Patents by Inventor Lee Gray

Lee Gray 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).

  • Patent number: 7171679
    Abstract: A system, method and program of the invention provides an application program tool that generates a password for a user to access a resource. The tool receives as input from a user a global user password and at least one hash key. The tool applies a consistent algorithm to the name of the resource being accessed, such as a domain name for an Internet site, and the hash key, and the global user password to generate the password. The same password is regenerated the next time the user accesses the same resource. The tool automatically populates the resource with the password.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2002
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2007
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Steven Francis Best, Michael Richard Cooper, James Lee Gray
  • Patent number: 7092915
    Abstract: A mechanism is provided for storing user identifications and passwords in a mobile device, such as a personal digital assistant. A modified keyboard device driver may be installed on each platform the user accesses. When the user is prompted for a password from a functioning terminal, the user may select the appropriate account on the mobile device. The mobile device then may send the user identification and password for the account to the terminal. The modified keyboard device driver receives the user identification and password from the mobile device and converts it into keyed text. The accounts with user identifications and passwords may be protected by a password. Thus, the user must only remember the one mobile device password to access a plurality of resources and computer systems. Furthermore, the communications between the mobile device and terminal may be encrypted to prevent snooping.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2006
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Steven Francis Best, Michael Richard Cooper, James Lee Gray, Jonathan Mark Wagner
  • Publication number: 20040249820
    Abstract: A system, method, and program of the invention enables a software programming tool to automatically populate a specified directory, such as a working directory of a specified application, with files matching a certain file type, e.g., *.gif, *.jpeg, or matching a general file description, e.g., pictures, images, spreadsheets, text. The files may reside within any directory accessible to the computer system running the specified application. When running the specified application, a user has access to all of the files matching the specified type or description from the one directory. The functionality of the tool is invoked each time the application is launched, without further user interaction, so that any newly created files matching the file type or general description are automatically copied or moved to the specified one directory.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 8, 2002
    Publication date: December 9, 2004
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Michael Richard Cooper, James Lee Gray
  • Patent number: 6820880
    Abstract: The present invention provides a spring powered wheelbarrow with a manually powered drive assembly. A foot crank winds a spring through a system of shafts and sprockets in a first direction. By releasing a brake upon a front wheel of a wheelbarrow, the wound spring transfers a rotational movement from a spring shaft to a freewheel sprocket adjacent to the front wheel, the rotational movement upon the front wheel assisting a user in pushing the wheelbarrow.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2002
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2004
    Inventors: Nick Charles Benton, Michael Lee Gray
  • Publication number: 20040205511
    Abstract: A method, apparatus, and computer instructions for bookmarking a resource. In response to a request to bookmark a location in the resource, a universal resource locator and location information are identified by querying a plug-in for location information for the location in the resource. The universal resource locator and location information are stored as a bookmark in which the bookmark is used to return to the location in the resource.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 9, 2002
    Publication date: October 14, 2004
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Steven Francis Best, Michael Richard Cooper, James Lee Gray
  • Publication number: 20040081784
    Abstract: A thin ribbon spirally wound polymer conduit and method of forming, wherein a helical reinforcing bead is interposed adjacent overlapping layers of ribbon. Further, a method of continuously forming spirally wound conduit wherein a sacrificial layer, preferably having a different base polymer to that of the conduit, is first applied to the former before the conduit is formed overtop.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 5, 2003
    Publication date: April 29, 2004
    Inventors: Daniel John Smith, Nathan Lee Gray, Blair Victor Skelton
  • Publication number: 20040079371
    Abstract: A limb for a breathing circuit manufactured from very thin walled polymer materials has an elongate axial reinforcing spine lying freely inside the conduit and fixed to each end connector. The spine is laterally compliant but axially stiff. The spine provides resistance to tensile and compressive loads on the conduit, including that induced by prevailing internal pressures.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 3, 2003
    Publication date: April 29, 2004
    Inventor: Nathan Lee Gray
  • Publication number: 20030217875
    Abstract: The present invention provides a spring powered wheelbarrow with a manually powered drive assembly. A foot crank winds a spring through a system of shafts and sprockets in a first direction. By releasing a brake upon a front wheel of a wheelbarrow, the wound spring transfers a rotational movement from a spring shaft to a freewheel sprocket adjacent to the front wheel, the rotational movement upon the front wheel assisting a user in pushing the wheelbarrow.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2002
    Publication date: November 27, 2003
    Inventors: Nick Charles Benton, Michael Lee Gray
  • Publication number: 20030130957
    Abstract: A mechanism is provided for storing user identifications and passwords in a mobile device, such as a personal digital assistant. A modified keyboard device driver may be installed on each platform the user accesses. When the user is prompted for a password from a functioning terminal, the user may select the appropriate account on the mobile device. The mobile device then may send the user identification and password for the account to the terminal. The modified keyboard device driver receives the user identification and password from the mobile device and converts it into keyed text. The accounts with user identifications and passwords may be protected by a password. Thus, the user must only remember the one mobile device password to access a plurality of resources and computer systems. Furthermore, the communications between the mobile device and terminal may be encrypted to prevent snooping.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 7, 2002
    Publication date: July 10, 2003
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Steven Francis Best, Michael Richard Cooper, James Lee Gray, Jonathan Mark Wagner
  • Publication number: 20030131266
    Abstract: A system, method and program of the invention provides an application program tool that generates a password for a user to access a resource. The tool receives as input from a user a global user password and at least one hash key. The tool applies a consistent algorithm to the name of the resource being accessed, such as a domain name for an Internet site, and the hash key, and the global user password to generate the password. The same password is regenerated the next time the user accesses the same resource. The tool automatically populates the resource with the password.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 7, 2002
    Publication date: July 10, 2003
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Steven Francis Best, Michael Richard Cooper, James Lee Gray
  • Patent number: 6461167
    Abstract: The display device illustrates the ability to maintain a load without the support of compressed air. The display device comprises an expandable base (24) in contact with the floor, a support (32) connected to the expandable base wherein a distal end (30) of the support is substantially, vertically above the base, and a display (17) attached to the distal end of the support wherein the display comprises a plurality of tire sections (12, 14) and each tire section has compression means (16, 18) associated therewith for compressing the tire section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2000
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2002
    Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventor: Robert Lee Gray
  • Patent number: 6073824
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for cleanly breaking a continuously advancing cellulose web includes a transfer fabric which supports and advances the cellulose web to a wind up zone. The transfer fabric forms a closed loop and is driven at a desired speed by a drive roll. At least two spray nozzles are arranged transversely across the advancing cellulose web as it is carried on the transfer fabric. The spray nozzles are capable of emitting a liquid under high pressure against the advancing cellulose web to form perforations across the width thereof. A plurality of hollow cores are independently and sequentially moved into position at the wind up zone to receive the advancing cellulose web. The hollow cores are located downstream of the spray nozzles and each hollow core is capable of accumulating a predetermined amount of the cellulose web.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 1999
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2000
    Assignee: Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert Lee Gray, Richard Ames Horton
  • Patent number: 6031584
    Abstract: A method for reducing digital video frame frequency while maintaining temporal smoothness during processing of video frames for display is disclosed. The method predicts the number of video frames to be dropped prior to decoding of a video frame in response to a delay in the processing of video frames, adjusts the timestamp for each video frame surrounding the video frames to be dropped in response to the predicting and displays the video frames surrounding the video frames to be dropped according to the adjusted timestamp.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 1997
    Date of Patent: February 29, 2000
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventor: Patricia Lee Gray