Patents by Inventor Christian Nicolas

Christian Nicolas 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).

  • Publication number: 20250086244
    Abstract: Systems and methods for computer research management may include one or more processor(s) which receive a plurality of attributes generated according to an input. The processor(s) may generate, for each attribute, a plurality of content items. The processor(s) may generate, for each content item of the plurality of content items, serving criteria according to which to serve the plurality of content items, assign to each content item of the plurality of content items, a respective content item URL to cause a client device which is served content items to be redirected to a landing page URL. The processor(s)s may generate a landing page based on a content item that was interacted with, responsive to the interaction. The processor(s) may store, in one or more data structures, an association between the attribute, the content item, the landing page, and interactions of the user with the landing page.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2024
    Publication date: March 13, 2025
    Applicant: Natural Language Labs Inc.
    Inventors: Christian Nicolas Desrosiers, Stephen Mugford
  • Patent number: 11958683
    Abstract: A collapsible container system includes a container having a set of walls interconnected with one another and a bottom member. The walls and the bottom member define a cavity in a first state. A set of bags is in a nested arrangement, and the nested arrangement defines a first bag being contained within a next bag of the set of bags. The first bag is removed through a top opening of the next bag enabling the next bag as a receptacle. A first connector ribbon is disposed near a rim of the container, and the first connector ribbon connects to a perimeter of each of the set of bags via a first connection. A second connector ribbon is disposed at one of the walls of the container, and the second connector ribbon connects to a side of each of the set of bags via a second connection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Inventors: Christian Nicolas Desrosiers, Pierre Beaudreau
  • Patent number: 10965730
    Abstract: A method which facilitates the offering and subscription to infoservices and sending of information to subscribers based on web feeds is disclosed. In an embodiment of the invention only a link is placed on a website allowing any visitor/readers to subscribe to receive newly published content of that website, without the owner of that website having to take any additional steps to offer this infoservice. Subscribers can choose which messages they want to receive, for example only messages which are linked to certain tags or contain certain keywords, and how they should be delivered, for example by email, mobile, news page or web feed. The central infoservices platform additionally allows publishers of the infoservice's underlying web feed to prove ownership of the infoservice's underlying website or web feed, and providing publishers access to the collected information about subscribers of the infoservice.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Inventor: Christian Nicolas Ahmann
  • Patent number: 10938931
    Abstract: Methods and systems for managing subscription processes, and setting subscribers to active and thereby sending subscribers future content, are disclosed. A method includes: receiving a first email address of a first subscriber and a second email address of a second subscriber; classifying the first subscriber into a first group based on a location of the first subscriber and the second subscriber into a second group based on a location of the second subscriber; sending a confirmation email including a confirmation button or link to the first email address of the first subscriber in the first group; and sending a content email to the second email address of the second subscriber in the second group, and avoiding sending the content email to the first email address of the first subscriber in the first group until receiving an indication that the first subscriber has selected the confirmation button or link.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Inventor: Christian Nicolas Ahmann
  • Publication number: 20200252445
    Abstract: A method which facilitates the offering and subscription to infoservices and sending of information to subscribers based on web feeds is disclosed. In an embodiment of the invention only a link is placed on a website allowing any visitor/readers to subscribe to receive newly published content of that website, without the owner of that website having to take any additional steps to offer this infoservice. Subscribers can choose which messages they want to receive, for example only messages which are linked to certain tags or contain certain keywords, and how they should be delivered, for example by email, mobile, news page or web feed. The central infoservices platform additionally allows publishers of the infoservice's underlying web feed to prove ownership of the infoservice's underlying website or web feed, and providing publishers access to the collected information about subscribers of the infoservice.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2020
    Publication date: August 6, 2020
    Inventor: Christian Nicolas AHMANN
  • Patent number: 10673923
    Abstract: A method which facilitates the offering and subscription to infoservices and sending of information to subscribers based on web feeds is disclosed. In a preferred embodiment of the invention only a link is placed on a website allowing any visitor/readers to subscribe to receive newly published content of that website, without the owner of that website having to take any additional steps to offer this infoservice. Subscribers can choose which messages they want to receive, for example only messages which are linked to certain tags or contain certain keywords, and how they should be delivered, for example by email, mobile, news page or web feed. The central infoservices platform additionally allows publishers of the infoservice's underlying web feed to prove ownership of the infoservice's underlying website or web feed, and providing publishers access to the collected information about subscribers of the infoservice.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2020
    Inventor: Christian Nicolas Ahmann
  • Patent number: 10489411
    Abstract: A method and system for saving of information or solutions by Solution Providers enabling quick retrieval of matching information or solutions to Solution Seekers, is disclosed. In an embodiment, Solution Seekers can click on a number of specifications, thereby expressing their individual situations, and only matching solutions for those specific situations are retrieved. Furthermore, relationships of specifications with respect to each other can be defined, such as mutually exclusive specifications or specification hierarchies, which ensure that only potentially relevant specifications are displayed to Solution Seekers, thereby further increasing the speed with which Solution Seekers can identify matching solutions. Also, Solution Seekers may set up unresolved problems, so that Solution Providers can identify for which situations no matching solutions exist yet so that those can be submitted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2019
    Inventor: Christian Nicolas Ahmann
  • Patent number: 10118324
    Abstract: A magnetic-inductive flowmeter with a measuring tube, a magnetic field generator and a measuring electrode in which its measuring electrodes are improved is achieved by the measuring electrode being formed of an outer electrode sheath of an electrically non-conductive plastic and of an inner electrode core of electrically conductive plastic, and by a method for producing the measuring electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2018
    Assignee: KROHNE AG
    Inventors: Freek Beerling, Alexander Marnix Heijnsdijk, Josef Neven, Christian Nicolas
  • Patent number: 9709426
    Abstract: A magnetic-inductive flowmeter for measuring flow of a flowing medium, having a measuring tube, a magnetic field generator, at least one measuring electrode and a measuring section that is flat on one side having a planar measuring tube portion. Furthermore, the magnetic field generator has at least one coil core and a pole shoe. The magnetic-inductive flowmeter is improved compared to the prior art by several support lugs being present between the planar measuring tube portion and the pole shoe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2017
    Assignee: Krohne AG
    Inventors: Freek Beerling, Alexander Marnix Heijnsdijk, Josef Neven, Christian Nicolas
  • Patent number: 9689725
    Abstract: The invention relates to a magnetic-inductive flowmeter having a measuring tube (1), a magnetic field generator (2) and a measuring electrode (3). Thereby, the measuring tube (1) has a measuring section (4) that is flat on one side having a planar measuring tube portion, called portion (5) in the following, and the magnetic field generator (2) has a pole shoe (7). A flowmeter that allows a high measuring accuracy, even under high pressure loads is achieved in that a support rib (9) is implemented on the planar measuring tube portion (5).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2017
    Assignee: Krohne AG
    Inventors: Freek Beerling, Alexander Marnix Heijnsdijk, Josef Neven, Christian Nicolas
  • Patent number: 9625301
    Abstract: A flowmeter for flow measurement of a flowing medium having a measuring tube and a measuring device housing that can be also used in fields in which magnetic-inductive flowmeters have not previously been used or used only on a small scale—primarily due to costs is achieved by the provision a reinforcement structure is assigned to the measuring tube and/or the measuring device housing, wherein the reinforcement structure is formed of at least one reinforcement unit—preferably of several reinforcement units. The reinforcement units are preferably bolt and tube arrangements received in through-passages or external recesses formed in the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: Krohne AG
    Inventors: Freek Beerling, Alexander Marnix Heijnsdijk, Josef Neven, Christian Nicolas
  • Publication number: 20160209254
    Abstract: A magnetic-inductive flowmeter with a measuring tube, a magnetic field generator and a measuring electrode in which its measuring electrodes are improved is achieved by the measuring electrode being of an outer electrode sheath of an electrically non-conductive plastic and of an inner electrode core of electrically conductive plastic and by the a method for producing the measuring electrode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2015
    Publication date: July 21, 2016
    Applicant: Krohne AG
    Inventors: Freek Beerling, Alexander Marnix Heijnsdijk, Josef Neven, Christian Nicolas
  • Publication number: 20160202096
    Abstract: A magnetic-inductive flowmeter for measuring flow of a flowing medium, having a measuring tube, a magnetic field generator, at least one measuring electrode and a measuring section that is flat on one side having a planar measuring tube portion. Furthermore, the magnetic field generator has at least one coil core and a pole shoe. The magnetic-inductive flowmeter is improved compared to the prior art by several support lugs being present between the planar measuring tube portion and the pole shoe.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2015
    Publication date: July 14, 2016
    Applicant: Krohne AG
    Inventors: Freek Beerling, Alexander Marnix Heijnsdijk, Josef Neven, Christian Nicolas
  • Publication number: 20160202097
    Abstract: The invention relates to a magnetic-inductive flowmeter having a measuring tube (1), a magnetic field generator (2) and a measuring electrode (3). Thereby, the measuring tube (1) has a measuring section (4) that is flat on one side having a planar measuring tube portion, called portion (5) in the following, and the magnetic field generator (2) has a pole shoe (7). A flowmeter that allows a high measuring accuracy, even under high pressure loads is achieved in that a support rib (9) is implemented on the planar measuring tube portion (5).
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2015
    Publication date: July 14, 2016
    Applicant: Krohne AG
    Inventors: Freek Beerling, Alexander Marnix Heijnsdijk, Josef Neven, Christian Nicolas
  • Publication number: 20160195417
    Abstract: A flowmeter for flow measurement of a flowing medium having a measuring tube and a measuring device housing that can be also used in fields in which magnetic-inductive flowmeters have not previously been used or used only on a small scale—primarily due to costs is achieved by the provision a reinforcement structure is assigned to the measuring tube and/or the measuring device housing, wherein the reinforcement structure is formed of at least one reinforcement unit—preferably of several reinforcement units. The reinforcement units are preferably bolt and tube arrangements received in through-passages or external recesses formed in the housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2015
    Publication date: July 7, 2016
    Applicant: Krohne AG
    Inventors: Freek Beerling, Alexander Marnix Heijnsdijk, Josef Neven, Christian Nicolas
  • Publication number: 20150331958
    Abstract: A method which facilitates the offering and subscription to infoservices and sending of information to subscribers based on web feeds is disclosed. In a preferred embodiment of the invention only a link is placed on a website allowing any visitor/readers to subscribe to receive newly published content of that website, without the owner of that website having to take any additional steps to offer this infoservice. Subscribers can choose which messages they want to receive, for example only messages which are linked to certain tags or contain certain keywords, and how they should be delivered, for example by email, mobile, news page or web feed. The central infoservices platform additionally allows publishers of the infoservice's underlying web feed to prove ownership of the infoservice's underlying website or web feed, and providing publishers access to the collected information about subscribers of the infoservice.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2015
    Publication date: November 19, 2015
  • Patent number: 7814031
    Abstract: This mail-handling apparatus includes a feed module for feeding in mail items, a weigh module and a franking module. The weigh module includes regulator means for regulating the speed of advance of the conveyor means of the weigh module, which regulator means are adapted to take account of the weighing times taken to weigh the mail items.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2010
    Assignee: NEOPOST Technologies
    Inventors: Christian Nicolas, Didier Painault
  • Patent number: 7752009
    Abstract: A method of checking the height of a mail item relative to at least one dimensional threshold SH defining a change in postage. The mail items are advanced at a constant speed V along a reference surface. The presence of a mail item is detected relative to a given point of the reference surface. First and second times t1, t2 for which the same mail item is present at the first and second distances d1, d2 relative to the reference surface is detected. The ratio t2/t1 is compared with a value equal to (1??), where ? represents a correction coefficient of less than 1 that depends on the tolerances for detection of the presence of a mail item. The height of a mail item is considered greater than the dimensional threshold SH if, and only if, the relationship t2/t1>1?? is true.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2010
    Assignee: NEOPOST Technologies
    Inventors: Christian Nicolas, Didier Painault
  • Patent number: 7098410
    Abstract: A weighing module comprising a weighing platform incorporating a weighing cell and a motorized drive belt for transporting a mail item from one side to the other of the weighing platform, means for sensing the format of said mail item and processing means for calculating the weight of said mail item within a particular range of weights obtained beforehand from said format.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2006
    Assignee: Neopost Industrie
    Inventors: Olivier Galtier, Christian Nicolas, Didier Painault
  • Publication number: 20050187887
    Abstract: A method of checking the height Hi of a mail item on the fly relative to at least one dimensional threshold SH defining a change in postage, each mail item having longitudinal peripheral edges of length Di and transverse peripheral edges of height Hi, the method consisting in causing the mail items to advance at a constant speed V along a reference surface so that each mail item is in contact with the reference surface over at least a portion of one of its longitudinal edges, the method further consisting in detecting the presence of a mail item relative to a given point of the reference surface firstly at a first distance d1 close to the reference surface and measured perpendicularly thereto, and secondly at a second distance d2 further away from the reference surface, measured perpendicularly thereto, and corresponding to said dimensional threshold SH, the method further consisting in detecting first and second times of presence t1, t2 for which the same mail item is present at the first and second distance
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2005
    Publication date: August 25, 2005
    Inventors: Christian Nicolas, Didier Painault