Patents by Inventor Robert Torres

Robert Torres 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: 20120284629
    Abstract: A chronology display is generated for use with a web presentation or other form of network presentation. The chronology display may include a plurality of intervals, with each interval representative of a period of time. In an embodiment, some of the intervals may indicate a number of content items provided on the network presentation during the time period that corresponds to each particular interval. The indication may be provided by a characteristic, such as for example, a color or shading that represents the number of content items provided on the network presentation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2012
    Publication date: November 8, 2012
    Inventors: Keith Peters, Bryn Dole, Robert Torres
  • Publication number: 20120246305
    Abstract: A system and method for managing COTS devices based on device auto-detection and identification is provided. A network device on a managed network is identified, wherein the network device is identified as a one of a list of one or more network device types supported by the managed network and included in one or more configuration files, and wherein the one or more configuration files further include a list of one or more respective SNMP variables to be monitored for each of the network device types. The respective listing of SNMP variables to be monitored and/or configured is extracted from the one or more configuration files for the identified network device type. A request is then generated to monitor and/or configure the extracted SNMP variables to be monitored for the network device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2012
    Publication date: September 27, 2012
    Applicant: Hughes Network Systems, LLC
    Inventors: Shanti Swarup Vedula, Robert Torres, Gaurav Sabharwal, Patrick Fisher, Chaitali Ghosalkar, William Highfield
  • Patent number: 8250474
    Abstract: A chronology display is generated for use with a web presentation or other form of network presentation. The chronology display may include a plurality of intervals, with each interval representative of a period of time. In an embodiment, some of the intervals may indicate a number of content items provided on the network presentation during the time period that corresponds to each particular interval. The indication may be provided by a characteristic, such as for example, a color or shading that represents the number of content items provided on the network presentation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2012
    Assignee: Topix LLC
    Inventors: Keith Peters, Bryn Dole, Robert Torres
  • Patent number: 8142549
    Abstract: A method of reducing moisture in a fluorine-containing gas is described. The method may include the steps of providing a purifier material that includes elemental carbon, and flowing the unpurified fluorine-containing gas having an unpurified moisture concentration over or through the carbon-based purifier material. At least a portion of the moisture is captured in the purifier material so that a purified fluorine-containing gas that emerges downstream of the purifier material has a reduced moisture concentration that is about 50% or less of the unpurified moisture concentration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2012
    Assignee: Matheson Tri-Gas, Inc.
    Inventors: Andrew Millward, Joseph V. Vininski, Robert Torres, Jr., Tadaharu Wantanbe, Carrie L. Wyse, Mark Raynor, Dan Davia, Praveen Jha
  • Patent number: 8137438
    Abstract: Embodiments of the invention provide an electronic device which may include an interior compartment housing at least one electronic component that may be reactive to target impurities. The electronic component may include at least a cathode and an anode. A purifier material may be interspersed within a conducting polymer layer between the cathode and the anode. The purifier material may decrease target impurities within the interior compartment of the electronic device from a first level to a second level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2012
    Assignee: Matheson Tri-Gas
    Inventors: Robert Torres, Jr., Tadaharu Watanabe, Joseph V. Vininski
  • Publication number: 20120024223
    Abstract: Cyclohexasilane is used in chemical vapor deposition methods to deposit epitaxial silicon-containing films over substrates. Such methods are useful in semiconductor manufacturing to provide a variety of advantages, including uniform deposition over heterogeneous surfaces, high deposition rates, and higher manufacturing productivity. Furthermore, the crystalline Si may be in situ doped to contain relatively high levels of substitutional carbon by carrying out the deposition at a relatively high flow rate using cyclohexasilane as a silicon source and a carbon-containing gas such as dodecalmethylcyclohexasilane or tetramethyldisilane under modified CVD conditions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2011
    Publication date: February 2, 2012
    Applicant: Matheson Tri-Gas, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert Torres, JR., Terry Arthur Francis, Satoshi Hasaka, Paul David Brabant
  • Publication number: 20120011433
    Abstract: Embodiments provide for the creation of network pages or presentations that include pages on which programmatically selected/categorized content and manually-identified content from website users may be combined and displayed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 1, 2011
    Publication date: January 12, 2012
    Inventors: Richard Skrenta, Bryn Dole, Thomas Markson, Robert Truel, Keith Peters, Mike Sawka, Joy Su, Robert Torres
  • Publication number: 20120003819
    Abstract: The present invention discloses that under modified chemical vapor deposition (mCVD) conditions an epitaxial silicon film may be formed by exposing a substrate contained within a chamber to a relatively high carrier gas flow rate in combination with a relatively low silicon precursor flow rate at a temperature of less than about 550° C. and a pressure in the range of about 10 mTorr-200 Torr. Furthermore, the crystalline Si may be in situ doped to contain relatively high levels of substitutional carbon by carrying out the deposition at a relatively high flow rate using tetrasilane as a silicon source and a carbon-containing gas such as dodecalmethylcyclohexasilane or tetramethyldisilane under modified CVD conditions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2011
    Publication date: January 5, 2012
    Applicants: International Business Machines Corporation, Matheson Tri-Gas, Inc.
    Inventors: Terry Arthur Francis, Satoshi Hasaka, Paul David Brabant, Robert Torres, JR., He Hong, Alexander Reznicek, Thomas N. Adam, Devendra K. Sadana
  • Patent number: 8083945
    Abstract: A method of storing and dispensing a fluid includes providing a vessel configured for selective dispensing of the fluid therefrom. The vessel contains an ionic liquid therein. The fluid is contacted with the ionic liquid for take-up of the fluid by the ionic liquid. There is substantially no chemical change in the ionic liquid and the fluid. The fluid is released from the ionic liquid and dispensed from the vessel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2011
    Assignee: Matheson Tri-Gas, Inc.
    Inventors: Carrie L. Wyse, Robert Torres, Jr., Tadaharu Watanabe, Joseph V. Vininski
  • Patent number: 8032511
    Abstract: Embodiments provide for the creation of network pages or presentations that include pages on which programmatically selected/categorized content and manually-identified content from website users may be combined and displayed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2011
    Assignee: Topix LLC
    Inventors: Richard Skrenta, Bryn Dole, Thomas Markson, Robert Truel, Keith Peters, Mike Sawka, Joy Su, Robert Torres
  • Patent number: 7955416
    Abstract: A method of storing and dispensing a fluid includes providing a vessel configured for selective dispensing of the fluid therefrom. A polymerized polymeric material is provided within the vessel. The fluid is contacted with the polymerized polymeric material for take-up of the fluid by the polymerized polymeric material. The fluid is released from the polymerized polymeric material and dispensed from the vessel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2011
    Assignee: Matheson Tri-Gas, Inc.
    Inventors: Carrie L. Wyse, Robert Torres, Andrew R. Millward
  • Publication number: 20110127660
    Abstract: Embodiments of the invention provide an electronic device which may include an interior compartment housing at least one electronic component that may be reactive to target impurities. The electronic component may include at least a cathode and an anode. A purifier material may be interspersed within a conducting polymer layer between the cathode and the anode. The purifier material may decrease target impurities within the interior compartment of the electronic device from a first level to a second level.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 9, 2011
    Publication date: June 2, 2011
    Applicant: Matheson Tri-Gas
    Inventors: Robert Torres, JR., Tadaharu Watanabe, Joseph V. Vininski
  • Patent number: 7953820
    Abstract: An approach is provided for supporting retrieval of web content over a meshed communication network (111). A first server (105) receives a request from a browser application (103) for the content resident in the web server (109). The first server (105) includes a downstream proxy (401) configured to modify the request to include information specifying support of a parse and pre-fetch service within an optional header field of the request as to permit handling of the modified request by the web server (109) in absence of an upstream proxy (403) that is communicating with the web server (109). A second server (107) is configured as the upstream proxy (403) to intercept the modified request and pre-fetch the content from the web server (109). The second server (107) forwards the pre-fetched content over the communication network (111) to the first server (105). This approach has particular applicability in relatively high latency networks, such as a satellite communications system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2003
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2011
    Assignee: Hughes Network Systems, LLC
    Inventors: Patrick Stevens, Daniel Friedman, Robert Torres, Vaibhav Kumar
  • Patent number: 7947111
    Abstract: Novel uses and methods of use for inorganic and macroreticulate polymer bonding to metals to control moisture and oxygen in OLED, and other like devices, are provided. Materials having color change capacity are also provided for the removal of moisture from an OLED, where the material changes color upon reaching its capacity and thereby signals the user that the OLED is no longer protected from moisture damage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2011
    Assignee: Matheson Tri-Gas
    Inventors: Robert Torres, Jr., Tadaharu Watanabe, Joseph V. Vininski
  • Patent number: 7938968
    Abstract: A method of storing and dispensing a fluid includes providing a vessel configured for selective dispensing of the fluid therefrom. The vessel contains an ionic liquid therein. The fluid is contacted with the ionic liquid for take-up of the fluid by the ionic liquid. There is substantially no chemical change in the ionic liquid and the fluid. The fluid is released from the ionic liquid and dispensed from the vessel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2011
    Assignee: Matheson Tri Gas
    Inventors: Carrie L. Wyse, Robert Torres, Jr., Tadaharu Watanabe, Joseph V. Vininski
  • Publication number: 20110088718
    Abstract: Methods of cleaning a process chamber used to fabricate electronics components are described. The methods may include the step of providing a cleaning gas mixture to the process chamber, where the cleaning gas mixture may include a fluorine-containing precursor, and where the cleaning gas mixture removes contaminants from interior surfaces of the processing chamber that are exposed to the cleaning gas mixture. The methods may also include the steps of removing the reaction products of the cleaning gas mixture from the process chamber, and providing a substrate to the process chamber following the evacuation of the reaction products from the process chamber. The cleaning gas mixture may include one or more hydrofluoronated ethers, and the contaminants may include one or more tin-containing contaminants.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2010
    Publication date: April 21, 2011
    Applicant: Matheson Tri-Gas, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert Torres, JR., Carrie L. Wyse
  • Publication number: 20110073136
    Abstract: Methods of removing gallium and gallium-containing materials from surfaces within a substrate processing chamber using a cleaning mixture are described. The cleaning mixture contains an iodine-containing compound and is introduced into the processing chamber. Iodine reacts with gallium resident within the chamber to produce thermally volatile Gal3. The Gal3 is removed using the exhaust system of the chamber by raising the temperature of the desorbing surface. Other volatile gallium-containing by-products may also be formed and removed from the exhaust system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2010
    Publication date: March 31, 2011
    Applicant: Matheson Tri-Gas, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert Torres, JR., Glenn Mitchell, Michael Sievers, Adam Seymour
  • Publication number: 20110070371
    Abstract: Methods of forming a conductive fluorine-doped metal oxide layer on a substrate by chemical vapor deposition are described. The methods may include heating the substrate in a processing chamber, and introducing a metal-containing precursor and a fluorine-containing precursor to the processing chamber. The methods may also include adding an oxygen-containing precursor to the processing chamber. The precursors are reacted to deposit the fluorine-doped metal oxide layer on the substrate. Methods may also include forming the conductive fluorine-doped metal oxide layer by plasma-assisted chemical vapor deposition. These methods may include providing the substrate in a processing chamber, and introducing a metal-containing precursor, and a fluorine-containing precursor to the processing chamber. A plasma may be formed that includes species from the metal-containing precursor and the fluorine-containing precursor. The species may react to deposit the fluorine-doped metal oxide layer on the substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2010
    Publication date: March 24, 2011
    Applicants: Matheson Tri-Gas, Inc., Alliance for Sustainable Energy
    Inventors: Tim Gessert, Xiaonan Li, Teresa M. Barnes, Robert Torres, JR., Carrie L. Wyse
  • Publication number: 20110059617
    Abstract: Methods of etching high-aspect-ratio features in dielectric materials such as silicon oxide are described. The methods may include a concurrent introduction of a fluorocarbon precursor and an iodo-fluorocarbon precursor into a substrate processing system housing a substrate. The fluorocarbon precursor may have a F:C atomic ratio of about 2:1 or less, and the iodo-fluorocarbon may have a F:C ratio of about 1.75:1 to about 1.5:1. Exemplary precursors may include C4F6, C5F8 and C2F3I, among others. The substrate processing system may be configured to allow creation of a plasma useful for accelerating ions created in the plasma toward the substrate. The substrate may have regions of exposed silicon oxide and an overlying patterned photoresist layer which exposes narrow regions of silicon oxide. The etch process may remove the silicon oxide to a significant depth while maintaining a relatively constant width down the trench.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2010
    Publication date: March 10, 2011
    Applicant: Matheson Tri-Gas, Inc.
    Inventors: Glenn Mitchell, Robert Torres, JR., Adam Seymour
  • Publication number: 20110056515
    Abstract: Methods of cleaning a processing chamber with nitrogen trifluoride (NF3) are described. The methods involve a concurrent introduction of nitrogen trifluoride and a reactive diluent into the chamber. The NF3 may be excited in a plasma inside the chamber or in a remote plasma region upstream from the chamber. The reactive diluent may be introduced upstream or downstream of the remote plasma such that both NF3 and the reactive diluent (and any plasma-generated effluents) are present in the chamber during cleaning. The presence of the reactive diluent enhances the chamber-cleaning effectiveness of the NF3.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2010
    Publication date: March 10, 2011
    Applicant: Matheson Tri-Gas, Inc.
    Inventors: Glenn Mitchell, Robert Torres, JR., Adam Seymour