Patents by Inventor Thomas Conrads

Thomas Conrads 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: 20070113197
    Abstract: A new behavior in a graphical user interface allows the user to open and close enclosures, while dragging an object. When the user pauses, gestures, or rolls over a hot spot on top of an icon or text representing a closed enclosure, a temporary window for the closed enclosure is “sprung open” to allow the user to browse inside the enclosure and possible open another enclosure contained within the temporary window. This process can be carried on throughout a hierarchy of windows as the user browses for a destination window for the drag operation. All of the temporary windows except the destination are closed when the mouse button is released, signaling the end of a drag. The user may close sprung open windows by simply moving the cursor out of the sprung open window, or by making some other gesture.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2006
    Publication date: May 17, 2007
    Inventors: Thomas Conrad, Yin Yin Wong
  • Publication number: 20070106955
    Abstract: A window management mechanism allows a user to open a window as a drawer or, perhaps more appropriately named, a pop-up window. The drawer is an opened window that a user has dragged down to a drawer region at the bottom of the screen such that only the title bar or some drawer handle illustration is left showing. When the user does this, the window remains open but is kept offscreen. The user may momentarily pop the window back onto the screen by clicking on the window title bar or drawer handle, or by dragging the cursor into the window icon during a drag. The window stays onscreen as long as no other windows are selected. As soon as a user selects another window, or opens a file with a double click within the drawer, the window slides back offscreen. This allows the user to set up easy access windows. Another feature of a drawer window allows the user to open them during a drag. To do so, the user drags an object or the cursor into the drawer window that is desired to be opened.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2006
    Publication date: May 10, 2007
    Inventors: Thomas Conrad, Elizabeth Moller
  • Patent number: 7172649
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a leucite glass ceramic doped with nanoscale metal oxide, to a doped leucite glass ceramic powder suitable for its production, to a method for producing the doped leucite glass ceramic, to its use as dental material, to a dental product containing it and to the use of the nanoscale metal oxide powders for the production of the doped glass ceramic or of the doped leucite glass ceramic powder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2003
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2007
    Assignees: Chemichl AG
    Inventors: Thomas Conrad, Gerhard Meyer
  • Publication number: 20060212444
    Abstract: Systems and methods of generating and modifying a playlist using contextual information are disclosed. For example, a user may provide an input seed such as a song name or artist name. The input seed is compared to database items and a playlist is generated as a result. In some examples, the contextual information is used to enhance the comparison and to select better content objects for a user's playlist. Meanwhile, in some examples the content objects in the playlist may be arranged in an enhanced order using ranking and/or contextual information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2006
    Publication date: September 21, 2006
    Applicant: Pandora Media, Inc.
    Inventors: Etienne Handman, Thomas Conrad, Joseph Kennedy, Timothy Westergren
  • Publication number: 20060212442
    Abstract: Methods of presenting and providing content to a user are disclosed. For example, a user may provide an input seed such as a song name or artist name. The input seed is compared to database items and a playlist is generated as a result. The playlist has an identifier corresponding to one of the database items. A first graphic element associated with the input seed is displayed. A second graphic element associated with the identifier is displayed. As another example, a plurality of database items are compared and a playlist is generated as a result. The playlist has a first identifier corresponding to a first database item. A first graphic element associated with the first identifier is displayed. A first content object corresponding to the first identifier is provided to the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2006
    Publication date: September 21, 2006
    Applicant: Pandora Media, Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas Conrad, Daniel Lythcott-Haims, Neil Mix, Joseph Kennedy, Etienne Handman, Timothy Westergren
  • Publication number: 20060206478
    Abstract: Methods of generating a playlist for a user are disclosed. For example, an input seed from the user associated with one or more items in a database is received. The input seed may be a song name or artist name. Characteristics that correspond to the input seed are identified. One or more focus traits based on the characteristics are also identified. Based on the identification of the one or more focus traits, a weighting factor is assigned to at least some of the characteristics. The weighted value of the characteristics that correspond to the input seed and characteristics of items in the database are compared. Based on the comparison, items for the playlist are selected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2005
    Publication date: September 14, 2006
    Applicant: Pandora Media, Inc.
    Inventors: William Glaser, Timothy Westergren, Etienne Handman, Thomas Conrad
  • Publication number: 20060057556
    Abstract: Contiguous capillaries useful for separating and electrospraying a fluid comprising analyte and electrolyte are provided. The contiguous capillaries have spray tips at one end of the capillaries and electrically conductive portions in proximity to the spray tips. Methods for making the contiguous capillaries and their use as electrospray sources are also disclosed. Apparatus and methods for conveying analyte ions from the capillaries into analytical instruments, such as a mass spectrometer, are also disclosed. The disclosed contiguous capillaries may be used to carryout electrophoresis separation and electrospray ionization of analytes. Methods for obtaining the mass spectra of macromolecular analytes at concentrations lower than previously possibly are provided using the apparatus and procedures described herein.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2003
    Publication date: March 16, 2006
    Applicant: The Government of the United States of America Department of Health and Human Services
    Inventors: George Janini, Haleem Issaq, Timothy Veenstra, Thomas Conrads, Kenneth Wilkens
  • Publication number: 20050257163
    Abstract: A new behavior in a graphical user interface allows the user to open and close enclosures, while dragging an object. When the user pauses, gestures, or rolls over a hot spot on top of an icon or text representing a closed enclosure, a temporary window for the closed enclosure is “sprung open” to allow the user to browse inside the enclosure and possible open another enclosure contained within the temporary window. This process can be carried on throughout a hierarchy of windows as the user browses for a destination window for the drag operation. All of the temporary windows except the destination are closed when the mouse button is released, signaling the end of a drag. The user may close sprung open windows by simply moving the cursor out of the sprung open window, or by making some other gesture.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 21, 2005
    Publication date: November 17, 2005
    Inventors: Thomas Conrad, Yin Yin Wong
  • Publication number: 20050034631
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a leucite glass ceramic doped with nanoscale metal oxide, to a doped leucite glass ceramic powder suitable for its production, to a method for producing the doped leucite glass ceramic, to its use as dental material, to a dental product containing it and to the use of the nanoscale metal oxide powders for the production of the doped glass ceramic or of the doped leucite glass ceramic powder.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2003
    Publication date: February 17, 2005
    Inventors: Thomas Conrad, Gerhard Meyer
  • Patent number: 6812387
    Abstract: An inbred corn line, designated 2JK221, is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of inbred corn line 2JK221, to the plants of inbred corn line 2JK221 and to methods for producing a corn plant, either inbred or hybrid, by crossing the inbred line 2JK221 with itself or another corn line. The invention further relates to methods for producing a corn plant of the inbred line 2JK221 containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic plants produced by that method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2001
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2004
    Assignee: Agrigenetics Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas Conrad Mack, Edward Joseph Baumgartner
  • Publication number: 20040168610
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to metal oxide powders with a bimodal particle size distribution, to ceramics that can be made from these metal oxide powders, especially milling ceramics for use in dental technology, to a method for the production of the metal oxide powders and of the ceramics, to the use of nanoscale metal oxide powders for the production of the metal oxide powders and of the ceramics as well as to dental ceramic products.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2003
    Publication date: September 2, 2004
    Inventors: Thomas Conrad, Gerhard Meyer
  • Publication number: 20030101473
    Abstract: An inbred corn line, designated 2JK221, is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of inbred corn line 2JK221, to the plants of inbred corn line 2JK221 and to methods for producing a corn plant, either inbred or hybrid, by crossing the inbred line 2JK221 with itself or another corn line. The invention further relates to methods for producing a corn plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic plants produced by that method and to methods for producing other inbred corn lines derived from the inbred 2JK221.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 9, 2001
    Publication date: May 29, 2003
    Applicant: AGRIGENETICS, INC., d/b/a Mycogen Seeds
    Inventors: Thomas Conrad Mack, Edward Joseph Baumgartner
  • Patent number: 6408903
    Abstract: A fuel intake assembly for a vehicle fuel tank is provided. The fuel intake assembly has a closure flap which opens and closes the intake opening. A sealing element and a seat on one or another of the closure flap and the fuel intake fitting cooperate to seal the fuel intake in a closed position. An apparatus is affixed to the closure flap which seals and locks the closure flap to the fuel intake fitting to prevent unwanted opening of the fuel tank.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2000
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2002
    Assignee: Alfmeier Prazision AG, Baugruppen und Systemlosungen
    Inventors: Thomas Theuer, Thomas Conrad, Christian Sünkel, Kugler Clemens
  • Patent number: 6401247
    Abstract: An embodiment of the invention includes a protective sleeve for garment apparel. The protective sleeve includes an inside material having an arm surface coupled to an inside wall and an outside material having a sterile surface coupled to an outside wall. The inside wall and the outside wall are coupled together to form an interior. Moreover, a fluid is placed within this interior.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2000
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2002
    Inventor: Thomas Conrad Williams, IV
  • Patent number: 6289947
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for filling a fuel tank (2) with a filling conduit (4). The fuel flow entering the tank is directed by a through flow sensor (53) in order to control and monitor the filling process. A particularly suitable tank system (1) for implementation of said method comprises a fuel tank (2), a filling tube (3) surrounding a filling conduit (4) and discharging into said fuel tank, an adsorption filler (6) connected to the gas area (8) of the tank (2) and a through-flow sensor (53) which detects the flow of fuel in the filling tube (2).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2000
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2001
    Assignee: DaimlerChrysler AG
    Inventors: Klaus J. Heimbrodt, Helmut Auernhammer, Thomas Theuer, Thomas Conrad, Ewald Duermeier, Bertold Ediger, Lothar Mauz, Dieter Scheurenbrand, Manfred Stotz, Manfred Weil
  • Patent number: 4934878
    Abstract: A center cutting end mill incorporating indexable inserts with positive axial rake angles. Multisegmented rake faces provide support for positive rake cutting edges enabling an improved feed rate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 1988
    Date of Patent: June 19, 1990
    Assignee: GTE Valenite Corporation
    Inventors: Lawrence Plutschuck, Thomas Conrad