Gustafson, CA
Andrew Gustafson, Sacramento, CA US
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20120096641 | INSULATING CONSTRUCTION HAVING A MULTI-LAYER SYNTHETIC CORE - An insulating construction having a multi-layer synthetic core for use in products such as sleeping bags is provided. A sleeping bag using this construction may include a synthetic core having first and second layers, an inner lining adjacent to the first layer, and an outer shell adjacent to the second layer. The synthetic core may be contained within the inner lining and outer shell. The first layer may be constructed of a first material having a first denier; and the second layer may be constructed of a second material having a second denier larger than the first denier. The inner liner may define an inner space configured to accommodate a human body. Various other products made from this construction, such as jackets, pants, and other garments, are also provided. | 04-26-2012 |
Brian Gustafson, San Carlos, CA US
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20110201304 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TRACKING BILLING EVENTS IN A MOBILE WIRELESS NETWORK FOR A NETWORK OPERATOR - A system and method for tracking billing events in a mobile wireless network for a network operator is disclosed. The method can include, in one embodiment, capturing, by a server, event data associated with a mobile device. The event data specifies communication events at the mobile device and are captured are specific to a network operator which provides services to the mobile device. The method can further include, generating billing data for the mobile device using the event data and associated parameters, and providing, by the server, the billing data to the network operator providing services to the mobile device. | 08-18-2011 |
Brian D. Gustafson, San Carlos, CA US
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20150163180 | CONNECTION ARCHITECTURE FOR A MOBILE NETWORK - A mobile device for accessing content stored on a remote server over a mobile network is provided. The mobile device includes a processor configured to direct the mobile device to receive at least a portion of a list initiated by the remote server, the list identifying folders or files stored on the remote server, process a selection to identify one of the folders or files on the list having the content on the remote server, and send a request directing a management server to initiate a transaction including an identifier indicating the one of the folders or files having the content on the remote server that is to be sent as the attachment to the destination. | 06-11-2015 |
Brian D. Gustafson, Montara, CA US
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20110213898 | MOBILE DEVICE POWER MANAGEMENT IN DATA SYNCHRONIZATION OVER A MOBILE NETWORK WITH OR WITHOUT A TRIGGER NOTIFICATION - A real-time communication architecture establishes a continuous connection between an enterprise network and a communication management system. The connection is continuously held open allowing mobile devices real-time access to enterprise email systems. The real-time communication architecture can support an entire enterprise email system or individual email users. The foregoing and other objects, features and advantages of the invention will become more readily apparent from the following detailed description of a preferred embodiment of the invention which proceeds with reference to the accompanying drawings. | 09-01-2011 |
Donna L. Gustafson, San Diego, CA US
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20090176251 | Methods for Diagnosing Celiac Disease Based on the Level of Anti-Gliadin and Anti-tTG IgA and IgG Antibodies - The present invention is in the field of diagnosing celiac disease. More particularly, the present invention relates to a method to diagnose celiac disease based on the level of anti-gliadin and anti-tissue transglutaminase antibodies. | 07-09-2009 |
Douglas C. Gustafson, Antiouch, CA US
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20110293492 | IN SITU PROCESS AND METHOD FOR GROUND WATER REMEDIATION AND RECOVERY OF MINERALS AND HYDROCARBONS - Devices, systems, and methods relating to advanced, high pressure oxidation are described. The devices, systems, and methods can be used to decontaminate ground water in a well or opening in a ground water table, and to recover minerals and hydrocarbons from subterranean deposits. | 12-01-2011 |
Douglas C. Gustafson, Antioch, CA US
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20080290045 | Process and apparatus for water decontamination - Apparatus and method relating to water decontamination, and more particularly, to removing NDMA and other organic contaminants from water using ultraviolet light in combination with ozone or ozone and peroxide, are described. | 11-27-2008 |
20090039031 | Controlling the formation of hexavalent chromium during an oxidative remediation of a contaminated site - A method for inhibiting formation of hexavalent chromium during oxidative remediation of a contaminated site containing trivalent chromium is described. The method comprises introducing ozone at a first point to the contaminated site, where the ozone is introduced at a first frequency and for a first period of time, and introducing hydrogen peroxide to the contaminated site, where the hydrogen peroxide is introduced at a second frequency and for a second period of time. The first and second frequencies and first and second periods of time are selected to inhibit formation of hexavalent chromium within the site of remediation. | 02-12-2009 |
Eric Gustafson, Palo Alto, CA US
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20100003003 | OPTICAL ATTENUATOR - A tilting mirror MEMS variable optical attenuator attenuates light over a band of wavelengths with minimum wavelength dependent loss. The attenuator includes a lens that has a wedged input face and is made from a material that has high dispersion. The lens design causes different wavelengths to travel different paths through the attenuator such that wavelength dependent loss is reduced. The attenuator may be designed to have minimum wavelength dependent loss at a specified attenuation greater than zero. | 01-07-2010 |
Gary L. Gustafson, Laguna Niguel, CA US
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20140200905 | Method and System for Template Proposals - A method and system comprise communicating with a host computer system via a network connection. The host computer system is configured to present a list of healthcare customers agreeing to receive a proposal for healthcare products or services, accept and review the proposal, and schedule an appointment with a vendor sending the proposal. The vender receives the list from the host computer system and communicates, to the host computer, a selection, from the list to purchase a template proposal for. The host computer system communicates the purchase to the selected healthcare customer. The vender receives the template proposal where the vender completes the template proposal and transfers the completed proposal to the healthcare customer for accepting and reviewing and scheduling of an appointment. | 07-17-2014 |
Gordon K. Gustafson, Encino, CA US
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20080215988 | SYSTEM AND METHOD TO PROCESS INFORMATION CONTRIBUTED BY MEMBERS OF A VIRTUAL COMMUNITY - A method of creating a financial product. A virtual community is established. Members of the community submit preferences to a server. The preferences are aggregated and manipulated to identify characteristics of the preferences. From the population of preferences submitted, a small subset is identified to be part of the financial product. | 09-04-2008 |
20080275825 | METHOD FOR IMPLEMENTING A VIRTUAL COMMUNITY OF INVESTORS HAVING INVESTMENT PORTFOLIOS - A system and method for providing analytical tools for a community of investors having investment portfolios. A first tool provides an indication of a user's selection effectiveness regarding the user's choice of investments relative to those sectors in which the investment resides, and relative to a broader market. A second tool allows the user to evaluate the effectiveness of community stimuli on the user's portfolio. A third tool provides the user the capability to view relationships among a plurality of preferred analysts. With a fourth tool, a user may view a plurality of other analysts the user referred to the community. | 11-06-2008 |
20130212045 | METHOD FOR IMPLEMENTING A VIRTUAL COMMUNITY OF INVESTORS HAVING INVESTMENT PORTFOLIOS - A system and method for providing analytical tools for a community of investors having investment portfolios. A first tool provides an indication of a user's selection effectiveness regarding the user's choice of investments relative to those sectors in which the investment resides, and relative to a broader market. A second tool allows the user to evaluate the effectiveness of community stimuli on the user's portfolio. A third tool provides the user the capability to view relationships among a plurality of preferred analysts. With a fourth tool, a user may view a plurality of other analysts the user referred to the community. | 08-15-2013 |
John Gustafson, Pleasanton, CA US
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20150187515 | CHARGE STORAGE DEVICE, METHOD OF MAKING SAME, METHOD OF MAKING AN ELECTRICALLY CONDUCTIVE STRUCTURE FOR SAME, MOBILE ELECTRONIC DEVICE USING SAME, AND MICROELECTRONIC DEVICE CONTAINING SAME - In one embodiment a charge storage device includes first ( | 07-02-2015 |
John L. Gustafson, Santa Clara, CA US
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20120075596 | HIGH EFFICIENCY ILLUMINATION - An electronic device comprises a processor, a light source, and a controller coupled to the light source. The controller comprises logic to cycle the light source between an active state and an inactivate state at with a pulse duration that measures between 30 milliseconds and 100 milliseconds and jitter a time onset of the active state by a quasi-random time that measures between 0 and 30 milliseconds for one or more cycles. Other embodiments may be described. | 03-29-2012 |
20140074902 | NUMBER REPRESENTATION AND MEMORY SYSTEM FOR ARITHMETIC - A method, device and system for representing numbers in a computer including storing a floating-point number M in a computer memory; representing the floating-point number M as an interval with lower and upper bounds A and B when it is accessed by using at least two floating-point numbers in the memory; and then representing M as an interval with lower and upper bounds A and B when it is used in a calculation by using at least three floating-point numbers in the memory. Calculations are performed using the interval and when the data is written back to the memory it may be stored as an interval if the size of the interval is significant, i.e. larger than a first threshold value. A warning regarding the suspect accuracy of any data stored as an interval may be issued if the interval is too large, i.e. larger than a second threshold value. | 03-13-2014 |
20150049414 | ENERGY STORAGE DEVICE, METHOD OF MANUFACTURING SAME, AND MOBILE ELECTRONIC DEVICE CONTAINING SAME - An energy storage device includes a middle section ( | 02-19-2015 |
John L. Gustafson, Pleasanton, CA US
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20120155885 | RACK TO RACK OPTICAL COMMUNICATION - In some embodiments a light transceiver is associated with a computing rack and is adapted to transmit and/or receive one or more light beams via air to and/or from a second light transceiver associated with a second computing rack to communicate information between the computing rack and the second computing rack. Other embodiments are described and claimed. | 06-21-2012 |
20130016452 | CHARGE STORAGE DEVICE, METHOD OF MAKING SAME, METHOD OF MAKING AN ELECTRICALLY CONDUCTIVE STRUCTURE FOR SAME, MOBILE ELECTRONIC DEVICE USING SAME, AND MICROELECTRONIC DEVICE CONTAINING SAMEAANM Gardner; Donald S.AACI Mountain ViewAAST CAAACO USAAGP Gardner; Donald S. Mountain View CA USAANM Hannah; Eric C.AACI Pebble BeachAAST CAAACO USAAGP Hannah; Eric C. Pebble Beach CA USAANM Chen; RongAACI SunnyvaleAAST CAAACO USAAGP Chen; Rong Sunnyvale CA USAANM Gustafson; John L.AACI PleasantonAAST CAAACO USAAGP Gustafson; John L. Pleasanton CA US - In one embodiment a charge storage device includes first ( | 01-17-2013 |
20130273261 | METHOD OF INCREASING AN ENERGY DENSITY AND AN ACHIEVABLE POWER OUTPUT OF AN ENERGY STORAGE DEVICE - Methods of increasing an energy density of an energy storage device involve increasing the capacitance of the energy storage device by depositing a material into a porous structure of the energy storage device using an atomic layer deposition process, by performing a procedure designed to increase a distance to which an electrolyte penetrates within channels of the porous structure, or by placing a dielectric material into the porous structure. Another method involves annealing the energy storage device in order to cause an electrically conductive substance to diffuse to a surface of the structure and form an electrically conductive layer thereon. Another method of increasing energy density involves increasing the breakdown voltage and another method involves forming a pseudocapacitor. A method of increasing an achievable power output of an energy storage device involves depositing an electrically conductive material into the porous structure. | 10-17-2013 |
20130279137 | ENERGY STORAGE STRUCTURE, METHOD OF MANUFACTURING A SUPPORT STRUCTURE FOR SAME, AND MICROELECTRONIC ASSEMBLY AND SYSTEM CONTAINING SAME - An energy storage structure includes an energy storage device containing at least one porous structure ( | 10-24-2013 |
20140036412 | OVERCOMING VARIANCE IN STACKED CAPACITORS - In one embodiment of the invention, a method of forming an energy storage device is described in which a porous structure of an electrically conductive substrate is measured in-situ while being electrochemically etched in an electrochemical etching bath until a predetermined value is obtained, at which point the electrically conductive substrate may be removed from the electrochemical etching bath. In another embodiment, a method of forming an energy storage device is described in which an electrically conductive porous structure is measured to determine the energy storage capacity of the electrically conductive porous structure. The energy storage capacity of the electrically conductive porous structure is then reduced until a predetermined energy storage capacity value is obtained. | 02-06-2014 |
20140078644 | ENERGY STORAGE DEVICE, METHOD OF MANUFACTURING SAME, AND MOBILE ELECTRONIC DEVICE CONTAINING SAME - An energy storage device includes a first electrode ( | 03-20-2014 |
20140233152 | FABRICATION OF POROUS SILICON ELECTROCHEMICAL CAPACITORS - Methods of forming microelectronic structures are described. Embodiments of those methods may include forming an electrochemical capacitor device by forming pores in low-purity silicon materials. Various embodiments described herein enable the fabrication of high capacitive devices using low cost techniques. | 08-21-2014 |
20150370322 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR BEZEL MITIGATION WITH HEAD TRACKING - The present disclosure presents methods and apparatuses for operating a multi-display device to mitigate the effects of image interruption due to bezels between individual display devices. For example, a method of operating a video device includes generating a bezel-corrected image which spans a plurality of display devices, the bezel-corrected image including masked image pixels, wherein the masked image pixels are associated with a bezel of at least one of the plurality of display devices. Such example methods may further include detecting a head position change of a user and displaying one or more of the masked image pixels on at least one of the plurality of display devices based on the head position change. | 12-24-2015 |
John R. Gustafson, Los Gatos, CA US
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20110211279 | SEALED LAMINATED ELECTRICAL CONNECTOR FOR HELIUM FILLED DISK DRIVE - A novel disk drive includes a hermetically sealed helium-filled enclosure that has an opening extending through the disk drive base. A laminated electrical connector is disposed inside the enclosure, spans the opening, and is accessible from outside the disk drive base via the opening. The laminated electrical connector has an adhesive layer that is adhered to the disk drive base continuously around the opening, and that has a hole therethrough that is aligned with the opening. The laminated electrical connector includes electrically conductive traces that are electrically connected to the actuator flex cable, and a first insulative layer that is disposed on the trace layer. The laminated electrical connector has a metal foil sealing layer that continuously spans and completely covers the opening, and that has no holes therethrough that are aligned with the opening. The metal foil sealing layer overlaps the adhesive layer continuously around the opening. | 09-01-2011 |
20110212281 | DISK DRIVE HAVING A CONFORMAL LAMINATED COVER SEAL ADHERED A TOP FACE AND FOUR SIDE FACES OF A HELIUM-FILLED ENCLOSURE - A novel hermetically sealed disk drive comprises a disk drive enclosure that includes a disk drive base with a bottom face, four side faces, and a top cover, the enclosure having a top face. The hermetically sealed disk drive also comprises a laminated cover seal that includes a continuous metal foil, and a continuous adhesive layer coating the continuous metal foil. The laminated cover seal conforms to the disk drive enclosure and is adhered to the top face and to each of the four side faces by the continuous adhesive layer. The disk drive enclosure is helium-filled. The continuous metal foil of the laminated cover seal overlaps each of the four side faces by at least 5 mm. | 09-01-2011 |
Kirk Gustafson, Redwood City, CA US
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20130346253 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ONLINE SHOPPING WITH TRY-BEFORE-YOU-BUY OPTION - Systems and methods for online shopping with try-before-you-buy options are disclosed for improving the process of purchasing personal goods over a communications network such as the Internet. A shopper can choose to order an item from a merchant's online system on a trial basis. After the trial period, the shopper can either return the item to the merchant or keep the item. The merchant may only charge the shopper if the shopper decides to keep the item after the expiry of the trial period. | 12-26-2013 |
Michael Gustafson, North Hollywood, CA US
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20110239099 | System and method for video poetry using text based related media - There is provided a system and method for creating video poetry using text based related media. There is provided a method for creating a video poetry media, the method comprising receiving an ordered list of text phrases selected from a defined plurality of text phrases, presenting a plurality of video clips, wherein each of the plurality of video clips is associated with one or more of the ordered list of text phrases, receiving an ordered list of video clips selected from the plurality of video clips, and generating the video poetry media using the ordered list of video clips. In this manner, the barrier of entry for creating video poetry media is reduced, encouraging increased user participation and the creation of the “viral” effect by sharing video poetry online. Positive publicity for associated brands and media properties and additional channels for commercial promotions are thereby provided. | 09-29-2011 |
Michael L. Gustafson, Escondido, CA US
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20130001863 | SEPARATOR ASSEMBLY FOR USE WITH PRINTERS - Separator assembly for use with printers is described herein. One example separator assembly includes a separator pad movable between a first position and a second position such that the separator pad is to engage a leading edge of a print media in the second position. A cam is rotatable between a third position and a fourth position to move the separator pad from the first to the second position. | 01-03-2013 |
20130002778 | PRINTER - Printer, comprising a media path that in one embodiment is arranged so that a print height is lower than a highest point of the media path. | 01-03-2013 |
Michael S. Gustafson, Morgan Hill, CA US
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20090282298 | BIT ERROR MANAGEMENT METHODS FOR WIRELESS AUDIO COMMUNICATION CHANNELS - Systems and methods are described for managing bit errors present in an encoded bit stream representative of a portion of an audio signal, wherein the encoded bit stream is received via a channel in a wireless communications system. The channel may comprise, for example, a Synchronous Connection-Oriented (SCO) channel or an Extended SCO (eSCO) channel in a Bluetooth wireless communications system. | 11-12-2009 |
20140032227 | BIT ERROR MANAGEMENT METHODS FOR WIRELESS AUDIO COMMUNICATION CHANNELS - Systems and methods are described for managing bit errors present in an encoded bit stream representative of a portion of an audio signal, wherein the encoded bit stream is received via a channel in a wireless communications system. The channel may comprise, for example, a Synchronous Connection-Oriented (SCO) channel or an Extended SCO (eSCO) channel in a Bluetooth® wireless communications system. | 01-30-2014 |
Russ Gustafson, Redwood City, CA US
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20090222206 | Golf Club Fitting Apparatus And Method - A golf club fitting apparatus comprises an image display unit; a linear guide having a lower end that is attached to the image display unit and rotatable in relation to the unit; an arm that is attached to the linear guide and slidable in relation to the linear guide; a first encoder coupled to the linear guide and configured to generate a rotation signal when the linear guide is rotated relative to the image display unit; a second encoder capable of generating a linear measurement signal when the linear guide slides; and image display logic coupled to the first encoder, second encoder, and image display unit and which when executed by one or more processors causes displaying a golf club head image on the image display unit, and re-displaying the image in a changed configuration in response to one or both of the rotation signal and the linear measurement signal. | 09-03-2009 |
Tim Gustafson, Santa Rosa, CA US
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20150369980 | METAL-DIELECTRIC OPTICAL FILTER, SENSOR DEVICE, AND FABRICATION METHOD - An optical filter, a sensor device including the optical filter, and a method of fabricating the optical filter are provided. The optical filter includes one or more dielectric layers and one or more metal layers stacked in alternation. The metal layers are intrinsically protected by the dielectric layers. In particular, the metal layers have tapered edges that are protectively covered by one or more of the dielectric layers. | 12-24-2015 |