Channell, US
Alexander Banning Channell, Powell, OH US
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20100147925 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR FRICTION SURFACING USING A CONSUMABLE PIN TOOL - A friction surfacing apparatus and method for depositing one or more metals, metal alloys, or other materials is disclosed. The friction surfacing apparatus includes a pin tool holder, a non-consumable shoulder having an inside diameter and an outside diameter, the inside diameter terminating at an end wall and includes an angled side wall that forms a substantially frustoconical opening at one end, and a consumable pin tool coupled to the pin tool holder and at least partially protruding from the end wall of the shoulder. The shoulder is maintained at a predetermined distance from a surface of a workpiece such that the consumable pin tool deposits pin tool material onto the surface of the workpiece during a friction surfacing operation. | 06-17-2010 |
Brian Channell, Redondo Beach, CA US
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20090002166 | System and Method of Generating Recommendations Using An RFID-Enabled Recommendation System - A RFID-enabled recommendation system and related method utilizing information from RFID tags of products (e.g., foodstuffs) to generate recommendations regarding said products. In accordance with one aspect, a server generates recommendations based on product-specific information sent from a RFID tag. | 01-01-2009 |
20100115426 | AVATAR ENVIRONMENTS - Embodiments are directed towards providing dynamic and interactive avatars of social networking members for use in visually displaying interactions and activities within a messaging context. A user interface is provided that enables relationships toy be displayed within a messaging context through automatic and/or dynamic grouping and/or re-arranging of avatars representing the member and a messaging user. Similar to, albeit it different from, an actual social event/party the dynamic displaying of members' avatars reflects how groups of people may interact. Thus, the disclosed embodiments provide a dynamic visual interface illustrating social congregation and interactions between members of a messaging social network. | 05-06-2010 |
Brian Paul Channell, Redondo Beach, CA US
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20080250320 | User-defined media annotations on dynamic charts - In accordance with embodiments of the invention, a method for providing a customizable media indicator on a dynamically generated graphical representation of real-time data is provided. The method includes receiving a user-defined request from a user to annotate the real-time data with at least one media indicator. Together with the dynamically generated graphical representation of the real-time data, the at least one media indicator is provided for display at a client. The method further includes receiving a first external media data defined by the user for association with the media indicator. The first media data is provided in response to a user action associated with the at least one media indicator. The at least one media indicator is sharable with a plurality of users. | 10-09-2008 |
20080262952 | DISPLAYING FINANCIAL INFORMATION BASED ON LOCATION - According to various embodiments of the present invention, geographic information about the location of a user is utilized to select a grouping of additional securities to display to the user. When the user navigates to a portion of a web site related to displaying financial information, a listing of securities that might be interesting to the user may be displayed. As a result, the user is more likely to find out more information relating to one or more of these additional securities, and therefore generate more page views on the system. | 10-23-2008 |
20080270921 | PROVIDING REAL TIME INFORMATION IN A VISUAL INFORMATION UNIT - Embodiments of the invention enable a person to easily and without having any specialized knowledge configure a webpage to automatically provide real time information. More specifically, embodiments of the invention are directed to a remotely hosted element which may be easily configured and placed in a webpage by an un-sophisticated publisher. The remotely hosted element provides the real time information. In certain embodiments, the real time information is stock quotes, charts and associated news items. In certain embodiments, the real time information unit is interactive. In other words, it allows webpage viewers to interact with it in order to cause it to show additional, or differently organized information. | 10-30-2008 |
20090055734 | Method and System of Displaying More Relevant Internet Ads - A method and system are provided for displaying more relevant ads to a user on the Internet. In one example, the method includes displaying a first content match module including a first ad set and a first keyword set having first keyword phrases, receiving a first keyword phrase selection of the first keyword phrases, and displaying a second content match module including a second keyword set, a second ad set targeted to the first keyword phrase selection, and a first content match module link. | 02-26-2009 |
20090271368 | SEARCH QUERY SCORING AND POPULARITY MONITORING AND SYSTEMS AND METHODS THEREFOR - A method of indicating the popularity of the subject of a search query comprising receiving a search query from a user, the search query being received by a search server; determining whether the search query is likely to be related to a particular thing; obtaining popularity information for the particular thing; and, transmitting an indicator of the popularity information to a user computer for display. Some embodiments may also include targeted information about the search query subject, including a map showing the search query subject's location, the location of similar things in the same region as the search query subject, one or more advertisements, and the like. The targeted information and/or the popularity information indicator may be displayed with, or separate from search results associated with the search query. | 10-29-2009 |
Karl Channell, San Francisco, CA US
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20140164938 | Displaying a Stream of Content - A system and method for generating and providing user interfaces for interacting with a stream of content are disclosed. A system having one or more processors and a memory is configured to perform operations including receiving a stream of content including one or more content items; selecting a content item; determining a tile type for providing the content item based upon an attribute of the content item; populating tile components for the tile type using the content item; organizing content tiles in a dynamic grid using the attribute of the content items; and providing the dynamic grid of content tiles for display. | 06-12-2014 |
Karl Witte Channell, San Francisco, CA US
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20140258849 | Automatic Alignment of a Multi-Dimensional Layout - A plurality of content items for a content stream is determined by a system. The system estimates size dimensions for the content items, and determines a multidimensional layout by placing the content items into two or more adjacent containers based on the size dimensions. The system determines a difference in size between the two or more adjacent containers and adjusts an aspect of one or more of the content items to substantially equalize a size of the two or more containers. | 09-11-2014 |
Martin Channell, Chula Vista, CA US
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20160047274 | ACTIVELY CONTROLLED COOLING AIR EXHAUST DOOR ON AN AIRCRAFT ENGINE NACELLE - An assembly is provided for a turbofan engine. This turbofan engine assembly includes a cowling, a door and an actuation mechanism configured to actuate movement of the door in response to receiving a control signal. The cowling is configured to form a compartment at least partially around a case of the turbofan engine. The cowling includes an exhaust port that is fluidly coupled with the compartment. The door is configured to at least partially open and close the exhaust port. This variable exhaust port may be opened in case increased airflow is needed through the compartment, such as when increased cooling airflow is needed through an environmental air precooler that cools compressed air for the aircraft cabin and the precooler exhausts its cooling air into the compartment. | 02-18-2016 |