Michael D Elliott

7403923, Jul 22, 2008

Nov 5, 2001

10/011523

Michael B. Elliott - Wilmette IL, US
Patrick G. O'Neill - Wilmette IL, US
Jorge Nocedal - Evanston IL, US
Robert Fourer - Evanston IL, US

Accenture Global Services GmbH - Schauffhauen

G06Q 40/00

705 38, 705 40

A method of optimizing debt collection attitudinally classifies debtors into one of several attitudinal segments. The approach uses an assessment of current attitudes rather than past behaviors as to predict future behavior. Each segment can be addressed with an offer, which is a combination of attributes which together, have an expected, measurable, and predictable response from the debtor. Debt collection requires the expenditure of resources, at least one of which the availability of a relatively small number of debt collectors. The offers that can be extended to debtors are identified on a debtor-by-debtor, offer-by-offer basis to identify the best offer to propose to each debtor by the limited number of debt collectors in order to maximize the economic return from all debtors.

7860878, Dec 28, 2010

Feb 25, 2008

12/036970

John Thrall - San Francisco CA, US
Michael Elliott - San Carlos CA, US
Owen Pingchi Cheung - Hillsborough CA, US
Brian Evan McMullin - Palo Alto CA, US

Yahoo! Inc. - Sunnyvale CA

G06F 7/00
G06F 17/30

707766, 707806

Methods and apparatus are described by which media assets may be prioritized and published in accordance with current topics of interest derived from a dynamic data set representing the online activity of a relevant population of users.

7898554, Mar 1, 2011

Jun 7, 2007

11/811195

Loren Brichter - San Jose CA, US
Alexander King-Chung Kan - Mountain View CA, US
Michael James Elliott Swift - Mountain View CA, US

Apple Inc. - Cupertino CA

G09G 5/00

345660, 345667, 345668, 345661

A method and an apparatus for determining an up scale factor and a down scale factor according to a scale factor received from a graphics application program interface (API) to scale a graphics data in a graphics processing unit (GPU) are described. The up scale factor and the down scale factor may be precisely stored in the GPU based on a fixed number of bits. An actual scale factor which can be precisely stored in the GPU corresponding to the scale factor may differ from the scale factor with a difference. Graphics commands may be sent to the GPU to scale the graphics data according to the up scale factor and the down scale factor separately. A combined scale factor corresponding to a combination of the up scale factor and the down scale factor may differ from the scale factor less then the difference between the actual scale factor and the scale factor.

8083286, Dec 27, 2011

Mar 20, 2009

12/408563

Brian Buda - Brighton MI, US
Robert Moore - Salisbury NC, US
Jeffrey Robbins - Ann Arbor MI, US
John Muglia - Shelby Township MI, US
Bradley R. Hamlin - Canton MI, US
Kenneth R. Schmidt - Plymouth MI, US
Michael Ray Elliott - Wyandotte MI, US
Robert Cleland - Macomb MI, US

Magna International Inc. - Aurora

B60N 99/00

29619011, 29619008

A sleeper cab assembly for a vehicle includes a frame configured to provide a support structure for at least a portion of the sleeper cab assembly. The frame includes a plurality of frame members coupled together. Each of the frame members are formed of a reinforced polymeric material.

8085280, Dec 27, 2011

Feb 14, 2011

13/027210

Loren Brichter - San Jose CA, US
Alexander King-Chung Kan - Mountain View CA, US
Michael James Elliott Swift - Mountain View CA, US

Apple Inc. - Cupertino CA

G09G 5/00

345660, 345661, 345667, 345668

A method and an apparatus for determining an up scale factor and a down scale factor according to a scale factor received from a graphics application program interface (API) to scale a graphics data in a graphics processing unit (GPU) are described. The up scale factor and the down scale factor may be precisely stored in the GPU based on a fixed number of bits. An actual scale factor which can be precisely stored in the GPU corresponding to the scale factor may differ from the scale factor with a difference. Graphics commands may be sent to the GPU to scale the graphics data according to the up scale factor and the down scale factor separately. A combined scale factor corresponding to a combination of the up scale factor and the down scale factor may differ from the scale factor less then the difference between the actual scale factor and the scale factor.

8115773, Feb 14, 2012

Jun 7, 2007

11/811416

Michael James Elliott Swift - Mountain View CA, US
Kenneth Christian Dyke - Sunnyvale CA, US
Richard Schreyer - Sunnyvale CA, US

Apple Inc. - Cupertino CA

G06T 1/00

345522, 345501, 345503, 345530, 345531, 711158, 712216

A method and an apparatus for determining a dependency relationship between graphics commands based on availability of graphics hardware resources to perform graphics processing operations according to the dependency relationship are described. The graphics commands may be received from graphics APIs (application programming interfaces) for rendering a graphics object. A graphics driver may transmit a portion or all of the received graphics commands to a graphics processing unit (GPU) or a media processor based on the determined dependency relationship between the graphics commands.

8237723, Aug 7, 2012

Jun 7, 2007

11/811076

Michael James Elliott Swift - Mountain View CA, US
Richard Schreyer - Sunnyvale CA, US

Apple Inc. - Cupertino CA

G06T 1/60

345530, 345532, 345534, 345543, 345547, 711156, 711170

A method and an apparatus for maintaining separate information for graphics commands that have been sent to a graphics processing unit (GPU) and for graphics commands that have been processed by the GPU are described. The graphics commands may be associated with graphics resources. A manner to respond to a request for updating the graphics resources may be determined based on examining the separate information maintained for the graphics commands. The request may be received from a graphics API (application programming interface). Responding to the request may include at least one of notifying the graphics API regarding a status of the graphics resources and updating the graphics resources identified by the request.

8269780, Sep 18, 2012

Jun 7, 2007

11/811334

Michael Jame Elliott Swift - Mountain View CA, US
Richard Schreyer - Sunnyvale CA, US

Apple Inc. - Cupertino CA

G06F 15/00

345501, 345522, 345530

A method and an apparatus for updating graphics resource usage according to a stream of graphics commands atomically submitted to a graphics processing unit (GPU) are described. The stream of graphics commands may be received from a plurality of graphics APIs (application programming interfaces) by a graphics driver. Availability of graphics resources of the GPU may be monitored by the graphics driver for submitting the stream of graphics commands. A single notification from the GPU may indicate that all graphics commands submitted to the GPU have been executed for updating a usage of graphics resources associated with the executed graphics commands.