Patents by Inventor Neal Gray

Neal Gray 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: 20090315832
    Abstract: An electronic device including an interactive display having an interactive mode and a non-interactive mode. The interactive display includes an image display device that displays a user-interactive imaged keypad in at least a portion of the image display device when the interactive display is in the interactive mode and that displays other image data in the at least a portion of the image display device when the interactive display is in the non-interactive mode, and a substantially transparent physical keypad that provides tactile feedback to a user indicating location of one or more imaged keys within the imaged keypad in response to one or more actuators disposed below the image display device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2008
    Publication date: December 24, 2009
    Inventor: R. O'Neal Gray
  • Publication number: 20090099042
    Abstract: The present invention provides methods for producing allele libraries and vectors for producing these libraries. The present invention also provides methods of identifying interaction domains between proteins. The vectors, kits, and methods of the present invention suitably utilize recombinational cloning to efficiently generate and screen full-length mutant alleles of target sequences of interest.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2008
    Publication date: April 16, 2009
    Applicant: INVITROGEN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Phillip Neal Gray, Thomas Gilbert Chappell
  • Patent number: 7500602
    Abstract: A system for facilitating a commercial transaction by a consumer includes a card or electronic storage device which includes a first number for identifying a financial account of the consumer and a second number, related to the first number, for use in authorizing a transaction involving the financial account of the consumer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2009
    Inventor: R. O'Neal Gray
  • Publication number: 20080195558
    Abstract: The invention is a method of deferring taxes on real estate property by exchanging investment real estate property under IRS 1031 exchange rules for a real estate property that is subject to condemnation or conversion. The property subject to condemnation is then sold, and the owner claims the benefit if a 1033 exchange, and may replace the property within the allowed 1033 replacement period.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 5, 2007
    Publication date: August 14, 2008
    Inventor: R. O'Neal Gray
  • Publication number: 20080135611
    Abstract: A system and method for facilitating commercial transactions between a consumer and a supplier of goods at a point of sale and authorized by a credit holder. The credit holder possesses a communications device for prestoring transaction information in a data base. The communications device is operable by the credit holder for transmitting transaction information data and transaction authorization. The consumer possesses a consumer communications device for establishing a communications link between the consumer and the supplier. The consumer communications device generates a consumer request to the credit holders' communications device. A transaction approval device is in communications with the supplier and the consumer requested credit holder's communications device for receiving transaction requests from the supplier and for receiving transaction information data and authorization from the credit holder's communications device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2008
    Publication date: June 12, 2008
    Inventor: R. O'Neal Gray
  • Patent number: 7337956
    Abstract: A system and method for facilitating commercial transactions between a consumer and a supplier of goods at a point of sale and authorized by a credit holder. The credit holder possesses a communications device for prestoring transaction information in a data base. The communications device is operable by the credit holder for transmitting transaction information data and transaction authorization. The consumer possesses a consumer communications device for establishing a communications link between the consumer and the supplier. The consumer communications device generates a consumer request to the credit holders' communications device. A transaction approval device is in communications with the supplier and the consumer requested credit holder's communications device for receiving transaction requests from the supplier and for receiving transaction information data and authorization from the credit holder's communications device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2004
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2008
    Assignee: Rearden Capital Corporation
    Inventor: R. O'Neal Gray
  • Patent number: 7275685
    Abstract: The invention is a system for facilitating credit card transactions. The system operates in a setting that includes a merchant platform, a System platform and a subscriber mobile device. The merchant platform is in electronic data communications with the System platform and the subscriber mobile device is in electronic data communication with the System platform. The merchant platform receives transaction information though voice communications from a subscriber and a portion of the transaction information is sent electronically to the System platform. The System platform electronically communicates a subset of the portion to the mobile communications device, and the mobile communications device sending data related to account information to the System platform. The System platform electronically transmitting this account information to a Processor for payment authorization.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2007
    Assignee: Rearden Capital Corporation
    Inventors: R. O'Neal Gray, Shawn V. Fitzgerald, Joseph R. Piket
  • Publication number: 20040168119
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a method, apparatus, and article of manufacture for creating a report on a computer. In accordance with an embodiment of the present invention, one or more nodes of a decision tree are displayed to a user. Information about the displayed nodes are then received from a user. The information includes at least one selected node. The structured report is converted into a report based on the selected nodes. In another embodiment of the present invention, the structured report is stored in a database that is connected to the computer. In a further embodiment, the structured report is electronically distributed via the Internet. The invention has utility for dynamically creating a structured report that can be accessed instantaneously.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2003
    Publication date: August 26, 2004
    Inventors: David Liu, Gerald Dennis Berman, Richard Neal Gray