Marilyn R Wulfekuhler

US Patent:

7088241, Aug 8, 2006

Filed:

Oct 29, 2004

Appl. No.:

10/978872

Inventors:

William E. McUmber - Rives Junction MI, US
Marilyn Wulfekuhler - Lansing MI, US

Assignee:

Mackinac Software, LLC - Lansing MI

International Classification:

H04Q 7/00

US Classification:

34053928, 340949, 4554143, 379 8817, 379 8823

Abstract:

A computer-implemented method and system is provided for delivering immediate (up to the minute) aviation weather information. A pilot makes a call to a single toll free number and specifies the location he wants to receive weather from. The system and method disambiguates the location and then checks to see if immediate weather data is already available within the system for that location. An informational message tailored to both the pilot and the location may be delivered to the user prior to the weather information. If immediate weather data is already available in the described system, that weather data is communicated to the user via a computer-generated voice. If not, the system and method determines the voice phone number for the Automated Weather Observation System (AWOS) at the specified location, and connects the user by phone directly to the immediate weather information as generated by the AWOS at that location.

US Patent:

7471196, Dec 30, 2008

Filed:

Jul 10, 2006

Appl. No.:

11/483694

Inventors:

William E. McUmber - Rives Junction MI, US
Marilyn Wulfekuhler - Lansing MI, US

Assignee:

Mackinac Software, LLC - Lansing MI

International Classification:

G08B 1/08
H04Q 7/00

US Classification:

34053928, 340949, 4554143, 379 8817, 379 8823

Abstract:

A computer-implemented method and system is provided for delivering immediate (up to the minute) aviation weather information. A pilot makes a call to a single toll free number and specifies the location he wants to receive weather from. The system and method disambiguates the location and then checks to see if immediate weather data is already available within the system for that location. An informational message tailored to both the pilot and the location may be delivered to the user prior to the weather information. If immediate weather data is already available in the described system, that weather data is communicated to the user via a computer-generated voice. If not, the system and method determines the voice phone number for the Automated Weather Observation System (AWOS) at the specified location, and connects the user by phone directly to the immediate weather information as generated by the AWOS at that location.

US Patent:

20050097177, May 5, 2005

Filed:

Oct 29, 2004

Appl. No.:

10/978871

Inventors:

William McUmber - Rives Junction MI, US
Marilyn Wulfekuhler - Lansing MI, US

International Classification:

G06F015/16

US Classification:

709206000

Abstract:

A business process for effectively sending, receiving, and managing electronic mail over computer networks is provided. Problems of unsolicited, fraudulent, and malicious email are solved by the new process by providing the following capabilities which are absent in current electronic mail exchanges: Definitive identification of the sender, definitive identification of the receiver, precise recording of all email exchanges, preventing third party eavesdropping on email, and ensuring that senders conform to a set of rules disallowing unsolicited, fraudulent, and malicious email. The new process is easily integrated into existing processes, and does not preclude email communication with others who do not employ the new process.

US Patent:

59241055, Jul 13, 1999

Filed:

Jan 26, 1998

Appl. No.:

9/013453

Inventors:

William F. Punch - Williamston MI
Marilyn R. Wulfekuhler - Lansing MI
Erik D. Goodman - East Lansing MI

Assignee:

Michigan State University - East Lansing MI

International Classification:

G06F 1721

US Classification:

707513

Abstract:

A method and product are provided for generating a word set for use in locating a document having a type similar to a type of document in a document collection. The method includes selecting multiple documents from the document collection, each document selected including multiple words, and stemming the words in each document selected to obtain multiple stem words. The method also includes determining a word count for each stem word in each document, and clustering the stem words based on the word count of each stem word in each document to obtain a word set. The product includes a storage medium having programmed instructions recorded thereon for performing the method steps.