Patents by Inventor Christopher A. Williams

Christopher A. Williams 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).

  • Method and apparatus for producing an electrical property image of substantially homogeneous objects containing inhomogeneities
    Patent number: 7627362
    Abstract: An electrical parameter imaging apparatus and method includes the acquisition of a charge distribution pattern on an array of electrodes that surround an object being imaged. In addition the exterior boundary, or contours of the object is measured by an array of light beams and associated light sensors. The contour measurement is employed to provide a first estimate of the object geometry needed to compute an electrical parameter image from the acquired charge distribution pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2003
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2009
    Assignee: WiSys Technology Foundation
    Inventors: Christopher William Gregory, William D. Gregory
  • ASSAYS FOR MODULATORS OF ASPARAGINYL HYDROXYLASE
    Publication number: 20090286858
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to methods of identifying an agent which modulates hydroxylation of hypoxia inducible factor (HIF), comprising contacting a HIF asparagine hydroxylase and a test substance in the presence of a substrate of the hydroxylase under conditions in which asparagine in the substrate is hydroxylated in the absence of the test substance; and determining hydroxylation of the substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2009
    Publication date: November 19, 2009
    Applicant: ISIS INNOVATION LIMITED
    Inventors: Christopher William PUGH, Jonathan Mark GLEADLE, Peter John RATCLIFFE, Christopher Joseph SCHOFIELD, Luke Alexander MCNEILL
  • Synchronisation in a receiver
    Patent number: 7616716
    Abstract: A radio receiver is suitable for use in an OFDM wireless communications system, in which it is necessary to identify a timing point at a start of a frame. In order to ensure optimum performance of the receiver in multipath environments, it should be synchronised with the first received multipath component, although one or more of the delayed multipath components may be stronger than the first component. A method of determining the time position of the first received multipath component, determines a correlator function from the received signal, and determines the required timing point from a falling edge in a derivative of the correlator function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2009
    Assignee: University of Bristol
    Inventors: Mark Anthony Beach, Christopher Williams
  • MULTI-TOUCH TOUCH SCREEN WITH SINGLE-LAYER ITO BARS ARRANGED IN PARALLEL
    Publication number: 20090267914
    Abstract: A touch screen includes a plurality of single-layer ITO bars having a substantially rectangular shape and arranged in parallel to each other in order to detect touches on the touch screen. The location of a touch on the touch screen in the direction along an ITO bar is determined by applying a signal on one end of the ITO bar and measuring the change in the amplitude and the delay of the signal on the opposite end of the ITO bar. Such application and measurement of the signal can be repeated with the application of the signal occurring on the opposite end of the ITO bar and the measurement of the signal occurring on said one end of the ITO bar, in order to enhance the accuracy of the measurement.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 21, 2009
    Publication date: October 29, 2009
    Applicant: Leadis Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher William Dews, Charles Henry Seaborg, JR.
  • Brown mushrooms for commercial production
    Patent number: 7608760
    Abstract: Hybrid Agaricus bisporus mushroom strains having one or more genetic characteristics of a wild mushroom strain deposited under ATCC accession No. PTA-6903 or a progeny thereof and having specified physical and genetic characteristics are disclosed along with methods of producing brown mushrooms for commercial use.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2009
    Assignee: Amycel Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher William Robles, Stephen Christopher Lodder
  • INSECTICIDAL COMPOSITION
    Publication number: 20090263511
    Abstract: The use of dill oil or a mixture of two or more components thereof as a potentiator for a pesticide, such as an insecticide and in particular a pyrethroid is described, together with compositions containing dill oil, and their use in agriculture and in veterinary applications.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2007
    Publication date: October 22, 2009
    Applicant: LIVIE BIOPESTICIDES LIMITED
    Inventors: Sujay Anil Shah, Christopher William Horsler
  • Method and system for creating a collaborative work over a digital network
    Patent number: 7603626
    Abstract: A system and method for having a plurality of participants author and submit segment candidates to create a collaborative work over a computer network. The plurality of participants receive segment instructions for authoring the segment candidates. The candidates are submitted to the system and at least a subset of the submitted segment candidates are distributed to a voting audience over the computer network. In response the system receives votes for a favored segment candidate from the voting audience. Next, a winning segment candidate is selected from the submitted segment candidates for inclusion in the collaborative work based on the votes. This process is repeated by the system until the collaborative work is complete.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2002
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2009
    Assignee: Disney Enterprises, Inc.
    Inventors: David B. Williams, Craig Singer, Christopher Williams
  • SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ADDRESSING COMMUNICATIONS
    Publication number: 20090248694
    Abstract: The disclosure describes systems and methods for utilizing data collected and stored on multiple devices in order to improve the performance of the network via a markup language for addressing and delivering communications. The markup language invokes W4COMN operations through a free-form, natural language syntax which enables completely personalized user-defined designations for real-world entities (RWEs) or information objections (IOs) utilizing names or functional tags. Desired network operations including addressing network resources, entities or users are activated when the markup language is augmented via processing with W4 contextual data into an actual W4COMN circuit, process or event.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2008
    Publication date: October 1, 2009
    Inventors: Ronald Martinez, Marc Eliot Davis, Christopher William Higgins, Joseph James O'Sullivan
  • SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR OPTIMIZING THE STORAGE OF DATA
    Publication number: 20090248711
    Abstract: The disclosure describes systems and methods for optimizing the storage of data collected from a plurality of communication channels including social data, spatial data, temporal data and logical data. Based on user data collected from past interactions with the network, clusters of objects that include common information are combined into single objects in order to save storage space and reduce the number of objects managed by the system. The combination method may also be used to dynamically identify events or conditions which are related to a plurality of entities.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2008
    Publication date: October 1, 2009
    Inventors: Ronald Martinez, Marc Eliot Davis, Christopher William Higgins, Joseph James O'Sullivan
  • SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MODELING RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN ENTITIES
    Publication number: 20090248738
    Abstract: The disclosure describes systems and methods for modeling relationships between entities on a network using data collected from a plurality of communication channels including social data, spatial data, temporal data and logical data within a W4 Network. The W4 Network personalizes and automates sorting, filtering and processing of W4COMN communications delivered or requested to be delivered using personalized value-based ranking and encoding of data, which is modeled from the point-of-view (POV) of any specific user, topic or node in the W4 Distributed graph. POV modeling supplies comparative value services to users which entails individuated data models to be aggregated and used in customization and personalization forecasting for each user and their associated data management needs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2008
    Publication date: October 1, 2009
    Inventors: Ronald Martinez, Marc Eliot Davis, Christopher William Higgins, Joseph James O'Sullivan
  • Method and Apparatus for Social Network Marketing with Consumer Referral
    Publication number: 20090222302
    Abstract: A service provider facilitates consumption of goods, brands, or services on an interactive network using characterizations of consumers, behavior, brands, consumable goods, advertisers, and advocates to determine a three-way match between a consumable good, a consumer, and an advocate. The matching method determines one or more likely consumers by maximizing the estimated contextual value of personalized advocacy. Further, the service provider captures the value of the personalized advocacy in each match, and distributes that value in the form of various marketing incentives.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2008
    Publication date: September 3, 2009
    Applicant: Yahoo! Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher William Higgins, Marc Davis, Joseph O'Sullivan
  • Substituted Amino-Compounds and Uses Thereof
    Publication number: 20090221579
    Abstract: This invention relates to novel compounds having the structural formula Ia or formula Ib: Ia Ib and their pharmaceutically acceptable salts, tautomers or in vivo hydrolysable precursors, compositions and methods of use thereof. These novel compounds provide a treatment or prophylaxis of A? related pathologies such as cognitive impairment, Alzheimer Disease, neurodegeneration and dementia.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2005
    Publication date: September 3, 2009
    Inventors: Jeffrey Scott Albert, Don Andisik, James Arnold, Dean Brown, Owen Callaghan, James Campbell, Robin Arthur Ellis Carr, Gianni Chessari, Miles Stuart Congreve, Phil Edwards, James R. Empfield, Martyn Frederickson, Gerard M. Koether, Jennifer Krumrine, Russ Mauger, Christopher William Murray, Sahil Patel, Mark Sylvester, Scott Throner
  • Confocal Microscopy with a Two-Dimensional Array of Light Emitting Diodes
    Publication number: 20090218527
    Abstract: A confocal microscope 2 uses as a light source a two-dimensional array of light emitting diodes 4. A two-dimensional array of detector cells 18 in the form of a CCD camera array or a CMOS camera array is provided. A sequence of illumination patterns are generated by the array of light emitting diodes 4. A corresponding sequence of detection patterns are read from the two-dimensional array of detector cells 18. The light emitting diodes may be A1GaInN light emitting diodes generating light in the wavelength 250 nm to 500 nm. The confocal microscope 2 may be fitted to the tip of an endoscope 30.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2007
    Publication date: September 3, 2009
    Applicant: IMPERIAL INNOVATIONS LIMITED
    Inventors: Paul Michael William French, Christopher William Dunsby, Mark Andrew Aquilla Neil
  • Method and Apparatus for Social Network Marketing with Brand Referral
    Publication number: 20090222303
    Abstract: A service provider facilitates consumption of goods, brands, or services on an interactive network using characterizations of consumers, behavior, brands, consumable goods, advertisers, and advocates to determine a three-way match between a consumable good, a consumer, and an advocate. The matching method determines one or more goods likely to be benefit from the marketing scheme by maximizing the estimated contextual value of personalized advocacy. Further, the service provider captures the value of the personalized advocacy in each match, and distributes that value in the form of various marketing incentives.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2008
    Publication date: September 3, 2009
    Applicant: Yahoo! Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher William Higgins, Marc Davis, Joseph O'Sullivan
  • Method and Apparatus for Social Network Marketing with Advocate Referral
    Publication number: 20090222304
    Abstract: A service provider facilitates consumption of goods, brands, or services on an interactive network using characterizations of consumers, behavior, brands, consumable goods, advertisers, and advocates to determine a three-way match between a consumable good, a consumer, and an advocate. The matching method determines one or more advocates by maximizing the estimated contextual value of personalized advocacy. Further, the service provider captures the value of the personalized advocacy in each match, and distributes that value in the form of various marketing incentive.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2008
    Publication date: September 3, 2009
    Applicant: Yahoo! Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher William Higgins, Marc Davis, Joseph O'Sullivan
  • Method of document searching
    Patent number: 7584179
    Abstract: A method of searching is performed by providing a term for use in searching of information. The term is useful in determining documents relating to the term. In response to the provided term, search results within a search result set are determined. The search results include an indication of some of the documents relating to the term. The search result set defines a resulting search space. A further term is provided for reducing the search result set or expanding thereof. The further term is provided based on the term, terms relating to documents within the search space, and the resulting search space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2009
    Inventors: William Derek Finley, Christopher William Doylend, Gordon Freedman
  • Pyrimidine Derivatives As HSP90 Inhibitors
    Publication number: 20090215777
    Abstract: The invention provides a compound for use as an inhibitor of Hsp90, the compound having the formula (I): or salts, tautomers, solvates or N-oxides thereof; wherein: A is N or a group CR3; R1 is a monocyclic or bicyclic carbocyclic or heterocyclic ring of 5 to 10 ring members of which up to two ring members may be heteroatoms selected from N, O and S and the remainder are carbon atoms, the carbocyclic or heterocyclic ring being optionally substituted by one or more substituent groups independently selected from R10; and R2, R3 and R10 are as defined in the claims.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 19, 2006
    Publication date: August 27, 2009
    Applicant: Astex Therapeutics Ltd.
    Inventors: Gianni Chessari, Miles Stuart Congreve, Owen Callaghan, Suzanna Ruth Cowan, Christopher William Murray, Alison Jo-Anne Woolford, Michael Alistair O'Brien, Andrew James Woodhead
  • DATA TRANSFER DEVICE
    Publication number: 20090208018
    Abstract: A data transfer device for transferring data to a removable data storage item. The data transfer device receives content data to be stored to the removable data storage item, encrypts the content data using an encryption key, and transforms at least one of predetermined reference data and the encryption key. The data transfer device also encrypts the transformed predetermined reference data using the encryption key or encrypts the predetermined reference data using the transformed encryption key, and then stores the encrypted content data and the encrypted transformed/predetermined reference data to the removable data storage item.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2008
    Publication date: August 20, 2009
    Inventors: Jonathan Peter Buckingham, Liqun Chen, Christopher Williams
  • Distal Protection Filter with Improved Wall Apposition
    Publication number: 20090204143
    Abstract: In accordance with the present invention, a distal protection and embolic material retrieval device with improved apposition to both large and small vessel walls of varying geometries for enhancing the filtering of embolic material during intravascular procedures while allowing for the passage of blood is provided. The device includes a filter basket designed to maximize apposition of the filtering portion to that of the vessel wall and may include struts which provide circumferential support to the filtering membrane and thereby minimizing or eliminating in-folding of the filter basket. Thin film materials may also be utilized for the filtering membrane of the filter basket. In addition one can incorporate biological and/or pharmaceutical agents in combination with the present invention.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2009
    Publication date: August 13, 2009
    Inventors: Jin S. Park, Huisun Wang, Christopher William Widenhouse
  • GASOLINE COMPOSITION
    Publication number: 20090188156
    Abstract: A gasoline composition is disclosed comprising: (a) a major amount of gasoline; and (b) from 0.1 to 5 wt %, based on the overall gasoline composition, of a base oil having a kinematic viscosity at 100° C. of at least 1 cSt which is derived from the product of a Fischer-Tropsch synthesis process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 25, 2008
    Publication date: July 30, 2009
    Inventors: Christopher William Clayton, Richard John Price, Nigel Peter Tait, Robert Ian Taylor