Patents by Inventor Peter Barrett

Peter Barrett 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: 20130304088
    Abstract: A dermatome assembly is operable to harvest a skin graft and includes an ultrasonic dermatome and a power supply. The ultrasonic dermatome includes a body and an ultrasonic blade assembly mounted in the body. The blade assembly includes a frequency generator and a cutting horn powered by the frequency generator. The cutting horn is spaced apart from the body so that the body is restricted from damping vibrational movement of the cutting horn. The dermatome assembly is operable to precisely control the thickness of the cut skin graft and also restrict the cutting horn from overheating.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2013
    Publication date: November 14, 2013
    Inventors: James Raymond Lucas, Mark Loyd Jones, James Earl Alrdrich, Peter Barrett Lucas, Norbert Russ, Shane E. Cowden
  • Patent number: 8494867
    Abstract: In one embodiment, the present invention is a method and apparatus for matching buyers and sellers in an anonymous online marketplace. One embodiment of a method for defining a community of network users includes collecting data relating to the network users, where the data is of at least one of the following types: demographic information relating to the network users, Internet Protocol address information relating to the network users, and Internet Protocol traffic information relating to the network users. The collected data is then anonymized, where the anonymizing is performed individually for each type of data. The anonymized data is aggregated to generate an activity-to-demographic mapping representative of network activity associated with particular demographics of the community of network users.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2013
    Assignee: CS Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: John Patrick Rosato, Peter Barrett Blessing, Robert Charles Caputo
  • Patent number: 8491605
    Abstract: A dermatome assembly is operable to harvest a skin graft and includes an ultrasonic dermatome and a power supply. The ultrasonic dermatome includes a body and an ultrasonic blade assembly mounted in the body. The blade assembly includes a frequency generator and a cutting horn powered by the frequency generator. The cutting horn is spaced apart from the body so that the body is restricted from damping vibrational movement of the cutting horn. The dermatome assembly is operable to precisely control the thickness of the cut skin graft and also restrict the cutting horn from overheating.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2013
    Assignee: Dadson Manufacturing Corp.
    Inventors: James Raymond Lucas, Mark Loyd Jones, James Earl Aldrich, Peter Barrett Lucas, Norbert Russ, Shane E. Cowden
  • Patent number: 8375405
    Abstract: Various technologies for delivering contextual television advertisement are described. A user selection of a media title is received. The media title has an associated set of contextual metadata that includes information regarding the media title. A request for the media title is forwarded to a first server and an advertisement request including the set of contextual metadata is forwarded to a second server. The second server uses the set of contextual metadata to retrieve contextual television advertisement information. The contextual television advertisement information and the media title are received from the second server and the first server respectively. Also, the contextual television advertisement information and the media title are played.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2013
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Ronald A. Morris, Peter Barrett, David Sloo, Ted Ludvig, Wieyang Lin
  • Publication number: 20120123443
    Abstract: A dermatome assembly is operable to harvest a skin graft and includes an ultrasonic dermatome and a power supply. The ultrasonic dermatome includes a body and an ultrasonic blade assembly mounted in the body. The blade assembly includes a frequency generator and a cutting horn powered by the frequency generator. The cutting horn is spaced apart from the body so that the body is restricted from damping vibrational movement of the cutting horn. The dermatome assembly is operable to precisely control the thickness of the cut skin graft and also restrict the cutting horn from overheating.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2012
    Publication date: May 17, 2012
    Applicant: DADSON MANUFACTURING CORP.
    Inventors: James Raymond Lucas, Mark Loyd Jones, James Earl Aldrich, Peter Barrett Lucas, Norbert Russ, Shane E. Cowden
  • Publication number: 20120084107
    Abstract: In one embodiment, the present invention is a method and apparatus for matching buyers and sellers in an anonymous online marketplace. One embodiment of a method for defining a community of network users includes collecting data relating to the network users, where the data is of at least one of the following types: demographic information relating to the network users, Internet Protocol address information relating to the network users, and Internet Protocol traffic information relating to the network users. The collected data is then anonymized, where the anonymizing is performed individually for each type of data. The anonymized data is aggregated to generate an activity-to-demographic mapping representative of network activity associated with particular demographics of the community of network users.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2011
    Publication date: April 5, 2012
    Inventors: JOHN PATRICK ROSATO, Peter Barrett Blessing, Robert Charles Caputo
  • Patent number: 8100927
    Abstract: A dermatome assembly is operable to harvest a skin graft and includes an ultrasonic dermatome and a power supply. The ultrasonic dermatome includes a body and an ultrasonic blade assembly mounted in the body. The blade assembly includes a frequency generator and a cutting horn powered by the frequency generator. The cutting horn is spaced apart from the body so that the body is restricted from damping vibrational movement of the cutting horn. The dermatome assembly is operable to precisely control the thickness of the cut skin graft and also restrict the cutting horn from overheating.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2012
    Assignee: Dadson Manufacturing Corp.
    Inventors: James Raymond Lucas, Mark Loyd Jones, James Earl Aldrich, Peter Barrett Lucas, Norbert Russ, Shane E. Cowden
  • Patent number: 8095377
    Abstract: In one embodiment, the present invention is a method and apparatus for matching buyers and sellers in an anonymous online marketplace. One embodiment of a method for defining a community of network users includes collecting data relating to the network users, where the data is of at least one of the following types: demographic information relating to the network users, Internet Protocol address information relating to the network users, and Internet Protocol traffic information relating to the network users. The collected data is then anonymized, where the anonymizing is performed individually for each type of data. The anonymized data is aggregated to generate an activity-to-demographic mapping representative of network activity associated with particular demographics of the community of network users.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2012
    Assignee: CS Technology
    Inventors: John Patrick Resato, Peter Barrett Blessing, Robert Charles Caputo
  • Patent number: 8095611
    Abstract: Methods, devices, and systems are provided for enhancing the functionality of a communication device, such as a communication endpoint. This provides the ability to enhance less intelligent SIP endpoints with required features to support a richer user experience. Furthermore, the endpoint enhancer may be dynamically pluggable onto an existing network device. This provided pluggability allows a network administrator to add a new SEE template to the network without disrupting the network operation or the operation of previously existing SEEs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2012
    Assignee: Avaya Inc.
    Inventors: Peter Barrett, Chris Boulton, Gordon R. Brunson, Ian Evans, Joel M. Ezell, Gethin Liddell, Harsh V. Mendiratta, David Shutt
  • Patent number: 8032837
    Abstract: A system and method of controlling user interface features of a web application is provided. The system comprises a collection of user interface control elements, a collection of skin templates comprising extensible markup language based markup contained as children of a container element, and a collection of control element instructions for performing actions associated with the control elements. Each control element comprises a namespace, common attributes for defining graphical features of the control element and for associating the control element with the internal state of the core control element, other attributes for defining attributes that affect the intrinsic behavior of the control, and a skin template reference attribute for referencing a skin template. Each instruction is associated with a control element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2003
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2011
    Assignee: Corel Corporation
    Inventors: Gordon Bowman, Peter Barrett
  • Publication number: 20110173194
    Abstract: Automatically marking locations of user interest in media content is disclosed. Data that describes user interaction with media content is analyzed to determine locations of potential interest. For each of the locations of potential interest, the data is analyzed to determine whether user interest satisfies a criterion for establishing a mark for the location. Marks are determined for those locations that satisfy the criterion. A mark includes a description for a given location and information that allows the given location to be automatically presented to a user upon selection of the description. In another aspect, extrinsic data that is separate from a piece of media content is analyzed to determine whether moments of high user interest might exist in the piece of media content. Then, the piece of media content is scanned to find locations in the media content that correspond to the moments.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2008
    Publication date: July 14, 2011
    Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATION
    Inventors: David Sloo, Peter Barrett
  • Publication number: 20110066694
    Abstract: Methods, devices, and systems are provided for enhancing the functionality of a communication device, such as a communication endpoint. This provides the ability to enhance less intelligent SIP endpoints with required features to support a richer user experience. Furthermore, the endpoint enhancer may be dynamically pluggable onto an existing network device. This provided pluggability allows a network administrator to add a new SEE template to the network without disrupting the network operation or the operation of previously existing SEEs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2009
    Publication date: March 17, 2011
    Applicant: AVAYA INC.
    Inventors: Peter Barrett, Chris Boulton, Gordon R. Brunson, Ian Evans, Joel M. Ezell, Gethin Liddell, Harsh V. Mendiratta, David Shutt
  • Patent number: 7836128
    Abstract: Reducing the amount of input required by a user to enter an electronic message. When an electronic message is received, one or more language expressions associated with the electronic message are displayed to a user. The user may select one or more of the language expressions and have the full text of all the selected language expressions included in a reply electronic message. Icons, which represent a user's capability to engage in an electronic messaging session, may also be displayed. When a user changes their capability to engage in an electronic messaging session, for instance when they go offline, a command may be sent to other users. This command may take the form of a character sequence not normally occurring in written language, which is interpreted by network devices and changes the display of the icon associated with a the user who went offline.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2010
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Daniel Danker, Peter Barrett
  • Patent number: 7669183
    Abstract: A system for manipulating a document object model is provided. The system comprises a collection of document object model behavior elements, and a collection of scripts for performing actions associated with the set of behavior elements. Each behavior element comprises a name following a predetermined naming convention, an event attribute for associating the behavior element to an event, and other attributes for describing features of the behavior element. Each script is associated with a behavior element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2003
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2010
    Assignee: Corel Corporation
    Inventors: Gordon Bowman, Peter Barrett
  • Publication number: 20090235361
    Abstract: Techniques are disclosed herein for applying different content protection schemes to different segments of digital content. A method for protecting digital content includes determining segments within digital content that is organized to allow presentation in a certain order. Each of the segments is assigned to a category of a group of categories. Each of the categories has a different content protection scheme associated therewith. One of the protection schemes is applied to each segment based on the category associated with the segment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2008
    Publication date: September 17, 2009
    Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATION
    Inventors: David Sloo, Peter Barrett
  • Publication number: 20090138027
    Abstract: A dermatome assembly is operable to harvest a skin graft and includes an ultrasonic dermatome and a power supply. The ultrasonic dermatome includes a body and an ultrasonic blade assembly mounted in the body. The blade assembly includes a frequency generator and a cutting horn powered by the frequency generator. The cutting horn is spaced apart from the body so that the body is restricted from damping vibrational movement of the cutting horn. The dermatome assembly is operable to precisely control the thickness of the cut skin graft and also restrict the cutting horn from overheating.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 25, 2008
    Publication date: May 28, 2009
    Applicant: Dadson Manufacturing Corp.
    Inventors: James Raymond Lucas, Mark Loyd Jones, James Earl Aldrich, Peter Barrett Lucas, Norbert Russ, Shane E. Cowden
  • Publication number: 20080294681
    Abstract: In one embodiment, the present invention is a method and apparatus for matching buyers and sellers in an anonymous online marketplace. One embodiment of a method for defining a community of network users includes collecting data relating to the network users, where the data is of at least one of the following types: demographic information relating to the network users, Internet Protocol address information relating to the network users, and Internet Protocol traffic information relating to the network users. The collected data is then anonymized, where the anonymizing is performed individually for each type of data. The anonymized data is aggregated to generate an activity-to-demographic mapping representative of network activity associated with particular demographics of the community of network users.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2008
    Publication date: November 27, 2008
    Inventors: John Patrick Rosato, Peter Barrett Blessing, Robert Charles Caputo
  • Patent number: 7437410
    Abstract: Reducing the amount of input required by a user to enter an electronic message. When an electronic message is received, one or more language expressions associated with the electronic message are displayed to a user. The user may select one or more of the language expressions and have the full text of all the selected language expressions included in a reply electronic message. Icons, which represent a user's capability to engage in an electronic messaging session, may also be displayed. When a user changes their capability to engage in an electronic messaging session, for instance when they go offline, a command may be sent to other users. This command may take the form of a character sequence not normally occurring in written language, which is interpreted by network devices and changes the display of the icon associated with a the user who went offline.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 14, 2008
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Daniel Danker, Peter Barrett
  • Publication number: 20080229353
    Abstract: Detailed herein is a technology which, among other things, allows integration of context-relevant advertisements with non-real-time video playback. In one approach to this technology, context information related to video content is determined, and used to select advertisements which are contextually related to video content. These advertisements can then be integrated into the video presentation in a number of ways.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2007
    Publication date: September 18, 2008
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Ronald A. Morris, Peter Barrett, David Sloo, Ted Ludvig
  • Publication number: 20080229354
    Abstract: Various technologies for delivering contextual television advertisement are described. A user selection of a media title is received. The media title has an associated set of contextual metadata that includes information regarding the media title. A request for the media title is forwarded to a first server and an advertisement request including the set of contextual metadata is forwarded to a second server. The second server uses the set of contextual metadata to retrieve contextual television advertisement information. The contextual television advertisement information and the media title are received from the second server and the first server respectively. Also, the contextual television advertisement information and the media title are played.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2007
    Publication date: September 18, 2008
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Ronald A. Morris, Peter Barrett, David Sloo, Ted Ludvig, Wieyang Lin