Patents by Inventor Alex Cook

Alex Cook has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20230345357
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and devices are described for establishing communication with an access point. A wireless device may determine to switch to another access point radio based on a variety of factors. The wireless device may use a dynamic threshold to determine whether to switch to another access point radio. The dynamic threshold may be based on a current state of the wireless device. The wireless device may determine other access point radios to switch to directly or indirectly. An access point radio may broadcast information associated with the access point as well as information associated with other access point radios.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2023
    Publication date: October 26, 2023
    Inventors: Ross GILSON, Alex COOK
  • Patent number: 11671909
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and devices are described for establishing communication with an access point. A wireless device may determine to switch to another access point radio based on a variety of factors. The wireless device may use a dynamic threshold to determine whether to switch to another access point radio. The dynamic threshold may be based on a current state of the wireless device. The wireless device may determine other access point radios to switch to directly or indirectly. An access point radio may broadcast information associated with the access point as well as information associated with other access point radios.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: Comcast Cable Communications, LLC
    Inventors: Ross Gilson, Alex Cook
  • Publication number: 20210274437
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and devices are described for establishing communication with an access point. A wireless device may determine to switch to another access point radio based on a variety of factors. The wireless device may use a dynamic threshold to determine whether to switch to another access point radio. The dynamic threshold may be based on a current state of the wireless device. The wireless device may determine other access point radios to switch to directly or indirectly. An access point radio may broadcast information associated with the access point as well as information associated with other access point radios.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2021
    Publication date: September 2, 2021
    Inventors: Ross Gilson, Alex Cook
  • Patent number: 11039387
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and devices are described for establishing communication with an access point. A wireless device may determine to switch to another access point radio based on a variety of factors. The wireless device may use a dynamic threshold to determine whether to switch to another access point radio. The dynamic threshold may be based on a current state of the wireless device. The wireless device may determine other access point radios to switch to directly or indirectly. An access point radio may broadcast information associated with the access point as well as information associated with other access point radios.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2021
    Assignee: Comcast Cable Communications, LLC
    Inventors: Ross Gilson, Alex Cook
  • Patent number: 10974605
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a method of charging an electric vehicle. The method comprises receiving at an electric vehicle, a wireless signal associated with an electric vehicle charging apparatus. Upon receiving the signal the method comprises controlling an actuator to open, in dependence on receiving the wireless signal, an enclosure housing a socket for receiving the charging plug. Embodiments of the invention also provide an enclosure for a charging socket of an electric vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: Jaguar Land Rover Limited
    Inventors: Alex Cook, Oliver Legrice, Nick Carpenter, Mark McNally
  • Publication number: 20190230587
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and devices are described for establishing communication with an access point. A wireless device may determine to switch to another access point radio based on a variety of factors. The wireless device may use a dynamic threshold to determine whether to switch to another access point radio. The dynamic threshold may be based on a current state of the wireless device. The wireless device may determine other access point radios to switch to directly or indirectly. An access point radio may broadcast information associated with the access point as well as information associated with other access point radios.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2018
    Publication date: July 25, 2019
    Inventors: Ross Gilson, Alex Cook
  • Publication number: 20180222337
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a method of charging an electric vehicle. The method comprises receiving at an electric vehicle, a wireless signal associated with an electric vehicle charging apparatus. Upon receiving the signal the method comprises controlling an actuator to open, in dependence on receiving the wireless signal, an enclosure housing a socket for receiving the charging plug. Embodiments of the invention also provide an enclosure for a charging socket of an electric vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 1, 2016
    Publication date: August 9, 2018
    Applicant: Jaguar Land Rover Limited
    Inventors: Alex COOK, Oliver LEGRICE, Nick CARPENTER, Mark MCNALLY
  • Publication number: 20130198177
    Abstract: A system sends a search query to a search engine and receives from the search engine, responsive to the search query, a document comprising a first search result item and a second search result item. The system visually renders a portion that includes less than an entirety of the first search result item and includes the second search result item, where the portion is visually rendered in a region of the document. The system receives a selection of the first search result item from a user and visually expands the region of the document to a size sufficient to render an entirety of the first search result item based on the selection. The system visually renders the entirety of the first search result item within the expanded region of the document.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2012
    Publication date: August 1, 2013
    Applicant: GOOGLE INC.
    Inventors: Jeffrey OLDHAM, Joshua D. MITTLEMAN, Alex COOK
  • Publication number: 20090307188
    Abstract: A system sends a search query to a search engine and receives from the search engine, responsive to the search query, a document comprising a first search result item and a second search result item. The system visually renders a portion that includes less than an entirety of the first search result item and includes the second search result item, where the portion is visually rendered in a region of the document. The system receives a selection of the first search result item from a user and visually expands the region of the document to a size sufficient to render an entirety of the first search result item based on the selection. The system visually renders the entirety of the first search result item within the expanded region of the document.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2006
    Publication date: December 10, 2009
    Applicant: GOOGLE INC.
    Inventors: Jeffrey Oldham, Joshua D. Mittleman, Alex Cook
  • Patent number: 4811185
    Abstract: A DC to DC power converter having first and second input terminals and an output terminal for providing an output voltage at the output terminal which is at a potential halfway between a DC potential applied by a DC power supply across the first and second input terminal is disclosed. The converter comprises first and second switches connected at a switch junction in series across the first and second input terminals, first and second series-coupled diodes coupled at a diode junction across the first and second input terminals in reverse-bias relationship with respect to the DC potential applied across the first and second input terminals, a transformer comprising two windings inductively linked and having first and second ends and a center-tap, the ends coupled between the switch junction and the diode junction and the center-tap coupled to the output terminal and means for alternately switching the first and the second switches at an equal duty factor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 1987
    Date of Patent: March 7, 1989
    Assignee: Sundstrand Corporation
    Inventors: Alex Cook, Sampat S. Shekhawat
  • Patent number: 4805691
    Abstract: A substrate with a heat producing electronic component is mounted directly on a heat dissipating structure. The heat dissipating structure has a closed chamber with adjacent condenser and evaporator sections and contains a supply of liquid cooling fluid with a predetermined vaporization temperature. The evaporator section is in heat transfer relation with the substrate and the electronic component thereon. A plurality of channels are strategically arranged in the surfaces bounding the chamber to move the cooling fluid by capillary action in a predetermined path between the condenser and evaporator sections in heat exchange relationship over the chamber walls to maintain the substrate at an acceptable temperature. A heat sink, in heat exchange relationship with the condenser section of the heat dissipating structure, maintains a temperature differential between the evaporator and condenser sections and assures that the condenser section is cooled sufficiently to condense the cooling fluid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 1986
    Date of Patent: February 21, 1989
    Assignee: Sundstrand Corporation
    Inventors: Alex Cook, Charles E. Lents
  • Patent number: D758423
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2016
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Anantica Jija Hari Singh, Alex Cook, Carlos Palacio
  • Patent number: D759092
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2016
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Anantica Jija Hari Singh, Alex Cook, Carlos Palacio
  • Patent number: D759093
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2016
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Anantica Jija Hari Singh, Alex Cook, Carlos Palacio
  • Patent number: D759094
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2016
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Anantica Jija Hari Singh, Alex Cook, Carlos Palacio
  • Patent number: D766311
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2016
    Assignee: GOOGLE INC.
    Inventors: Anantica Jija Hari Singh, Alex Cook, Carlos Palacio
  • Patent number: D781328
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2017
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Alena Rose Fong, Oisin Lavery, Kristina Tiffany Eng, Alex Cook
  • Patent number: D798331
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2017
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Alena Rose Fong, Oisin Lavery, Kristina Tiffany Eng, Alex Cook
  • Patent number: D888733
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2020
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Alena Rose Fong, Oisin Lavery, Kristina Tiffany Eng, Alex Cook