Patents by Inventor David Beaumont
David Beaumont 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: 11961350Abstract: In accordance with one or more embodiments, authorization and/or authentication protects against unauthorized use of devices and/or features. Devices managing authorization and/or authentication may be connected to communications services, such as the internet or a social network. A user using the communication services may configure a system to authenticate and/or authorize a future action. An authorizer may authorize and/or authenticate by responding via one or more devices and/or social networks to allow an individual to perform an action on a device, as a way of controlling what actions can be taken and who they can be taken by.Type: GrantFiled: November 12, 2021Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: Comcast Cable Communications, LLCInventors: Kathy Patterson, David Beaumont, Sergey Matochkin, Nicholas Beenham
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Publication number: 20220165111Abstract: In accordance with one or more embodiments, authorization and/or authentication protects against unauthorized use of devices and/or features. Devices managing authorization and/or authentication may be connected to communications services, such as the internet or a social network. A user using the communication services may configure a system to authenticate and/or authorize a future action. An authorizer may authorize and/or authenticate by responding via one or more devices and/or social networks to allow an individual to perform an action on a device, as a way of controlling what actions can be taken and who they can be taken by.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 12, 2021Publication date: May 26, 2022Inventors: Kathy Patterson, David Beaumont, Sergey Matochkin, Nicholas Beenham
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Patent number: 11176766Abstract: In accordance with one or more embodiments, authorization and/or authentication protects against unauthorized use of devices and/or features. Devices managing authorization and/or authentication may be connected to communications services, such as the internet or a social network. A user using the communication services may configure a system to authenticate and/or authorize a future action. An authorizer may authorize and/or authenticate by responding via one or more devices and/or social networks to allow an individual to perform an action on a device, as a way of controlling what actions can be taken and who they can be taken by.Type: GrantFiled: February 1, 2018Date of Patent: November 16, 2021Assignee: Comcast Cable Communications, LLCInventors: Kathy Patterson, David Beaumont, Sergey Matochkin, Nicholas Beenham
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Publication number: 20190012855Abstract: In accordance with one or more embodiments, authorization and/or authentication protects against unauthorized use of devices and/or features. Devices managing authorization and/or authentication may be connected to communications services, such as the internet or a social network. A user using the communication services may configure a system to authenticate and/or authorize a future action. An authorizer may authorize and/or authenticate by responding via one or more devices and/or social networks to allow an individual to perform an action on a device, as a way of controlling what actions can be taken and who they can be taken by.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 1, 2018Publication date: January 10, 2019Inventors: Kathy Patterson, David Beaumont, Sergey Matochkin, Nicholas Beenham
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Patent number: 9922475Abstract: In accordance with one or more embodiments, authorization and/or authentication protects against unauthorized use of devices and/or features. Devices managing authorization and/or authentication may be connected to communications services, such as the internet or a social network. A user using the communication services may configure a system to authenticate and/or authorize a future action. An authorizer may authorize and/or authenticate by responding via one or more devices and/or social networks to allow an individual to perform an action on a device, as a way of controlling what actions can be taken and who they can be taken by.Type: GrantFiled: September 11, 2015Date of Patent: March 20, 2018Assignee: Comcast Cable Communications, LLCInventors: Kathy Patterson, David Beaumont, Sergey Matochkin, Nicholas Beenham
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Publication number: 20180064009Abstract: A new cultivar of Tibouchina plant named ‘Blaze of Glory’ that is characterized by green leaves with cream colored margins, a compact habit and purple flowers.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 27, 2017Publication date: March 1, 2018Inventor: David Beaumont
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Publication number: 20170076518Abstract: In accordance with one or more embodiments, authorization and/or authentication protects against unauthorized use of devices and/or features. Devices managing authorization and/or authentication may be connected to communications services, such as the internet or a social network. A user using the communication services may configure a system to authenticate and/or authorize a future action. An authorizer may authorize and/or authenticate by responding via one or more devices and/or social networks to allow an individual to perform an action on a device, as a way of controlling what actions can be taken and who they can be taken by.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 11, 2015Publication date: March 16, 2017Inventors: Kathy Patterson, David Beaumont, Sergey Matochkin, Nicholas Beenham
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Patent number: 7899639Abstract: A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, an echo measurement device having a controller to transmit a test signal in a communication path which is looped back at an end point identified as having an echo problem. The test signal can be transmitted at a remote location from the end point. The test signal can be represented by a limited burst signal of one or more frequencies operating outside a range of an operating frequency of an echo canceller deactivation signal transmitted in the communication path. Additional embodiments are disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2009Date of Patent: March 1, 2011Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, LP.Inventors: Wallace F. Smith, James Herbert James, David Beaumont Ramsden
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Patent number: 7602732Abstract: A method is described for detecting total end-to-end loss of data packets in a packet network that does not require direct access to the packet network. A test signal is generated at a source end point indirectly coupled to the packet network. The test signal is transmitted over the packet network to a destination end point also indirectly coupled to the packet network. At the destination end point a modified test signal is received and examined to detect irregularities and then processed to determine whether the irregularities in the recorded signal represent packet loss.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2005Date of Patent: October 13, 2009Assignee: AT & T Intellectual Property II, L.P.Inventors: Bing Chen, David Beaumont Ramsden
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Publication number: 20080045769Abstract: The invention provides a method for the determination of the uranium content of nuclear waste materials, the method comprising establishing the physical parameters of the waste materials. Preferably, the nuclear waste materials comprise compacted solid nuclear waste materials and the establishment of the physical parameters of the waste materials comprises the measurement of the dimensions and the weight of the waste materials. The method also provides for the determination of the levels of 239Pu other actinides and fission product radionuclides in the nuclear waste materials, these levels being derived from a knowledge of the uranium content and the irradiation history of the waste materials.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 6, 2005Publication date: February 21, 2008Inventors: Christopher Tombs, David Beaumont, Carolyn Cassidy
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Patent number: 7050400Abstract: A method is described for detecting total end-to-end loss of data packets in a packet network that does not require direct access to the packet network. A test signal is generated at a source end point indirectly coupled to the packet network. The test signal is transmitted over the packet network to a destination end point also indirectly coupled to the packet network. At the destination end point a modified test signal is received and examined to detect irregularities and then processed to determine whether the irregularities in the recorded signal represent packet loss.Type: GrantFiled: March 7, 2001Date of Patent: May 23, 2006Assignee: AT&T Corp.Inventors: Bing Chen, David Beaumont Ramsden
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Patent number: 6002762Abstract: A digital signal processor is provided with the facility to measure accurately, and nonintrusively, the levels of noise and/or speech signals appearing on an in-service network connection.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 1996Date of Patent: December 14, 1999Assignee: AT&T CorpInventor: David Beaumont Ramsden
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Patent number: 5875230Abstract: A measurement system and method for a telecommunication systems diagnoses problems within a communication line. The measurements are performed both non-intrusively and intrusively in an interactive manner, and evaluate the transmission quality of the communication line through to the subscriber's telephone set.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 1996Date of Patent: February 23, 1999Assignee: AT&T Corp.Inventors: John Thomas Ganley, Abubaker I. Habib, Allen J. Mollica, David Beaumont Ramsden
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Patent number: 5793864Abstract: A method for providing an echo power measurement of a transmission line having an echo path delay wherein a frequency domain adaptive filter is converged using samples collected from the transmission line that have been converted from a time domain to a frequency domain. A regression method is used to estimate the magnitude of taps of the frequency bins of the frequency domain adaptive filter that have been determined to be not accurately converged. In addition, a method and apparatus for measuring the echo path delay of a transmission line wherein a predetermined number of first time domain adaptive filters covering predetermined time periods are converged using samples collected from the transmission line that have been subband filtered to calculate a rough estimate of the echo path delay. Then, a second time domain adaptive filter is converged using the non-filtered samples to calculate a final echo path delay.Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 1996Date of Patent: August 11, 1998Assignee: AT&T Corp.Inventor: David Beaumont Ramsden
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Patent number: 4477834Abstract: A scan conversion circuit for a thermal imager device in which a field is scanned by a parallel-series array of infra-red detectors swept broadside over the field to produce a band of parallel I.R. signals. The signals from the array of detectors are sampled at high speed in a pattern which traces each parallel line of detectors in turn. A C.R.T. is scanned in a similar pattern, the pattern being repeated at high speed with successive lateral displacements corresponding to the rate at which the I.R. array sweeps the field.Type: GrantFiled: May 21, 1982Date of Patent: October 16, 1984Assignee: The Marconi Company LimitedInventors: David A. Beaumont, Michael A. King
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Patent number: 4262199Abstract: An I. R. target detection arrangement having a high-inertia line scan and a low inertia frame scan. The line scan is performed by scanning a line of I. R. detectors broadside over a section of the target scene, storing the detector outputs for each point on each line, repeating the line scan and output storage a number of times without change of frame scan, accumulating the outputs for each point obtained in repeated scans, and stepping the frame scan to the next section. A greater signal/noise ratio is thus obtained. Upon detecting a target, the frame scan is switched to a continuous mode and the field of view is narrowed and magnification increased.In each section interlacing may be obtained by stepping the frame scan half the line pitch and repeating the line scan process before proceeding to the next section.Type: GrantFiled: May 21, 1979Date of Patent: April 14, 1981Assignee: The Marconi Company LimitedInventors: Clive A. Bridges, David A. Beaumont
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Patent number: PP29796Abstract: A new cultivar of Tibouchina plant named ‘Blaze of Glory’ that is characterized by green leaves with cream colored margins, a compact habit and purple flowers.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2017Date of Patent: November 6, 2018Inventor: David Beaumont