Jon M Dickinson

US Patent:

7865129, Jan 4, 2011

Filed:

Oct 27, 2006

Appl. No.:

11/588892

Inventors:

Bobby Lynn Maslen - Portland OR, US
John Maslen - Portland OR, US
Jon M. Dickinson - Portland OR, US

International Classification:

G09B 11/00

US Classification:

434317, 434336, 434362

Abstract:

An electronic early recognition and confirmation system generally in learner-useable book-form structure including (a) pages, each including at least one lesson-specific question, and for each such question an associated field containing a plurality of nominally undistinguished, learner-selectable, image-based answers among which there is at least one best answer, (b) with respect to each such question, an invitation to a learner to respond to that question by interacting in a defined way with any selected one of the relevant field-associated answers, and (c) power-ready, electronic, interaction-response structure embedded in the book-form structure, operable, when a learner interacts with a selected answer in the relevant field, to produce a light and/or sound correctness-confirming response of one style when the selected answer is the best answer, and a light and/or sound noncorrectness-announcing response of another style when the selected answer is another, incorrect answer.

US Patent:

8185433, May 22, 2012

Filed:

Jul 1, 2005

Appl. No.:

11/174023

Inventors:

Robert D. Summer - New York NY, US
Jon M. Dickinson - Portland OR, US

International Classification:

G07G 1/14

US Classification:

705 14

Abstract:

A P2P (peer-to-peer) business and commerce-enhancing method including the steps of (a) identifying an active P2P network which is characterized with peers having a defined affinity interest in the exchange of at least category-A information, such as digital music song files, and (b) employing that at-least category-A information-exchange affinity interest as a carrier vehicle and growth engine for the promotion, within that network, of collateral income-generating transactions between a peer and a party who may be inside or outside the network. Of central importance to such commerce enhancement, or growth, as promoted by practice of the invention is that such growth is driven by network-internal, peer-group enthusiasm, linked with imaginative peer entrepreneurship in the engaging of peer-to-peer file-sharing behavior.

US Patent:

8408916, Apr 2, 2013

Filed:

Oct 27, 2006

Appl. No.:

11/588772

Inventors:

Bobby Lynn Maslen - Portland OR, US
John Maslen - Portland OR, US
Jon M. Dickinson - Portland OR, US

International Classification:

G09B 1/00

US Classification:

434174, 434172, 434167

Abstract:

A system for teaching plural, different, short-vowel sounds, in their intrinsic forms, in the context of associated short-vowel-sound words. The system incorporates, for each such sound, an associated pair of relatively rotatable, foreground and background word-fragment carriers—the former in each pair carrying but a single, first-category, readable, word-ending word fragment having within it the vowel whose sound is associated with the carrier pair, and the latter in each pair carrying a plurality of second-category, readable, word-beginning word fragments, each dedicated to working in teaching cooperation with the single word fragment carried on the associated foreground carrier to combine readably with that first-category word fragment to form a complete, short-vowel-sound word which is correctly pronounceable utilizing the associated short-vowel sound. All word-beginning word fragments end with the same, common consonant.

US Patent:

8417565, Apr 9, 2013

Filed:

Jul 14, 2010

Appl. No.:

12/836566

Inventors:

Robert D Summer - New York NY, US
Jon M. Dickinson - Portland OR, US

International Classification:

G06Q 30/00
G07G 1/14

US Classification:

705 141, 705 144

Abstract:

A sourcing-provider-implemented, electronic-commerce, communication-network method for controlling acquisition-access to electronically-deliverable, affinity-interest deliverables in portions of which rights are held both by a sourcing provider and by a contributing network communicant. The method includes (a) establishing an electronic, network-connected, sourcing-provider-associated-and-controlled catalogue designed to contain at least one such deliverable, (b) vetting the entrepreneurial talent of at least one network communicant relative to the creation, catalogue-placement, and network-acquisition-promotional offering to others, by that one communicant of such a deliverable, whereby, through deliverable-creation and catalogue-placement thereof, the vetted network communicant becomes a contributing network communicant, (c) authorizing the vetted network communicant to become a contributing network communicant, and to create, to place or have placed, and to offer to other network communicants, deliverables-acquisition network access to such a catalogue-placed deliverable, and (d) rewardingly incentivizing such offers.

US Patent:

20070129067, Jun 7, 2007

Filed:

Oct 27, 2006

Appl. No.:

11/588521

Inventors:

Robert Summer - New York NY, US
Talmon Marco - New York NY, US
Jon Dickinson - Portland OR, US

International Classification:

H04Q 7/38
H04Q 7/22
H04M 3/42

US Classification:

455414100

Abstract:

A system, and an associated network ring-tone communication method, enabling creation and use of a personalized, user-defined communication ring-tone. The invention method includes (a) selectively placing, in an electronic ring-tone depot, digital snippet content suitable for extraction and use as at least a part of a digital communication ring-tone, (b) enabling controlled and sanctioned user access to that depot for the purpose of permitting selective user-extraction therefrom of at least one depot-held content snippet, and (c) further enabling user-employment of such an extracted snippet as at least a part of (1) a user-specific communication identifier, and/or (2) an ultimate, user-identifying action-stimulator, in relation to a user-to-another network communication.

US Patent:

20090216644, Aug 27, 2009

Filed:

Apr 27, 2009

Appl. No.:

12/387084

Inventors:

Robert D. Summer - New York NY, US
Jon M. Dickinson - Portland OR, US

International Classification:

G06Q 30/00
G06Q 50/00
G06F 17/30

US Classification:

705 14, 705 27, 7071041

Abstract:

An electronic, computer-based, system-manager-supervised, network-commerce, method featuring cloud-computing-type activity, and including (a) forming within an electronic-network a subassembly of selected, distributed, different-affinity-interest, network-connected groups, (b) creating, selectively and distributively within the network, for such groups, selected, controlled-access, physical-electronic, digital-database catalogues of relevant, affinity-interest deliverables via selecting providers of such deliverables, and managing the electronic placement into the catalogues of chosen, selected-provider deliverables, (c) establishing, for and within each such group, vetted and incentivized, group-personnel entrepreneurial activity, wherein at least one so vetted group member is authorized to promote over the network, sales from a relevant catalogue of associated-provider deliverables, and (d) in association with such sales, and utilizing network resources, furnishing ancillary, commerce-related sales support of a character which is common to at least plural ones of such selected affinity-interest groups, but independent of group-specific affinity-interest subject matter.

US Patent:

58868186, Mar 23, 1999

Filed:

Nov 2, 1994

Appl. No.:

8/333497

Inventors:

Susan Kasen Summer - Warren CT
Steve A. Welck - Maui HI
Burkhard Katz - Overath, DE
Jon M. Dickinson - Portland OR
Pierre C. Van Rysselberghe - Portland OR

Assignee:

Dimensional Media Associates - New York NY

International Classification:

G02B 2722
G03B 2100
G03B 2128

US Classification:

359478

Abstract:

Image compositing apparatus and methodology for the creation, in a defined volume of three-dimensional space, of a composite organization of plural images/visual phenomena, including at least one projected real image, displayed in formats including (a) front-to-rear, (b) side-by-side and (c) overlapping and intersecting, adjacency. The apparatus incorporates different unique arrangements of visual sources, and optical elements including concave reflectors, beam splitters and image-forming/image-transmissive scrim/screen structures. In one important modification of the system, which does not necessarily require compositing, a projected real image is derived from an image-producing data stream containing three-dimensional image cues selected from the group consisting of shading, occlusion, perspective, motion parallax, size vs. depth, light (chroma value) vs. depth and definition vs. depth.

US Patent:

20150278875, Oct 1, 2015

Filed:

Jun 12, 2015

Appl. No.:

14/738807

Inventors:

Robert D. Summer - New York NY, US
Jon M. Dickinson - Portland OR, US

International Classification:

G06Q 30/02
G06Q 40/00

Abstract:

An electronic, vetted-entrepreneurship-enhancement commerce method implementable by common-affinity-interest network-communicant parties employing the structure of an electronic communication network to engage in affinity subject matter financial transactions, in association with a network-connected, limited-access, and specifically an entrepreneurially-vetted-network-communicant authorized-access-only, digital-data catalogue of commercially-transactable affinity-interest-associated goods-and-services (subject matter) deliverables that are represented by electronically transformed data stored in the catalogue. The method includes (1), in relation to intended catalogue-financial-transactional-access limiting, specifically basing financial transactional access to catalogue deliverables focusedly on vetted-network-communicant, financial-transactional-promotional entrepreneurship, and (2), limiting such access to the catalogue to (a) only an entrepreneurially vetted, entrepreneurially-talented network-communicant party, and (b) another party to whom such access is furnished specifically, and only, by such a vetted party.