Patents by Inventor Douglas Brown

Douglas Brown 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).

  • Location-Based Authentication of Mobile Device Transactions
    Publication number: 20100022254
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and software for implementing location-based authentication of both online and mobile web-based transactions. This implementation may involve verifying whether a mobile device (such as a cellular telephone) is proximate to a computer from which the transaction is being performed. Depending upon the location of the mobile device, further transactions may be approved or rejected. In further implementations, the transactions may be made from the mobile device itself. In this case, the location of the mobile device compared with one or more pre-stored locations may affect whether further transactions from the mobile device are approved or rejected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 22, 2008
    Publication date: January 28, 2010
    Applicant: BANK OF AMERICA CORPORATION
    Inventors: James Ashfield, David Shroyer, Douglas Brown
  • Location-Based Authentication of Online Transactions Using Mobile Device
    Publication number: 20100024017
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and software for implementing location-based authentication of both online and mobile web-based transactions. This implementation may involve verifying whether a mobile device (such as a cellular telephone) is proximate to a computer from which the transaction is being performed. Depending upon the location of the mobile device, further transactions may be approved or rejected. In further implementations, the transactions may be made from the mobile device itself. In this case, the location of the mobile device compared with one or more pre-stored locations may affect whether further transactions from the mobile device are approved or rejected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 22, 2008
    Publication date: January 28, 2010
    Applicant: BANK OF AMERICA CORPORATION
    Inventors: James Ashfield, David Shroyer, Douglas Brown
  • SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING ELECTROCARDIOGRAM DATA
    Publication number: 20100017471
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to systems and methods for providing improved medical care. A system includes a defibrillator, a gateway device, a routing device, and a wireless modem. The system may further include hardware and/or software components located at a remote facility for receiving data and one or more server devices for decoding data from the remote facility. A method includes acquiring medical data at a first location, converting the medical data from an analog signal to a digital signal, transmitting the digital signal from the first location to a second location over the internet via a cellular network, receiving the digital signal at the second location, and converting the digital signal back to an analog signal for processing. The first location may be an EMS vehicle, and the second location may be a remote facility, such as a dispatch center or local hospital.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 13, 2008
    Publication date: January 21, 2010
    Inventors: William Douglas Brown, James Andrew Baker
  • FASTENER RECEPTACLE FOR A PANEL
    Publication number: 20090293421
    Abstract: A panel includes a core and a fastener receptacle extending into the core. The fastener receptacle has an internal hollow and an opening to the internal hollow. The opening is formed by a lip that can engage and structurally support a push-in fastener.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 28, 2008
    Publication date: December 3, 2009
    Applicant: THE BOEING COMPANY
    Inventors: Harold G. Erickson, Douglas A. Brown
  • INTEGRATED CLOSET SYSTEM
    Publication number: 20090278429
    Abstract: A closet comprises a support rail, a light, a raceway, a rub strip, and a hinge unit. The support rail is capable of providing structural support for the closet and having a plurality of connecting elements. The light has a first set of connecting elements capable of being engaged to the plurality of connecting elements. The raceway has a second set of connecting elements capable of being engaged to the plurality of connecting elements. The rub strip has a third set of connecting elements capable of being engaged to the plurality of connecting elements. The hinge unit has a shape capable of being connected to the support rail.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 8, 2008
    Publication date: November 12, 2009
    Inventors: Harold Glenn Erickson, Mark Anthony Buchanan, Douglas A. Brown
  • Virtual data maintenance
    Publication number: 20090132602
    Abstract: A computer-implemented apparatus, method, and article of manufacture manage a plurality of database systems and perform data maintenance tasks in a data warehouse system. A domain includes a plurality of database systems. A virtual regulator manages the domain, detects a request to invoke a data maintenance task on a first system in the domain, routes the data maintenance task, for execution, to a second system in the domain, and applies results from the data maintenance task (executed by the second system) to the first system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2007
    Publication date: May 21, 2009
    Inventors: Douglas Brown, John Mark Morris, Todd Walter
  • Dynamic control and regulation of critical database resources using a virtual memory table interface
    Publication number: 20090132536
    Abstract: A computer-implemented apparatus, method, and article of manufacture provide the ability to manage a plurality of database systems. A domain contains the database systems, and a database in one of the systems has segmented global memory partitions. A virtual monitor partition provides logon access to the segmented global memory partitions in a form of a virtual database. Open application programming interfaces (API) enable logon access to the virtual monitor partition to access data in the virtual database. A multi-system regulator manages the domain and utilizes the open APIs to access data in the virtual data base.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2007
    Publication date: May 21, 2009
    Inventors: Douglas Brown, Todd Walter, Anita Richards, Debra Galeazzi
  • Closed-loop system management method and process capable of managing workloads in a multi-system database environment
    Publication number: 20090132611
    Abstract: A computer-implemented apparatus, method, and article of manufacture provide the ability to manage a plurality of database systems. A domain contains a plurality of database systems. A system event monitor, on each of the database systems, monitors the database systems' system conditions and operating environment events within the domain. A multi-system regulator manages the domain, communicates with the system event monitor, and creates a dynamic event on one of the database systems based on the system conditions and operating environment events. The dynamic event causes an adjustment to a state of the database system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2007
    Publication date: May 21, 2009
    Inventors: Douglas Brown, Debra Galeazzi
  • System and method for signal level detection
    Publication number: 20090121790
    Abstract: An electronic signal level detection system and method are provided. The method receives an analog input signal having a variable voltage and compares the input signal voltage to a threshold. A detection signal is generated for input signal voltages exceeding the threshold in a periodic first time frame. In a second periodic time frame (following the first time frame), a count is updated in response to the generated detection signals. The count is used to create a metric representative of the difference between the input signal voltage and the threshold. The count is incremented in response to the generating a detection signal (“1”) in the first time frame, and decremented in response to not generating a detection signal (“0”) in the first time frame.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2007
    Publication date: May 14, 2009
    Inventors: Matthew Douglas Brown, Sheldon James Hood, Guy Jacque Fortier, Stan Harry Blakey
  • Methods and systems for determining segments of a telephonic communication between a customer and a contact center to classify each segment of the communication, assess negotiations, and automate setup time calculation
    Publication number: 20090103708
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method and system for analyzing an electronic communication, more particularly, to analyzing a telephone communication between a customer and a contact center to determine communication objects, forming segments of like communication objects, determining strength of negotiations between the contact center and the customer from the segments, and automate setup time calculation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2008
    Publication date: April 23, 2009
    Inventors: Kelly Conway, Douglas Brown, Roger Warford, David Gustafson, Christopher Danson
  • Methods and systems for determining and displaying business relevance of telephonic communications between customers and a contact center
    Publication number: 20090103709
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method and system for analyzing an electronic communication, more particularly, to analyzing telephonic communications between customers and a contact center to determine and display the most relevant communications to an organization or business.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2008
    Publication date: April 23, 2009
    Inventors: Kelly Conway, Alan Yengoyan, Douglas Brown, David Gustafson, Christopher Danson
  • Methods and systems for determining customer hang-up during a telephonic communication between a customer and a contact center
    Publication number: 20090103699
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method and system for analyzing an electronic communication, more particularly, to analyzing a telephone communication between a customer and a contact center to determine early termination of a telephonic communication.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2008
    Publication date: April 23, 2009
    Inventors: Kelly Conway, Douglas Brown, Roger Warford, David Gustafson, Christopher Danson
  • Methods and systems for determining inappropriate threats during a telephonic communication between a customer and a contact center
    Publication number: 20090103711
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method and system for analyzing an electronic communication, more particularly, to analyzing a telephone communication between a customer and a contact center to determine inappropriate threats made during a telephonic communication.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2008
    Publication date: April 23, 2009
    Inventors: Kelly Conway, Douglas Brown, David Gustafson, Christopher Danson
  • Methods and systems for verifying typed objects or segments of a telephonic communication between a customer and a contact center
    Publication number: 20090103698
    Abstract: A computer readable medium for controlling a computer is provided. The computer readable medium comprises a plurality of code segments for controlling a computer. A code segment receives a telephonic communication comprised of voice data and event data. A code segment receives computer application data comprising data associated with at least one computer application in use during the telephonic communication. A code segment analyzes the telephonic communication by translating the received voice data into a text format, the text format defining a plurality of components. At least one component of the text data and communication event data occurring during a time interval is classified into one of a plurality of object types, and the computer application data during the time interval is compared to the object type of the classified components.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2008
    Publication date: April 23, 2009
    Inventors: Kelly Conway, Douglas Brown, Adrian Horton, David Gustafson, Christopher Danson
  • Methods For Preparation Of Pyridylamines
    Publication number: 20090082573
    Abstract: Alternate methods for preparing functionalized pyridyl-amine products from pyridinyl starting materials are provided herein. In addition, these alternately-prepared functionalized pyridyl-amines can be used as ligands or ligand precursors in catalytic compositions, e.g. for use in alkene oligomerization reactions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 15, 2008
    Publication date: March 26, 2009
    Inventors: John Robert Hagadorn, Timothy Marlow Boller, Steven Douglas Brown, Gary Michael Diamond, Keith Anthony Hall, James Martin Longmire, Lily Joy Ackerman, Susan Jessica Schofer, Eric Lee Kuiokalani Dias, Andrew Cottone, III, Carl Edgar Whittle
  • Cooperative Utilization of Spacial Indices Between Application and Rendering Hardware
    Publication number: 20090073167
    Abstract: According to embodiments of the invention, a data structure may be created which may be used by both a ray tracing unit and by a rendering engine. The data structure may have an initial or upper portion representing bounding volumes which partition a three-dimensional scene and a second or lower portion representing objects within the three-dimensional scene. The integrated acceleration data structure may be used by a rendering engine to render a two-dimensional image from a three-dimensional scene, and by a ray tracing unit to perform intersection tests.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2007
    Publication date: March 19, 2009
    Inventors: Jeffrey Douglas Brown, Russell Dean Hoover, Eric Oliver Mejdrich, Robert Allen Shearer
  • Adaptive Sub-Sampling for Reduction in Issued Rays
    Publication number: 20090033653
    Abstract: According to one embodiment of the invention, by increasing the number of rays issued through adjacent pixels with colors of high contrast while maintaining the number of rays issued through adjacent pixels which do not have colors of high contrast, a ray tracing image processing system may render an anti-aliased image while minimizing the increase in workload experienced by the image processing system. Additionally, according to another embodiment of the invention, by maintaining the number of rays issued through adjacent pixels which have colors of low contrast while increasing the number of rays issued through adjacent pixels which do not have colors of low contrast, the image processing system may reduce workload experienced while performing ray tracing while maintaining the quality of the rendered image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2007
    Publication date: February 5, 2009
    Inventors: Jeffrey Douglas Brown, Russell Dean Hoover, Eric Oliver Mejdrich
  • Data Cache Invalidate with Data Dependent Expiration Using a Step Value
    Publication number: 20090019228
    Abstract: According to embodiments of the invention, a step value and a step-interval cache coherency protocol may be used to update and invalidate data stored within cache memory. A step value may be an integer value and may be stored within a cache directory entry associated with data in the memory cache. Upon reception of a cache read request, along with the normal address comparison to determine if the data is located within the cache a current step value may be compared with the stored step value to determine if the data is current. If the step values match, the data may be current and a cache hit may occur. However, if the step values do not match, the requested data may be provided from another source. Furthermore, an application may update the current step value to invalidate old data stored within the cache and associated with a different step value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2007
    Publication date: January 15, 2009
    Inventors: Jeffrey Douglas Brown, Russell Dean Hoover, Eric Oliver Mejdrich, Kenneth Michael Valk
  • USB CHARGER FOR COMMERCIAL TRANSPORT VEHICLE
    Publication number: 20080309297
    Abstract: An outlet provides both AC and DC power to at least one device. The outlet includes an input portion adapted to receive a first voltage input and a second voltage input wherein the first voltage input is a variable DC voltage and the second input is AC of a desired voltage and frequency. A converter reduces the first input voltage to a constant DC voltage output effective to power a PED. The outlet has a first receptacle in the form of a USB port to deliver the DC power to the device and a second receptacle to deliver the AC power to the device. A sensing circuit is coupled to the outlet and determines if a source of the second voltage may safely provide the AC power.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 25, 2007
    Publication date: December 18, 2008
    Inventors: Douglas Brown, Dennis Markert, Jeffrey Jouper, John Lamb
  • Method and system for selecting and navigating to call examples for playback or analysis
    Publication number: 20080260122
    Abstract: A method for searching for one or more recorded telephone communications between one or more customers and a contact center comprising is provided. The method is implemented by a computer readable medium having a plurality of code segments. One or more telephone communications is analyzed and assessment data is assigned thereto. The assessment data of the telephone communications is searched for at least one search criterion, and at least one telephone communication having assessment data matching the search criterion is identified. A representation of the matching telephone communication is then displayed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2008
    Publication date: October 23, 2008
    Inventors: Kelly Conway, David Gustafson, Douglas Brown, Christopher Danson