Patents by Inventor Joseph O'Ruanaidh

Joseph O'Ruanaidh 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).

  • Dispersible absorbent products having a multi-layered structure and methods of manufacture and use
    Patent number: 7838725
    Abstract: A dispersible absorbent product having a mechanically weakened multi-layered structure, which comprises at least two mechanically weakened layers joined by a water responsive binder. The mechanically weakened regions enhance the dispersibility of the product in a standard toilet. Additionally, the dispersible absorbent products may be pre-moistened with a composition. The pre-moistened products are stable in storage, easily dispersible down a toilet, and deliver cleaning, conditioning, and like benefits. Methods of making such dispersible absorbent products are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2002
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2010
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Isao Noda, Sarah Beth Gross, Hugh Joseph O'Donnell
  • PARASOL HEATER WITH TILTING PARASOL
    Publication number: 20100288268
    Abstract: A parasol heater comprising a moveable dish provided above a gas burner, wherein the dish is pivotably coupled to a first side of the burner, the heater comprising an actuator coupled to the dish and configured in use to effect movement of the dish relative to the gas burner, the actuator extending downwardly from the dish along a second side of the burner, the second side being opposite to the first side.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 12, 2009
    Publication date: November 18, 2010
    Inventors: Stewart O'Connell, Joseph O'Connell
  • Proxy apparatus and method for streaming media information and for increasing the quality of stored media information
    Patent number: 7831730
    Abstract: A proxy apparatus and method for streaming media information via at least one network and for building-up a good quality version of the media information. When a user device communicates with the proxy apparatus using a particular bandwidth and requests that media information be provided from a media server, the proxy apparatus first determines if a version of the media information encoded for the user device's connection bandwidth has been stored in the proxy apparatus. If a version of the media information encoded for the user device's bandwidth is not available from the proxy apparatus, the proxy apparatus sends a request to a media server for the media information. Once the media server receives the request, the media server begins to stream a copy of the media information encoded for the user device's bandwidth to the user device via the network and proxy device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2010
    Assignee: AT & T Intellectual Property II, L.P.
    Inventors: Robert Markowitz, Joseph O'Neil, Kenneth Rosen, Peter Stuntebeck
  • GIFT CREDIT MATCHING ENGINE
    Publication number: 20100280913
    Abstract: A system and method to facilitate exchange of unwanted gifts is disclosed herein. A user may submit an unwanted gift in exchange for another gift item or a gift credit. Potential exchange gifts from among other unwanted gifts matching certain criteria are identified and presented to the user for selection. If the user does not find the potential exchange gifts to his liking, a gift credit having a value comparable to his/her submitted unwanted gift is issued to his account. As other users submit their unwanted gifts and/or as the value of the user's gift credit changes over time, the user may receive notification of new potential exchange gifts to choose from.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 1, 2009
    Publication date: November 4, 2010
    Applicant: Yahoo! Inc.
    Inventors: Joseph O'SULLIVAN, Marc E. Davis, Christopher T. Paretti, Christopher W. Higgins
  • GIFT INCENTIVE ENGINE
    Publication number: 20100280879
    Abstract: A system and method to facilitate efficient gift giving is disclosed herein. Gift giver, gift recipient, advertisers/sponsors, and third party service providers participate in providing input at the gift evaluation, selection, purchase, delivery, and consumption stages to increase the likelihood of the gift recipient's satisfaction and consumption of the gift. The interactive environment facilitates opaque gathering of information from the relevant parties relative to each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 1, 2009
    Publication date: November 4, 2010
    Applicant: Yahoo! Inc.
    Inventors: Joseph O'Sullivan, Marc E. Davis, Christopher T. Paretti, Christopher W. Higgins
  • Method of delivery, targeting, and measuring advertising over networks
    Patent number: 7827062
    Abstract: Methods and apparatuses for targeting the delivery of advertisements over a network such as the Internet are disclosed. Statistics are compiled on individual users and networks and the use of the advertisements is tracked to permit targeting of the advertisements of individual users. In response to requests from affiliated sites, an advertising server transmits to people accessing the page of a site an appropriate one of the advertisement based upon profiling of users and networks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2004
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2010
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Dwight Allen Merriman, Kevin Joseph O'Connor
  • DEFINING ACCESS RIGHTS TO CONTENT
    Publication number: 20100275021
    Abstract: A portion of text associated with a message intended for a group of recipients is encrypted at a computing device. The portion of text may include less than an entirety of the message. Access to the portion of text may be restricted for a first subset of the group of recipients and allowed for a second subset of the group of recipients.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2009
    Publication date: October 28, 2010
    Inventors: Morten Kristiansen, Patrick Joseph O'Sullivan, Hema Srikanth
  • LOCATION-ORIENTED SERVICES
    Publication number: 20100273459
    Abstract: A location of a first mobile device associated with a first user is determined, and a location of a second mobile device associated with a second user is determined. A relationship between the first user and the second user is determined, and a proximity of the first mobile device relative to the second mobile device is determined. A location-oriented data service is provided to at least one of the first mobile device and the second mobile device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 23, 2009
    Publication date: October 28, 2010
    Inventors: Edith Helen Stern, Patrick Joseph O'Sullivan, Robert Cameron Weir, Barry E. Willner
  • Power management for proximity-based ad hoc networks
    Patent number: 7822564
    Abstract: A system and method is described herein for managing power consumption by a plurality of sensors in a proximity-based ad hoc network. The system and method receives sensor data that is provided from a plurality of sensors and constructs a proximity-based ad hoc network among the plurality of sensors based on the sensor data. The system and method also receives and analyzes power status information from each sensor in a group of spatially and temporally proximate sensors in the proximity-based ad hoc network. Based on the analysis, the system and method then modifies a manner in which at least one sensor in the group provides sensor data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2010
    Assignee: Yahoo! Inc.
    Inventors: Marc E. Davis, Joseph O'Sullivan, Christopher Paretti, Christopher W. Higgins, Ori Zaltzman
  • Methods and systems for attenuation correction in medical imaging
    Patent number: 7813783
    Abstract: Methods and systems for imaging a patient are provided. The method includes scanning a patient and acquiring a plurality of frames of cine computed tomography (CT) images during one complete respiratory cycle. In one embodiment, a method is provided that includes selecting an organ of interest in the cine CT data and selecting a value for each pixel in the organ of interest that represents the maximum density measurement. An attenuation corrected positron emission tomography (PET) image is constructed based on the maximization of the pixel intensity of the organ of interest in the CT attenuation correction map. Incorrect attenuation correction values for PET images can be avoided by utilizing the CT attenuation correction map.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2010
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Alicia Maria Thomas, Patrick Joseph O'Day
  • ENSURING TASK COMPLETION
    Publication number: 20100257526
    Abstract: A method, computer program product, and computing system for providing a graphical user interface including at least one selectable application in a scheduling entry in the multi-user scheduling system. An available application lockout may be activated on all available applications other than a selected application upon initialization of the scheduling entry.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2009
    Publication date: October 7, 2010
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Carol Sue Zimmet, Colm Farrell, Liam Harpur, Patrick Joseph O'Sullivan, Fred Raguillat
  • PROPAGATION CONTROL SYSTEM AND METHOD
    Publication number: 20100250686
    Abstract: An email message that is addressed to a plurality of recipients is defined on a first client electronic device. A first set of downstream response rights is assigned, on the first client electronic device, to a first recipient chosen from the plurality of recipients. A second set of downstream response rights is assigned, on the first client electronic device, to a second recipient chosen from the plurality of recipients. The second set of downstream response rights is different from the first set of downstream response rights.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2009
    Publication date: September 30, 2010
    Inventors: Patrick Joseph O'Sullivan, Kieran Anthony Deegan, Edith Helen Stern, Robert Cameron Weir, Barry E. Willner
  • Method and system for dynamically changing user session behavior based on user and/or group classification in response to application server demand
    Patent number: 7805529
    Abstract: A system for dynamically changing session behavior based on user and/or group classification in response to server demand. The system operates to dynamically alter current session behavior experienced by individual users and/or groups of users in response to monitored server demand. An intelligence server provides application servers with actions to be taken to dynamically change current user sessions, in response to current server demand, for example based on rules known by a rules engine within the intelligence server. A ranking system within the intelligence server takes its input from a monitoring system also in the intelligence server, and dynamically keeps track of individual user's relative ranks against other users that are actively being monitored.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2010
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Joseph D. Galluzzo, Al Chakra, Patrick Joseph O'Sullivan, Sean Callanan
  • SORTING CONTACTS
    Publication number: 20100241638
    Abstract: A method, computer program product, and computing system for sorting contacts is provided. The method may include sorting a group of contacts within an address field of a message based upon, at least in part, a selected hierarchy. The method may also include displaying said group of contacts at a computing device according to said selected hierarchy. Of course, numerous other operations may be included without departing from the scope of this disclosure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2009
    Publication date: September 23, 2010
    Inventors: PATRICK JOSEPH O'SULLIVAN, LIAM HARPUR, EDITH HELEN STERN, BARRY E. WILLNER
  • Adaptive searching
    Patent number: 7797314
    Abstract: A method and computer program product for receiving a search result set including one or more search results, and defining one or more ranking cues based upon, at least in part, ancillary user data. The one or more search results are ranked based upon, at least in part, the one or more ranking cues. The one or more ranked search results are provided to a search user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2010
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Edith Helen Stern, Patrick Joseph O'Sullivan, Robert Cameron Weir, Barry E. Willner
  • Tension locking tool
    Patent number: 7793570
    Abstract: A hand tool having first and second plier units attached to one another where a jaw region is operatively configured to have a work piece to be placed therein and a handle region is configured to be used by the user of the tool to grasp the work piece. A tension member is provided to be positioned past a dead point axis so as to apply a clamping force upon the jaw member and the hand tool maintains a grip upon the work piece without continuous interaction with the user of the tool.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2010
    Assignee: Brigham Young University
    Inventors: Christopher Andrew Mattson, Brian G. Winder, Allen Boyd Mackay, Joseph O. Jacobsen, Peter A. Halverson, Spencer Frazer
  • MAGNETORHEOLOGICAL LUBRICATION OF AN INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE
    Publication number: 20100224163
    Abstract: A system and method are disclosed for reducing the fuel consumption of an engine, particularly during a cold start or an engine warm-up period. A magnetorheological fluid having a low viscosity is used to lubricate the engine. When viscosity is to be increased, a magnetic field is applied to the magnetorheological fluid. The magnetic field can be selectively applied to electromagnets proximate engine bearings.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2010
    Publication date: September 9, 2010
    Applicant: FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventors: Jonathan Terence Joseph O'Neill, Ian Grahem Pegg
  • DYNAMIC BRIDGE FOR OBJECT TRANSFER
    Publication number: 20100215048
    Abstract: A request for a first dynamic bridge end is received at a first device. A capability for a second dynamic bridge end is transmitted to a second device. At least one of the first dynamic bridge end and the second dynamic bridge end have a movable end point location. The first dynamic bridge end and the second dynamic bridge end create a path for transmission of an object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2009
    Publication date: August 26, 2010
    Inventors: BARRY E. WILLNER, PATRICK JOSEPH O'SULLIVAN, EDITH HELEN STERN
  • Functionalized poly(arylene ether) composition and method
    Patent number: 7781537
    Abstract: A curable composition includes an olefinically unsaturated monomer and a poly(arylene ether) having two polymerizable groups and an intrinsic viscosity of about 0.05 to about 0.30 deciliters per gram. The composition exhibits an improved combination of high flow during molding and high post-cure stiffness and impact strength. The composition is particularly useful for fabricating plastic-packaged electronic devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2010
    Assignee: Sabic Innovative Plastics IP B.V.
    Inventors: Joop Birsak, Herbert Shin-I Chao, Bryan Duffey, Amy Rene Freshour, Hugo Gerard Edward Ingelbrecht, Qiwei Liu, Michael Joseph O'Brien, Prameela Susarla, Michael Vallance, Kenneth Paul Zarnoch
  • Polyorganosiloxane composition for use in unsaturated elastomer, article made therefrom, and associated method
    Patent number: 7776967
    Abstract: A tire composition is provided that may include a sulfur-functional linear polyorganosiloxane and an unsaturated elastomer. The sulfur-functional linear polyorganosiloxane may include a chemically protected sulfur group, which includes a thiocarbamate, a dithiocarbamate, or a derivative or analog of thiocarbamate or dithiocarbamate. Under certain conditions, the sulfur group may react with the unsaturated elastomer. The invention includes embodiments that may relate to methods of making and using the sulfur-functional linear polyorganosiloxane in tire compositions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2010
    Assignee: Continental AG
    Inventors: Robert James Perry, Michael Joseph O'Brien, Isabel Christin Albers, Carla Recker, William Michael York