Patents by Inventor John E Taylor, Jr.

John E Taylor, Jr. 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: 20090170611
    Abstract: A distributed computer system is provided for collecting player information. Further, a scoring system is provided that rates a player based on one or more elements of the collected information. Players may be rated with respect to a number of characteristics. Responsive to a determined rating or score, action may be taken by the distributed system with regard to the player. For instance, the player may be provided a complimentary offer, provided an award, and invitation to come to a gambling location, presented an advertisement, or other action may be performed involving the player. Further, the distributed computer system may permit a player to manage their frequent player accounts and receive complimentary offers based on a set of criteria specified by the player.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2008
    Publication date: July 2, 2009
    Inventors: Mark E. Herrmann, Dow K. Hardy, John F. Acres, John E. Taylor, JR., Scott N. Weller, Francis Josef Lichtenberger
  • Publication number: 20090170608
    Abstract: A distributed computer system is provided for collecting player information. Further, a scoring system is provided that rates a player based on one or more elements of the collected information. Players may be rated with respect to a number of characteristics. Responsive to a determined rating or score, action may be taken by the distributed system with regard to the player. For instance, the player may be provided a complimentary offer, provided an award, and invitation to come to a gambling location, presented an advertisement, or other action may be performed involving the player. Further, the distributed computer system may permit a player to manage their frequent player accounts and receive complimentary offers based on a set of criteria specified by the player.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2008
    Publication date: July 2, 2009
    Inventors: Mark E. Herrmann, Dow K. Hardy, John F. Acres, John E. Taylor, JR., Scott N. Weller, Francis Josef Lichtenberger
  • Publication number: 20090170610
    Abstract: A distributed computer system is provided for collecting player information. Further, a scoring system is provided that rates a player based on one or more elements of the collected information. Players may be rated with respect to a number of characteristics. Responsive to a determined rating or score, action may be taken by the distributed system with regard to the player. For instance, the player may be provided a complimentary offer, provided an award, and invitation to come to a gambling location, presented an advertisement, or other action may be performed involving the player. Further, the distributed computer system may permit a player to manage their frequent player accounts and receive complimentary offers based on a set of criteria specified by the player.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2008
    Publication date: July 2, 2009
    Inventors: Mark E. Herrmann, Dow K. Hardy, John F. Acres, John E. Taylor, JR., Scott N. Weller, Francis Josef Lichtenberger
  • Publication number: 20090170612
    Abstract: A distributed computer system is provided for collecting player information. Further, a scoring system is provided that rates a player based on one or more elements of the collected information. Players may be rated with respect to a number of characteristics. Responsive to a determined rating or score, action may be taken by the distributed system with regard to the player. For instance, the player may be provided a complimentary offer, provided an award, and invitation to come to a gambling location, presented an advertisement, or other action may be performed involving the player. Further, the distributed computer system may permit a player to manage their frequent player accounts and receive complimentary offers based on a set of criteria specified by the player.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2008
    Publication date: July 2, 2009
    Inventors: Mark E. Herrmann, Dow K. Hardy, John F. Acres, John E. Taylor, JR., Scott N. Weller, Francis Josef Lichtenberger
  • Publication number: 20090170614
    Abstract: A distributed computer system is provided for collecting player information. Further, a scoring system is provided that rates a player based on one or more elements of the collected information. Players may be rated with respect to a number of characteristics. Responsive to a determined rating or score, action may be taken by the distributed system with regard to the player. For instance, the player may be provided a complimentary offer, provided an award, and invitation to come to a gambling location, presented an advertisement, or other action may be performed involving the player. Further, the distributed computer system may permit a player to manage their frequent player accounts and receive complimentary offers based on a set of criteria specified by the player.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2008
    Publication date: July 2, 2009
    Inventors: Mark E. Herrmann, Dow K. Hardy, John F. Acres, John E. Taylor, JR., Scott N. Weller, Francis Josef Lichtenberger
  • Publication number: 20090054148
    Abstract: A system and method is provided for incentivizing players to visit a gambling location. In one aspect, a qualified person is invited to play an electronic game which has a plurality of outcomes, at least one of which is a winning outcome. One aspect relates to accumulating outcomes. Another relates to incentives provided to player program member(s). In some embodiments, the person does not need to be qualified. In one embodiment, the person may be required to redeem the outcome at the gambling location, in another at a redemption location. In one embodiment, a player is required to take an action in order to redeem an outcome. In some embodiments, a game play and/or redemption and/or any action must occur in a specified time, respectively. In one embodiment the electronic game is not located at a gambling location, in another it is not located at a redemption location.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2007
    Publication date: February 26, 2009
    Inventors: Dow K. Hardy, Mark E. Herrmann, John E. Taylor, JR., John F. Acres, Steven N. Kane
  • Patent number: 6512456
    Abstract: A mobile monitoring device provides for measurement of a bodily function of a mobile monitored person while the mobile monitored person moves about during their daily activities. Various methods are explained to measure various bodily functions which may be employed with the mobile monitoring device. Means are provided for determining the onset of a medical crisis in the health of the mobile monitored person. A medical intervention may be employed in response to the detection of the onset of the medical crisis. A notification of an oversight authority may be employed in response to the detection of the onset of the medical crisis. Locational tracking provides for the oversight authority to quickly and efficiently dispatch medical assistance in response to the onset of the medical crisis. Historic preservation of the measurements of the bodily functions allow medical personnel to better prescribe a course of treatment to medical problems including following onset of the medical crisis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2000
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2003
    Inventor: John E Taylor, Jr.
  • Patent number: 6218945
    Abstract: Cooperation between a monitored person device and a companion device allow for a relatively accurate determination of a locational reference for the monitored person device and therefore, a monitored person. This is accomplished while minimizing the weight of the monitored person device which is constantly transported by the monitored person during movement of the monitored person. The companion device may be either a fixed position type or, more preferred, a transportable type which may be moved about by the monitored person. These components of the companion device include those required to receive a signal, or signals, sufficient to allow for a determining of a locational reference of the companion device and those required to transmit a signal for eventual transfer to a central location. The monitored person device must have components which provide for transmitting a signal to the companion device, if within a communication range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 1999
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2001
    Inventor: John E Taylor, Jr.
  • Patent number: 6160481
    Abstract: A monitoring system provides for monitoring of a person and taking an action to dissuade the person from a course of action. The system has a device attached to the person which includes mechanisms to provide for an intervention to dissuade the person from the course of action. The intervention may be in the form of delivery of either a medication or an electrical shock to the person. The system may further include monitoring of a bodily function of the person or positional tracking of the person. Various scenarios are described to provide for activation of the intervention. The system may include a second device in possession of a restrictor person with positional tracking of this person and comparison relative to the positional location of a restrictee person.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 1999
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2000
    Inventor: John E Taylor, Jr.
  • Patent number: 5867103
    Abstract: A portable monitoring device is provided for each monitored person which secures to a respective monitored person and which has tamper detection means contained therein. The portable monitoring device receives a signal from a detached sending unit and transmits a signal for transfer to a central location. A position reference is arrived at following a mathematical computation. Storage of the position reference may occur within a locational tracking database along with associated occurrence references which identify when the portable monitoring device was at a specific positional location. The locational tracking database will be used as a law enforcement tool. Excluded sites may be designated within the system, which the monitored person may not enter. A dual tracking monitoring enables a restrictor person to be protected from a restrictee person by determining when the restrictee person comes within a predetermined distance measurement from the restrictor person and generating a notification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 1997
    Date of Patent: February 2, 1999
    Inventor: John E. Taylor, Jr.
  • Patent number: RE38838
    Abstract: A monitoring system provides for monitoring of a person and taking an action to dissuade the person from a course of action. The system has a device attached to the person which includes mechanisms to provide for an intervention to dissuade the person from the course of action. The intervention may be in the form of delivery of either a medication or an electrical shock to the person. The system may further include monitoring of a bodily function of the person or positional tracking of the person. Various scenarios are described to provide for activation of the intervention. The system may include a second device in possession of a restrictor person with positional tracking of this person and comparison relative to the positional location of a restrictee person.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2002
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2005
    Inventor: John E. Taylor, Jr.
  • Patent number: RE39909
    Abstract: A monitoring system provides for monitoring of a person and taking an action to dissuade the person from a course of action. The system has a device attached to the person which includes mechanisms to provide for an intervention to dissuade the person from the course of action. The intervention may be in the form of delivery of either a medication or an electrical shock to the person. The system may further include monitoring of a bodily function of the person or positional tracking of the person. Various scenarios are described to provide for activation of the intervention. The system may include a second device in possession of a restrictor person with positional tracking of this person and comparison relative to the positional location of a restrictee person.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2004
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2007
    Assignee: Michelle Enterprises, LLC
    Inventor: John E. Taylor, Jr.
  • Patent number: D284411
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 1984
    Date of Patent: June 24, 1986
    Assignee: Eli Lilly and Company
    Inventor: John E. Taylor, Jr.