Patents by Inventor William A. Abbott

William A. Abbott 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: 20120317266
    Abstract: Application portals enable a unified interface to be provided for users to select application for download and purchase to their devices. User rankings and reviews are common place but do not provide insight on the performance of an application on a particular device type. To improve the application experience additional metrics associated with the performance of an application can be provided to the user prior to download to provide real performance metrics received from individual devices that have already executed the application on a similar device type. The performance metrics can be presented to a user or developer and in a more informative ranking for an application, one based on performance rather than popularity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2011
    Publication date: December 13, 2012
    Applicant: RESEARCH IN MOTION LIMITED
    Inventor: Tyler Ronald William ABBOTT
  • Patent number: 8233573
    Abstract: A method of performing overlap-and-add length for zero-padded suffixes. The method includes derotating received information symbol samples. The derotated received information symbol samples include a first set of derotated received information symbol samples and a second set of derotated received information symbol samples. The first set of derotated received information symbol samples are stored in a buffer. The second set of derotated received information symbol samples are provided to a received sample processing unit. The received zero-padded suffix samples are deroted. Based upon an overlap-and-add length, at least a fraction of the derotated received zero-padded suffix samples is added with at least a fraction of the first set of derotated received information symbol samples to produce multiple summed samples. The multiple summed samples is provided to the received sample processing unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2012
    Assignee: Texas Instruments Incorporated
    Inventors: William Abbott, Yehuda Azenkot
  • Patent number: 6097669
    Abstract: A method for determining Doppler shifts and reflectivity data based on wavelet based sodars. Initially, a high powered sodar pulse of sound is transmitted from an antenna into the atmosphere. This pulse of sound consists of a string of concatenated wavelets. The reflected portion of this transmitted pulse is received, amplified and digitized as a string of samples of time correspond to the range of transmission. After sampling for a short time interval to cover the maximum range of sound, the sampled time series is divided into range gates. For Doppler shifts the power spectrum of the sampled time series is calculated and a peak surrounding the frequency of the transmitted sound is observed. From this peak the direction and velocity of the atmosphere at a given attitude is derived. To accurately arrive at a better velocity resolution, replication is used with wavelet coefficients and an inverse wavelet transform.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 1999
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2000
    Inventors: James R. Jordan, Scott William Abbott, Brian D. Templeman
  • Patent number: 5364765
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a rapid assay method for quantitatively determining the complete isoenzyme profile of a biological fluid and a multiple-assay reagent system for carrying out the method. In one preferred embodiment, a multiple-assay reagent system is disclosed for quantifying the complete isoenzyme profile of lactate dehydrogenase in blood serum, based on two measured parameters and three performed assays.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 1992
    Date of Patent: November 15, 1994
    Inventor: William A. Abbott
  • Patent number: 5158873
    Abstract: A rapid and specific method and reagent for determining LD-1 isoenzyme in biological fluids by incorporating a chaotropic agent, such as sodium perchlorate, into an LDH assay reagent system. The chaotropic agent produces an immediate inactivation of the LDH isoenzymes containing one or more `M` type subunits while the LTD-1 isoenzyme remains stable and is simultaneously measured.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 1989
    Date of Patent: October 27, 1992
    Assignee: Abbott Laboratories
    Inventors: William A. Abbott, David A. Yost, Rita S. Byrne
  • Patent number: 4087000
    Abstract: Objects are delivered individually by feeding to temporary retention stations moved across stream. Objects of two sizes may be delivered in predetermined ratio. Associated counting means gives warning if predetermined rate of delivery not achieved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 1975
    Date of Patent: May 2, 1978
    Assignee: Imperial Chemical Industries Limited
    Inventors: Robert William Abbott, Raymond Stanley Howard, John Arthur Rose