Patents by Inventor Roger Blair

Roger Blair 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).

  • Patent number: 9384198
    Abstract: An agency management and content management integration system links agency management system domain entities (such as clients, policies, claims, vendors) to content management system content hierarchical structures (such as client files, policy folders, claims folders, vendor files). End users can quickly navigate to the appropriate content management system structure or structures when working with an entity in the agency management system via button integration. The agency management and content management integration system automatically creates and updates the content management system when changes are made to the agency management system. This may include providing multiple mappings between the entities of the insurance agency management system and content hierarchical structures, a preview of changes to the content hierarchical structures, a testing environment to test the content hierarchical structure changes, and troubleshooting logs resulting from testing of the content hierarchical structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2016
    Assignee: Vertafore, Inc.
    Inventors: Derrick Brown, Roger Blair, Steven Finch, Igor Wolbers, Gerald Taylor, Aleksey Cherkasov
  • Publication number: 20120150919
    Abstract: An agency management and content management integration system links agency management system domain entities (such as clients, policies, claims, vendors) to content management system content hierarchical structures (such as client files, policy folders, claims folders, vendor files). End users can quickly navigate to the appropriate content management system structure or structures when working with an entity in the agency management system via button integration. The agency management and content management integration system automatically creates and updates the content management system when changes are made to the agency management system. This may include providing multiple mappings between the entities of the insurance agency management system and content hierarchical structures, a preview of changes to the content hierarchical structures, a testing environment to test the content hierarchical structure changes, and troubleshooting logs resulting from testing of the content hierarchical structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 11, 2011
    Publication date: June 14, 2012
    Inventors: Derrick Brown, Roger Blair, Steven Finch, Igor Wolbers, Gerald Taylor, Aleksey Cherkasov
  • Publication number: 20070244921
    Abstract: A customizable file template for use in a document or file management system to control how document files are classified, imported, and/or retrieved from the system. The method, as well as a corresponding apparatus and computer-readable medium, enables an administrator to generate a custom classification tree unique to his or her business enterprise by providing a user interface from which to select folder types and subclassifying document types for selected folder types. Editable folder types and document types are provided in respective regions of a graphical user interface. Selected folder and document types are placed into a scratchpad area of the graphical user interface to build the customized file tree. The customized classification tree is stored for subsequent use by a classifier to classify and import files into the document management system, and/or by an end user to access and view stored files arranged according to the customized file tree.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2007
    Publication date: October 18, 2007
    Inventor: Roger Blair
  • Publication number: 20020007605
    Abstract: The movable manufacturing facility brings standard size home building comprehensively within a controlled factory environment. The main structure of the movable manufacturing facility is sufficiently tall to allow assembly and movement of standard size homes within. Multiple independent production lines are established to each produce portions of the dwelling in the form of subassemblies. Finishes, cabinets, appliances, roofs, paint, etc. are installed in the partially completed dwellings prior to houses leaving the production floor. The movable manufacturing facility allows a standard size home under construction to be advanced via a transport element from one production line to the next until complete. The completed homes are subsequently transported on the transport element over a controlled access roadway to individual sites with pre-constructed foundations specifically designed to accept these standard size dwellings.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2001
    Publication date: January 24, 2002
    Applicant: Cohen Brothers Homes, LLC
    Inventors: David Leslie Cohen, Roger Blair Cohen
  • Patent number: 6253504
    Abstract: The movable manufacturing facility brings standard size home building comprehensively within a controlled factory environment. The main structure of the movable manufacturing facility is sufficiently tall to allow assembly and movement of standard size homes within. Multiple independent production lines are established to each produce portions of the dwelling in the form of subassemblies. Finishes, cabinets, appliances, roofs, paint, etc. are installed in the partially completed dwellings prior to houses leaving the production floor. The movable manufacturing facility allows a standard size home under construction to be advanced via a transport element from one production line to the next until complete. The completed homes are subsequently transported on the transport element over a controlled access roadway to individual sites with pre-constructed foundations specifically designed to accept these standard size dwellings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 1997
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2001
    Assignee: Cohen Brothers Homes, LLC
    Inventors: David Leslie Cohen, Roger Blair Cohen
  • Patent number: 6000192
    Abstract: The method of manufacturing standard size dwellings using a movable manufacturing facility brings standard size home building comprehensively within a controlled factory environment. The main structure of the movable manufacturing facility is sufficiently tall to allow assembly and movement of standard size homes within. Multiple independent production lines are established to each produce portions of the dwelling in the form of subassemblies. Finishes, cabinets, appliances, roofs, paint, etc. are installed in the partially completed dwellings prior to houses leaving the production floor. The movable manufacturing facility allows a standard size home under construction to be advanced via a transport element from one production line to the next until complete. The completed homes are subsequently transported on the transport element over a controlled access roadway to individual sites with pre-constructed foundations specifically designed to accept these standard size dwellings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 1997
    Date of Patent: December 14, 1999
    Assignee: Cohen Brothers Homes, LLC
    Inventors: David Leslie Cohen, Roger Blair Cohen
  • Patent number: 5957605
    Abstract: This invention pertains to a device and the method of making same, which device functions both as a containment system for a product having either liquid, semi-liquid, solid or semi-solid characteristics, and as an applicator that can be used to deliver and apply the product to a surface in a convenient, economical and simple manner. The device includes an applicator pad that has a front surface that comes in contact with the desired surface to thereby apply the product thereto. A product impermeable backing layer is bonded to a rear surface of the applicator pad and a packet can be placed in position to release the product into the applicator pad through an aperture formed in the backing layer. A multi-purpose label is used to seal the packet in place, protects the user's hands, provides printed information to the user, provides the user with a device gripping surface and can also function to seal and/or reseal the applicator device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 1997
    Date of Patent: September 28, 1999
    Assignee: Gliders, Inc.
    Inventors: Roger Blair Cohen, Thomas Wills
  • Patent number: 5810534
    Abstract: This invention relates to a nail having a head and an elongated shank with two deformed or cleated portions along the axis of the shank to increase the holding properties of the nail, especially when used to secure sheathing material to floor joists, roof trusses, or wall studs. The increased holding property is largely attributed to the second cleated portion having a diameter of about 2-25% larger than the first cleated portion of the shank.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 1997
    Date of Patent: September 22, 1998
    Assignee: Senco Products, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert S. Carlisle, James P. Elliott, Roger Blair