Patents by Inventor Jeff Roberts

Jeff Roberts 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: 8394411
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are methods of detecting tumors, monitoring cancer therapy, and selectively inhibiting the proliferation and/or killing of cancer cells utilizing a papilloma pseudovirus or a papilloma virus-like particle (VLP).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2013
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary, Dept. of Health and Human Services National Institutes of Health
    Inventors: Jeff Roberts, Douglas R. Lowy, John T. Schiller
  • Patent number: 8296362
    Abstract: In one embodiment, the methods and apparatuses detect a first participant wherein the first participant corresponds with a primary group name; identify a profile based on the primary group name; detect a second participant; identify a secondary group name based on the second participant; select a privilege within the profile based on the secondary group name; and apply the privilege to the first participant and the second participant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2012
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Jeff Roberts, Linda Wu, Henry Nothhaft, Jr.
  • Patent number: 8255705
    Abstract: A tape cartridge is described including tape storage medium maintaining stored encrypted data that can be unencrypted via an encryption key. The tape cartridge also contains a medium auxiliary memory possessing a moniker wherein the moniker identifies the encryption key. The tape cartridge further includes a threshold parameter stored in the medium auxiliary memory wherein the threshold parameter influences a moniker state control, the moniker state control comprises an on state and an off state wherein the off state disables the moniker from identifying the encryption key.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2012
    Assignee: Spectra Logic Corp.
    Inventors: Matthew Thomas Starr, Jeff Robert Boyton, Michael Gerard Goberis, Nathan Christopher Thompson
  • Publication number: 20110288148
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the use of cross-linking probes to covalently bind probes to nucleic acid targets. In some embodiments, the probe comprises an initiator region that is able to bind to a first portion of a target nucleic acid, a probe region linked too the initiator region that is able to bind to a second region of the target nucleic acid and that comprises one or more cross-linkers, and a blocking region hybridized to the probe region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2011
    Publication date: November 24, 2011
    Inventors: Niles A. Pierce, Jeff Robert Vieregg
  • Publication number: 20110247054
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a plurality of electronic devices participating in a data collaboration session are detected. A group, of a plurality of groups, is determined to which each of the plurality of electronic devices is associated. At least some of the groups correspond to companies. Based on the determined group to which each of the plurality of electronic devices is associated, one or more limitations are identified that restrict the recording of data shared during the data collaboration session. The identified one or more limitations are enforced on only some of the plurality of electronic devices participating in the data collaboration session, such that electronic devices associated with a group that corresponds to the first company are allowed to record the data collaboration session, yet an electronic device associated with a group that corresponds to a second company is prevented from recording the data collaboration session.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2011
    Publication date: October 6, 2011
    Inventors: Jeff Roberts, Linda Wu, Henry Nothhaft, JR.
  • Patent number: 7984498
    Abstract: In one embodiment, the methods and apparatuses select a primary group name; identify a first device associated with the primary group name wherein the first device is a member of the primary group name; specify a privilege associated with the member of the primary group name; and store the primary group name, the first device, and the privilege within a profile.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2011
    Inventors: Jeff Roberts, Linda Wu, Henry Nothhaft, Jr.
  • Patent number: 7962242
    Abstract: A spatial photomask flipper provides up to four access gates for an unloading of a clamped photomask after its reorientation along a single photomask transfer axis. The clamping frames holding the photomask are secured by a locking control cam that prevents their inadvertent opening in any other but the two main flip orientations. The flipper is part of an automated system including a digital camera and an image recognition algorithm that interpret an arbitrary initial photomask loading orientation from a circumferential photomask identification number. An eventual pellicle on the photomask may be also automatically detected via a pellicle detection sensor. Alternately, the digital camera may be employed for pellicle detection together with a pellicle detection algorithm that processes the digital image for well known components of the pellicle such as the pellicle frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2011
    Assignee: n&k Technology Inc.
    Inventors: Marc T. Aho, Thaddeus J. Wilson, Jeff Roberts
  • Publication number: 20100321811
    Abstract: Described are a method and apparatus that monitor tape drive health for tape drives in a tape library. The tape library generally contains a data base that is adapted to maintain functional status records for interactions that occur when a tape drive physically engages a tape cartridge. More specifically, errors associated with tape drive and tape cartridge interactions can be stored in the data base and monitored to make determinations relative to problems encountered by a specific tape drive.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2010
    Publication date: December 23, 2010
    Applicant: Spectra Logic Corporation
    Inventors: Michael Gerard Goberis, Matthew Thomas Starr, Jeff Robert Boyton, Walter Wong, Nathan Christopher Thompson
  • Publication number: 20100135902
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are methods of detecting tumors, monitoring cancer therapy, and selectively inhibiting the proliferation and/or killing of cancer cells utilizing a papilloma pseudovirus or a papilloma virus-like particle (VLP)
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 1, 2008
    Publication date: June 3, 2010
    Inventors: Jeff Roberts, Douglas R. Lowy, John T. Schiller
  • Publication number: 20100095112
    Abstract: Disclosed are a method and apparatus for a data storage library comprising a plurality of drives and a combination bridge controller device adapted to direct and make compatible communication traffic between a client and the plurality of drives. The combination bridge controller device is further adapted to encrypt a first data package received from the client. The combination bridge controller device is further adapted to transmit the encrypted first data package, a first moniker and a first message authentication code to one of the plurality of drives for storage to a cooperating mobile storage medium. The combination bridge controller device is further adapted to decrypt the first data package when used in combination with a first key associated with the first moniker and guarantee the decryption of the first data package was successfully accomplished with authentication of the first message authentication code.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2009
    Publication date: April 15, 2010
    Applicant: Spectra Logic Corporation
    Inventors: Matthew Thomas Starr, Jeff Robert Boyton, Nathan Christopher Thompson
  • Patent number: 7679736
    Abstract: A pellicle correction factor is determined by comparing a first measurement of a reference photomask alone with a second measurement of that reference photomask through a reference pellicle protecting the mask layers of the photomask. A number of pellicle correction factors may be determined for different type pellicles and made accessible in pellicle correction factor lookup table of the system or supplied on a separate data storage medium. Raw Reflectance and/or Transmittance measurement data of a generic photomask through a generic pellicle is consecutively corrected for the measurement distorting effects of that pellicle by applying a matching one of the previously determined pellicle correction factors. The pellicle correction factor is preferably an attenuation signature across a predetermined measurement irradiation spectrum.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2010
    Assignee: n&k Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Marc T. Aho, Thaddeus J. Wilson, Jeff Roberts
  • Patent number: 7681048
    Abstract: Disclosed are a method and apparatus for a data storage library comprising a plurality of drives and a combination bridge controller device adapted to direct and make compatible communication traffic between a client and the plurality of drives. The combination bridge controller device is further adapted to encrypt a first data package received from the client. The combination bridge controller device is further adapted to transmit the encrypted first data package, a first moniker and a first message authentication code to one of the plurality of drives for storage to a cooperating mobile storage medium. The combination bridge controller device is further adapted to decrypt the first data package when used in combination with a first key associated with the first moniker and guarantee the decryption of the first data package was successfully accomplished with authentication of the first message authentication code.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2010
    Inventors: Matthew Thomas Starr, Jeff Robert Boyton, Nathan Christopher Thompson
  • Publication number: 20100031054
    Abstract: A tape cartridge is described including tape storage medium maintaining stored encrypted data that can be unencrypted via an encryption key. The tape cartridge also contains a medium auxiliary memory possessing a moniker wherein the moniker identifies the encryption key. The tape cartridge further includes a threshold parameter stored in the medium auxiliary memory wherein the threshold parameter influences a moniker state control, the moniker state control comprises an on state and an off state wherein the off state disables the moniker from identifying the encryption key.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2007
    Publication date: February 4, 2010
    Applicant: Spectra Logic Corporation
    Inventors: Matthew Thomas Starr, Jeff Robert Boyton, Michael Gerard Goberis, Nathan Christopher Thompson
  • Publication number: 20090222730
    Abstract: A system and a method for attaining a selectable image sequence are provided. The system includes a viewer display component configured to transmit a request from a user's interface component for the selectable image sequence. The request obtains a handle which corresponds to the selectable image sequence, a display description in which the handle is embedded and a reply response containing the handle that corresponds to the selectable image. The viewer display component is also configured to receive the reply response and to render the selectable image sequence on a display screen of the user's interface component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 20, 2009
    Publication date: September 3, 2009
    Applicant: ArrowSight, Inc
    Inventors: Lambert WIXSON, Mark WAYMAN, Alex GULYANSKY, Jeff ROBERTS, Adam ARONSON, Kassim CHAUDRY, Kate RAFFERTY, Julie SHIMSHACK
  • Patent number: 7540011
    Abstract: A system and a method for attaining a selectable image sequence are provided. The system includes a viewer display component configured to transmit a request from a user's interface component for the selectable image sequence. The request obtains a handle which corresponds to the selectable image sequence, a display description in which the handle is embedded and a reply response containing the handle that corresponds to the selectable image. The viewer display component is also configured to receive the reply response and to render the selectable image sequence on a display screen of the user's interface component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2002
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2009
    Assignee: ArrowSight, Inc.
    Inventors: Lambert Wixson, Mark Wayman, Alex Gulyansky, Jeff Roberts, Adam Aronson, Kassim Chaudry, Kate Rafferty, Julie Shimshack
  • Patent number: 7508609
    Abstract: A storage library is provided for formatting a mobile data storage element, such as a tape, with a first space dedicated for clear text or text as received by a host, such as an Independent Software Vender, wherein the first space is intended to accommodate header information which includes attributes about the mobile storage element. The data storage element is also formatted with a second space for storing encrypted or conditioned user data. The storage library further generally includes an encryption engine for encrypting data received from a host computer, a plurality of data storage elements, and at least two drives for storing data on the data storage elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2009
    Assignee: Spectra Logic Corporation
    Inventors: Jeff Robert Boyton, Matthew Thomas Starr, Stuart Alan Craig
  • Patent number: 7476627
    Abstract: Methods are provided herein for treating substrate surfaces in preparation for subsequent nucleation-sensitive depositions (e.g., polysilicon or poly-SiGe) and adsorption-driven deposition (e.g. atomic layer deposition or ALD). Prior to depositing, the surface is treated with non-depositing plasma products. The treated surface more readily nucleates polysilicon and poly-SiGe (such as for a gate electrode), or more readily adsorbs ALD reactants (such as for a gate dielectric). The surface treatment provides surface moieties more readily susceptible to a subsequent deposition reaction, or more readily susceptible to further surface treatment prior to deposition. By changing the surface termination of the substrate with a low temperature radical treatment, subsequent deposition is advantageously facilitated without depositing a layer of any appreciable thickness and without significantly affecting the bulk properties of the underlying material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2009
    Assignee: ASM America, Inc.
    Inventors: Christophe F. Pomarede, Jeff Roberts, Eric J. Shero
  • Publication number: 20080100945
    Abstract: A storage library is provided for formatting a mobile data storage element, such as a tape, with a first space dedicated for clear text or text as received by a host, such as an Independent Software Vender, wherein the first space is intended to accommodate header information which includes attributes about the mobile storage element. The data storage element is also formatted with a second space for storing encrypted or conditioned user data. The storage library further generally includes an encryption engine for encrypting data received from a host computer, a plurality of data storage elements, and at least two drives for storing data on the data storage elements.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2006
    Publication date: May 1, 2008
    Applicant: SPECTRA LOGIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jeff Robert Boyton, Matthew Thomas Starr, Stuart Alan Craig
  • Publication number: 20080022369
    Abstract: In one embodiment, the methods and apparatuses select a primary group name; identify a first device associated with the primary group name wherein the first device is a member of the primary group name; specify a privilege associated with the member of the primary group name; and store the primary group name, the first device, and the privilege within a profile.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2006
    Publication date: January 24, 2008
    Inventors: Jeff Roberts, Linda Wu, Henry Nothhaft
  • Publication number: 20080022002
    Abstract: In one embodiment, the methods and apparatuses detect a first participant wherein the first participant corresponds with a primary group name; identify a profile based on the primary group name; detect a second participant; identify a secondary group name based on the second participant; select a privilege within the profile based on the secondary group name; and apply the privilege to the first participant and the second participant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2006
    Publication date: January 24, 2008
    Inventors: Jeff Roberts, Linda Wu, Henry Nothhaft