Patents by Inventor Michael T. Payne

Michael T. Payne 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: 20160117286
    Abstract: Embodiments presented herein disclose techniques for transforming input documents having disparate formats into a normalized format (e.g., Atom, RSS, HTML, customized XML, etc.). According to one embodiment, a plurality of fields is identified in an input document that has a given format. Each field includes a descriptor and text content associated with the descriptor. For each field, semantic properties are evaluated for the descriptor and text content against a plurality of mapping rules to determine whether the field is consistent with one of a plurality of fields of a target format. Each mapping rule specifies characteristics associated with one of the fields in the target format. Once so determined, a mapping from the first field to the second field is defined.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2014
    Publication date: April 28, 2016
    Inventors: Elizabeth T. DETTMAN, Joel C. DUBBELS, Andrew R. FREED, Michael T. PAYNE, Michael W. SCHROEDER
  • Publication number: 20160110520
    Abstract: An approach is provided in which a knowledge manager selects patient data measurements corresponding to a patient that is on a current treatment plan. The patient data measurements correspond to different test results of the patient. The knowledge manager analyzes the patient data measurements against guideline threshold compilations that include multiple guideline thresholds. In turn, the knowledge manager determines a patient response of the patient and chronologically maps the patient response to the treatment plan.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2014
    Publication date: April 21, 2016
    Inventors: Elizabeth T. Dettman, Andrew R. Freed, Michael T. Payne, Michael W. Schroeder
  • Publication number: 20160110501
    Abstract: An approach is provided in which an information handling system extracts treatment segments from documents corresponding to a patient and uses cognitive analysis to identify common treatment properties of a subset of the treatment segments. The information handling system combines the subset of treatment segments into a treatment aggregation that corresponds to a treatment history of the patient. In turn, the information handling system ingests the treatment aggregation into a domain for subsequent processing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2014
    Publication date: April 21, 2016
    Inventors: Corville O. Allen, Elizabeth T. Dettman, Andrew R. Freed, Michael T. Payne, Michael W. Schroeder
  • Patent number: 7032770
    Abstract: A container is formed of a shell having a top section, a bottom section and a central section connecting the top section and the bottom section. At least a majority region of the central section is provided with a plurality of structural ribs about its periphery. The ribs are discontinuous in a circumferential direction extending around the central section. This construction enables the container to withstand deformation due to internal or external pressures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2006
    Assignee: PepsiCo, Inc.
    Inventors: Patrick J. Finlay, Michael T. Payne, Michael J. Swindeman, Balakrishna Haridas
  • Publication number: 20010027978
    Abstract: A container is formed of a shell having a top section, a bottom section and a central section connecting the top section and the bottom section. At least a majority region of the central section is provided with a plurality of structural ribs about its periphery. The ribs are discontinuous in a circumferential direction extending around the central section. This construction enables the container to withstand deformation due to internal or external pressures.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2001
    Publication date: October 11, 2001
    Inventors: Patrick J. Finlay, Michael T. Payne, Michael J. Swindeman, Balakrishna Haridas
  • Patent number: 5344662
    Abstract: A package containing a particulate product under pressure which automatically releases the pressure upon opening with an ordinary can opener, while preventing escape of the particulate material. The package is made up of a container having a closed top and a closed bottom which are connected to a body portion to define a gas tight interior compartment. The container has an inwardly directed bead along the perimeter of the body of the container located at a predetermined distance from the top. A non-porous product separator is placed within the container above the bead so that its perimeter is adjacent to the perimeter of the body of the container. The separator divides the interior compartment into a product chamber, below the separator, and a product free chamber above the separator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 1993
    Date of Patent: September 6, 1994
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Michael T. Payne, Daniel J. Kinne