Michael J Swanson

US Patent:

6878078, Apr 12, 2005

Filed:

Dec 27, 2002

Appl. No.:

10/331076

Inventors:

Michael J. Swanson - Federal Way WA, US

International Classification:

A63B069/40

US Classification:

473454, 473435

Abstract:

A leather pitching target simulates the sound of a pitched ball hitting a catcher's mitt and forms a visual indentation where the ball strikes the target. An air-filled layer of padding may be sandwiched between a leather target sheet and a durable backing material. A square or rectangular quilted pattern of stitching may bind the layers together. A differently colored block U-shaped pattern of squares forms the inside, outside, and bottom of the strike zone. Each time the ball hits the target, pressure from the impact levels out the previous impression and creates a new one where the new pitch hit the target.

US Patent:

61121835, Aug 29, 2000

Filed:

Feb 11, 1997

Appl. No.:

8/797213

Inventors:

Michael L. Swanson - Scandia MN
Denise Probst - Arden Hills MN
Paul M. Roberts - St. Louis Park MN
Lori A. Katainen - Eden Prairie MN
Roberta J. Pett - Lino Lakes MN
Mark W. Gladding - Elk River MN

Assignee:

United Healthcare Corporation - Minneapolis MN

International Classification:

G06F 1338

US Classification:

705 2

Abstract:

An apparatus and method for processing health care transactions through a common interface in a distributed computing environment using specialized remote procedure calls. The distributed computing environment includes a user interface tier for collecting user inputs and presenting transaction outputs, a data access tier for data storage and retrieval of health care transaction information, a transaction logic tier for applying a predetermined set of transaction procedures to user inputs and health care transaction information resulting in transaction output, an electronic network connecting the user interface tier, data access tier and transaction logic tier to each other and a communication interface for exchanging health care transaction information among the tiers. The communication interface includes an interface definition language generating transaction-specific communication codes whereby data is exchanged through a common interface structure regardless of the origin of the data.