Patents by Inventor James F. Fowler

James F. Fowler 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: 8015058
    Abstract: There is provided a method and system to maintain published contact information. The system includes a storage facility to store contact information of a first entity at the system. The system further includes an interface to electronically publish, via a communications network, the contact information of the first entity to a plurality of users of the system and receive, at the system, information relating to validity of the contact information of the first entity. The information is received via the communications network from a first user of the plurality of users. The system further includes a stored value module automatically to provide a reward to the first user responsive to the receipt of the information relating to the validity of the contact information of the first entity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2011
    Assignee: salesforce.com, Inc.
    Inventors: James F. Fowler, Garth B. Moulton, Peng Chong Sien, Saaed Fattahi, Rajan Madhavan, Kenneth R. Lenga
  • Patent number: 5640770
    Abstract: A clipper for artificial finger nails includes a substantially planar nail holder having an arcuate opening therethrough for receiving an acrylic finger nail. Such a nail is cut by a blade in sliding face-to-face relation with the nail holder which slides over the opening thereby cutting the nail. A slot in the blade has a post extending therethrough. A screw mounted on one end of the post is received in a threaded insert formed in a nose piece. On the other end of the post, a knurled knob facilitates disassembly for changing a blade. A pair of transverse slots formed in the blade receive a pair of teeth formed on a pivotable clipper handle for converting rotational handle movement into transverse blade movement in rack-and-pinion fashion. Cut tips of the acrylic nails are caught and retained in a nail catcher mounted on the nail holder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 1996
    Date of Patent: June 24, 1997
    Assignee: Kenneth and Virginia Goodell
    Inventor: James F. Fowler
  • Patent number: 4860897
    Abstract: A disc storage device for holding and storing discs such as computer floppy discs, compact discs, slides and the like. The device comprises a set of modules for holding the discs having a planar surface, four walls surrounding the planar surface holding means to prevent the disc from moving within the module and ejector means for easy removal of the disc from the module. The device may include 12 modules arrayed on an 81/2 by 11" one-piece plastic unit which may be inserted into a ring binder notebook or inserted as a rail file in a filing cabinet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 1988
    Date of Patent: August 29, 1989
    Inventors: James F. Fowler, Nick Barker, Steven Kaneko, Loyd C. Moore