Patents by Inventor Donald Gordon

Donald Gordon 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: 9131842
    Abstract: Systems and methods described herein use near field communications to locate a set of antennas attached to, coupled with, or near the patient. A signal emitted by an antenna in the set of antennas can be received by the other antennas in the set. A second signal can be further transmitted from another antenna in the set. The differential phase and/or time shifts between the antennas from the multiple signal transmissions can contain sufficient information to find the locations of the antennas in antenna centric coordinates. The antenna locations can then be used to find a location of a pill transmitter swallowed by the patient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2015
    Assignee: Rock West Solutions, Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas Eugene Old, John Christopher Baker, Neal J. Carron, Donald Gordon Pritchett
  • Publication number: 20150196229
    Abstract: Systems and methods described herein use near field communications to locate a radiating transponder, such as a pill swallowed by a patient. The system can be triggered to turn on and transmit a waveform to a set of antennas attached to, coupled with, or near the patient. The magnetic field emitted by the transponder can be measured by the receiving antennas, for example, using principles of mutual inductance. The differential phase and/or time shifts between the antennas can contain sufficient information to find the location of the transponder and optionally its orientation relative to body coordinates. The system can display the location and/or orientation of the transponder. Further, the pill can include a reservoir to deliver a payload at a particular site of the patient's body based at least in part on the determined location.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2015
    Publication date: July 16, 2015
    Inventors: Thomas Eugene Old, John Christopher Baker, Neal Jay Carron, Donald Gordon Pritchett
  • Publication number: 20150193606
    Abstract: A method, system, and computer-readable storage media for providing user based licensing of an application are provided herein. The method includes receiving user log-in information from a computing device at a licensing service in response to an input by a user and providing a license for an application to the computing device, wherein the license includes device specific information associated with the user. The method also includes activating the application on the computing device using the device specific information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2015
    Publication date: July 9, 2015
    Inventors: Karvell Li, Robert Donner, Amit Wadhwa, Daniel R. Amirault, Sanjay Garg, Gregory Akselrod, Scott Kurtzeborn, Donald Gordon Hardy, Tianyu Xie, Chad Shurtz
  • Publication number: 20150193605
    Abstract: A method, system, and computer-readable storage media for providing user based licensing of an application are provided herein. The method includes receiving user log-in information from a computing device at a licensing service in response to an input by a user and providing a license for an application to the computing device, wherein the license includes device specific information associated with the user. The method also includes activating the application on the computing device using the device specific information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2015
    Publication date: July 9, 2015
    Inventors: Karvell Li, Robert Donner, Amit Wadhwa, Daniel R. Amirault, Sanjay Garg, Gregory Akselrod, Scott Kurtzeborn, Donald Gordon Hardy, Tianyu Xie, Chad Shurtz
  • Publication number: 20150193607
    Abstract: A method, system, and computer-readable storage media for providing user based licensing of an application are provided herein. The method includes receiving user log-in information from a computing device at a licensing service in response to an input by a user and providing a license for an application to the computing device, wherein the license includes device specific information associated with the user. The method also includes activating the application on the computing device using the device specific information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2015
    Publication date: July 9, 2015
    Inventors: Karvell Li, Robert Donner, Amit Wadhwa, Daniel R. Amirault, Sanjay Garg, Gregory Akselrod, Scott Kurtzeborn, Donald Gordon Hardy, Tianyu Xie, Chad Shurtz
  • Publication number: 20150193897
    Abstract: A method, system, and computer-readable storage media for providing user based licensing of an application are provided herein. The method includes receiving user log-in information from a computing device at a licensing service in response to an input by a user and providing a license for an application to the computing device, wherein the license includes device specific information associated with the user. The method also includes activating the application on the computing device using the device specific information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2015
    Publication date: July 9, 2015
    Inventors: Karvell Li, Robert Donner, Amit Wadhwa, Daniel R. Amirault, Sanjay Garg, Gregory Akselrod, Scott Kurtzeborn, Donald Gordon Hardy, Tianyu Xie, Chad Shurtz
  • Publication number: 20150186625
    Abstract: A method, system, and computer-readable storage media for providing user based licensing of an application are provided herein. The method includes receiving user log-in information from a computing device at a licensing service in response to an input by a user and providing a license for an application to the computing device, wherein the license includes device specific information associated with the user. The method also includes activating the application on the computing device using the device specific information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2015
    Publication date: July 2, 2015
    Inventors: Karvell Li, Robert Donner, Amit Wadhwa, Daniel R. Amirault, Sanjay Garg, Gregory Akselrod, Scott Kurtzeborn, Donald Gordon Hardy, Tianyu Xie, Chad Shurtz
  • Patent number: 9042454
    Abstract: A system for creating composite encoded video from two or more encoded video sources in the encoded domain. In response to user input, a markup language-based graphical layout is retrieved. The graphical layout includes frame locations within a composite frame for at least a first encoded source and a second encoded source. The system either retrieves or receives the first and second encoded sources. The sources include block-based transform encoded data. The system also includes a stitcher module for stitching together the first encoded source and the second encoded source according to the frame locations of the graphical layout to form an encoded frame. The system outputs an encoded video stream that is transmitted to a client device associated with the user. In response to further user input, the system updates the state of an object model and replaces all or a portion of one or more frames of the encoded video stream. The system may be used with MPEG encoded video.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2015
    Assignee: ActiveVideo Networks, Inc.
    Inventors: Donald Gordon, Lena Y. Pavlovskaia, Airan Landau, Andreas Lennartsson, Charlie Lawrence, Greg Brown, Edward Ludvig
  • Publication number: 20150112189
    Abstract: Systems and methods described herein can use near field communications to locate a radiating transmitter, such as a pill transmitter swallowed by a patient. In some embodiments, the pill transmitter can include multiple transmitting elements configured to transmit signals in an axis orthogonal with respect to each other. Further, in some embodiment, the pill transmitter can also include multiple transmitting elements in each of the three axes where the three axes may be perpendicular with respect to each other. The magnetic field emitted from the pill transmitter can be measured by the receiving antennas, for example, using principles of mutual inductance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 21, 2014
    Publication date: April 23, 2015
    Inventors: Neal Jay Carron, Thomas Eugene Old, Donald Gordon Pritchett, John Christopher Baker
  • Patent number: 8973650
    Abstract: A system, including a superconductive heat transfer assembly, including, a first superconductive heat transfer pipe, a second superconductive heat transfer pipe, and a superconductive heat transfer contact switch configured to open and close a gap between the first superconductive heat transfer pipe and the second superconductive heat transfer pipe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2015
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Harish Chandra Dhingra, Donald Gordon Laing
  • Publication number: 20150058337
    Abstract: Database access is described, for example, where data in a database is accessed by an inference engine. In various examples, the inference engine executes inference algorithms to access data from the database and carry out inference using the data. In examples the inference algorithms are compiled from a schema of the database which is annotated with expressions of probability distributions over data in the database. In various examples the schema of the database is modified by adding one or more latent columns or latent tables to the schema for storing data to be inferred by the inference engine. In examples the expressions are compositional so, for example, an expression annotating a column of a database table may be used as part of an expression annotating another column of the database.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 20, 2013
    Publication date: February 26, 2015
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Andrew Donald Gordon, Thore Kurt Hartwig Graepel, Nicolas Philippe Marie Rolland, Eric Johannes Borgstrom, Claudio Vittorio Russo
  • Publication number: 20150046493
    Abstract: Access and management of a user's content may be facilitated by, in response to receiving a request for content related to a specified entity from the repository associated with at least the user's account, identifying, in a content of a file in the repository, an entity container of at least one entity container associated with the specified entity; and communicating the entity container that is associated with the specific entity to a source of the request.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2014
    Publication date: February 12, 2015
    Inventors: Gregory Akselrod, Donald Gordon Hardy, Pradeep Chilakamarri, Shikha Devesh Desai, Bernhard S.J. Kohlmeier
  • Publication number: 20150046827
    Abstract: A method of automatically augmenting content through augmentation services can include invoking a service to receive an entity determination based on the content and an entity container comprising an object of the content and one or more attributes of the object. The entity determination and corresponding entity container can be assigned as a marker to content being clipped. The marker can be used to enable access and actions that can be taken with respect to the clipping or the structured information augmenting the clipping.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2014
    Publication date: February 12, 2015
    Inventors: Gregory Akselrod, Donald Gordon Hardy, Pradeep Chilakamarri, Shikha Devesh Desai, Bernhard S.J. Kohlmeier, Ian William Mikutel
  • Publication number: 20150012447
    Abstract: A method, system, and computer-readable storage media for providing user based licensing of an application are provided herein. The method includes receiving user log-in information from a computing device at a licensing service in response to an input by a user and providing a license for an application to the computing device, wherein the license includes device specific information associated with the user. The method also includes activating the application on the computing device using the device specific information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2014
    Publication date: January 8, 2015
    Inventors: Karvell Li, Robert Donner, Amit Wadhwa, Daniel R. Amirault, Sanjay Garg, Gregory Akselrod, Scott Kurtzeborn, Donald Gordon Hardy, Tianyu Xie, Chad Shurtz
  • Publication number: 20150007340
    Abstract: A method, system, and computer-readable storage media for providing user based licensing of an application are provided herein. The method includes receiving user log-in information from a computing device at a licensing service in response to an input by a user and providing a license for an application to the computing device, wherein the license includes device specific information associated with the user. The method also includes activating the application on the computing device using the device specific information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 13, 2014
    Publication date: January 1, 2015
    Inventors: Karvell Li, Robert Donner, Amit Wadhwa, Danny R. Amirault, Sanjay Garg, Gregory Akselrod, Scott Kurtzeborn, Donald Gordon Hardy, Tianyu Xie, Chad Shurtz
  • Patent number: 8900142
    Abstract: Systems and methods described herein use near field communications to locate a radiating transponder, such as a pill swallowed by a patient. The system can be triggered to turn on and transmit an amplitude shift keyed waveform (or other type of waveform) to a set of antennas attached to, coupled with, or near the patient at roughly known locations. The magnetic field emitted by the transponder can be measured by the receiving antennas, for example, using principles of mutual inductance. The differential phase and/or time shifts between the antennas can contain sufficient information to find the location of the transponder and optionally its orientation relative to body coordinates. The system can display the location and/or orientation of the transponder and may optionally provide other information about the movement, flow, or other characteristics of pill to assist clinicians with diagnosis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2014
    Assignee: Rock West Solutions, Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas Eugene Old, John Christopher Baker, Neal J. Carron, Donald Gordon Pritchett
  • Publication number: 20140297799
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for porting locally processed media data with low latency to a remote client device via various wireless links are provided. In one example embodiment, a transceiver module may include a local network interface and a controller that may receive a client control signal from a client device over a wireless local area network via the local network interface, transmit a media control signal based on the client control signal to a media device, receive media data based on the media control signal from the media device, and transmit to the client device over the wireless local area network via the local network interface client data based on the media data and a low-latency compression technique. The receipt of the media data and transmission of the client data may be accomplished with substantially no detectable latency. Additional embodiments are also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2014
    Publication date: October 2, 2014
    Inventors: Donald Gordon, Thomas Paquin, Michael Toy, Mike Roper, Roger van der Laan
  • Patent number: 8832851
    Abstract: A method, system, and computer-readable storage media for providing user based licensing of an application are provided herein. The method includes receiving user log-in information from a computing device at a licensing service in response to an input by a user and providing a license for an application to the computing device, wherein the license includes device specific information associated with the user. The method also includes activating the application on the computing device using the device specific information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2014
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Karvell Li, Robert Donner, Amit Wadhwa, Danny R. Amirault, Sanjay Garg, Gregory Akselrod, Scott Kurtzeborn, Donald Gordon Hardy, Tianyu Xie, Chad Shurtz
  • Publication number: 20140188928
    Abstract: New methods of relational database management are described, for example, to enable completion and checking of data in relational databases, including completion of missing foreign key values, to facilitate understanding of data in relational databases, to highlight data that it would be useful to add to a relational database and for other applications. In various embodiments, the schema of a relational database is used to automatically create a probabilistic graphical model that has a structure related to the schema. For example, nodes representing individual rows are linked to rows of other tables according to the database schema. In examples, data in the relational database is used to carry out inference using inference algorithms derived from the probabilistic graphical model. In various examples, inference results, comprising probability distributions each for an individual table cell, are used to fill missing data, highlight errors, and for other purposes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 31, 2012
    Publication date: July 3, 2014
    Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Sameer Singh, Thore Kurt Hartwig Graepel, Lucas Julien Bordeaux, Andrew Donald Gordon
  • Publication number: 20140150443
    Abstract: The present application provides an integrated bottoming cycle system for use with a gas turbine engine. The integrated bottoming cycle system described herein may include a compressor/pump, a cooling circuit downstream of the compressor/pump, a bottoming cycle heat exchanger, a heating circuit downstream of the bottoming cycle heat exchanger, and a number of turbine components in communication with the cooling circuit and/or the heating circuit to maximize the overall plant efficiency and economics.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2012
    Publication date: June 5, 2014
    Applicant: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
    Inventors: Donald Gordon Laing, Charles Michael Booth