Patents by Inventor John Calkins
John Calkins 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: 11823220Abstract: Accessing media data in bites, including: receiving a request from a client to access a media item, and determining an address of the requested media item, wherein the address indicates a location where the media item is stored; determining an identification number of a piece of the media item selected by the client; updating the address of the media item by combining the address with the identification number of the piece of the media item selected by the client; valuating the piece of the media item selected by the client, and sending a valuated price to the client; and providing access to the requested media item using the updated address of the media item when a payment for the valuated price is received from the client.Type: GrantFiled: March 3, 2020Date of Patent: November 21, 2023Assignees: SONY GROUP CORPORATION, SONY PICTURES TECHNOLOGIES, INC.Inventors: Richard Berger, John Calkins
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Publication number: 20220224954Abstract: Provided herein are embodiments of systems, devices and methods for an early warning system, for example in-movie early warning system. The early warning system may be implemented in unedited films, or movies.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 25, 2022Publication date: July 14, 2022Inventors: John Calkins, David Rondan
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Publication number: 20200202373Abstract: Accessing media data in bites, including: receiving a request from a client to access a media item, and determining an address of the requested media item, wherein the address indicates a location where the media item is stored; determining an identification number of a piece of the media item selected by the client; updating the address of the media item by combining the address with the identification number of the piece of the media item selected by the client; valuating the piece of the media item selected by the client, and sending a valuated price to the client; and providing access to the requested media item using the updated address of the media item when a payment for the valuated price is received from the client.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 3, 2020Publication date: June 25, 2020Inventors: Richard Berger, John Calkins
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Patent number: 8856808Abstract: Generating event-triggered actions, including: detecting at least one event occurring on a mobile device; generating and presenting an event action parameter for the at least one event; and receiving and processing the event action parameter using a media action table to generate at least one action instruction.Type: GrantFiled: September 8, 2011Date of Patent: October 7, 2014Assignees: Sony Corporation, Sony Pictures Technologies Inc.Inventors: Richard Berger, John Calkins
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Publication number: 20120084796Abstract: Generating event-triggered actions, including: detecting at least one event occurring on a mobile device; generating and presenting an event action parameter for the at least one event; and receiving and processing the event action parameter using a media action table to generate at least one action instruction.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 8, 2011Publication date: April 5, 2012Applicants: SONY PICTURES TECHNOLOGIES INC., SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Richard Berger, John Calkins
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Publication number: 20120078703Abstract: Accessing media data in bites, including: receiving a request from a client to access a media item, and determining an address of the requested media item, wherein the address indicates a location where the media item is stored; determining an identification number of a piece of the media item selected by the client; updating the address of the media item by combining the address with the identification number of the piece of the media item selected by the client; valuating the piece of the media item selected by the client, and sending a valuated price to the client; and providing access to the requested media item using the updated address of the media item when a payment for the valuated price is received from the client.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 8, 2011Publication date: March 29, 2012Applicants: SONY PICTURES TECHNOLOGIES INC., SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Richard Berger, John Calkins
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Patent number: 6969092Abstract: A file folder blank can be folded to form a file folder. The file folder blank is designed for single side printing. The file folder blank can be folded to reveal printed indicia to two directions of a single panel. The printed indicia can be printed by a standard desktop type of printer. The printed indicia can include graphics, location indicator, content indicators, pictures, graphs or the like. In addition, top taps or side tabs are integrally formed with the file folder blank that can be printed with identifying indicia. In some applications, the identifying indicia comprises a repeating set of color bars that can be individualized during printing of the folder blank.Type: GrantFiled: June 23, 2003Date of Patent: November 29, 2005Assignee: Smead Manufacturing CompanyInventors: Steve C. MacWilliams, John A. Calkins
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Publication number: 20040051296Abstract: A file folder blank can be folded to form a file folder. The file folder blank is designed for single side printing. The file folder blank can be folded to reveal printed indicia to two directions of a single panel. The printed indicia can be printed by a standard desktop type of printer. The printed indicia can include graphics, location indicator, content indicators, pictures, graphs or the like. In addition, top taps or side tabs are integrally formed with the file folder blank that can be printed with identifying indicia. In some applications, the identifying indicia comprises a repeating set of color bars that can be individualized during printing of the folder blank.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 23, 2003Publication date: March 18, 2004Applicant: The Smead Manufacturing CompanyInventors: Steve C. MacWilliams, John A. Calkins
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Patent number: 4848189Abstract: A throttle follower controller for establishing a release throttle position upon the release of the throttle by the vehicle operator which is maintained at a specified value for a predetermined time if the vehicle transmission is experiencing an upshift or if an upshift will occur upon the release of the throttle to provide for a smooth upshift. Upon completion of the upshift or if no upshift will occur upon release of the throttle, a controlled transition of the throttle angle to a predetermined lower coastdown value is established to prevent drive-on while preventing a sudden harsh drive line jerk upon release of the vehicle throttle.Type: GrantFiled: July 25, 1988Date of Patent: July 18, 1989Assignee: General Motors CorporationInventors: Robert C. Simon, Jr., Daniel B. O'Connell, David C. Poirier, John A. Calkins, Richard A. Marsh, Peter M. Medich, Richard C. Mamolen
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Patent number: 4159767Abstract: For use in combination with a machine that has an endless conveyor for conveying a file folder to a tang assembly station and thence away therefrom, folder tang assembly apparatus that includes a frame, a feed assembly for indexingly feeding a plurality of webs having folded tangs nearly punched thereoutof, a stationary die plate, a stripper bar above the die plate, a pressure pad for each web reciprocally mounted in a die plate aperture to press the web against the stripper bar, tang punches reciprocally extended in the pressure pad for punching a tang out of a web, through a stripper bar aperture, and against a folder, a cinching device for each web to cinch the tang to the folder when the punches move the tang against the folder, a tang location quill carried by one of the tang punches for each web to properly locate the tang to be punched out of the web, a power operated lower die shoe for reciprocating the punches, and piston cylinders for moving the pressure pads to press the webs against the stripper pType: GrantFiled: July 7, 1977Date of Patent: July 3, 1979Assignee: The Smead Manufacturing CompanyInventors: Philip O. Jesme, John A. Calkins
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Patent number: D361094Type: GrantFiled: July 15, 1994Date of Patent: August 8, 1995Assignee: International Master Products CorporationInventors: John A. Calkins, John J. Chiffers, Leo C. Moore