Patents by Inventor Paul Ronald

Paul Ronald 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: 20120066077
    Abstract: In general terms, embodiments of the present invention relate to methods and apparatuses for providing an overage service via a mobile device. For example, in some embodiments, a method is provided that includes: (a) receiving transaction information associated with a transaction, where the transaction involves an account, a transaction machine, and a holder of the account; (b) determining, based at least partially on the transaction information, that the account will incur an overage as a result of the transaction; (c) prompting the holder to consent to the overage via the mobile device, where the holder is associated with the mobile device; (d) receiving the holder's consent to the overage; and (e) authorizing the transaction based at least partially on the receiving the holder's consent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2011
    Publication date: March 15, 2012
    Applicant: BANK OF AMERICA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tamara S. Kingston, John Franklin Tuders, Ross Matthew Feldman, Marc Lance Warshawsky, Erik Stephen Ross, Elbert Lee Whitler, Mark D. Zanzot, Ketil Bjugan, Scott Mastbrook, William Sydney Ivey, Mark Allan Nelson, Brenda Lisbeth Smyth, Doris Maria Garrett, Jonathan H. Tucker, Catherine Stokes Pullen, Paul Ronald DeKoster
  • Publication number: 20120066126
    Abstract: In general terms, embodiments of the present invention relate to methods and apparatuses for providing an overage service via a transaction machine. For example, in some embodiments, a method is provided that includes: (a) receiving transaction information associated with a transaction, where the transaction involves an account, a transaction machine, and a holder of the account; (b) determining, based at least partially on the transaction information, that the account will incur an overage as a result of the transaction; (c) prompting, via the transaction machine, the holder to consent to the overage; (d) receiving the holder's consent to the overage; and (e) authorizing the transaction based at least partially on the receiving the holder's consent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2011
    Publication date: March 15, 2012
    Applicant: BANK OF AMERICA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tamara S. Kingston, John Franklin Tuders, Ross Matthew Feldman, Marc Lance Warshawsky, Erik Stephen Ross, Elbert Lee Whitler, Mark D. Zanzot, Ketil Bjugan, Scott Mastbrook, William Sydney Ivey, Mark Allan Nelson, Brenda Lisbeth Smyth, Doris Maria Garrett, Jonathan H. Tucker, Catherine Stokes Pullen, Paul Ronald DeKoster
  • Publication number: 20110320443
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer media for enhancing search results, as well as user interfaces for performing search queries and navigating search results, are provided. A search query is received from a user. A plurality of web pages relevant to the search query are identified. At least one of the relevant web pages is identified as popular. A search result page is generated including a search result listing and a search result page header. The search result page header includes a link to the popular web page to provide the user with a quick and easy way to select a popular web page relevant to the user's search query.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2010
    Publication date: December 29, 2011
    Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Paul Ronald Ray, Brian MacDonald, Steven W. Macbeth, Mira Lane, Laura Kern, Rodney Coleman Edwards, Steven Tullis, Sanaz Ahari, Daniel Marantz
  • Publication number: 20110308288
    Abstract: For controlling the flatness of the strip during the rolling of aluminium strip or foil, the system consists of a full width bank of cryogenic roll cooling devices acting on the roll(s) and a full width bank of roll heating devices also acting the roll(s). Both or either of the cooling and heating banks are divided into individually controllable zones. A process automation system controls the action of the cooling and heating banks via feedback from a strip shape meter and/or a predictive process model, in order, by thermal growth/contraction, to create the best roll profile for rolling flat strip.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 23, 2009
    Publication date: December 22, 2011
    Inventors: Alan Douglas McRae, Paul Ronald Osborne, Peter Derrick Smith
  • Publication number: 20110301311
    Abstract: A particle-polymer hybrid material can include: a substance having the structure of Formula 1 (Z—(Y—FP)m, wherein Z is a particle smaller than 1 mm; m is an integer; Y is a linker including a siloxane linked to the particle; FP is a functionalized polymer having: a first norbornenyl reaction product linked to the siloxane; and one or more second norbornenyl reaction products linked to the first norbornenyl reaction product opposite of the siloxane, wherein the one or more second norbornenyl reaction products include a functional group.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 3, 2011
    Publication date: December 8, 2011
    Applicant: THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
    Inventors: Paul Ronald Hanson, Alan Rolfe
  • Publication number: 20110191148
    Abstract: Methods and systems are presented for managing document processing device usage in which a customer accesses a management system to buy and pay for account credits, and to apply print units to specific managed device by conversion of account credits based on current pricing information for the specified account and the particular device at the time of the request.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2010
    Publication date: August 4, 2011
    Applicant: XEROX CORPORATION
    Inventors: Charles Robert Carlson, James Patrick VanWinkle, Paul Ronald Herman, Shanti Villarreal, Brent Rodney Jones, Ashok Murthy, Sara Kleiman, Mark Simon Boyt
  • Publication number: 20110188067
    Abstract: Document processing devices and methods are presented, in which the device stores a remaining print unit value in its memory that represents the amount of print units currently available to enable the device to perform the document processing operations, and a programmable computer of the device selectively performs document processing jobs for users and decrements the remaining print unit value until the value reaches zero and the device provides for expenditure of print units according to color content and/or coverage levels determined for a given job.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2010
    Publication date: August 4, 2011
    Applicant: XEROX CORPORATION
    Inventors: Charles Robert Carlson, James Patrick VanWinkle, Paul Ronald Herman, Shanti Villarreal, Brent Rodney Jones, Ashok Murthy, Sara Kleiman, Mark Simon Boyt
  • Publication number: 20110152165
    Abstract: A cleaning composition having polysaccharides, the polysaccharides having from about 5 to about 95% by weight of water-soluble, unsubstituted hemicellulose.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2010
    Publication date: June 23, 2011
    Inventors: Nigel Patrick Somerville Roberts, Paul Ronald Hudson, Neil Joseph Lant, Alan Thomas Brooker
  • Publication number: 20110055203
    Abstract: Methods, systems, graphical user interfaces, and computer-readable media for visually searching and exploring a set of objects are provided. A computer system executes a method that generates three-dimensional representations or two-dimensional representations for a set of objects in response to a user interaction with an interface that displays the three-dimensional representations or the two-dimensional representations. The interface includes filter controls, sorting controls, and classification controls, which are dynamically altered based on the content of a user query or the attributes of the objects in the three-dimensional representations or two-dimensional representations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2009
    Publication date: March 3, 2011
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: ZACHARY MARK GUTT, PAUL RONALD RAY, RODNEY COLEMAN EDWARDS, DARWIN KENGO YAMAMOTO, HADY MOUSTAFA ABOU EL KHEIR, BRIAN WHALEN MACDONALD, JERRY DANIEL BAIN
  • Publication number: 20100252880
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device comprises the steps of, in sequence: depositing a first silicon layer; patterning the first silicon layer to obtain a first silicon region; implanting a first dopant into a first part of the first silicon region, the first part of the first silicon region defined using a first mask; depositing a second silicon layer; patterning the second silicon layer to obtain a second silicon region; and implanting a second dopant into a second part of the first silicon region, the second part of the first silicon region defined by the first mask and the second silicon region. A device comprises a semiconductor layer (6); a first doped region (5) within the semiconductor layer; a second doped region (7) within the first doped region (5); and a silicon layer (9) disposed over a part of the semiconductor layer; wherein the silicon layer is disposed over a part of the first doped region (5) but not over the second doped region (7).
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2008
    Publication date: October 7, 2010
    Applicant: X-FAB SEMICONDUCTOR FOUNDRIES AG
    Inventor: Paul Ronald Stribley
  • Publication number: 20100237465
    Abstract: A device comprises a substrate (22); a first MiM capacitor (10,20,11) disposed over the substrate; and a second MiM capacitor (10?,20?,11) disposed over the first MiM capacitor. The first MiM capacitor and the second MiM capacitor are electrically connected in parallel. The two MiM capacitors are vertically stacked one above the other. Each MiM capacitor comprises an interconnection layer (10,10?) of the CMOS process as one plate and a thinner conductive layer (11,11?) as the second plate, with an insulating layer (20,20?) disposed therebetween. This allows each MiM capacitor to be formed between two CMOS process interconnection layers. The second plate of the second MiM capacitor is substantially co-extensive with the second plate of the first MiM capacitor, and is disposed substantially directly over the second plate of the first MiM capacitor. The same mask may be used to pattern the second plate of the second MiM capacitor and the second plate of the first MiM capacitor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2008
    Publication date: September 23, 2010
    Applicant: X-FAB SEMICONDUCTOR FOUNDRIES AG
    Inventors: Paul Ronald Stribley, Mark Parsons, Graham Chapman
  • Publication number: 20100112630
    Abstract: A process for measuring total microbiological content in an aqueous medium includes adding a fluorescent dye to the aqueous medium, measuring the fluorescent signal in the aqueous medium to obtain a baseline fluorescent signal, releasing intracellular content of the microbiological matter into the aqueous medium by lysing the microbiological matter, measuring the fluorescent signal in the aqueous medium with the released intracellular content of the microbiological matter to obtain a second fluorescent signal, subtracting the baseline signal from the second fluorescent signal to obtain a net fluorescent signal and equating the net fluorescent signal with a microbiological content. Methods for measuring biofilm and adjusting for background noise are also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 3, 2008
    Publication date: May 6, 2010
    Inventors: Scott Martell BOYETTE, Hong Cai, Paul Ronald Hirst, Yan Jin, Juan Jiang, Jie Li, Rong Xu, Kechao Yang
  • Publication number: 20100059851
    Abstract: A CMOS circuit comprises at least one high voltage transistor (having gate and drain operating voltages of greater than 8V) and at least one high frequency capable transistor (having a maximum switching frequency of between 100 MHz and 1000 GHz) wherein said transistors are integrated on the same semiconductor substrate so as to allow the simple integration of high voltage circuits and RF (radio frequency) CMOS circuits on the same integrated circuit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2007
    Publication date: March 11, 2010
    Applicant: X-FAB SEMICONDUCTOR FOUNDRIES AG
    Inventors: John Nigel Ellis, Paul Ronald Stribley, Jun Fu
  • Publication number: 20090315119
    Abstract: A CMOS circuit comprises CMOS MOSFETs having n-type and p-type gates on the same substrate, wherein the substrate is divided into regions of n-type and p-type diffusions, and those diffusions are contained within a deeper n-type diffusion, used to junction isolate components within the deeper n-type diffusion from components outside of the deeper n-type diffusion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2007
    Publication date: December 24, 2009
    Applicant: X-FAB SEMICONDUCTOR FOUNDRIES AG
    Inventors: Paul Ronald Stribley, John Nigel Ellis
  • Publication number: 20090315080
    Abstract: An array of transistors arranged next to each other on a semiconductor material forming a substrate, the substrate comprising p-well or n-well diffusions forming a body, which diffusions are used as the body regions of the transistors, each transistor comprising a source, a drain and a gate, wherein the array of transistors further comprises at least one electrical connection to the body, wherein said electrical connection is shared by at least two transistors of said array. Also disclosed is a semiconductor device comprising at least one source, at least one drain, at least one gate between the at least one source and the at least one drain, and at least one structure of the same material as the at least one gate which does not have a connection means for electrical connection to the at least one gate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2007
    Publication date: December 24, 2009
    Applicant: X-FAB SEMICONDUCTOR FOUNDRIES AG
    Inventors: Paul Ronald Stribley, John Nigel Ellis
  • Publication number: 20090214308
    Abstract: An entry sheet comprising polymer material for drilling printed circuit boards is provided. The entry sheet is suitable for use with a broad range of diameters, including commonly available drill diameters. The entry sheet comprises an adhesive epoxy configured to, among others, resist drill deflection, resist mechanical damage, and reduce to dust such that the entry sheet may increase drilling accuracy, protect printed circuit board from damage, minimize entry burrs, and may addresses other issues such as fliers, bird nesting, and the like.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2008
    Publication date: August 27, 2009
    Inventors: Sean Matthew Redfern, James Joseph Miller, Paul Ronald St John
  • Patent number: 7523135
    Abstract: A method, system and computer-usable medium are presented for coordinating an enterprise's resources needed for regulation/standards compliance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2009
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Teresa Ann Bradford, Paul Ronald Friedberg, Lawrence Warner Gosselin, Lisa Brucoli Leahy, David Medina, Jurij R. Paraszczak, Frederik Soendergaard-Jensen
  • Publication number: 20080269178
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method for preparing a sterile suspension of a glucocorticosteroid. The glucocorticosteroids used in the invention are preferably antiinflammatory glucocorticosteroids. By making the last stage of product preparation be the sterilization process, the potential for contamination during manufacture and heat degradation of products is greatly reduced.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2005
    Publication date: October 30, 2008
    Inventors: John Miller, Paul Ronald, Adrian Ashley, Paul Lamb, Donald MacDonald, Martin Oliver, Matthew Pollard
  • Patent number: 7428705
    Abstract: A method of mapping at least a part of one or more web sites having web objects and web links is provided, whereby web objects and links are mapped as nodes and edges, respectively, in one or more web maps, each object being mapped to at least one corresponding node. The method allows a user to re-display selected items in a web map such that the item are distinguished from other items in the web map and are displayed in a clarified form. This enables a web map to be de-cluttered.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2000
    Date of Patent: September 23, 2008
    Assignee: Maxamine International Pyt Ltd
    Inventors: Simon Paul Ronald, Stephen Dennis Kirkby, Richard John Webber
  • Patent number: D654505
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2012
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Felipe Luis Naranjo, Diego D. Baca Del Rosario, Timothy Matthew Edgar, Paul Ronald Ray