Patents by Inventor John Healy

John Healy 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: 20120109698
    Abstract: A Chart of accounts (COA) is maintained as a logical set of constraints, criteria, and relationships and does not persist any of the valid combinations until a first time a particular combination is used. When any business logic or properties need to be set or referenced on an individual combination, that combination is physically persisted “just in time” and then becomes a physical combination that may be used going forward. A hash value is associated with each combination such that lookups are simplified.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2010
    Publication date: May 3, 2012
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Jeffrey Anderson, William Frandsen, John Healy, Steven Degele
  • Publication number: 20120085002
    Abstract: A suspension heel is provided for use with footwear, such as high heeled shoes, to provide cushioning to the wearer. The suspension heel includes a heel shaft connected to the shoe sole and a compliant heel plug attached to the heel shaft. The shaft includes a cavity or other receptacle for receiving the compliant heel plug. The suspension heel provides cushioning as well as stability for the wearer of the footwear, while maintaining aesthetic style. A relief detail formed by the compliant heel plug and the shaft provides compliance by compressing when a force is applied. For instance, as a person walks in the shoe, ground contact applies a force to the suspension heel. The relief detail deforms or compresses in response to the force, attenuating it and providing cushioning to the wearer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 7, 2011
    Publication date: April 12, 2012
    Applicant: TBL Licensing LLC, a Delaware limited liability company
    Inventors: John Healy, Peter Dillon, Christopher Adam
  • Patent number: 8151208
    Abstract: A method and system for presenting workflow tracking information for approval workflows assigned to business objects is provided. The approval system receives from a user a request to display the workflow for a business object and a workflow that has been assigned to that business object. The current state of a workflow is defined by tracking information that may include a workflow approval status, an originator name of the business object, and multiple steps of the assigned workflow. Each step of a workflow may include a step name, a step approval status, approver tracking information, and optionally next steps. Each next step of the step is itself a step that may include additional next steps. The approval system may generate and display a tree-like representation of the current state of a workflow for a business object based on the tracking information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2012
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Shiela Sogge, John Healy, Ryan Munson, Jeff Anderson
  • Patent number: 7774792
    Abstract: A system for providing automatic event publication relative to data owned by a service is disclosed. A service which owns data publishes internal events when data is created, updated, or deleted. These internal events are only visible by consumers on the same physical computer and running within the same process or executable. Consumers who are located remotely or in a separate process cannot subscribe to these events. Embodiments provide the ability to expose local entity create, update, and delete events as “public” events (or out-only messages) on a service contract. This allows external consumers who may be remote and even on a different platform, to subscribe and receive notifications of when data changes in the owning service.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2010
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Jeffrey R. Anderson, John Healy, Josh Honeyman, Ryan A. Munson
  • Patent number: 7720904
    Abstract: The present invention provides an entity projection in a client. The entity projection is an encapsulation of data, from an owning service, and residing on a consumer of that service. The entity projection provides an abstraction that conforms to an entity programming model on the consumer. The entity projection may illustratively include a subset of the properties of an entity in the owning service, the subset being only those properties required by the entity and those properties desired by the consumer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2010
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Ryan A. Munson, Jeffrey R. Anderson, John A. Healy, Josh W. Honeyman
  • Patent number: 7705757
    Abstract: A gain matching method for a single bit gain ranging analog to digital converter including selecting, in response to a gain setting, a number of gain elements to be enabled in a multi-element gain controlled array interconnected between an analog input and an analog to digital converter, and patterning the enablement of the selected number of gain elements among the gain elements for matching the gain of the analog to digital converter for a range of gain settings of the converter to reduce in-band gain error due to gain element mismatch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2010
    Assignee: Analog Devices, Inc.
    Inventors: John Healy, Colin Lyden
  • Patent number: 7681333
    Abstract: The present invention provides an interchangeable shoe footbed cartridge system. The system includes a footbed such as a midsole, insole or a sockliner. A cartridge is inserted into or otherwise attached to the forefoot section of the footbed. Multiple cartridges of varying depths, widths and/or lengths may be provided. The wearer can select a cartridge to achieve a desired fit. Because right and left feet may be of different sizes, different cartridges may be chosen for each foot. Furthermore, the user may swap cartridges depending upon different conditions, or to change the stiffness of the cartridge. Additionally, a slipcover having a stretchable portion may be placed over the cartridge system. The cartridges enable a footwear manufacturer to produce fewer shoe sizes while fitting more of the population. This reduces manufacturing, shipping, warehousing and accounting costs. All levels of the supply chain, as well as the end customers, will greatly benefit from the method of supplying footwear.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2010
    Assignee: The Timberland Company
    Inventors: Alexander Dardinski, John Healy, Peter Dillon, David E. Miller, Simon Luthi, Charles Kraeuter, Douglas E. Clark
  • Publication number: 20100034444
    Abstract: Image processing for certain sequencing technologies requires data processing algorithms that provide fast sequence detection with low error rates. Methods and apparatus for performing image analysis for identifying nucleotide incorporations includes performing an image segmentation procedure on a plurality of data sets to identify sample objects and to create segmented data sets for each of the data sets. Each data set represents a sample image that includes a plurality of pixel locations and intensity data associated with each of the pixel locations. The segmented data sets represent identified sample objects for each one of the sample image data sets. An image registration procedure is performed on the segmented data sets to align the identified sample objects and to create data representative of the aligned identified sample objects. A strand formation procedure is then performed on the data representative of the aligned identified sample objects to identify nucleotide incorporations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 7, 2008
    Publication date: February 11, 2010
    Applicant: Helicos Biosciences Corporation
    Inventors: John Emhoff, John Healy, Keith Moulton
  • Patent number: 7660789
    Abstract: An abstraction for rich data access for consumers of a service in a service oriented system. The abstraction is created by the author of a service which owns the data, and includes a number of service-public properties and associations. Further, the abstraction can contain metadata and logic that provides for a rich, interactive experience for the consumer interacting with the data encapsulated by the entity agent. These can include verifying that the data conforms to the contract published by the owning service, validating and defaulting properties, and validating associated data. Also the abstraction can contains metadata and logic for transmitting of the data back to the owning service and optionally saving to the local data store of the consumer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2005
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2010
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Jeffrey R. Anderson, John A. Healy, John W. Honeyman, Ryan A. Munson
  • Patent number: 7578076
    Abstract: A modular shoe separates into components. The components may be interchangeable to provide versatility without requiring a large number of single use shoes. Each shoe component may also be collapsible to provide for convenient packing in a travel bag or other location where space is limited.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2009
    Assignee: The Timberland Company
    Inventors: Christopher J. Pawlus, Alex Dardinski, David L. Vattes, Douglas E. Clark, Lee Schuttee, John Healy
  • Publication number: 20090204897
    Abstract: A method and system for presenting workflow tracking information for approval workflows assigned to business objects is provided. The approval system receives from a user a request to display the workflow for a business object and a workflow that has been assigned to that business object. The current state of a workflow is defined by tracking information that may include a workflow approval status, an originator name of the business object, and multiple steps of the assigned workflow. Each step of a workflow may include a step name, a step approval status, approver tracking information, and optionally next steps. Each next step of the step is itself a step that may include additional next steps. The approval system may generate and display a tree-like representation of the current state of a workflow for a business object based on the tracking information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 7, 2008
    Publication date: August 13, 2009
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Shiela Sogge, John Healy, Ryan Munson, Jeff Anderson
  • Publication number: 20090140897
    Abstract: A gain matching method for a single bit gain ranging analog to digital converter including selecting, in response to a gain setting, a number of gain elements to be enabled in a multi-element gain controlled array interconnected between an analog input and an analog to digital converter, and patterning the enablement of the selected number of gain elements among the gain elements for matching the gain of the analog to digital converter for a range of gain settings of the converter to reduce in-band gain error due to gain element mismatch.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2007
    Publication date: June 4, 2009
    Inventors: John Healy, Colin Lyden
  • Patent number: 7540100
    Abstract: An article of footwear or shoe assembly, which is designed to allow for adjustment of stiffness in its sole unit, is disclosed. The article of footwear is preferably constructed to enhance stability, support and comfort of a wearer on varied terrain. Among other elements, the shoe assembly preferably includes an adjustable shank disposed within the shoe to allow for adjustment in the stiffness of the sole unit. In certain embodiments, the adjustable shank further includes a plurality of segments adapted to be manipulated in order to vary the stiffness.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2009
    Assignee: The Timberland Company
    Inventors: Christopher J. Pawlus, Peter Dillon, David L. Vattes, John Healy, Christopher Adam, David E. Miller
  • Patent number: 7461470
    Abstract: The present invention provides an interchangeable shoe footbed cartridge system. The system includes a footbed such as a midsole, insole or a sockliner. A cartridge is inserted into or otherwise attached to the forefoot section of the footbed. Multiple cartridges of varying depths, widths and/or lengths may be provided. The wearer can select a cartridge to achieve a desired fit. Because right and left feet may be of different sizes, different cartridges may be chosen for each foot. Furthermore, the user may swap cartridges depending upon different conditions, or to change the stiffness of the cartridge. Additionally, a slipcover having a stretchable portion may be placed over the cartridge system. The cartridges enable a footwear manufacturer to produce fewer shoe sizes while fitting more of the population. This reduces manufacturing, shipping, warehousing and accounting costs. All levels of the supply chain, as well as the end customers, will greatly benefit from the method of supplying footwear.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 9, 2008
    Assignee: The Timberland Company
    Inventors: Alexander Dardinski, John Healy, Peter Dillon, David E. Miller, Simon Luthi, Charles Kraeuter, Douglas E. Clark
  • Publication number: 20080047167
    Abstract: A modular shoe separates into components. The components may be interchangeable to provide versatility without requiring a large number of single use shoes. Each shoe component may also be collapsible to provide for convenient packing in a travel bag or other location where space is limited.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2007
    Publication date: February 28, 2008
    Applicant: The Timberland Company
    Inventors: Christopher Pawlus, Alex Dardinski, David Vattes, Douglas Clark, Lee Schuttee, John Healy
  • Publication number: 20070266598
    Abstract: An article of footwear or shoe assembly, which is designed to allow for adjustment of stiffness in its sole unit, is disclosed. The article of footwear is preferably constructed to enhance stability, support and comfort of a wearer on varied terrain. Among other elements, the shoe assembly preferably includes an adjustable shank disposed within the shoe to allow for adjustment in the stiffness of the sole unit. In certain embodiments, the adjustable shank further includes a plurality of segments adapted to be manipulated in order to vary the stiffness.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2006
    Publication date: November 22, 2007
    Inventors: Christopher J. Pawlus, Peter Dillon, David L. Vattes, John Healy, Christopher Adam, David E. Miller
  • Patent number: 7287343
    Abstract: An improved shoe outsole, and a shoe incorporating the outsole, having improved traction are provided. The outsole contains articulated lugs of various shapes extending downward from the base of the outsole and adapted for contacting the ground and enhancing traction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2007
    Assignee: The Timberland Company
    Inventor: John Healy
  • Patent number: 7284344
    Abstract: A modular shoe separates into components. The components may be interchangeable to provide versatility without requiring a large number of single use shoes. Each shoe component may also be collapsible to provide for convenient packing in a travel bag or other location where space is limited.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2007
    Assignee: The Timberland Company
    Inventors: Christopher J. Pawlus, Alexander Dardinski, David L. Vattes, Douglas E. Clark, Lee Schuttee, John Healy
  • Publication number: 20070011266
    Abstract: A system for providing automatic event publication relative to data owned by a service is disclosed. A service which owns data publishes internal events when data is created, updated, or deleted. These internal events are only visible by consumers on the same physical computer and running within the same process or executable. Consumers who are located remotely or in a separate process cannot subscribe to these events. Embodiments provide the ability to expose local entity create, update, and delete events as “public” events (or out-only messages) on a service contract. This allows external consumers who may be remote and even on a different platform, to subscribe and receive notifications of when data changes in the owning service.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 5, 2005
    Publication date: January 11, 2007
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Jeffrey Anderson, John Healy, Josh Honeyman, Ryan Munson
  • Patent number: D666402
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2012
    Assignee: The Timberland Company
    Inventors: John Healy, Peter Dillon, Christopher Adam