Patents by Inventor George McDonald

George McDonald 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: 20150256337
    Abstract: Disclosed are methods and systems for authenticating a key exchange between a first peer device and a second peer device. In an aspect, the first peer device sends federated login credentials of a user and a first identifier to a first federated login provider, receives a first authentication response from the first federated login provider, receives a second authentication response from the second peer device, authenticates the second authentication response with a second federated login provider, sends the first authentication response to the second peer device, receives an acknowledgment from the second peer device indicating that the second peer device has authenticated the first authentication response with the federated login provider, sends an acknowledgment to the second peer device indicating that the first peer device has authenticated the second authentication response, and authenticates the key exchange based on the acknowledgment from the second peer device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2015
    Publication date: September 10, 2015
    Inventors: Phil Tien NGUYEN, Cameron Allen George MCDONALD, Gregory BURNS
  • Publication number: 20150089216
    Abstract: A remote station is configured with a certificate from a local root certificate authority for securing a wireless network. To configure the certificate, the remote station forwards a station public key to the local root certificate authority. The station public key is forwarded out-of-band of the wireless network. The remote station receives a certificate and a root public key from the local root certificate authority. The certificate is generated by the local root certificate authority based on the forwarded station public key, and the certificate and the root public key are received out-of-band of the wireless network. The remote station securely communicates, using the wireless network, with another station based on the certificate and the root public key.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2014
    Publication date: March 26, 2015
    Applicant: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Olivier Jean Benoit, Cameron Allen George McDonald
  • Publication number: 20140289306
    Abstract: A system for use by cabin crew on board an aircraft, comprising a server including a database, the server being at a location remote from the aircraft. The server selectively communicates with a plurality of systems external to the system to retrieve information related to a journey to be made by the aircraft. The server runs an application for communicating with the external systems to send and receive data to and from the server. A portable computing device such as a tablet computer on board the aircraft has a database for receipt and storage of flight related information received from the server, the flight related information including seating information and other passenger related information. The portable device runs an application for real-time communication with the server during a flight or after the flight, for exchange with the server of at least one of seating and passenger related information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2013
    Publication date: September 25, 2014
    Applicant: SITA Information Networking Computing Ireland Limited
    Inventors: Kevin Dennis O'Sullivan, Rowan George McDonald Shedden, Stephane Cheikh
  • Publication number: 20120067962
    Abstract: A folded sheet article comprising a sheet material having a first set of folds defining segments of the sheet material and an electrically conductive pattern on a segment of the sheet material that does not extend across a fold in an unfolded state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2010
    Publication date: March 22, 2012
    Inventor: George McDonald
  • Publication number: 20100184732
    Abstract: A method of long-term therapy using corticosteroids to treat tissue damage associated with graft-versus-host disease in a patient having undergone hematopoietic cell transplantation, and host-versus-graft disease in a patient having undergone organ allograft transplantation. The method includes orally administering to the patient a therapeutically effective amount of a topically active corticosteroids, such as beclomethasone dipropionate, from the 29th day until the 56th day following hematopoietic cell or organ allograft transplantation. Representative tissues include tissue of the intestine and liver, while representative tissue damage includes inflammation thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2009
    Publication date: July 22, 2010
    Inventor: George McDonald
  • Patent number: 7740894
    Abstract: Methods for providing cooked rice with enhanced levels of fiber, wherein the fiber-containing cooked rice is suitable and especially adapted for use in preparing fiber-containing rice-based cereal products and especially for preparing fiber-containing puffed rice-based cereal products, are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2005
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2010
    Assignee: Post Foods, LLC
    Inventors: George McDonald Squire, Andrew McPherson, Edward Larue, Louise Slade, Lynn Haynes
  • Publication number: 20090143328
    Abstract: The present invention provides for methods of treating cancer comprising administering a topical active corticosteroid in conjunction with a form of non-myeloablative conditioning, wherein the above regimen results in a reduction or elimination of cancer cells in an individual.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2008
    Publication date: June 4, 2009
    Inventor: George McDonald
  • Publication number: 20060252735
    Abstract: A method for reducing mortality associated with GVHD by treating the patent with an oral BDP regimen that involves co-administration of: 1) a high dose of prednisone (about 1-2 mg/kg/day) for about 10 days, which is then tapered rapidly over the following 7 days to a physiological replacement dose of about 0.0625 mg/kg/day for the remainder of the treatment, and 2) about 4-12 mg oral BDP q.i.d. for about 50 days, where the BDP is administered in both immediate release and enteric coated preparations. Another method is for treating leukemia by performing hematopoietic cell transplantation followed by said regimen.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2005
    Publication date: November 9, 2006
    Applicant: DOR BioPharma, Inc.
    Inventors: George McDonald, Nicholas Stergiopoulos, Steve Kanzer
  • Publication number: 20060099381
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a sheet material which includes a first fold line and a second fold line. The first fold line and the second fold line are defined by a series of at least partial perforations in the sheet material. There are no at least partial perforations at an intersection of the first fold line and the second fold line. The sheet material is quadrilateral.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2005
    Publication date: May 11, 2006
    Inventor: George McDonald
  • Patent number: 6882956
    Abstract: A lapping plate topography system includes a measuring apparatus for measuring the surface of a lapping plate, and an analysis apparatus for analyzing and presenting the data resulting from such measurements. The measurement apparatus has a non-contacting capacitive probe for measuring a height of the surface of the lapping plate, a rotary arm assembly for moving the probe in an arc over the surface of the lapping plate, and a spindle assembly for rotating the lapping plate about its center. The computer-based analysis apparatus is operable to input from the measurement apparatus the measured height at a plurality of data points on the surface of the lapping plate, calculate Fourier transform harmonic coefficients based on the plurality of measured heights, calculate surface ripple coefficients based on the calculated Fourier transform harmonic coefficients, and output the calculated surface ripple coefficients to an appropriate display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2002
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2005
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Carl Francis Sermon, Terry Fredrick Banitt, John Patrick Hagen, Roger Willard Johnson, George McDonald Moorefield, II, Thomas Donald Weller
  • Publication number: 20050040585
    Abstract: The invention provides a foldable sheet material (2) comprising a first set of concertina folds (4) defining a plurality of full segments of the sheet material, at which folds the sheet material can be folded and unfolded, wherein the sheet material is provided with a first segment of the sheet which, when the sheet is in a folded configuration, is an outermost segment (8) of the folded sheet material, and wherein at least a portion of the first segment is shorter in at least one dimension than a full segment, when the sheet material in the folded configuration.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2002
    Publication date: February 24, 2005
    Inventor: George McDonald
  • Publication number: 20050023822
    Abstract: The invention provides a sheet article (2) comprising a cover comprising hingedly connected first and second surfaces (6, 8), wherein on the inside of the cover is connected a sheet material having a first set of folds, and wherein the second surface (6) comprises a pocket (16) on the inside of the second surface, the opening of the pocket facing the hinged connection between the first and second surfaces.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2002
    Publication date: February 3, 2005
    Inventor: George MCDonald
  • Publication number: 20040088137
    Abstract: A lapping plate topography system includes a measuring apparatus for measuring the surface of a lapping plate, and an analysis apparatus for analyzing and presenting the data resulting from such measurements. The measurement apparatus has a non-contacting capacitive probe for measuring a height of the surface of the lapping plate, a rotary arm assembly for moving the probe in an arc over the surface of the lapping plate, and a spindle assembly for rotating the lapping plate about its center. The computer-based analysis apparatus is operable to input from the measurement apparatus the measured height at a plurality of data points on the surface of the lapping plate, calculate Fourier transform harmonic coefficients based on the plurality of measured heights, calculate surface ripple coefficients based on the calculated Fourier transform harmonic coefficients, and output the calculated surface ripple coefficients to an appropriate display device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2002
    Publication date: May 6, 2004
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Carl Francis Sermon, Terry Fredrick Banitt, John Patrick Hagen, Roger Willard Johnson, George McDonald Moorefield, Thomas Donald Weller
  • Publication number: 20020192721
    Abstract: The present invention provides Modular Molecular Clasps and methods of using these Modular Molecular Clasps in a wide range of applications in the health care industry, e.g., in therapy, in clinical diagnostics, in in vivo imaging or in drug discovery. The Modular Molecular Clasps of the present invention also have industrial and environmental applications, e.g., in environmental diagnostics, industrial diagnostics, food safety, toxicology, catalysis of reactions or high-throughput screening; as well as applications in the agricultural industry and in basic research. Methods of designing the Modular Molecular Clasps, as well as arrays and biosensors comprising these Modular Molecular Clasps are also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 28, 2001
    Publication date: December 19, 2002
    Applicant: engeneOS, Inc.
    Inventors: Carlo Dante Rizzuto, Noubar Boghos Afeyan, Frank Don Lee, George McDonald Church, Ruchira Das Gupta, John Jacob Schwartz, Bin Zhang, Alexey Alexandrovich Lugovskoy
  • Patent number: 4668289
    Abstract: A method for reclaiming gold in metallic form from gold-containing scrap, including gold-containing base metal alloys and articles in which base metals are at least partially covered with a layer of gold. The method includes the steps of exposing the gold-containing scrap under an inert atmosphere to a leaching solution. The leaching solution has dissolved therein an oxidizing agent including metal ions capable of assuming at least two oxidation states, a portion of the metal ions being in the higher of the two oxidation states. The leaching solution also contains a complexing agent including halide ions in aqueous solution. By so exposing the gold-containing scrap to the leaching solution, base metal contained therein is dissolved to leave a solid metallic residue enriched in gold. The solid metallic residue then is collected mechanically.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 1985
    Date of Patent: May 26, 1987
    Assignee: Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation
    Inventors: Stanley H. Langer, Abel Saud, George McDonald, James A. Koutsky
  • Patent number: 4095308
    Abstract: A windshield wiper assembly for use with an elongated squeegee formed of a flexible material and having a backing element operatively connected thereto includes a primary superstructure element and a plurality of separate claw carrying levers pivotally mounted thereon for engaging and supporting the backing strip of the squeegee. The pivoted levers are spring biased towards the backing strip of the squeegee in order to apply a substantially uniform pressure along the length of the squeegee.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 1976
    Date of Patent: June 20, 1978
    Assignee: Tridon Limited
    Inventors: William Blaiklock, George McDonald, Edward Kimber