Patents by Inventor Robert E. Zack

Robert E. Zack 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: 20240073146
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a device obtains transaction data regarding a transaction attempted by a client of an online application within the online application. The transaction data is captured by instrumentation code inserted into the online application at runtime. The device identifies, based on the transaction data, traffic in a network associated with the transaction. The device associates, based on the transaction data, a measure of importance with the traffic. The device causes the traffic to be sent by a networking device in the network according to its associated measure of importance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2022
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Inventors: Thomas Szigeti, Robert E. BARTON, Jerome HENRY, David John ZACKS, Walter Theodore HULICK, JR., Nagendra Kumar NAINAR
  • Patent number: 6988080
    Abstract: An automated security and reorder system for items maintained within a boundary. Each item has an associated transponder which is configured to transmit item identification data for indicating a secured status and a consumable status of the associated item. The system has a transponder communications device configured to electrically interrogate a transponder. The system has a controller which is configures to generate an alert signal in response to detection of a given transponder having crossed the boundary and having item identification data indicating a secured status of the associated item. The controller generates an item recorder signal in response to detection of a given transponder having crossed the boundary and having item identification data indicating a consumable status of the associated item. The system has a database for receiving item reorder signals from the controller for generating an electronic shopping list for reordering of items.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2001
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2006
    Inventors: Robert E. Zack, Sandra K. Stephens, Marshall K. Dobry, Diane M. Berglund
  • Publication number: 20030018534
    Abstract: An automated security and reorder system for items maintained within a boundary. Each item has an associated transponder which is configured to transmit item identification data for indicating a secured status and a consumable status of the associated item. The system has a transponder communications device configured to electrically interrogate a transponder. The system has a controller which is configured to generate an alert signal in response to detection of a given transponder having crossed the boundary and having item identification data indicating a secured status of the associated item. The controller generates an item reorder signal in response to detection of a given transponder having crossed the boundary and having item identification data indicating a consumable status of the associated item. The system has a database for receiving item reorder signals from the controller for generating an electronic shopping list for reordering of items.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 16, 2001
    Publication date: January 23, 2003
    Inventors: Robert E. Zack, Sandra K. Stephens, Marshall K. Dobry, Diane M. Berglund
  • Publication number: 20020014953
    Abstract: In accordance with the present invention, there is provided a controlled access storage system for the delivery and retrieval of an item having a transponder associated therewith. In this regard, the transponder is programmed with data specific to the item. The transponder is configured to transmit item identification data. The storage system is provided with an enclosure sized and configured to store the item. The storage system is further provided with a locking mechanism for unlocking the enclosure for access therein in response to an unlock signal. The storage system is further provided with a transponder communications device which is configured to electrically interrogate the transponder and to receive the item identification data in response.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2001
    Publication date: February 7, 2002
    Inventors: Sandra K. Stephens, Robert E. Zack
  • Patent number: 6323782
    Abstract: In accordance with the present invention, there is provided a controlled access storage system for the delivery and retrieval of an item having a transponder associated therewith. In this regard, the transponder is programmed with data specific to the item. The transponder is configured to transmit item identification data. The storage system is provided with an enclosure sized and configured to store the item. The storage system is further provided with a locking mechanism for unlocking the enclosure for access therein in response to an unlock signal. The storage system is further provided with a transponder communications device which is configured to electrically interrogate the transponder and to receive the item identification data in response.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 1999
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2001
    Assignee: Freight Locker, Inc.
    Inventors: Sandra K. Stephens, Robert E. Zack