Patents by Inventor William E. Steele

William E. Steele 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).

  • Method and apparatus for metering liquid nutritional supplements
    Publication number: 20040007555
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for metering a liquid nutritional supplement is disclosed and provides a liquid dispenser having a body that contains a predetermined number of single dosages of the liquid nutritional supplement, a cap, such as a child-resistant cap, coupled to a neck portion of the body, and a dosage cup coupled to the cap. The dosage cup has at least four axial shoulders on an inside surface thereof that each has an engaging surface adapted to engage axial ridges of the cap. The dosage cup is coupled to the cap such that a force that is greater, by a predetermined amount, than the weight of the dosage cup is required to remove the dosage cup from the cap, and providing the dosage cup with an indicator adapted to indicate one of the single dosages of the liquid nutritional supplement to be consumed by a user for a predetermined time period.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2002
    Publication date: January 15, 2004
    Inventors: William E. Steele, Phillip D. Livingston, Clarence D. Zierhut
  • Method and system for reliable broadcasting of data files and streams
    Patent number: 6567948
    Abstract: A system and method for transmitting information between a host computer and one or more subscriber computers via a satellite is provided. One or more live streams of data representing the information are inputted in the host computer. The respective pacing factors are measured from the live data streams. The respective virtual files are created from the live data streams. The virtual files are packet-encoded to generate respective streams of encoded packets. The streams of encoded packets and pacing factors are transmitted to the subscriber computers via satellite.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2001
    Date of Patent: May 20, 2003
    Assignee: KenCast, Inc.
    Inventors: William E. Steele, Michael Fischer, Sophia Paleologou
  • Method and system for reliable broadcasting of data files and streams
    Publication number: 20020049939
    Abstract: A system and method for transmitting information between a host computer and one or more subscriber computers via a satellite is provided. One or more live streams of data representing the information are inputted in the host computer. The respective pacing factors are measured from the live data streams. The respective virtual files are created from the live data streams. The virtual files are packet-encoded to generate respective streams of encoded packets. The streams of encoded packets and pacing factors are transmitted to the subscriber computers via satellite.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 7, 2001
    Publication date: April 25, 2002
    Inventors: William E. Steele, Michael Fischer, Sophia Paleologou
  • Method and system for reliable broadcasting of data files and streams
    Patent number: 6272658
    Abstract: A system and method for transmitting information between a host computer and one or more subscriber computers via a satellite is provided. One or more live streams of data representing the information are inputted in the host computer. The respective pacing factors are measured from the live data streams. The respective virtual files are created from the live data streams. The virtual files are packet-encoded to generate respective streams of encoded packets. The streams of encoded packets and pacing factors are transmitted to the subscriber computers via satellite.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 1998
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2001
    Assignee: KenCast, Inc.
    Inventors: William E. Steele, Michael Fischer, Sophia Paleologou