Patents by Inventor Carsten Guenther

Carsten Guenther 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: 20240087208
    Abstract: A graphics processing apparatus comprising bounding volume hierarchy (BVH) construction circuitry to perform a spatial analysis and temporal analysis related to a plurality of input primitives and responsively generate a BVH comprising spatial, temporal, and spatial-temporal components that are hierarchically arranged, wherein the spatial components include a plurality of spatial nodes with children, the spatial nodes bounding the children using spatial bounds, and the temporal components comprise temporal nodes with children, the temporal nodes bounding their children using temporal bounds and the spatial-temporal components comprise spatial-temporal nodes with children, the spatial-temporal nodes bounding their children using spatial and temporal bounds; and ray traversal/intersection circuitry to traverse a ray or a set of rays through the BVH in accordance with the spatial and temporal components.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Inventors: Sven WOOP, Attila AFRA, Carsten BENTHIN, Ingo WALD, Johannes GUENTHER
  • Patent number: 10749953
    Abstract: Among other things, techniques and systems are disclosed for providing sync server process. Processing data sync sessions includes processing a request to initiate a sync session from one or more clients to update one or more data records that include one or more data items. The one or more clients are selectively identified as one of a trusted client and an untrusted client based on one or more properties of the sync session, wherein the trusted client is configured to support all dataclasses defined by the server. The one or more clients are detected as being configured to support field level differencing that sends changed data items only for the one or data records or record level differencing that sends all of the data items included in the one or more data records.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2020
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Brendan A. McCarthy, Carsten Guenther
  • Publication number: 20180337974
    Abstract: Methods and systems are presented for remotely commanding a mobile device. In one aspect, a method includes receiving input identifying a mobile device, presenting to a user one or more remote commands corresponding to the mobile device, receiving user input selecting a remote command from the one or more presented remote commands, generating a remote command message instructing the mobile device to execute the selected remote command, and transmitting the remote command message to a server for publication in a message topic. Further, a selectable list of mobile devices associated with a remote management account can be presented to the user, the selectable list including information uniquely identifying each mobile device. Additionally, the selectable list of mobile devices can include an indication of whether an included mobile device is online.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2018
    Publication date: November 22, 2018
    Inventors: Stuart Slack, Brendan A. McCarthy, Carsten Guenther, Christopher Brooke Sharp
  • Patent number: 9979776
    Abstract: Methods and systems are presented for remotely commanding a mobile device. In one aspect, a method includes receiving input identifying a mobile device, presenting to a user one or more remote commands corresponding to the mobile device, receiving user input selecting a remote command from the one or more presented remote commands, generating a remote command message instructing the mobile device to execute the selected remote command, and transmitting the remote command message to a server for publication in a message topic. Further, a selectable list of mobile devices associated with a remote management account can be presented to the user, the selectable list including information uniquely identifying each mobile device. Additionally, the selectable list of mobile devices can include an indication of whether an included mobile device is online.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2018
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Stuart Slack, Brendan A. McCarthy, Carsten Guenther, Christopher Brooke Sharp
  • Patent number: 9450902
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a technique for marking email threads as important. When an email thread is marked as important, all email messages belonging to the email thread are marked as important in an email user interface. Also, notifications are generated for any incoming messages belonging to the email thread that has been marked as important.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2016
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Carsten Guenther, Cristobal Baray, Stephen O. Lemay, Tiffany S. Jon, Lawrence Yang, Imran Chaudhri
  • Publication number: 20150350142
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a technique for marking email threads as important. When an email thread is marked as important, all email messages belonging to the email thread are marked as important in an email user interface. Also, notifications are generated for any incoming messages belonging to the email thread that has been marked as important.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2014
    Publication date: December 3, 2015
    Applicant: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Carsten GUENTHER, Cristobal BARAY, Stephen O. LEMAY, Tiffany S. JON, Lawrence YANG, Imran CHAUDHRI
  • Publication number: 20150133610
    Abstract: The invention refers to a thermoplastic polyurethane produced from at least an organic diisocyanate and a compound which is reactive toward isocyanates, wherein the polyurethane comprises the ester of a tricarboxylic acid with at least one alcohol and wherein all acid groups of the tricarboxylic acid are esterified with an alcohol. The invention further refers to a process for producing the respective polyurethane, products comprising this thermoplastic polyurethane and the use of the ester of a tricarboxylic acid as plasticizer in thermoplastic polyurethanes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 20, 2015
    Publication date: May 14, 2015
    Applicant: BASF SE
    Inventors: Bin-Eric CHEN, Frank Schaefer, Dirk Kempfert, Christoph Bahr, Guenter Scholz, Teruya Ohkuwa, Martin Vallo, Carsten Guenther, Harald Schulz, Yasuyuki Suzuki, Tien Kuan Lim
  • Patent number: 8993690
    Abstract: The invention refers to a thermoplastic polyurethane produced from at least an organic diisocyanate and a compound which is reactive toward isocyanates, wherein the polyurethane comprises the ester of a tricarboxylic acid with at least one alcohol and wherein all acid groups of the tricarboxylic acid are esterified with an alcohol. The invention further refers to a process for producing the respective polyurethane, products comprising this thermoplastic polyurethane and the use of the ester of a tricarboxylic acid as plasticizer in thermoplastic polyurethanes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2015
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Bin-Eric Chen, Frank Schaefer, Dirk Kempfert, Christoph Bahr, Guenter Scholz, Teruya Ohkuwa, Martin Vallo, Carsten Guenther, Harald Schulz, Yasuyuki Suzuki, Tien Kuan Lim
  • Publication number: 20140223322
    Abstract: Methods and systems are presented for remotely commanding a mobile device. In one aspect, a method includes receiving input identifying a mobile device, presenting to a user one or more remote commands corresponding to the mobile device, receiving user input selecting a remote command from the one or more presented remote commands, generating a remote command message instructing the mobile device to execute the selected remote command, and transmitting the remote command message to a server for publication in a message topic. Further, a selectable list of mobile devices associated with a remote management account can be presented to the user, the selectable list including information uniquely identifying each mobile device. Additionally, the selectable list of mobile devices can include an indication of whether an included mobile device is online.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 11, 2014
    Publication date: August 7, 2014
    Applicant: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Stuart Slack, Brendan A. McCarthy, Carsten Guenther, Christopher Brooke Sharp
  • Publication number: 20140187207
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus are presented for processing a remote lock command message. In one aspect, a method includes receiving, by a mobile device, a remote lock command message comprising a lock command and specifying a passcode to be set by the mobile device, locking the mobile device in response to the received remote lock command message, setting an unlock passcode associated with the mobile device to the specified passcode, and generating an acknowledgement message in response to the remote lock command message. Further, receiving the remote lock command message can include accessing a subscribed topic hosted on a notification service, the subscribed topic being associated with a lock command, and retrieving the remote lock command message from the subscribed topic. Additionally, locking the mobile device can include locking a display such that access to information stored on the mobile device and device functionality are blocked.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2014
    Publication date: July 3, 2014
    Applicant: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Stuart Slack, Brendan A. McCarthy, Carsten Guenther, Christopher Brooke Sharp
  • Patent number: 8715799
    Abstract: The present invention relates to antistatic, thermoplastic polyurethane comprising ethylmethylimidazole ethyl sulfate, to a process for production of antistatic, thermoplastic polyurethane comprising ethylmethylimidazole ethyl sulfate, and to the use of ethylmethylimidazole ethyl sulfate for the production of antistatic, thermoplastic polyurethane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2014
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Frank Prissok, Frank Schaefer, Gitta Egbers, Ruediger Krech, Carsten Guenther
  • Patent number: 8670748
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus are presented for processing a remote lock command message. In one aspect, a method includes receiving, by a mobile device, a remote lock command message comprising a lock command and specifying a passcode to be set by the mobile device, locking the mobile device in response to the received remote lock command message, setting an unlock passcode associated with the mobile device to the specified passcode, and generating an acknowledgement message in response to the remote lock command message. Further, receiving the remote lock command message can include accessing a subscribed topic hosted on a notification service, the subscribed topic being associated with a lock command, and retrieving the remote lock command message from the subscribed topic. Additionally, locking the mobile device can include locking a display such that access to information stored on the mobile device and device functionality are blocked.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2014
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Stuart Slack, Brendan A. McCarthy, Carsten Guenther, Christopher Brooke Sharp
  • Patent number: 8666367
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus are presented for processing a remote command message. In one aspect, a method includes accessing a subscribed topic hosted on a notification service, the subscribed topic corresponding to a mobile device, retrieving a remote command message included in the subscribed topic that identifies a command to be executed by the mobile device, determining whether the command can be executed by the mobile device, publishing a result message associated with the command, and executing, by the mobile device, the command based on the determining. Publishing the result message further can include identifying in the remote command message a result topic corresponding to the notification service and publishing the result message to the identified result topic. Additionally, the subscribed topic can be uniquely associated with the mobile device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2014
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher Brooke Sharp, Brendan A. McCarthy, Stuart Slack, Carsten Guenther
  • Patent number: 8660530
    Abstract: Methods and systems are presented for remotely commanding a mobile device. In one aspect, a method includes receiving input identifying a mobile device, presenting to a user one or more remote commands corresponding to the mobile device, receiving user input selecting a remote command from the one or more presented remote commands, generating a remote command message instructing the mobile device to execute the selected remote command, and transmitting the remote command message to a server for publication in a message topic. Further, a selectable list of mobile devices associated with a remote management account can be presented to the user, the selectable list including information uniquely identifying each mobile device. Additionally, the selectable list of mobile devices can include an indication of whether an included mobile device is online.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2014
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher Brooke Sharp, Brendan A. McCarthy, Stuart Slack, Carsten Guenther, Jeff Lin, Rob Butler
  • Patent number: D751006
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2016
    Assignee: Daimler AG
    Inventors: Hans-Dieter Futschik, Carsten Guenther, Robert Lesnik, Gorden Wagener
  • Patent number: D751463
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2016
    Assignee: Daimler AG
    Inventors: Hans-Dieter Futschik, Carsten Guenther, Robert Lesnik, Gorden Wagener
  • Patent number: D751471
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2016
    Assignee: Daimler AG
    Inventors: Hans-Dieter Futschik, Carsten Guenther, Robert Lesnik, Gorden Wagener
  • Patent number: D754036
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2016
    Assignee: Daimler AG
    Inventors: Hans-Dieter Futschik, Carsten Guenther, Robert Lesnik, Gorden Wagener
  • Patent number: D906923
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2021
    Assignee: Daimler AG
    Inventors: Achim-Dietrich Badstuebner, Carsten Guenther, Uwe Haller, Robert Lesnik, Peter Riedel, Gorden Wagener
  • Patent number: D915241
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: Daimler AG
    Inventors: Achim-Dietrich Badstuebner, Carsten Guenther, Robert Lesnik, Gorden Wagener