Patents by Inventor Megan Grey Taylor

Megan Grey Taylor 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).

  • Service delivery systems and methods
    Patent number: 8386389
    Abstract: Service delivery systems and methods are described. In one aspect, a service delivery system includes a set of tokens, a database, multiple terminals, and a service manager. Each of the tokens includes a respective token identifier. The database stores personal user profiles each of which is associated with a respective token identifier. The terminals are distributed about a selected locale. Each terminal has a reader that is operable to read token identifiers from tokens and a controller that is operable to transmit read token identifiers and context data identifying one or more conditions under which a token identifier is read through a network connection each time a token identifier is read. The service manager is connected to each of the terminals through a respective network connection and to the database.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2002
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2013
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Wesley Chan, Ruth Rosenberg, Venkatesh Gururaja Rao, Glenn Clifford Steiner, James E. Patterson, Philippe Debaty, Shane Konsalla, Grady Gordon Cooper, Megan Grey Taylor, Staci Hartman
  • Service delivery systems and methods
    Publication number: 20040203638
    Abstract: Service delivery systems and methods are described. In one aspect, a service delivery system includes a set of tokens, a database, multiple terminals, and a service manager. Each of the tokens includes a respective token identifier. The database stores personal user profiles each of which is associated with a respective token identifier. The terminals are distributed about a selected locale. Each terminal has a reader that is operable to read token identifiers from tokens and a controller that is operable to transmit read token identifiers and context data identifying one or more conditions under which a token identifier is read through a network connection each time a token identifier is read. The service manager is connected to each of the terminals through a respective network connection and to the database.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2002
    Publication date: October 14, 2004
    Inventors: Wesley Chan, Ruth Rosenberg, Venkatesh Gururaja Rao, Glenn Clifford Steiner, James E. Patterson, Philippe Debaty, Shane Konsalla, Staci Hartman, Grady Gordon Cooper, Megan Grey Taylor, Staci Hartman