Patents by Inventor Danny A. Allen

Danny A. Allen 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: 20120147268
    Abstract: A wireless computer that pairs with a remote audio-video presentation device, such as a television. As a result of the pairing, a communication channel is established for the computer to transmit audio-video content for presentation through that device. Additionally, as part of the pairing, the computer and remote device select a side channel for communication of user commands. The wireless computer may display a user interface through which a user may input commands that control the manner in which the remote audio-video device presents the content. As a result, a user may use the wireless computer as a remote control for the audio-video device, controlling both the content presented and the manner in which it is presented. The side channel may use different frequencies than the channel used to communicate audio-video content, and may use very low power at frequencies in the digital TV spectrum.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2010
    Publication date: June 14, 2012
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: AMER A. HASSAN, Danny Allen Reed, Mitesh K. Desai, Billy R. Anders, JR.
  • Publication number: 20120147274
    Abstract: A wireless communication system that concurrently communicates information in multiple regulatory domains to facilitate audio/video media streaming and other high bandwidth operations. One domain may be licensed and the other may be unlicensed. Transmission in the licensed domain may occur in white space in the domain, and the amount of information transmitted in that domain may be limited by regulations. The amount of information conveyed in the licensed domain may also depend on channel conditions in either or both of the domains. As a result, the relative amount of to information transmitted in each domain may vary dynamically. The system includes a transmitter that dynamically determines weighting coefficients applied to each of a plurality of channels to set power levels in both domains to achieve a desired metric for the overall communication. A corresponding receiver assembles the substreams into a stream that can then be displayed or otherwise processed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2010
    Publication date: June 14, 2012
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Amer A. Hassan, Danny Allen Reed, Trenholme J. Griffin
  • Patent number: 8185120
    Abstract: A cellular communication system in which overload of a base station is averted by offering users the option to communicate using a spectrum outside of the spectrum allocated for cellular communication. Incentives are offered to connect to the base station using the alternative spectrum, which may not support communications at the same rate as could be supported using the spectrum allocated to the base station for cellular communications. Users may be selected to receive an offer to receive incentives based on range to the base station, with users closer to the base station being more likely to receive such an offer. The cellular communications system may be a 3G wireless system and the alternative spectrum may be white space in the digital TV spectrum.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2012
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Amer A. Hassan, Billy R. Anders, Jr., Danny Allen Reed
  • Publication number: 20110237238
    Abstract: A cellular communication system in which overload of a base station is averted by offering users the option to communicate using a spectrum outside of the spectrum allocated for cellular communication. Incentives are offered to connect to the base station using the alternative spectrum, which may not support communications at the same rate as could be supported using the spectrum allocated to the base station for cellular communications. Users may be selected to receive an offer to receive incentives based on range to the base station, with users closer to the base station being more likely to receive such an offer. The cellular communications system may be a 3G wireless system and the alternative spectrum may be white space in the digital TV spectrum.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2010
    Publication date: September 29, 2011
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Amer A. Hassan, Danny Allen Reed, Billy R. Anders, JR.
  • Publication number: 20100087115
    Abstract: A flame-resistant microcapsule that comprises a core comprising a phase change material and a wall material encapsulating the core. The microcapsules includes at least one of: a flame retardant applied to the wall material and a phase change material having a boiling point of about 230° C. to about 420° C. to provided enhanced flame resistance. The phase change material may have a boiling point of about 280° C. to about 400° C. or about 300° C. to about 390° C.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 8, 2009
    Publication date: April 8, 2010
    Applicant: MICROTEK LABORATORIES, INC.
    Inventors: Danny Allen Davis, Dale Ellis Work, Timothy James Riazzi
  • Publication number: 20090004997
    Abstract: A generic portable PSAP comprises a field satellite link, a network element, an Internet Protocol (IP) based PSAP switch, and customer premises equipment. The generic portable PSAP is an end-to-end portable emergency call center that local and VoIP carriers can use to connect to a new “temporary” PSAP in emergency situations where a given PSAP is unable to function in its normal facility. The portable emergency call center routes and receives emergency services events from landline, voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP), and/or wireless carriers without need for customization from a given network architecture. The generic portable PSAP enables local management of emergency event acquisition and dispatch in the case of a major disaster, or some other reason for use of a mobile PSAP.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 11, 2008
    Publication date: January 1, 2009
    Inventors: Danny A. Allen, Donald L. Mitchell, JR.
  • Patent number: 6835334
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to a method for producing macrocapsules containing therein a plurality of microcapsules. In accordance with some embodiments of the present invention, the microcapsules contain a phase change material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2004
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2004
    Assignee: Microtek Laboratories, Inc.
    Inventors: Danny Allen Davis, Ronald Lee Hart, Dale Ellis Work, David Russell Virgallito
  • Publication number: 20040198967
    Abstract: Methods and reagents are provided for the tissue specific, cell specific and/or inducible expression of RNAi. The invention may be used to downregulate the expression of endogenous or exogenous RNAs targeted by the RNAi in cells, animals and/or plants.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 4, 2003
    Publication date: October 7, 2004
    Applicant: Provost, Fellows and Scholars of The College of The Holy and Undivided Trinity of Queen Elizabeth
    Inventors: Danny Allen, Gwenyth Jane Farrar
  • Publication number: 20040169299
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to a method for producing macrocapsules containing therein a plurality of microcapsules. In accordance with some embodiments of the present invention, the microcapsules contain a phase change material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2004
    Publication date: September 2, 2004
    Inventors: Danny Allen Davis, Ronald Lee Hart, Dale Ellis Work, David Russell Virgallito
  • Patent number: 6703127
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to thermal energy storage compositions comprising macrocapsules containing therein a plurality of microcapsules and to methods for producing macrocapsules containing microcapsules. In accordance with some embodiments of the present invention, the microcapsules contain a phase change material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2001
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2004
    Assignee: Microtek Laboratories, Inc.
    Inventors: Danny Allen Davis, Ronald Lee Hart, Dale Ellis Work, David Russell Virgallito
  • Publication number: 20020061954
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to thermal energy storage compositions comprising macrocapsules containing therein a plurality of microcapsules and to methods for producing macrocapsules containing microcapsules. In accordance with some embodiments of the present invention, the microcapsules contain a phase change material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2001
    Publication date: May 23, 2002
    Inventors: Danny Allen Davis, Ronald Lee Hart, Dale Ellis Work, David Russell Virgallito
  • Patent number: 4060907
    Abstract: A pair of detectors provide signals coincident with the circumferential and axial edges of a print medium mounted on a rotating media support drum. These signals are used to control counters which respond to an emitter circumferentially disposed with respect to the drum to generate a preset or offset signal value and a gate signal to accommodate axial and circumferential misalignment of the print medium on the drum.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 1976
    Date of Patent: December 6, 1977
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventor: Danny Allen Van Hook
  • Patent number: 4051538
    Abstract: An ink jet copier is provided with a document scanner which scans a document to be copied one line at a time producing non-coded binary data. The binary data is inserted in storage in a predetermined arrangement. Stored data is removed from selected predetermined locations in accordance with an algorithm and applied to a plurality of ink jet nozzles arranged in multiple linear arrays about the circumference of a rotating paper drum. The data signals selectively applied to the ink jet printers control the deposition of ink on the paper supported on the rotating drum to cause the reproduction of the original scanned image on a predetermined interlaced basis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 1976
    Date of Patent: September 27, 1977
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Sidney Jared Fox, Van Clifton Martin, Danny Allen Van Hook
  • Patent number: 4009332
    Abstract: An ink jet copier is provided with a document scanner which scans a document to be copied one line at a time producing non-coded binary data. The binary data is inserted in storage in a predetermined arrangement. Stored data is removed from selected predetermined locations in accordance with an algorithm and applied to a plurality of ink jet nozzles arranged in multiple linear arrays about the circumference of a rotating paper drum. The data signals selectively applied to the ink jet printers control the deposition of ink on the paper supported on the rotating drum to cause the reproduction of the original scanned image on a predetermined interlaced basis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 1976
    Date of Patent: February 22, 1977
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventor: Danny Allen Van Hook
  • Patent number: D397832
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 1996
    Date of Patent: September 1, 1998
    Inventor: Danny A. Allen