to the content of the first sponsor based upon a determination that a yield associated with the first sponsor is greater than a yield associated with the second sponsor; and (f) transmitting the first and second items of the first sponsor to the first and second types of mobile communications facilities respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2014
    Assignee: Millennial Media, Inc.
    Inventors: Jorey Ramer, Adam Soroca, Dennis Doughty
  • Patent number: 8799233
    Abstract: In accordance with embodiments, there are provided mechanisms and methods for creating, exporting, viewing and testing, and importing custom applications in a multi-tenant database environment. These mechanisms and methods can enable embodiments to provide a vehicle for sharing applications across organizational boundaries. The ability to share applications across organizational boundaries can enable tenants in a multi-tenant database system, for example, to easily and efficiently import and export, and thus share, applications with other tenants in the multi-tenant environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2014
    Assignee: salesforce.com, inc.
    Inventors: David Brooks, Lewis Wiley Tucker, Benji Jasik, Timothy Mason, Eric David Bezar, Simon Wong, Douglas Chasman, Tien Tzuo, Scott Hansma, Adam Gross, Steven Tamm
  • Patent number: 8795490
    Abstract: Novel transition metal complexes of iron, cobalt, ruthenium, osmium, and vanadium are described. The transition metal complexes can be used as redox mediators in enzyme based electrochemical sensors. In such instances, transition metal complexes accept electrons from, or transfer electrons to, enzymes at a high rate and also exchange electrons rapidly with the sensor. The transition metal complexes include at least one substituted or unsubstituted biimidazole ligand and may further include a second substituted or unsubstituted biimidazole ligand or a substituted or unsubstituted bipyridine or pyridylimidazole ligand. Transition metal complexes attached to polymeric backbones are also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2014
    Assignee: Abbott Diabetes Care Inc.
    Inventors: Fei Mao, Adam Heller
  • Patent number: 8796554
    Abstract: A method of assembling a mounting device for an electrical harness of a gas turbine engine is provided. The electrical harness has a wire bundle. The method includes providing a first shell and providing a second shell. The method further includes coupling the first shell to the second shell with the wire bundle disposed between the first shell and the second shell such that movement of the first shell and the second shell along the wire bundle is restricted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2014
    Assignee: Unison Industries, LLC
    Inventors: Adam Benjamin Cox, William Ward Owens, Bruce D. Markert
  • Patent number: 8799455
    Abstract: A system and a method for the management of addressable network resources (e.g., Web pages, electronic documents accessed via a Uniform Resource Identifier, etc.) within a network are provided. Specifically, embodiments of addressable network resource selection systems and methods are disclosed for managing the analysis and identification of optimal links between addressable network resources. A resource selection component enables pruning of undesirable pages on the basis of various usage metrics, including user depart rate. The resource selection component may then identify optimal linking strategies by determining one or more linking scores for remaining pages based on any of a number of different page usage metrics. In other embodiments, addressable network resource selection systems and methods may weight linking scores to emphasize desired outcomes, such as encouraging exploration of a network-based site or encouraging high aggregate sales figures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2014
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Jinesh U. Vora, Adam Brent Johnson
  • Patent number: 8796165
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to glass articles for use as a touchscreen substrate or cover glass article for use in a portable electronic device, particularly an aluminoborosilicate glass being substantially free of alkalis, comprising at least 55 mol % SiO2, at least 5 mol % Al2O3 and at least one alkaline earth RO component. The alkali-free aluminoborosilicate exhibits an Al2O3+B2O3 to RO mol % ratio which exceeds 1 and an Al2O3 to RO mol % ratio which exceeds 0.65. The aluminoborosilicate glasses disclosed herein exhibits high damage resistance as evidenced by a Vickers median/radial crack initiation load which is greater than than 1000 gf, as well as a high scratch resistance of at least 900 gf, as measured by the lack of the presence of lateral cracks when a load is applied by a moving Knoop indenter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2014
    Assignee: Corning Incorporated
    Inventors: Adam James Ellison, Timothy Michael Gross
  • Patent number: 8799068
    Abstract: A social networking website logs information about actions taken by members of the website. For a particular member of the website, the website generates socially relevant ads for the member based on the actions logged for other members on the website to whom the member is connected (i.e., the member's online friends). The advertiser associated with the social ad may compensate the social networking website for publishing the ad on the website. When presenting a member with a social ad, the website may optimize advertising revenue by selecting an ad from the received ads that will maximize the expected value of the social ad. The expected value may be computed according to a function that includes the member's affinity for the ad content and the bid amount. The technique is also applied for providing socially relevant information off the social networking website.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2014
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Timothy A. Kendall, Matthew R. Cohler, Mark E. Zuckerberg, Yun-Fang Juan, Robert Kang Xing Jin, Justin M. Rosenstein, Andrew G. Bosworth, Yishan Wong, Adam D'Angelo, Chamath M. Palihapitiya
  • Patent number: 8799160
    Abstract: A system for managing merchant payment transaction processing accounts is provided. The system includes a merchant initialization system that receives merchant account data from a user, such as to provide a quote to the merchant for payment processing. A transaction pricing system receives the merchant account data and provides transaction pricing data for payment transaction processing in response to the merchant account information. User access to one or more merchant account pricing algorithms that are used generate the merchant account pricing data in response to the merchant account data is restricted to a predetermined set of users, so as to prevent unauthorized users from obtaining access to the merchant account pricing algorithms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2014
    Assignee: Paymentech, LLC
    Inventors: Jeremy A. Smith, Kathleen Adams, Mike Jarosz, Etta J. Angton, Greg Everly, Robert K. Holt, Daniel Lingerfelt
  • Patent number: 8799107
    Abstract: A system generates a score for a document based on best seller list information relating to the document, circulation information relating to the document, publisher sales information relating to a publisher associated with the document, author sales information relating to an author associated with the document, user behavior information relating to access of the document by users, and/or a link-based score of a web document relating to the document.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2014
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Jeffrey A. Dean, Lauren Baptist, Scott Davies, Angshuman Guha, Joseph Kieran O'Sullivan, Adam M. Smith
  • Patent number: 8799276
    Abstract: Systems for displaying social content in search results may include receiving an input query for a subject; determining that the input query is a navigational query; identifying a first page on a social network for the subject; obtaining content from the first page; obtaining search results corresponding to the input query; identifying a second page for the subject from among the search results, where the second page is represented in the search results by a snippet of content associated with the second page; combining the content from the first page with the snippet to thereby produce combined content; and outputting data corresponding to the combined content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2014
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Andrew S. Hyatt, Sagar Kamdar, Adam D. Bursey
  • Patent number: 8798594
    Abstract: A system for targeting advertising content includes the steps of: (a) receiving respective requests for advertising content corresponding to a plurality of mobile communication facilities operated by a group of users, wherein the plurality includes first and second types of mobile communication facilities with different rendering capabilities; (b) receiving a datum corresponding to the group; (c) selecting from a first and second sponsor respective content based on a relevancy to the datum, wherein each content includes a first and second item requiring respective rendering capabilities; (d) receiving bids from the first and second sponsors; (e) attributing a priority to the content of the first sponsor based upon a determination that a yield associated with the first sponsor is greater than a yield associated with the second sponsor; and (f) transmitting the first and second items of the first sponsor to the first and second types of mobile communication facilities respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2014
    Assignee: Millennial Media, Inc.
    Inventors: Jorey Ramer, Adam Soroca, Dennis Doughty
  • Patent number: 8799991
    Abstract: A number of wireless networks are established by a network device, each wireless network having an identifier. Requests are received from client devices to establish wireless network sessions via the wireless networks using the identifiers. Network privileges of the client devices are segmented into discrete security interfaces based on the identifier used to establish each wireless network session.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2014
    Assignee: Juniper Networks, Inc.
    Inventors: Adam Michael Conway, Lee Klarich, Ning Mo
  • Patent number: 8796381
    Abstract: Encapsulated cure systems are provided wherein a curative is incorporated into a solid or semi-solid carrier material whereby mere fracturing or failure of the capsule wall encapsulating such cure systems will not provide for or allow sufficient release of the curative. Also provided are adhesive systems incorporating said encapsulated cure systems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2014
    Assignee: Appvion, Inc.
    Inventors: Todd Arlin Schwantes, Michael Curley Krzoska, Gregory Stephen Kulibert, Adam Gregg Malofsky, Bernard Miles Malofsky, Nagib Maurice Ward
  • Patent number: 8795133
    Abstract: A method controls the power-transmission in a machine having a continuously variable transmission (CVT) and a power source operatively coupled together in a powertrain. The method regulates operation of the CVT with a retarding power limit in order to limit the amount of retarding power transferable from the powertrain to the power source. The retarding power may be utilized to decelerate or decrease the speed of the machine. The method may register an operator input signal indicative of a deceleration event from a plurality of possible deceleration events. The deceleration event is compared to a lookup table to determine if the retarding power limit should be adjusted. The method may adjust the retarding power limit in accordance with the comparison.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2014
    Assignee: Caterpillar Inc.
    Inventors: Adam Nackers, Kevin Davis
  • Patent number: 8794455
    Abstract: An extendable drip tray is provided to increase when needed the drip catchment area of the dish rack, to beyond the footprint or general perimeter of the dish rack. The extendable drip tray may be slidably supported by rails below the main body of the dish rack, to cover an area beyond the side of the dish rack body, thereby increasing the drip catchment area. Pivoted cup holders are provided along the outside walls of the main body of the dish rack, which can be pivoted when needed to extend an area beyond the perimeter of the body to provide supports for holding kitchen articles such as cups and glasses for drying. A wire rack is provided with pivoted support prongs for configuring the wire rack.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2014
    Assignee: Simplehuman LLC
    Inventors: Frank Yang, Tzu-Hao Wei, Myk Lum, Adam Wade, Joseph Sandor
  • Patent number: 8800030
    Abstract: An individualized time-to-live (TTL) is determined for a reputation score of a computer file. The TTL is determined based on the reputation score and the confidence in the reputation score. The confidence can be determined based on attributes such as the reputation score, an age of the file, and a prevalence of the file. The reputation score is used to determine whether the file is malicious during a validity period defined by the TTL, and discarded thereafter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2014
    Assignee: Symantec Corporation
    Inventors: Vijay Seshadri, Zulfikar Ramzan, James Hoagland, Adam L. Glick, Adam Wright
  • Patent number: 8800033
    Abstract: A method for phishing attack management through Web site content rotation includes receiving a request for a variation of a component to be incorporated into a Web page from a requesting Web page rendering engine from over a computer communications network. The method also includes comparing the requested variation of the component to a currently configured variation of the component. Finally, the method includes returning both the requested variation of the component and an alert indicating a possible phishing attack in response to the request if the requested variation of the component differs from the currently configured variation of the component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2014
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: George Hicken, Adam Pilkington
  • Patent number: D710206
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2014
    Assignee: The Cola-Cola Company
    Inventors: Gopalaswamy Rajesh, John Elwood Adams, Darryl J. Dawson, Sr.
  • Patent number: D710433
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2014
    Inventor: John Adam Danner
  • Patent number: D710469
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2014
    Assignee: Dunlop Sports Co. Ltd.
    Inventors: Nick Trahan, Thomas Carlson, Chris Cooper, Adam Sheldon