Patents by Inventor Rick Ballard

Rick Ballard 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: 20110302565
    Abstract: Implicit dependences allow a user to add multiple independent software components to a workspace, which results in the automatic establishment of ad-hoc dependencies. If one project depends on the products of another in the same workspace, a dependency manager detects this, causing a build engine to automatically build the projects in the correct sequence. Each project retains its individual identity, so a project can be included in more than one workspace or removed from a workspace without affecting the project. The workspace module maintains pointers to the projects and other files that the workspace includes. A target and the product it creates can be related to another target. If both targets are in the same workspace, the dependency manager discovers the dependency and the build engine builds the products in the required order. Such a relationship is referred to as an implicit dependency.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2011
    Publication date: December 8, 2011
    Inventors: Michael S. Ferris, Anders I. Bertelrud, Rick Ballard, Michael Rawdon
  • Publication number: 20100063836
    Abstract: A device for electronically transmitting a medical prescription has a touch screen display, a keyboard, patient, drug and pharmacy databases, a port for inserting of a memory card for updating the databases, software for executing drug interaction, drug compatibility and generic equivalent checks with the databases, software for searching the pharmacy database, and means for wirelessly transmitting a medical prescription to a selected pharmacy.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2008
    Publication date: March 11, 2010
    Inventor: Rick Ballard