Patents by Inventor Wayne A. Scott

Wayne A. Scott 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).

  • SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR INTERACTING WITH A CONTROL ENVIRONMENT
    Publication number: 20110126135
    Abstract: A system and methods for facilitation of user interactions with an electronic device. A number of user interface methods are described and may be used alone or in combination with one another to present an enhanced interface to a user. A method of providing user interaction using a compact status indicator is described. A method for providing a virtual scroll wheel to a user for interaction with content sets is described. A method for allowing a user to dynamically modify a scalable user interface is described. A method for providing gesture based input to a user via a virtual gesture pad is described. A method of providing an interactive graphic search query interface is described. A method for indicating and selecting available content type is described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2010
    Publication date: May 26, 2011
    Applicant: UNIVERSAL ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Christopher Chambers, Wayne Scott, Cheryl Scott, Allen Yuh, Paul D. Arling
  • Configurable controlling device and associated configuration distribution system and method
    Patent number: 7941786
    Abstract: A configurable controlling device and associated program that allows a consumer to modify on a personal computer for downloading to the controlling device configuration data which is used to cause the controlling device to perform a function, such as to transmit a command to an appliance, to change the user interface page being displayed, etc. The editor program provides for managed uploading of modified configuration data to a central server facility from which the uploaded, modified configuration data may be made available for managed download to one or more remotely-located controlling devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2011
    Assignee: Universal Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Wayne Scott, Christopher Alan Chambers, Han-Sheng Yuh
  • SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING DEVICE LOCATION DETERMINATION
    Publication number: 20110102131
    Abstract: A controlling device such as a remote control has programming for transmitting a signal response to a plurality of control environments, each environment including a signaling device. Each signaling device in receipt of the signal request sends a signal response having a unique ID which is chosen to be characteristically attenuated by the surroundings of the environment. Because the controlling device can only be in one environment at a given time, and given the attenuation characteristics of the signal response from each signaling device, only one signal response will be received by the controlling device in each environment. Location definitions associated with the received unique ID may be used by programming in the controlling device to recall saved devices states, commands sets, macros, and even to dynamically generate commands based on the location information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 11, 2011
    Publication date: May 5, 2011
    Applicant: UNIVERSAL ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Stephan de Clerq, Christopher Chambers, Wayne Scott, Allen Yuh, Paul D. Arling, Robert Lilleness
  • Optimized liquid-phase oxidation
    Patent number: 7910769
    Abstract: Disclosed is an optimized process and apparatus for more efficiently and economically carrying out the liquid-phase oxidation of an oxidizable compound. Such liquid-phase oxidation is carried out in a bubble column reactor that provides for a highly efficient reaction at relatively low temperatures. When the oxidized compound is para-xylene and the product from the oxidation reaction is crude terephthalic acid (CTA), such CTA product can be purified and separated by more economical techniques than could be employed if the CTA were formed by a conventional high-temperature oxidation process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2011
    Assignee: Eastman Chemical Company
    Inventors: Alan George Wonders, Puneet Gupta, Lee Reynolds Partin, Wayne Scott Strasser, Marcel de Vreede
  • Optimized liquid-phase oxidation
    Patent number: 7910071
    Abstract: Disclosed is an optimized process and apparatus for more efficiently and economically carrying out the liquid-phase oxidation of an oxidizable compound. Such liquid-phase oxidation is carried out in a bubble column reactor that provides for a highly efficient reaction at relatively low temperatures. When the oxidized compound is para-xylene and the product from the oxidation reaction is crude terephthalic acid (CTA), such CTA product can be purified and separated by more economical techniques than could be employed if the CTA were formed by a conventional high-temperature oxidation process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2011
    Assignee: Eastman Chemical Company
    Inventors: Alan George Wonders, Howard Wood Jenkins, Jr., Lee Reynolds Partin, Wayne Scott Strasser, Marcel de Vreede
  • User interface for a remote control application
    Patent number: 7895532
    Abstract: A hand-held electronic device having a remote control application user interface that functions to displays operational mode information to a user. The graphical user interface may be used, for example, to setup the remote control application to control appliances for one or more users in one or more rooms, to perform activities, and to access favorites. The remote control application is also adapted to be upgradeable. Furthermore, the remote control application provides for the sharing of operational mode information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2011
    Assignee: Universal Electronics, Inc.
    Inventors: Cheryl Scott, Wayne Scott, Steve LanPing Huang
  • System and methods for interacting with a control environment
    Patent number: 7877705
    Abstract: A system and methods for facilitation of user interactions with an electronic device. A number of user interface methods are described and may be used alone or in combination with one another to present an enhanced interface to a user. A method of providing user interaction using a compact status indicator is described. A method for providing a virtual scroll wheel to a user for interaction with content sets is described. A method for allowing a user to dynamically modify a scalable user interface is described. A method for providing gesture based input to a user via a virtual gesture pad is described. A method of providing an interactive graphic search query interface is described. A method for indicating and selecting available content type is described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2011
    Assignee: Universal Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher Chambers, Wayne Scott, Cheryl Scott, Allen Yuh, Paul D. Arling
  • USER INTERFACE FOR A REMOTE CONTROL APPLICATION
    Publication number: 20100321201
    Abstract: A hand-held electronic device having a remote control application user interface that functions to displays operational mode information to a user. The graphical user interface may be used, for example, to setup the remote control application to control appliances for one or more users in one or more rooms, to perform activities, and to access favorites. The remote control application is also adapted to be upgradeable. Furthermore, the remote control application provides for the sharing of operational mode information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 12, 2010
    Publication date: December 23, 2010
    Applicant: UNIVERSAL ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Steve LanPing Huang, Cheryl Scott, Wayne Scott
  • USER INTERFACE FOR A REMOTE CONTROL APPLICATION
    Publication number: 20100313169
    Abstract: A hand-held electronic device having a remote control application user interface that functions to displays operational mode information to a user. The graphical user interface may be used, for example, to setup the remote control application to control appliances for one or more users in one or more rooms, to perform activities, and to access favorites. The remote control application is also adapted to be upgradeable. Furthermore, the remote control application provides for the sharing of operational mode information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 18, 2010
    Publication date: December 9, 2010
    Applicant: UNIVERSAL ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Steve LanPing Huang, Cheryl Scott, Wayne Scott
  • System and method for displaying a user interface for a remote control application
    Patent number: 7831930
    Abstract: A hand-held electronic device having a remote control application user interface that functions to displays operational mode information to a user. The graphical user interface may be used, for example, to setup the remote control application to control appliances for one or more users in one or more rooms, to perform activities, and to access favorites. The remote control application is also adapted to be upgradeable. Furthermore, the remote control application provides for the sharing of operational mode information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2002
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2010
    Assignee: Universal Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Mauro Dresti, Patrick H. Hayes, Robert Campbell, Steve LanPing Huang, Weidong William Wang, Han-Sheng Yuh, James N. Conway, Jr., Sandro David Klein, Alex Louie, Cheryl Scott, Wayne Scott
  • Materials Including Coded Writing
    Publication number: 20100252511
    Abstract: A system and method of using a coded language to market assets, including goods and/or services. A first asset can be offered with materials that are at least partially written in an uncoded language. A second asset, that is related to the first asset, can be offered with materials that are at least partially written in a coded language. Common words can be used on the materials corresponding to the first asset and the materials corresponding to the related second asset. The common words on the materials corresponding to the first asset can be written in the uncoded language, while the common words on the materials corresponding to the related second asset can be written in the coded language. The uncoded words can be used to decipher the coded words, as well as other words written in the same coded language.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 18, 2010
    Publication date: October 7, 2010
    Applicant: MATTEL, INC.
    Inventors: Nathan Proch, Bryan Benedict, Wayne Scott
  • Process and Apparatus for Olefin Polymerization in a Fluidized Bed Reactor
    Publication number: 20100190935
    Abstract: A process and apparatus for gas phase polymerization of olefins in a fluidized bed reactor are disclosed. The process and apparatus employ a vertically oriented fines ejector in order to reduce fouling and reactor downtime.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2010
    Publication date: July 29, 2010
    Inventors: Matthew Howard Scott, Kenneth Alan Dooley, Bailey James Salmon, Mark Dewayne Lorenz, Paul Keith Scherrer, Robert Lin, David Lynn Meade, Wayne Scott Strasser, Dwayne Ray Leonard
  • RFID tag modification for full depth backscatter modulation
    Patent number: 7760073
    Abstract: A modulated backscatter radio frequency identification device includes a diode detector configured to selectively modulate a reply signal onto an incoming continuous wave; communications circuitry configured to provide a modulation control signal to the diode detector, the diode detector being configured to modulate the reply signal in response to be modulation control signal; and circuitry configured to increase impedance change at the diode detector which would otherwise not occur because the diode detector rectifies the incoming continuous wave while modulating the reply signal, whereby reducing the rectified signal increases modulation depth by removing the reverse bias effects on impedance changes. Methods of improving depth of modulation in a modulated backscatter radio frequency identification device are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2010
    Assignee: Battelle Memorial Institute
    Inventors: Jeffrey Wayne Scott, Richard M. Pratt
  • Optimized liquid-phase oxidation
    Patent number: 7741515
    Abstract: Disclosed is an optimized process and apparatus for more efficiently and economically carrying out the liquid-phase oxidation of an oxidizable compound. Such liquid-phase oxidation is carried out in a bubble column reactor that provides for a highly efficient reaction at relatively low temperatures. When the oxidized compound is para-xylene and the product from the oxidation reaction is crude terephthalic acid (CTA), such CTA product can be purified and separated by more economical techniques than could be employed if the CTA were formed by a conventional high-temperature oxidation process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2005
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2010
    Assignee: Eastman Chemical Company
    Inventors: Alan George Wonders, Wayne Scott Strasser, Marcel de Vreede, J Thomas Tidwell
  • High-pressure separator
    Patent number: 7740674
    Abstract: A high-pressure separator with improved efficiency is provided. The separator comprises a centrifugal separator located inside of a gravity separator. The centrifugal separator has an enclosed upper portion and desirably comprises a single cylinder. The high-pressure separator is particularly suitable for use in the production of low-density polyethylene under high pressure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2010
    Assignee: Westlake Longview Corporation
    Inventors: Bailey James Salmon, Wayne Scott Strasser, Kenneth Alan Dooley, Justin Dean Hearron, Mark Dwayne Lorenz
  • OPTIMIZED LIQUID-PHASE OXIDATION
    Publication number: 20100145095
    Abstract: Disclosed is an optimized process and apparatus for more efficiently and economically carrying out the liquid-phase oxidation of an oxidizable compound. Such liquid-phase oxidation is carried out in a bubble column reactor that provides for a highly efficient reaction at relatively low temperatures. When the oxidized compound is para-xylene and the product from the oxidation reaction is crude terephthalic acid (CTA), such CTA product can be purified and separated by more economical techniques than could be employed if the CTA were formed by a conventional high-temperature oxidation process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2010
    Publication date: June 10, 2010
    Applicant: EASTMAN CHEMICAL COMPANY
    Inventors: Alan George Wonders, Robert Lin, Lee Reynolds Partin, Marcel de Vreede, Wayne Scott Strasser
  • Optimized Liquid-Phase Oxidation
    Publication number: 20100143217
    Abstract: Disclosed is an optimized process and apparatus for more efficiently and economically carrying out the liquid-phase oxidation of an oxidizable compound. Such liquid-phase oxidation is carried out in a bubble column reactor that provides for a highly efficient reaction at relatively low temperatures. When the oxidized compound is para-xylene and the product from the oxidation reaction is crude terephthalic acid (CTA), such CTA product can be purified and separated by more economical techniques than could be employed if the CTA were formed by a conventional high-temperature oxidation process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 9, 2010
    Publication date: June 10, 2010
    Applicant: EASTMAN CHEMICAL COMPANY
    Inventors: Alan George Wonders, Marcel de Vreede, Lee Reynolds Partin, Wayne Scott Strasser
  • Process and apparatus for olefin polymerization in a fluidized bed reactor
    Patent number: 7718139
    Abstract: A process and apparatus for gas phase polymerization of olefins in a fluidized bed reactor are disclosed. The process and apparatus employ a vertically oriented fines ejector in order to reduce fouling and reactor downtime.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2010
    Assignee: Westlake Longview Corporation
    Inventors: Matthew Howard Scott, Kenneth Alan Dooley, Bailey James Salmon, Mark Dewayne Lorenz, Paul Keith Scherrer, Robert Lin, David Lynn Meade, Wayne Scott Strasser, Dwayne Ray Leonard
  • Optimized liquid-phase oxidation
    Patent number: 7692037
    Abstract: Disclosed is an optimized process and apparatus for more efficiently and economically carrying out the liquid-phase oxidation of an oxidizable compound. Such liquid-phase oxidation is carried out in a bubble column reactor that provides for a highly efficient reaction at relatively low temperatures. When the oxidized compound is para-xylene and the product from the oxidation reaction is crude terephthalic acid (CTA), such CTA product can be purified and separated by more economical techniques than could be employed if the CTA were formed by a conventional high-temperature oxidation process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2010
    Assignee: Eastman Chemical Company
    Inventors: Alan George Wonders, Marcel de Vreede, Lee Reynolds Partin, Wayne Scott Strasser
  • Optimized liquid-phase oxidation
    Patent number: 7692036
    Abstract: Disclosed is an optimized process and apparatus for more efficiently and economically carrying out the liquid-phase oxidation of an oxidizable compound. Such liquid-phase oxidation is carried out in a bubble column reactor that provides for a highly efficient reaction at relatively low temperatures. When the oxidized compound is para-xylene and the product from the oxidation reaction is crude terephthalic acid (CTA), such CTA product can be purified and separated by more economical techniques than could be employed if the CTA were formed by a conventional high-temperature oxidation process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2010
    Assignee: Eastman Chemical Company
    Inventors: Alan George Wonders, Robert Lin, Lee Reynolds Partin, Marcel de Vreede, Wayne Scott Strasser