Patents by Inventor David A. Selinger

David A. Selinger 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).

  • Patent number: 8293973
    Abstract: The present disclosure concerns methods and compositions relating to UXS polypeptides and/or nucleic acids encoding UXS polypeptides. In certain claims, the methods and compositions are of use to improve digestibility and/or ease of grain processing. Such improvements relate to a modulation in arabinoxylan and/or hemicellulose content in transgenic plants. Such plants can, for example, comprise one or more nucleic acid sequences that inhibit expression of one or more UDP-Xylose Synthase (UXS) genes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2012
    Assignee: Pioneer Hi Bred International Inc
    Inventors: Xiaoming Bao, George W Singletary, Deborah J Wetterberg, Ramesh Nair, Kanwarpal S Dhugga, Matthias Liebergesell, David A Selinger
  • Patent number: 8250139
    Abstract: A demand driven process of collecting structured product and service information including the steps of: receiving a request for information from a requestor about a specific product or service, or attribute or class thereof, associating one or more potential responders with the request for information, providing the request to the potential responders, receiving and organizing one or more responses, and providing the organized responses to the requestor, all electronically. An arrangement for the same includes user computers for receiving requests for information, network communication devices for transmitting the requests to potential responders, memory for storing electronic responses and a controller for organizing, updating, and providing access to the electronic responses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2012
    Assignee: RichRelevance, Inc.
    Inventors: Sundeep Ahuja, David Selinger
  • Patent number: 8209214
    Abstract: An arrangement for providing targeted content includes data repositories storing information from which targeted content may be selected. The data repositories store at least one contextual relationship graph. The arrangement also includes an input/output interface through which a request for targeted content is made. The arrangement further includes a controller that receives the request for targeted content and selects targeted content using the contextual relationship graph. The controller further provides the selected targeted content through the input/output interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2012
    Assignee: RichRelevance, Inc.
    Inventors: Tyler Kohn, David Selinger, Michael DeCourcey
  • Patent number: 8185685
    Abstract: An electronic memory module according to the invention provides non-volatile memory that can be used in place of a DRAM module without battery backup. An embodiment of the invention includes an embedded microprocessor with microcode that translates the FB-DIMM address and control signals from the system into appropriate address and control signals for NAND flash memory. Wear-leveling, bad block management, garbage collection are preferably implemented by microcode executed by the microprocessor. The microprocessor, additional logic, and embedded memory provides the functions of a flash memory controller. The microprocessor memory preferably contains address mapping tables, free page queue, and garbage collection information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2012
    Assignee: Hitachi Global Storage Technologies Netherlands B.V.
    Inventor: Robert David Selinger
  • Patent number: 8173866
    Abstract: The present invention provides compositions and methods for manipulation of plant arabinoxylose and plant xylan synthases. Compositions include novel nucleotide sequences encoding xylan synthases and biologically active variants thereof. The invention also includes the discovery xylan synthase activity is a property of CslA polypeptides. Further provided are methods for xylose manipulation using the sequences disclosed herein. One method comprises stably incorporating into the genome of a plant cell, a CslA encoding nucleotide sequence operably linked to a heterologous promoter and regenerating a stably transformed plant. Methods for enhancing digestibility of plants and improving gum production in plants are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2012
    Assignee: Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc.
    Inventors: Xiaoming Bao, Kanwarpal S. Dhugga, Deborah J. Wetterberg, David A. Selinger, Rajeev Gupta
  • Patent number: 8156138
    Abstract: An arrangement for providing targeted content includes data repositories storing information from which targeted content may be selected. The data repositories store at least one contextual relationship graph. The arrangement also includes an input/output interface through which a request for targeted content is made. The arrangement further includes a controller that receives the request for targeted content and selects targeted content using the contextual relationship graph. The controller further provides the selected targeted content through the input/output interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2012
    Assignee: RichRelevance, Inc.
    Inventors: Tyler Kohn, David Selinger, Michael DeCourcey
  • Patent number: 8108463
    Abstract: A demand driven process of collecting and collaborating around reviews including the steps of: receiving a request for a review from a requestor, associating one or more potential responders with the request for a review, providing the request for a review to one or more potential responders, receiving and organizing one or more reviews from the responders, providing access to the organized reviews to the requestor and to the responders, and updating the accessible organized reviews as additional reviews are received, all electronically. An arrangement for the same includes user computers for receiving requests for a review, network communication devices for transmitting the requests to potential responders, memory for storing electronic reviews and a controller for organizing, updating, and providing access to the electronic reviews.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2012
    Assignee: RichRelevance, Inc.
    Inventors: Sundeep Ahuja, David Selinger
  • Patent number: 8108329
    Abstract: A system and process for incorporating recommendation boosting in an automated recommendation system includes receiving recommendation boost instructions, receiving a request for one or more recommendations, receiving a set of recommendations from one or more automated recommendation systems, with each recommendation system utilizing selection models or user models and modifying the set of product recommendations according to the recommendation boost instructions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2012
    Assignee: RichRelevance, Inc.
    Inventors: David Selinger, Tyler Kohn, Michael DeCourcey, Sundeep Ahuja, James Osial, Albert Sunwoo
  • Publication number: 20120005780
    Abstract: The present disclosure concerns methods and compositions relating to UXS polypeptides and/or nucleic acids encoding UXS polypeptides. In certain claims, the methods and compositions are of use to improve digestibility and/or ease of grain processing. Such improvements relate to a modulation in arabinoxylan and/or hemicellulose content in transgenic plants. Such plants can, for example, comprise one or more nucleic acid sequences that inhibit expression of one or more UDP-Xylose Synthase (UXS) genes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 2, 2011
    Publication date: January 5, 2012
    Applicant: PIONEER HI-BRED INTERNATIONAL, INC.
    Inventors: Xiaoming Bao, George W. Singletary, Deborah J. Wetterberg, Ramesh Nair, Kanwarpal S Dhugga, Matthias Liebergesell, David A. Selinger
  • Patent number: 8019642
    Abstract: A system and process for incorporating recommendation boosting in an automated recommendation system includes presenting a user with a visual electronic interface adapted to receive recommendation boost instructions regarding a boost subject, receiving recommendation boost instructions via the visual electronic interface, wherein the recommendation boost instructions indicate how strongly the boost subject should be recommended or suppressed from being recommended, receiving a set of recommendations from one or more automated product recommendation systems, wherein each recommendation system utilizes one or more selection models or user models and modifying the set of recommendations according to the recommendation boost instructions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2011
    Assignee: RichRelevance, Inc.
    Inventors: David Selinger, Tyler Kohn, Michael DeCourcey, Sundeep Ahuja, James Osial, Albert Sunwoo
  • Patent number: 8017831
    Abstract: The present disclosure concerns methods and compositions relating to UXS polypeptides and/or nucleic acids encoding UXS polypeptides. In certain claims, the methods and compositions are of use to improve digestibility and/or ease of grain processing. Such improvements relate to a modulation in arabinoxylan and/or hemicellulose content in transgenic plants. Such plants can, for example, comprise one or more nucleic acid sequences that inhibit expression of one or more UDP-Xylose Synthase (UXS) genes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2011
    Assignee: Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc.
    Inventors: Xiaoming Bao, George W. Singletary, Deborah J. Wetterberg, Ramesh Nair, Kanwarpal S. Dhugga, Matthias Liebergesell, David A. Selinger
  • Patent number: 7964770
    Abstract: The present invention provides compositions and methods for regulating expression of nucleotide sequences in a plant. Compositions are novel nucleotide sequences for a tissue preferred promoter isolated from the sorghum ?-kafirin coding region. The sequences drive expression preferentially to endosperm tissue. A method for expressing a nucleotide sequence in a plant using the regulatory sequences disclosed herein is provided. The method comprises transforming a plant cell to comprise a nucleotide sequence operably linked to one or more of the regulatory sequences of the present invention and regenerating a stably transformed plant from the transformed plant cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2011
    Assignee: Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc.
    Inventors: Shane E. Abbitt, Rudolf Jung, David A. Selinger
  • Patent number: 7847160
    Abstract: The present invention provides compositions and methods for regulating expression of nucleotide sequences in a plant. Compositions are novel nucleotide sequences for a tissue preferred promoter isolated from the sorghum ?-kafirin coding region or from the sorghum ?-kafirin coding region. The sequences drive expression preferentially to endosperm tissue. A method for expressing a nucleotide sequence in a plant using the regulatory sequences disclosed herein is provided. The method comprises transforming a plant cell to comprise a nucleotide sequence operably linked to one or more of the regulatory sequences of the present invention and regenerating a stably transformed plant from the transformed plant cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2010
    Assignee: Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc.
    Inventors: Shane E. Abbitt, Rudolf Jung, David A. Selinger
  • Publication number: 20100161932
    Abstract: Methods for writing data from a source location to a destination location in a memory device are provided. In one embodiment, a memory device receives a command from a host device, wherein the command specifies a logical address of a source location in the memory and a logical address of a destination location in the memory. The memory device translates the logical addresses of the source and destination locations to physical addresses of the memory, reads data from the source location, and writes the data to the destination location. In this embodiment, the data is read from the source location and written to the destination location without a need of further involvement of the host device after the host device sends the command to the memory device. Other embodiments are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2008
    Publication date: June 24, 2010
    Inventors: Ori Moshe Stern, Micha Rave, Robert David Selinger, Sandra Almog Goldschmidt
  • Publication number: 20100161882
    Abstract: The embodiments described herein provide methods for executing a command to write data from a source location to a destination location in a memory device. In one embodiment, a memory device receives, from a host device, a command to write data from a source location to a destination location in the memory device. The memory device executes the command by changing the memory device's logical-to-physical address map without reading the data from the source location and writing the data to the destination location and without a need of further involvement of the host device after the host device sends the command to the memory device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 20, 2009
    Publication date: June 24, 2010
    Inventors: Ori Moshe Stern, Robert David Selinger, Sandra Almog Goldschmidt
  • Publication number: 20100106599
    Abstract: An arrangement for providing targeted content includes data repositories storing information from which targeted content may be selected. The data repositories store at least one contextual relationship graph. The arrangement also includes an input/output interface through which a request for targeted content is made. The arrangement further includes a controller that receives the request for targeted content and selects targeted content using the contextual relationship graph. The controller further provides the selected targeted content through the input/output interface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2007
    Publication date: April 29, 2010
    Inventors: Tyler Kohn, David Selinger, Michael DeCourcey
  • Publication number: 20090281973
    Abstract: A system and process for incorporating recommendation boosting in an automated recommendation system includes receiving recommendation boost instructions, receiving a request for one or more recommendations, receiving a set of recommendations from one or more automated recommendation systems, with each recommendation system utilizing selection models or user models and modifying the set of product recommendations according to the recommendation boost instructions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 6, 2008
    Publication date: November 12, 2009
    Inventors: David Selinger, Tyler Kohn, Michael DeCourcey, Sundeep Ahuja, James Osial, Albert Sunwoo
  • Publication number: 20090281923
    Abstract: A system and process for improving product recommendations for a first user includes receiving a request for one or more product recommendations for a first user, each product recommendation being associated with any one of a plurality of retailers, receiving a plurality of recommendation sets from one or more automated product recommendation systems, wherein the plurality of recommendation sets are generated using different selection models and using ensemble learning to select one or more most relevant product recommendation sets from the plurality of product recommendation sets.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 6, 2008
    Publication date: November 12, 2009
    Inventors: David Selinger, Tyler Kohn, Michael DeCourcey, Sundeep Ahuja, James Osial, Albert Sunwoo
  • Publication number: 20090281895
    Abstract: A method of improving user set recommendations for product advertising including receiving a request for user set recommendations from any of a set of retailers where such request is related to one or more products, receiving from a plurality of user sets from one or more automated user recommendation systems, wherein the plurality of user sets are generated using different user models and using ensemble learning to select one or more most relevant user sets from the plurality of user sets.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 6, 2008
    Publication date: November 12, 2009
    Inventors: David Selinger, Tyler Kohn, Michael DeCourcey, Sundeep Ahuja, James Osial, Albert Sunwoo
  • Publication number: 20090281884
    Abstract: A system and process for incorporating recommendation boosting in an automated recommendation system includes presenting a user with a visual electronic interface adapted to receive recommendation boost instructions regarding a boost subject, receiving recommendation boost instructions via the visual electronic interface, wherein the recommendation boost instructions indicate how strongly the boost subject should be recommended or suppressed from being recommended, receiving a set of recommendations from one or more automated product recommendation systems, wherein each recommendation system utilizes one or more selection models or user models and modifying the set of recommendations according to the recommendation boost instructions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 6, 2008
    Publication date: November 12, 2009
    Inventors: David Selinger, Tyler Kohn, Michael DeCourcey, Sundeep Ahuja, James Osial, Albert Sunwoo