Patents by Inventor David Daniel Smith
David Daniel 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: 11992175Abstract: An autonomous vacuum cleaner includes an autonomously moveable housing carrying a vacuum collection system for generating a working air flow for removing dirt from the surface to be cleaned and storing the dirt in a collection space. Distance sensors for position sensing are mounted to the housing. The distance sensors can be staggered and/or positioned on one or more sides or above a brush chamber for a brushroll.Type: GrantFiled: May 28, 2021Date of Patent: May 28, 2024Assignee: BISSELL Inc.Inventors: Jeffrey A. Scholten, Jake Andrew Mohan, Andrew James Brouwers, Eric Daniel Buehler, James Joseph Minnema, Jr., Derek Everett Smith, David VanKampen
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Patent number: 11991523Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to apparatus, software and methods for thwarting radio spoofing techniques by requiring and sending data from multiple radios positioned such that the receiving client can determine that it came from multiple spatially separated radios due to the Angle of Arrival of each radio's signal.Type: GrantFiled: October 10, 2022Date of Patent: May 21, 2024Assignee: Cable Television Laboratories, Inc.Inventors: John C. Bahr, David Daniel Smith
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Publication number: 20240152360Abstract: An integrated circuit comprising instruction processing circuitry for processing a plurality of program instructions and instruction prediction circuitry. The instruction prediction circuitry comprises circuitry for detecting successive occurrences of a same program loop sequence of program instructions. The instruction prediction circuitry also comprises circuitry for predicting a number of iterations of the same program loop sequence of program instructions, in response to detecting, by the circuitry for detecting, that a second occurrence of the same program loop sequence of program instructions comprises a same number of iterations as a first occurrence of the same program loop sequence of program instructions.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 13, 2024Publication date: May 9, 2024Inventors: Kai Chirca, Paul Daniel Gauvreau, David Edward Smith, JR.
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Patent number: 11963075Abstract: A mesh wireless access point (WAP) includes a housing, a first radio assembly, a second radio assembly, and an internal communication link between the first and second radio assemblies. The housing is configured to be affixed to, or integrated with, a feature of a building. The first radio assembly is incorporated with the housing and configured to support a first wireless communication link, and the second radio assembly is incorporated with the housing and configured to support a second wireless communication link. The internal communication link is configured to transfer data packets between the first and second radio assemblies.Type: GrantFiled: May 27, 2021Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: Cable Television Laboratories, Inc.Inventors: John C. Bahr, David Daniel Smith
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Patent number: 11909512Abstract: A coherent optical injection locking (COIL) apparatus generates multiple optical source outputs from a single optical source generated by a parent laser. The COIL apparatus includes a plurality of optical source generators each having a child laser, of lesser performance than the parent laser, that is injection locked to the single optical source. The optical source generators may have one or both of a shared configuration and a cascaded configuration that replicates the single optical source, or a single wavelength of the single optical source when it is a comb source.Type: GrantFiled: March 9, 2022Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: CABLE TELEVISION LABORATORIES, INC.Inventors: Zhensheng Jia, David Daniel Smith, Junwen Zhang, Luis Alberto Campos, Curtis D. Knittle
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Patent number: 11876645Abstract: A method operable by a communication network gateway for providing communication services includes (a) supporting respective communication links with a plurality of communication service providers, (b) supporting a plurality of virtual local area networks (VLANs), (c) associating each virtual local area network (VLAN) with a respective communication service provider of the plurality of communication service providers, and (d) routing data between each VLAN and the respective communication link of the respective communication service provider associated with the VLAN.Type: GrantFiled: March 24, 2023Date of Patent: January 16, 2024Assignee: Cable Television Laboratories, Inc.Inventors: Chad Riland, Rob Alderfer, Dennis Alan Brown, Jane Keys, John C. Bahr, Thomas Holtzman Williams, Derek Digiacomo, Austin Ralph Pahl, Mark Davies, Yuan Tian, Darshak Thakore, David Daniel Smith
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Patent number: 11876663Abstract: A method for transmitting data through a multi-media communication network includes converting transmission entities into data symbols at a first communication device, transmitting the data symbols from the first communication device to a second communication device through at least two different types of communication media using only lower PHY layers of the at least two different types of communication media, and converting the data symbols into transmission entities at the second communication device.Type: GrantFiled: December 13, 2021Date of Patent: January 16, 2024Assignee: Cable Television Laboratories, Inc.Inventors: Luis Alberto Campos, Jennifer Andreoli-Fang, Judson D. Cary, David Daniel Smith
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Patent number: 11871230Abstract: A method of securing data transmission from a plurality of spatially distributed transmitters to a receiving device includes steps of: determining first and second receiving device propagation delays for first and second transmission paths, respectively; portioning a contiguous stream of data into first and second data portions; transmitting the first data portion by the first transmission path utilizing a coordinating system and first propagation delay, and the second data portion such that first and second data portions arrive at the receiving device during a first and second time period, respectively, wherein, when seen from the receiving device, the first data portion and second data portion are seen as transmitted as contiguous data from the same transmitter, and wherein that transmitted data is received as a contiguous stream of transmitted data at a location of the receiving device.Type: GrantFiled: October 29, 2020Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignee: Cable Television Laboratories, Inc.Inventor: David Daniel Smith
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Patent number: 11855829Abstract: A method for transmitting data through a multi-media communication network includes converting transmission entities into data symbols at a first communication device, transmitting the data symbols from the first communication device to a second communication device through at least two different types of communication media using only lower PHY layers of the at least two different types of communication media, and converting the data symbols into transmission entities at the second communication device.Type: GrantFiled: December 13, 2021Date of Patent: December 26, 2023Assignee: Cable Television Laboratories, Inc.Inventors: Luis Alberto Campos, Jennifer Andreoli-Fang, Judson D. Cary, David Daniel Smith
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Patent number: 11711138Abstract: Mitigation of satellite interference is contemplated. The mitigation may include processing satellite transmissions to remove interferences based on an amount of signal overlap, such as to facilitate mitigating interferences resulting from satellite spacing and/or ground antenna dish size.Type: GrantFiled: April 19, 2021Date of Patent: July 25, 2023Assignee: Cable Television Laboratories, Inc.Inventors: Thomas Holtzman Williams, David Daniel Smith
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Patent number: 11641287Abstract: A local communication network (LCN) is contemplated. The LCN may be established within an existing network by leveraging network capabilities in order to facilitate local communications of the type whereby point-to-point (P-to-P) or other types of messaging and/or signaling may be communicated directly between devices without having to be relayed through a headend, a termination system or other processing entity.Type: GrantFiled: July 22, 2020Date of Patent: May 2, 2023Assignee: Cable Television Laboratories, Inc.Inventors: Joseph Padden, Luther E. Smith, David Daniel Smith, Luis Alberto Campos
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Publication number: 20230031072Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to apparatus, software and methods for thwarting radio spoofing techniques by requiring and sending data from multiple radios positioned such that the receiving client can determine that it came from multiple spatially separated radios due to the Angle of Arrival of each radio's signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 10, 2022Publication date: February 2, 2023Inventors: John C. Bahr, David Daniel Smith
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Patent number: 11496349Abstract: A method for transmitting data through a multi-media communication network includes converting transmission entities into data symbols at a first communication device, transmitting the data symbols from the first communication device to a second communication device through at least two different types of communication media using only lower PHY layers of the at least two different types of communication media, and converting the data symbols into transmission entities at the second communication device.Type: GrantFiled: January 23, 2019Date of Patent: November 8, 2022Assignee: Cable Television Laboratories, Inc.Inventors: Luis Alberto Campos, Jennifer Andreoli-Fang, Judson D. Cary, David Daniel Smith
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Patent number: 11470477Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to apparatus, software and methods for thwarting radio spoofing techniques by requiring and sending data from multiple radios positioned such that the receiving client can determine that it came from multiple spatially separated radios due to the Angle of Arrival of each radio's signal.Type: GrantFiled: August 16, 2019Date of Patent: October 11, 2022Assignee: Cable Television Laboratories, Inc.Inventors: John C. Bahr, David Daniel Smith
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Publication number: 20220103414Abstract: A method for transmitting data through a multi-media communication network includes converting transmission entities into data symbols at a first communication device, transmitting the data symbols from the first communication device to a second communication device through at least two different types of communication media using only lower PHY layers of the at least two different types of communication media, and converting the data symbols into transmission entities at the second communication device.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 13, 2021Publication date: March 31, 2022Inventors: Luis Alberto Campos, Jennifer Andreoli-Fang, Judson D. Cary, David Daniel Smith
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Publication number: 20220103413Abstract: A method for transmitting data through a multi-media communication network includes converting transmission entities into data symbols at a first communication device, transmitting the data symbols from the first communication device to a second communication device through at least two different types of communication media using only lower PHY layers of the at least two different types of communication media, and converting the data symbols into transmission entities at the second communication device.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 13, 2021Publication date: March 31, 2022Inventors: Luis Alberto Campos, Jennifer Andreoli-Fang, Judson D. Cary, David Daniel Smith
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Patent number: 11201777Abstract: A method for transmitting data through a multi-media communication network includes converting transmission entities into data symbols at a first communication device, transmitting the data symbols from the first communication device to a second communication device through at least two different types of communication media using only lower PHY layers of the at least two different types of communication media, and converting the data symbols into transmission entities at the second communication device.Type: GrantFiled: January 23, 2019Date of Patent: December 14, 2021Assignee: Cable Television Laboratories, ino.Inventors: Luis Alberto Campos, Jennifer Andreoli-Fang, Judson D. Cary, David Daniel Smith
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Patent number: 10985832Abstract: Mitigation of satellite interference is contemplated. The mitigation may include processing satellite transmissions to remove interferences based on an amount of signal overlap, such as to facilitate mitigating interferences resulting from satellite spacing and/or ground antenna dish size.Type: GrantFiled: February 3, 2020Date of Patent: April 20, 2021Assignee: Cable Television Laboratories, Inc.Inventors: Thomas Holtzman Williams, David Daniel Smith
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Publication number: 20210036802Abstract: A method for transmitting data through a multi-media communication network includes converting transmission entities into data symbols at a first communication device, transmitting the data symbols from the first communication device to a second communication device through at least two different types of communication media using only lower PHY layers of the at least two different types of communication media, and converting the data symbols into transmission entities at the second communication device.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 23, 2019Publication date: February 4, 2021Inventors: Luis Alberto Campos, Jennifer Andreoli-Fang, Judson D. Cary, David Daniel Smith
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Publication number: 20200186240Abstract: Mitigation of satellite interference is contemplated. The mitigation may include processing satellite transmissions to remove interferences based on an amount of signal overlap, such as to facilitate mitigating interferences resulting from satellite spacing and/or ground antenna dish size.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 3, 2020Publication date: June 11, 2020Inventors: Thomas Holtzman Williams, David Daniel Smith