Patents by Inventor Kevin J. Bowers

Kevin J. Bowers 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: 11973659
    Abstract: A system for decoding a transmission include a client device configured to receives a superposition via one or more communication links. The superposition may correspond to a transmission encoded into a plurality of fragments. The system may determine a coefficient for each fragment contained in the superposition and initialize a decoding process. The decoding process may facilitate determining a value of each fragment based on the identified coefficient of each fragment in the superposition. Advantageously, the system, through use of a the one or more communication links, may be configured to decode the transmission to derive information transmitted from a data source quickly and reliably.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Jump Algorithms, LLC
    Inventors: Kevin J. Bowers, Nicholas E. Bridge
  • Publication number: 20240097990
    Abstract: A system for decoding a transmission include a client device configured to receives a superposition via one or more communication links. The superposition may correspond to a transmission encoded into a plurality of fragments. The system may determine a coefficient for each fragment contained in the superposition and initialize a decoding process. The decoding process may facilitate determining a value of each fragment based on the identified coefficient of each fragment in the superposition. Advantageously, the system, through use of a the one or more communication links, may be configured to decode the transmission to derive information transmitted from a data source quickly and reliably.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2022
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Applicant: Jump Algorithms, LLC
    Inventors: Kevin J. Bowers, Nicholas E. Bridge
  • Patent number: 11496370
    Abstract: A system for transmitting information may include a server that generates pseudo-random superpositions, each superposition including multiple packet fragments encoded using a Galois field. The system may transmit the superpositions across a plurality of communication links, which form a single logical path, to a client device. Communication links may include a combination of diverse communication channels, and more preferably one or more low latency (but low bandwidth) communication links and one or more high bandwidth (but high latency) communication links. Advantageously, the use of a plurality of communication links may facilitate transmitting information quickly and reliably.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: Jump Algorithms, LLC
    Inventors: Kevin J. Bowers, Nicholas E. Bridge
  • Patent number: 10958530
    Abstract: A system for transmitting information over a network may include a server that generates random superpositions each including multiple packet fragments encoded using a Galois field and transmits them over multiple communication links to a client device. The packet fragments may be a plurality of fixed-size vectors that define the information to be transmitted. The server also may select a subset of the fixed-size vectors based on heuristics and generate a coefficient for each of the selected vectors. The coefficients may include any natural number. The superposition may be a sum of the selected fixed-size vectors multiplied by their associated coefficients. The server may repeat the process until the client acknowledges receipt of the information or another condition is met. The client device may then decode the received superposition, such as by solving the set of linear equations represented by the received superpositions. Other implementations also are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2021
    Assignee: Jump Algorithms, LLC
    Inventors: Kevin J. Bowers, Nicholas E. Bridge
  • Patent number: 10824422
    Abstract: A method for performing computations associated with bodies located in a computation region includes, for each subset of multiple subsets of the computations, performing the computations in that subset of computations, including accepting data of bodies located in each of a plurality of import regions associated with the subset of the computations, the import regions being parts of the computation region; for each combination of a predetermined plurality of combinations of multiple of the import regions, performing computations associated with sets of bodies, wherein for each of the sets of bodies, at least one body of the set is located in each import region of the combination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2020
    Assignee: D.E. Shaw Research, LLC
    Inventors: Kevin J. Bowers, Ron Dror, David Shaw
  • Patent number: 8918305
    Abstract: Distributed computation of multiple body interactions in a region uses multiple processing modules, where each of the processing modules is associated with a respective corresponding portion of the region. In some examples, the approach includes establishing multiple coordinate frames of reference, each processing module corresponding to one the coordinate frames of reference. In some examples, efficient techniques are used for selecting elements for computation of interactions according at least in part to a separation-based criterion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 23, 2014
    Assignee: D.E. Shaw Research, LLC
    Inventor: Kevin J. Bowers
  • Publication number: 20120116737
    Abstract: A generalized approach to particle interaction can confer advantages over previously described method in terms of one or more of communications bandwidth and latency and memory access characteristics. These generalizations can involve one or more of at least spatial decomposition, import region rounding, and multiple zone communication scheduling. An architecture for computation of particle interactions makes use various forms of parallelism. In one implementation, the parallelism involves using multiple computation nodes arranged according to a geometric partitioning of a simulation volume.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2011
    Publication date: May 10, 2012
    Applicant: D.E. Shaw Research LLC
    Inventors: Kevin J. Bowers, Ron O. Dror, David E. Shaw, Martin M. Deneroff, Richard H. Larson, John K. Salmon
  • Patent number: 8160852
    Abstract: Distributed computation of multiple body interactions in a region uses multiple processing modules, where each of the processing modules is associated with a respective corresponding portion of the region. In some examples, the approach includes establishing multiple coordinate frames of reference, each processing module corresponding to one the coordinate frames of reference. In some examples, efficient techniques are used for selecting elements for computation of interactions according at least in part to a separation-based criterion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2012
    Assignee: D. E. Shaw Research LLC
    Inventor: Kevin J. Bowers
  • Patent number: 8126956
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method for determining computational units for computing interactions among sets of bodies located in a computation region includes, for each computation associated with one of the sets of bodies, determining, according to an assignment rule that provides a mapping from a location of each of the bodies to a determined computation unit from the plurality of computation units, a computation unit from a plurality of computation units for performing the computation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2012
    Assignee: D.E. Shaw Research LLC
    Inventors: Kevin J. Bowers, Ron O Dror, David E. Shaw
  • Patent number: 8015238
    Abstract: A generalized approach to particle interaction can confer advantages over previously described method in terms of one or more of communications bandwidth and latency and memory access characteristics. These generalizations can involve one or more of at least spatial decomposition, import region rounding, and multiple zone communication scheduling. An architecture for computation of particle interactions makes use various forms of parallelism. In one implementation, the parallelism involves using multiple computation nodes arranged according to a geometric partitioning of a simulation volume.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2011
    Assignee: D. E. Shaw Research LLC
    Inventors: Kevin J. Bowers, Ron O Dror, David E. Shaw, Martin Deneroff
  • Publication number: 20100280806
    Abstract: Distributed computation of multiple body interactions in a region uses multiple processing modules, where each of the processing modules is associated with a respective corresponding portion of the region. In some examples, the approach includes establishing multiple coordinate frames of reference, each processing module corresponding to one the coordinate frames of reference. In some examples, efficient techniques are used for selecting elements for computation of interactions according at least in part to a separation-based criterion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 7, 2010
    Publication date: November 4, 2010
    Applicant: D.E. Shaw Research, LLC
    Inventor: Kevin J. Bowers
  • Patent number: 7809535
    Abstract: A method for dynamics simulation involves maintaining quantities according to a floating point binary format quantized to a first precision lower than the precision supported by the floating point format. For example, although an IEEE floating point number can represent numbers with a precision of one part in 2^24, the quantities are quantized to a lower precision, such as one part in 2^22. Operations are applied to sets of the quantities by quantizing the intermediate results of the operations to the lower precision than the precision supported by the floating point format.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2010
    Assignee: D. E. Shaw Research, LLC
    Inventor: Kevin J. Bowers
  • Patent number: 7769571
    Abstract: An improved constraint approach reduces the energy drift rate to acceptable levels. In an embodiment of this approach, massively parallel constrained velocity Verlet NVE (constant particle number, constant volume, constant energy) MD simulations can be run using single precision arithmetic with very low energy drift (e.g., ˜1 Kelvin per microsecond simulated time) using large timesteps (e.g., 2.5 fs) for typical systems and MD force fields.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2010
    Assignee: D. E. Shaw Research, LLC
    Inventor: Kevin J. Bowers
  • Publication number: 20080243452
    Abstract: A generalized approach to particle interaction can confer advantages over previously described method in terms of one or more of communications bandwidth and latency and memory access characteristics. These generalizations can involve one or more of at least spatial decomposition, import region rounding, and multiple zone communication scheduling. An architecture for computation of particle interactions makes use various forms of parallelism. In one implementation, the parallelism involves using multiple computation nodes arranged according to a geometric partitioning of a simulation volume.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2007
    Publication date: October 2, 2008
    Inventors: Kevin J. Bowers, Ron Dror, David Shaw, Martin Deneroff
  • Publication number: 20080234990
    Abstract: Distributed computation of multiple body interactions in a region uses multiple processing modules, where each of the processing modules is associated with a respective corresponding portion of the region. In some examples, the approach includes establishing multiple coordinate frames of reference, each processing module corresponding to one the coordinate frames of reference. In some examples, efficient techniques are used for selecting elements for computation of interactions according at least in part to a separation-based criterion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 21, 2008
    Publication date: September 25, 2008
    Applicant: D.E.Shaw Research, LLC
    Inventor: Kevin J. Bowers