Patents by Inventor Julian Bourne

Julian Bourne 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: 20070168374
    Abstract: The present invention relates to systems and methods for facilitating the movement of content using a portable knowledge format data structure. The portable knowledge format data structure of the present invention comprises one or more items of content. The portable knowledge format data structure further comprises metadata corresponding to the one or more items of content. The data structure maintains an index corresponding to the one or more items of content, as well as an indication of a hierarchy among the one or more items of content.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2006
    Publication date: July 19, 2007
    Inventors: Julian Bourne, Dennis Wu, Jeff Bonnell, Eric Kar, David Gray, Kevin Moon
  • Publication number: 20070168325
    Abstract: The present invention relates to systems and methods for performing one or more steps of a work process using a work process data structure and a portable knowledge format. The method of the present invention comprises constructing a work process data structure that identifies one or more steps of a work process. The work process data structure is distributed. Content is retrieved from an accessible data structure that includes the content, metadata and an index as indicated by the one or more steps. The content is delivered to the one or more locations identified in the work process data structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2006
    Publication date: July 19, 2007
    Inventors: Julian Bourne, Dennis Wu, Jeff Bonnell, Eric Kar, David Gray, Kevin Moon
  • Publication number: 20070088704
    Abstract: The present invention relates to systems and methods for facilitating the distribution of content in an accessible data structure. The method of the present invention comprises selecting one or more items of content from one or more content sources. Metadata associated with the one or more items of content is retrieved. Additionally, an index is constructed corresponding to the one or more items of content. The one or more items of content, associated metadata and index are stored in an accessible data structure according to a hierarchy. The accessible data structure is distributed and the contents of the accessible data structure are displayed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2006
    Publication date: April 19, 2007
    Inventors: Julian Bourne, Dennis Wu, Jeff Bonnell, Eric Kar, David Gray, Kevin Moon
  • Publication number: 20050272413
    Abstract: A business or social networking method is operative in a server. The method enables mobile device users to meet one another, on a permission basis. The determination of whether a given pair of mobile device users are introduced depends on whether the server determines they are in intellectual or “cognitive” proximity, which is typically a function of one or more factors, such as: each user's reciprocal networking objective, the nature of the industry in which the user works, the user's level within the management hierarchy of his or her company, any specialty function the individual may possess, and so on. Individuals who are matched in one or more of such attributes to a given degree or threshold are said to be in intellectual proximity. According to the invention, when given mobile devices users are within physical proximity of one another during an overlapping time window, the server determines whether the users are also within a given intellectual proximity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 6, 2005
    Publication date: December 8, 2005
    Inventor: Julian Bourne
  • Publication number: 20050177614
    Abstract: A business or social networking method is operative in a server. The method enables mobile device users to meet one another, on a permission basis. The determination of whether a given pair of mobile device users are introduced depends on whether the server determines they are in intellectual or “cognitive” proximity, which is typically a function of one or more factors, such as: each user's reciprocal networking objective, the nature of the industry in which the user works, the user's level within the management hierarchy of his or her company, any specialty function the individual may possess, and so on. Individuals who are matched in one or more of such attributes to a given degree or threshold are said to be in intellectual proximity. According to the invention, when given mobile devices users are within physical proximity of one another during an overlapping time window, the server determines whether the users are also within a given intellectual proximity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2005
    Publication date: August 11, 2005
    Applicant: PARALLEL-PRO, LLC
    Inventor: Julian Bourne