Patents by Inventor Mark Hanson

Mark Hanson 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: 20110214121
    Abstract: The present disclosure enables remote device management. A programmatic interface is associated with each application plug-in. A web server included with the on-device agent provides access to the programmatic interfaces according to open standards such as HTML or XML. The present disclosure enables access to remote devices through existing infrastructure without the need for proprietary systems. An IT administrator or other administrator may remotely access and update software and hardware, track device data plan usage statistics, provide live support, and track current and historical device locations. An IT administrator or other user may update device settings, detect corrupt software, provide unattended installation of software, update applications while in use, and update applications sharing common files. IT administrators may employ the teachings of the present disclosure to provide customizable solutions for their own organization with features disclosed herein.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 3, 2011
    Publication date: September 1, 2011
    Applicant: ODYSSEY SOFTWARE, INC.
    Inventors: Mark Gentile, Jim Sullivan, Mark Hanson, Mark Wade
  • Publication number: 20110208857
    Abstract: The present disclosure enables remote device management. A programmatic interface is associated with each application plug-in. A web server included with the on-device agent provides access to the programmatic interfaces according to open standards such as HTML or XML. The present disclosure enables access to remote devices through existing infrastructure without the need for proprietary systems. An IT administrator or other administrator may remotely access and update software and hardware, track device data plan usage statistics, provide live support, and track current and historical device locations. The phone and messaging feature enables an administrator to access information regarding data plan and usage statistics of devices. This allows organizations to optimize data plans based on messaging, e-mail, and other data plan statistics. Further, the present disclosure allows access to network connectivity details of devices and logs of emails, text messages, and the like.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 3, 2011
    Publication date: August 25, 2011
    Applicant: ODYSSEY SOFTWARE, INC.
    Inventors: Mark Gentile, Jim Sullivan, Mark Hanson, Mark Wade
  • Patent number: 7996869
    Abstract: A TV-set is equipped with HDMI and USB connections that allow it to display and run audio-video content from a variety of conventional consumer devices. The TV-set is further equipped to provide a secure HDMI-USB interface that will allow the transfer of licensed high definition content and Internet subscriber services. Such secure HDMI-USB interface also enables a selection of proprietary application modules to be attached. Downloadable user interface templates, much like XML style sheets, are rendered to a user interface displayed on the screen. These are associated with corresponding thumbnails and URI's that allow a user to surf through lists and catalogs of materials, and then to play them in the appropriate formats and provide the machine with a customized controller. A remote commander is simplified, yet expanded to control all the attached devices through interactions with the user interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2011
    Assignees: Sony Corporation, Sony Electronics, Inc.
    Inventors: Edgar Tu, David Boyden, Takashi Hironaka, Thomas Dawson, George Williams, Ludovic Douillet, Rajesh Rao, Peter Rae Shintani, Djung Nguyen, Milton Frazier, Ian Charles Matthews, Behram Mario Dacosta, Robert Hardacker, Nicholas James Colsey, Mark Hanson, Jason R. Meerbergen, Leo Mark Pedlow, Rolf Toft
  • Publication number: 20100324219
    Abstract: An arylalkenyl ether oligomer is produced by the reaction of a polyhaloalkene with a polyhydroxyaryl compound. Halogenation of the resultant oligomer produces a flame retardant having both aromatic and aliphatic bromine groups.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2010
    Publication date: December 23, 2010
    Applicant: CHEMTURA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Frank Liu, Kenneth Bol, Mark Hanson, Larry Timberlake
  • Publication number: 20100313683
    Abstract: A sample testing system includes a plurality of sample tubes, each sample tube coupled to a pumping chamber, a pressure control subsystem and a flow control subsystem. The pressure control system includes a first dynamic pump equipped to induce pulsatile pressure in a mass of pumping fluid coupled to the pumping chambers. The flow control subsystem includes a mean flow pump equipped to generate a flow of sample fluid in a plurality of flow loops. Each of the flow loops conducts the flow of sample fluid between the mean flow pump and one of the sample tubes. The pumping chamber couples pressure from the pumping fluid to the sample fluid.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2009
    Publication date: December 16, 2010
    Inventors: Troy D. Nickel, David Louis Dingmann, Mark Hanson
  • Patent number: 7824082
    Abstract: In one aspect, the invention features a flexible base receptacle configured to be coupled to a lighting unit. The base receptacle includes a lower portion, which has a lower portion perimeter. The base receptacle includes a neck portion, which is movable relative to the lower portion. The neck portion has a lower neck portion perimeter that is proximate the lower portion. The neck portion has an upper neck portion perimeter. The neck portion has an intermediate neck portion perimeter, which is smaller than the lower neck portion perimeter and the upper neck portion perimeter. Some embodiments enable outdoor lighting assemblies to absorb forces due to bumping, thereby making it more difficult to break the outdoor lighting assemblies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2010
    Assignee: Touchstone Accent Lighting, Inc.
    Inventor: Mark Hanson
  • Patent number: 7784314
    Abstract: The present invention generally relates to a device for securing a tire to a vehicle so as to reduce the accidental or unauthorized removal of the tire from the vehicle. The device is particularly suitable for preventing the theft of a spare tire from a vehicle. More specifically, the device prevents an unauthorized user from gaining access to an opening in the vehicle which is used to lower and remove the spare. As a result, the device may save an individual hundreds of dollars and the annoyance of not having a spare tire when needed. The device is easily installed in many vehicles in around one minute.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2010
    Inventor: Mark Hanson
  • Patent number: 7733591
    Abstract: The invention includes apparatus and methods that allow a data storage device perform an enhanced data recovery procedure (DRP) that includes obtaining a new digital sampling of the voltages for the failing unit of data by re-reading the analog signal and converting it to digital form using an analog-to-digital conversion (ADC) using a fixed phase clock signal. The data samples are re-interpolated using a programmable delay line. The digital values representing the voltages are stored a buffer so that the data can be processed repeatedly using varying parameters as part of the data recovery procedure. Optionally the samples stored in the buffer can be processed in the reverse direction (from end of sector to beginning of sector) without requiring modification of the standard Viterbi detector since it inherently works on data processed in either direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2010
    Assignee: Hitachi Global Storage Technologies Netherlands B.V.
    Inventors: Kraig Bottemiller, Richard Leo Galbraith, Weldon Mark Hanson, Travis Roger Oenning, Michael Joseph Ross, Fuminori Sai
  • Patent number: 7734155
    Abstract: A home entertainment network has a computer with a multi-DVD changer which holds plural DVDs onto which content from an hard disk drive (HDD) can be transferred for storage. Also, DVD content can be ripped to the HDD, and multiple copies of home videos and photographs on the HDD can be made onto several disks simultaneously.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2004
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2010
    Assignees: Sony Corporation, Sony Electronics
    Inventors: Mark Hanson, Isao Murase
  • Publication number: 20100080202
    Abstract: A system for providing a wireless device with access to a computer network includes an access point that sets up a radio link with the wireless device and couples the wireless device to the network. The system also includes a server that receives data packets from the access point through the computer network. The data packets include at least one data packet that has a first identifier that uniquely identifies the wireless device and a second identifier that corresponds to at least one of a manufacturer code or a vendor code of the wireless device. The system further includes a database that is coupled to the server and stores data for associating a service plan with the first and second identifiers and basing the service plan, at least in part, on the second identifier. Other features and systems are also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2007
    Publication date: April 1, 2010
    Inventor: Mark Hanson
  • Patent number: 7681125
    Abstract: A conditional text publication system and method. Conditional text publication allows for the publication of text that varies based on data values associated with the text. More specifically, allows for the inclusion and exclusion of text to or from a publication based on clauses such as conditional clause, functions such as database functions, and operators such as mathematical, logical and set operators that utilize selectors such as fields, attributes, validations, families and other entities associated with data in a database.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2010
    Assignee: SAP, AG
    Inventors: Paul Weinberg, David Brookler, Mark Hanson
  • Publication number: 20090274247
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention relate to the detection of synchronization marks in data storage and retrieval. According to one embodiment, synchronization marks are detected from the output of a matched filter, upstream of the Viterbi detector. This approach avoids the delay associated with the latency of the Viterbi output, thereby allowing time to align parity framing and to properly start the time-varying trellis. Certain embodiments disclose 34- and 20-bit primary synchronization marks located at the beginning of a data region. Other embodiments disclose 16-, 20-, and 24-bit embedded synchronization marks located within a data region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2008
    Publication date: November 5, 2009
    Inventors: Richard Leo Galbraith, Weldon Mark Hanson, Travis Roger Oenning, Todd Carter Truax
  • Publication number: 20090272158
    Abstract: The present invention generally relates to a device for securing a tire to a vehicle so as to reduce the accidental or unauthorized removal of the tire from the vehicle. The device is particularly suitable for preventing the theft of a spare tire from a vehicle. More specifically, the device prevents an unauthorized user from gaining access to an opening in the vehicle which is used to lower and remove the spare. As a result, the device may save an individual hundreds of dollars and the annoyance of not having a spare tire when needed. The device is easily installed in many vehicles in around one minute.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2008
    Publication date: November 5, 2009
    Inventor: Mark Hanson
  • Publication number: 20090274028
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention relate to the detection of synchronization marks in data storage and retrieval. To detect a synchronization mark, embodiments of the present invention require both pattern matching and proper phase alignment, following a repeating synchronization field. According to one particular embodiment, proper phase alignment following a repeated four bit synchronization field, is utilized in conjunction with pattern matching, to identify a synchronization mark. By allowing a synchronization mark to be identified only with proper phase alignment at the earliest possible occurrence of the synchronization mark, accuracy of synchronization mark detection may be improved.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2008
    Publication date: November 5, 2009
    Inventors: Richard Leo Galbraith, Weldon Mark Hanson, Travis Roger Oenning, Todd Carter Truax
  • Publication number: 20090265038
    Abstract: Certain exemplary embodiments can provide a machine comprising: a magnetic thrust bearing comprising: a rotor portion; a stator portion; and a housing substantially surrounding said stator portion and said rotor portion; said rotor portion comprising a thrust disk adapted to be circumferentially attached to a rotor and to rotate with the rotor, said thrust disk defining a thrust disk first side and a thrust disk second side, said first side opposing said second side.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 16, 2009
    Publication date: October 22, 2009
    Inventors: Gary Ramsey, Christopher Sortore, Robert Jett Field, Victor Iannello, Kirk Treubert, Mark Hanson
  • Publication number: 20090188575
    Abstract: An example coupling device includes a main body with a fluid passage therethrough, a first end with an opening. A receptacle member is positioned within the main body about the fluid passage, the receptacle member being sized to receive a portion of a mating coupling device that is inserted through the opening in the first end. A deformable seal member is positioned within the receptacle member, the seal member including a primary sealing surface and a secondary sealing surface to provide fluid tight seals with the mating coupling device, the primary sealing surface being positioned to engage an end of the mating coupling device, and the secondary sealing surface being positioned in a perpendicular orientation with respect to the primary sealing surface to engage a side surface of the mating coupling device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2009
    Publication date: July 30, 2009
    Applicant: COLDER PRODUCTS COMPANY
    Inventors: Randall Scott Williams, Patrick Thomas Gerst, Grant Armin Wilhelm, James Mark Hanson
  • Publication number: 20090041435
    Abstract: A home entertainment network has a computer with a multi-DVD changer which holds plural DVDs onto which content from an hard disk drive (HDD) can be transferred for storage. Also, DVD content can be ripped to the HDD, and multiple copies of home videos and photographs on the HDD can be made onto several disks simultaneously.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2008
    Publication date: February 12, 2009
    Inventors: Mark Hanson, Isao Murase
  • Patent number: D587835
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2009
    Assignee: Touchstone Accent Lighting, Inc.
    Inventor: Mark Hanson
  • Patent number: D602128
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2009
    Assignee: Colder Products Company
    Inventors: Randall Scott Williams, Patrick Thomas Gerst, Grant Armin Wilhelm, James Mark Hanson
  • Patent number: D612019
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2010
    Assignee: Colder Products Company
    Inventors: Randall Scott Williams, Patrick Thomas Gerst, Grant Armin Wilhelm, James Mark Hanson