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).
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Publication number: 20110187747Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: June 18, 2009Publication date: August 4, 2011Applicant: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research OrganisationInventors: Lawrence David McCarthy, Matthew John Ballard
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Publication number: 20110150361Abstract: 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 theType: ApplicationFiled: April 2, 2009Publication date: June 23, 2011Applicant: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research OrganisationInventors: Lawrence David McCarthy, Matthew John Ballard
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Publication number: 20090129592Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: December 5, 2006Publication date: May 21, 2009Inventors: Gerhard Frederick Swiegers, Lawrence David McCarthy, Mathew John Ballard
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Patent number: 7514500Abstract: 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 transitiType: GrantFiled: January 8, 2003Date of Patent: April 7, 2009Assignees: 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
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Publication number: 20060241959Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: April 26, 2005Publication date: October 26, 2006Applicant: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Gueorgui Chkodrov, Ahmed Moustafa, David Taniguchi, John Ballard, Richard Jason
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Publication number: 20060232896Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: April 14, 2005Publication date: October 19, 2006Inventors: H. Maue, John Nathan, Michael Pajor, Michael Noorman, John Ballard, Jerremy Anderson, Paul Kucher
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Publication number: 20060224400Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: April 1, 2005Publication date: October 5, 2006Applicant: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Gueorgui Chkodrov, John Ballard, Richard Jason, David Taniguchi, Derek Tan
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Publication number: 20060190433Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: February 23, 2005Publication date: August 24, 2006Applicant: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Gueorgui Chkodrov, Richard Jason, John Ballard, Chun Yu, David Taniguchi
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Patent number: 7033610Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: July 9, 2002Date of Patent: April 25, 2006Assignee: Gropep PTY, Ltd.Inventors: Francis John Ballard, Geoffrey Leonard Francis, Geoffrey Owen Regester, Leanna Christine Read, David Andrew Belford
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Publication number: 20050138553Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: December 18, 2003Publication date: June 23, 2005Inventors: John Ballard, Wei-Lun Lo, Bimal Mehta
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Publication number: 20050132276Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: December 15, 2003Publication date: June 16, 2005Inventors: Nagalinga Durga Prasad Panditharadhya, Udaya Bhaskara, John Ballard, Alvaro de Matos Filho
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Publication number: 20050132282Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: December 15, 2003Publication date: June 16, 2005Inventors: Nagalinga Durga Panditharadhya, Udaya Bhaskara, John Ballard
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Publication number: 20030059477Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: July 9, 2002Publication date: March 27, 2003Inventors: Francis John Ballard, Geoffrey Leonard Francis, Geoffrey Owen Regester, Leanna Christine Read, David Andrew Belford
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Patent number: 6447808Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: July 24, 2001Date of Patent: September 10, 2002Assignee: GroPep LimitedInventors: Francis John Ballard, Geoffrey Leonard Francis, Geoffrey Owen Regester, Leanna Christine Read, David Andrew Belford
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Patent number: 6397041Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: December 22, 1999Date of Patent: May 28, 2002Assignee: Radio Propagation Services, Inc.Inventors: John Ballard, John Goodman
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Publication number: 20020001625Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: July 24, 2001Publication date: January 3, 2002Applicant: GroPep Limited locatedInventors: Francis John Ballard, Geoffrey Leonard Francis, Geoffrey Owen Regester, Leanna Christine Read, David Andrew Belford
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Patent number: 6319522Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: May 22, 1998Date of Patent: November 20, 2001Assignee: GroPep LimitedInventors: Francis John Ballard, Geoffrey Leonard Francis, Geoffrey Owen Regester, Leanna Christine Read, David Andrew Belford
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Patent number: 6194208Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: September 30, 1996Date of Patent: February 27, 2001Assignee: Gropep LimitedInventors: David Andrew Belford, Mary-Louise Rogers, Geoffrey Owen Regester, Geoffrey Welsford Smithers, Francis John Ballard, Geoffrey Leonard Francis
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Patent number: 6171489Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: April 12, 1999Date of Patent: January 9, 2001Assignees: ICI Australia Operations Proprietary Limited, Industrial Research OrganisationInventors: Mathew John Ballard, Robert James Eldridge, James Sydney Bates
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Patent number: 5900146Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: May 21, 1997Date of Patent: May 4, 1999Assignee: ICI Australia Operations Proprietary LimitedInventors: Mathew John Ballard, Robert James Eldridge, James Sydney Bates