Patents by Inventor Tom Gordon
Tom Gordon 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: 20240127672Abstract: A networked computer system for displaying images associated with non-fungible tokens (NFTs) on electronic gaming machines (EGMs) is described herein. The networked computer system includes a computer server coupled to a plurality of EGMs located within a casino property. The computer server includes a processor programmed to execute an algorithm to display an animated sequence of computer-generated images on a display device of a corresponding EGM including the steps of querying a blockchain system to identify a casino charm NFT owned by a casino patron, querying a charms content database to retrieve image data associated with the identified casino charm NFT, and rendering an image of the identified casino charm NFT on a game screen displayed on the corresponding EGM.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 31, 2023Publication date: April 18, 2024Inventors: Tom Mikulich, Pat Gordon, Jon Von Tobel, William Chad Little
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Patent number: 11563629Abstract: A technical solution for an electronic information exchange platform is disclosed. Services provided by the platform may be described in a uniform way via service-specific provisioning descriptors. To provision services for a client system, a managed services provisioning system provides a service configuration interface through which a service associated with a tuple of a particular sender, receiver, and document type can be selected for further configuration. A service provisioning interface is dynamically generated for obtaining service-specific provisioning information from a user for generating a service-specific provisioning data instance that can be deployed to a backend system. At runtime, the backend system utilizes the service-specific provisioning data instance to provide the provisioned service for a client system. In this way, a variety of services can be efficiently provisioned for a diverse set of clients in a scalable, streamlined, and cost-effective manner.Type: GrantFiled: June 24, 2019Date of Patent: January 24, 2023Assignee: OPEN TEXT GXS ULCInventors: Gregory Frederick Bush, Ricardo Ceppi, Tom Gordon, John Theodore Radko
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Patent number: 11540500Abstract: A knotless fishing line connection system employs one or more knotless fishing line connectors. Each knotless fishing line connector includes an engaging member coupled to a socket member configured to receive and lock the engaging member. The knotless fishing line connector can be used to secure a fishing line to a fishing hook. Another such knotless fishing line connector can be used to connect the fishing line to a swivel connector or the like. A fishing rig can include a fishing leader line having a first engaging member and a second engaging member on opposite distal ends thereof. The rig can further include a fishing hook having a first engaging member configured to receive and lock the first engaging member and a swivel connector or the like having a second engaging member configured to receive and lock the second engaging member.Type: GrantFiled: April 28, 2022Date of Patent: January 3, 2023Inventor: Tom Gordon
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Patent number: 10606363Abstract: A method for a display system of a motor vehicle is provided. The motor vehicle comprises one or more seats for occupants of the vehicle, the position and/or orientation of the seats within an interior of the motor vehicle being variable. The method comprises: determining a position and/or orientation of the seats; determining an orientation at least a first portion of an image to be displayed by the display system according to the position and/or orientation of the seats; and displaying the image such that at least the first portion of the image is in the determined orientation. A display system for a motor vehicle is also provided.Type: GrantFiled: June 1, 2018Date of Patent: March 31, 2020Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Marcus Hoggarth, Tom Gordon, Alan Pich
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Publication number: 20190312773Abstract: A technical solution for significantly improving the scalability of the capability of an electronic information exchange platform is disclosed. Services provided by the platform may be described in a uniform way via service-specific provisioning descriptors. To provision services for a client system, a managed services provisioning system provides a service configuration interface through which a service associated with a tuple of a particular sender, receiver, and document type can be selected for further configuration. A service provisioning interface is dynamically generated for obtaining service-specific provisioning information from a user for generating a service-specific provisioning data instance that can be deployed to a backend system. At runtime, the backend system utilizes the service-specific provisioning data instance to provide the provisioned service for a client system.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 24, 2019Publication date: October 10, 2019Inventors: Gregory Frederick Bush, Ricardo Ceppi, Tom Gordon, John Theodore Radko
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Patent number: 10382261Abstract: A technical solution for significantly improving the scalability of the capability of an electronic information exchange platform is disclosed. Services provided by the platform may be described in a uniform way via service-specific provisioning descriptors. To provision services for a client system, a managed services provisioning system provides a service configuration interface through which a service associated with a tuple of a particular sender, receiver, and document type can be selected for further configuration. A service provisioning interface is dynamically generated for obtaining service-specific provisioning information from a user for generating a service-specific provisioning data instance that can be deployed to a backend system. At runtime, the backend system utilizes the service-specific provisioning data instance to provide the provisioned service for a client system.Type: GrantFiled: July 29, 2016Date of Patent: August 13, 2019Assignee: Open Text GXS ULCInventors: Gregory Frederick Bush, Ricardo Ceppi, Tom Gordon, John Theodore Radko
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Publication number: 20190050894Abstract: An application program interface (API) is operably associated with application programs executing on an electronic device and enables the application programs to retrieve, store, and display content. The API enables application programs to communicate with other application programs and to send/retrieve content to/from other application programs. In addition, the API is configured to perform various event accounting functions. A gateway communicates with an electronic device application program via the API and is configured to retrieve content from a content server in response to receiving requests from the application programs. The gateway is configured to serve content retrieved from the content server to the electronic device, as well as to other servers and/or devices. Methods, apparatus, and computer program products are provided for dynamically selecting advertisements for use within user-requested content wherein the advertisements are stored locally within a user client device.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 15, 2018Publication date: February 14, 2019Applicant: EBM/IP, LLCInventors: Steve Cox, David Spitz, Matthew Squire, Jay Thrash, Tom Gordon
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Publication number: 20180356897Abstract: A method for a display system of a motor vehicle is provided. The motor vehicle comprises one or more seats for occupants of the vehicle, the position and/or orientation of the seats within an interior of the motor vehicle being variable. The method comprises: determining a position and/or orientation of the seats; determining an orientation at least a first portion of an image to be displayed by the display system according to the position and/or orientation of the seats; and displaying the image such that at least the first portion of the image is in the determined orientation. A display system for a motor vehicle is also provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 1, 2018Publication date: December 13, 2018Applicant: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Marcus Hoggarth, Tom Gordon, Alan Pich
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Publication number: 20170154358Abstract: An application program interface (API) is operably associated with application programs executing on an electronic device and enables the application programs to retrieve, store, and display content. The API enables application programs to communicate with other application programs and to send/retrieve content to/from other application programs. In addition, the API is configured to perform various event accounting functions. A gateway communicates with an electronic device application program via the API and is configured to retrieve content from a content server in response to receiving requests from the application programs. The gateway is configured to serve content retrieved from the content server to the electronic device, as well as to other servers and/or devices. Methods, apparatus, and computer program products are provided for dynamically selecting advertisements for use within user-requested content wherein the advertisements are stored locally within a user client device.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 9, 2017Publication date: June 1, 2017Applicant: EBM/IP, LLCInventors: Steve Cox, David Spitz, Matthew Squire, Jay Thrash, Tom Gordon
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Publication number: 20170033987Abstract: A technical solution for significantly improving the scalability of the capability of an electronic information exchange platform is disclosed. Services provided by the platform may be described in a uniform way via service-specific provisioning descriptors. To provision services for a client system, a managed services provisioning system provides a service configuration interface through which a service associated with a tuple of a particular sender, receiver, and document type can be selected for further configuration. A service provisioning interface is dynamically generated for obtaining service-specific provisioning information from a user for generating a service-specific provisioning data instance that can be deployed to a backend system. At runtime, the backend system utilizes the service-specific provisioning data instance to provide the provisioned service for a client system.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 29, 2016Publication date: February 2, 2017Inventors: Gregory Frederick Bush, Ricardo Ceppi, Tom Gordon, John Theodore Radke
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Publication number: 20140372206Abstract: An application program interface (API) is operably associated with application programs executing on an electronic device and enables the application programs to retrieve, store, and display content. The API enables application programs to communicate with other application programs and to send/retrieve content to/from other application programs. In addition, the API is configured to perform various event accounting functions. A gateway communicates with an electronic device application program via the API and is configured to retrieve content from a content server in response to receiving requests from the application programs. The gateway is configured to serve content retrieved from the content server to the electronic device, as well as to other servers and/or devices. Methods, apparatus, and computer program products are provided for dynamically selecting advertisements for use within user-requested content wherein the advertisements are stored locally within a user client device.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 26, 2014Publication date: December 18, 2014Applicant: EBM/IP, LLCInventors: Steve Cox, David Spitz, Matthew Squire, Jay Thrash, Tom Gordon
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Patent number: 8862779Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer program products that facilitate the integration and accounting of advertising within audio Web content requested by users via telephone devices are provided. Upon receiving a request from a user for Web content via a telephone device, a Web server retrieves an advertisement from an advertisement server, inserts the retrieved advertisement within the user requested Web content, and forwards the user requested Web content and advertisement to a text-to-speech transcoder for conversion to an audio format. The text-to-speech transcoder converts the Web content and advertisement from a text-based format to an audio format and serves the Web content and advertisement in the audio format to the user client device via a telephone link established with the user client device. If an advertisement is interactive, a text-to-speech transcoder may be configured to notify an advertisement server of user interaction with the advertisement.Type: GrantFiled: January 15, 2010Date of Patent: October 14, 2014Assignee: Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.Inventors: Dana Borger, Steve Cox, Tom Gordon, David Spitz, Matthew Squire, Jay Thrash
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Patent number: 8843590Abstract: An application program interface (API) is operably associated with application programs executing on an electronic device and enables the application programs to retrieve, store, and display content. The API enables application programs to communicate with other application programs and to send/retrieve content to/from other application programs. In addition, the API is configured to perform various event accounting functions. A gateway communicates with an electronic device application program via the API and is configured to retrieve content from a content server in response to receiving requests from the application programs. The gateway is configured to serve content retrieved from the content server to the electronic device, as well as to other servers and/or devices. Methods, apparatus, and computer program products are provided for dynamically selecting advertisements for use within user-requested content wherein the advertisements are stored locally within a user client device.Type: GrantFiled: May 18, 2001Date of Patent: September 23, 2014Assignee: EBM/IP, LLCInventors: Steve Cox, David Spitz, Matthew Squire, Jay Thrash, Tom Gordon, Xiaohu Guan, Dana Borger
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Publication number: 20100185512Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer program products that facilitate the integration and accounting of advertising within audio Web content requested by users via telephone devices are provided. Upon receiving a request from a user for Web content via a telephone device, a Web server retrieves an advertisement from an advertisement server, inserts the retrieved advertisement within the user requested Web content, and forwards the user requested Web content and advertisement to a text-to-speech transcoder for conversion to an audio format. The text-to-speech transcoder converts the Web content and advertisement from a text-based format to an audio format and serves the Web content and advertisement in the audio format to the user client device via a telephone link established with the user client device. If an advertisement is interactive, a text-to-speech transcoder may be configured to notify an advertisement server of user interaction with the advertisement.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 15, 2010Publication date: July 22, 2010Inventors: Dana Borger, Steve Cox, Tom Gordon, David Spitz, Matthew Squire, Jay Thrash
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Patent number: 7653748Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer program products that facilitate the integration and accounting of advertising within audio Web content requested by users via telephone devices are provided. Upon receiving a request from a user for Web content via a telephone device, a Web server retrieves an advertisement from an advertisement server, inserts the retrieved advertisement within the user requested Web content, and forwards the user requested Web content and advertisement to a text-to-speech transcoder for conversion to an audio format. The text-to-speech transcoder converts the Web content and advertisement from a text-based format to an audio format and serves the Web content and advertisement in the audio format to the user client device via a telephone link established with the user client device. If an advertisement is interactive, a text-to-speech transcoder may be configured to notify an advertisement server of user interaction with the advertisement.Type: GrantFiled: August 3, 2001Date of Patent: January 26, 2010Assignee: Simplexity, LLCInventors: Dana Borger, Steve Cox, Tom Gordon, David Spitz, Matthew Squire, Jay Thrash
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Publication number: 20090170803Abstract: The present invention provides a therapeutic method for treating biological diseases that includes the administration of an effective amount of a suitable antibiotic agent, antifungal agent or antiviral agent in conjunction with an A2A adenosine receptor agonist. If no anti-pathogenic agent is known the A2A agonist can be used alone to reduce inflammation, as may occur during infection with antibiotic resistant bacteria, or certain viruses such as those that cause SARS or Ebola. Optionally, the method includes administration of a type IV PDE inhibitor.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 10, 2003Publication date: July 2, 2009Inventors: Joel M. Linden, Gail W. Sullivan, W. Michael Scheld, Tom Gordon Obrig, Timothy L. MacDonald, Jayson M. Rieger
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Publication number: 20020123334Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer program produces for dynamically inserting content into Web documents for display by client devices are provided. User requests for Web documents are sent from a client device to a first server. In response to receiving the user request, the first server sends a request to a second server for content to be included within a requested Web document. The second server sends content having a format specified by the markup tag to the first server. The first server then serves a requested Web document with the content included therewithin at the identified location to a client device.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 5, 2001Publication date: September 5, 2002Inventors: Dana Borger, Steve Cox, Tom Gordon, David Spitz, Matthew Squire, Jay Thrash
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Publication number: 20020082938Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer program products that facilitate and account for call-through advertising between third party advertisers and users of Web-enabled telephone devices, are provided. An advertisement server serves an advertisement associated with a third party to a Web-enabled telephone device for insertion within a Web page displayed within the device. The advertisement contains an embedded hyperlink associated with the advertisement server. In response to user activation of the advertisement, the advertisement server serves telephone connection information of the third party to the Web-enabled telephone device. The telephone connection information is in a format that can be utilized by the Web-enabled telephone device to establish telephone communications with the third party. Information associated with serving the telephone connection information to the Web-enabled telephone device is stored.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 13, 2001Publication date: June 27, 2002Inventors: Dana Borger, Steve Cox, Tom Gordon, David Spitz, Matthew Squire, Jay Thrash
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Publication number: 20020062393Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer program products that facilitate the integration and accounting of advertising within audio Web content requested by users via telephone devices are provided. Upon receiving a request from a user for Web content via a telephone device, a Web server retrieves an advertisement from an advertisement server, inserts the retrieved advertisement within the user requested Web content, and forwards the user requested Web content and advertisement to a text-to-speech transcoder for conversion to an audio format. The text-to-speech transcoder converts the Web content and advertisement from a text-based format to an audio format and serves the Web content and advertisement in the audio format to the user client device via a telephone link established with the user client device. If an advertisement is interactive, a text-to-speech transcoder may be configured to notify an advertisement server of user interaction with the advertisement.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 3, 2001Publication date: May 23, 2002Inventors: Dana Borger, Steve Cox, Tom Gordon, David Spitz, Matthew Squire, Jay Thrash
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Publication number: 20020004855Abstract: An application program interface (API) is operably associated with application programs executing on an electronic device and enables the application programs to retrieve, store, and display content. The API enables application programs to communicate with other application programs and to send/retrieve content to/from other application programs. In addition, the API is configured to perform various event accounting functions. A gateway communicates with an electronic device application program via the API and is configured to retrieve content from a content server in response to receiving requests from the application programs. The gateway is configured to serve content retrieved from the content server to the electronic device, as well as to other servers and/or devices. Methods, apparatus, and computer program products are provided for dynamically selecting advertisements for use within user-requested content wherein the advertisements are stored locally within a user client device.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 18, 2001Publication date: January 10, 2002Inventors: Steve Cox, David Spitz, Matthew Squire, Jay Thrash, Tom Gordon, Xiaohu Guan, Dana Borger