Patents by Inventor Steven Edwards

Steven Edwards 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: 7120900
    Abstract: A bidirectional text display method embodied in a functional programming language which first assigns bidirectional attributes to a logical character stream. Next, through explicit processing, level numbers are assigned, honoring any directional overrides present in the logical character stream. Subsequent weak and neutral type processing potentially causes attribute types to change based upon surrounding attribute types. Then, implicit processing assigns final level numbers to the stream which control reordering. Finally, reordering processing produces a sequence of characters in display order. By separating the facets of layout dealing with reordering from those that are concerned with rendering, such as line breaking, glyph selection, and shaping, the Haskell-based method is more discernible and comprehendable, thereby allowing it to be more useful as a model upon which others may base bidirectional implementations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2001
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2006
    Assignee: International Business Machines
    Inventor: Steven Edward Atkin
  • Patent number: 7101643
    Abstract: New polymer electrolytes were prepared by in situ cross-linking of allyl functional polymers based on hydrosilation reaction using a multifunctional silane cross-linker and an organoplatinum catalyst. The new cross-linked electrolytes are insoluble in organic solvent and show much better mechanical strength. In addition, the processability of the polymer electrolyte is maintained since the casting is finished well before the gel formation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2002
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2006
    Assignee: The Regents of the University of California
    Inventors: John Borland Kerr, Shanger Wang, Jun Hou, Steven Edward Sloop, Yong Bong Han, Gao Liu
  • Patent number: 7086004
    Abstract: A extendable method for including display rendering metadata within Unicode character streams. Metadata is distinct from character data, even though it is embedded in the Unicode character stream using tag mechanism. The method allows for an unlimited number of tag identifiers. Legacy Unicode methods such as Bidi, Normalization, and Line Breaking, can be recast using the invention in a more manageable context according to the metadata framework, thereby allowing the methods to be detectable, reversible as well as convertible. The traditional Unicode Control Layer is eliminated because the syntax of controls are captured universally by the new Metadata Layer, irrespective of whether the control relates to presentation or pcontent. By replacing the indistinct boundary separating characters and control with a well defined division, applications that rely on Unicode are easier to develop and to maintain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2001
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2006
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventor: Steven Edward Atkin
  • Patent number: 7074792
    Abstract: The present invention provides a compound of formula I and the use thereof for the therapeutic treatment of disorders relating to or affected by the 5-HT6 receptor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2004
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2006
    Assignee: Wyeth
    Inventors: Ronald Charles Bernotas, Steven Edward Lenicek, Schuyler Adam Antane
  • Patent number: 7068383
    Abstract: A method of interfacing a client with a job-based print device is disclosed. The method disclosed is a method for processing multiple document jobs of varying complexity and purpose, as they arrive from the network, where a job is a transaction or a set of transactions, involving print data and other input and output from the print device, and a document is a single bounded stream of data, which may be a print job or one assertion in the context of a transaction. The method includes receiving client data before it reaches a print communication protocol module. Any or all of the following capabilities may be demonstrated. Raw page description language data is distinguished from other client data and it is determined if the raw page description language includes a request which requires the attention of a specific interpreter and a temporary realignment of job management. The request is processed. An interface which processes client data is disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2000
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2006
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: Judith Ann Bello, Steven Edward Haehn
  • Patent number: 7057039
    Abstract: The present invention provides a compound of formula I and the use thereof for the treatment of a central nervous system disorder related to or affected by the 5-HT6 receptor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2003
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2006
    Assignee: Wyeth
    Inventors: Ronald Charles Bernotas, Steven Edward Lenicek, Hassan Mahmoud Elokdah, David Zenan Li
  • Patent number: 7055703
    Abstract: A slotwall panel storage system has a slotwall panel with a plurality of generally “T” shaped slots forming a plurality of generally “T” shaped slats and a hanger bracket for removably mounting a device on the slotwall panel. The hanger bracket includes a support portion, a first generally “J” shaped hook on one edge of the support portion and a second generally “J” shaped hook on an opposite edge of the support portion. A hook or storage device is attached to the support portion of the hanger bracket.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2004
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2006
    Assignee: Whirlpool Corporation
    Inventors: Travis Michael Perkins, Thomas Wesley Arent, Todd Christopher Starr, Tyree Edward Sampson, Kenneth J. Rasche, Steven Edward Tolliver, Brent A. Junge, Duane A. Schmidt, Brian J. Stewart, Mark Allen Stout
  • Patent number: 7022784
    Abstract: A liquid polymer suitable for use as a lubricant base oil is produced by polymerizing ethylene and at least one alpha-olefin using a metallocene catalyst to provide a polymer which is then isomerized and hydrogenated to produce the liquid polymer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2003
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2006
    Assignee: ExxonMobil Research and Engineering Company
    Inventors: Margaret May-Som Wu, Steven P. Rucker, Richard T. Spissell, Steven Edward Donnachie
  • Patent number: 7010360
    Abstract: A system and method are disclosed for automatically converting dates and times in electronic text messages to the local dates and times of the message recipients. For example, when a text message is sent to an intended recipient, a messaging server can recognize date and time strings in the message text string, if any. The server can parse the date/time information into Coordinated Universal Time (“UTC”) form. The server also receives locale and time zone information from the intended recipient's client application, and can send this information to the originating client application. The originating client application can use this locale and time zone information to convert the UTC date/time information from the message string, if any, to the localized date and time of the message recipient. The localized date/time information is inserted into the message string, and the resulting message is forwarded to the recipient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2003
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2006
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Steven Edward Atkin, Cornell G. Wright, Jr.
  • Patent number: 6995176
    Abstract: The present invention provides a compound of formula I and the use thereof for the treatment of a central nervous system disorder related to or affected by the 5-HT6 receptor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2003
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2006
    Assignee: Wyeth
    Inventors: Ronald Charles Bernotas, Steven Edward Lenicek
  • Publication number: 20050241787
    Abstract: A method of making a cellulosic web includes: forming a nascent web from a papermaking furnish, the nascent web having a generally random distribution of papermaking fiber; b) transferring the web having a generally random distribution of papermaking fiber to a translating transfer surface moving at a first speed; drying the web to a consistency of from about 30 to about 60 percent including compactively dewatering the web prior to or concurrently with transfer to the transfer surface; fabric-creping the web from the transfer surface at a consistency of from about 30 to about 60 percent utilizing a creping fabric with a patterned creping surface, the fabric creping step occurring under pressure in a fabric creping nip defined between the transfer surface and the creping fabric wherein the fabric is traveling at a second speed slower than the speed of said transfer surface, the fabric pattern, nip parameters, velocity delta and web consistency being selected such that the web is creped from the transfer surfac
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 18, 2005
    Publication date: November 3, 2005
    Inventors: Frank Murray, Greg Wendt, Steven Edwards, Stephen McCullough, Guy Super
  • Publication number: 20050241786
    Abstract: An absorbent sheet of cellulosic fibers includes a mixture of hardwood fibers and softwood fibers arranged in a reticulum having: (i) a plurality of pileated fiber enriched regions of relatively high local basis weight interconnected by way of (ii) a plurality of lower local basis weight linking regions whose fiber orientation is biased along the machine direction between pileated regions interconnected thereby, wherein the sheet exhibits a % CD stretch which is at least about 2.75 times the dry tensile ratio of the sheet. Tensile ratios of from about 0.4 to about 4 are readily achieved.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 12, 2005
    Publication date: November 3, 2005
    Inventors: Steven Edwards, Stephen McCullough
  • Patent number: 6956083
    Abstract: Single ion conductors comprising polymer electrolytes prepared by grafting a salt compound onto a comb-branch polymer or dendrimer are disclosed having superior properties.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2002
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2005
    Assignee: The Regents of the University of California
    Inventors: John Borland Kerr, Shanger Wang, Yong Bong Han, Gao Liu, Jun Hou, Steven Edward Sloop
  • Publication number: 20050217814
    Abstract: A method of making a fabric-creped absorbent cellulosic sheet comprising: a) compactively dewatering a papermaking furnish to form a nascent web having an apparently random distribution of papermaking fiber; b) applying the dewatered web having the apparently random fiber distribution to a translating transfer surface moving at a first speed; c) fabric-creping the web from the transfer surface at a consistency of from about 30 to about 60 percent utilizing a patterned creping fabric, the creping step occurring under pressure in a fabric creping nip defined between the transfer surface and the creping fabric wherein the fabric is traveling at a second speed slower than the speed of said transfer surface, the fabric pattern, nip parameters, velocity delta and web consistency being selected such that the web is creped from the transfer surface and redistributed on the creping fabric to form a web with a drawable reticulum.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 18, 2005
    Publication date: October 6, 2005
    Inventors: Guy Super, Steven Edwards, Stephen McCullough, Frank Murray
  • Publication number: 20050222299
    Abstract: An aqueous coating composition having a pigment volume concentration (PVC) of from 60 to 95, preferably having a VOC of equal to or less than 0.1 wt %, including at least one pigment and an aqueous emulsion copolymer, the copolymer having an average particle diameter of from 50 to 350 nanometers and a glass transition temperature (Tg) of from ?20° C. to 60° C., and the copolymer including as polymerized units at least one ethylenically unsaturated nonionic monomer and from 1 to 5%, by weight based on the dry weight of the copolymer, ethylenically unsaturated phosphate monomer, or salts thereof is provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2005
    Publication date: October 6, 2005
    Inventors: Alain Garzon, Matthew Gebhard, Steven Edwards
  • Patent number: 6926160
    Abstract: A space-efficient workroom organization system comprising a slotwall panel with at least one repositionable slotwall-mounted storage cabinet, and a workbench system comprising a workbench having a work surface and defining a storage recess beneath the work surface, with at least one mobile storage cabinet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2005
    Assignee: Whirlpool Corporation
    Inventors: Travis Michael Perkins, Thomas Wesley Arent, Todd Christopher Starr, Tyree Edward Sampson, Kenneth J. Rasche, Steven Edward Tolliver, Brent A. Junge, Duane A. Schmidt, Brian J. Stewart, Mark Allen Stout
  • Patent number: 6925357
    Abstract: A robotic system that includes a remote controlled robot. The robot may include a camera, a monitor and a holonomic platform all attached to a robot housing. The robot may be controlled by a remote control station that also has a camera and a monitor. The remote control station may be linked to a base station that is wirelessly coupled to the robot. The cameras and monitors allow a care giver at the remote location to monitor and care for a patient through the robot. The holonomic platform allows the robot to move about a home or facility to locate and/or follow a patient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2005
    Assignee: InTouch Health, Inc.
    Inventors: Yulun Wang, Keith Phillip Laby, Charles S. Jordan, Steven Edward Butner, Jonathan Southard
  • Patent number: 6915134
    Abstract: A system and method for automatic translation of broadcast messages in a wireless communication system are provided. With the system and method when a wireless communication device enters a region of a wireless network, the wireless communication device registers with the wireless network by way of a base station and mobile switching center. The registration of the wireless communication device includes the creation of a database entry at the mobile switching center that identifies the wireless communication device and includes an indication of the origin, such as the country code, of the wireless communication device. Based on this indication of origin, a desired output language may be identified. This identified output language may then be used to identify prestored versions of a broadcast message that are in the output language or identify the mechanism for translating a broadcast message from an original language to the identified output language.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2003
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2005
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Steven Edward Atkin, David Martin Birk, Stephen B. Boston, Amir Farrokh Sanjar
  • Patent number: D526450
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2006
    Inventors: Michael David Taylor, Steven Edward Carpenter, Jr., Marlene June Taylor
  • Patent number: D530456
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2006
    Inventors: Michael David Taylor, Steven Edward Carpenter, Jr., Marlene June Taylor