Patents by Inventor William To

William To 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).

  • Call destination number mapping methods, devices and systems
    Patent number: 8494506
    Abstract: A call destination mapping method executes on a mobile communication device. The mobile communication device requests a call action within the device for a first call destination number of a call destination, maps the first call destination number to a second call destination number in accordance with one or more call destination mapping rules stored on the device, and replaces the first call destination number in the call action with the second call destination number.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2013
    Assignee: Research In Motion Limited
    Inventors: Lawrence Edward Kuhl, Colin Mark Werner, Christopher Lyle Bender, Scott William Totzke
  • Single-transformer full-duplex digital isolator
    Patent number: 8493893
    Abstract: The present invention provides a single transformer full-duplex digital isolator whereby two digital data streams may simultaneously be transmitted and received in opposite directions of propagation through a single transformer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2013
    Assignee: CogniPower, LLC
    Inventor: William H. Morong
  • Adaptive mute status reminder
    Patent number: 8494153
    Abstract: Systems and methods for providing mute status reminders are presented. The system and method includes monitoring a mute status duration upon activation of a mute status at a communication device, outputting a periodic mute reminder having an output period responsive to activation of the mute status, and adjusting the output period responsive to the mute status duration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2013
    Assignee: Plantronics, Inc.
    Inventors: William Owen Brown, Anthony Reese
  • Universal container for audio data
    Patent number: 8494866
    Abstract: Storing audio data encoded in any of a plurality of different audio encoding formats is enabled by parametrically defining the underlying format in which the audio data is encoded, in audio format and packet table chunks. A flag can be used to manage storage of the size of the audio data portion of the file, such that premature termination of an audio recording session does not result in an unreadable corrupted file. This capability can be enabled by initially setting the flag to a value that does not correspond to a valid audio data size and that indicates that the last chunk in the file contains the audio data. State information for the audio data, to effectively denote a version of the file, and a dependency indicator for dependent metadata, may be maintained, where the dependency indicator indicates the state of the audio data on which the metadata is dependent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2013
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: William G. Stewart, James E. McCartney, Douglas S. Wyatt
  • Method, system and apparatus for the establishment of a virtual banking environment in a merchant venue while increasing the deposit-based assets of optionally interfaced traditional banking institutions subject to fractional-reserve banking
    Patent number: 8494937
    Abstract: A system incorporating method and associated apparatus for establishing virtual banking in a merchant venue or syndication of merchants for one or more consumers in a manner that increases the deposit-based assets of a related traditional banking institution by loading transactions of fractional currency amounts, preferably reflecting the acquisition of physical fractional currency, and more preferably coinage, and thereupon enabling inter-merchant (or syndicate) commercial transactions, including purchases and sales, in a manner that does not deplete deposit-based assets. Commercial transactions are at the direction of consumer(s) each with their own portable device linked to a merchant-hosted virtual account that maintains transaction details, histories and balances, and transmits data reflecting the same to the portable device(s) where it is recorded and displayed, upon demand.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2013
    Assignee: Th Financial Services, Ltd.
    Inventors: William O. Berntsen, Lawrence P. Casey
  • Valve stem assembly for rotary valve and method
    Patent number: 8490949
    Abstract: A valve body defines a valve stem opening. A valve stem comprises an enlarged portion greater than the valve stem opening to thereby secure the valve stem within the valve body by limiting radially outward movement of the valve stem with respect to the valve body. A rotary member comprise upper and lower bosses. Upper and lower split trunnions, with split components that can be inserted from opposite sides of the valve body, are used to rotationally support the upper and lower bosses to permit rotation of the rotary member while preventing axial movement of the axial flow path of the valve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2013
    Assignee: Worldwide Oilfield Machine, Inc.
    Inventors: William W. Lanning, Robert Eric Maki
  • Pharmaceutical compositions of semi-ordered drugs and polymers
    Patent number: 8491933
    Abstract: A solid composition of a low-solubility drug and a concentration-enhancing polymer has a portion of the drug in a semi-ordered state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2013
    Assignee: Bend Research, Inc.
    Inventors: Walter C. Babcock, William B. Caldwell, Marshall D. Crew, Dwayne T. Friesen, Ravi M. Shanker, Daniel T. Smithey
  • Methods of chromogen separation-based image analysis
    Patent number: 8492156
    Abstract: Methods for chromogen separation-based image analysis are provided, with such methods being directed to quantitative video-microscopy techniques in cellular biology and pathology applications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2013
    Assignee: Tripath Imaging, Inc.
    Inventors: Raphaël Marcelpoil, Ryan Williams, Cédrick Orny
  • Determining node location in a wireless network
    Patent number: 8493890
    Abstract: Transmitting nodes broadcast chirped signals on a wireless network. The transmitting nodes are time-synchronized with each other and location of the transmitting nodes is known. A receiver node detects beat frequencies created by pairs of chirped signals from different pairs of transmitting nodes. Time delay differences between chirped signals in respective beat frequency pairs are determined. The receiver node's location is determined in view of the time delay differences.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2013
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Wei Wu, Marco Florentino, R. Stanley Williams
  • Gas stream multi-pollutants control systems and methods
    Patent number: 8491858
    Abstract: In some embodiments, the invention provides systems and methods for removing carbon dioxide and/or additional components of waste gas streams, comprising contacting the waste gas stream with an aqueous solution, removing carbon dioxide and/or additional components from the waste gas stream, and containing the carbon dioxide and/or additional components, in one form or another, in a composition. In some embodiments, the composition is a precipitation material comprising carbonates, bicarbonates, or carbonates and bicarbonates. In some embodiments, the composition further comprises carbonate and/or bicarbonate co-products resulting from co-processing SOx, NOx, particulate matter, and/or certain metals. Additional waste streams such as liquid, solid, or multiphasic waste streams may be processed as well.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2013
    Assignee: Calera Corporation
    Inventors: William Randall Seeker, Brent Constantz, Vinod Khosla
  • Cardiac diagnostics using time compensated stress test cardiac MRI imaging and systems for cardiac diagnostics
    Patent number: 8494611
    Abstract: Methods of cardiac diagnostics of a patient are provided that include administering a stress test to the patient, acquiring a plurality of MRI cine loops of the heart of the patient at a plurality of heart rates, adjusting the plurality of MRI cine loops based on a heart rate associated with respective ones of the MRI cines so as to compensate for differences in heart rate and evaluating the compensated MRI cine loops so as to assess a state of coronary physiology of the patient. Furthermore, the administration of the stress test may be adjusted based on the evaluated compensated MRI cine loops. Also, the evaluation of the compensated MRI cine loops may determine a presence or absence of coronary artery disease based on the compensated cine loops.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2003
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2013
    Assignee: Wake Forest University Health Sciences
    Inventors: Craig A. Hamilton, William Gregory Hundley
  • Systems, methods and apparatus for dynamic content management and delivery
    Patent number: 8494838
    Abstract: Systems, methods and apparatus are disclosed for linking virtual content to various types of object, such a static physical objects, through the use of triggers of varying formats. The virtual content can be updated by a content curator over time. The virtual content can be translated into a plurality of languages and can be selectively transmitted to a mobile communications device upon receipt of the trigger.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2013
    Assignee: Globili LLC
    Inventors: William A. Donabedian, Randall L. Mullins
  • Highly absorbable coenzyme Q10 composition and method of producing same
    Patent number: 8491888
    Abstract: The present invention provides an essentially crystal-free, highly bioavailable and absorbable coenzyme Q10 (CoQ10) composition including CoQ10, a solvent, and a carrier oil for supplementing nutrition and for use as an antioxidant. The present invention further provides method of increasing the absorption and bioavailability levels of coenzyme Q10 in the blood plasma and a method of producing a highly absorbable CoQ10 composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2013
    Assignee: Softgel Formulators, Inc.
    Inventors: Donald R. Steele, William V. Judy
  • Maintaining a dynamic service registry for a self-diagnosing device
    Patent number: 8494707
    Abstract: Maintaining a dynamic service registry for a self-diagnosing device, including: detecting, by the self-diagnosing device, a fault condition, wherein the fault condition indicates that the self-diagnosing device needs to be serviced; detecting, by the self-diagnosing device, that the fault condition has been resolved; determining, by the self-diagnosing device, the geographic location of the self-diagnosing device upon detecting that the fault condition was resolved; and entering, by the self-diagnosing device, the fault condition and the geographic location of the self-diagnosing device when the fault condition was resolved into the dynamic service registry.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 29, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2013
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Albert D. Bennah, William G. Pagan, Adrian X. Rodriguez, Eric Woods
  • Reconfigurable chirp fourier transform based continuous convolution processor
    Patent number: 8494472
    Abstract: Reconfigurable Chirp Fourier Transform (CFT) based continuous convolution apparatus(es) and method(s) that are effectively used, for example, in interference cancellation applications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2013
    Assignee: AMI Research & Development, LLC
    Inventors: John T. Apostolos, Judy Feng, William Mouyos
  • Processor, data processing system and method supporting a shared global coherency state
    Patent number: 8495308
    Abstract: A multiprocessor data processing system includes at least first and second coherency domains, where the first coherency domain includes a system memory and a cache memory. According to a method of data processing, a cache line is buffered in a data array of the cache memory and a state field in a cache directory of the cache memory is set to a coherency state to indicate that the cache line is valid in the data array, that the cache line is held in the cache memory non-exclusively, and that another cache in said second coherency domain may hold a copy of the cache line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2013
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Guy L. Guthrie, William J. Starke, Derek E. Williams, Phillip G. Williams
  • Digital-to-analog converter image suppression with hilbert transform
    Patent number: 8493258
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for suppressing a first replica of an image spectra and reinforcing a second replica of the image spectra are disclosed. A Hilbert transformer is applied to a first digital signal in a first path. The Hilbert-transformed signal in the first path is converted to an analog signal in the first path. The analog signal in the first path is delayed by an additional 90 degrees to produce a first phase-shifted analog signal. A phase delay is applied to the first digital signal in the second path and the phase-delayed signal in the second path is converted to analog to produce a second phase-shifted analog signal. A combiner combines the first and second phase-delayed analog signals to produce an analog output signal with at least one replica of the image spectra that is substantially suppressed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2013
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Mark William Wyville, Edward Matthew Sich
  • Variable grip blind rivet
    Patent number: 8491243
    Abstract: A variable grip blind rivet includes a tubular rivet body and a mandrel. The rivet body has a first shank, insertable into a hole in a workpiece, and a flange at a first end of the first shank for abutting the workpiece when so inserted. The mandrel has a head, for engaging a second end of the first shank, and a second shank adapted to extend through the axial bore of the rivet body. The head has an abutment portion for abutting the first end of the first shank, and the second shank has a first reduced diameter portion adapted to break when a predetermined tensile is loaded applied. At least one protrusion adjacent the abutment portion defines a recess for receiving the first end of the first shank during setting of the rivet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2013
    Assignee: Newfrey LLC
    Inventors: Daniel Robin Smith, Steven Victor Jones, Graham Frank Harry Williams, Harold Martin Bone, John Davies, David John Brookes
  • Basketball
    Patent number: D686678
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2013
    Assignee: Wilson Sporting Goods Co.
    Inventors: Kevin L. Krysiak, William R. Woessner, Bradley L. Gaff, Robert T. Thurman
  • Method of making in-situ composites comprising amorphous alloys
    Patent number: RE44385
    Abstract: A method of forming in-situ composites of metallic alloys comprising an amorphous phase are provided. The method generally comprising the steps of transforming a molten liquid metal at least partially into a crystalline solid solution by cooling the molten liquid metal down to temperatures below a “remelting” temperature, then allowing the solid crystalline metal to remain at temperatures above the glass transition temperature and below the remelting temperature such that at least a portion of the metal remelts to form a partially amorphous phase in an undercooled liquid, and finally subsequently cooling the composite alloy to temperatures below the glass transition temperature. A method of forming in-situ composites of alloys is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2004
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2013
    Assignee: Crucible Intellectual Property, LLC
    Inventor: William L. Johnson