Patents by Inventor Michael Law

Michael Law 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: 20220398632
    Abstract: An apparatus for identifying a gift based on personality traits includes a user profile database with a plurality of user profiles. Each user profile includes user data correlated with personality trait information. The apparatus includes a product database with product entries of products. Each product entry includes personality trait information correlated to the product. The apparatus includes a gift request interface configured to receive from a first user a request to recommend a gift to a second user. The second user has a user profile in the user profile database. The apparatus includes a product correlation engine configured to correlate products from the product database with the second user based on the personality trait information of the user profile of the second user, and a gift presentation interface configured to display to the first user the one or more products from the product database correlated to the second user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 9, 2022
    Publication date: December 15, 2022
    Inventors: Richard Mahonri White, Michael Law, Christian Tooley, Jonathan Law, Jon Dalton, Dylan Reed Ferguson, Burke Clark Powers
  • Publication number: 20220077337
    Abstract: A cover sheet (7) for a photovoltaic panel (4), the cover sheet (7) comprising a transparent substrate (8) and a coating (9) on the substrate (8), the coating (9) being such that the cover sheet (8) is more reflective to light of a first range of wavelengths in the infrared spectrum than to a second range of wavelengths in the visible spectrum; in which the coating (9) comprises alternating layers of first (11, 13) and second (12, 14) materials, with the first material (11, 13) having a higher refractive index than the second material (12, 14) and being a transparent conducting oxide such as indium tin oxide (ITO). Methods of manufacture including annealing the first material and/or depositing it at elevated temperatures are also discussed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2019
    Publication date: March 10, 2022
    Inventors: Piotr Michal Kaminski, Adam Michael Law, Lewis David Wright, John Michael Walls
  • Patent number: 8458763
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method of enabling security in network resources provisioned as part of a service landscape instance is provided. The method includes initiating an orchestration process for creating a landscape service instance to provide services to a service subscriber over a data communications network. The method further includes deriving from the orchestration process at least one parameter, and generating at least one security configuration profile based upon the at least one parameter for at least one system of the landscape service instance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2013
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Sivaram Gottimukkala, Lap Huynh, Dinakaran Joseph, Michael Law, Linwood Overby, Jr., Wesley Devine, Michael Behrendt, Gerd Breiter
  • Publication number: 20100005504
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method of enabling security in network resources provisioned as part of a service landscape instance is provided. The method includes initiating an orchestration process for creating a landscape service instance to provide services to a service subscriber over a data communications network. The method further includes deriving from the orchestration process at least one parameter, and generating at least one security configuration profile based upon the at least one parameter for at least one system of the landscape service instance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 1, 2008
    Publication date: January 7, 2010
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Sivaram Gottimukkala, Lap Huynh, Dinakaran Joseph, Michael Law, Linwood Overby, JR., Wesley Devine, Michael Behrendt, Gerd Breiter
  • Publication number: 20070235146
    Abstract: A self-contained evaporation system for use in disposing of excess water from oil and gas drilling operations is provided. The system includes a water holding tank in which the wastewater is preheated, an evaporation chamber mounted over the holding tank and having an open top, a nozzle system located within the chamber for producing a fine liquid mist, and fans disposed within the chamber for producing an air flow that carries the mist out the open top of the chamber. The system can be set up and taken down by one person in an hour or less, can be used with pond or tank operations, and is capable of operating in high winds and sub-zero temperatures. The system can be carried and mounted on a trailer for easy transport to and from various drilling sites.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2006
    Publication date: October 11, 2007
    Inventors: Darrin Haslem, Michael Lawing
  • Publication number: 20070227674
    Abstract: A floating water evaporation system for use in disposing of excess water from oil and gas drilling operations is provided. One or more nozzle arrays float on the surface of a wastewater pond a distance away from the pond shoreline. Each nozzle array includes a series of upright risers that extend above a water reservoir tank. Spray nozzles are mounted on each riser. The water reservoir tank is mounted between floating pontoons that elevate the nozzles a distance above the surface of the pond. Water from the pond is pumped through the nozzles to create a patterned spray of small evaporable droplets.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2006
    Publication date: October 4, 2007
    Inventors: David Haslem, Michael Dofelmire, Darrin Haslem, Michael Lawing
  • Publication number: 20050043977
    Abstract: A method and system is provided to manage and track changes in enterprise architectures. The invention provides a hierarchical visual management tool to manage and update relational information within an enterprise in a controlled fashion. The relationship may be maintained in a database and displayed via graphical user interface. Enterprise assets are categorized into such categories as goals, customer values or requirements, capabilities, resources, and the like. A hierarchy is constructed so that relationships between these various categories are identified and captured using the invention. Weights may be assigned to each element of the categories so that any proposed change to an enterprise architecture may be viewed so that a value can be ascertained and compared between other values of other proposed changes. In this manner, tracking and management of evolutionary changes to an architecture may be accomplished using relational information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 20, 2003
    Publication date: February 24, 2005
    Inventors: Marybeth Ahern, Michael Law
  • Patent number: 6711904
    Abstract: The present invention facilitates semiconductor cooling by combining a semiconductor die and a thermoelectric cooler into a single, integrated package or system. The thermoelectric cooler is controllably operated so as to dissipate thermal energy generated by the semiconductor die. Active thermal management of the package is performed by a controller, which monitors temperature(s) of the semiconductor die and increases or adjusts cooling such that desired performance levels can be obtained. The invention can also thermally manage one or more regions of a semiconductor die and can thermally manage a plurality of semiconductor dies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2003
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2004
    Assignee: Texas Instruments Incorporated
    Inventors: Jonathan Michael Law, Nigel Henry Harley