Patents by Inventor Mark Ryans

Mark Ryans 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).

  • POLYMERIC STRUCTURES COMPRISING A SILOXANE
    Publication number: 20130251994
    Abstract: Hydroxyl polymer-containing compositions, especially hydroxyl polymer-containing compositions that can be processed into polymeric structures, especially polymeric structures in the form of fibers are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 20, 2013
    Publication date: September 26, 2013
    Applicant: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Paul Arlen FORSHEY, Gregory Charles GORDON, Larry Neil MACKEY, Mark Ryan RICHARDS
  • PANCARPAL ARTHRODESIS BONE PLATE
    Publication number: 20130211459
    Abstract: A bone plate is configured for pancarpal arthrodesis. The bone plate can include a plurality of apertures that can be aligned with the metacarpal bones. The apertures can include a first portion and second portion that is longitudinally and laterally offset with respect to the first portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 14, 2012
    Publication date: August 15, 2013
    Inventors: Timothy J. Horan, Michael P. Kowaleski, Randy J. Boudrieau, Alessandro Piras, Brian Beale, Mark Ryan
  • System for detecting speech with background voice estimates and noise estimates
    Patent number: 8457961
    Abstract: A system detects a speech segment that may include unvoiced, fully voiced, or mixed voice content. The system includes a window function that passes signals within a programmed aural frequency range while substantially blocking signals above and below the programmed aural frequency range. A frequency converter converts the signals passing within the programmed aural frequency range into a plurality of frequency bins. A background voice detector estimates the strength of a background speech segment relative to the noise of selected portions of the aural spectrum. A noise estimator estimates a maximum distribution of noise to an average of an acoustic noise power of some of the plurality of frequency bins. A voice detector compares the strength of a desired speech segment to a maximum of an output of the background voice detector and an output of the noise estimator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2013
    Assignee: QNX Software Systems Limited
    Inventors: Phillip Alan Hetherington, Mark Ryan Fallat
  • Vacuum assisted ground source heat pump device and system
    Publication number: 20130133349
    Abstract: A ground source heat pump device and system includes a supply line for removing groundwater from an underground water source, a return line for returning the groundwater to the underground water source, and a heat pump that is able to utilize the supplied groundwater as a medium for transferring thermal energy between the groundwater and a refrigerant. In one embodiment, the heat pump can further include a circulation pump for circulating the groundwater through the system, and a vacuum unit for removing air from the system and filling the supply line, return line, heat exchanger and circulation pump with the groundwater.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2011
    Publication date: May 30, 2013
    Inventor: MARK RYAN
  • Polymeric structures comprising a sulfosuccinate
    Patent number: 8445100
    Abstract: Hydroxyl polymer-containing compositions, especially hydroxyl polymer-containing compositions that can be processed into polymeric structures, especially polymeric structures in the form of fibers are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2013
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Paul Arlen Forshey, Gregory Charles Gordon, Larry Neil Mackey, Mark Ryan Richards
  • DATA COLLECTION FOR USAGE BASED INSURANCE
    Publication number: 20130110867
    Abstract: Large amounts of data resulting from periodic sampling and capture of data corresponding to variable operational parameters of one or more systems, such as a plurality of vehicles, and stored in a large number of rows of data corresponding to the number of captured samples are summarized in an analytically meaningful way by simply counting the instances of particular values of the operational parameters of interest in the form of a histogram and stored as a single row of data. The reduction in number of rows of data allows acceleration of processing of later queries by a factor of one thousand (assuming an average trip length of ten minutes) or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2011
    Publication date: May 2, 2013
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Mark Ryan Grabau, Sayed Yousef Hashimi, Zakeer Rahman Shaik
  • System and apparatus for adapting operations of a communication device
    Patent number: 8427985
    Abstract: A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, at a base station, communicating with a mobile phone where the base station comprises a premises wireless access point, at the base station, communicating with a mobile communication system by way of a broadband connection, and instructing a landline phone communicatively coupled to the base station to communicate with a remote end user device via the mobile communication system utilizing identification information of the mobile phone and responsive to communications between the base station and the mobile phone. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2013
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, LP
    Inventors: William Stanley Robbins, Larry B. Pearson, R. Tyler Wallis, Mark Ryan
  • Off-Axis Audio Suppressions in An Automobile Cabin
    Publication number: 20130030801
    Abstract: The suppression of off-axis audio in an audio environment is provided. Off-axis audio may be considered audio that does not originate from a region of interest. The off-axis audio is suppressed by comparing a phase difference between signals from two microphones to a target slope of the phase difference between signals originating from the region of interest. The target slope can be adapted to allow the region of interest to move with the location of a human speaker such as a driver.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2011
    Publication date: January 31, 2013
    Applicant: QNX SOFTWARE SYSTEMS LIMITED
    Inventors: Mark Ryan Fallat, Phillip Allan Hetherington, Michael Andrew Percy
  • Crosslinking systems for hydroxyl polymers
    Patent number: 8357237
    Abstract: Crosslinking systems suitable for use in a polymer melt composition wherein the polymer melt composition comprises a hydroxyl polymer; polymeric structures made from such polymer melt compositions; and processes/methods related thereto are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2013
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Stephen Wayne Heinzman, Linda Evers Smith, Gregory Charles Gordon, Larry Neil Mackey, John Gerhard Michael, Mark Ryan Richards
  • System and method for electronic messaging with group sending, receiving, and replying capabilites
    Patent number: 8335528
    Abstract: A system for electronic messaging, comprising a first device adapted to send and receive electronic messages using a short message service protocol of a wireless communications network and a plurality of second devices adapted to send and receive electronic messages using a short message service protocol of a wireless communications network, wherein the first device assembles an electronic message to send to a plurality of second devices at least in part by inserting a destination address into a user data header information element of the electronic message for each of said plurality of said second devices to which the electronic message is to be sent, is disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2012
    Assignee: Communication Enhancement Products, Inc.
    Inventor: Mark Ryan
  • SYSTEM FOR DETECTING SPEECH WITH BACKGROUND VOICE ESTIMATES AND NOISE ESTIMATES
    Publication number: 20120303366
    Abstract: A system detects a speech segment that may include unvoiced, fully voiced, or mixed voice content. The system includes a window function that passes signals within a programmed aural frequency range while substantially blocking signals above and below the programmed aural frequency range. A frequency converter converts the signals passing within the programmed aural frequency range into a plurality of frequency bins. A background voice detector estimates the strength of a background speech segment relative to the noise of selected portions of the aural spectrum. A noise estimator estimates a maximum distribution of noise to an average of an acoustic noise power of some of the plurality of frequency bins. A voice detector compares the strength of a desired speech segment to a maximum of an output of the background voice detector and an output of the noise estimator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 3, 2012
    Publication date: November 29, 2012
    Inventors: Phillip Alan Hetherington, Mark Ryan Fallat
  • POLYMERIC STRUCTURES COMPRISING A SULFOSUCCINATE
    Publication number: 20120270046
    Abstract: Hydroxyl polymer-containing compositions, especially hydroxyl polymer-containing compositions that can be processed into polymeric structures, especially polymeric structures in the form of fibers are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 3, 2012
    Publication date: October 25, 2012
    Inventors: Paul Arlen Forshey, Gregory Charles Gordon, Larry Neil Mackey, Mark Ryan Richards
  • FILAMENTS COMPRISING AN ACTIVE AGENT NONWOVEN WEBS AND METHODS FOR MAKING SAME
    Publication number: 20120237576
    Abstract: Filaments that contain a filament-forming material and an additive, nonwoven webs, and methods for making such filaments are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2011
    Publication date: September 20, 2012
    Inventors: Gregory Charles Gordon, Robert Wayne Glenn, JR., Mark Robert Sivk, Mark Ryan Richards, Stephen Wayne Heinzman, Michael David James, Geoffrey William Reynolds, Paul Dennis Trokhan, Paul Thomas Weisman, Alyssandrea Hope Hamad-Ebrahimpour, Frank William Denome, Stephen Joseph Hodson
  • SYSTEM AND APPARATUS FOR ADAPTING OPERATIONS OF A COMMUNICATION DEVICE
    Publication number: 20120220273
    Abstract: A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, at a base station, communicating with a mobile phone where the base station comprises a premises wireless access point, at the base station, communicating with a mobile communication system by way of a broadband connection, and instructing a landline phone communicatively coupled to the base station to communicate with a remote end user device via the mobile communication system utilizing identification information of the mobile phone and responsive to communications between the base station and the mobile phone. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 2, 2012
    Publication date: August 30, 2012
    Applicant: AT&T Intellectual Property I, LP
    Inventors: William Stanley Robbins, Larry B. Pearson, R. Tyler Wallis, Mark Ryan
  • METHOD FOR IMPROVED POLYESTER RESIN BLENDS FOR OXYGEN SCAVENGING AND PRODUCTS THEREOF
    Publication number: 20120214935
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method for producing an oxygen scavenging resin comprising: a) reacting an aromatic diacid or its diester, and an ionic diacid or its diester, with a diol and a metal compound to produce an ionic copolyester, b) cooling, cutting and drying the ionic copolyester into solid pellets, and c) mixing the dried ionic copolyester with a dried oxidizable polymer, provided that the oxidizable polymer is not a partially aromatic polyamide. Also disclosed is i) a composition made by the above method wherein the composition comprises an ionic copolyester, containing a metal compound, and an oxidizable polymer, provided that the oxidizable polymer is not a partially aromatic polyamide; and ii) the method of making articles from this composition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2010
    Publication date: August 23, 2012
    Applicant: INVISTA NORTH AMERICA S.A.R.L.
    Inventors: Mark Ryan Roodvoets, Frank Wilhelm Embs
  • Polymeric structures comprising a sulfosuccinate
    Patent number: 8241738
    Abstract: Hydroxyl polymer-containing compositions, especially hydroxyl polymer-containing compositions that can be processed into polymeric structures, especially polymeric structures in the form of fibers are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2012
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Paul Arlan Forshey, Gregory Charles Gordon, Larry Neil Mackey, Mark Ryan Richards
  • POLYMERIC STRUCTURES COMPRISING A SULFOSUCCINATE
    Publication number: 20120138247
    Abstract: Hydroxyl polymer-containing compositions, especially hydroxyl polymer-containing compositions that can be processed into polymeric structures, especially polymeric structures in the form of fibers are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2012
    Publication date: June 7, 2012
    Inventors: Paul Arlen Forshey, Gregory Charles Gordon, Larry Neil Mackey, Mark Ryan Richards
  • System and apparatus for adapting operations of a communication device
    Patent number: 8179826
    Abstract: A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a base unit operable in part as a femtocell having a controller to detect a cellular phone, wirelessly establish communications with the cellular phone, establish communications with a cellular communication system by way of a broadband interface, and enable one or more landline phones communicatively couplable to the base unit to communicate with the cellular communication system responsive to establishing communications with the cellular phone. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2012
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: William S. Robbins, Larry B. Pearson, R. Tyler Wallis, Mark Ryan
  • CROSSLINKING SYSTEMS FOR HYDROXYL POLYMERS
    Publication number: 20120114943
    Abstract: Crosslinking systems suitable for use in a polymer melt composition wherein the polymer melt composition comprises a hydroxyl polymer; polymeric structures made from such polymer melt compositions; and processes/methods related thereto are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 10, 2012
    Publication date: May 10, 2012
    Inventors: Stephen Wayne Heinzman, Linda Evers Smith, Gregory Charles Gordon, Larry Neil Mackey, John Gerhard Michael, Mark Ryan Richards
  • FEMTOCELL APPROVED USER LIST MANAGEMENT VIA SHORT MESSAGE SERVICE (SMS)
    Publication number: 20120083270
    Abstract: A system and methodology that facilitates user friendly and/or dynamic femtocell access provisioning based on Short Message Service (SMS) communication is provided. In particular, the system can enable users to update and/or view a femto access control list associated with a femtocell by employing SMS messages. Moreover, the system can receive a SMS message from a user equipment (UE) requesting an action (e.g., add, remove, and/or view an entry within a femto access control list) associated with femtocell access and identify a femtocell associated with the UE. Further, the system can analyze the SMS, request confirmation to perform the action, and execute the action on receiving confirmation from the UE.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2010
    Publication date: April 5, 2012
    Applicant: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.
    Inventors: William Robbins, Judson Flynn, Mark Ryan