Patents by Inventor David Wolf

David Wolf 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).

  • Sign Operation Instructions and Circuitry
    Publication number: 20090113174
    Abstract: A co-processor for efficiently decoding codewords encoded according to a Low Density Parity Check (LDPC) code, and arranged to efficiently execute an instruction to multiply the value of one operand with the sign of another operand, is disclosed. Logic circuitry is included in the co-processor to select between the value of a second operand, and an arithmetic inverse of the second operand value, in response to the sign bit of the first operand. This logic circuitry is arranged to operate according to 2's-complement integer arithmetic, by also including invert-and-increment circuitry to produce a 2's-complement inverse of the second operand. A comparator determines whether the second operand is at a maximum 2's-complement negative value, in which case the arithmetic inverse is selected to be a hard-wired maximum 2's-complement positive value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2007
    Publication date: April 30, 2009
    Applicant: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Tod David Wolf, Eric Biscondi, David John Hoyle
  • Data scoping and data flow in a continuation based runtime
    Publication number: 20090112779
    Abstract: Described is a data model used in a continuation based runtime that executes activities. The data model provides for declaring parameters to define data flow direction (in, out or both in and out) with respect to activities. The model further allows for the declaring of variables to provide for data storing and sharing between activities that are in scope, based on a tree relationship between activities. In one aspect, an activity tree includes a topmost parent composite activity and at least one child activity of that topmost parent composite activity. Variables are associated with one or more composite activities of the tree, and the ancestral relationships between composite activities and (non-composite) child activities determine the in-scope access to variables. Arguments such as binding expressions may bind variables to an activity's parameters.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2007
    Publication date: April 30, 2009
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Kenneth David Wolf, Edmund S.V. Pinto, Robert B. Schmidt, Nathan C. Talbert, Stephen J. Millet, Donald F. Box
  • Lottery game
    Patent number: 7520808
    Abstract: An online lottery game having periodic drawings of a series of digits. Money derived from the sale of lottery tickets is allocated into a plurality of winning pools in which the winning pool consisting of all of the numbers is smaller than at least one and preferably all of the other winning pools consisting of less than all of the numbers. Money allocated to pools are carried forward to successive drawings in the event there are no winners of that particular pool.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2009
    Inventor: David Wolf
  • Interface infrastructure for creating and interacting with web services
    Patent number: 7512957
    Abstract: A web services namespace pertains to an infrastructure for enabling creation of a wide variety of applications. The infrastructure provides a foundation for building message-based applications of various scale and complexity. The infrastructure or framework provides APIs for basic messaging, secure messaging, reliable messaging and transacted messaging. In some embodiments, the associated APIs are factored into a hierarchy of namespaces in a manner that balances utility, usability, extensibility and versionability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2004
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2009
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Shy Cohen, Geary L. Eppley, Douglas M. Purdy, James E. Johnson, Stephen J. Millet, Stephen T. Swartz, Vijay K. Gajjala, Aaron Abraham Stern, Alexander Martin DeJarnatt, Alfred M. Lee, IV, Anand Rjagopalan, Anastasios Kasiolas, Chaitanya D. Upadhyay, Christopher G. Kaler, Craig Andrew Critchley, David Edwin Levin, David Owen Driver, David Wortendyke, Douglas A. Walter, Elliot Lee Waingold, Erik Bo Christensen, Erin P. Honeycutt, Eugene Shvets, Evgeny Osovetsky, Giovanni M. Della-Libera, Jesus Ruiz-Scougall, John David Doty, Jonathan T. Wheeler, Kapil Gupta, Kenneth David Wolf, Krishnan Srinivasan, Lance E. Olson, Matthew Thomas Tavis, Mauro Ottaviani, Max Attar Feingold, Michael James Coulson, Michael Jon Marucheck, Michael Steven Vernal, Michael Thomas Dice, Mohamed-Hany Essam Ramadan, Mohammad Makarechian, Natasha Harish Jethanandani, Richard Dievendorff, Richard Douglas Hill, Ryan Thomas Sturgell, Saurab Nog, Scott Christopher Seely, Serge Sverdlov, Siddhartha Puri, Sowmyanarayanan K. Srinivasan, Stefan Batres, Stefan Harrington Pharies, Tirunelveli Vishwanath, Tomasz Janczuk, Uday S. Hegde, Umesh Madan, Vaithialingam B. Balayogan, Vipul Arunkant Modi, Yaniv Pessach, Yasser Shohoud
  • OSTEO OR TISSUE HEALING DEVICE, KIT AND METHOD OF USING THE SAME
    Publication number: 20090082610
    Abstract: An osteo or tissue healing device, kit and method of using the device to promote healing of compromised bone or tissue in a living mammal is disclosed. The osteo or tissue healing device includes a magnetic field emitter and a controlling circuit. The magnetic field emitter of the device is electrically coupled to a controlling circuit in which the magnetic field emitter is configured to provide a time variant magnetic field when driven by an electric pulse train from the controlling circuit in such a manner that the time variant magnetic field results in a magnetic (B) field exhibiting a magnetic slew rate of at least about 10 kiloGauss/sec. The controlling circuit of the device is electrically coupled to the magnetic field emitter and is configured to be powered by a power source, in which the controlling circuit is configured to output the electric pulse train driving the magnetic field emitter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2007
    Publication date: March 26, 2009
    Inventors: David A. WOLF, Robert G. DENNIS, Donnie RUDD
  • BIOREACTOR, KIT AND METHOD OF USING SAME
    Publication number: 20090081752
    Abstract: A bioreactor, kit, a method of using the device to promoting growing and/or culture of a cell, and a method for regenerating and/or improving the function of mammalian cells. The bioreactor includes a controlling circuit coupled to magnetic field emitter that emits relatively steep and short-lived magnetic field pulses during these an active ephemeral period. The bioreactor also provides a relatively long-term inactive phase in which no magnetic field pulses are imposed. The kit includes the unassembled components of the bioreactor. The method of using the bioreactor and of regenerating and/or improving the function of mammalian cells includes the step of applying a time variant magnetic field through the cell to promote growing and/or culturing, and then introducing the cells to a mammal to regenerate cells.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2007
    Publication date: March 26, 2009
    Inventors: Robert G. DENNIS, David A. WOLF, Donnie RUDD
  • OSTEO OR TISSUE HEALING KIT AND METHOD OF USING THE SAME
    Publication number: 20090082613
    Abstract: An osteo or tissue healing kit and method of promoting the healing of compromised bone or tissue in a living mammal. The osteo or tissue healing device of the kit includes a magnetic field emitter and a controlling circuit, and at least one stem cell. The method of using the osteo or tissue healing kit includes placing at least one stem cell within the compromised bone or tissue and applying a time variant magnetic field.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2007
    Publication date: March 26, 2009
    Inventors: Robert G. DENNIS, David A. WOLF, Donnie RUDD
  • CELL COMPOSITION FOR TISSUE REGENERATION
    Publication number: 20090068153
    Abstract: A method of extracting human progenitor cells from perivascular tissue of human umbilical cord. The extracted cells are then co-cultured with hematopoetic stem cells and are useful to grow and repair human tissues including bone. Also included are related methods and compositions related thereto.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2007
    Publication date: March 12, 2009
    Inventors: Francesca P. Vitelli, David A. Wolf, Donnie Rudd
  • MESSAGE DELIVERY DOWNGRADING ANNOTATIONS
    Publication number: 20080291909
    Abstract: Selectively modifying a message delivery requirement of a datagram message at an intermediary network node between an origin and a destination. A message delivery requirement is defined for a particular message. The message delivery guarantee defines how to transmit the particular message. A downgrading intent of the particular message is provided for the message at the origin. The downgrading intent of the particular message indicates that the message delivery requirement can be bypassed. The defined message delivery guarantee, the network delivery requirement, and the provided downgrading intent of the particular message are processed at the intermediate network node. The message delivery requirement of the particular message is ignored based on the provided downgrading intent. The message is delivered via a network protocol according to the provided downgrading intent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2007
    Publication date: November 27, 2008
    Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Nicholas Alexander Allen, Erik Bo Christensen, Stephen James Millet, Kenneth David Wolf
  • TRANSPARENT ENVELOPE FOR XML MESSAGES
    Publication number: 20080294971
    Abstract: Transforming portions of a message to a destination via a communication protocol. A message is received. It is detected whether the received message includes an encoded envelope. The encoded envelope includes a stack defining parameters including information for handling the received message in an original format. If the received message includes the encoded envelope, the defined parameters are transformed to coded parameters in a common format. The coded parameters express the same information for handling the received message in the communication protocol. The encoded envelope is encapsulated in the received message, and the received message in the common format is delivered to the destination. If the received message does not include an encoded envelope, coded parameters are generated in the common format for the received message by encoding addressing information from the received message. The received message having the coded parameters in the common format is delivered to the destination.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2007
    Publication date: November 27, 2008
    Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Nicholas Alexander Allen, Erik Bo Christensen, Stephen Maine, Stephen James Millet, Kenneth David Wolf
  • Fast clock acquisition enable method using phase stir injection to PLL for burst mode optical receivers
    Patent number: 7421053
    Abstract: Systems and methods for aligning the phase of a PLL with an incoming data signal. In one embodiment, when a data signal is received in a PLL, a phase perturbation signal is generated and injected into the PLL. The PLL then performs a phase alignment procedure to lock on to the received data signal. The phase perturbation signal is a damped sinusoidal oscillation that is injected into the PLL when each of a plurality of data packets is received. The perturbation signal has an amplitude sufficient to bump the PLL out of a quasi-stable state around 180 degrees out of phase with the incoming data signal, but is damped to less than a degree of phase shift within 30 ns of being injected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2003
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2008
    Assignee: YT Networks Capital, LLC
    Inventors: Bing Li, David Wolf, James Plesa, Lakshman S. Tamil
  • RADIO LUCENT RESTRAINING DEVICE
    Publication number: 20080156333
    Abstract: An apparatus for stabilizing a portion of a patient, the apparatus comprising: at least one attachment means having a flexible elongated portion and at least one bead attached to the flexible elongated portion; a radio lucent portion, the radio lucent portion having a multitude of raised portions forming a multitude of receiving cavities, each of the receiving cavities shaped to removably receive at least a portion of the attachments means, for example the bead or the flexible elongated portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2007
    Publication date: July 3, 2008
    Inventors: David Wolf Galpern, Manuel A. Guerrero
  • Orthodontic Bracket With Lined Archwire Slot and Slot Cover
    Publication number: 20080160474
    Abstract: A triple wing orthodontic bracket, bracket cover, and method of use is disclosed. The bracket has a slot liner for reducing friction between an archwire and the bracket, wherein the liner is flared at its ends. The bracket cover has: a rod-shaped hinge for rotating in recesses between a bracket base, and bracket wings on one of a gingival and occlusal bracket side, a slot cover, and a cross member for rotating the slot cover between covering a bracket archwire slot, and uncovering the slot, wherein the rotation pivots the hinge in the recesses. The hinge and recesses frictionally engage one another, wherein in a first position, the hinge attaches and detaches from the bracket, and after pivoting the hinge to another position in the recesses, the hinge is secured therein. Interaction between the hinge and the recesses may cause the slot cover to move to cover the slot.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 2, 2007
    Publication date: July 3, 2008
    Applicant: RMO, INC.
    Inventors: David Wolf, Tony Zakhem, Leon Laub, Michael Stevens, George Kantor
  • EYELET FOR COIL SPRING AND METHODS ASSOCIATED THEREWITH
    Publication number: 20080138759
    Abstract: An orthodontic appliance for orthodontic treatment includes first and second eyelets connected to coil spring at each end of the coil spring, thereby forming a double eyelet and spring unit. In one embodiment, a connector for detachably attaching a spring to an orthodontic appliance includes a means for engaging an appliance. In one embodiment the connector is an eyelet having an aperture in its central region for allowing the spring to be detachably attached to the orthodontic appliance. The aperture may have a variety of shapes. Alternatively, the connector may comprise a hook or equivalent structure for facilitating the spring to be attached to the orthodontic appliance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2007
    Publication date: June 12, 2008
    Inventors: Neal D. Kravitz, David Wolf, Leon W. Laub
  • COMPOSITION AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING COMPOSITION FOR CONSTRUCTING TISSUE, AND TISSUE CONSTRUCT
    Publication number: 20080138415
    Abstract: A cellular composition comprising a mesenchymal stem cell product and a biogel with methods for preparing and for using the composition. Tissue constructs made with the composition are also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2007
    Publication date: June 12, 2008
    Inventors: Mehboob HUSSAIN, Robert G. DENNIS, David A. WOLF
  • TRANSPORTATION SEATING SYSTEM
    Publication number: 20080116726
    Abstract: The specification discloses a modular transportation seating assembly that includes a support frame and seats mounted on the frame. The frame includes a seat beam and a cantilever beam. The cantilever beam includes a body and a connector inserted into the body and held together by compressive force. The body has an end defining a plurality of receivers, and the connector includes a plurality of lugs each received within one of said receivers. The seat beam includes a body, a tee nut slidably received within the body, a second connector outside the body, and a fastener intersecuring the two connectors to retain them in position along the length of the body. A single fastener intersecures the connectors on the seat beam and the cantilever beam. The seat includes a flange hooked about the back edge of the seat beam and one or more fasteners connecting the seat to the forward edge of the seat beam.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2008
    Publication date: May 22, 2008
    Applicant: AMERICAN SEATING COMPANY
    Inventors: Bernard Herold, David Wolf, Douglas Fassett, Trevor Haney, Douglas Oswald
  • TRANSPORTATION SEATING SYSTEM
    Publication number: 20080116728
    Abstract: The specification discloses a modular transportation seating assembly that includes a support frame and seats mounted on the frame. The frame includes a seat beam and a cantilever beam. The cantilever beam includes a body and a connector inserted into the body and held together by compressive force. The body has an end defining a plurality of receivers, and the connector includes a plurality of lugs each received within one of said receivers. The seat beam includes a body, a tee nut slidably received within the body, a second connector outside the body, and a fastener intersecuring the two connectors to retain them in position along the length of the body. A single fastener intersecures the connectors on the seat beam and the cantilever beam. The seat includes a flange hooked about the back edge of the seat beam and one or more fasteners connecting the seat to the forward edge of the seat beam.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2008
    Publication date: May 22, 2008
    Applicant: AMERICAN SEATING COMPANY
    Inventors: Bernard Herold, David Wolf, Douglas Fassett, Trevor Haney, Douglas Oswald
  • GAS TURBINE COOLING SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF ASSEMBLY
    Publication number: 20080092549
    Abstract: A method for operating a gas turbine engine, including a first compressor, a second compressor, and a turbine, coupled together in serial flow arrangement. The method includes channeling compressed airflow discharged from the first compressor through an intercooler having a cooling medium flowing therethrough, operating the intercooler such that condensate is formed in the intercooler from the compressed airflow, and channeling the condensate to an inlet of the first or second compressor to facilitate reducing an operating temperature of the gas turbine engine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2007
    Publication date: April 24, 2008
    Inventors: Michael Reale, Narendra Joshi, David Wolf
  • SYSTEM FOR TISSUE STIMULATION AND REGENERATION
    Publication number: 20080097530
    Abstract: A system for stimulating tissue to relieve pain and repair and/or regenerate tissue comprising a garment that has an electrode, a programmable electrical stimulation device, a time varying electromagnetic field generator, and a source that provides an electrical current. Also provided is a method wherein the electrode provides the user with a stimulating current and the time varying electromagnetic field provides the user with a time varying electromagnetic field either simultaneously, alternating, and/or sequentially.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2007
    Publication date: April 24, 2008
    Inventors: Philip MUCCIO, Robert DENNIS, David WOLF, Marc LABBE
  • Method and composition for treating diabetes
    Publication number: 20080075700
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to the expansion, preferably TVEMF-expansion, of mammalian blood stem cells in a rotating bioreactor, preferably a TVEMF-bioreactor, to compositions resulting from the expanded and TVEMF-expanded cells, and to a method of treating disease or repairing tissue with the compositions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 20, 2007
    Publication date: March 27, 2008
    Inventors: David Wolf, Donnie Rudd