Patents by Inventor John Flynn

John Flynn 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: 9246759
    Abstract: A femto cell service framework is utilized for purchase and service of femtocell equipment and customer support thereof. A point of sale (POS) platform enables purchase of femtocell equipment based on a set of eligibility criteria. POS also allows purchase of add-on services. Direct fulfillment and post-sale transactions such as returns and equipment replacement are also provided. An account management service enables femtocell equipment and service self-care or through customer representatives. Configuration of service account and monitoring of account status is provided. Customer care architecture also enables remote troubleshooting of purchased equipment. Remote troubleshooting includes diagnosis and related manipulation of purchased equipment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2016
    Assignees: AT&T MOBILITY II LLC, AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.
    Inventors: Ravindra Babu Gurajala, Robert Wayne Lott, Kurt Donald Huber, Judson John Flynn, William Gordon Mansfield, Jefferey Thomas Seymour, Arthur Richard Brisebois, John Potts Davis
  • Publication number: 20160017064
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of and an apparatus for extending the shelf life of an initiated monomer mixture, the method comprising the prevention of premature free radical polymerisation by introducing oxygen or oxygen-containing gas into a container of the initiated monomer mixture and providing mechanical agitation to the container, wherein said introduction and agitation are performed in a temperature and pressure controlled environment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2014
    Publication date: January 21, 2016
    Inventors: Sean LYONS, Joseph DOWLING, John FLYNN, X. Michael LIU, E. Peter MAZIARZ
  • Publication number: 20150373547
    Abstract: Access to femto cell service is managed through access control list(s), or “white list(s).” Such white list(s) can be configured via a networked interface which facilitates access management to a femto cell. White list(s) includes a set of subscriber station(s) identifier numbers, codes or tokens, and can also include additional fields for femto cell access management based on desired complexity. Various interfaces and user profiles are associated with granting different levels of access to requesting UEs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 20, 2015
    Publication date: December 24, 2015
    Inventors: Kurt Donald Huber, Judson John Flynn, William Gordon Mansfield
  • Patent number: 9192359
    Abstract: Vector Doppler Imaging (VDI) improves on conventional Color Doppler Imaging (CDI) by giving speed and direction of blood flow at each pixel of a display generated by a computing system. Multiple angles of Plane wave transmissions (PWT) via an ultrasound transducer conveniently give projected Doppler measurements over a wide field of view, providing enough angular diversity to identify velocity vectors in a short time window while capturing transitory flow dynamics. A fast, aliasing-resistant velocity vector estimator for PWT is presented, and VDI imaging of a carotid artery with a 5 MHz linear array is shown using a novel synthetic particle flow visualization method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2015
    Assignee: VERASONICS, INC.
    Inventors: John Flynn, Ronald Elvin Daigle
  • Patent number: 9155022
    Abstract: Access to femto cell service is managed through access control list(s), or “white list(s).” Such white list(s) can be configured via a networked interface which facilitates access management to a femto cell. White list(s) includes a set of subscriber station(s) identifier numbers, codes or tokens, and can also include additional fields for femto cell access management based on desired complexity. Various interfaces and user profiles are associated with granting different levels of access to requesting UEs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2015
    Assignee: AT&T MOBILITY II LLC
    Inventors: Kurt Donald Huber, Judson John Flynn, William Gordon Mansfield
  • Publication number: 20150281907
    Abstract: Traffic and signaling are routed between a set of networked femto access points (APs) and location-based services are enabled. A femto AP in the set of femto APs is functionally linked to a routing platform that manages traffic and signaling, and is functionally connected to a controller component that relays at least part of data and control to a femto network platform. The femto network platform allows access to one or more external networks. Routing platform can exchange signaling with one or more femto APs to enable, at least in part, location-based services based at least in part on identifier(s) for a femto AP, access privileges, or time-of-flight measurements that assess propagation timing between a mobile device and a femto AP. Routing platform can supply timing configuration to enable predetermined spatial resolution of location estimates. Location estimates can be recorded and conveyed to a consumer layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2015
    Publication date: October 1, 2015
    Inventors: Kurt Donald Huber, William Gordon Mansfield, Judson John Flynn
  • Patent number: 9143552
    Abstract: Systems and methods are presented that enable the transmission of data and applications to a communications device using a most efficient communication pathway. This enables large sized information to be sent to cellular telephones and other devices without using conventional cellular signaling pathways.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2015
    Assignee: AT&T Mobility II LLC
    Inventors: Thomas W. Bonner, Judson John Flynn, Scott Allen Swanburg
  • Patent number: 9121956
    Abstract: Methods, apparatuses, and systems are disclosed that assist in determining a location to acquire seismic data. In one embodiment, a method includes modeling acquisition of seismic data in a first location based on a first factor that impacts acquisition of seismic data in the first location. The method also includes generating a modeled attribute based on the modeling, and determining whether to acquire seismic data in the first location based on the modeled attribute or the first factor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2015
    Assignee: ION GEOPHYSICAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Desmond John Flynn, Thomas Cheriyan, John Edward Grant, Stuart Maxwell Darling
  • Publication number: 20150245310
    Abstract: An architecture is provided that can facilitate and/or transmit notifications based upon device presence techniques in connection with a wireless communications network. For example, when certain mobile devices register with a particular network entity (e.g., a femtocell) that services a particular target location (e.g., place of residence), then such registration can be leveraged to indicate presence at the target location. Accordingly, notifications can be delivered to custodian devices that indicate the presence information if certain predetermined conditions or criteria are satisfied.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 11, 2015
    Publication date: August 27, 2015
    Inventors: William S. Robbins, Judson John Flynn, Randolph Wohlert
  • Patent number: 9094891
    Abstract: Traffic and signaling are routed between a set of networked femto access points (APs) and location-based services are enabled. A femto AP in the set of femto APs is functionally linked to a routing platform that manages traffic and signaling, and is functionally connected to a controller component that relays at least part of data and control to a femto network platform. The femto network platform allows access to one or more external networks. Routing platform can exchange signaling with one or more femto APs to enable, at least in part, location-based services based at least in part on identifier(s) for a femto AP, access privileges, or time-of-flight measurements that assess propagation timing between a mobile device and a femto AP. Routing platform can supply timing configuration to enable predetermined spatial resolution of location estimates. Location estimates can be recorded and conveyed to a consumer layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2015
    Assignee: AT&T Mobility II LLC
    Inventors: Kurt Donald Huber, William Gordon Mansfield, Judson John Flynn
  • Patent number: 9076270
    Abstract: Implementations generally relate to generating compositional media content. In some implementations, a method includes receiving a plurality of photos from a user, and determining one or more composition types from the photos. The method also includes generating compositions from the selected photos based on the one or more determined composition types. The method also includes providing the one or more generated compositions to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2015
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Erik Murphy-Chutorian, Matthew Steiner, Vivek Kwatra, Shengyang Dai, John Spiegel, Nicholas Butko, Falk Sticken, Florian Kriener, Tom Binder, John Flynn, Troy Chinen, Steven VanDeBogart, Nikolaos Trogkanis, Ingo Wehmeyer, Matthias Grundmann
  • Publication number: 20150189585
    Abstract: Access management to femto cell service is provided through access control list(s), e.g., white list(s), or black list(s). White list(s) include a set of subscriber station(s) identifier numbers, codes, or tokens, and also can include additional fields for femto cell access management based on desired complexity. White list(s) can have associated white list profile(s) therewith to establish logic of femto coverage access based on the white list(s). Access lists exchange among subscribers that posses provisioned femto access points and elect to share access lists also is provided. Transference of access list(s) among subscribers is secured and based at least in part on subscriber privacy policy. Subscribers can be prompted to opt in access list sharing, or to update privacy policies to allow reciprocate sharing and update privacy settings. Based at least in part on association criteria, a component identifies femto access points with which a subscriber accesses lists.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2015
    Publication date: July 2, 2015
    Inventors: Kurt Donald Huber, Judson John Flynn, William Gordon Mansfield
  • Patent number: 9069794
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus are provided for determining location information for images. In one aspect, a method includes obtaining landmark location data from content depicted in an image and corresponding confidence scores. Also, the method includes obtaining caption location data from user input and corresponding confidence scores, and obtaining metadata location data from data provided by an image capturing device. Further, the method includes identifying location pairs from the landmark, caption, and metadata location data, and generating, for each location pair, a geographic consistency score. Additionally, the method includes selecting a location pair based on the geographic consistency scores, and selecting an image location for the image from the selected location pair. Moreover, the method includes determining an image location score based on a confidence score for one of the locations in the selected location pair, and associating the image location and image location score with the image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2015
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Farhana Bandukwala, Hartwig Adam, John Flynn, Krzysztof Sikora, Marco Andreetto, Arcot J. Preetham
  • Publication number: 20150169186
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for surfacing content during a photo sharing process is described. The method may include detecting the initiation of a social networking photo sharing process for a digital image. The method may also include transmitting digital image data corresponding to the digital image to a content surfacing server to locate content relevant to the digital image. The method may also include receiving one or more items of data relevant to the digital image from the content surfacing server. Furthermore, the method may include presenting a notification, before the digital image is uploaded to a social networking system by the social networking photo sharing process, to a user to indicate that content relevant to the digital image has been received.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2012
    Publication date: June 18, 2015
    Inventors: Hartmut Neven, Dragomir Anguelov, John Flynn, Mark Joseph Cummins, James William Philbin
  • Publication number: 20150170418
    Abstract: The present application discloses devices and methods for providing entry into and enabling interaction with a visual representation of an environment. In some implementations, a method is disclosed that includes obtaining an estimated global pose of a device in an environment. The method further includes providing on the device a user-interface including a visual representation of the environment that corresponds to the estimated global pose. The method still further includes receiving first data indicating an object in the visual representation, receiving second data indicating an action relating to the object, and applying the action in the visual representation. In other implementations, a head-mounted device is disclosed that includes a processor and data storage including logic executable by the processor to carry out the method described above.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 18, 2012
    Publication date: June 18, 2015
    Applicant: GOOGLE INC.
    Inventors: John Flynn, Rafael Spring, Dragomir Anguelov, Hartmut Neven
  • Publication number: 20150169611
    Abstract: Systems and methods for a dynamic visual search engine are provided. In one example method, a criteria used to partition a set of compressed image descriptors into multiple database shards may be determined. Additionally, a size of a dynamic index may be determined. The dynamic index may represent a dynamic number of images and may be configured to accept insertion of reference images into the dynamic index that can be search against immediately. According to the method, an instruction to merge the uncompressed image descriptors of the dynamic index into the database shards of the compressed image descriptors may be received, and the uncompressed image descriptors of the dynamic index may be responsively merged into the database shards of the compressed image descriptors based on the criteria.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2014
    Publication date: June 18, 2015
    Inventors: James William Philbin, Anand Pillai, John Flynn, Hartwig Adam
  • Patent number: 9060278
    Abstract: In one or more embodiments, one or more methods and/or systems described can perform receiving, from a first access point coupled to a first network and operated by a first network provider, an access code from a subscriber mobile device (MSD), associated with a second network provider, that accesses a uniform resource locator (URL) that includes the access code. The access code can be usable by the first network provider to determine whether or not to permit the MSD access of a second network coupled to the first network. In one or more embodiments, the URL is received by the MSD in a text message and/or from a short message service (SMS). In one or more embodiments, the MSD is operable to use telecommunications services of and provided by the second network provider. In one or more embodiments, the first network provider is the second network provider.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2015
    Assignee: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.
    Inventors: Erick Haughn, Judson John Flynn, John Lewis
  • Publication number: 20150133851
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method comprising: creating one or more pockets within an inferior turbinate of a patient, inserting one or more it that are easily inserted into the one or more pockets, wherein the one or more implants contain one or more therapeutic compounds and the one or more implants do not need to be removed from the inferior turbinate after implantation into the one or more pockets.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2014
    Publication date: May 14, 2015
    Inventors: Matthias Reif, John Flynn, JR., Chris Olig, Rod Schlossor, Ben Bleir, Alex Chiu
  • Publication number: 20150114409
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to aerosol delivery devices. The aerosol delivery devices include mechanisms configured to deliver an aerosol precursor composition from a reservoir to an atomizer including a vaporization heating element to produce a vapor. For example, a bubble jet head may be configured to dispense the aerosol precursor composition to the atomizer. The bubble jet head may be fixedly coupled to the atomizer. The bubble jet head may include a precursor inlet, an ejection heating element, and a precursor nozzle. The atomizer may include a vaporization heating element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2014
    Publication date: April 30, 2015
    Inventors: David Allan Brammer, David Jackson, Nigel John Flynn, Eric T. Hunt, Stephen Benson Sears, Dennis Lee Potter
  • Publication number: 20150117841
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to aerosol delivery devices. The aerosol delivery devices include mechanisms configured to deliver an aerosol precursor composition from a reservoir to an atomizer including a heating element to produce a vapor. A pressure controller may control dispensing of the aerosol precursor composition from the reservoir based on a pressure differential between a first pressure within the reservoir and a second pressure proximate the atomizer. The first pressure within the reservoir may be substantially equal to atmospheric pressure. Alternatively, the first pressure within the reservoir may be greater than atmospheric pressure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 28, 2014
    Publication date: April 30, 2015
    Applicant: R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company
    Inventors: David Allan Brammer, David Jackson, Nigel John Flynn, Eric T. Hunt, Stephen Benson Sears, Dennis Lee Potter