Patents by Inventor Mike Alexander
Mike Alexander 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).
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Patent number: 11970277Abstract: The present invention includes a hybrid propulsion system for an aircraft comprising: an engine disposed within a fuselage of the aircraft, two electrical generators disposed within the fuselage and connected to the engine, and two nacelles. Each nacelle comprises a proprotor, and each nacelle houses two electric motors connected to the proprotor. Each electrical generator is connected to the two electric motors in each nacelle. The proprotors provide lift for vertical takeoff and landing in a helicopter mode. A fan is coupled to the fuselage and connected to two additional electric motors. Each additional electric motor is connected to one of the two electric generators. The fan provides thrust for forward flight during an airplane mode. The airplane mode includes increasing power to the fan while decreasing power to the proprotors to zero.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2023Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: Textron Innovations Inc.Inventors: Carlos Alexander Fenny, John Robert Wittmaak, Jr., Mike John Ryan, Joseph Scott Drennan
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Publication number: 20240113902Abstract: A distributed ledger-based system, method and apparatus for managing tasks. An authorization record proposal is validated by a localized blockchain authorization network against a validated schema published by, in some cases, a core blockchain network. Once validated, it is published on a localized channel for use by other nodes to validate actions of the task as the task is being performed. Data relating to completed tasks may be shared in accordance with sharing information in the validated authorization record and the data may be deleted upon the occurrence of a predetermined condition.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 3, 2022Publication date: April 4, 2024Inventors: Oliver Michaelis, Mike Ball, Charles Andrew Hugh Baker, Peter Alexander Carides
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Patent number: 10693952Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for processing and sending messages with low latency are described. An application server may obtain a triggered send request (TSR) message from triggered send (TS) subscriber. The TSR message may comprise TSR information and a TSR payload. The application server may directly inject the TSR payload to an available message server for processing when the TSR information indicates that a first priority is associated with the payload, and may notify the available message server that the TSR payload is available for processing when the TSR information indicates that a second priority is associated with the payload. The application server may also write the TSR payload and/or TSR information to a TSS queue of a TSS tenant space, and may write the payload to a non-relational datastore regardless of a priority associated with the payload. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.Type: GrantFiled: October 23, 2017Date of Patent: June 23, 2020Assignee: SALESFORCE.COM, INC.Inventors: D. Thomas Waltz, Jerry Seiler, Michael Clark, Steve Shellist, Kevin King, Andrew Rewald, Jonathan Bennett, Mike Alexander, Tod Karpinski
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Patent number: 10395193Abstract: A relevance management system for managing relevance of a plurality of request for proposal (RFP) documents with respect to a plurality of project description (PD) documents; receiving a PD document; creating a PD-document decomposition by decomposing the PD document into PD segments; determining an RFP-document-to-PD-segment relevance for an RFP document from the plurality of RFP documents and the PD segments using document similarity processing and a metric; aggregating the RFP-document-to-PD-segment relevance by the PD-document decomposition to produce an RFP-to-PD relevance; and transmitting the RFP-to-PD relevance to an originator of the PD document.Type: GrantFiled: January 14, 2019Date of Patent: August 27, 2019Inventor: Mike Alexander
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Publication number: 20190147388Abstract: A relevance management system for managing relevance of a plurality of request for proposal (RFP) documents with respect to a plurality of project description (PD) documents; receiving a PD document; creating a PD-document decomposition by decomposing the PD document into PD segments; determining an RFP-document-to-PD-segment relevance for an RFP document from the plurality of RFP documents and the PD segments using document similarity processing and a metric; aggregating the RFP-document-to-PD-segment relevance by the PD-document decomposition to produce an RFP-to-PD relevance; and transmitting the RFP-to-PD relevance to an originator of the PD document.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 14, 2019Publication date: May 16, 2019Inventor: Mike Alexander
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Patent number: 10277288Abstract: The present invention relates to methods and systems utilizing a multiple-frequency antenna array system. The multiple-frequency antenna array system includes a first set of broadband elements that allows the establishment of a first cellular data communication session and a concurrent second cellular data communication session. The system also includes a second set of broadband elements that allow the establishment of a first local area wireless network communication session and a concurrent second local area wireless network communication session. Further, there is a broadband element configured to receive a global positioning signal. In addition, the multiple-frequency antenna array system is coupled to a vehicle. A method for establishing multi-frequency communication sessions using an antenna array is also presented.Type: GrantFiled: August 13, 2015Date of Patent: April 30, 2019Assignee: CSC Holdings, LLCInventors: Robert Anderson, Andrew Ip, Mike Alexander
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Publication number: 20190124141Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for processing and sending messages with low latency are described. An application server may obtain a triggered send request (TSR) message from triggered send (TS) subscriber. The TSR message may comprise TSR information and a TSR payload. The application server may directly inject the TSR payload to an available message server for processing when the TSR information indicates that a first priority is associated with the payload, and may notify the available message server that the TSR payload is available for processing when the TSR information indicates that a second priority is associated with the payload. The application server may also write the TSR payload and/or TSR information to a TSS queue of a TSS tenant space, and may write the payload to a non-relational datastore regardless of a priority associated with the payload. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 23, 2017Publication date: April 25, 2019Applicant: salesforce.com, inc.Inventors: D. Thomas WALTZ, Jerry SEILER, Michael CLARK, Steve SHELLIST, Kevin KING, Andrew REWALD, Jonathan BENNETT, Mike ALEXANDER, Tod KARPINSKI
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Patent number: 10229374Abstract: A relevance management system for summarizing relevance of a plurality of project description (PD) documents with respect to a proposal outline comprised of outline sections, the proposal outline associated with a request for proposal (RFP) document comprised of RFP segments; receiving an outline-to-RFP matrix; determining a PD-document-to-RFP-segment relevance for a PD document from the plurality of PD documents and the RFP segments using document similarity processing and a metric; producing a proposal writing plan comprising a first column that represents the outline sections, a second column representing the RFP segments, and a third column representing PD-document-to-RFP-segment relevance; and transmitting the proposal writing plan to an originator of the outline-to-RFP matrix.Type: GrantFiled: August 11, 2018Date of Patent: March 12, 2019Inventor: Mike Alexander
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Publication number: 20190005436Abstract: A relevance management system for summarizing relevance of a plurality of project description (PD) documents with respect to a proposal outline comprised of outline sections, the proposal outline associated with a request for proposal (RFP) document comprised of RFP segments; receiving an outline-to-RFP matrix; determining a PD-document-to-RFP-segment relevance for a PD document from the plurality of PD documents and the RFP segments using document similarity processing and a metric; producing a proposal writing plan comprising a first column that represents the outline sections, a second column representing the RFP segments, and a third column representing PD-document-to-RFP-segment relevance; and transmitting the proposal writing plan to an originator of the outline-to-RFP matrix.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 11, 2018Publication date: January 3, 2019Inventor: Mike Alexander
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Patent number: 10089585Abstract: A relevance management system for managing the relevance of a plurality of project description (PD) documents with respect to a plurality of request for proposal (RFP) documents; receiving an RFP document; creating an RFP-document decomposition by decomposing the RFP document into RFP segments; determining a PD-document-to-RFP-segment relevance for a PD document from the plurality of PD documents and the RFP segments using document similarity processing and a metric; aggregating the PD-document-to-RFP-segment relevance by the RFP-document decomposition to produce a PD-to-RFP relevance; and transmitting the PD-to-RFP relevance to an originator of the RFP document.Type: GrantFiled: July 7, 2016Date of Patent: October 2, 2018Inventor: Mike Alexander
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Publication number: 20090148808Abstract: A novel dental device is disclosed for facilitating oral hygiene. The device includes a light source and a light guide, where light from the light source is propagated through the light guide so that it refracts from the end thereof. Through this refraction it at least partially illuminates bristles, or dental floss or a dental pick and in use illuminates, at least partially, teeth and gums within the mouth. Preferably the dental device utilizes a light source of such a wavelength that facilitates killing of bacteria.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 5, 2008Publication date: June 11, 2009Inventors: Mike Alexander, Michael Trzecleski
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Publication number: 20050235036Abstract: A method, system, and computer program product for directing a recipient of an e-mail to a web site is provided. In one embodiment, an e-mail with an embedded link is created, wherein the embedded link comprises a link to a redirect server and link attributes that allow the redirect server to determine a current web site associated with the embedded link. The e-mail with the embedded link is then sent to a recipient. The e-mail is received by the recipient and, responsive to the recipient selecting the embedded link within the e-mail, link attributes are sent from the recipient's data processing system to the redirect server. The link attributes are received at the redirect server and the redirect server determines the universal resource locator for the current web site associated with the embedded link. The universal resource locator is then sent from the redirect server to the recipient, which then utilizes the universal resource locator to retrieve the contents from the current web site.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 19, 2004Publication date: October 20, 2005Inventors: Jim Nielsen, Mike Alexander