Patents by Inventor William Gale

William Gale 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: 20030147939
    Abstract: An energy multi-saccharide food product including:
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2003
    Publication date: August 7, 2003
    Applicant: Galactogen Products Limited
    Inventors: Roderick Frederick Gerardus Joseph King, Richard William Gale, Simon Edmund George Lester
  • Patent number: 6585999
    Abstract: An energy multi-saccharide food product including: a saccharide component including 5 to 20% w/w galactose; 0 to 25% w/w creatine; and optional further ingredients selected from: carbohydrate, fiber and fat.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2000
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2003
    Assignee: Galatogen Products Limited
    Inventors: Roderick Frederick Gerardus Joseph King, Richard William Gale, Simon Edmund George Lester
  • Patent number: 6487495
    Abstract: An improved system and method for specifying physical locations when using applications run on navigation systems or other computer platforms that provide navigation- or map-related functions. When requesting a navigation- or map-related function from such an application, a user specifies a physical location using a keyword instead of specifying the physical location conventionally, such as by street address. A keyword database relates keywords to physical locations. The application uses the keyword database, or a copy thereof, to find data indicating the physical location associated with the keyword specified by the user. Preferably, physical locations are defined in the keyword database in terms of data in a corresponding navigable database. The application then performs the requested navigation- or map-related function using the data indicating the physical location associated with the keyword. The keyword database is built using input from users.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2000
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2002
    Assignee: Navigation Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: William Gale, Ildiko Hegedus, Matthias Thorner, Lawrence M. Kaplan
  • Patent number: 6292745
    Abstract: A method for forming a geographic database that can be used in a navigation system in which geographic data are transmitted in portions, as needed, from the geographic database to remotely located end users' computing platforms and used by the remotely located end users' computing platforms to provide navigation-related services and features to the end users as the end users travel along roads in a geographic region. The method includes the step of forming a plurality of separate collections of data from a primary copy of the geographic database. Each separate collection includes data that represent all roads of a corresponding respective separate rank, wherein a rank of a road represents a functional classification of the road such that roads that permit generally faster travel have a higher rank than roads that permit generally slower travel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2000
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2001
    Assignee: Navigation Technologies Corp.
    Inventors: Philip Robare, William Gale
  • Patent number: 6278939
    Abstract: A navigation system and method in which geographic data are transmitted in portions, as needed, to end users' computing platforms from a central geographic database and used by the end users' computing platforms to provide navigation-related features to end users as the end users travel along roads in a geographic region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2000
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2001
    Assignee: Navigation Technologies Corp.
    Inventors: Philip Robare, William Gale
  • Patent number: 5541836
    Abstract: Apparatus and methods for determining whether a word/sense pair is proper for a context. Wide contexts (100 words) are employed for both training and testing, and testing is done by adding the weights of vocabulary words from the context. The weights are determined by Bayesian techniques which interpolate between the probability of occurrence of a vocabulary word in a conditional sample of the training text and the probability of its occurrence in the entire training text. A further improvement in testing takes advantage of the fact that a word is generally used in only a single sense in a single discourse. Also disclosed are automated training techniques including training on bilingual bodies of text and training using categories from Roget's Thesaurus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 1991
    Date of Patent: July 30, 1996
    Assignee: AT&T Corp.
    Inventors: Kenneth W. Church, William A. Gale, David E. Yarowsky