Patents by Inventor James Griffin

James Griffin 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: 20140290165
    Abstract: A reinforcing drywall tape and a method of making the same, the tape having a greige combined with a laid scrim constructed in situ on the greige and bonded to the greige by a resin coating, and a pressure sensitive adhesive fully covering an inward facing surface of the greige wherein the greige is adapted for adherence to drywall sections.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 18, 2014
    Publication date: October 2, 2014
    Inventors: David L. Spanton, James Griffin, Kristyn Moreland, Francis P. Dibley
  • Publication number: 20140279718
    Abstract: A knowledge interface is provided that interacts with a user to identify a solution to a customer problem or issue with respect to a particular product or service. The knowledge interface includes data processing functionality configured to dynamically generate a number of components that are presented in at least one display window for display to the user. The components include first data identifying a set of predetermined symptoms linked to the problem or issue and related interface elements for classification of the set of predetermined symptoms, second data identifying a set of predetermined root causes linked to the set of predetermined symptoms and related interface elements for classification of the set of predetermined root causes, and third data identifying a set of solutions linked to the set of predetermined root causes. The third data identifies a best solution based upon the predetermined root causes and their associated class designations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2013
    Publication date: September 18, 2014
    Applicant: XEROX BUSINESS SERVICES, LLC
    Inventors: Edward Charles Southey, Timothy John Forsyth, Mark Piper, David John Butt, Paul Martin Wallingford, Daniel James Griffin, Jeremy J. McKinley, Benjamin James Hooper, Michael Carl Thelin, Nicholas Mark Gyles, Timothy T. Joyce
  • Patent number: 8795808
    Abstract: A reinforcing drywall tape and a method of making the same, the tape having a greige combined with a laid scrim constructed in situ on the greige and bonded to the greige by a resin coating, and a pressure sensitive adhesive fully covering an inward facing surface of the greige wherein the greige is adapted for adherence to drywall sections.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2014
    Assignee: Saint-Gobain ADFORS Canada, Ltd.
    Inventors: David L. Spanton, James Griffin, Kristyn Moreland, Francis P. Dibley
  • Patent number: 8696418
    Abstract: A system for securing a panel is described. In an exemplary embodiment, the panel is an air grille, such as, for example, an aircraft air-return air grille.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2014
    Assignee: American Airlines, Inc.
    Inventor: James A. Griffin
  • Patent number: 8424073
    Abstract: Methods and computer-readable media are provided for refreshing a page validation token. In response to a request for a form from a client, a server responds with the requested form, a page validation token, and a page token refresh program. The client executes the page token refresh program in response to a request to post the contents of the form to the server computer. The page token refresh program determines whether a preset period of time has elapsed since server computer generated the page validation token. If the period of time has not elapsed, the form is posted to the server with the page validation token and processed by the server computer. If the page timeout has elapsed, the page token refresh program refreshes the page validation token prior to posting the form by requesting an updated page validation token from the server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2013
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: James Richard Sturms, Matthew Bryan Jeffries, William James Griffin
  • Publication number: 20130045351
    Abstract: A reinforcing drywall tape and a method of making the same, the tape having a greige combined with a laid scrim constructed in situ on the greige and bonded to the greige by a resin coating, and a pressure sensitive adhesive fully covering an inward facing surface of the greige wherein the greige is adapted for adherence to drywall sections.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 1, 2012
    Publication date: February 21, 2013
    Applicant: SAINT-GOBAIN ADFORS CANADA, LTD.
    Inventors: David L. Spanton, James Griffin, Kristyn Moreland, Francis P. Dibley
  • Publication number: 20130008939
    Abstract: A reusable satchel comprising a receptacle composed of a durable material and having at least one opening for inserting contents into the receptacle, the receptacle having at least two retaining slits the retaining slits being positioned such that a sheet inserted through each retaining slit acts as a closure to the opening.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2011
    Publication date: January 10, 2013
    Inventor: James Griffin
  • Publication number: 20120118575
    Abstract: Methods for scale inhibition treatment of oil or gas production wells generally include injecting a scale inhibition composition into the oil or gas production well, wherein the scale inhibition composition comprises one or more polymers, each polymer comprising recurring units of a first monomer and a second monomer, wherein: (i) the first monomer is selected from maleic acid, maleic anhydride, fumaric acid, acrylic acid, salts thereof, or combinations thereof; and (ii) the second monomer is selected from vinyl sulfonic acid, allyl sulfonic acid, methallylsulfonic acid, salts thereof, or combinations thereof; wherein the concentration of the polymers in the composition is about 10 to about 60 percent of the polymers by weight of the composition; and wherein the composition has a pH of about 7 to about 8.5.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 11, 2011
    Publication date: May 17, 2012
    Inventor: James Griffin
  • Publication number: 20120065265
    Abstract: The use of an alpha-2-delta ligand or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof for the treatment of non-restorative sleep is disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2011
    Publication date: March 15, 2012
    Inventors: TIMOTHY JAMES GRIFFIN, Bruce Gerald McCarthy, David Young Mitchell, Daniele Marie-Claude Ouellet, Theresa Papa Stern, John Leroy Werth, JR.
  • Publication number: 20110287689
    Abstract: An air emitter for universally connecting to a variety of animal grunts. A squeezable container encloses a one piece squeezable filling forming an air chamber into which a flexible sleeve extends. The sleeve opens outwardly of the container to releasably lock to the inlet tube of an animal grunt.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2010
    Publication date: November 24, 2011
    Inventor: Billy James Griffin
  • Patent number: 7779353
    Abstract: Error checking for web documents may be provided. Text errors within a web page are identified by determining text to be error checked within content used in generating a web page and by determining where the text is located within the web page. The text is sent to an error checking module, and errors are displayed to a user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2010
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Victor Grigoriu, William James Griffin, Shiu-Kai Lee
  • Publication number: 20100199357
    Abstract: Various technologies and techniques are disclosed for increasing security in execution environments. A system is described for handling DLL calls made from untrusted code. An execution environment instantiates a lower trust process when a high trust process determines a need to call untrusted code. When the untrusted code calls a method in an original DLL, the execution environment loads a shim DLL into the lower trust process. The shim DLL has a clone of the method from the original DLL. A method for increasing security when processing calls from untrusted code is described. A shim DLL is created from an original DLL, and is deployed so an execution environment will load the shim DLL instead of the original DLL. When an execution environment receives a call from a caller DLL to the original DLL, the call is routed through the shim DLL. A pluggable validation system is also described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 2, 2009
    Publication date: August 5, 2010
    Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kristofer D. Hoffman, Michael Ammerlaan, Matthew M. Swann, Dale A. Rector, Hongzhou Ma, Roger F. Grambihler, Shaofeng Zhu, William James Griffin
  • Patent number: 7627592
    Abstract: Systems and methods for transforming a document to a web page can include a mapping module programmed to map document styles of a document to styles of a web page. The system can also include a conversion module programmed to convert contents of the document into hypertext markup language based on the map of the mapping module, and a rendering module programmed to render the web page based on the hypertext markup language. A method can include mapping document styles in a document to styles of a web page, converting contents of the document into hypertext markup language based on the mapping, and rendering the web page based on the hypertext markup language.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2004
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2009
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Sterling John Crockett, Nathan James Fink, William James Griffin, Bruce Arville Jones, George Perantatos, Ryan Robert Stocker
  • Patent number: 7590634
    Abstract: Detection and indication of inaccessible resources associated with a webpage is disclosed. Dependent resource identifiers are generated. The identifiers facilitate the query of a resource database to ascertain the status of dependent resources. The status of the dependent resources facilitates the marking of the resources in the webpage, and/or the generation of a report that indicates the status of dependent resources. An interface is provided so an author may easily ascertain the status of a dependent resource before publication of a webpage. In this manner, an author may easily and efficiently ascertain dependent resources that are subject to security right issues and/or versioning issues before publishing a webpage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2009
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Sterling John Crockett, Shiu-Kai Lee, William James Griffin
  • Publication number: 20090087633
    Abstract: A roofing membrane with improved edge flexibility comprises a base reinforcement layer having a width W, a top reinforcement layer bonded to the base reinforcement layer, and a matrix coating the top reinforcement layer bonded to the base reinforcement layer. The top reinforcement layer has a width of about 80%±10% of width W. The matrix comprises one or more materials selected from the group consisting of bitumen, modified bitumen, one or more polymeric materials, and mixtures thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2007
    Publication date: April 2, 2009
    Inventors: Troy Furgal, Raymond C. Swann, Christopher James Griffin
  • Publication number: 20090069427
    Abstract: The use of an alpha-2-delta ligand or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof for the treatment of non-restorative sleep is disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2007
    Publication date: March 12, 2009
    Inventors: Timothy James Griffin, Bruce Gerald McCarthy, David Young Mitchell, Daniele Marie-Claude Ouellet, Theresa Papa Stern, John Leroy Werth, JR.
  • Patent number: 7476021
    Abstract: A roofing membrane temperature indicator is provided for preventing the installation of a roofing membrane or roofing membranes at a temperature below a minimum recommended installation temperature for the roofing membrane(s) and/or a minimum recommended installation temperature for the roofing membrane(s) for a particular installation procedure. The membrane temperature indicator is visibly associated with the roofing membrane(s) and includes a thermochromic indicator having a first color at temperatures below a designated temperature and a second color visibly different from the first color at and above the designated temperature. The designated temperature at which the color of the membrane indicator changes is at or above a minimum recommended installation temperature for the roofing membrane(s) and/or a minimum recommended installation temperature for the roofing membrane(s) for a particular installation procedure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2009
    Assignee: Johns Manville
    Inventors: Thomas J. Stock, Raymond C. Swann, Christopher James Griffin, Joel Evan Hazy
  • Patent number: 7458021
    Abstract: A system and method for authoring web pages that permits a user to select a schema for the web page and a template for visually rendering the web page. Once a web page has been visualized and published, a second template may be used to revisualize the web page without having to recreate the web page or any links pointing to the web page.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2004
    Date of Patent: November 25, 2008
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Balaji Balasubramanyan, Ryan Robert Stocker, William James Griffin, Pat Miller, Paula Cooper
  • Publication number: 20080115201
    Abstract: Methods and computer-readable media are provided for refreshing a page validation token. In response to a request for a form from a client, a server responds with the requested form, a page validation token, and a page token refresh program. The client executes the page token refresh program in response to a request to post the contents of the form to the server computer. The page token refresh program determines whether a preset period of time has elapsed since server computer generated the page validation token. If the period of time has not elapsed, the form is posted to the server with the page validation token and processed by the server computer. If the page timeout has elapsed, the page token refresh program refreshes the page validation token prior to posting the form by requesting an updated page validation token from the server.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2006
    Publication date: May 15, 2008
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: James Richard Sturms, Matthew Bryan Jeffries, William James Griffin
  • Publication number: 20080095733
    Abstract: An aqueous structured surfactant composition contains an anionic surfactant selected from isethionate surfactants, taurate surfactants, and sarcosinate surfactants, and mixtures thereof, and an electrolyte and is useful in personal care applications.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2007
    Publication date: April 24, 2008
    Inventors: James Griffin, Stewart Warburton, Tobias Futterer