William Alan Simmons

US Patent:

7092498, Aug 15, 2006

Filed:

Nov 26, 2002

Appl. No.:

10/304018

Inventors:

Ayman Hariri - Potomac MD, US
Scott D. Birnbaum - Washington DC, US
Stephen B. Green - Silver Spring MD, US
Davis Edgar McPherson - Silver Spring MD, US
William Nigel Simmons - Potomac MD, US

Assignee:

Ayman, LLC - Bethesda MD

International Classification:

H04M 11/00

US Classification:

379 9301, 379 9324, 37920101

Abstract:

A universal point of contact identifier system calling device facilitates a connection between a caller and a call recipient over a telephone network by communicating with a universal point of contact identifier system server. The calling device includes a keyboard, a display, a circuit to make a telephone call and transmit and receive digital data over the network, a memory unit and a micro-controller to control the functions of the device. The keyboard facilitates the entry of an identifier, e. g. , an email address, into the memory unit of the device. After entry of the identifier, the circuit connects the device with the server and transmits the identifier to the server. The server utilizes the identifier to establish a connection over the network between the caller and call recipient.

US Patent:

20080010448, Jan 10, 2008

Filed:

Sep 29, 2004

Appl. No.:

10/573859

Inventors:

Brijbhushan S. Sabnis - Rockville MD, US
William Nigel Simmons - Potomac MD, US

Assignee:

Ayman LLC - Bethesda MD

International Classification:

H04L 9/00

US Classification:

713156, 713158

Abstract:

A digital certificate, used in a computing system, includes a distinguished name (DN) field and a common name (CN) field within the DN field. The CN field contains a resource identifier that contains information identifying each of a plurality of resources in the certification path of the digital certificate. The resource identifier can be a hierarchical identifier that specifies an identity of a trusted root resource, and an identity of a resource issuing the digital certificate. The resource identifier can contain identifiers of resources in a certification path between the trusted root resource and the resource issuing the digital certificate. The certification path leads to a trusted source for the computing system.

US Patent:

20180023103, Jan 25, 2018

Filed:

Jul 25, 2017

Appl. No.:

15/659505

Inventors:

- Wilmington DE, US
Stephen Thomas CARTMAN - Eaglescliffe, GB
Jonathan KENNEDY - Stokesley, GB
William Joseph SIMMONS - Washington DC, US

International Classification:

C12P 7/62
C07C 59/147
C07C 47/19
C07C 223/02
C07C 225/06
C07C 47/12
C07C 55/16
C12P 13/00
C12P 7/44
C12P 7/18
C12N 9/88
C12N 9/04
C12N 9/10
C12N 9/16
C07C 229/08

Abstract:

This document describes biochemical pathways for producing a difunctional product having an odd number of carbon atoms in vitro or in a recombinant host, or salts or derivatives thereof, by forming two terminal functional groups selected from carboxyl, amine, formyl, and hydroxyl groups in an aliphatic carbon chain backbone having an odd number of carbon atoms synthesized from (i) acetyl-CoA and propanedioyl-CoA via one or more cycles of methyl ester shielded carbon chain elongation or (ii) propanedioyl-[acp] via one or more cycles of methyl ester shielded carbon chain elongation. The biochemical pathways and metabolic engineering and cultivation strategies described herein rely on enzymes or homologs accepting methyl ester shielded aliphatic carbon chain backbones and maintaining the methyl ester shield for at least one further enzymatic step following one or more cycles of methyl ester shielded carbon chain elongation.