Patents by Inventor William Rapp

William Rapp 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: 20080120313
    Abstract: Aspects of the present embodiments provide an eCommerce environment adapted to accept and process various message types (e.g., cXML and mXML). In general, requests are provided from a requesting entity to an application hosting entity. Data from incoming requests are mapped to a format understandable to an appropriate application(s). Responses from the application(s) are then mapped into a response format acceptable by the requesting entity. To this end, embodiments disclosed herein provide processes for the development and execution of a data driven process for mapping multiple request/response message pairs to a single application interface or set of application interfaces. In one embodiment, these processes are driven by development time and run time documents that describe a development time view of the message pairs and the application interfaces as well as runtime instructions for providing the mappings, respectively.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2008
    Publication date: May 22, 2008
    Inventors: Terrence O'Brien, William Rapp, Richard Stevens
  • Publication number: 20080072135
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention generally provide a system, method and article of manufacture for validating annotations describing one or more portions of a data object. In general, prior to displaying a requested annotation, a current change detection value may be calculated from current data extracted from portions of the data object described by the annotation. The current change detection value may be compared to a previously saved change detection value calculated from data extracted from the portions of the data object at the time the annotation was generated. A mismatch in the current change detection value and the previously saved change detection value indicates a change in the annotated portions of the data object, which may render the annotation invalid. The annotated portions of the data object may be continuous or discontinuous.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 26, 2007
    Publication date: March 20, 2008
    Inventors: BRIAN CRAGUN, William Rapp
  • Publication number: 20080050506
    Abstract: Novel expression vectors and constructs encoding a chloroplast transit peptide (CTP) operably linked to a monomeric anthranilate synthase are provided. Additionally, novel polynucleotide sequences encoding monomeric anthranilate synthases are provided. Also provided are methods for increasing the levels of free tryptophan in transgenic plants containing the expression vectors and constructs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2007
    Publication date: February 28, 2008
    Inventors: Siva Manjunath, Santiago Navarro, William Rapp, Xiaohong Shi, Marguerite Varagona, Jennifer Winson, Guangning Ye
  • Publication number: 20080034283
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and articles of manufacture that may be used to attach annotations to a particular view of data described by the annotation are provided. The annotation may be attached in a manner that allows the annotation to be viewed when subsequent views having at least some visible cells in common with the annotated view are displayed. An annotation created for a view of data may be stored with links to each cell visible in the view. When a predetermined set of cells visible in the annotated view are subsequently displayed in another view, the annotation may be retrieved via the cell links and an indication of the annotation may be provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2007
    Publication date: February 7, 2008
    Inventors: Brian Gragun, Douglas Fish, William Rapp, Cale Rath, Hoa Tran
  • Publication number: 20070143148
    Abstract: Method, apparatus and article of manufacture for brokering electronic health records of individuals. The individuals define respective policies that govern the accessibility to their records. Requests for health records are processed by applying the appropriate policies to determine which records may be returned.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2005
    Publication date: June 21, 2007
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomer Kol, William Rapp, Richard Stevens, Karen Witting
  • Patent number: 7217865
    Abstract: The present invention provides transgenic plants transformed with an isolated DNA encoding a monomeric anthranilate synthase. The present invention also provides an isolated DNA encoding a monomeric anthranilate synthase from Agrobacterium tumefaciens. Transformation vectors and transformed plants containing the isolated DNA and seeds derived therefrom, are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2002
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2007
    Assignees: Monsanto Technology LLC, Renessen LLC
    Inventors: Lisa M Weaver, Jihong Liang, Ridong Chen, Soon Seog Jeong, Timothy Mitsky, Steven Slater, William Rapp
  • Publication number: 20050289668
    Abstract: The present invention provides DNA constructs comprising exogenous polynucleotides encoding a threonine deaminase and/or AHAS. Transgenic plants transformed with the constructs, as well as seed and progeny dervied from these plants, are also provided. The transgenic plants have an increased level of one or more amino acids as compared to a non-transgenic plant of the same species.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 6, 2004
    Publication date: December 29, 2005
    Inventors: Lisa Weaver, Timothy Mitsky, William Rapp, Kenneth Gruys, Jihong Liang, Gabriela Vaduva
  • Publication number: 20050091253
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and articles of manufacture that may be used to attach annotations to a particular view of data described by the annotation are provided. The annotation may be attached in a manner that allows the annotation to be viewed when subsequent views having at least some visible cells in common with the annotated view are displayed. An annotation created for a view of data may be stored with links to each cell visible in the view. When a predetermined set of cells visible in the annotated view are subsequently displayed in another view, the annotation may be retrieved via the cell links and an indication of the annotation may be provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 22, 2003
    Publication date: April 28, 2005
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Brian Cragun, Douglas Fish, William Rapp, Cale Rath, Hoa Tran
  • Publication number: 20050089129
    Abstract: Aspects of the present embodiments provide an eCommerce environment adapted to accept and process various message types (e.g. cXML and mXML). In general, requests are provided from a requesting entity to an application hosting entity. Data from incoming requests are mapped to a format understandable to an appropriate application(s). Responses from the application(s) are then mapped into a response format acceptable by the requesting entity. To this end, embodiments disclosed herein provide processes for the development and execution of a data driven process for mapping multiple request/response message pairs to a single application interface or set of application interfaces. In one embodiment, these processes are driven by development time and run time documents that describe a development time view of the message pairs and the application interfaces as well as runtime instructions for providing the mappings, respectively.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2004
    Publication date: April 28, 2005
    Inventors: Terrence O'Brien, William Rapp, Richard Stevens
  • Publication number: 20050079494
    Abstract: The present invention generally relates to the field of plant genetics and protein biochemistry. More specifically, the present invention relates to modified proteins having an increased number of essential amino acids. The present invention provides proteins modified to have an increased number of essential amino acids, nucleic acid sequences encoding the enhanced proteins, and methods of designing, producing, and using the same. The present invention also includes compositions, transformed host cells, transgenic plants, and seeds containing the enhanced proteins, and methods for preparing and using the same.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 9, 2003
    Publication date: April 14, 2005
    Applicant: Monsanto Technology LLC
    Inventors: Tim Oulmassov, William Rapp, Kairong Tian, Jason Wicker, William Welsh, Xia Wang, Robert DeLisle, Tyamagondlu Venkatesh, Jihong Liang
  • Publication number: 20030097677
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method for conferring tolerance to an amino acid analog of tryptophan to a plant and/or altering the tryptophan content of a plant by introducing and expressing an isolated DNA segment encoding an anthranilate synthase in the cells of the plant. Transgenic plants transformed with an isolated DNA segment encoding an anthranilate synthase, as well as human or animal food, seeds and progeny derived from these plants, are also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 3, 2002
    Publication date: May 22, 2003
    Inventors: Lisa M. Weaver, Jihong Liang, Ridong Chen, Soon Seog Jeong, Timothy Mitsky, Steven Slater, William Rapp