Patents by Inventor William Tierney

William Tierney 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: 20180157676
    Abstract: An end user application stores activity data in a part of an electronic document. When the electronic document is stored on a shared storage system, activity data is extracted and stored in an activity store. After activity data has been successfully stored in the activity store, the end user application can remove the activity data from the electronic document. In particular, the end user application can periodically query the activity store to identify activities that have been successfully stored in the activity store. By removing the activity data from the electronic document, the electronic document can be maintained at a reasonable size. By having the end user application remove the activity data, coherency of the data file, and consistency between local copies on end user computers and copies on the shared storage system, can be maintained.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2016
    Publication date: June 7, 2018
    Inventors: Douglas Milvaney, William Tierney, Kristen Tardito, Jerry Shekhel, Feng Liu, Manish Shukla
  • Patent number: 7735279
    Abstract: A building flooring system includes a plurality of polymer-based composite structural underlayment boards overlaying and secured to a building subfloor to form an underlayment layer over the building subfloor and a nonstructural finish-flooring layer overlaying and bonded to the underlayment layer. The polymer-based composite structural underlayment boards each have a polymer material core layer or a predominantly polymer material core layer that typically contains from 1% to 40% by weight filler(s) and a density between 1.6 lbs/ft3 and 25 lbs/ft3. At least the top or bottom major surface of each of the polymer-based composite structural underlayment boards is overlaid by a facer that reinforces and strengthens the polymer-based composite structural underlayment board and that is generally coextensive with and bonded to the overlaid major surface of the polymer-based composite structural underlayment board.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2010
    Assignee: Johns Manville
    Inventors: Duane R. Paradis, Patrick William Tierney
  • Publication number: 20080124530
    Abstract: A building flooring system includes a plurality of polymer-based composite structural underlayment boards overlaying and secured to a building subfloor to form an underlayment layer over the building subfloor and a nonstructural finish-flooring layer overlaying and bonded to the underlayment layer. The polymer-based composite structural underlayment boards each have a polymer material core layer or a predominantly polymer material core layer that typically contains from 1% to 40% by weight filler(s) and a density between 1.6 lbs/ft3 and 25 lbs/ft3. At least the top or bottom major surface of each of the polymer-based composite structural underlayment boards is overlaid by a facer that reinforces and strengthens the polymer-based composite structural underlayment board and that is generally coextensive with and bonded to the overlaid major surface of the polymer-based composite structural underlayment board.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2006
    Publication date: May 29, 2008
    Inventors: Duane R. Paradis, Patrick William Tierney