Michael J Martino

US Patent:

20120266424, Oct 25, 2012

Filed:

Apr 17, 2012

Appl. No.:

13/448558

Inventors:

Michael C. Martino - Glen Rock NJ, US

Assignee:

URNAMENTS, LLC. - Glen Rock NJ

International Classification:

A61G 17/08

US Classification:

27 1

Abstract:

An ornamental keepsake urn for storing and displaying the remains of a loved one or pet during the holidays, such as from a Christmas tree or year round. The ornamental urn generally includes an upper member and a lower member. The upper member and lower member are generally removably connected to each other to form a unitary structure for storing cremated remains. The combined ornamental urn will generally have an egg-shaped appearance. The upper member will generally include a mounting assembly such as an eyelet or other structure for suspending the present invention from an object such as a tree. Both the upper and lower members will each have hollowed-out cavities within which the cremated remains will be stored. The upper and lower members will each have threaded portions which engage with each other to combine the two members to form the unitary egg-shaped ornament structure.

US Patent:

52763145, Jan 4, 1994

Filed:

Apr 3, 1992

Appl. No.:

7/864887

Inventors:

Michael J. Martino - Gardiner NY
Geoffrey L. Meissner - Poughkeepsie NY
Robert C. Paulsen - Highland NY

Assignee:

International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY

International Classification:

G06F 704

US Classification:

235380

Abstract:

A mechanism for an automated system to allow a user of the system to demonstrate his legitimacy by demonstration of secret knowledge. The mechanism is resistant to compromise by observation of its use. An array of symbols is presented to the user and the user is required to manipulate several symbols at once until assigned key symbols are manipulated into predetermined states. Doing so effectively prevents an observer from determining which symbols are the ones of interest. For example, pushing a button might cause several symbols in the array to exchange their positions. The user continues to do this, having, perhaps, to use several different buttons, until a certain subset of the symbols appears in certain locations within the array. (In this example, the arrangement of this subset of symbols is the user's password or PIN. ) In this process many symbols in the array, in addition to the user's specific symbols, would also have been moved, making it virtually impossible for an observer to identify which symbols and array-positions are pertinent to the user's password or PIN.

US Patent:

55485073, Aug 20, 1996

Filed:

Mar 14, 1994

Appl. No.:

8/212490

Inventors:

Michael J. Martino - Gardiner NY
Robert C. Paulsen - Highland NY

Assignee:

International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY

International Classification:

G06F 1727

US Classification:

36441901

Abstract:

Provides a process which identifies the language or genre of a stored or transmitted document. The process uses a plurality of Word Frequency Tables (WFTs) respectively associated with languages/genre of interest. Each WFT contains a relatively few of the most common words of one of the languages of interest. Each word code in a WFT has an associated normalized frequency of occurrence value (NFO); use of NFOs increases the language/genre detection ability of the process. A plurality of respective accumulators are associated with the plurality of WFTs. All accumulators are set to zero before identification processing starts. The language/genre identification process receives a sequence of words from an inputted document, and compares each received word to all of the words in all WFTs. Whenever a received word is found in any WFT, the process adds the word's associated NFO to a current total in the associated accumulator. In this manner, totals in all accumulators build up into language discriminating values after a number of words are read from the document.