Patents by Inventor John Ballard

John Ballard 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: 20110187747
    Abstract: A hidden image method comprising: obtaining a first image and a second image, the first and second images providing between them a hidden image and a decoder such that a hidden image is decoded by the decoder when the first image and the second image are superposed at least one decoding position; printing the first image onto a light transmissive substrate to produce a printed substrate; displaying the second image on an electronic display; and superposing the printed substrate relative to the display at a decoding position to decode the hidden image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 18, 2009
    Publication date: August 4, 2011
    Applicant: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
    Inventors: Lawrence David McCarthy, Matthew John Ballard
  • Publication number: 20110150361
    Abstract: A hidden image method comprising forming a set of carrier devices which when overlayed upon one another and aligned will reveal N images within a common area, the set of carrier devices being formed by: forming N latent images from respective ones of the N images and respective ones of N line decoders to hide the N images, each latent image being decodeable by the decoder from which the latent image is formed to reveal the image the latent image hides, the N latent images further formed such that the lines of the decoders cross one another within the common area at line angles displaced relative to one another so as to define a single axis of alignment; and forming each carrier device of the set of carrier devices by combining at least two items selected from the set of latent images and decoders so as not to decode any of the hidden images and such that the set of carrier devices includes all the latent images and all the decoders, whereby the set of carrier devices will reveal the N hidden images within the
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 2, 2009
    Publication date: June 23, 2011
    Applicant: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
    Inventors: Lawrence David McCarthy, Matthew John Ballard
  • Publication number: 20090129592
    Abstract: There is disclosed a method of forming a securitized image comprising: obtaining a host image which is to be visible to an observer, obtaining a latent image to be concealed within the host image, adjusting the saturation of regions of at least one of the host image and the latent image such that when the latent image and the host image as adjusted are subsequently combined, the saturation of the combined regions will more closely approximate the saturation of corresponding regions of the original host image; and combining the latent image, and host image as adjusted to form a securitized image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2006
    Publication date: May 21, 2009
    Inventors: Gerhard Frederick Swiegers, Lawrence David McCarthy, Mathew John Ballard
  • Patent number: 7514500
    Abstract: The invention provides a process for preparing polymeric beads of complexing resin incorporating magnetic particles, which process comprises: producing a dispersion having a continuous aqueous phase and a dispersed organic phase, said organic phase comprising one or more polymerisable monomers, magnetic particles and a dispersing agent for dispersing said magnetic particles in the organic phase; polymerising said one or more polymerisable monomers to form polymeric beads incorporating said magnetic particles, wherein said polymeric beads include amine groups capable of complexing a transition metal cation, or wherein said polymeric beads are reacted with one or more compounds to provide amine groups capable of complexing a transition metal cation, complexing resins prepared by this process, and polymeric beads of complexing resin comprising a polymer matrix having magnetic particles dispersed substantially uniformly therein, wherein the polymer matrix incorporates amine groups capable of complexing a transiti
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2003
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2009
    Assignees: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization, Orica Australia Pty. Ltd.
    Inventors: Robert James Eldridge, Marck Norret, Thomas W. Dahlke, Mathew John Ballard, Beryn John Adams
  • Publication number: 20060241959
    Abstract: System and method for notifying a user of an occurrence of a defined condition in a process. The process includes a plurality of event records associated with the process; each of the plurality of event records includes a plurality of data fields having data relating to the process. A subset of the plurality of event records is defined where the subset relates to the defined condition. The data in the defined subset is updated at a predetermined time interval. The user is notified when the updated data of the defined subset indicates that the defined condition has occurred. The subset may alternatively be defined as a function of a current time, a last run time and the defined condition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2005
    Publication date: October 26, 2006
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Gueorgui Chkodrov, Ahmed Moustafa, David Taniguchi, John Ballard, Richard Jason
  • Publication number: 20060232896
    Abstract: A stall protection circuit is provided for bidirectional motor operation that is controlled by a half bridge switch that has forward, reverse and off positions. A method of protecting a motor is also disclosed. A Hall effect current sensor may be provided in a stall current protection circuit that engages a latching circuit. The latching circuit is operative to interrupt current flowing to the motor by disabling MOSFETs on opposite sides of the motor. Alternatively, FET voltage from drain to source may be used to measure the current supplied to the motor that is used to engage the latching circuit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 14, 2005
    Publication date: October 19, 2006
    Inventors: H. Maue, John Nathan, Michael Pajor, Michael Noorman, John Ballard, Jerremy Anderson, Paul Kucher
  • Publication number: 20060224400
    Abstract: A system and method for notifying a user of an event indicated by aggregated data relating to a status of activities, where the aggregated data is stored in a plurality of independently managed applications. An interface receives from the user an identification of an event relating to the aggregated data. The interface also receives from the user a threshold for the identified event. An aggregation component collects the aggregated data relating to the identified event. A notifying component notifies the user when the aggregated data collected by the aggregation component indicates that the threshold is satisfied. The system also includes a chronicle for recording values of past events and the notifying component notifies the user of the identified event as a function of the recorded values in the chronicle, aggregated data relating to the identified event and the threshold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2005
    Publication date: October 5, 2006
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Gueorgui Chkodrov, John Ballard, Richard Jason, David Taniguchi, Derek Tan
  • Publication number: 20060190433
    Abstract: Business activity management of monitoring multiple instances of a business activity and navigating business activity data in a distributed system. A system includes a plurality of databases storing data relating to multiple instances of a monitored business activity. A user interface receives a request from a user for business activity data independent of which database stores the requested data. An activity monitoring component for navigating to one of the databases as a function of defined relationships to retrieve the requested business activity data. The user interface displays the retrieved data to the user based on the user's permission.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2005
    Publication date: August 24, 2006
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Gueorgui Chkodrov, Richard Jason, John Ballard, Chun Yu, David Taniguchi
  • Patent number: 7033610
    Abstract: The invention relates to pharmaceutical or veterinary compositions for the treatment of surface wounds; pharmaceutical or veterinary compositions for the treatment of gastrointestinal injuries, diseases or ulcers; methods of treating surface wounds in animals, including humans; and methods for the treatment of gastrointestinal injuries, diseases or ulcers which compositions and methods include compositions of milk product extracts including growth factors with basic to approximately neutral isoelectric points.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2002
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2006
    Assignee: Gropep PTY, Ltd.
    Inventors: Francis John Ballard, Geoffrey Leonard Francis, Geoffrey Owen Regester, Leanna Christine Read, David Andrew Belford
  • Publication number: 20050138553
    Abstract: A method for promoting properties for processing a message in a business automation system includes the steps of receiving a message which has a plurality of parts where each part has associated properties; identifying the associated properties to be promoted; extracting the information of the promoted property; storing the information of the promoted property in a memory; and processing the message by accessing the information of the promoted property from the memory instead of directly from the message. The method may further include correlating a received message with an earlier processed message by using a correlation method utilizing a strong naming convention to generate a correlation identifier.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2003
    Publication date: June 23, 2005
    Inventors: John Ballard, Wei-Lun Lo, Bimal Mehta
  • Publication number: 20050132276
    Abstract: A method of providing an extension mechanism to an schema editor such that custom properties may be defined for nodes within an XSD schema. The custom properties allow the schema editor to define characteristics of non-XML data within XSD schemas in a standard fashion. The XSD schemas may then be used to parse and validate instance data that is not natively in XML format, such as flat files.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2003
    Publication date: June 16, 2005
    Inventors: Nagalinga Durga Prasad Panditharadhya, Udaya Bhaskara, John Ballard, Alvaro de Matos Filho
  • Publication number: 20050132282
    Abstract: Mapping between a source object and a destination or target object uses techniques and functoids that provide an auto-linking feature in which mappings are automatically provided based solely on source and target field names, or, ignoring field names, field locations within hierarchy. Functoids provide support for callout to programming artifacts, such as custom programming logic embedded in .NET assemblies or custom XSLT, and table-looping to generate and map data into a target document even though that data did not exist in the map input.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2003
    Publication date: June 16, 2005
    Inventors: Nagalinga Durga Panditharadhya, Udaya Bhaskara, John Ballard
  • Publication number: 20030059477
    Abstract: The invention relates to pharmaceutical or veterinary compositions for the treatment of surface wounds; pharmaceutical or veterinary compositions for the treatment of gastrointestinal injuries, diseases or ulcers; methods of treating surface wounds in animals, including humans; and methods for the treatment of gastrointestinal injuries, diseases or ulcers which compositions and methods include compositions of milk product extracts including growth factors with basic to approximately neutral isoelectric points.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 9, 2002
    Publication date: March 27, 2003
    Inventors: Francis John Ballard, Geoffrey Leonard Francis, Geoffrey Owen Regester, Leanna Christine Read, David Andrew Belford
  • Patent number: 6447808
    Abstract: The invention relates to pharmaceutical or veterinary compositions for the treatment of surface wounds; pharmaceutical or veterinary compositions for the treatment of gastrointestinal injuries, diseases or ulcers; methods of treating surface wounds in animals, including humans; and methods for the treatment of gastrointestinal injuries, diseases or ulcers which compositions and methods include compositions of milk product extracts including growth factors with basic to approximately neutral isoelectric points.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2001
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2002
    Assignee: GroPep Limited
    Inventors: Francis John Ballard, Geoffrey Leonard Francis, Geoffrey Owen Regester, Leanna Christine Read, David Andrew Belford
  • Patent number: 6397041
    Abstract: A system and method are disclosed for monitoring the quality of a broadcast. A broadcast signal is received at a receiver and the power of the received signal in a carrier band is measured. The power of the received signal in a sideband is also measured. A time is determined at which the ratio of the power of the received signal in the carrier band to the power of the received signal in the sideband is indicative of a carrier to noise ratio of the received signal at the receiver and the carrier to noise ratio of the received signal is stored at the receiver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 1999
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2002
    Assignee: Radio Propagation Services, Inc.
    Inventors: John Ballard, John Goodman
  • Publication number: 20020001625
    Abstract: The invention relates to pharmaceutical or veterinary compositions for the treatment of surface wounds; pharmaceutical or veterinary compositions for the treatment of gastrointestinal injuries, diseases or ulcers; methods of treating surface wounds in animals, including humans; and methods for the treatment of gastrointestinal injuries, diseases or ulcers which compositions and methods include compositions of milk product extracts including growth factors with basic to approximately neutral isoelectric points.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2001
    Publication date: January 3, 2002
    Applicant: GroPep Limited located
    Inventors: Francis John Ballard, Geoffrey Leonard Francis, Geoffrey Owen Regester, Leanna Christine Read, David Andrew Belford
  • Patent number: 6319522
    Abstract: The invention relates to pharmaceutical or veterinary compositions for the treatment of surface wounds; pharmaceutical or veterinary compositions for the treatment of gastrointestinal injuries, diseases or ulcers; methods of treating surface wounds in animals, including humans; and methods for the treatment of gastrointestinal injuries, diseases or ulcers which compositions and methods include compositions of milk product extracts including growth factors with basic to approximately neutral isoelectric points.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 1998
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2001
    Assignee: GroPep Limited
    Inventors: Francis John Ballard, Geoffrey Leonard Francis, Geoffrey Owen Regester, Leanna Christine Read, David Andrew Belford
  • Patent number: 6194208
    Abstract: The invention provides a process for preparing a plurality of modified milk growth factors which process includes: providing a milk product extract including a plurality of milk growth factors having basic to approximately neutral isoelectric points and a source of acid; subjecting the milk product extract to transient acidification utilising the acid source; and isolating a plurality of modified milk growth factors from the transiently acidified milk product extract. Also provided are growth promoting compositions, cell culture compositions, and pharmaceutical or veterinary compositions for the treatment of surface wounds, gastrointestinal injuries, diseases or ulcers, each including a plurality of modified milk growth factors having isoelectric points above approximately 6.0 and molecular weights in the range of approximately 5000 to 30.000, the milk growth factors being modified by transient acidification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 1996
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2001
    Assignee: Gropep Limited
    Inventors: David Andrew Belford, Mary-Louise Rogers, Geoffrey Owen Regester, Geoffrey Welsford Smithers, Francis John Ballard, Geoffrey Leonard Francis
  • Patent number: 6171489
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for producing polymer beads incorporating solid particles and to the novel polymer beads per se. The invention provides a process for producing polymer beads incorporating solid particulate material, which process comprises producing a dispersion having a dispersed phase including one or more monomers also including solid particulate material, and causing said one or more monomers to undergo a polymerisation reaction to form said polymer beads, wherein said dispersion further includes a solid phase dispersing agent for dispersing solid particles of material in the dispersed phase and wherein said solid phase dispersing agent reacts with at least one monomer to thereby become chemically incorporated in said polymer. The polymer beads comprise a polymer matrix having solid particulate material dispersed substantially uniformly therein and wherein the polymer matrix incorporates a solid phase dispersing agent chemically reacted into the polymeric matrix.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 1999
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2001
    Assignees: ICI Australia Operations Proprietary Limited, Industrial Research Organisation
    Inventors: Mathew John Ballard, Robert James Eldridge, James Sydney Bates
  • Patent number: 5900146
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for producing polymer beads incorporating solid particles and to the novel polymer beads per se. The invention provides a process for producing polymer beads incorporating solid particulate material, which process comprises producing a dispersion having a dispersed phase including one or more monomers also including solid particulate material, and causing said one or more monomers to undergo a polymerization reaction to form said polymer beads, wherein said dispersion further includes a solid phase dispersing agent for dispersing solid particles of material in the dispersed phase and wherein said solid phase dispersing agent reacts with at least one monomer to thereby become chemically incorporated in said polymer. The polymer beads comprise a polymer matrix having solid particulate material dispersed substantially uniformly therein and wherein the polymer matrix incorporates a solid phase dispersing agent chemically reacted into the polymeric matrix.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 1997
    Date of Patent: May 4, 1999
    Assignee: ICI Australia Operations Proprietary Limited
    Inventors: Mathew John Ballard, Robert James Eldridge, James Sydney Bates