Patents by Inventor Neil Scott
Neil Scott 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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Publication number: 20110205848Abstract: A beam forming system (10) for acoustic or electromagnetic beams comprising one or more beam forming elements (2) that are arranged to provide a doubly ruled radiation surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 7, 2008Publication date: August 25, 2011Inventors: Eugene Stytsenko, Neil Scott, Mark Poletti
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Patent number: 7979320Abstract: A computer performs a method of communicating with a referral server to identify configurables available to the computer based on the computer's location and at least one other factor. The computer receives a list of provider servers selected by the referral server for referring to the computer because the provider servers on the list auto-configure configurables in the computer's location and according to the at least one other factor. The method communicates with a provider server selected from the list to purchase a selected configurable and to auto-configure the computer's computing environment to operate the selected configurable. The method communicates with the referral server to provide a metric about the provider server's performance during purchase and auto-configure.Type: GrantFiled: August 15, 2006Date of Patent: July 12, 2011Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Dean P. Paron, Huseyin Gok, Kevin T. Damour, Leszek Mazur, Lingan Satkunanathan, Neil Scott Fishman
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Patent number: 7781386Abstract: The invention provides an aqueous shampoo composition comprising: (i) one or more anionic cleansing surfactants; (ii) preferably, discrete, dispersed droplets of a water-insoluble conditioning agent with a mean droplet diameter (D3,2) of 4 micrometers or less; (iii) one or more cationic polymers (A) selected from cationically modified acrylamide polymers having a cationic charge density at pH7 of less than 1.0 meq per gram, cationically modified celluloses and mixtures thereof, and (iv) one or more cationic polymers (B) selected from cationically modified acrylamide polymers having a cationic charge density at pH7 of greater than 1.0 meq per gram, cationically modified polygalactomannans, and mixtures thereof, wherein the composition comprises a cationic polymer other than a cationically modified acrylamide polymer.Type: GrantFiled: November 15, 2006Date of Patent: August 24, 2010Assignee: Conopco, Inc.Inventors: Nicholas John Ainger, Jayne Lesley Dawson, Emmanuel Paul Jos Marie Everaert, Neil Scott Shaw
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Patent number: 7747602Abstract: Rendering a contributor representation, such as an avatar, near content such as a comment, contributed to a web page such as a blog. The contributor representation is associated with a contributor identifier, such as an email address, and stored at a centralized registrar. The centralized registrar provides a content service with an initial script to include in the web page along with the contributor identifier. A requesting client runs the initial script, which requests an additional script from the centralized registrar. The additional script can track user actions and analyzes the DOM of the web page for an attribute associated with the contributor identifier and contributed content. Based on a location of the attribute in the DOM, the additional script also determines a location in the web page to insert the contributor representation. The additional script then requests and inserts the contributor representation to be rendered near the contributed content.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 2007Date of Patent: June 29, 2010Assignee: Yahoo! Inc.Inventors: Todd Sampson, John Sampson, Steve Ho, Eric Marcoullier, Neil Scott Rafer
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Publication number: 20100015077Abstract: The invention provides a hair treatment composition comprising a hair substantive polymer, the hair substantive polymer comprising a polymeric backbone bearing: (a) at least one side chain which is formed from a hair fibre targeting group which is covalently linked to the polymeric backbone, the hair fibre targeting group being a non-cationic species which is capable of specifically interacting with the protein surface of the hair fibre in a non-covalent interaction having a bond energy ranging from 0.5 to 3 Kcal/mol, when the composition is applied to hair; (b) preferably, at least one side chain which is different to side chain (a) and which comprises a hair benefit agent.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 14, 2007Publication date: January 21, 2010Inventors: Gerald Adams, Kelvin Brian Dickinson, Ezat Khoshdel, Neil Scott Shaw, Ximei Yao
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Patent number: 7611698Abstract: An aqueous hair conditioning composition comprising discrete, dispersed droplets of a hydrophobic conditioning oil with a mean droplet diameter (D3,2) of 4 micrometers or less, a cationic deposition polymer and a block copolymer of ethylene glycol and propylene glycol according to the Formula (I) with the mean value of y from 10 to 60 and the values of x and z both from 1 to 150, or a block copolymer according to Formula (II) wherein the mean value of a is 2 or more and the mean value of b is 2 or more.Type: GrantFiled: April 23, 2003Date of Patent: November 3, 2009Assignee: Unilever Home & Personal Care USA division of Conopco, Inc.Inventors: Leo Derici, Paul David Jenkins, Andrew Malcolm Murray, Neil Scott Shaw
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Publication number: 20090197784Abstract: The invention provides an aqueous shampoo composition comprising: (i) one or more anionic cleansing surfactants; (ii) preferably, discrete, dispersed droplets of a water-insoluble conditioning agent with a mean droplet diameter (D3,2) of 4 micrometres or less; (iii) one or more cationic polymers (A) selected from cationically modified acrylamide polymers having a cationic charge density at pH7 of less than 1.0 meq per gram, cationically modified celluloses and mixtures thereof, and (iv) one or more cationic polymers (B) selected from cationically modified acrylamide polymers having a cationic charge density at pH7 of greater than 1.0 meq per gram, cationically modified polygalactomannans, and mixtures thereof, wherein the composition comprises a cationic polymer other than a cationically modified acrylamide polymer.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 15, 2006Publication date: August 6, 2009Inventors: Nicholas John Ainger, Jayne Lesley Dawson, Emmanuel Paul Jos Marie Everaert, Neil Scott Shaw
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Patent number: 7571349Abstract: Aspects of the subject matter described herein relate to system state changes. In aspects, a state change monitor detects a state change, determines whether the state change is within a set of state changes that are monitored, and, if so, logs data regarding the state change. The data and any other data needed to rollback the state change is exported to other nodes. The other nodes may store the data for rollback or migration purposes and/or adjust their operation so that they may operate correctly in view of the state change.Type: GrantFiled: August 18, 2006Date of Patent: August 4, 2009Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Bjorn Benjamin Levidow, Neil Scott Fishman, Eric B. Watson
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Publication number: 20090154985Abstract: The present invention is directed to a cosmetic applicator comprising a handle having a proximal end and a distal end, wherein the handle comprises a drive; an applicator head operatively associated with the drive to move at least part of the applicator head relative to the handle; and a control surface disposed at the proximal end of the handle and operatively associated with the drive. The control surface may be rotatable about a control surface axis through a plurality of positions and the control surface axis may be aligned with the longitudinal axis of the handle. The control surface may be moveable through a plurality of positions. The applicator may comprise an additional control surface, such as a second control surface or temporary control surface, which may be operated independently or in combination with the first control surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 29, 2008Publication date: June 18, 2009Inventors: Peter Jonathan Wyatt, David Edward Wilson, Florina Winter, Neil Scott Beattie, Colin Dennis Ager, Peter David Cauwood, Thomas Elliot Rabe
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Publication number: 20090037454Abstract: Rendering a contributor representation, such as an avatar, near content such as a comment, contributed to a web page such as a blog. The contributor representation is associated with a contributor identifier, such as an email address, and stored at a centralized registrar. The centralized registrar provides a content service with an initial script to include in the web page along with the contributor identifier. A requesting client runs the initial script, which requests an additional script from the centralized registrar. The additional script can track user actions and analyzes the DOM of the web page for an attribute associated with the contributor identifier and contributed content. Based on a location of the attribute in the DOM, the additional script also determines a location in the web page to insert the contributor representation. The additional script then requests and inserts the contributor representation to be rendered near the contributed content.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 31, 2007Publication date: February 5, 2009Applicant: Yahoo! Inc.Inventors: Todd Sampson, John Sampson, Steve Ho, Eric Marcoullier, Neil Scott Rafer
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Patent number: 7459417Abstract: An aqueous hair conditioner composition comprising: a) a cationic conditioning surfactant, b) discrete, dispersed droplets comprising a water-insoluble conditioning oil and c) a block copolymer with a mean molecular weight of 1000 unified atomic mass units or more, comprising polyethyleneoxide and polypropyleneoxide blocks selected from the group consisting of (i) poloxamers according to formula (I), wherein the mean value of (y) is from 18 to 60 and the mean value (x) is from 7 to 140 such that the mean value of the ratio (x/y) is from 0.4 to 3.0 and (ii) poloxamines according to formula (II), wherein the mean value of (a) is 2 or more and the mean value of (b) is 2 or more.Type: GrantFiled: April 23, 2003Date of Patent: December 2, 2008Assignee: Unilever Home & Personal Care USA division of Conopco, Inc.Inventors: Leo Derici, Paul David Jenkins, Andrew Malcolm Murray, Neil Scott Shaw
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Publication number: 20080294768Abstract: Embodiments of the invention are directed to identifying network resources or other topics that are of interest to members of multiple online communities to which a user belongs. Online communities include blogs, websites, games, e-commerce systems, messaging systems, wikis, etc. For each online community, click activity or other client behaviors are tracked and analyzed to determine statistical metrics about community activity, such as which articles, links, services, or other network resources are popular in the online community. At least some of the tracking or analysis can be performed by clients that access the online communities, by a server of each online community, and/or by a central tracking system. The results for each community may be further analyzed relative to each other. The results are provided for all communities with which a given user is associated. For example, a list of the most popular links in the user's selected online communities.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 22, 2007Publication date: November 27, 2008Applicant: Yahoo! Inc.Inventors: Todd Sampson, John Sampson, Steve Ho, Eric Marcoullier, Neil Scott Rafer
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Publication number: 20080294760Abstract: Embodiments of the invention are directed to identifying topics that are of interest to users belonging to a selected online community, across multiple online communities visited by the users. Online communities include blogs, websites, wikis, etc. For each online community, click activity or other client behaviors are tracked and analyzed to determine statistical metrics about community activity, such as which articles, links, services, or other network resources are popular in the online community. At least some of the analysis can be performed by clients that access the online communities, by a server of each online community, and/or by a central tracking system. The results for each community may be further analyzed relative to each other. The results are filtered for the selected community and provided for the selected community. For example, a list of the most popular links for all users belonging to the authored community may be provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 22, 2007Publication date: November 27, 2008Applicant: Yahoo! Inc.Inventors: Todd Sampson, John Sampson, Steve Ho, Eric Marcoullier, Neil Scott Rafer
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Publication number: 20080270586Abstract: A system and method are directed towards managing affiliation to community sites and making such affiliations visible to visitors to the community sites, and/or a member's affiliation site. A visitor may register centrally to a plurality of community sites, and receive a member affiliation webpage. The member affiliation webpage may display community sites that the registered visitor may author, and/or community sites for which the registered visitor is affiliated. A visitor may also visit an affiliation webpage(s) for a community site that may display each visitor that is currently affiliated with that community site. By displaying members of the community site, other visitors might be able to quickly identify more interesting community sites, community sites popular to one of their friends, neighbors, family members, or the like. When a registered visitor visits a community site they may select to become affiliated or may become automatically affiliated based on a criteria.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 30, 2007Publication date: October 30, 2008Applicant: Yahoo! Inc.Inventors: Todd Sampson, John Sampson, Steve Ho, Eric Marcoullier, Neil Scott Rafer
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Publication number: 20080244414Abstract: A system and method are directed towards enabling control of widgets using on-widget data controls. A visitor may enter selective personal information and determine what information is made available on a social networking webpage. A visitor to a social networking website may select to not have their information displayed at a social networking website, while still being displayed at another social networking website. A visitor's information may be displayed within a reader roll, an association listing, a visitor comment page, or the like. An owner of a social networking website may also select not to have a visitor's information displayed on the website. In one embodiment, selecting not to display information may be performed by ‘mousing’ over the information and selecting a display option. Social networking websites may look to a centralized registration system to determine whether to display the visitor information.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 31, 2007Publication date: October 2, 2008Applicant: Yahoo! Inc.Inventors: Eric Marcoullier, Todd Sampson, John Sampson, Steve Ho, Neil Scott Rafer
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Publication number: 20080244053Abstract: A client device, system, and method are directed towards determining data on network site visits, and providing the data based on a geographical relationship of visitors to the network sites. A tracker tracks visits to, and outbound link click activity on a network site. If the click is associated with a URI, information is collected related to the click, including a network address associated with a source of the click. A geographic region may be determined based on the network address of the click source. Statistics may then be collected over time, including, what network sites, are visited for a given geographic region. Such statistics may be displayable in a variety of formats, and geographic regions, including by country, state, province, city, town, district, county, or the like. The tracker may be on the network site or on a client device of the visitor.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 30, 2007Publication date: October 2, 2008Applicant: Yahoo! Inc.Inventors: Todd Sampson, John Sampson, Steve Ho, Eric Marcoullier, Neil Scott Rafer
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Publication number: 20080244413Abstract: A system and method are directed towards enabling centralized registration for managing a selective display of visitor information to distributed social networking websites. A visitor may enter selective personal information, and determine what information is made available on a social networking webpage. The visitor may then return to the social networking website to view selective visitor information, such as within a reader roll. A visitor to a social networking website may select to not have their information displayed at selective a social networking website, while still being displayed at another social networking website. In one embodiment, selecting to not display their information may be performed by ‘mousing’ over their information and selecting a display option. Social networking websites may look to a centralized registration system to determine whether to display the visitor information, while still being able to obtain information about the visitor, and/or provide benefits to the visitor.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 30, 2007Publication date: October 2, 2008Applicant: Yahoo! Inc.Inventors: Todd Sampson, John Sampson, Steve Ho, Eric Marcoullier, Neil Scott Rafer
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Publication number: 20080126856Abstract: Aspects of the subject matter described herein relate to system state changes. In aspects, a state change monitor detects a state change, determines whether the state change is within a set of state changes that are monitored, and, if so, logs data regarding the state change. The data and any other data needed to rollback the state change is exported to other nodes. The other nodes may store the data for rollback or migration purposes and/or adjust their operation so that they may operate correctly in view of the state change.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 18, 2006Publication date: May 29, 2008Applicant: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Bjorn Benjamin Levidow, Neil Scott Fishman, Eric B. Watson
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Publication number: 20080046328Abstract: A computer performs a method of communicating with a referral server to identify configurables available to the computer based on the computer's location and at least one other factor. The computer receives a list of provider servers selected by the referral server for referring to the computer because the provider servers on the list auto-configure configurables in the computer's location and according to the at least one other factor. The method communicates with a provider server selected from the list to purchase a selected configurable and to auto-configure the computer's computing environment to operate the selected configurable. The method communicates with the referral server to provide a metric about the provider server's performance during purchase and auto-configure.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 15, 2006Publication date: February 21, 2008Applicant: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Dean P. Paron, Huseyin Gok, Kevin T. Damour, Leszek Mazur, Lingan Satkunanathan, Neil Scott Fishman
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Patent number: D590271Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2008Date of Patent: April 14, 2009Assignee: Walnut Packaging, Inc.Inventors: Jose M. Alvarado, Jose M. Alvarado, Jr., Rey Alvarado, Neil Scott Terwilliger, Alan Ray Terwilliger, John Eric Terwilliger, Stephen Craig Terwilliger