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Dale Kenneth Pounds, Festus, MO US
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20120101639 | Microgrid Control System - A method, apparatus, and computer program product is provided for configuring a microgrid. A first configuration of the microgrid having a set of microgrid elements is initialized. An address for each element in the set of microgrid elements of the microgrid is verified. In response to receiving status data from the set of microgrid elements connected in a peer-to-peer network indicating a reconfiguration of the microgrid, the set of microgrid elements is re-aligned to form a second grid configuration. The second grid configuration is executed. | 04-26-2012 |
20150134130 | Microgrid Control System - A method, apparatus, and computer program product is provided for configuring a microgrid. A first configuration of the microgrid having a set of microgrid elements is initialized. An address for each element in the set of microgrid elements of the microgrid is verified. In response to receiving status data from the set of microgrid elements connected in a peer-to-peer network indicating a reconfiguration of the microgrid, the set of microgrid elements is re-aligned to form a second grid configuration. The second grid configuration is executed. | 05-14-2015 |
20150134131 | Microgrid Control System - A method, apparatus, and computer program product is provided for configuring a microgrid. A first configuration of the microgrid having a set of microgrid elements is initialized. An address for each element in the set of microgrid elements of the microgrid is verified. In response to receiving status data from the set of microgrid elements connected in a peer-to-peer network indicating a reconfiguration of the microgrid, the set of microgrid elements is re-aligned to form a second grid configuration. The second grid configuration is executed. | 05-14-2015 |
Douglas W. Pounds, Goffstown, NH US
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20150301104 | CIRCUITRY TO PROTECT A TEST INSTRUMENT - Controlling a test instrument may include: determining a first value corresponding to power output by the test instrument; determining a second value based on the first value, where the second value corresponds to an amount of energy consumed by the test instrument; and placing at least part of the test instrument in a high-impedance state when the second value exceeds a threshold. | 10-22-2015 |
Greg Pounds, San Jose, CA US
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20080313265 | CSIP Proxy for Translating SIP to Multiple Peer-to-Peer Through Network Resources - A method and apparatus turns a typical home telephone system into a platform for delivery of web based content and services. The preferred embodiment of the invention comprises a broadband enabled telephone system for the home and a series of web servers that collect, package, and deliver personalized content and services to all of the telephone handsets throughout the home. With this end-to-end solution, any information or services available via the web can be delivered through a broadband enabled telephone system. Through the web, each member of a family can build a profile which defines what information and services they want available through the handset. In addition, each handset can be dynamically personalized for any family member. The color screens on the handsets become windows through which an individual can view and interact with a broad range of content and services. The audio channels thus become an extension of the voice based services, such as messaging and voice chat. | 12-18-2008 |
Gregory E. Pounds, San Jose, CA US
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20100159967 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR A FAMILY CENTER - A family center system and method is provided that allows receiving from a registered family member a family message intended for other registered family members and determines, based on a set of rules, to which of other registered family members to push the family message, mode of transport by which to push the family message, and the schedule according to which to push the family message. A technique involving a tile is provided that allows displaying a unified view of information onto a plurality of registered devices, regardless of device platform and/or communications network. The system and method provides a variety of services to registered family members and allows third party application plug-in for offering third party services. The system and method receives a SMS message and stores such message as a family message for subsequent access or family message treatment. | 06-24-2010 |
20100208727 | Systems and methods for generating power in a communications system - Systems and methods by which voice/data communications may occur in multiple modes/protocols are disclosed. In particular, systems and methods are provided for multiple native mode/protocol voice and data transmissions and receptions with a computing system having a multi-bus structure, including, for example, a TDM bus and a packet bus, and multi-protocol framing engines. Such systems preferably include subsystem functions such as PBX, voice mail and other telephony functions, LAN hub and data router or switch functions. In preferred embodiments, a TDM bus and a packet bus are intelligently bridged and managed, thereby enabling such multiple mode/protocol voice and data transmissions to be intelligently managed and controlled with a single, integrated system. In particular, systems and methods for generating required telephony voltages directly on station cards, rather than on the basis of a large, central ringing or other power supply that supply such telephony voltages to each of the station cards, are disclosed. In accordance with the present invention, a plurality of station cards are provided in the telephony or communications system. One or more DC power supplies provide a source of DC voltage, such as 12 volts, to each of the station cards. The station cards are coupled to a processor of the system. The station cards may support a plurality of analog and/or digital telephony devices, such as telephones facsimile, voice mail, recording, speakerphone, conferencing or other type telephony devices. | 08-19-2010 |
20110038365 | Systems and methods for voice and data communications including a network drop and insert interface for an external data routing resource - Systems and methods by which voice/data communications may occur are disclosed. In particular, systems and methods are provided with a computing system having a multi-bus structure, including, for example, a TDM bus and a packet bus. An integrated communication system is coupled to a digital telecommunications link, the communication system providing voice and data communications to a plurality of users. At least a first packet bus is coupled to one or more packet-based devices and adapted for transferring packetized data to and from the system. One or more time division multiplex (TDM) buses are coupled to one or more telephony devices. Data routing resources are provided internal to the integrated system. A network interface module couples data to and from a data router external to the integrated system. The data router external to the integrated system is coupled to the first packet bus. Data is routed via the external data router through the network interface module and coupled to data channels of the digital telecommunications link, while voice data is selectively coupled to voice channels of the digital telecommunications link. | 02-17-2011 |
20110159852 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CORDLESS PHONE AND OTHER TELECOMMUNICATIONS SERVICES - Systems, methods and apparatus are provided that combine a software application framework within a variety of consumer communication devices to provide enhanced functionality. The enhanced functionality devices can then be controlled and integrated into an Internet based application and delivery service, connected by various networking technologies including, e.g., broadband communication systems. Centralized and distributed services allow a user to modify a variety of parameters that will ultimately control how information is delivered. The solution can also be controlled by service providers as a method for integrating their existing application infrastructure and potentially new applications within an overall broadband communication service. | 06-30-2011 |
Gregory Eugene Pounds, San Jose, CA US
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20160100282 | METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIA FOR USING BLUETOOTH BEACON INFORMATION TO OBTAIN AND PUBLISH FINE GRAINED USER LOCATION INFORMATION - The subject matter described herein includes methods, systems, and computer readable media for utilizing Bluetooth beacon identification information to obtain and publish fine grained user location information. One method includes storing a plurality of Bluetooth beacon identifiers in a mobile device. The method further includes, receiving, from a Bluetooth beacon, a Bluetooth beacon identifier. The method further includes determining whether the received Bluetooth beacon identifier corresponds to one of the stored Bluetooth beacon identifiers. In response to determining that the received Bluetooth beacon identifier corresponds to one of the stored Bluetooth beacon identifiers, the method includes querying a Bluetooth beacon location server for location information corresponding to the Bluetooth beacon identifier. The method further includes receiving Bluetooth beacon location information from the server and publishing the Bluetooth beacon location description to subscribers of a user of the mobile device. | 04-07-2016 |
Jason Pounds, Frisco, TX US
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20130172956 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONTROLLING STIMULATION PULSES DURING THE PROGRAMMING OF AN IMPLANTABLE PULSE GENERATOR - In one embodiment, a method for the controlling of the stimulation pulses being delivered via electrodes to a patient during the programming of a pulse generator using a controller device and selecting of a minimum amplitude that corresponds to the minimum amplitude for which the patient can detect stimulation; selecting an electrode combination defined in the controller device; setting the stimulation amplitude; making a determination of the amplitude for the stimulation pulses is greater than the perception amplitude, and if so, changing the amplitude of the stimulation pulses to be less than or equal to the perception amplitude; and if not or subsequent to the changing of the amplitude, changing the selected one of a plurality of electrode combinations to a different combination. | 07-04-2013 |
20130338733 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONTROLLING STIMULATION PULSES DURING THE PROGRAMMING OF AN IMPLANTABLE PULSE GENERATOR - In one embodiment, a method for the controlling of the stimulation pulses being delivered via electrodes to a patient during the programming of a pulse generator using a controller device and selecting of a minimum amplitude that corresponds to the minimum amplitude for which the patient can detect stimulation; selecting an electrode combination defined in the controller device; setting the stimulation amplitude; making a determination of the amplitude for the stimulation pulses is greater than the perception amplitude, and if so, changing the amplitude of the stimulation pulses to be less than or equal to the perception amplitude; and if not or subsequent to the changing of the amplitude, changing the selected one of a plurality of electrode combinations to a different combination. | 12-19-2013 |
Jason Everette Pounds, Lorton, VA US
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20120204314 | GARMENT HAVING SLEEVES - An article of clothing includes long sleeves, for dressing the upper body of a baby or child. The article of clothing includes at least a front and back portion, shoulder portions connected to the front and back portions, and sleeves connected to the shoulder portions. Each of the sleeves includes a zipper portion extending along the sleeve and terminating at a distal end of the sleeve. The sleeve can be opened along the entire length of the zipper portion all the way to the shoulder portion, so that a person's arm can be maneuvered past the shoulder portion and into the sleeve portion with ease and facility. When the child's or baby's arm is completely inserted through the shoulder portion, the zipper member can be operated so that the sleeve is closed, thereby securing the baby's or child's arm in the sleeve. | 08-16-2012 |
Jerry Scot Pounds, Milton, MA US
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20120004413 | ISOTOPICALLY LABELED CHEMICALLY STABLE REAGENTS AND PROCESS FOR THE SYNTHESIS THEREOF - A radioisotope labeled reagent includes a compound having the general formula (I), | 01-05-2012 |
20130030184 | ISOTOPICALLY LABELED CHEMICALLY STABLE REAGENTS AND PROCESS FOR THE SYNTHESIS THEREOF - A radioisotope labeled reagent includes a compound having the general formula (I), | 01-31-2013 |
Jim Pounds, Auburn, KY US
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20150114347 | Throttle Position Sensor (TPS) Clocker - The current invention includes throttle body devices with an air intake, a throttle plate in the air intake including a throttle plate shaft, wherein the throttle plate shaft horizontally traverses the throttle body, a throttle position sensor (“TPS”) attached to an end of the throttle plate shaft, and a rotational adjustment ring disposed between the throttle position sensor and the throttle body. The throttle position sensor is coupled to the rotational adjustment ring, and the rotational adjustment ring is rotatably adjustable to allow adjustment of the voltages sent from the TPS to an engine control until (“ECU”) at given positions. | 04-30-2015 |
Joel G. Pounds, Richland, WA US
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20090007281 | Animal Model for Assessing Copd-Related Diseases - Methods of diagnosis, markers, and screening techniques and animal models for assessing the severity and/or progression or regression of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and COPD-related diseases are disclosed. | 01-01-2009 |
Nikia Marie Pounds, Lorton, VA US
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20120204314 | GARMENT HAVING SLEEVES - An article of clothing includes long sleeves, for dressing the upper body of a baby or child. The article of clothing includes at least a front and back portion, shoulder portions connected to the front and back portions, and sleeves connected to the shoulder portions. Each of the sleeves includes a zipper portion extending along the sleeve and terminating at a distal end of the sleeve. The sleeve can be opened along the entire length of the zipper portion all the way to the shoulder portion, so that a person's arm can be maneuvered past the shoulder portion and into the sleeve portion with ease and facility. When the child's or baby's arm is completely inserted through the shoulder portion, the zipper member can be operated so that the sleeve is closed, thereby securing the baby's or child's arm in the sleeve. | 08-16-2012 |
Paul E. I. Pounds, Brisbane AU
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20150069968 | VEHICLE REPLENISHMENT - The present invention extends to methods, systems, devices, and apparatus for replenishing vehicle resources. Vehicles can be aligned with and docked to replenishment devices. In one aspect, a flying vehicle (e.g., an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)) is aligned onto electrical recharging contacts. The flying vehicles fuel level or battery charge can be replenished with minimal, if any, human intervention. Vehicle docking (e.g., landing), alignment, and replenishment can be performed automatically. A circular ring or shaped surface of a vehicle can engage with a conical sloping surface of a docking apparatus as a vehicle moves towards and/or into the docking apparatus. The conical sloping surface shape aligns the vehicle with recharge contacts or a refueling probe at the base of the docking apparatus. | 03-12-2015 |
Stephen Pounds, Marietta, GA US
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20130054439 | CURVE ENGINE - Systems and methods for pricing financial instruments include constructing, via at least one computing device comprising one or more processors executing computer-executable instructions stored in memory, a virtual financial complex network comprising one or more interrelated financial markets. Market color data related to at least one of the financial markets is then blended with price data to determine blended pricing information. This blended pricing information is then used to define an objective function that when solved, via an optimization model, determines a minimum market price for each financial instrument across the one or more financial markets. | 02-28-2013 |
Stephen R. Pounds, Roswell, GA US
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20140317021 | MULTI-ASSET PORTFOLIO SIMULATION (MAPS) - An exemplary system according to the present disclosure comprises a computing device that in operation, causes the system to receive financial product or financial portfolio data, map the financial product to a risk factor, execute a risk factor simulation process involving the risk factor, generate product profit and loss values for the financial product or portfolio profit and loss values for the financial portfolio based on the risk factor simulation process, and determine an initial margin for the financial product. The risk factor simulation process can be a filtered historical simulation process. | 10-23-2014 |
Thomas Pounds, Cambridge GB
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20100320454 | White Light Emitting Material - A white light emitting material comprising a polymer having an emitting polymer chain and at least one emitting end capping group. | 12-23-2010 |
20110186826 | Electroluminescent Materials and Optical Device - An electroluminescent material comprises the following structural unit: | 08-04-2011 |
20110186827 | Organic Light-emitting Materials and Devices - A light-emissive polymer comprising the following unit: | 08-04-2011 |
20120046440 | Polymer and Polymerization Method - A method for forming a polymer comprising the polymerization of a plurality of monomers, wherein at least one of the plurality of monomers is one or both of: a charge transporting unit and a hydrocarbon monomer in which at least one carbon atom has been substituted by an atom or group with a greater quantity of unshared valence electrons than the carbon atom it has been substituted for, and wherein at least one of the plurality of monomers comprises an end-capping compound at one end of said monomer, the end-capping compound preventing polymerization at the end, wherein the end-capping compound is not charge transporting and comprises at least two rings. The end capping compound preferably consists of or includes a structural unit having the formula: (Ar) | 02-23-2012 |
20130237680 | WHITE LIGHT EMITTING MATERIAL - A white light emitting material comprising a polymer having an emitting polymer chain and at least one emitting end capping group. | 09-12-2013 |
Thomas Pounds, Cambridgeshire GB
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20130292657 | POLYMER AND ORGANIC LIGHT-EMITTING DEVICE - Light-emitting composition and devices including the same, the composition including a fluorescent light-emitting material and a polymer having a conjugating repeat unit and a non-conjugating repeat unit in a backbone of the polymer, and in which the conjugating repeat unit provides at least one conjugation path between repeat units linked to it; the non-conjugating repeat unit reduces conjugation of the polymer as compared to a polymer in which the non-conjugating repeat unit is absent; and a triplet excited state energy level of the light-emitting material is higher than a triplet excited state energy level of the non-conjugating repeat unit. | 11-07-2013 |
Tom Pounds, Monte Sereno, CA US
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20090167534 | RFID TAGS AND PROCESSES FOR PRODUCING RFID TAGS - A Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tag. The RFID tag comprises a flexible substrate and an integrated circuit embedded within the flexible substrate. The top surface of the integrated circuit is coplanar with the flexible substrate. At least one conductive element is formed on the flexible substrate. The conductive element is electrically connected to the integrated circuit. The conductive element serves as an antenna for the RFID tag. | 07-02-2009 |
20110186640 | RFID TAGS AND PROCESSES FOR PRODUCING RFID TAGS - A Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tag. The RFID tag comprises a flexible substrate and an integrated circuit embedded within the flexible substrate. The top surface of the integrated circuit is coplanar with the flexible substrate. At least one conductive element is formed on the flexible substrate. The conductive element is electrically connected to the integrated circuit. The conductive element serves as an antenna for the RFID tag. | 08-04-2011 |
20130265134 | RFID TAGS AND PROCESSES FOR PRODUCING RFID TAGS - A Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tag. The RFID tag comprises a flexible substrate and an integrated circuit embedded within the flexible substrate. The top surface of the integrated circuit is coplanar with the flexible substrate. At least one conductive element is formed on the flexible substrate. The conductive element is electrically connected to the integrated circuit. The conductive element serves as an antenna for the RFID tag. | 10-10-2013 |
20150242739 | RFID TAGS AND PROCESSES FOR PRODUCING RFID TAGS - A Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tag. The RFID tag comprises a flexible substrate and an integrated circuit embedded within the flexible substrate. The top surface of the integrated circuit is coplanar with the flexible substrate. At least one conductive element is formed on the flexible substrate. The conductive element is electrically connected to the integrated circuit. The conductive element serves as an antenna for the RFID tag. | 08-27-2015 |
William E. Pounds, Colorado Springs, CO US
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20130307172 | Method Of Converting Tear-Off Asphaltic Shingles To A Formed Product - A method of converting asphaltic shingles to a formed product, comprising the steps of providing a charge of recovered asphaltic shingles, comminuting the charge into small particles, adding to the charge a quantity of hydrated aluminosilicate, heating the charge while simultaneously mixing the comminuted charge to a homogeneous state, placing the mixed charge into molds to form the product, applying pressure to the charge in the mold for a determinable dwell time, ejecting the product from the mold, and cooling the product. | 11-21-2013 |