Patents by Inventor David Pollington
David Pollington 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: 10557712Abstract: A method and system. A common route is designated as a traveled route of a mobile device for a series of consecutive movements of the mobile device in a mobile network along a path of locations from an origin location of the path at an earliest activity of two or more activities of the mobile device to a destination location of the path at a latest activity of the two or more activities. A ratio is computed as a ratio of (i) a sum of a coverage area of a start cell in which one activity of the mobile device was initiated and a coverage area of an end cell in which the one activity of the mobile device was terminated to (ii) a distance between a centroid of the start cell and a centroid of the end cell such that the distance has a positive value. A confidence value as a function of the computed ratio is determined.Type: GrantFiled: January 3, 2019Date of Patent: February 11, 2020Assignees: International Business Machines Corporation, Vodafone IP Licensing LimitedInventors: Damian F. Brennan, Nichola Jane Inglis Hickman, David Pollington, Kevin T. Scarr
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Publication number: 20190195637Abstract: A method and system. A common route is designated as a traveled route of a mobile device for a series of consecutive movements of the mobile device in a mobile network along a path of locations from an origin location of the path at an earliest activity of two or more activities of the mobile device to a destination location of the path at a latest activity of the two or more activities. A ratio is computed as a ratio of (i) a sum of a coverage area of a start cell in which one activity of the mobile device was initiated and a coverage area of an end cell in which the one activity of the mobile device was terminated to (ii) a distance between a centroid of the start cell and a centroid of the end cell such that the distance has a positive value. A confidence value as a function of the computed ratio is determined.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 3, 2019Publication date: June 27, 2019Inventors: Damian F. Brennan, Nichola Jane Inglis Hickman, David Pollington, Kevin T. Scarr
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Patent number: 10228255Abstract: A method and system for determining a traveled route of a mobile device in a mobile network. A determination is made of a series of consecutive movements of the mobile device along a path of locations from an origin location of the path at an earliest activity of a plurality of activities of the mobile device to a destination location of the path at a latest activity of the plurality of activities. Historical sets of routes of the mobile device are accessed from storage. At least one common route is ascertained from the set of routes, wherein the locations in each common route include all of the locations on the path. A common route of the at least one common route is designated as the traveled route of the mobile device.Type: GrantFiled: July 17, 2014Date of Patent: March 12, 2019Assignees: International Business Machines Corporation, Vodafone IP Licensing LimitedInventors: Damian F. Brennan, Nichola Jane Inglis Hickman, David Pollington, Kevin T. Scarr
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Patent number: 10105677Abstract: A method for preparing a sorbent composition includes the steps of: applying, from a solution or a slurry, a layer of a copper compound on the surface of a support material, and drying the coated support material, wherein the thickness of the copper compound layer on the dried support is in the range 1-200 ?m. The precursor may be converted to a sorbent suitable for removing heavy metals from liquids or gases by applying one or more sulphur compounds to sulphide the copper compound and form CuS.Type: GrantFiled: September 15, 2015Date of Patent: October 23, 2018Assignee: Johnson Matthey PLCInventors: Andrew Fish, Lucy Jane Challis, Matthew John Cousins, Mark Robert Feaviour, Alison Mary Wagland, Stephen David Pollington, Edmund Hugh Stitt
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Patent number: 9971612Abstract: A method of controlling a widget execution device configured for use with a television includes: using a control application on a mobile terminal to wirelessly identify one or more widgets in a data network environment, such that the one or more widgets are suitable for download to the widget execution device; and using the control application to cause the download of the one or more widgets to the widget execution device. The method may involve identifying the one or more widgets on a remote server, the remote server being in communicable relation with the widget execution device; and causing the download of the one or more widgets by selecting the one or more widgets.Type: GrantFiled: August 7, 2009Date of Patent: May 15, 2018Assignee: VODAFONE GROUP PLC.Inventors: James Irwin, David Pollington
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Patent number: 9843920Abstract: Method and system of detecting traffic in a transport network comprising obtaining network usage records from a mobile network. Extracting cell information from the network usage records. Identifying the network usage records originating from moving handsets from the extracted cell information. Matching the identified network usage records with one or more transport routes. Matching each of the one or more transport routes with a transport mode using transport mode map data.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2012Date of Patent: December 12, 2017Assignee: Vodafone IP Licensing LimitedInventors: Kevin Tristan Scarr, David Pollington, Nichola Jane Inglis Hickman, Damian Frederick Brennan, Daniel Richard Mays
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Patent number: 9549315Abstract: A mobile device comprises one or more sensors; a plurality of additional sensors; and logic configured to: obtain one or more first data outputs from the one or more sensors in a first state; obtain one or more second data outputs from the one or more sensors; determine whether there has been a transition from the first state to a second state, based on a difference between the one or more first data outputs and the one or more second data outputs; obtain one or more third data outputs from the plurality of additional sensors if there has been a transition from the first state to the second state; and compare the one or more third data outputs with stored data outputs obtained using the plurality of additional sensors in a third state, thereby determining whether the mobile device is in the third state.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2012Date of Patent: January 17, 2017Assignee: Vodafone IP Licensing LimitedInventors: David Pollington, Thomas Robert Lovett, Eamonn Joseph O'Neill
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Patent number: 9357553Abstract: A method of managing a load within a cellular network. The method includes obtaining network usage records from the cellular network; extracting cell information from the network usage records; establishing terminal carrier routes for cellular terminals that have changed location as determined from the extracted cell information; deriving terminal carrier profile attributes for the cellular terminals that have changed location, based on the established terminal carrier routes; determining a load on a resource of the cellular network, based on the established terminal carrier routes and the derived terminal carrier profile attributes; and controlling resources of the cellular network in response to the determined load, so as to manage the load within the cellular network.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2012Date of Patent: May 31, 2016Assignees: Vodafone IP Licensing Limited, International Business MachinesInventors: Kevin Tristan Scarr, David Pollington, Nichola Jane Inglis Hickman, Damian Frederick Brennan, Daniel Richard Mays
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Publication number: 20160069692Abstract: A method and system for determining a traveled route of a mobile device in a mobile network. A determination is made of a series of consecutive movements of the mobile device along a path of locations from an origin location of the path at an earliest activity of a plurality of activities of the mobile device to a destination location of the path at a latest activity of the plurality of activities. Historical sets of routes of the mobile device are accessed from storage. At least one common route is ascertained from the set of routes, wherein the locations in each common route include all of the locations on the path. A common route of the at least one common route is designated as the traveled route of the mobile device.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 17, 2014Publication date: March 10, 2016Inventors: Damian F. Brennan, Nichola Jane Inglis Hickman, David Pollington, Kevin T. Scarr
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Publication number: 20160001258Abstract: A method for preparing a sorbent composition includes the steps of: applying, from a solution or a slurry, a layer of a copper compound on the surface of a support material, and drying the coated support material, wherein the thickness of the copper compound layer on the dried support is in the range 1-200 ?m. The precursor may be converted to a sorbent suitable for removing heavy metals from liquids or gases by applying one or more sulphur compounds to sulphide the copper compound and form CuS.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 15, 2015Publication date: January 7, 2016Applicant: Johnson Matthey PLCInventors: Andrew Fish, Lucy Jane Challis, Matthew John Cousins, Mark Robert Feaviour, Alison Mary Wagland, Stephen David Pollington, Edmund Hugh Stitt
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Patent number: 9156019Abstract: A method for preparing a sorbent composition includes the steps of: (i) applying, from a solution or a slurry, a layer of a copper compound on the surface of a support material, and (ii) drying the coated support material, wherein the thickness of the copper compound layer on the dried support is in the range 1-200 ?m. The precursor may be converted to a sorbent suitable for removing heavy metals from liquids or gases by applying one or more sulphur compounds to sulphide the copper compound and form CuS.Type: GrantFiled: August 10, 2010Date of Patent: October 13, 2015Assignee: Johnson Matthey PLCInventors: Andrew Fish, Lucy Jane Challis, Matthew John Cousins, Mark Robert Feaviour, Alison Mary Wagland, Stephen David Pollington, Edmund Hugh Stitt
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Patent number: 8825407Abstract: A method and system for determining a traveled route of a mobile device in a mobile network. Analysis of a network usage record identifies activities and associated activity information of the mobile device. A series of consecutive movements of the mobile device along a path of locations is determined from the activity information. Historical sets of routes of the mobile device are accessed. Each route is a set of locations from an origin location to a destination location of the route. At least one common route is ascertained from the set of routes. The locations in each common route include all of the locations on the path. The origin location and destination location of each common route is the origin location and destination location of the path, respectively. A common route of the at least one common route is designated as the traveled route of the mobile device.Type: GrantFiled: October 30, 2012Date of Patent: September 2, 2014Assignees: International Business Machines Corporation, Vodafone IP Licensing Limited, The ConnectionInventors: Damian F. Brennan, Nicola Jane Inglis Hickman, David Pollington, Kevin Scarr
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Patent number: 8422406Abstract: A system and method that allows different participants in a conference call to be identified at a receiving terminal includes watermarking speech data when the uplink information from the terminals of the participants is received at the telecommunications network. The speech data is then combined at a conference bridge in the network and is transmitted in the downlink to the receiving terminal. The receiving terminal uses the watermarks to identify from which of the participants the received speech data originated and is operable to reproduce the speech data from the respective participants at different positions in a 2D or 3D space to help the user of the receiver terminal to identify contributions made by the respective participants.Type: GrantFiled: July 18, 2008Date of Patent: April 16, 2013Assignee: Vodafone Group PLCInventors: David Ashbrook, David Pollington
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Publication number: 20130053234Abstract: A method for preparing a sorbent composition includes the steps of: (i) applying, from a solution or a slurry, a layer of a copper compound on the surface of a support material, and (ii) drying the coated support material, wherein the thickness of the copper compound layer on the dried support is in the range 1-200 ?m. The precursor may be converted to a sorbent suitable for removing heavy metals from liquids or gases by applying one or more sulphur compounds to sulphide the copper compound and form CuS.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 10, 2010Publication date: February 28, 2013Applicant: JOHNSON MATTHEY PLCInventors: Andrew Fish, Lucy Jane Challis, Matthew John Cousins, Mark Robert Feaviour, Alison Mary Wagland, Stephen David Pollington, Edmund Hugh Stitt
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Patent number: 8190747Abstract: An application manager configured for use on a resource-limited device, the application manager including: an application engine configured to effect communications between a plurality of applications installed on the resource limited device and one or more external network sites; and a connection manager configured to control and/or coordinate when the plurality of applications are able to attempt to establish communications with the one or more external network sites. The resource-limited device may be a mobile terminal.Type: GrantFiled: August 7, 2008Date of Patent: May 29, 2012Assignee: Vodafone Group Services LimitedInventors: James Irwin, David Pollington, David Ashbrook
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Patent number: 8092767Abstract: A method of decomposing nitrogen dioxide to nitrogen monoxide in an exhaust gas of a lean-burn internal combustion engine, such as a diesel engine, comprises adjusting the C1 hydrocarbon:nitrogen oxides (C1 HC:NOx) ratio of the exhaust gas to from 0.1 to 2 and contacting this exhaust gas mixture with a particulate acidic refractory oxide selected from the group consisting of zeolites, tungsten-doped titania, silica-titania, zirconia-titania, gamma-alumina, amorphous silica-alumina and mixtures of any two or more thereof and passing the effluent gas to atmosphere.Type: GrantFiled: April 19, 2004Date of Patent: January 10, 2012Assignee: Johnson Matthey Public Limited CompanyInventors: Stephen David Pollington, Raj Rao Rajaram, Andrew Peter Walker
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Publication number: 20100042692Abstract: A method of controlling a widget execution device configured for use with a television includes: using a control application on a mobile terminal to wirelessly identify one or more widgets in a data network environment, such that the one or more widgets are suitable for download to the widget execution device; and using the control application to cause the download of the one or more widgets to the widget execution device. The method may - involve identifying the one or more widgets on a remote server, the remote server being in communicable relation with the widget execution device; and causing the download of the one or more widgets by selecting the one or more widgets.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 7, 2009Publication date: February 18, 2010Inventors: James Irwin, David Pollington
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Publication number: 20090210537Abstract: An application manager configured for use on a resource-limited device, the application manager including: an application engine configured to effect communications between a plurality of applications installed on the resource limited device and one or more external network sites; and a connection manager configured to control and/or coordinate when the plurality of applications are able to attempt to establish communications with the one or more external network sites. The resource-limited device may be a mobile terminal.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 7, 2008Publication date: August 20, 2009Inventors: James Irwin, David Pollington, David Ashbrook
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Publication number: 20090034704Abstract: A system and method that allows different participants in a conference call to be identified at a receiving terminal includes watermarking speech data when the uplink information from the terminals of the participants is received at the telecommunications network. The speech data is then combined at a conference bridge in the network and is transmitted in the downlink to the receiving terminal. The receiving terminal uses the watermarks to identify from which of the participants the received speech data originated and is operable to reproduce the speech data from the respective participants at different positions in a 2D or 3D space to help the user of the receiver terminal to identify contributions made by the respective participants.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 18, 2008Publication date: February 5, 2009Inventors: David Ashbrook, David Pollington
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Patent number: 7485271Abstract: A catalyst structure for treating exhaust gas from a lean burn internal combustion engine comprises a substrate monolith comprising a lean NOX catalyst (LNC) composition associated with at least one partial oxidation catalyst (POC), wherein the LNC composition is selected from the group consisting of: (a) silver or a silver compound supported on alumina; and (b) at least one metal selected from the group consisting of copper (Cu), iron (Fe), cobalt (Co) and cerium (Ce) supported on at least one zeolite, and wherein the at least one POC is selected from the group consisting of: (i) a bulk oxide, a bulk composite oxide or a bulk mixed oxide comprising at least one metal selected from the group consisting of manganese (Mn), iron (Fe), cerium (Ce) and praseodymium (Pr); and (ii) at least one of rhodium (Rh) and palladium (Pd) disposed on at least one inorganic oxide support.Type: GrantFiled: August 9, 2004Date of Patent: February 3, 2009Assignee: Johnson Matthey Public Limited CompanyInventors: Stanislaw Edmund Golunski, Valerie Marie Renee Houel, Andrea Hawkings, David William James, Stephen David Pollington, Stephen Poulston, Raj Rao Rajaram