Patents by Inventor David A. Ellis

David A. Ellis 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: 20090062260
    Abstract: The invention provides compounds, pharmaceutical compositions comprising such compounds and methods of using such compounds to treat or prevent diseases or disorders associated with the activity of liver X receptors (LXRs).
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2006
    Publication date: March 5, 2009
    Applicants: IRM LLC, NOVARTIS AG
    Inventors: Valentina Molteni, David A. Ellis, Juliet Nabakka, Donatella Chianelli, Enrique Saez, Xiaolin Li, Sylvie Chamoin, Hans-Jorg Roth
  • Patent number: 6615298
    Abstract: The invention is a method and system for providing a standard interface between a client and a plurality of peripheral devices. The interface is established through creating an interface object and/or a peripheral object in an object oriented development environment of a data processing system. The method and system includes both the object creation environment and the method of object utilization. In one embodiment, the client requests and stores an interface object from a server and establishes an interface object by storing object methods and object properties within the interface object by utilizing a programming interface. The user selects a peripheral device from a collection of devices; the client then request; the server to create a peripheral object corresponding to the selected peripheral device. The peripheral object is created and stored within the client. Communication between the client and the peripheral device is established by implementing the created object's methods and properties.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2001
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2003
    Assignee: Pitney Bowes Inc.
    Inventors: David A. Ellis, Tom Liu
  • Patent number: 6470327
    Abstract: The invention is a method and system for sending a print indicia command to a postage meter from a browser under control of a carrier management application in a data processing system which comprises a client node in communication with a provider server. The method begins with a system user logging onto a carrier manager application web site, through a web browser. The user requests that the web site download a set of programs from the web site to the client node while utilizing JAVA script functionality resident in the provider web pages. The script functionality further comprises a set of instructions for performing one or more activities. The programs are installable on a PC located at the client node and are for establishing control of the postage meter. Downloading of the programs further comprises installing and configuring an automation server and a postage meter driver at the client node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 1999
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2002
    Assignee: Pitney Bowes Inc.
    Inventors: Terri A. Carroll, David A. Ellis, Jacques Hasbani
  • Publication number: 20020087492
    Abstract: The invention is a method and system for postage meter cost accounting using a web browser based postal mail shipping system. The data processing systems comprise a web site for a provider server and a client node in communication with the provider server. The web site further comprises web pages and script functionality for linking with a meter driver resident in a meter located at the client node, but callable by the client node under the control of the script functionality for allowing the script at the client node to link with the meter by utilizing the meter driver. The method is initiated by calling a web site from the caller node by utilizing communications link, which includes a browser for accessing the web site. The client node requests that a meter activation routine be activated. Cost accounting data is stored in a cost accounting meter table on a database server.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2000
    Publication date: July 4, 2002
    Applicant: Pitney Bowes Incorporated
    Inventors: Terri A. Carroll, David A. Ellis, Jacques E. Hasbani
  • Publication number: 20020083018
    Abstract: The invention is a method and system for batch mail processing using a web browser-based postal mail shipping system. The data processing system comprises a web site for a provider server and a client node in communication with the provider server. The web site further comprises web pages and script functionality for linking with a meter driver resident in a meter located at the client node, but callable by the client node under the control of the script functionality for allowing the script at the client node to link with the meter by utilizing the meter driver. The method is initiated by calling a web site from the caller node by utilizing communications link, which includes a browser for accessing the web site. The client node requests that a meter activation routine be activated. A user enters a postage value for a mail piece in a batch. Batch processing then begins, and the running batch count and value are displayed to the user on the web page.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2000
    Publication date: June 27, 2002
    Applicant: Pitney Bowes Incorporated
    Inventors: Terri A. Carroll, David A. Ellis, Jacques E. Hasbani
  • Publication number: 20020032814
    Abstract: The invention is a method and system for providing a standard interface between a client and a plurality of peripheral devices. The interface is established through creating an interface object and/or a peripheral object in an object oriented development environment of a data processing system. The method and system includes both the object creation environment and the method of object utilization. In one embodiment, the client requests and stores an interface object from a server and establishes an interface object by storing object methods and object properties within the interface object by utilizing a programming interface. The user selects a peripheral device from a collection of devices; the client then request; the server to create a peripheral object corresponding to the selected peripheral device. The peripheral object is created and stored within the client. Communication between the client and the peripheral device is established by implementing the created object's methods and properties.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 18, 2001
    Publication date: March 14, 2002
    Applicant: Pitney Bowes Inc.
    Inventors: David A. Ellis, Tom Liu
  • Patent number: 6356882
    Abstract: The invention is a method and system for inputting the weight of a parcel into a web-based shipping application of a data processing system. The data processing system comprises a web site for a provider server and a client node in communication with the provider server. The web site further comprises web pages and script functionality for linking with a scale driver resident in a weighing scale located at the client node. The weighing scale comprises a scale server resident ultimately at the client node, but callable by the client node under control of the script functionality for allowing the script at the client node to link with the weighing scale by utilizing the scale driver. The method begins with the calling of the web site, from the client node, by utilizing a communications link which includes a browser for accessing the web site. The client node requests that a scale activation routine be activated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 1999
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2002
    Assignee: Pitney Bowes Inc.
    Inventors: Terri A. Carroll, David A. Ellis, Jacques Hasbani
  • Patent number: 6282590
    Abstract: The invention is a method and system for providing a standard interface between a client and a plurality of peripheral devices. The interface is established through creating an interface object and/or a peripheral object in an object oriented development environment of a data processing system. The method and system includes both the object creation environment and the method of object utilization. In one embodiment, the client requests and stores an interface object from a server and establishes an interface object by storing object methods and object properties within the interface object by utilizing a programming interface. The user selects a peripheral device from a collection of devices; the client then request; the server to create a peripheral object corresponding to the selected peripheral device. The peripheral object is created and stored within the client. Communication between the client and the peripheral device is established by implementing the created object's methods and properties.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 1998
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2001
    Assignee: Pitney Bowes Inc.
    Inventors: David A. Ellis, Tom Liu
  • Patent number: 5949348
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for providing and using a variable format, configuration and location keyboard image which enables a digitizing device to present a different keyboard configuration and/or location to each user so that detection by an unauthorized viewer of a personal identification number (PIN) or other secret identification number during entry will become significantly more difficult. The presentation may include a random or scrambled keyboard entry image for each customer, and a single or set of customer preselected images that will be tied to the customer's account number which is read from the magnetic strip on a personal card. In addition to the keyboard, the device provides a single write surface for capturing a signature entry so that the two security features are incorporated in a single device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 1994
    Date of Patent: September 7, 1999
    Assignee: NCR Corporation
    Inventors: Michael A. Kapp, Floyd Jones, Tom Donnelly, David A. Ellis, David M. Allgeier, Robert L. Protheroe
  • Patent number: 5641067
    Abstract: A housing device for the retractable storage of a wire, cord or cable which is capable of operationally interconnecting electronic equipment, such as portable speakers and radios, while the interiorly coiled end of the wire, cord or cable remains coiled around a rotatable spool during connection. In its preferred embodiment, the housing device has a cover with connection ports therethrough. A radio connected to the connection ports becomes operationally connected with the interiorly coiled end of the wire, cord or cable through electrically conductive means integral with the spring-driven spool. The outer end of the coiled wire is then extended through an opening in the housing cover and connected to a portable speaker. The opening in the housing would be just large enough to accommodate the wire. A device larger in diameter than the wire would be attached at the near end of the exposed wire to prevent it from retracting all the way back inside the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 1995
    Date of Patent: June 24, 1997
    Inventor: David A. Ellis
  • Patent number: 4922514
    Abstract: A method and system for the dispatch of resources to remote sites in response to alarm signals. A preferred embodiment particularly relates to a system for the dispatch of field service engineers to a plurality of remote sites in response to fault conditions detected in systems for the storage and retrieval of voice signals. A processor accesses a database of field service engineers designated to provide services to particular remote sites in response to alarm signals received from those sites and then attempts to establish a telephone connection with the field service engineer. Once communication is established, the processor provides the field service engineer with information by means of synthetic voice messages. In a preferred embodiment of the subject invention, the system may also execute remote diagnostic programs and where the results of the diagnostic programs are not within predetermined limits, the system will again attempt to contact a field service engineer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 1988
    Date of Patent: May 1, 1990
    Assignee: Dictaphone Corporation
    Inventors: Lawrence E. Bergeron, John D. Goldson, David A. Ellis