Patents by Inventor James Matthew Butler

James Matthew Butler 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: 8352379
    Abstract: There is provided a method of, computer programs for and apparatus for providing and accessing digital content such as a news item. A news provider generates a news item, creates a digitally signed version of the news item and packages them together with a digital certificate issued by a certificate authority containing the public key required to decrypt the digitally signed version. The package is posted to a server and is transmitted, or made available or transmission, over a public data network together with a computer program for verifying the news item. A receiving party receives, over the public data network, the package at a client device and is provided with means for launching, and if necessary first downloading, the verifying program. The verifying program uses the public key contained in the certificate to verify the digitally signed news item.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2001
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2013
    Assignee: Reuters Limited
    Inventors: Nicholas Fulton, James Matthew Butler, Mark Anthony Curtis, David Parrott, Miles Jonathan Whitehead, Hui Wu
  • Patent number: 8092785
    Abstract: Drug substance for use in a pharmaceutical formulation may be prepared by a process which process comprises co-milling a suspension of the drug substance and a pharmaceutically acceptable polymer in a liquid propellant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2012
    Assignee: Glaxo Group Limited
    Inventors: James Matthew Butler, Angus Harry Forster, James Edon Patterson, John Peter Warr
  • Publication number: 20080260657
    Abstract: Drug substance for use in a pharmaceutical formulation may be prepared by a process which process comprises co-milling a suspension of the drug substance and a pharmaceutically acceptable polymer in a liquid propellant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 22, 2005
    Publication date: October 23, 2008
    Inventors: James Matthew Butler, Angus Harry Forster, James Edon Patterson, John Peter Warr
  • Publication number: 20030158823
    Abstract: There is provided a method of, computer programs for and apparatus for providing and accessing digital content such as a news item. A news provider generates a news item, creates a digitally signed version of the news item and packages them together with a digital certificate issued by a certificate authority containing the public key required to decrypt the digitally signed version. The package is posted to a server and is transmitted, or made available or transmission, over a public data network together with a computer program for verifying the news item. A receiving party receives, over the public data network, the package at a client device and is provided with means for launching, and if necessary first downloading, the verifying program. The verifying program uses the public key contained in the certificate to verify the digitally signed news item.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2003
    Publication date: August 21, 2003
    Inventors: Nicholas Fulton, James Matthew Butler, Mark Anthony Curtis, David parrott, Miles Jonathan Whitehead, Hui Wu
  • Patent number: 5985326
    Abstract: Solid dispersions of poorly soluble drugs, such as (6R,12aR)-2,3,6,7,12,12a-hexahydro-2-methyl-6-(3,4-methylenedioxyphenyl)-p yrazino[2',1':6,1]pyrido[3,4-b]indole-1,4-dione and (+)-N-[1-(adamantanmethyl)-2,4-dioxo-5-phenyl-2,3,4,5-tetrahydro-1H-1,5-be nzodiazepin-3-yl]-N'-phenylurea, methods of preparing the solid dispersions, and use of the solid dispersions in pharmaceutical compositions are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 1998
    Date of Patent: November 16, 1999
    Assignee: ICOS Corporation
    Inventor: James Matthew Butler