Patents by Inventor James Gale
James Gale 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).
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Patent number: 11128725Abstract: Systems and methods are described, and one method includes receiving, from a network, data indicative of an object person's current presence status and current responsiveness status, and based at least in part on the data, displaying an indicator image that includes a first region and a second region according to a mutual spatial structure, and concurrently displaying the first region with a first state appearance and the second region with a second state appearance, the first state appearance indicative of the current presence status, and the second state appearance indicative of the current responsiveness status.Type: GrantFiled: May 5, 2019Date of Patent: September 21, 2021Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC.Inventor: Edwin James Gale
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Patent number: 11102153Abstract: Systems and methods are described, and one method includes receiving, from a network, data indicative of an object person's current presence status and current responsiveness status, and based at least in part on the data, displaying an indicator image that includes a first region and a second region according to a mutual spatial structure, and concurrently displaying the first region with a first state appearance and the second region with a second state appearance, the first state appearance indicative of the current presence status, and the second state appearance indicative of the current responsiveness status.Type: GrantFiled: May 5, 2019Date of Patent: August 24, 2021Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventor: Edwin James Gale
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Publication number: 20200351224Abstract: Systems and methods are described, and one method includes receiving, from a network, data indicative of an object person's current presence status and current responsiveness status, and based at least in part on the data, displaying an indicator image that includes a first region and a second region according to a mutual spatial structure, and concurrently displaying the first region with a first state appearance and the second region with a second state appearance, the first state appearance indicative of the current presence status, and the second state appearance indicative of the current responsiveness status.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 5, 2019Publication date: November 5, 2020Applicant: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLCInventor: Edwin James GALE
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Publication number: 20200351365Abstract: Systems and methods are described, and one method includes receiving, from a network, data indicative of an object person's current presence status and current responsiveness status, and based at least in part on the data, displaying an indicator image that includes a first region and a second region according to a mutual spatial structure, and concurrently displaying the first region with a first state appearance and the second region with a second state appearance, the first state appearance indicative of the current presence status, and the second state appearance indicative of the current responsiveness status.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 5, 2019Publication date: November 5, 2020Applicant: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLCInventor: Edwin James GALE
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Publication number: 20120158767Abstract: Package products include slots for component products, price information, and attribute information for selecting component product options for the package products. Information regarding the package products and the component product options is provided to customers for selection of a desired package product and desired component product options. The package products and component products provide flexible control to providers of the package products and to providers of the component products and allow package products to be generated quickly in response to a request from a customer for a package product having desired attributes and meeting desired availability and price criteria.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 15, 2010Publication date: June 21, 2012Inventors: Martin J. Drefs, Jefferson Bridger Walsh, Benjamin Eric Noffsinger, Lydia Nanette Olchoff, Sam Jason Coverston, Christopher Paul Johnston, Shih-Hao Wang, Anthony James Gale, Samuel William Ashworth
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Publication number: 20100141658Abstract: Digital shadowing when rendering visual items (e.g., windows) at different virtual display levels (such as z-order levels). The rendering is based on the determination of a position and virtual display level for each of the visual items to be displayed. For those visual items that cast a shadow on lower-level in-shadow visual items, the determined position of the shadow-casting visual item is used to render the shadow on each of the in-shadow visual items differently depending on the corresponding virtual display level of the in-shadow visual items. In particular, the in-shadow visual item that has a lower virtual display level has a longer shadow cast by the shadow-casting visual item than those in-shadow visual items that have a higher virtual display level. This allows the shadows to have a more natural look.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 9, 2008Publication date: June 10, 2010Applicant: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Stephen M. Danton, Randy S. Kimmerly, Christopher Lee Anderson, E. James Gale
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Patent number: 6655523Abstract: An excited frame conveyor is described with a conveyor bed movably supported on a frame having a structural frequency and a vibratory drive on the frame operable to vibrate the frame at an operational frequency that is greater than the structural frequency of the frame.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2001Date of Patent: December 2, 2003Assignee: Key Technology, Inc.Inventors: Peter Todd Jones, James Dale Ruff, James Gale
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Publication number: 20020130015Abstract: An excited frame conveyor is described with a conveyor bed movably supported on a frame having a structural frequency and a vibratory drive on the frame operable to vibrate the frame at an operational frequency that is greater than the structural frequency of the frame.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 15, 2001Publication date: September 19, 2002Inventors: Peter Todd Jones, James Dale Ruff, James Gale
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Patent number: 5775850Abstract: A rock bolt (1) adapted to be anchored in a hole in a rock formation by means of a cement or a chemical resin anchor is disanchored. The rock bolt (1) comprises a core (5) on which is formed a profile for optimising the load transfer and the stiffiess properties of the rock bolt (1), the profile comprising opposed sides (6), with one or both sides (6) comprising at least two sections (9, 11), with a first section (9) being steeper than a second section (11).Type: GrantFiled: February 12, 1996Date of Patent: July 7, 1998Assignee: The Broken Hill Proprietary Company LimitedInventors: Winton James Gale, Mieczyslaw Wieslaw Fabjanczyk, Maxwell Thomas Renwick
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Patent number: 4503468Abstract: At each of a pair of linked terminals, an image is generated at local and remote input devices. The generated image is projected onto a viewing screen and, while exhibited, further locally or remotely generated data is used to alter the generated image and, consequently, to alter the projected image. Data can, for example, be generated by means of a document scanner and a manually operated X-Y pen digitizer.Type: GrantFiled: October 9, 1981Date of Patent: March 5, 1985Assignee: Northern Telecom LimitedInventors: Nur M. Serinken, Iain D. Calder, James Gale, Norman C. Fletcher
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Patent number: 4297669Abstract: A thermal cut-out which is adapted to open an electrical circuit in response to an excessive rise in temperature associated with the circuit protected by said cut-out. Said cut-out comprising a hollow body of electrically insulating material and having an opening through which a pair of contact members are put into said hollow body. A plug of electrically insulating material closing said opening and stressing the contacts to a condition in which they are biased apart. Said contact members being retained in engagement by an element as long as its temperature has not reached a predetermined temperature. Said element being made from a material which deforms or collapse at said predetermined temperature so that it cannot retain said biased contacts any longer in engagement and permits the contacts to open.Type: GrantFiled: August 27, 1979Date of Patent: October 27, 1981Assignee: Kenneth E. Beswick Ltd.Inventor: James A. Gale