Patents by Inventor Curtis D. Smith

Curtis D. Smith 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: 20240110116
    Abstract: A process of making a fuel product as an additive from a non-auto-combustible high protein organic material for the destruction of polyfluoro compounds in a thermal process system is provided. Thermal reactions within thermal reaction equipment are controlled by controlling the moisture and oxygen in the reaction atmosphere of the equipment and energy inputs at or downstream of a thermal reaction chamber. The concentration of protein thermal decomposition by-products, temperature, and residence time and/or additions of energy within the thermal reaction equipment environment are controlled to destroy hazardous polyfluoro compounds.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2023
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Applicant: AKBEV GROUP, LLC
    Inventors: Geoffrey L. Larson, Curtis Holmes, Brandon Michael Smith, David D. Wilson
  • Publication number: 20040237049
    Abstract: A system, method, and medium are disclosed for undocking content from a window into sub-windows. The undocked sub-windows may be redocked to the parent window. The sub-windows may continue to exist after an application providing the window has been closed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2004
    Publication date: November 25, 2004
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Richard A. Pletcher, Curtis D. Smith
  • Patent number: 6765592
    Abstract: A system, method, and medium are disclosed for undocking content from a window into sub-windows. The undocked sub-windows may be redocked to the parent window. The sub-windows may continue to exist after an application providing the window has been closed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 1999
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2004
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Richard A. Pletcher, Curtis D. Smith
  • Patent number: 6157942
    Abstract: The imprecise caching of directory download responses for dynamic directory services is disclosed. A server maintains a dynamic directory service of a plurality of clients, and an imprecise cache of directory download responses to directory download requests provided by the clients. When the server receives a new directory download request, it first searches whether an equivalent server response is stored in the imprecise cache. If there is such a response, it is returned to the client generating the request. This saves the server from having to traverse the entire dynamic directory to respond to the request. The cached responses are desirably expirable, so that accuracy of the responses is not overly sacrificed. The responses expire according to their lifetime, which is desirably adjusted based on server workload.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 1997
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2000
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Lon-Chan Chu, Curtis D. Smith
  • Patent number: 5748468
    Abstract: A co-processor resource manager allocates resources of a co-processor platform to nodes implementing operations requested by applications running on a host processor according to a user-modifiable prioritization of the operations. Lower priority nodes can be evicted by the manager to resolve resource conflicts for newly requested operations. The manager utilizes a query test for the platform driver or client to override eviction or prevent eviction by downgrading an operation's resource usage. A platform driver tracks resource usage of nodes, and classifies resources as singly allocatable or countable types to maintain co-processor resource manager independence from the co-processor platform.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 1995
    Date of Patent: May 5, 1998
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Leo A. Notenboom, Benjamin A. Mejia, Curtis D. Smith