Patents by Inventor James P. Abbott

James P. Abbott 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: 6135881
    Abstract: A method of remotely interfacing with at least one player in a rule-based game over a communication medium operatively connected to one or more communication devices including a visual display wherein each player is associated with a communication device, includes visually displaying at one or more of the communication devices a form comprising a two-dimensional matrix having a cell at the juncture of each row and column and where each cell may be manipulated to reflect a game choice by the player, retrieving by a server each game choice made by the player before any subsequent game choice is made by the player, applying the rules of the game to determine what further game choices are available to the player based upon the game choices retrieved, generating a revised form reflecting game choices made by the player and game choices which are available for the player to make, transmitting the revised form to the communication device being used by the player, and visually displaying the revised form at the commu
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 1998
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2000
    Assignee: Inventure, Inc.
    Inventors: James P. Abbott, Kenneth Mixter
  • Patent number: 5999634
    Abstract: A number of systems and methods for analyzing electronic image signals are provided which include processing the image signal as one or more cells, each comprising a plurality of pixels. For consecutive frames of the monitored image, a set of pointers are generated, each containing a value related to the detail contents of the image. The pointers are used to address a memory array, each pointer corresponding to a row in the memory array and the content of each pointer pointing to a memory element in the corresponding row. For successive frames, the value of each memory element addressed by a pointer is updated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 1997
    Date of Patent: December 7, 1999
    Assignee: Electronic Data Systems Corporation
    Inventors: James P. Abbott, Christopher Robert Gent, William G. Thomas, Gerald Sermon, Brian D. Stubbington