Clinton L Ballard, 42Bainbridge Island, WA

6430739, Aug 6, 2002

Jul 16, 1999

09/354951

Clinton L. Ballard - Suquamish WA

Acceleration Software International Corporation - Poulsbo WA

G06F 944

717100, 717172, 717173

The functionality of software is contingent upon the home page setting for a user. Each time a user logs onto the World Wide Web, a home page manager program checks the home page setting. If the setting is the predetermined home page, then normal operation of contingent software ensues. If the setting is not the predetermined home page, then access to the contingent software is limited or disabled. The predetermined home page is any one of a prescribed set of home pages listed at a control site. In rotational mode a plurality of prescribed home pages are rotated as the predetermined home page. In long term mode the user selects one home page from the plurality of prescribed home pages as the predetermined home page. The home page manager software also allows (i) access to a users alternative home page, and (ii) monitoring the level of activity of software.

6449765, Sep 10, 2002

Aug 9, 1999

09/370546

Clinton L. Ballard - Suquamish WA

Acceleration Software International Corporation - Poulsbo WA

G06F 9455

717174, 717122, 717168, 707203

A plurality of vendors include a prescribed hyperlink protocol in their web pages to be participating web pages. The protocol included is the same for everyone, although the function and appearance of a resulting hyperlink varies. For a non-participating end user, the prescribed hyperlink forwards access to a sign-up site. For a participating end user, the function varies according whether the current web page is the referral web site start page, a referral web site non-start page, the privileged web site start page, a privileged web site non-start page, or another participating web page. For the referral start page, the hyperlink redirects access to the privileged web site start page. For the privileged start page, the hyperlink redirects access to the referral start page. For other participating web pages, the function may rotate to redirect access to the referral site or the privileged domain.

6473756, Oct 29, 2002

Jun 11, 1999

09/330676

Clinton L. Ballard - Suquamish WA

Acceleration Software International Corporation - Poulsbo WA

G06F 1730

707 6, 707 3

A file among equivalent files identified during a search of a global computer network is selected to be downloaded to a local computer. Equivalent files are found frequently where different copies of the same song are stored many times on a global computer network. A portion of all or a subset of the equivalent files are screened during a brief trial download period. Because the files are expected to be located at different sites, the bandwidth of the pathways to the respective files may vary. Amongst other criteria, the file with the best download performance during the trial time period is selected to be downloaded in its entirety.

6830513, Dec 14, 2004

May 23, 2003

10/445243

Clinton L. Ballard - Suquamish WA

Acceleration Corp. - Poulsbo WA

A63F 924

463 14, 273260

Allowed actions of a computer-based player in a game are limited. A pre-action value is identified which corresponds to a relative advantage between the computer-based player and a real person player prior to a current action taken by the computer-based player. A post-action value is identified corresponding to the relative advantage between the computer-based player and the real person player after the current action taken by the computer-based player. The current action is limited to be among a set of allowed actions, which keep the post-action value at least as great as a threshold value. The current action of the computer-based player also may be limited to keep the post-action value not more than a tolerable value, where possible. The current action is selected from the set of allowed actions. The threshold value and tolerance value are prescribed, selected or varied over the course of the game.

6847719, Jan 25, 2005

Aug 11, 2000

09/637467

Clinton L. Ballard - Suquamish WA, US

eAcceleration Corp. - Poulsbo WA

H04L 900

380279, 705 57

Receiver access to a secure communication is determined by the sender. The sender defines an access parameter, such as number of times a message can be decrypted, expiration time of message, or some contingent event that triggers expiration of a message. A send configuration module defines the encryption method, encryption key length, and the control parameter(s). A key management module serves to implement the send configuration parameters during a communication. Upon receiving a message the receiver module contacts the key management module to request a decryption key. The key management module returns the decryption key or a ‘denied’ message. Once the message is decrypted at the receiver, the key and the decrypted source are deleted from the receiver computer. The message is displayed in a bit-mapped window.

6950854, Sep 27, 2005

Jun 7, 2001

09/878047

Clinton L. Ballard - Suquamish WA, US

eAcceleration Software - Poulsbo WA

G06F015/16

709206, 709218, 709247, 340 729, 379 9324, 37910008

A sender prepares a message, then transmits an e-mail notice to the receiver and the e-mail message to a forwarding server. The “e-mail notice” is a short message, including a message ID and specifically does not include the complete prepared message. The “e-mail message” is in binary format and also includes the message ID of the corresponding e-mail notice. The receiving user receives the e-mail notice, then contacts the forwarding server to receive the e-mail message corresponding to the message ID within the received e-mail notice.

7511593, Mar 31, 2009

Aug 14, 2006

11/504568

Clinton L Ballard - Suquamish WA, US

eAcceleration Corporation - Poulsbo WA

H01P 5/12
H01P 1/10

333105, 333262

In a multi-pole, double-throw switch, three multi-terminal device connectors are coupled to a printed circuit board, along with two header connectors and a movable array. A pcb trace electrically couples each terminal of each device connector to one or more corresponding contacts at the header connectors. The movable is movable between a first throw position in which a first header connector is engaged, and a second throw position in which a second header connector is engaged. In the first throw position, each terminal of a first of the three device connectors is electrically connected to a corresponding terminal of a second of the three device connectors. In the second throw position, each terminal of the first of the three device connectors is electrically connected to a corresponding terminal of a third of the three device connectors.

7836505, Nov 16, 2010

Jun 5, 2006

11/447775

Clinton L Ballard - Suquamish WA, US

eAcceleration Corporation - Poulsbo WA

G06F 11/30
G06F 12/14
G06F 9/26
G06F 9/34

726 24, 713188, 711202

Files are tested for presence of a predefined data pattern, such as a virus definition. For each one file of a first plurality of files, physical address data is derived from logical address information. Also, an entry is made in a first data structure. The entry includes file information and the derived physical address data. For each one cylinder of a hard drive, the first data structure is tested to identify any files having file contents stored in the cylinder. When the testing determines that the first data structure includes an entry having physical address data corresponding to the one cylinder, a read operation I requested to read the cylinder. Such testing and reading is repeated to read in multiple cylinders in a generally sequential order. The cylinder content is stored in a buffer. File content is read from the buffer for each one file of a second plurality of files.