Patents by Inventor Charles A. Hastings
Charles A. Hastings 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).
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Publication number: 20240074806Abstract: A vapor delivery needle is provided that may include any of a number of features. One feature of the energy delivery probe is that it can apply condensable vapor energy to tissue, such as a prostrate, to shrink, damage, or denature tissues of the prostate. Methods associated with use of the energy delivery probe are also covered.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 3, 2023Publication date: March 7, 2024Applicant: Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc.Inventors: Michael Hoey, Roger Noel Hastings, Mark SCHROM, Matthew BYRNE, Grant MAUCH, Eric JERKE, Richard Charles KRAVIK
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Patent number: 11204969Abstract: Computer-readable media, computer systems, computing methods, and computing devices for providing deep-link notifications is provided. In embodiments, the method includes identifying one or more deep links that correspond with a navigated to website. Such deep links may be identified using a search service. The deep links can be comprised of popular links within the website other than a main page of the website. Upon identifying deep links that correspond with a navigated to website, a deep-link notification is provided via a toolbar. The deep-link notification provides an indication that deep links are available for the website.Type: GrantFiled: March 24, 2016Date of Patent: December 21, 2021Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLCInventors: Charles Hastings French, Nathan Deepak Jhaveri, Ambarish Chitnis, Shovon Nazmus
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Publication number: 20170351759Abstract: Computer-readable media, computer systems, computing methods, and computing devices for providing deep-link notifications is provided. In embodiments, the method includes identifying one or more deep links that correspond with a navigated to website. Such deep links may be identified using a search service. The deep links can be comprised of popular links within the website other than a main page of the website. Upon identifying deep links that correspond with a navigated to website, a deep-link notification is provided via a toolbar. The deep-link notification provides an indication that deep links are available for the website.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 24, 2016Publication date: December 7, 2017Inventors: CHARLES HASTINGS FRENCH, NATHAN DEEPAK JHAVERI, AMBARISH CHITNIS, SHOVON NAZMUS
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Patent number: 9384298Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media for previewing search results determined in response to search queries input into a browser toolbar search box are provided. Descriptors of search results determined to match the input search query are presented in a search results window that overlays a first portion of the browser web page. Upon receiving an indication that the user desires to view one of the presented search results, a preview of a web page associated with the indicated search result is presented overlaying a second portion of the browser page. If the user determines from the preview that the indicated search result does not provide the desired information, s/he may move the mouse pointer to a different search result. In response, a web page associated with the second indicated search result is presented overlaying the second portion of the browser page for the user to preview.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 2011Date of Patent: July 5, 2016Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Charles Hastings French, Nathan Deepak Jhaveri, Igor Avramovic
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Patent number: 9317621Abstract: Computer-readable media, computer systems, computing methods, and computing devices for providing deep-link notifications is provided. In embodiments, the method includes identifying one or more deep links that correspond with a navigated to website. Such deep links may be identified using a search service. The deep links can be comprised of popular links within the website other than a main page of the website. Upon identifying deep links that correspond with a navigated to website, a deep-link notification is provided via a toolbar. The deep-link notification provides an indication that deep links are available for the website.Type: GrantFiled: January 6, 2011Date of Patent: April 19, 2016Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Charles Hastings French, Nathan Deepak Jhaveri, Ambarish Chitnis, Shovon Nazmus
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Patent number: 8595377Abstract: A video control server includes a central processing unit and a memory storing executable instructions to receive control station commands, update state information specifying how network video sources are to be assessed and displayed by a client, and send the state information to the client.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 2005Date of Patent: November 26, 2013Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.Inventors: Brian Arthur Apgar, Matthew Thomas Graham, Lawrence Charles Hastings, Jeffrey Allen Robinson
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Publication number: 20130159923Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media for previewing search results determined in response to search queries input into a browser toolbar search box are provided. Descriptors of search results determined to match the input search query are presented in a search results window that overlays a first portion of the browser web page. Upon receiving an indication that the user desires to view one of the presented search results, a preview of a web page associated with the indicated search result is presented overlaying a second portion of the browser page. If the user determines from the preview that the indicated search result does not provide the desired information, s/he may move the mouse pointer to a different search result. In response, a web page associated with the second indicated search result is presented overlaying the second portion of the browser page for the user to preview.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 14, 2011Publication date: June 20, 2013Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATIONInventors: CHARLES HASTINGS FRENCH, NATHAN DEEPAK JHAVERI, IGOR AVRAMOVIC
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Publication number: 20130125005Abstract: A browser toolbar displays contextual data from a search engine service for a webpage currently being displayed by a web browser. The browser toolbar identifies the URL of a webpage currently being displayed by a web browser. The browser toolbar provides an indication of the URL to a search engine service, which identifies an entity corresponding with the URL. The search engine service gathers data relevant to the entity and provides the relevant data to the browser toolbar, which displays information to the user to provide the user with contextual information about the entity corresponding with the URL.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 14, 2011Publication date: May 16, 2013Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATIONInventors: CHARLES HASTINGS FRENCH, TIMOTHY MATTHEW EDGAR, IGOR AVRAMOVIC, SUNIL PANDEY
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Publication number: 20120179955Abstract: Computer-readable media, computer systems, computing methods, and computing devices for providing deep-link notifications is provided. In embodiments, the method includes identifying one or more deep links that correspond with a navigated to website. Such deep links may be identified using a search service. The deep links can be comprised of popular links within the website other than a main page of the website. Upon identifying deep links that correspond with a navigated to website, a deep-link notification is provided via a toolbar. The deep-link notification provides an indication that deep links are available for the website.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 6, 2011Publication date: July 12, 2012Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATIONInventors: CHARLES HASTINGS FRENCH, NATHAN DEEPAK JHAVERI, AMBARISH CHITNIS, SHOVON NAZMUS
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Patent number: 5637460Abstract: A method of preparing (e.g., priming) a surface for attachment of a target molecule to the surface. The method provides a multifunctional reagent having multiple photoreactive groups. The groups can be activated in order to covalently bind one or more of them to the surface in such a manner that one or more will remain unbound. The unbound groups are then capable of reverting to their activatable state, whereupon they can again be activated in order to bind a target molecule having abstractable hydrogen atoms.Type: GrantFiled: November 23, 1994Date of Patent: June 10, 1997Assignee: BSI CorporationInventors: Dale G. Swan, Charles A. Hastings
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Patent number: 5414075Abstract: A multifunctional reagent is provided that is useful for the attachment of desired molecules to support surfaces. A reactive reagent molecule of the invention is "restrained" in that it is conformationally and/or chemically restricted from reacting with either itself or with other molecules of the same reagent. Upon activation, this feature causes the attachment of less than all of the reactive sites of the multifunctional reagent to a surface, thereby leaving the remaining sites free to react with molecules desired to be immobilized onto the surface.Type: GrantFiled: November 6, 1992Date of Patent: May 9, 1995Assignee: BSI CorporationInventors: Dale G. Swan, Charles A. Hastings
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Patent number: D665397Type: GrantFiled: October 4, 2010Date of Patent: August 14, 2012Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Felipe Luis Naranjo, Diego D. Baca Del Rosario, Charles Hastings French, Paul Ronald Ray