Patents by Inventor Robert D. Summers
Robert D. Summers 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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Patent number: 9613521Abstract: A method for disseminating emergency notification content from an emergency originating source. The method comprising: delivering the emergency notification content from the emergency originating source to at least one transmitting party; selecting a subset of users from among a set of users for dissemination of the emergency notification content based on the subject matter of the emergency notification content; and delivering the emergency notification content from the at least one transmitting party to a device corresponding to each user from the selected subset of users.Type: GrantFiled: July 22, 2015Date of Patent: April 4, 2017Assignee: Google Inc.Inventors: Charles Eric Hunter, Bernard L. Ballou, John H. Hebrank, James Fallon, Robert D. Summer
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Patent number: 9514632Abstract: A method for disseminating emergency notification content from an emergency originating source. The method comprising: delivering the emergency notification content from the emergency originating source to at least one transmitting party; selecting a subset of users from among a set of users for dissemination of the emergency notification content based on the subject matter of the emergency notification content; and delivering the emergency notification content from the at least one transmitting party to a device corresponding to each user from the selected subset of users.Type: GrantFiled: October 26, 2015Date of Patent: December 6, 2016Assignee: Google Inc.Inventors: Charles Eric Hunter, Bernard L. Ballou, John H. Hebrank, James Fallon, Robert D. Summer
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Publication number: 20160110991Abstract: A method for disseminating emergency notification content from an emergency originating source. The method comprising: delivering the emergency notification content from the emergency originating source to at least one transmitting party; selecting a subset of users from among a set of users for dissemination of the emergency notification content based on the subject matter of the emergency notification content; and delivering the emergency notification content from the at least one transmitting party to a device corresponding to each user from the selected subset of users.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 26, 2015Publication date: April 21, 2016Applicant: GOOGLE INC.Inventors: Charles Eric Hunter, Bernard L. Ballou, John H. Hebrank, James Fallon, Robert D. Summer
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Publication number: 20150325100Abstract: A method for disseminating emergency notification content from an emergency originating source. The method comprising: delivering the emergency notification content from the emergency originating source to at least one transmitting party; selecting a subset of users from among a set of users for dissemination of the emergency notification content based on the subject matter of the emergency notification content; and delivering the emergency notification content from the at least one transmitting party to a device corresponding to each user from the selected subset of users.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 22, 2015Publication date: November 12, 2015Applicant: GOOGLE INC.Inventors: Charles Eric Hunter, Bernard L. Ballou, John H. Hebrank, James Fallon, Robert D. Summer
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Publication number: 20150278875Abstract: An electronic, vetted-entrepreneurship-enhancement commerce method implementable by common-affinity-interest network-communicant parties employing the structure of an electronic communication network to engage in affinity subject matter financial transactions, in association with a network-connected, limited-access, and specifically an entrepreneurially-vetted-network-communicant authorized-access-only, digital-data catalogue of commercially-transactable affinity-interest-associated goods-and-services (subject matter) deliverables that are represented by electronically transformed data stored in the catalogue.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 12, 2015Publication date: October 1, 2015Inventors: Robert D. Summer, Jon M. Dickinson
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Patent number: 9147338Abstract: A method for disseminating emergency notification content from an emergency originating source. The method comprising: delivering the emergency notification content from the emergency originating source to at least one transmitting party; selecting a subset of users from among a set of users for dissemination of the emergency notification content based on the subject matter of the emergency notification content; and delivering the emergency notification content from the at least one transmitting party to a device corresponding to each user from the selected subset of users.Type: GrantFiled: March 4, 2013Date of Patent: September 29, 2015Assignee: Google Inc.Inventors: Charles Eric Hunter, Bernard L. Ballou, John H. Hebrank, James Fallon, Robert D. Summer
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Publication number: 20140034719Abstract: The computer readable tartan (CRT) system, method and product provide an effective and efficient way to generate a humanly recognizable and computer readable code (CRC) using at least two distinct colors. The CRT system, method and product more specifically provide a way to generate a computer readable tartan that is humanly recognizable and improves the functional relevance of CRCs.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 31, 2012Publication date: February 6, 2014Inventors: Ricardo A. Summers, Robert D. Summers, JR.
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Publication number: 20130241726Abstract: A method for disseminating emergency notification content from an emergency originating source. The method comprising: delivering the emergency notification content from the emergency originating source to at least one transmitting party; selecting a subset of users from among a set of users for dissemination of the emergency notification content based on the subject matter of the emergency notification content; and delivering the emergency notification content from the at least one transmitting party to a device corresponding to each user from the selected subset of users.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 4, 2013Publication date: September 19, 2013Applicant: OCHOA OPTICS LLCInventors: Charles Eric Hunter, Bernard L. Ballou, John H. Hebrank, James Fallon, Robert D. Summer
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Patent number: 8417565Abstract: A sourcing-provider-implemented, electronic-commerce, communication-network method for controlling acquisition-access to electronically-deliverable, affinity-interest deliverables in portions of which rights are held both by a sourcing provider and by a contributing network communicant.Type: GrantFiled: July 14, 2010Date of Patent: April 9, 2013Inventors: Robert D Summer, Jon M. Dickinson
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Patent number: 8412147Abstract: A method for disseminating emergency notification content from an emergency originating source. The method comprising: delivering the emergency notification content from the emergency originating source to at least one transmitting party; selecting a subset of users from among a set of users for dissemination of the emergency notification content based on the subject matter of the emergency notification content; and delivering the emergency notification content from the at least one transmitting party to a device corresponding to each user from the selected subset of users.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2006Date of Patent: April 2, 2013Assignee: Ochoa Optics LLCInventors: Charles Eric Hunter, Bernard L. Ballou, Jr., John H. Hebrank, James Fallon, Robert D. Summer, Laurie McNeil
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Patent number: 8185433Abstract: A P2P (peer-to-peer) business and commerce-enhancing method including the steps of (a) identifying an active P2P network which is characterized with peers having a defined affinity interest in the exchange of at least category-A information, such as digital music song files, and (b) employing that at-least category-A information-exchange affinity interest as a carrier vehicle and growth engine for the promotion, within that network, of collateral income-generating transactions between a peer and a party who may be inside or outside the network. Of central importance to such commerce enhancement, or growth, as promoted by practice of the invention is that such growth is driven by network-internal, peer-group enthusiasm, linked with imaginative peer entrepreneurship in the engaging of peer-to-peer file-sharing behavior.Type: GrantFiled: July 1, 2005Date of Patent: May 22, 2012Inventors: Robert D. Summer, Jon M. Dickinson
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Publication number: 20100280923Abstract: A sourcing-provider-implemented, electronic-commerce, communication-network method for controlling acquisition-access to electronically-deliverable, affinity-interest deliverables in portions of which rights are held both by a sourcing provider and by a contributing network communicant.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 14, 2010Publication date: November 4, 2010Inventors: Robert D. Summer, Jon M. Dickinson
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Publication number: 20090216644Abstract: An electronic, computer-based, system-manager-supervised, network-commerce, method featuring cloud-computing-type activity, and including (a) forming within an electronic-network a subassembly of selected, distributed, different-affinity-interest, network-connected groups, (b) creating, selectively and distributively within the network, for such groups, selected, controlled-access, physical-electronic, digital-database catalogues of relevant, affinity-interest deliverables via selecting providers of such deliverables, and managing the electronic placement into the catalogues of chosen, selected-provider deliverables, (c) establishing, for and within each such group, vetted and incentivized, group-personnel entrepreneurial activity, wherein at least one so vetted group member is authorized to promote over the network, sales from a relevant catalogue of associated-provider deliverables, and (d) in association with such sales, and utilizing network resources, furnishing ancillary, commerce-related sales supportType: ApplicationFiled: April 27, 2009Publication date: August 27, 2009Inventors: Robert D. Summer, Jon M. Dickinson
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Patent number: 7233781Abstract: A method for disseminating emergency notification content from an emergency originating source. The method comprising: delivering the emergency notification content from the emergency originating source to at least one transmitting party; selecting a subset of users from among a set of users for dissemination of the emergency notification content based on the subject matter of the emergency notification content; and delivering the emergency notification content from the at least one transmitting party to a device corresponding to each user from the selected subset of users.Type: GrantFiled: November 21, 2001Date of Patent: June 19, 2007Assignee: Ochoa Optics LLCInventors: Charles Eric Hunter, Bernard L. Ballou, Jr., John H. Hebrank, James Fallon, Robert D. Summer, Laurie McNeil
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Patent number: 6850901Abstract: A universal automated order processing system represents multiple (e.g., hundreds or thousands) participating merchants who offer their products through the system. Customers become qualified for using the system by supplying a set of information (e.g., name, credit card number, shipping address) that is stored in a customer database. When a customer wishes to order a product, the customer calls the system, customer identity is automatically confirmed, the customer enters a product order number and the complete order is routed to the appropriate merchant with the information necessary for the merchant to fulfill the order. Available credit verification and other aspects of credit card transactions may be handled by either the system operator or the merchant. The system operator may offer revolving credit. The system may also be used to provide potential customers of the merchants with free product information.Type: GrantFiled: August 24, 2000Date of Patent: February 1, 2005Assignee: World Theatre, Inc.Inventors: Charles Eric Hunter, Bernard L. Ballou, Jr., Robert D. Summer, Kelly C. Sparks, Ollin B. Sykes, John H. Hebrank
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Publication number: 20030069002Abstract: A method for disseminating emergency notification content from an emergency originating source. The method comprising: delivering the emergency notification content from the emergency originating source to at least one transmitting party; selecting a subset of users from among a set of users for dissemination of the emergency notification content based on the subject matter of the emergency notification content; and delivering the emergency notification content from the at least one transmitting party to a device corresponding to each user from the selected subset of users.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 21, 2001Publication date: April 10, 2003Inventors: Charles Eric Hunter, Bernard L. Ballou, John H. Hebrank, James Fallon, Robert D. Summer, Laurie McNeil
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Publication number: 20020095357Abstract: A universal automated order processing system represents multiple (e.g., hundreds or thousands) participating merchants who offer their products through the system. Customers become qualified for using the system by supplying a set of information (e.g., name, credit card number, shipping address) that is stored in a customer database. When a customer wishes to order a product, the customer calls the system, customer identity is automatically confirmed, the customer enters a product order number and the complete order is routed to the appropriate merchant with the information necessary for the merchant to fulfill the order. Available credit verification and other aspects of credit card transactions may be handled by either the system operator or the merchant. The system operator may offer revolving credit. The system may also be used to provide potential customers of the merchants with free product information.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 12, 2001Publication date: July 18, 2002Applicant: World Theatre, Inc., a North Carolina corporationInventors: Charles Eric Hunter, Bernard L. Ballou, Robert D. Summer, Kelly C. Sparks, Ollin B. Sykes, John H. Hebrank
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Patent number: 4177010Abstract: A cooled rotorblade has two separate cooling passages or series of passages in its aerofoil. One passage or series communicates with an aperture in the root or shank of the blade for the supply of cooling fluid while the other communicates with a hollow bush mounted in the shank to provide an inlet for cooling fluid. In addition to providing a cooling fluid inlet the bush serves to blank off an interconnection between the otherwise separate passages, the interconnection assisting the manufacturing process.Type: GrantFiled: March 22, 1978Date of Patent: December 4, 1979Assignee: Rolls-Royce LimitedInventors: Terence M. Greaves, Robert D. Summers