Patents by Inventor Wilson On

Wilson On 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).

  • System and method for retrieving and normalizing product information
    Patent number: 9412128
    Abstract: Systems and a method for retrieving and normalizing product information are described. The method selects a normalized representation of a product. The selecting is responsive to receiving a user indication of the product. The normalized representation is based on product information that is collected from two or more suppliers and described differently by the two or more suppliers. The method further identifies a plurality of offerings for the product based on the normalized representation. The plurality of offerings includes offerings from the two or more suppliers that describe the product differently. Finally, a user interface includes information corresponding to the plurality of offerings for the product.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2016
    Assignee: PayPal, Inc.
    Inventors: Kerry Clendinning, Michael McCartney, Matthew Mengerink, Fred Garfield Robinette, IV, David J. Wilson
  • Fluidics apparatus for surface acoustic wave manipulation of fluid samples, use of fluidics apparatus and process for the manufacture of fluidics apparatus
    Patent number: 9410873
    Abstract: A fluidics apparatus for manipulation of at least one fluid sample is disclosed. A manipulation surface locates the fluid sample. A surface acoustic wave (SAW) generation material layer is provided. This is a polycrystalline material, textured polycrystalline material, biaxially textured polycrystalline material, microcrystalline material, nanocrystalline material, amorphous material or composite material. A transducer electrode structure arranged at the SAW generation material layer provides SAWs at the manipulation surface for interaction with the fluid sample. The manipulation surface has a phononic structure, for affecting the transmission, distribution and/or behavior of SAWs at the manipulation surface. The apparatus is typically manufactured by reel-to-reel processes, to reduce the unit cost to a level at which the apparatus can be considered to be disposable after a single use.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2016
    Assignee: The University Court of the University of Glasgow
    Inventors: Rab Wilson, Jonathan M. Cooper, Julien Reboud
  • Configuring and managing remote security devices
    Patent number: 9413723
    Abstract: Techniques for configuring and managing remote security devices are disclosed. In some embodiments, configuring and managing remote security devices includes receiving a registration request for a remote security device at a device for configuring and managing a plurality of remote security devices; verifying the registration request to determine that the remote security device is an authorized remote security device for an external network; and sending a response identifying one or more security gateways to the remote security device, in which the remote security device is automatically configured to connect to each of the one or more security gateways using a distinct Layer 3 protocol tunnel (e.g., a virtual private network (VPN)).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2016
    Assignee: Palo Alto Networks, Inc.
    Inventors: Yueh-Zen Chen, Wilson Xu, Monty Sher Gill
  • High bandwidth optical links for micro-satellite support
    Patent number: 9413461
    Abstract: A method, systems, apparatus and device enable high bandwidth satellite communications. An onboard tracking detector, installed in a low-earth orbit satellite, detects a position of an incoming optical beam received/transmitted from a first ground station of one or more ground stations. Tracker electronics determine orientation information of the incoming optical beam based on the position. Control electronics receive the orientation information from the tracker electronics, and control a waveguide drive electronics. The waveguide drive electronics control a voltage that is provided to an electro-optic waveguide beam steering device. The electro-optic waveguide beam steering device steers an outgoing optical beam to one of the one or more ground stations based on the voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2016
    Assignee: California Institute of Technology
    Inventors: Tien-Hsin Chao, Keith E. Wilson, Keith Coste
  • Low travel switch assembly
    Patent number: 9412533
    Abstract: A low travel switch assembly and systems and methods for using the same are disclosed. The low travel dome may include a domed surface having upper and lower portions, and a set of tuning members integrated within the domed surface between the upper and lower portions. The tuning members may be operative to control a force-displacement curve characteristic of the low travel dome.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2016
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Keith J. Hendren, Thomas W. Wilson, Jr., John M. Brock, Craig C. Leong, James J. Niu, Satoshi Okuma, Shinsuke Watanabe
  • Computer-implemented system and method for enhancing visual representation to individuals participating in a conversation
    Patent number: 9412377
    Abstract: A system and method for enhancing visual representation to individuals participating in a conversation is provided. Visual data for a plurality of individuals participating in one or more conversations is analyzed. Possible conversational configurations of the individuals are generated. Each possible conversational configuration includes one or more pair-wise probabilities of at least two of the individuals. A probability weight is assigned to each of the pair-wise probabilities having a likelihood that the individuals of that pair-wise probability are participating in a conversation. A probability of each possible conversational configuration is determined by combining the probability weights for the pair-wise probabilities of that possible conversational configuration. The possible conversational configuration with the highest probability is selected as a most probable configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2016
    Assignee: III HOLDINGS 6, LLC
    Inventors: Paul M. Aoki, Margaret H. Szymanski, James Thornton, Daniel H. Wilson, Allison G. Woodruff
  • Fast computer startup
    Patent number: 9411607
    Abstract: Fast computer startup is provided by, upon receipt of a shutdown command, recording state information representing a target state. In this target state, the computing device may have closed all user sessions, such that no user state information is included in the target state. However, the operating system may still be executing. In response to a command to startup the computer, this target state may be quickly reestablished from the recorded target state information. Portions of a startup sequence may be performed to complete the startup process, including establishing user state. To protect user expectations despite changes in response to a shutdown command, creation and use of the file holding the recorded state information may be conditional on dynamically determined events. Also, user and programmatic interfaces may provide options to override creation or use of the recorded state information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2016
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: Mehmet Iyigun, Yevgeniy Bak, Emily N. Wilson, Kirsten V. Stark, Sushu Zhang, Patrick L. Stemen, Brian E. King, Vasilios Karagounis, Neel Jain
  • Illumination devices with adjustable optical elements
    Patent number: 9410680
    Abstract: Illumination devices with adjustable optical elements configured to provide a variable illumination pattern of an area are described. The adjustable optical elements of the illumination devices can be traversed relative to a surface (e.g., a ceiling of a room) to vary the light distribution and/or intensity to the surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2016
    Assignee: Quarkstar LLC
    Inventors: Andrew Tien-Man Ng, Ingo Speier, Wilson Dau, Louis Lerman, Hans Peter Stormberg
  • Method and system for work scheduling in a multi-chip system
    Patent number: 9411644
    Abstract: According to at least one example embodiment, a multi-chip system includes multiple chip devices configured to communicate to each other and share hardware resources. According to at least one example embodiment, a method of processing work item in the multi-chip system comprises designating, by a work source component associated with a chip device, referred to as the source chip device, of the multiple chip devices, a work item to a scheduler for scheduling. The scheduler then assigns the work item to a another chip device, referred to as the destination chip device, of the multiple chip devices for processing, the scheduler is one of one or more schedulers each associated with a corresponding chip device of the multiple chip devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2016
    Assignee: Cavium, Inc.
    Inventors: Richard E. Kessler, Wilson P. Snyder, II
  • Use of nanocrystaline cellulose and polymer grafted nanocrystaline cellulose for increasing retention in papermaking process
    Patent number: 9410288
    Abstract: The invention provides methods and compositions for improving the characteristics of paper substrates. The method involves adding to a paper substrate an NCC-polymer. NCC-polymers have unique chemical properties which result in improvements in wet strength, dry strength and drainage retention properties of the paper substrates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2016
    Assignee: ECOLAB USA INC.
    Inventors: David A. Castro, Rangarani Karnati, Shawnee M. Wilson, Weiguo Cheng, Mei Liu, Zhiyi Zhang
  • RESTAURANT METHOD
    Publication number: 20160225109
    Abstract: A method for selling restaurant food. One method, for selling food, comprises the steps of: providing a buffet restaurant; selling containers to customers of the buffet restaurant; and permitting purchasers of said containers to place therein food from the buffet for take-away purposes. Another method is for use with a buffet restaurant of the all-you-can-eat type, wherein a patron is, in exchange for payment of a fixed price, allowed to eat as much as he or she wishes from the buffet in a single sitting. This method comprises the step of: allowing said patron, for an additional price, the opportunity to retrieve a predetermined quantity of food from the buffet for take-away purposes. The additional price can be embodied in the sale of a container to the patron, the volume of the container defining the predetermined quantity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 8, 2016
    Publication date: August 4, 2016
    Inventor: Bernard R. Wilson
  • Word Cloud Analysis System
    Publication number: 20160224940
    Abstract: A method for managing characteristics in word clouds. A computer system displays a graphical display of words representing first characteristics in the characteristics for a first person in a word cloud in a graphical user interface on a display system in the computer system. The graphical display of the words represents the first characteristics with first values that distinguish the first person from a second person with second characteristics with second values. The computer system also changes a value in the first values for a characteristic in the first characteristics when a user input is received through the graphical user interface in which the user input changes the graphical display of a word in the words corresponding to the characteristic.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2015
    Publication date: August 4, 2016
    Inventor: Keith Wilson Fulton
  • NATIONAL INSERTION OF TARGETED ADVERTISEMENT
    Publication number: 20160227296
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed that allow for providing targeted asset/advertisements for broadcast-wide programming feeds. The systems and methods allow network platforms to select among asset options provided with a content stream and/or replace assets in the content stream. In one arrangement, after selecting an asset, the asset is inserted into the content stream and the content stream is disseminated to subsequent network platforms (e.g., local platforms). At this time, the local platforms may insert local assets into the content stream in predetermined local asset insertion spots.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 1, 2015
    Publication date: August 4, 2016
    Inventors: Patrick Sheehan, Michael Cristofalo, Bruce J. Anderson, Daniel C. Wilson
  • Delivery Tool For Percutaneous Delivery Of A Prosthesis
    Publication number: 20160220358
    Abstract: An expandable delivery tool for aiding the deployment of a prosthesis device within a patient. The delivery tool has a generally elongated shape with a selectively expandable distal end region that flares outward in diameter. Once advanced percutaneously within a patient's vessel, the delivery device can help locate a target area, assist in deploying a prosthesis at a desired position and further expand the prosthesis after deployment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 11, 2016
    Publication date: August 4, 2016
    Applicant: HLT, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert Foster Wilson, John Gainor
  • CLINICAL ANALYZER WASH AND METHOD
    Publication number: 20160223575
    Abstract: A clinical analyzer has been described that includes a probe to aspirate a fluid. The probe is washed between aspirations to reduce carryover. The wash operation includes both an internal and an external wash, where the internal wash operation is terminated prior to terminating the external wash. In one example, the probe wash can be implemented on an integrated clinical chemistry/immunoassay analyzer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 11, 2016
    Publication date: August 4, 2016
    Inventors: Patricia H. Ravalico, Charlie W. Wilson, III
  • CONTEXT BASED PASSAGE RETREIVAL AND SCORING IN A QUESTION ANSWERING SYSTEM
    Publication number: 20160224663
    Abstract: According to an aspect, a question answering computer system determines a set of search terms for a given question. A plurality of passages that each includes at least one search term in the set of search terms is identified in response to a search of a document for search terms in the set of search terms. A passage from the plurality of passages is selected. A context based score of the selected passage that indicates the likelihood that the selected passage contains an answer to the question is generated based on criteria that specify a relationship among the set of search terms, content of the passage, and content of at least one other passage in the plurality of passages.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 16, 2016
    Publication date: August 4, 2016
    Inventors: Christopher M. Nolan, William G. Visotski, David E. Wilson, Robert L. Yates
  • Charge Pump for Gravity Gas Separator of Well Pump
    Publication number: 20160222770
    Abstract: A well pump assembly has a main pump suspended on a string of production tubing within casing in a well. A charge pump is located below the main pump. An annular sealing element between the charge pump intake and the charge pump discharge seals between the charge pump and the casing. A motor is coupled with the main pump and the charge pump. A bypass member has an open upper end above the main pump intake and a lower end above the sealing element. The bypass member defines a flow path from the discharge of the charge pump upward past the main pump intake, then downward to reach the main pump intake. The bypass member may be a bypass riser extending alongside the main pump, or it may be a shroud surrounding the main pump.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2015
    Publication date: August 4, 2016
    Inventors: Jordan D. Kirk, Leslie C. Reid, Brown Lyle Wilson
  • Task Management System
    Publication number: 20160224926
    Abstract: A method for managing a task. A computer system displays a graphical display of words for characteristics of people in word clouds in a graphical user interface on a display system in the computer system. The computer system performs a group of functions on the word clouds based on a user input to the graphical user interface. The computer system displays a resulting word cloud with resulting characteristics that results from performing the group of functions on the word clouds, wherein managing the task is enabled using the resulting word cloud.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2015
    Publication date: August 4, 2016
    Inventor: Keith Wilson Fulton
  • Method and Apparatus for Object Distance and Size Estimation based on Calibration Data of Lens Focus
    Publication number: 20160225150
    Abstract: A method for determining an object's size based on calibration data is disclosed. The calibration data is measured by capturing images with an image sensor and a lens module, having at least one objective, of the capsule camera at a plurality of object distances and/or back focal distances and deriving from the images characterizing a focus of each objective for at least one color plane. Images of lumen walls of gastrointestinal (GI) tract are captured using the capsule camera. Object distance for at least one region in the current image is estimated based on the camera calibration data and relative sharpness of the current image in at least two color planes. The size of the object is estimated based on the object distance estimated for one or more regions overlapping with an object image of the object and the size of the object image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2016
    Publication date: August 4, 2016
    Inventors: Gordon C. Wilson, Kang-Huai Wang
  • Compensation Management System
    Publication number: 20160224205
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for managing compensation on a display system. A computer system displays icons representing employees in a graphical user interface on the display system. The icons are positioned relative to each other and along a compensation axis and positions of the icons relative to each other indicate relative amounts of compensation between the employees. The computer system also displays a compensation change for an employee in the employees on the display system when an icon for the employee is moved along the compensation axis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2015
    Publication date: August 4, 2016
    Inventor: Keith Wilson Fulton