Patents by Inventor Russell A. Poole

Russell A. Poole 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: 8429541
    Abstract: A method for video sharing between users of an application. The method involves generating a textual based document. Generating the textual based document includes, for each action performed by the assisting user using the application, detecting the action, identifying an action identifier uniquely identifying the action, and storing a step that includes the action identifier in the textual based document. The method further includes receiving a help request from a perplexed user, obtaining the textual based document matching the help request, generating the support video from the textual based document. Generating the support video includes, for each step in the textual based document, obtaining the action identifier from the step in the textual based document, identifying an action for the perplexed user mapped to the action identifier, and rendering the action for the perplexed user into the support video. The method further includes presenting the support video to the perplexed user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2013
    Assignee: Intuit Inc.
    Inventors: Jason M. Wisneski, Russell A. Poole, Joshua A. Brenner, Colin J. Roper
  • Patent number: 7443140
    Abstract: A method for terminating battery discharge to avoid battery damage and maximize battery usage includes the steps of: (a) determining battery capacity; (b) storing a capacity result of the capacity determining; (c) determining battery voltage; (d) during a monitored battery operation, integrating battery current flow over a time interval to determine an integrated charge value at an end-of-interval-time; (e) determining an extant depth of discharge at the end-of-interval-time; (f) if the extant depth of discharge is neither within a first range of a maximum depth of discharge nor the battery voltage is within a second range of a minimum battery voltage, carrying out steps (d) through (f); (h) if the extant depth of discharge is within the first range of the maximum depth of discharge or if the battery voltage is within the second range of the minimum battery voltage, terminating the monitored battery operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 28, 2008
    Assignee: Texas Instruments Incorporated
    Inventors: Yevgen Barsukov, Dan Russell Poole, Jinrong Qian
  • Publication number: 20010016677
    Abstract: An incubator is described which uses a thermoelectric cooler (TEC) as a heat pump in order to provide a stable temperature environment in the infant chamber. Use of a TEC allows a preselected temperature to be maintained in a large range of ambient temperatures during transport, with improved operating efficiency.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 16, 1999
    Publication date: August 23, 2001
    Inventors: DAN RUSSELL POOLE, ALVIN JOHN SEGARS