Patents by Inventor Kenneth David

Kenneth David 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: 20100069653
    Abstract: A method for preparing an enantiomeric chromane, by asymmetrically hydrogenating a chromene compound in the presence of an Ir catalyst having a chiral ligand. The method includes the enantioselective preparation of enantiomeric equol. A preferred Ir catalyst has a chiral phosphineoxazoline ligand. Enantiomeric chromanes of high stereoselective purity can be obtained.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 4, 2009
    Publication date: March 18, 2010
    Applicants: CHILDREN HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER, GIRINDUS AMERICA, INC.
    Inventors: Kenneth David Reginald Setchell, Victor Dmitrievich Sorokin
  • Publication number: 20100027893
    Abstract: A method which uses digital image comparison for imaging software development is described. The software under development is used to generate a set of test digital images from print data. The images are stored. The software of a reference system is used to generate a set of reference digital images based on the same print data. The test and reference images are tiled, and image comparison is carried out on a tile-by-tile basis. A difference tile is generated for each test image tile and corresponding reference image tile, and the tiles are stored together in an image file to be displayed to the human user. The test images and reference images are compared using an image comparison program. The result of the comparison is presented to the human software developer for further comparison and evaluation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2008
    Publication date: February 4, 2010
    Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA SYSTEMS LABORATORY, INC.
    Inventor: Kenneth David Hayber
  • Publication number: 20090313181
    Abstract: A system and associated method for gathering data necessary for exchanging a product between at least two partners. Each partner in said at least two partners resides in a different country. The method provides for gathering information regarding the product being exchanged and more specifically a delivery location, a returning date and returning location if the product is being returned to said sending partner, a single valuation for said product being exchanged, a lot number for said product, clean-room requirements for said receiving partners, a product history, and a genealogy of said product being exchanged. After collecting the information, the method formats said information according to the specific receiving partner's requirements. The method further determines the appropriate method of transmission according to each receiving partner's requirements. Finally, the method sends each receiving partner their specifically formatted version of the information regarding the product being exchanged.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 11, 2008
    Publication date: December 17, 2009
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Mark Louis Beechner, Kerry Enright, Frank Ting Liang, Barry C. McCormick, John Power, Kenneth David Rocheleau, Ruey-Ming Yang
  • Publication number: 20090300652
    Abstract: Dispatching an incoming message from a queue into message transfer session(s) from which message consumers may draw messages. The message is reversibly received from the queue, whereupon a context of a message is identified. If the context correlates to an existing message transfer session, the message is ultimately assigned to a message transfer session. If the context does not correlate to an existing message transfer session, a new message transfer session is created, and the message is assigned to that new message transfer session. Upon receiving an acknowledgement of successful processing of the message, the removal of the message from the queue-like communication medium is assured. Upon receiving an acknowledgement of unsuccessful processing of the message, the message is restored to the queue-like communication medium.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 29, 2008
    Publication date: December 3, 2009
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: NICHOLAS ALEXANDER ALLEN, Edmund Samuel Pinto, Karthik Raman, David Leon Stucki, John Anthony Taylor, Kenneth David Wolf
  • Publication number: 20090300648
    Abstract: Activity callbacks in a continuation-based runtime. At framework-definition time, a framework activity is authored. The framework activity may have an environmental logic portion the processes input or output parameters whose values will be supplied to and/or received from an activity callback. The framework activity also includes a callback invocation portion that, during execution time, will actually provide parameter value(s) to and/or receive parameter value(s) from the activity callback. The framework activity serves as a framework that operates with any activity callback that has one or more characteristics. Such activity callbacks may not even be defined at framework-definition time. Instead, the framework activity may be used multiple times in the same applications, or in different applications to thereby provide core framework functionality, while allowing application developers to plug in activity callbacks that meet the custom needs of the application.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 29, 2008
    Publication date: December 3, 2009
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Donald F. Box, Geoffrey M. Kizer, Kenneth David Wolf, Jeffrey C. Schlimmer, Edmund Samuel Victor Pinto
  • Patent number: 7617307
    Abstract: A mechanism is provided for integrating a user resource into a managed computing resource system. If a level of data privacy indicating a first level of dedicated computing resources, a user resource is integrated into a first logical design. Responsive to the level of data privacy indicating a second level of dedicated computing resources, the user resource is integrated into a second logical design. If there is no indication of the level of data privacy and the user resource has at least one associated unique IP address, a capacity of a point of deployment (POD) device is determined. If there is no indication of the level of data privacy and no unique IP address, the user resource is integrated into the first logical design. If the user resource utilizes a predefined percentage of the capacity, the user resource is integrated into a third logical design.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2009
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Rhonda L. Childress, Kenneth David Christiance, David Bruce Kumhyr, Michael Arthur Lamb, Gregg W. Machovec, Neil Raymond Pennell
  • Publication number: 20090271495
    Abstract: Transport independent redirection. If a client computing system were to request a service from a service computing system, the service may determine whether or not the client should request the service from yet another service. If the client should request the service from the other computing system, the original service (or its intermediary) generates and transmits a transport-independent redirect message to the client. The client may then issue the request to the new service specified in the redirect response. The redirect message is not limited to a particular type of transport protocol. In addition, the redirect may be made possible in any number of message exchange patterns, not just request-response.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 29, 2008
    Publication date: October 29, 2009
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Nicholas Alexander Allen, Jay C. Thaler, Kenneth David Wolf
  • Publication number: 20090260009
    Abstract: A continuation based runtime that participates in transactions that are not generated by the continuation based runtime, but rather are generated externally to the continuation based runtime. The continuation based runtime marshals in transaction data related to the pre-existing externally generated transaction. In one embodiment, the continuation based runtime itself may not do this, but perhaps may use a transaction enabled activity. Once the activity marshals in the data, the activity may request that the continuation based runtime enlist in the transaction, whereupon the continuation based runtime may then register and the transaction may be performed in the context of the continuation based runtime.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2008
    Publication date: October 15, 2009
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Edmund Samuel Victor Pinto, Kenneth David Wolf, Robert Brian Schmidt, Nathan C. Talbert
  • Publication number: 20090233043
    Abstract: This invention relates to flexible structures (401) that respond to the application of an agent. Upon application of the agent, the flexible structure bends (402) in a predetermined fashion. The flexible structure is formed from a polymer liquid crystal that is orientated to define an upper surface layer and a lower surface layer having an essentially different molecule orientation, and the polymer liquid crystal is such that a length/width ration is changed upon application of the agent. Thereby, the upper and lower surface layers respond differently to the application of the agent, resulting in bending or un-bending of the flexible structure (401).
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2005
    Publication date: September 17, 2009
    Applicant: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS ELECTRONICS, N.V.
    Inventors: Kenneth David Harris, Cornelis Wilhelmus Maria Bastiaansen, Dirk Jan Broer
  • Publication number: 20090222827
    Abstract: Declarative definition and composition of activities of a continuation based runtime. When formulating such a declarative activity of a continuation-based runtime, the activity may be formulated in accordance with a declarative activity schema and include a properties portion that declaratively defines one or more interface parameters of the declarative activity, and a body portion that declaratively defines an execution behavior of the declarative activity. The declarative activities may be hierarchically structured such that a parent declarative activity may use one or more child activities to define its behavior, where one or more of the child activities may also be defined declaratively.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2008
    Publication date: September 3, 2009
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Edmund Samuel Victor Pinto, Kenneth David Wolf, Geoffrey M. Kizer, Donald F. Box
  • Publication number: 20090222794
    Abstract: Allowing a continuation based runtime to resolve different types of location expressions, value expressions, and/or locations. This may be accomplished using a different class for each particular type. The location expression classes may each have a common method used for all of the location expression classes. The value expression classes may each have a common method, and the locations may also each have a common method. This allows the resolution of such location and value expressions to be treated in a unified fashion regardless of the type of location expression, or the type of value expression. Also, the location may be treated in a unified manner regardless of the type of location.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 29, 2008
    Publication date: September 3, 2009
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Edmund Samuel Victor Pinto, Kenneth David Wolf, Robert Brian Schmidt, Nathan C. Talbert, Geoffrey M. Kizer
  • Publication number: 20090205292
    Abstract: Apparatus for delivering a plurality of containers to a plurality of filling machines for filling of the containers with a substance. The apparatus includes a feeding assembly including a first staging area aligned with a first filling machine of the plurality of filling machines for facilitating delivery of containers of the plurality of containers from the first staging area to the first filling machine, a second staging area aligned with a second filling machine of the plurality of filling machines for facilitating delivery of containers of the plurality of containers from the second staging area to the second filling machine, and a receiving area adjacent a supply of the plurality of containers. The feeding assembly is configured to move containers of the plurality of containers from the receiving area to the first staging area and to move containers of the plurality of containers from the receiving area to the second staging area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 29, 2009
    Publication date: August 20, 2009
    Inventors: Christopher Stephan Wadium, David Loyd Sorensen, Jeffrey Edward Kopish, Benjamin Bradly Petersen, R. Phillip Vanausdal, Kenneth David Goodworth
  • Publication number: 20090199208
    Abstract: Embodiments described herein allow a service component author to write service components without having to handle incoming messages being received at any time. This may be facilitated by a message dispatch engine that dispatches messages from the incoming message queue only when the destination service component has indicated that it is ready to receive the message having that context. If the service component is not yet ready for the message, the message dispatch component may lock the message at least until the destination service component indicates that it is now ready to receive the message. Until that time, the message dispatch engine may ignore the locked message when finding messages to dispatch.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2008
    Publication date: August 6, 2009
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Edmund Samuel Victor Pinto, Kenneth David Wolf, Stephen J. Millet, Richard D. Hill, Nicholas Alexander Allen, John Anthony Taylor
  • Publication number: 20090177286
    Abstract: A radiation and radiochemically sterilized, multi-component, fiber-reinforced composite, absorbable/disintegratable urinogenital stent, such as an endoureteral stent, with radiomodulated residence time in the biological site of 1 to 10 weeks depending on the high energy radiation dose used for sterilization.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 12, 2009
    Publication date: July 9, 2009
    Inventors: Shalaby W. Shalaby, Kenneth W. Clinkscales, Kenneth David Gray
  • Patent number: 7528267
    Abstract: A method for preparing an enantiomeric chromane, by asymmetrically hydrogenating a chromene compound in the presence of an Ir catalyst having a chiral ligand. The method includes the enantioselective preparation of enantiomeric equol. A preferred Ir catalyst has a chiral phosphineoxazoline ligand. Enantiomeric chromanes of high stereoselective purity can be obtained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2009
    Assignees: Girindus America, Inc., Children's Hospital Medical Center
    Inventors: Kenneth David Reginald Setchell, Victor Dmitrievich Sorokin
  • Patent number: 7527079
    Abstract: Apparatus for delivering a plurality of containers to a plurality of filling machines for filling of the containers with a substance. The apparatus includes a feeding assembly including a first staging area aligned with a first filling machine of the plurality of filling machines for facilitating delivery of containers of the plurality of containers from the first staging area to the first filling machine, a second staging area aligned with a second filling machine of the plurality of filling machines for facilitating delivery of containers of the plurality of containers from the second staging area to the second filling machine, and a receiving area adjacent a supply of the plurality of containers. The feeding assembly is configured to move containers of the plurality of containers from the receiving area to the first staging area and to move containers of the plurality of containers from the receiving area to the second staging area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2009
    Assignee: Graphic Packaging International, Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher Stephan Wadium, David Loyd Sorensen, Jeffrey Edward Kopish, Benjamin Bradly Petersen, R. Phillip Vanausdal, Kenneth David Goodworth
  • Publication number: 20090112779
    Abstract: Described is a data model used in a continuation based runtime that executes activities. The data model provides for declaring parameters to define data flow direction (in, out or both in and out) with respect to activities. The model further allows for the declaring of variables to provide for data storing and sharing between activities that are in scope, based on a tree relationship between activities. In one aspect, an activity tree includes a topmost parent composite activity and at least one child activity of that topmost parent composite activity. Variables are associated with one or more composite activities of the tree, and the ancestral relationships between composite activities and (non-composite) child activities determine the in-scope access to variables. Arguments such as binding expressions may bind variables to an activity's parameters.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2007
    Publication date: April 30, 2009
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Kenneth David Wolf, Edmund S.V. Pinto, Robert B. Schmidt, Nathan C. Talbert, Stephen J. Millet, Donald F. Box
  • Publication number: 20090100139
    Abstract: An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for generating contact plans and responding to web form inquires using the contact plans.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2007
    Publication date: April 16, 2009
    Inventors: Thomas Jeffrey Purdy, David Randal Elkington, Jeremiah Johnson, Kenneth David Krogue, James Oldroyd
  • Patent number: 7512957
    Abstract: A web services namespace pertains to an infrastructure for enabling creation of a wide variety of applications. The infrastructure provides a foundation for building message-based applications of various scale and complexity. The infrastructure or framework provides APIs for basic messaging, secure messaging, reliable messaging and transacted messaging. In some embodiments, the associated APIs are factored into a hierarchy of namespaces in a manner that balances utility, usability, extensibility and versionability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2004
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2009
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Shy Cohen, Geary L. Eppley, Douglas M. Purdy, James E. Johnson, Stephen J. Millet, Stephen T. Swartz, Vijay K. Gajjala, Aaron Abraham Stern, Alexander Martin DeJarnatt, Alfred M. Lee, IV, Anand Rjagopalan, Anastasios Kasiolas, Chaitanya D. Upadhyay, Christopher G. Kaler, Craig Andrew Critchley, David Edwin Levin, David Owen Driver, David Wortendyke, Douglas A. Walter, Elliot Lee Waingold, Erik Bo Christensen, Erin P. Honeycutt, Eugene Shvets, Evgeny Osovetsky, Giovanni M. Della-Libera, Jesus Ruiz-Scougall, John David Doty, Jonathan T. Wheeler, Kapil Gupta, Kenneth David Wolf, Krishnan Srinivasan, Lance E. Olson, Matthew Thomas Tavis, Mauro Ottaviani, Max Attar Feingold, Michael James Coulson, Michael Jon Marucheck, Michael Steven Vernal, Michael Thomas Dice, Mohamed-Hany Essam Ramadan, Mohammad Makarechian, Natasha Harish Jethanandani, Richard Dievendorff, Richard Douglas Hill, Ryan Thomas Sturgell, Saurab Nog, Scott Christopher Seely, Serge Sverdlov, Siddhartha Puri, Sowmyanarayanan K. Srinivasan, Stefan Batres, Stefan Harrington Pharies, Tirunelveli Vishwanath, Tomasz Janczuk, Uday S. Hegde, Umesh Madan, Vaithialingam B. Balayogan, Vipul Arunkant Modi, Yaniv Pessach, Yasser Shohoud
  • Publication number: 20090018185
    Abstract: A composition for use in making commercial food and skin products comprising S-equol or mixtures, including both a non-racemic mixture and a racemic mixture, of S-equol and R-equol. The composition can be used to make articles of commerce such as food supplements, pharmaceuticals, and medicaments. The compositions are useful in a method of delivering S-equol to a mammal to prevent or treat a disease or associated condition, including hormone-dependent diseases or conditions such as cardiovascular disease, lipid disorder, osteopenia, osteoporosis, liver disease, and acute ovarian estrogen deficiency. The S-equol enantiomer can be produced in a biological synthesis from the metabolism of an isoflavone by an organism.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 3, 2008
    Publication date: January 15, 2009
    Applicants: AUSTRALIAN HEALTH & NUTRITION ASSOCIATION LIMITED, CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER
    Inventors: Kenneth David Reginald SETCHELL, Sidney John COLE