Patents by Inventor Curtis Mitchell
Curtis Mitchell 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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Publication number: 20240129573Abstract: A processing system receives a user-generated media recording, and metadata associated with the user-generated feedback, from a first device. The user-generated media recording is a recording of the public end-user captured during a live media broadcast using a public-user interface on the first device. The metadata includes information linking the user-generated media recording to the live media broadcast. The system stores the user-generated media recording and the first metadata in one or more storage devices, and transmits a version of the user-generated media recording and at least a portion of the first metadata to a private-user interface on a second device. The private-user interface is configured to receive input from a private end-user selecting the version of the user-generated media recording for broadcast during the same live media broadcast during which the user-generated media recording was created.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 12, 2022Publication date: April 18, 2024Applicant: iHeartMedia Management Services, Inc.Inventors: Albert Curtis Mitchell, Michael Scott Woodruff, Adam Michael Roberts, Steven Douglas Wight, Siu Leung Chan, Jacob Earl Bolton, Stephen William Bain, Qian Chang, Davis Scott Harlan
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Publication number: 20240110728Abstract: A fluid heating system including a burner unit is operated based on feedback control loops. The fluid heating system comprises a burner unit configured to heat a fluid, a sensor configured to sense a characteristic of the appliance, and a controller coupled to the burner unit and the sensor. The controller includes an electronic processor and a memory. The controller is configured to receive a first signal corresponding to the characteristic from the sensor, determine, based on the first signal, a first feedback loop control, control combustion of the burner unit based on the first feedback loop control, determine, based on the first feedback loop control, a second feedback loop control, and control combustion of the burner unit based on the second feedback loop control.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 6, 2023Publication date: April 4, 2024Inventors: Curtis George Gagne, Yonggon Lee, Brian Thomas Branecky, Barry Anthony Collins, Daniel Mitchell, Mohamed Mehdi Doura
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Publication number: 20230408142Abstract: Example embodiments of the present disclosure relate to improved HVAC devices and kits for HVAC devices that improve the sound attenuation associated with the device, particularly low-frequency noise. An example embodiment includes an improved furnace including a housing with a combustion air chamber, a heat exchanger chamber, and a circulation blower chamber, wherein the combustion air chamber comprises a burner assembly and a combustion air fan, the furnace also includes a sound attenuation layer including a first acoustic metamaterial layer coupled to the combustion air chamber and tuned to attenuate sound for a first frequency band, one or more housing openings fluidly connecting the combustion air chamber to an environment outside the housing, wherein the sound attenuation layer includes a discontinuous section that aligns with one or more of the housing openings.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 27, 2023Publication date: December 21, 2023Inventors: Yogesh Pandit, Richard L. Jameson, Zubin Varghese, John Bailey, Lance Lindenburg, Thomas Gort, Shiva Prasad Keralapura Basavaraju, Kevin Joseph Ligi, Chris Fuller, Curtis Mitchell
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Publication number: 20220316756Abstract: Example embodiments of the present disclosure relate to improved HVAC devices and kits for HVAC devices that improve the sound attenuation associated with the device, particularly low-frequency noise. An example embodiment includes an improved furnace including a housing with a combustion air chamber, a heat exchanger chamber, and a circulation blower chamber, wherein the combustion air chamber comprises a burner assembly and a combustion air fan, the furnace also includes a sound attenuation layer including a first acoustic metamaterial layer coupled to the combustion air chamber and tuned to attenuate sound for a first frequency band, one or more housing openings fluidly connecting the combustion air chamber to an environment outside the housing, wherein the sound attenuation layer includes a discontinuous section that aligns with one or more of the housing openings.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 31, 2021Publication date: October 6, 2022Inventors: Yogesh Pandit, Richard L. Jameson, Zubin Varghese, John Bailey, Lance Lindenberg, Thomas Gort, Shiva Prasad Keralapura Basavaraju, Chris Fuller, Curtis Mitchell
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Publication number: 20160057462Abstract: A method and system are disclosed for distributing different versions of a movie. A digital cinema package contains assets for different versions of the movie and a first composition playlist representing a first version of the movie. A second composition playlist, which represents a second version of the movie, is available separately from the first digital cinema package. At least one picture track file in the digital cinema package has a portion that is not referenced by the first composition playlist, but referenced by the second composition playlist.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 9, 2014Publication date: February 25, 2016Applicant: Thomson LicensingInventors: Nicholas Curtis MITCHELL, William Gibbens REDMANN
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Publication number: 20140341376Abstract: A method and system are disclosed for providing decryption key information in a digital cinema package. Information relating to at least the source of a decryption key is included in the digital cinema package.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 13, 2012Publication date: November 20, 2014Inventors: Nicholas Curtis Mitchell, William Gibbens Redmann
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Patent number: 8604326Abstract: A sustain foot pedal for sustaining a first keyboard and a second keyboard that may have first and second switches is provided. The pedal has an actuating member that may simultaneously activate both the first and second switch. A first keyboard receives a first sustain signal upon activation of the first switch and sustains a first note upon receipt of the first sustain signal. A second keyboard receives a second sustain signal upon activation of the second switch and sustains a second note upon receipt of the second sustain signal. The keyboards are independent from one another such that the first keyboard does not send a signal to the second keyboard to control the second keyboard, and such that the second keyboard does not send a signal to the first keyboard to control the first keyboard.Type: GrantFiled: May 5, 2010Date of Patent: December 10, 2013Inventor: Curtis Mitchell Ellis
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Patent number: 8532962Abstract: A system which may enable users to plan, design and observe various building systems in an abstract and intuitive view, such as with a map view. In this view, virtually all facility information and objects may be displayed as simple shapes (e.g., rectangles). Just by some drag-and-drop, a user may provide shapes and rearrange positions of these shapes quickly to reflect a desired space relationship. Objects (e.g., components, devices, controllers, and the like) may be placed, moved around, and associated with each other on a facility layer or floor. Further, the map view may be used together with a tree view and a list view to provide alternative design ways. Changes made in any of the views may be synchronized with the other views. Various presentations of the facility may be provided.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 2009Date of Patent: September 10, 2013Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.Inventors: Yajun-Edwin Zhang, Zhao Xia Jin, Jerry Qi Huang, Andrew D. Halford, Chengyi Liu, Curtis Mitchell
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Publication number: 20110153279Abstract: A system which may enable users to plan, design and observe various building systems in an abstract and intuitive view, such as with a map view. In this view, virtually all facility information and objects may be displayed as simple shapes (e.g., rectangles). Just by some drag-and-drop, a user may provide shapes and rearrange positions of these shapes quickly to reflect a desired space relationship. Objects (e.g., components, devices, controllers, and the like) may be placed, moved around, and associated with each other on a facility layer or floor. Further, the map view may be used together with a tree view and a list view to provide alternative design ways. Changes made in any of the views may be synchronized with the other views. Various presentations of the facility may be provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 23, 2009Publication date: June 23, 2011Applicant: HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INC.Inventors: Yajun-Edwin Zhang, Zhao Xia Jin, Jerry Qi Huang, Andrew D. Halford, Chengyi Liu, Curtis Mitchell
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Publication number: 20110030534Abstract: A sustain foot pedal for sustaining a first keyboard and a second keyboard that may have first and second switches is provided. The pedal has an actuating member that may simultaneously activate both the first and second switch. A first keyboard receives a first sustain signal upon activation of the first switch and sustains a first note upon receipt of the first sustain signal. A second keyboard receives a second sustain signal upon activation of the second switch and sustains a second note upon receipt of the second sustain signal. The keyboards are independent from one another such that the first keyboard does not send a signal to the second keyboard to control the second keyboard, and such that the second keyboard does not send a signal to the first keyboard to control the first keyboard.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 5, 2010Publication date: February 10, 2011Inventor: Curtis Mitchell Ellis
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Patent number: 5764981Abstract: A data management method and architecture that enables users to integrate central reservation system communications with local accounting and reporting functions. More particularly, the present invention comprises a batch scheduling function that automatically executes predetermined batch tasks and distributes the executable load efficiently among available processing resources. The invention provides significant improvements in environments which require access to mass data storage systems such as the central information repositories used in the travel industry.Type: GrantFiled: June 14, 1996Date of Patent: June 9, 1998Assignee: The SABRE Group, Inc.Inventors: Tony J. Brice, Richard J. Drexel, III, Curtis A. Mitchell
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Patent number: 4086819Abstract: A rolling seal assembly for sealing between a well head and a pump rod reciprocating a predetermined stroke distance through an opening in the well head, the seal assembly comprising a substantially tubular, flexible seal encircling the rod adjacent to the well head, the seal having a first end sealingly connected around the rod and a second end sealingly connected to the well head around the opening, the seal rollingly extending between the first and second ends thereof as the first end reciprocates with the rod.Type: GrantFiled: May 19, 1975Date of Patent: May 2, 1978Inventor: Curtis Mitchell Brownlee