Patents by Inventor Alan George Porter

Alan George Porter 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: 7958059
    Abstract: A system and method for facilitating the accurate entry of information into a highly structured database by initially extracting information from a plurality of nonuniformly formatted source data streams, e.g., documents/files, and subsequent interactions with users before storing the accepted and/or modified information into the database. Embodiments of the present invention provide an interactive path for each user (e.g., the author of the source document/file) to interactively modify the extracted data, e.g., according to the source document/file. Preferably, this interactive path is provided via the Internet and the extracted information can be modified by editing and/or selectively copying portions of the source documents/files to supplement and/or modify the extracted information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2005
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2011
    Assignee: Kenexa Brassring, Inc.
    Inventors: David Scott de Hilster, Alan George Porter, John Reese
  • Patent number: 6545124
    Abstract: Described is a new class of polypeptide cell modulators characterized by being composed of two covalently linked cell modulators in a linear polypeptide sequence. Such dual function polypeptides have new and particularly useful activities when the component polypeptide cell modulators are interferons, lymphokines or cytotoxins which act through different and specific cell receptors to initiate complementary biological activities. Also described is a peptide linker segment comprising a mouse IgG gamma 2b “hinge” in which the four cysteines of the “hinge” have been converted to serines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 1999
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2003
    Assignee: Pharmacia Corporation
    Inventors: Leslie David Bell, Keith Graham McCullagh, Alan George Porter
  • Patent number: 5999939
    Abstract: A system and method for facilitating the accurate entry of information into a highly structured database by initially extracting information from a plurality of nonuniformly formatted source data streams, e.g., documents/files, and subsequent interactions with users before storing the accepted and/or modified information into the database. Embodiments of the present invention provide an interactive path for each user (e.g., the author of the source document/file) to interactively modify the extracted data, e.g., according to the source document/file. Preferably, this interactive path is provided via the Internet and the extracted information can be modified by editing and/or selectively copying portions of the source documents/files to supplement and/or modify the extracted information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 1998
    Date of Patent: December 7, 1999
    Assignee: Interactive Search, Inc.
    Inventors: David Scott de Hilster, Alan George Porter, John Reese