Patents by Inventor Benjamin Thomas Smith
Benjamin Thomas Smith 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).
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Patent number: 11969578Abstract: Methods, devices and systems are disclosed for inter-app communications between software applications on a mobile communications device. In one aspect, a computer-readable medium on a mobile computing device comprising an inter-application communication data structure to facilitate transitioning and distributing data between software applications in a shared app group for an operating system of the mobile computing device includes a scheme field of the data structure providing a scheme id associated with a target software app to transition to from a source software app, wherein the scheme id is listed on a scheme list stored with the source software app; and a payload field of the data structure providing data and/or an identification where to access data in a shared file system accessible to the software applications in the shared app group, wherein the payload field is encrypted.Type: GrantFiled: March 16, 2021Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: Dexcom, Inc.Inventors: Gary A. Morris, Scott M. Belliveau, Esteban Cabrera, Jr., Rian Draeger, Laura J. Dunn, Timothy Joseph Goldsmith, Hari Hampapuram, Christopher Robert Hannemann, Apurv Ullas Kamath, Katherine Yerre Koehler, Patrick Wile McBride, Michael Robert Mensinger, Francis William Pascual, Philip Mansiel Pellouchoud, Nicholas Polytaridis, Philip Thomas Pupa, Anna Leigh Davis, Kevin Shoemaker, Brian Christopher Smith, Benjamin Elrod West, Atiim Joseph Wiley
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Patent number: 11970287Abstract: An introduced autonomous aerial vehicle can include multiple cameras for capturing images of a surrounding physical environment that are utilized for motion planning by an autonomous navigation system. In some embodiments, the cameras can be integrated into one or more rotor assemblies that house powered rotors to free up space within the body of the aerial vehicle. In an example embodiment, an aerial vehicle includes multiple upward-facing cameras and multiple downward-facing cameras with overlapping fields of view to enable stereoscopic computer vision in a plurality of directions around the aerial vehicle. Similar camera arrangements can also be implemented in fixed-wing aerial vehicles.Type: GrantFiled: July 26, 2022Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: Skydio, Inc.Inventors: Benjamin Scott Thompson, Adam Parker Bry, Asher Mendel Robbins-Rothman, Abraham Galton Bachrach, Yevgeniy Kozlenko, Kevin Patrick Smith O'Leary, Patrick Allen Lowe, Daniel Thomas Adams, Justin Michael Sadowski, Zachary Albert West, Josiah Timothy VanderMey
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Publication number: 20240091442Abstract: Methods, devices and systems are disclosed for inter-app communications between software applications on a mobile communications device. In one aspect, a computer-readable medium on a mobile computing device comprising an inter-application communication data structure to facilitate transitioning and distributing data between software applications in a shared app group for an operating system of the mobile computing device includes a scheme field of the data structure providing a scheme id associated with a target software app to transition to from a source software app, wherein the scheme id is listed on a scheme list stored with the source software app; and a payload field of the data structure providing data and/or an identification where to access data in a shared file system accessible to the software applications in the shared app group, wherein the payload field is encrypted.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 27, 2023Publication date: March 21, 2024Inventors: Gary A. MORRIS, Scott M. BELLIVEAU, Esteban CABRERA, JR., Anna Leigh DAVIS, Rian W. DRAEGER, Laura J. DUNN, Timothy Joseph GOLDSMITH, Hari HAMPAPURAM, Christopher Robert HANNEMANN, Apurv Ullas KAMATH, Katherine Yerre KOEHLER, Patrick Wile MCBRIDE, Michael Robert MENSINGER, Francis William PASCUAL, Philip Mansiel PELLOUCHOUD, Nicholas POLYTARIDIS, Philip Thomas PUPA, Kevin SHOEMAKER, Brian Christopher SMITH, Benjamin Elrod WEST, Atiim Joseph WILEY
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Patent number: 10472146Abstract: A key-releasable securing device has a flexible strap having a plurality of teeth and a locking head. The locking head has a cavity in which the flexible strap is insertable into and through to form a securing loop of adjustable dimension. The flexible strap is slidably movable in first or second directions to reduce or increase, respectively, the dimension of the securing loop. A pawl member is located inside the locking head so as to engage with the teeth of the flexible strap to allow movement in the first direction but prevent movement in the second direction. As a release key is inserted into the locking head, the release key is guided by guide means into engagement with the pawl member, so as to move the pawl member out of engagement with the teeth of the flexible strap to allow the strap to move in the second direction.Type: GrantFiled: August 29, 2017Date of Patent: November 12, 2019Assignee: PLUS 8 INDUSTRIES LIMITEDInventors: John William Abrahams, Benjamin Thomas Smith
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Publication number: 20190185234Abstract: A key-releasable securing device has a flexible strap having a plurality of teeth and a locking head. The locking head has a cavity in which the flexible strap is insertable into and through to form a securing loop of adjustable dimension. The flexible strap is slidably movable in first or second directions to reduce or increase, respectively, the dimension of the securing loop. A pawl member is located inside the locking head so as to engage with the teeth of the flexible strap to allow movement in the first direction but prevent movement in the second direction. As a release key is inserted into the locking head, the release key is guided by guide means into engagement with the pawl member, so as to move the pawl member out of engagement with the teeth of the flexible strap to allow the strap to move in the second direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 29, 2017Publication date: June 20, 2019Inventors: John William ABRAHAMS, Benjamin Thomas SMITH
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Patent number: 9822559Abstract: A security device can include a clip allowing the security device to be attached to clothing, bags or other accessories without the need for a separate holster or carrier. The security device can be readily transported without the need for a separate holster or carrier.Type: GrantFiled: July 22, 2014Date of Patent: November 21, 2017Assignee: PLUS 8 INDUSTRIES LIMITEDInventors: Benjamin Thomas Smith, John William Abrahams
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Patent number: 9392104Abstract: A first computing device monitors a presence of a second computing device, and determines when the second computing device has moved out of an area proximate to the first computing device. In response to determining that the second computer moved out of the area, the first computing device is automatically configured to limit user interaction with one or more applications currently operating on the first computing device to a predetermined set of commands while preventing user interaction with other applications provided by the first computing device.Type: GrantFiled: February 10, 2015Date of Patent: July 12, 2016Assignee: Google Inc.Inventors: Nishit Shah, Kan Liu, Caesar Sengupta, Benjamin Thomas Smith, Eric Sachs, Mayank Dutt Upadhyay, Dirk Balfanz, Michal Levin
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Publication number: 20160168881Abstract: A security device can include a clip allowing the security device to be attached to clothing, bags or other accessories without the need for a separate holster or carrier. The security device can be readily transported without the need for a separate holster or carrier.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 22, 2014Publication date: June 16, 2016Inventors: Benjamin Thomas SMITH, John William ABRAHAMS
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Publication number: 20150296074Abstract: A first computing device monitors a presence of a second computing device, and determines when the second computing device has moved out of an area proximate to the first computing device. In response to determining that the second computer moved out of the area, the first computing device is automatically configured to limit user interaction with one or more applications currently operating on the first computing device to a predetermined set of commands while preventing user interaction with other applications provided by the first computing device.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 10, 2015Publication date: October 15, 2015Inventors: Nishit SHAH, Kan LIU, Caesar SENGUPTA, Benjamin Thomas SMITH, Eric SACHS, Mayank Dutt UPADHYAY, Dirk BALFANZ, Michal LEVIN
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Patent number: 7779002Abstract: An improved duplicate detection technique that uses query-relevant information to limit the portion(s) of documents to be compared for similarity is described. Before comparing two documents for similarity, the content of these documents may be condensed based on the query. In one embodiment, query-relevant information or text (also referred to as “snippets”) is extracted from the documents and only the extracted snippets, rather than the entire documents, are compared for purposes of determining similarity.Type: GrantFiled: June 24, 2003Date of Patent: August 17, 2010Assignee: Google Inc.Inventors: Benedict Anthony Gomes, Benjamin Thomas Smith
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Patent number: 7386616Abstract: A system and method for providing load balanced processing is described. One or more files selected from a set of files are logically duplicated. At least one file and at least one logically duplicated file, is stored at one of a plurality of servers as specified in a load balancing layout. Execution of each operation in an operation stream is scheduled on the server storing at least one staged file required by the operation.Type: GrantFiled: May 27, 2003Date of Patent: June 10, 2008Assignee: Google Inc.Inventors: Monika Hildegard Henzinger, Deborah Anne Wallach, Jeffrey Dean, Sanjay Ghemawat, Benjamin Thomas Smith, Luiz Andre Barroso
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Patent number: 7136854Abstract: Methods and apparatus consistent with the invention allow a user to submit an ambiguous search query and to receive relevant search results. In one embodiment, a sequence of numbers received from a user of a standard telephone keypad is translated into a set of potentially corresponding alphanumeric sequences. These potentially corresponding alphanumeric sequences are provided as an input to a conventional search engine, using a boolean “OR” expression, and the search results are presented to the user. The search engine effectively limits search results to those in which the user was likely interested.Type: GrantFiled: December 26, 2000Date of Patent: November 14, 2006Assignee: Google, Inc.Inventors: Benjamin Thomas Smith, Sergey Brin, Sanjay Ghemawat, John Abraham Bauer
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Patent number: 6865575Abstract: A system allows a user to submit an ambiguous search query and to receive potentially disambiguated search results. In one implementation, a search engine's conventional alphanumeric index is translated into a second index that is ambiguated in the same manner as which the user's input is ambiguated. The user's ambiguous search query is compared to this ambiguated index, and the corresponding documents are provided to the user as search results.Type: GrantFiled: January 27, 2003Date of Patent: March 8, 2005Assignee: Google, Inc.Inventors: Benjamin Thomas Smith, Sergey Brin, Sanjay Ghemawat, Christopher D. Manning
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Patent number: 6615209Abstract: An improved duplicate detection technique that uses query-relevant information to limit the portion(s) of documents to be compared for similarity is described. Before comparing two documents for similarity, the content of these documents may be condensed based on the query. In one embodiment, query-relevant information or text (also referred to as “snippets”) is extracted from the documents and only the extracted snippets, rather than the entire documents, are compared for purposes of determining similarity.Type: GrantFiled: October 6, 2000Date of Patent: September 2, 2003Assignee: Google, Inc.Inventors: Benedict Gomes, Benjamin Thomas Smith
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Patent number: 6529903Abstract: A system allows a user to submit an ambiguous search query and to receive potentially disambiguated search results. In one implementation, a search engine's conventional alphanumeric index is translated into a second index that is ambiguated in the same manner as which the user's input is ambiguated. The user's ambiguous search query is compared to this ambiguated index, and the corresponding documents are provided to the user as search results.Type: GrantFiled: December 26, 2000Date of Patent: March 4, 2003Assignee: Google, Inc.Inventors: Benjamin Thomas Smith, Sergey Brin, Sanjay Ghemawat, Christopher D. Manning
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Publication number: 20020133481Abstract: Methods and apparatus consistent with the invention allow a user to submit an ambiguous search query and to receive relevant search results. In one embodiment, a sequence of numbers received from a user of a standard telephone keypad is translated into a set of potentially corresponding alphanumeric sequences. These potentially corresponding alphanumeric sequences are provided as an input to a conventional search engine, using a boolean “OR” expression, and the search results are presented to the user. The search engine effectively limits search results to those in which the user was likely interested.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 26, 2000Publication date: September 19, 2002Applicant: Google, Inc.Inventors: Benjamin Thomas Smith, Sergey Brin, Sanjay Ghemawat, John Abraham Bauer
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Publication number: 20020042791Abstract: A system allows a user to submit an ambiguous search query and to receive potentially disambiguated search results. In one implementation, a search engine's conventional alphanumeric index is translated into a second index that is ambiguated in the same manner as which the user's input is ambiguated. The user's ambiguous search query is compared to this ambiguated index, and the corresponding documents are provided to the user as search results.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 26, 2000Publication date: April 11, 2002Applicant: Google, Inc.Inventors: Benjamin Thomas Smith, Sergey Brin, Sanjay Ghemawat, Christopher D. Manning
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Patent number: D782278Type: GrantFiled: August 26, 2014Date of Patent: March 28, 2017Assignee: PLUS 8 INDUSTRIES LIMITEDInventors: Benjamin Thomas Smith, John William Abrahams