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).
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Publication number: 20120109698Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: November 1, 2010Publication date: May 3, 2012Applicant: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Jeffrey Anderson, William Frandsen, John Healy, Steven Degele
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Publication number: 20120085002Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: October 7, 2011Publication date: April 12, 2012Applicant: TBL Licensing LLC, a Delaware limited liability companyInventors: John Healy, Peter Dillon, Christopher Adam
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Patent number: 8151208Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: February 7, 2008Date of Patent: April 3, 2012Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Shiela Sogge, John Healy, Ryan Munson, Jeff Anderson
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Patent number: 7774792Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: July 5, 2005Date of Patent: August 10, 2010Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Jeffrey R. Anderson, John Healy, Josh Honeyman, Ryan A. Munson
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Patent number: 7720904Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: May 27, 2005Date of Patent: May 18, 2010Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Ryan A. Munson, Jeffrey R. Anderson, John A. Healy, Josh W. Honeyman
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Patent number: 7705757Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: November 30, 2007Date of Patent: April 27, 2010Assignee: Analog Devices, Inc.Inventors: John Healy, Colin Lyden
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Patent number: 7681333Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: October 26, 2005Date of Patent: March 23, 2010Assignee: The Timberland CompanyInventors: Alexander Dardinski, John Healy, Peter Dillon, David E. Miller, Simon Luthi, Charles Kraeuter, Douglas E. Clark
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Publication number: 20100034444Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: August 7, 2008Publication date: February 11, 2010Applicant: Helicos Biosciences CorporationInventors: John Emhoff, John Healy, Keith Moulton
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Patent number: 7660789Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: July 1, 2005Date of Patent: February 9, 2010Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Jeffrey R. Anderson, John A. Healy, John W. Honeyman, Ryan A. Munson
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Patent number: 7578076Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: September 14, 2007Date of Patent: August 25, 2009Assignee: The Timberland CompanyInventors: Christopher J. Pawlus, Alex Dardinski, David L. Vattes, Douglas E. Clark, Lee Schuttee, John Healy
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Publication number: 20090204897Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: February 7, 2008Publication date: August 13, 2009Applicant: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Shiela Sogge, John Healy, Ryan Munson, Jeff Anderson
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Publication number: 20090140897Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: November 30, 2007Publication date: June 4, 2009Inventors: John Healy, Colin Lyden
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Patent number: 7540100Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: May 18, 2006Date of Patent: June 2, 2009Assignee: The Timberland CompanyInventors: Christopher J. Pawlus, Peter Dillon, David L. Vattes, John Healy, Christopher Adam, David E. Miller
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Patent number: 7461470Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: October 26, 2005Date of Patent: December 9, 2008Assignee: The Timberland CompanyInventors: Alexander Dardinski, John Healy, Peter Dillon, David E. Miller, Simon Luthi, Charles Kraeuter, Douglas E. Clark
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Publication number: 20080047167Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: September 14, 2007Publication date: February 28, 2008Applicant: The Timberland CompanyInventors: Christopher Pawlus, Alex Dardinski, David Vattes, Douglas Clark, Lee Schuttee, John Healy
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Publication number: 20070266598Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: May 18, 2006Publication date: November 22, 2007Inventors: Christopher J. Pawlus, Peter Dillon, David L. Vattes, John Healy, Christopher Adam, David E. Miller
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Patent number: 7287343Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: September 27, 2004Date of Patent: October 30, 2007Assignee: The Timberland CompanyInventor: John Healy
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Patent number: 7284344Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 6, 2006Date of Patent: October 23, 2007Assignee: The Timberland CompanyInventors: Christopher J. Pawlus, Alexander Dardinski, David L. Vattes, Douglas E. Clark, Lee Schuttee, John Healy
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Publication number: 20070011266Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: July 5, 2005Publication date: January 11, 2007Applicant: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Jeffrey Anderson, John Healy, Josh Honeyman, Ryan Munson
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Patent number: D666402Type: GrantFiled: October 11, 2010Date of Patent: September 4, 2012Assignee: The Timberland CompanyInventors: John Healy, Peter Dillon, Christopher Adam