Patents by Inventor Todd A. Black
Todd A. Black 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).
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Publication number: 20240135317Abstract: A system for image-based inventory determination including a cart. The cart includes a camera and a cart computing system in communication with the camera. The cart computing system includes a cart processor and a cart memory storing instructions that, when executed by the cart processor, cause the cart computing system to capture and store a set of images from the camera; process the set of images to identify an image of the set of images that displays a section of shelving having both a left vertical beam and a right vertical beam; and transmit the identified image to a remote server.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 26, 2023Publication date: April 25, 2024Inventors: Hari Ramamurthy, Todd Stankiewicz, Deepak Kumar Arumugam, Aroon Narayanan, Andrew Fritts, Chris Black, Muzammil Akram
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Publication number: 20240074829Abstract: Tissue access devices and methods of using the same are disclosed. The devices can have a sensor configured to occlude a flow path by deflecting a membrane into the flow path when the devices become dislodged from tissue. The sensor can be configured to partially or fully occlude the flow path. The sensor can have a spring. The spring can be biased to move the sensor from a sensor first configuration to a sensor second configuration when a force applied by the sensor first surface against a non-sensor surface changes from a first force to a second force less than the first force. The membrane can be deflected into the flow path when the sensor is in the sensor second configuration.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 9, 2023Publication date: March 7, 2024Applicant: Hemotek Medical IncorporatedInventors: Patrick ROUSCHE, Peter TEK, Charles VENTURA, Richard A. SCRIBNER, Andrew BLACK, Andrew LEOPOLD, Mark CARLSON, Todd MACY, Daniel LANE, Adam HENSEL, Edward BROWKA
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Patent number: 9430759Abstract: Various methods, apparatus, and systems are disclosed for calculating a fee linked to an online financial transaction, with improved flexibility and availability through caching and refreshing of fee calculation data. In one embodiment, a method includes extracting fee calculation data into a data cache associated with control data that is updated in response to refreshing of the data cache; receiving a fee calculation request linked to an online transaction associated with a fee type, a country code, and a client identifier; and then selecting, by looking up the data cache, a base fee from either a default fee determined by the fee type and the country code or from an overriding fee associated with the client identifier. The method further includes calculating a transaction fee for the online transaction based at least in part on the base fee; and verifying the control data to transmit the calculated transaction fee.Type: GrantFiled: September 8, 2014Date of Patent: August 30, 2016Assignee: PAYPAL, INC.Inventors: Vinit Agarwal, Ravi Devesetti, Nicholas Peddy, Steven Todd Black, Tyler C. Grant, Kristian Widjaja
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Publication number: 20140379543Abstract: Various methods, apparatus, and systems are disclosed for calculating a fee linked to an online financial transaction, with improved flexibility and availability through caching and refreshing of fee calculation data. In one embodiment, a method includes extracting fee calculation data into a data cache associated with a version identifier that is updated in response to refreshing of the data cache; receiving a fee calculation request linked to an online transaction associated with a fee type, a country code, and a client identifier; and then selecting, by looking up the data cache, a base fee from either a default fee determined by the fee type and the country code or from an overriding fee associated with the client identifier. The method further includes calculating a transaction fee for the online transaction based at least in part on the base fee; and verifying the version identifier to transmit the calculated transaction fee.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 8, 2014Publication date: December 25, 2014Inventors: Vinit Agarwal, Ravi Devesetti, Nicholas Peddy, Steven Todd Black, Tyler C. Grant, Kristian Widjaja
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Patent number: 8831986Abstract: Various methods, apparatus, and systems are disclosed for calculating a fee linked to an online financial transaction. In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a fee calculation request linked to an online financial transaction associated with a fee type, a country code, and a client identifier; and then selecting, using a microprocessor, an initial base fee from either a default base fee determined by the fee type and the country code or from an overriding base fee associated with the financial transaction, wherein the initial base fee includes a transaction percentage and a fixed amount. The method further includes applying, using the microprocessor, at least one adjustment to the initial base fee to calculate a final fee, the at least one adjustment being applied when an associated condition set is determined to be true.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2010Date of Patent: September 9, 2014Assignee: Ebay Inc.Inventors: Vinit Agarwal, Steven Todd Black, Ravi Devesetti, Tyler C Grant, Nicholas Peddy, Kristian Widjaja
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Publication number: 20120005054Abstract: Various methods, apparatus, and systems are disclosed for calculating a fee linked to an online financial transaction. In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a fee calculation request linked to an online financial transaction associated with a fee type, a country code, and a client identifier; and then selecting, using a microprocessor, an initial base fee from either a default base fee determined by the fee type and the country code or from an overriding base fee associated with the financial transaction, wherein the initial base fee includes a transaction percentage and a fixed amount. The method further includes applying, using the microprocessor, at least one adjustment to the initial base fee to calculate a final fee, the at least one adjustment being applied when an associated condition set is determined to be true.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 30, 2010Publication date: January 5, 2012Applicant: EBAY, INC.Inventors: Vinit Agarwal, Steven Todd Black, Ravi Devesetti, Tyler C. Grant, Nicholas Peddy, Kristian Widjaja
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Publication number: 20100158992Abstract: There is disclosed a method for treating or preventing fungal infections comprising the administration of at least one glucan synthase inhibitor of a formula as described above in the specification or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof; also claimed are methods of preparing pharmaceutical compositions comprising a compound as described above in the specification and a carrier, method of treating or preventing fungal infections comprising administration of combinations of glucan synthase inhibitor of a formula as described above in the specification and other antifungal agents, and method of treating or preventing fungal infections comprising administration of pharmaceutical compositions prepared according to a method described above in the specification, and a method of preparing a kit in a single package of the above described pharmaceutical composition and other antifungal agents.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 12, 2008Publication date: June 24, 2010Applicant: Schering CorporationInventors: Todd A. Black, Paul M. McNicholas, Scott S. Walker, Yiming Xu, Pauline C. Ting
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Patent number: 7043492Abstract: The present invention allows an item to automatically be classified using its attributes based on a classification schema and a knowledge base. The invention can include selecting an attribute of the item associated with a source classification system, comparing the value of the attribute to a set of possible attribute values, the possible attributes being associated respectively with a mapping of values from the source classification system to values in a destination classification system, selecting a destination classification for the item based on the comparison if the value of the attribute exists in the mapping, and if the value of the attribute does not exist in the mapping, modifying the value of the attribute, comparing the modified value to the set of possible values, and selecting a second destination classification for the item based on the comparing the modified value if the modified value exists in the mapping.Type: GrantFiled: August 22, 2002Date of Patent: May 9, 2006Assignee: Requisite Technology, Inc.Inventors: Michael Renn Neal, James Michael Wilmsen, Christopher Todd Black, d'Armond Lee Speers
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Patent number: 6243757Abstract: An efficient and scalable real-time information distribution system and method of operation thereof are provided that build customized information collections according to individual preferences. This distribution system uses an information distribution network such as the Internet for its communications infrastructure. The system of the present invention is able to achieve high scalability and efficiency by routing information through the information distribution network. Information streams enter the information distribution network through feed processors. Feed processors, in turn, parse the information received from feed sources and create a set of “keyples.” The keyples are then passed on to a series of keyple routers. The keyple routers match the keyples to a set of destinations, thus multiplexing the keyples to only those destinations that have requested the information.Type: GrantFiled: January 11, 1999Date of Patent: June 5, 2001Assignee: eNuntio, Inc.Inventors: Rajendra Kumar Kanodia, Steven Todd Black