William A Mcneill

US Patent:

6375401, Apr 23, 2002

Filed:

Oct 20, 2000

Appl. No.:

09/693793

Inventors:

William A. McNeill - Crete IL

Assignee:

Continental/Midland, Inc. - Park Forest IL

International Classification:

F16B 3504

US Classification:

411416, 411411

Abstract:

A fastener includes a head and a threaded shank. The shank defines an inner periphery and the thread defines an outer periphery. The shank and the thread each have a generally polygonal crossection with at least five lobes separated by at least five convex surfaces.

US Patent:

7203966, Apr 10, 2007

Filed:

Jun 27, 2001

Appl. No.:

09/892318

Inventors:

Rajasekhar Abburi - Medina WA, US
James M. Alkove - Woodinville WA, US
William P. McNeill - Seattle WA, US
Jeffrey R. McKune - Issaquah WA, US

Assignee:

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

International Classification:

G06F 21/22
G06F 21/20
G06F 21/24

US Classification:

726 29, 726 7, 726 31, 726 32, 380201

Abstract:

An enforcement architecture and method for implementing roaming digital rights management are disclosed. A license distributed from a license server to a computing device of a user may be uploaded to a license synchronization server, and rebound to other devices registered with the service, thereby enabling access to the licensed content from other computing devices. A second digital license of a second computing device is set to expire prior to a first digital license of a first computing device. Reactivating a decayed first digital license, that is deactivated during transmission of the second digital license, to the second device to access content of the first computing device.

US Patent:

8645399, Feb 4, 2014

Filed:

Jan 12, 2012

Appl. No.:

13/349414

Inventors:

William P. McNeill - Seattle WA, US
Andrew Borthwick - Kirkland WA, US

Assignee:

Intelius Inc. - Bellevue WA

International Classification:

G06F 17/30

US Classification:

707752, 707808, 707737, 707738, 707692, 707698, 707812, 717159, 711162, 711147, 37524024, 709201, 709203, 709213, 709217

Abstract:

Dynamic blocking determines which pairs of records in a data set should be examined as potential duplicates. Records are grouped together into blocks by shared properties that are indicators of duplication. Blocks that are too large to be efficiently processed are further subdivided by other properties chosen in a data-driven way. We demonstrate the viability of this algorithm for large data sets. We have scaled this system up to work on billions of records on an 80 node Hadoop cluster.

US Patent:

20230014904, Jan 19, 2023

Filed:

Jul 14, 2022

Appl. No.:

17/812597

Inventors:

- Austin TX, US
Sandeep Gunda - Austin TX, US
William McNeill - Austin TX, US

International Classification:

G06F 16/901
G06F 16/906
G06F 16/93
G06F 40/279

Abstract:

A method of generating a searchable representation of an electronic document includes obtaining an electronic document specifying a graphical layout of content items. The content items include at least text in a table. The method also includes selecting masking rules, generating a vertical mask based on the masking rules, and generating a horizontal mask based on the masking rules. The vertical mask indicates estimated locations of vertical boundaries of table columns of the table, and the horizontal mask indicates estimated locations of horizontal boundaries of table rows of the table. The method also includes identifying cells of the table based on the vertical mask and the horizontal mask and generating a searchable data structure based on text corresponding to the identified cells of the table.