Patents by Inventor Mark Shuttleworth

Mark Shuttleworth 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: 20140189523
    Abstract: There is disclosed a smartphone, tablet or other computing device comprising: (a) a touch sensitive display; (b) one or more processors; (c) computer memory; (d) one or more computer programs stored in the computer memory and configured to be executed by the one or more processors and including instructions for displaying a welcome screen with a pictorial infographic or a data visualization that graphically represents each of a number of variables relating to the device or one or more of its users.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2013
    Publication date: July 3, 2014
    Applicant: CANONICAL LIMITED
    Inventors: Mark SHUTTLEWORTH, Ivo WEEVERS, Mika MESKANEN, Oren HOREV, Calum PRINGLE, John LEA, Otto GREENSLADE, Marcus HASLAM, Ivanka MAJIC, Xi ZHU
  • Patent number: 5889676
    Abstract: This invention is related to a point of sales system that integrates a fuel dispensing controller with POS terminals. The primary purpose of this invention is to provide a POS system which can continue to operate despite a malfunction in the hardware or software associated with the in-store controller. The POS system of the present invention comprises an in-store controller, at least one POS terminal connected to said in-store controller, a fuel dispenser controller connected to at least one fuel dispenser, a switching device connecting said fuel dispenser controller to either said in-store controller or said POS terminal, and control programs for controlling said fuel dispenser controller, and the in-store controller and the POS terminal have the control program respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 1996
    Date of Patent: March 30, 1999
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jiro Kubo, Mark Shuttleworth, Naotugu Tokumura, Sang Lee