Patents by Inventor Patrick Smyth
Patrick Smyth 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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Publication number: 20230394761Abstract: Methods and systems for identifying stormwater management opportunities in accordance with embodiments of the invention are disclosed. In one embodiment of the invention, a method for identifying stormwater management opportunities comprises gathering spatial data for a region; rasterizing the spatial data into a set of raster data layers; forming a plurality of benefit maps using subsets of the set of raster data layers, wherein the plurality of benefit maps corresponds to a plurality of benefit categories; generating an opportunity map by combining a subset of the plurality of benefit maps using weights corresponding to the plurality of benefit categories; and displaying the opportunity map on a user interface.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 1, 2023Publication date: December 7, 2023Applicant: 2NDNATURE Software Inc.Inventors: Nicole Beck, Tyler Nodine, Catherine Riihimaki, Gary Conley, Margaret Mathias, Nathaniel Evatt, Patrick Smyth
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Patent number: 9792079Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for generating workflows for printing systems. The system includes a memory that stores requirements for sequencing each of multiple activities available at a print shop into workflows. The system also includes a Graphical User Interface (GUI) able to graphically present a workflow. The workflow includes an ordered subset of the activities to perform for processing a print job. The GUI is further able to graphically present the available activities, and to enable a user to drag the available activities onto the workflow to alter the workflow. The system also includes a processing system able to detect an activity being dragged by a user, to determine locations in the workflow where requirements for the activity are met, and to operate the GUI to highlight the determined locations.Type: GrantFiled: February 25, 2013Date of Patent: October 17, 2017Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventors: Patrick Smyth, Kumar V. Kadiyala, Ikuo Inouchi, Joan Stagaman Goddard
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Publication number: 20160004496Abstract: System and methods for flexible attribute tracking and report generation for a workflow. One embodiment is a workflow server that receives a selection of attributes to track for print jobs as the print jobs are processed in a print system, and generates print reports based on the attributes being tracked. The workflow server receives an indication to remove a first attribute from tracking, receives an instruction to include data for the first attribute in a print report, retrieves the data for the first attribute that was recorded before removal of the first attribute from tracking, and includes the data for the first attribute in the print report while the first attribute remains removed from tracking.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 2, 2014Publication date: January 7, 2016Applicant: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.Inventors: Linda Sue Liebelt, Robert Patrick Smyth, Marquis G. Waller, Scott Thomas Ziegler
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Patent number: 9229670Abstract: System and methods for flexible attribute tracking and report generation for a workflow. One embodiment is a workflow server that receives a selection of attributes to track for print jobs as the print jobs are processed in a print system, and generates print reports based on the attributes being tracked. The workflow server receives an indication to remove a first attribute from tracking, receives an instruction to include data for the first attribute in a print report, retrieves the data for the first attribute that was recorded before removal of the first attribute from tracking, and includes the data for the first attribute in the print report while the first attribute remains removed from tracking.Type: GrantFiled: July 2, 2014Date of Patent: January 5, 2016Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventors: Linda Sue Liebelt, Robert Patrick Smyth, Marquis G. Waller, Scott Thomas Ziegler
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Patent number: 9207887Abstract: System and methods for presentation of predicted steps in a print workflow. One embodiment is a system that identifies a print workflow with interconnected steps of multiple potential paths. The system identifies a print job, generates a copy of the print job, and simulates execution a step in the print workflow with the copy of the print job. The execution comprises: determining whether the step includes conditional branching, and, when the step includes conditional branching, predicting a subsequent step by evaluating conditions of the step against property values of the copy of the print job. The execution also comprises updating the property values based on the execution of the step. The system repeats the execution for each subsequently predicted step to predict a path of the print job. The system includes a graphical user interface to display the path that is predicted for the print job in the print workflow.Type: GrantFiled: September 9, 2014Date of Patent: December 8, 2015Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventors: Leonard Corning Lahey, Linda Sue Liebelt, Robert Patrick Smyth, Marquis G. Waller, Scott Thomas Ziegler
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Publication number: 20140240745Abstract: Methods and systems resume workflow processing of a print job at intermediate steps of a print workflow. In one embodiment, a control system initiates processing of a print job based on steps in a print workflow, where the steps identify print shop activities to perform for the print job. The control system identifies an error in executing a step of the workflow, and identifies an intermediate step in the workflow that has executed in processing the print job. The control system identifies an updated file for the print job to correct the error, and resumes the processing of the print job at the intermediate step using the update file.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 25, 2013Publication date: August 28, 2014Inventors: Gerald Donald Boldt, Paul Hamilton, Janeen E. Jahn, Kumar V. Kadiyala, Tisha Leggett, Ronald J. LeMaster, Michael David Raines, Patrick Smyth
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Publication number: 20140240754Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for generating workflows for printing systems. The system includes a memory that stores requirements for sequencing each of multiple activities available at a print shop into workflows. The system also includes a Graphical User Interface (GUI) able to graphically present a workflow. The workflow includes an ordered subset of the activities to perform for processing a print job. The GUI is further able to graphically present the available activities, and to enable a user to drag the available activities onto the workflow to alter the workflow. The system also includes a processing system able to detect an activity being dragged by a user, to determine locations in the workflow where requirements for the activity are met, and to operate the GUI to highlight the determined locations.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 25, 2013Publication date: August 28, 2014Inventors: Patrick Smyth, Kumar V. Kadiyala
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Patent number: 7885375Abstract: A technique is provided for imaging a field of view using an X-ray source comprising two or more emission points. The two or more emission points may be independently operated. Independent operation of the two or more emission points in performed in accordance with a list of commands that specifies the operation of the emission points. The list of commands, in one embodiment, is stored in a sequence buffer. In other embodiments, the list of commands is generated for a given usage, without being stored in a sequence buffer.Type: GrantFiled: October 20, 2008Date of Patent: February 8, 2011Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Bruno Kristiaan Bernard De Man, Daniel David Harrison, Maria Iatrou, Brian Patrick Smyth, Zhye Yin, Samit Kumar Basu, Souma Sengupta, Peter Claudius Sanza
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Publication number: 20090187520Abstract: A system and method for modeling online users' behavior for predicting demographic information is disclosed. The system allows advertisement providers to target anonymous users based on a user's browsing history, search queries, as broken down into behavioral targeting categories, as well as other features, such as behavioral targeting segments.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 23, 2008Publication date: July 23, 2009Inventors: Chao Liu, Dmitry Yurievich Pavlov, Nikolai Rochnik, Abhinav Gupta, Mark Steyvers, Patrick Smyth
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Publication number: 20090161816Abstract: A technique is provided for imaging a field of view using an X-ray source comprising two or more emission points. The two or more emission points may be independently operated. Independent operation of the two or more emission points in performed in accordance with a list of commands that specifies the operation of the emission points. The list of commands, in one embodiment, is stored in a sequence buffer. In other embodiments, the list of commands is generated for a given usage, without being stored in a sequence buffer.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 20, 2008Publication date: June 25, 2009Applicant: General Electric CompanyInventors: Bruno Kristiaan Bernard De Man, Daniel David Harrison, Maria Iatrou, Brian Patrick Smyth, Zhye Yin, Samit Kumar Basu, Souma Sengupta, Peter Claudius Sanza
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Patent number: 7281850Abstract: A method and apparatus for the alignment of a fourth generation Computed Tomography (CT) system is provided. The method includes receiving X-ray scan data from the CT system, and processing the received X-ray scan data to automatically generate alignment correction information to align the CT system.Type: GrantFiled: October 3, 2005Date of Patent: October 16, 2007Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Sripriya Varadharajan, Souma Sengupta, Sanjay Kumar Jha, Brian Patrick Smyth
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Patent number: 7141129Abstract: A method for making an electronic module includes forming a low temperature co-fired ceramic (LTCC) substrate with at least one capacitive structure embedded therein. Forming the LTCC substrate may include arranging first and second unsintered ceramic layers and the at least one capacitive structure therebetween. The at least one capacitive structure may include a pair of electrode layers, an inner dielectric layer between the pair of electrode layers, and at least one outer dielectric layer adjacent at least one of the electrode layers and opposite the inner dielectric layer. The at least one outer dielectric layer preferably has a dielectric constant less than a dielectric constant of the inner dielectric layer. The unsintered ceramic layers and the at least one capacitive structure may also be heated, and at least one electronic device may be mounted on the LTCC substrate and electrically connected to the at least one embedded capacitive structure.Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 2005Date of Patent: November 28, 2006Assignee: Harris CorporationInventors: Thomas Patrick Smyth, Michelle Kay Nelson, Sarah K. Mobley, Charles Michael Newton
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Patent number: 6985349Abstract: A method for making an electronic module includes forming a low temperature co-fired ceramic (LTCC) substrate with at least one capacitive structure embedded therein. Forming the LTCC substrate may include arranging first and second unsintered ceramic layers and the at least one capacitive structure therebetween. The at least one capacitive structure may include a pair of electrode layers, an inner dielectric layer between the pair of electrode layers, and at least one outer dielectric layer adjacent at least one of the electrode layers and opposite the inner dielectric layer. The at least one outer dielectric layer preferably has a dielectric constant less than a dielectric constant of the inner dielectric layer. The unsintered ceramic layers and the at least one capacitive structure may also be heated, and at least one electronic device may be mounted on the LTCC substrate and electrically connected to the at least one embedded capacitive structure.Type: GrantFiled: December 13, 2001Date of Patent: January 10, 2006Assignee: Harris CorporationInventors: Thomas Patrick Smyth, Michelle Kay Nelson, Sarah K. Mobley, Charles Michael Newton
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Publication number: 20030110621Abstract: A method for making an electronic module includes forming a low temperature co-fired ceramic (LTCC) substrate with at least one capacitive structure embedded therein. Forming the LTCC substrate may include arranging first and second unsintered ceramic layers and the at least one capacitive structure therebetween. The at least one capacitive structure may include a pair of electrode layers, an inner dielectric layer between the pair of electrode layers, and at least one outer dielectric layer adjacent at least one of the electrode layers and opposite the inner dielectric layer. The at least one outer dielectric layer preferably has a dielectric constant less than a dielectric constant of the inner dielectric layer. The unsintered ceramic layers and the at least one capacitive structure may also be heated, and at least one electronic device may be mounted on the LTCC substrate and electrically connected to the at least one embedded capacitive structure.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 13, 2001Publication date: June 19, 2003Applicant: Harris CorporationInventors: Thomas Patrick Smyth, Michelle Kay Nelson, Sarah K. Mobley, Charles Michael Newton
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Patent number: 4845736Abstract: The invention comprises an improved cross-connect switch constructed from a plurality of switch modules for connecting input lines to output lines. The improved switch includes a test access system in which selected input or output lines of the cross-connect switch are utilized as test ports. The switch utilizes computer algorithms to make connections between a test port and one of the switch modules through which a path connecting specified input and output lines passes to make a bridging connection to the path.Type: GrantFiled: April 19, 1988Date of Patent: July 4, 1989Assignee: Pacific BellInventors: Edward C. Posner, Patrick Smyth
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Patent number: 4807280Abstract: A cross-connect switch having different numbers of input and output lines is described. The switch is constructed from an odd number of stages. Each stage is constructed from a plurality of switch modules. Embodiments which require at most two different types of switch modules are described. Other embodiments which utilize at most two different types of switch modules are also described.Type: GrantFiled: September 18, 1987Date of Patent: February 21, 1989Assignee: Pacific BellInventors: Edward C. Posner, Patrick Smyth