Patents by Inventor CHRISTOPHER LOCK

CHRISTOPHER LOCK 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).

  • Patent number: 11979434
    Abstract: A system and a method for secure operator onboarding and creating an ingest job agent for secure multitenant operations of a distributed computing cluster are provided. Embodiments automate multitenant operations for distributed computing clusters. These operations include automation of operator onboarding, creation of logically segregated distributed data stores within the distributed computing clusters for the on-boarded operator, and creation of ingest agents with security isolation for transfer of large quantities of files into the distributed computing clusters. Embodiments provide multitenant security, in which the same Hadoop cluster serves multiple operators with each operator's data and processes in effective isolation. In this manner, multitenant security keeps each user's data storage and operations on the Hadoop cluster separated from other operators.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: NORTHROP GRUMMAN SYSTEMS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Leon D. Li, Tyson Solberg, Christopher Lock, Richard Vitek
  • Patent number: 11964895
    Abstract: A method of forming a glass sheet comprises: (a) forming a ribbon of glass from molten glass with a pair of forming rollers; (b) reducing horizontal temperature variability of the ribbon of glass to be 10° C. or less across 80 percent of an entire width of the ribbon of glass before the ribbon of glass cools to a glass transition temperature; (c) controlling a cooling rate of the ribbon of glass while the ribbon of glass moves vertically downward within a setting zone such that the ribbon of glass has a first average cooling rate before the ribbon of glass cools to the glass transition temperature and a second average cooling rate after the ribbon of glass cools to the glass transition temperature, the first average cooling rate being less than the second average cooling rate; and (d) separating a glass sheet from the ribbon of glass.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Corning Incorporated
    Inventors: Douglas Dale Bressler, David Alan Deneka, Michael Charles Gerrish, Douglas Hull Jennings, Miki Eugene Kunitake, William Edward Lock, Shyam Prasad Mudiraj, Neil Eugene Partridge, Jeremy Nathan Payne, Eugene Roland Proulx, II, Ryan Christopher Sutton, Steven Howard Tarcza
  • Publication number: 20210357766
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for evaluating a maintenance report. A maintenance report is received for an item of modular industrial equipment. The maintenance report includes a maintenance-related code, selected from a defined library of maintenance-related codes, and a free text field describing either or both of an observation of the item of modular equipment that is inconsistent with a defined specification and an action taken to repair or maintain the item of modular industrial equipment. A plurality of features representing the semantic content of a free-text field are extracted, with at least a portion of the plurality of features being extracted via a document embedding approach. At an expert system, a new maintenance-related code is determined from the defined library of maintenance-related codes for the item of modular industrial equipment, from the plurality of features.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2020
    Publication date: November 18, 2021
    Applicant: NORTHROP GRUMMAN SYSTEMS CORPORATION
    Inventors: ABHISHEK PAUL, CHRISTOPHER LOCK
  • Publication number: 20210320950
    Abstract: A system and a method for secure operator onboarding and creating an ingest job agent for secure multitenant operations of a distributed computing cluster are provided. Embodiments automate multitenant operations for distributed computing clusters. These operations include automation of operator onboarding, creation of logically segregated distributed data stores within the distributed computing clusters for the on-boarded operator, and creation of ingest agents with security isolation for transfer of large quantities of files into the distributed computing clusters. Embodiments provide multitenant security, in which the same Hadoop cluster serves multiple operators with each operator's data and processes in effective isolation. In this manner, multitenant security keeps each user's data storage and operations on the Hadoop cluster separated from other operators.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2021
    Publication date: October 14, 2021
    Inventors: LEON D. LI, Tyson Solberg, Christopher Lock, Richard Vitek
  • Patent number: 11070590
    Abstract: A system and a method for secure operator onboarding and creating an ingest job agent for secure multitenant operations of a distributed computing cluster are provided. Embodiments automate multitenant operations for distributed computing clusters. These operations include automation of operator onboarding, creation of logically segregated distributed data stores within the distributed computing clusters for the on-boarded operator, and creation of ingest agents with security isolation for transfer of large quantities of files into the distributed computing clusters. Embodiments provide multitenant security, in which the same Hadoop cluster serves multiple operators with each operator's data and processes in effective isolation. In this manner, multitenant security keeps each user's data storage and operations on the Hadoop cluster separated from other operators.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: NORTHROP GRUMMAN SYSTEMS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Leon D. Li, Tyson Solberg, Christopher Lock, Richard Vitek
  • Publication number: 20200092331
    Abstract: A system and a method for secure operator onboarding and creating an ingest job agent for secure multitenant operations of a distributed computing cluster are provided. Embodiments automate multitenant operations for distributed computing clusters. These operations include automation of operator onboarding, creation of logically segregated distributed data stores within the distributed computing clusters for the on-boarded operator, and creation of ingest agents with security isolation for transfer of large quantities of files into the distributed computing clusters. Embodiments provide multitenant security, in which the same Hadoop cluster serves multiple operators with each operator's data and processes in effective isolation. In this manner, multitenant security keeps each user's data storage and operations on the Hadoop cluster separated from other operators.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2018
    Publication date: March 19, 2020
    Inventors: LEON D. LI, TYSON SOLBERG, CHRISTOPHER LOCK, RICHARD VITEK
  • Patent number: 9420355
    Abstract: Disclosed is a system, method, and computer program product for relating a metadata tag to a television program identifier and associating a hashtag with metadata associated with the television program. A mapping server receives a request that includes a metadata tag (e.g., a hashtag) for a social object, such as a comment or a post to a social network. The mapping server generates a graph to determine a set of television program identifiers likely associated with the metadata tag. Furthermore, the mapping server compresses graph data over time to reduce the time needed to perform a query to the graph.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2016
    Assignee: Peel Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Christopher Lock
  • Publication number: 20150264445
    Abstract: Disclosed is a system, method, and computer program product for relating a metadata tag to a television program identifier and associating a hashtag with metadata associated with the television program. A mapping server receives a request that includes a metadata tag (e.g., a hashtag) for a social object, such as a comment or a post to a social network. The mapping server generates a graph to determine a set of television program identifiers likely associated with the metadata tag. Furthermore, the mapping server compresses graph data over time to reduce the time needed to perform a query to the graph.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2014
    Publication date: September 17, 2015
    Inventor: Christopher Lock
  • Publication number: 20070158546
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer program products useful in controlling the fragmentation of ions. Control of fragmentation is achieved by varying the collision energy imparted to precursor ions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 11, 2007
    Publication date: July 12, 2007
    Inventors: CHRISTOPHER LOCK, NIC BLOOMFIELD
  • Patent number: D780718
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2017
    Assignee: Allen & Heath Limited
    Inventors: Antony Ian Jackson, Ian McBurney, David Leonard Price, Simon Trethewey, James Ian Wrigley, David Haughton, Andrew Bell, Jeffrey Simpson, Alexander Money, Alisdair Gray, Nicola Beretta, Christopher Lock, John Edwards, Glenn Rogers, Robin Clark
  • Patent number: D824880
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2018
    Assignee: Allen & Heath Limited
    Inventors: Antony Ian Jackson, Ian McBurney, David Leonard Price, Simon Trethewey, James Ian Wrigley, David Haughton, Andrew Bell, Jeffrey Simpson, Alexander Money, Alisdair Gray, Nicola Beretta, Christopher Lock, John Edwards, Glenn Rogers, Robin Clark
  • Patent number: D824881
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2018
    Assignee: Allen & Heath Limited
    Inventors: Antony Ian Jackson, Ian McBurney, David Leonard Price, Simon Trethewey, James Ian Wrigley, David Haughton, Andrew Bell, Jeffrey Simpson, Alexander Money, Alisdair Gray, Nicola Beretta, Christopher Lock, John Edwards, Glenn Rogers, Robin Clark