Michael C Dolan

US Patent:

7653568, Jan 26, 2010

Filed:

Jan 13, 2004

Appl. No.:

10/757166

Inventors:

Edward B. Keller - Hastings on Hudson NY, US
Michael Juergen Dolan - Acton MA, US

Assignee:

GfK U.S. Holdings, Inc. - Wilmington DE

International Classification:

G06F 17/30

US Classification:

705 10

Abstract:

This invention relates to a system and method for identifying target individuals who possess certain characteristics statistically indicative of their ability to influence others in their decision making regarding consumer goods, consumer products, political issues or candidates, financial matters, investments, real estate, insurance, travel and leisure, by non-limiting example. The subject invention encompasses not only the identification of a key group of individuals in a population more likely to affect the decision making of others in the population (“Influentials” as discussed below), but also includes the identification of additional (“non-Influential”) informational data common to Influential individuals, as well as the application of this additional informational data to other populations. The advantage of employing this additional informational data to ascertain Influentials is that this data can be publicly available data (such as, for example, from the U. S. Census Bureau), thus facilitating the identification of Influentials without the necessity of undertaking any surveys to identify Influentials per se instead relying on pre-existing public demographic information.

US Patent:

20090245200, Oct 1, 2009

Filed:

Mar 31, 2008

Appl. No.:

12/080015

Inventors:

Violeta Cakulev - Morris Plains NJ, US
Michael Francis Dolan - Bolingbrook IL, US
Subramanian Vasudevan - Morristown NJ, US
Lily H. Zhu - Parsippany NJ, US

International Classification:

H04Q 7/00

US Classification:

370331

Abstract:

For handover between wireless telecommunications networks of different technology types, an air interface is set up between a first node included in a network of a first technology type and a second node included in a network of a second different technology type. Signaling messaging, in accordance with the second technology type, is related to handover of a mobile terminal from the network of the first technology type to the network of the second technology type. The signaling messaging is encapsulated in a container for transmission over the signaling interface. An identifier is associated with the container to indicate that it encapsulates the signaling messaging. When the identifier is detected at the first node, the container is sent over the interface to the second node. In one method in accordance with the invention, the first technology type is WiMAX and the identifier is a special service flow identifier. This may be detected at an Access Services Network Gateway (ASN GW), for example. A method in accordance with the invention thus permits the use of logical radio channels for encapsulating inter-technology signaling.

US Patent:

49301578, May 29, 1990

Filed:

May 10, 1989

Appl. No.:

7/350095

Inventors:

Howard Citron - Katonah NY
Eric Chan - New York NY
Michael Dolan - New York NY

Assignee:

Nynex Corporation - White Plains NY

International Classification:

H04M 102

US Classification:

379433

Abstract:

A handset for use with a key pad wherein the body of the handset is provided with one or more apertures which are adapted to permit access to one or more keys of the key pad when the handset is brought to a position proximate to the key pad.