Patents by Inventor James B. Tucker

James B. Tucker 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: 20240115831
    Abstract: Various implementations disclosed herein include devices, systems, and methods that provide customized feedback content during a meditation experience. For example, an example process may include obtaining physiological data via one or more sensors, determining that an attentive state based on the physiological data, customizing feedback content based on a user attribute to change the attentive state during the meditation mode, and providing the customized feedback content during the meditation mode after a delay time based on the user attribute.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2023
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Inventors: Christine E. Welch, Alastair K. Fettes, Amy E. DeDonato, Christine Godwin, Dorian D. Dargan, Eric Landreneau, Gary I. Butcher, Grant H. Mulliken, Hugh A. Sider, Izzet B. Yildiz, James D. Dusseau, Jean-Francois St-Amour, Joanne Lee, Lucie Belanger, Michael B. Tucker, Philipp Rockel, Theodore Nestor Panagiotopoulos
  • Patent number: 7237782
    Abstract: A vertically swingable rear gate assembly for closing an open rear side of a shopping cart basket. The gate assembly includes a monolithic one-piece plate-like molded plastic gate member sized to substantially close off the rear side of the basket. A rigid one-piece connecting frame is disposed primarily adjacent a rear side of the gate member and includes a pair of generally transversely aligned top hinge parts for vertical hinged connection to the shopping cart. The connecting frame, adjacent an upper edge, has a downwardly-opening, transverse channel structure which engages over and confines an upper edge portion of the gate member. The lower part of the connecting frame is fixedly joined to the gate member at a location adjacent the bottom edge thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2007
    Assignee: United Steel & Wire Company
    Inventors: James B. Tucker, Verlyn C. Ruger, Larry S. Hubbard
  • Patent number: 7031976
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a computer framework and method for a business component to retrieve data from a backend datastore using object technology. The invention discloses a method for isolating a business component from specific implementations of a datastore, including the steps of supplying a database wrapper; using the database wrapper to begin a database session; supplying a domain object factory; using the domain object factory to create a domain object; converting the domain object from a persistent state to a transient state; ending the database session; and returning the domain object to the business component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2000
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2006
    Assignee: Sprint Communications Company L.P.
    Inventors: Kemi Y. Ibitayo, Joey Levi, Dwayne T. Smith, Scott T. Terrell, James B. Tucker
  • Patent number: 6981708
    Abstract: A molded plastic basket associated with a wheeled shopping cart, which plastic basket has a generally U-shaped support rod engaged within an elongate channel extending along upper edges of the side and front walls of the basket. The support rod has constructional features to provide for desirable supportive engagement and reinforcement of the upper edge of the basket while at the same time permitting coupling of the support rod and basket to the rear frame uprights to facilitate assembly while providing desirable load transmission from the basket to the upright frame elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2006
    Assignee: United Steel & Wire Company
    Inventors: James B. Tucker, Verlyn C. Ruger, Larry S. Hubbard
  • Patent number: 6856995
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a method for enumerating data pages in a stateless, distributed computing environment. A user operating a uses interface calls a stateless application, which in turn invokes a stateful data structure to retrieve data from a datastore. Stateful data residing within the stateful data structure is converted to stateless data, and a display page comprising stateless data is returned to the user. Preferably, the stateless application and the stateful data structures are Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB) compliant session beans. In a preferred embodiment, a servlet generates the display page by retrieving the stateless data from the stateful session bean, the display page is returned to the user interface via a communication framework, and data is retrieved from the datastore via a persistence framework.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2001
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2005
    Assignee: Sprint Communications Company L.P.
    Inventors: Kemi Y. Ibitayo, Joey Levi, Dwayne T. Smith, James B. Tucker
  • Patent number: D523207
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2004
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2006
    Assignee: United Steel & Wire Company
    Inventors: James B. Tucker, Verlyn C. Ruger
  • Patent number: D526106
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2006
    Assignee: United Steel & Wire Company
    Inventors: James B. Tucker, Larry S. Hubbard, Verlyn C. Ruger
  • Patent number: D308929
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 1988
    Date of Patent: July 3, 1990
    Inventors: Daniel K. Greig, James B. Tucker