Patents by Inventor Richard Allen

Richard Allen 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).

  • Publication number: 20230234521
    Abstract: Systems and methods for causing display of a messaging achievement pictograph based on messaging activity are provided. In some example embodiments, a message activity communication is received by a messaging activity service from a client device, the messaging active communication causing and adjustment to a message activity score and the message activity score transgressing a first threshold activity score. Responsive to the message activity transgressing the first threshold activity score, an achievement pictograph is displayed on the client device. In some example embodiments, the pictograph may be ephemeral and removal of the pictograph may be triggered by a designated time or by the message activity score transgressing a second threshold activity score. In some example embodiments, a notification is generated that notifies a user of the display or removal from display of the achievement pictograph.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2023
    Publication date: July 27, 2023
    Inventors: Chamal Samaranayake, Nathan Kenneth Boyd, Jonathan Dale Brody, Nicholas Richard Allen, Evan Spiegel
  • Patent number: 11709397
    Abstract: A backlight includes a substrate, a plurality of light sources, a reflective layer, a light guide plate, a pattern of light extractors, a plurality of patterned reflectors, and a diffusive layer. The plurality of light sources are proximate the substrate. The reflective layer is on the substrate. The light guide plate is proximate the plurality of light sources. The pattern of light extractors is on the light guide plate. The plurality of patterned reflectors are on the light guide plate. Each patterned reflector is aligned with a corresponding light source. The diffusive layer is on the light guide plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: Corning Incorporated
    Inventors: Kirk Richard Allen, Fedor Dmitrievich Kiselev, Dmitri Vladislavovich Kuksenkov, Christopher Michael Lynn, Pamela Arlene Maurey, Xiang-Dong Mi, Scott Christopher Pollard, Nikolay Timofeyevich Timofeev, Andrii Varanytsia
  • Patent number: 11704675
    Abstract: A system for detecting a fraudulent ATM transaction is disclosed. The system relates to an ATM machine that receives a bank/ATM card from a customer. The ATM first attempts to read information from the card chip, but is unable to do so due to a read error. The ATM then instead reads the information from the magnetic strip, and initiates a fraud detection procedure. In one such procedure, the ATM uses a local wireless access point to detect a customer's device, such as a phone, in the vicinity of the ATM. In another such procedure, the ATM communicates with a backend server. The backend server then determines the location of the customer device either by transmitting a message to request authorization, or by utilizing GPS or other location-detection means on the customer device to determine whether the customer device is within the ATM vicinity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: Capital One Services, LLC
    Inventor: Richard Allen Post
  • Patent number: 11693877
    Abstract: A system and method providing cross-ontology multi-master replication is described. In a first embodiment a method for cross-ontology multi-master replication comprising the steps of: storing a database change comprising a property value, the property value having an exporting site property type as defined in an exporting site ontology for an exporting site; using an ontology map to map the exporting site property type to an importing site property type defined by an importing site ontology for an importing site; transforming the property value to an intermediate property value based on the importing site property type; transforming the intermediate property value to a first round-trip value based on the exporting site property type; and determining whether to export the database change to the importing site based at least in part on a comparison between the property value and the first round-trip value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: Palantir Technologies Inc.
    Inventors: Richard Allen Ducott, III, John Kenneth Garrod, John Antonio Carrino, Katherine Brainard
  • Patent number: 11686808
    Abstract: Systems and methods for facilitating the sorting of assets to sort locations. In various embodiments, a sort employee scans an indicia using a user device, which stores asset data corresponding to the stored asset. As the sort employee nears a sort location (e.g., a delivery vehicle) with the asset and the user device, the user device automatically communicates wirelessly with a sort location receiver to associate the asset with data indicative of the sort location where the user deposits the asset. In various embodiments, a device may determine whether the user device is proximate the appropriate sort location for the item, and may generate an alert upon a determination that the user device is proximate an incorrect sort location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: UNITED PARCEL SERVICE OF AMERICA, INC.
    Inventors: Scott Alan Loverich, Ted Abebe, Lawrence A. Lagrosa, Richard Allen Kerslake, Jonathan C. Gray, Carl M. Skonberg
  • Publication number: 20230185430
    Abstract: Systems, devices, media, and methods are presented for dynamic presentation and management of messages within a graphical user interface by presenting content icons, monitoring consumption status of the presented content represented by the content icons, transferring a content item from a first set of content to a second set of content, and causing presentation of the content item as part of the second set of content.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 6, 2023
    Publication date: June 15, 2023
    Inventors: Nicholas Richard Allen, Newar Husam Al Majid
  • Publication number: 20230171261
    Abstract: A system includes a communication module that receives a request to post content to an event gallery associated with an event. The request in turn includes geo-location data for a device sending the content, and identification data identifying the device or a user of the device. The system further has an event gallery module to perform a first authorization operation that includes determining that the geo-location data corresponds to a geo-location fence associated with an event. The event gallery module also performs a second authorization operation that includes using the identification data to verify an attribute of the user. Finally, based on the first and second authorization operations, the event gallery module may selectively authorize the device to post the content to the event gallery.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2023
    Publication date: June 1, 2023
    Inventors: Nicholas Richard Allen, Sheldon Chang
  • Publication number: 20230168541
    Abstract: A backlight includes a substrate, a plurality of light sources, a reflective layer, a first diffuser plate, a second diffuser plate, and a color conversion layer. The plurality of light sources are proximate the substrate. The reflective layer is proximate the substrate. The first diffuser plate is over the plurality of light sources. The color conversion layer is between the first diffuser plate and the second diffuser plate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 14, 2021
    Publication date: June 1, 2023
    Inventors: Kirk Richard Allen, Songfeng Han, Pamela Arlene Maurey, Xiang-Dong Mi, Andrii Varanytsia
  • Patent number: 11660677
    Abstract: A tooling assembly for a lathe machine includes a tool platform configured to be mounted on the lathe machine, a milling tool holder fixedly secured to the tool platform and workable to releasably secure a thread milling tool therein, and a milling tool drive. The milling tool drive is operatively connected to the milling tool holder and operable to rotate the milling tool holder independently of a work holder to mill threads on the workpiece when a pipe thread milling tool is secured in the milling tool holder. Computer numerical control threading lathes and methods of milling threads in tubular workpieces are also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: Amera-Seiki Direct, LLC
    Inventors: Richard Allen Welsh, James Bren Legg, James Robert Roy
  • Publication number: 20230146818
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method, a computer system and a computer program product reduce bandwidth requirements of a virtual collaboration session. The method includes capturing session data from a virtual collaboration session. The session data is selected from a group consisting of video data, audio data, an image of a screen of a connected device and text data. The method also includes connecting to a live blog platform. The method further includes transmitting a text transcription of the virtual collaboration session to the live blog platform. The text transcription is generated by scanning the audio data using a speech-to-text algorithm. In addition, the method includes classifying a topic in the virtual collaboration session based on importance. Lastly, the method includes transmitting a multimedia file related to the topic to the live blog platform in response to the topic being classified as important. The multimedia file is extracted from the session data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2021
    Publication date: May 11, 2023
    Inventors: Toby Kurien, Richard Allen Young
  • Publication number: 20230142417
    Abstract: Display devices are disclosed including tiled components. The tiled components can include any one or more of tiled light board assemblies, tiled diffusers, and tiles patterned light guides. In some embodiments, entire backlight units may be tiled.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 14, 2021
    Publication date: May 11, 2023
    Inventors: Kirk Richard Allen, Guanglei Du, Tomohiro Ishikawa, Mark Francis Krol, Dmitri Vladislavovich Kuksenkov, Shenping Li, Ying Li, Xiang-Dong Mi, Horst Herbert Anton Schreiber, Andrii Varanytsia
  • Patent number: 11641965
    Abstract: Millions of packages get shipped and stolen from home door steps, with mail often getting placed in wrong mailboxes and sometimes the mailman or package carrier needs to speak to someone at or from the residence. Video Smart Package Pillar was created with all of these issues of the world in mind, combining the idea of a Pillar, compartmentalized, with two compartments, a mail compartment and package compartment, and one to two doors in a rear to obtain packages that have been delivered; while leaving an original mail pull down opening for the mail being delivered.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Inventor: Richard Allen Prince, II
  • Publication number: 20230135808
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for receiving input increasing a default predetermined window of time that the new media collection is accessible and activating the new media collection for the increased predetermined window of time and a geographic boundary size for where media content originates. The systems and methods further cause a plurality of content messages comprising media content originating in the geographical boundary size to be included in the new media collection and displayed in response to a request from a computing device to view the new media collection based on determining the request occurs within the increased predetermined window of time that the new media collection is accessible.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2022
    Publication date: May 4, 2023
    Inventors: Nicholas Richard Allen, Sheldon Chang, Maria Pavlovskaia, Amer Shahnawaz, Jianchao Yang
  • Patent number: 11634868
    Abstract: The present invention discloses tissue products, specifically rolled paper towel products, such as one, two or three ply tissue products having a basis weight greater than about 35 gsm and a GMT greater than about 1,500 g/3?. The products have a three-dimensional surface, typically the air contacting surface, comprising substantially continuous machine direction (MD) oriented elements, discrete cross-machine direction (CD) oriented elements and discrete MD oriented valleys having valley sidewalls formed by the MD oriented elements and valley endwalls formed by the CD oriented elements. The discrete valleys generally have a length greater than about 10.0 mm. The CD oriented elements comprise a relatively small percentage of the tissue surface area, such as less than about 15 percent, yet the tissue products display good anti-nesting properties when spirally wound into rolls, such as a Roll Structure greater than about 1.75.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc.
    Inventors: Kevin Joseph Vogt, Christopher Steven LeCount, Richard Allen Zanon, Mark Alan Burazin
  • Publication number: 20230124292
    Abstract: A backlight includes a substrate, a plurality of light sources proximate the substrate, a first reflective layer on the substrate, and a plurality of patterned reflectors over the plurality of light sources. Each light source includes a size measured in a plane parallel to the substrate. Each patterned reflector is aligned with a corresponding light source and includes a thickness profile. The thickness profile includes a substantially flat section and a curved section extending from and surrounding the substantially flat section. The substantially flat section varies in thickness by no more than plus or minus 20 percent of an average thickness of the substantially flat section. The substantially flat section includes a size in a plane parallel to the substrate equal to or greater than the size of each light source.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 2, 2021
    Publication date: April 20, 2023
    Inventors: Kirk Richard Allen, David Lynn Baker, Songfeng Han, Dmitri Vladislavovich Kuksenkov, Pamela Arlene Maurey, Xiang-Dong Mi, Timothy James Orsley, Andrii Varanytsia
  • Patent number: 11627194
    Abstract: Systems and methods for causing display of a messaging achievement pictograph based on messaging activity are provided. In some example embodiments, a message activity communication is received by a messaging activity service from a client device, the messaging active communication causing and adjustment to a message activity score and the message activity score transgressing a first threshold activity score. Responsive to the message activity transgressing the first threshold activity score, an achievement pictograph is displayed on the client device. In some example embodiments, the pictograph may be ephemeral and removal of the pictograph may be triggered by a designated time or by the message activity score transgressing a second threshold activity score. In some example embodiments, a notification is generated that notifies a user of the display or removal from display of the achievement pictograph.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventors: Chamal Samaranayake, Nathan Boyd, Jonathan Brody, Nicholas Richard Allen, Evan Spiegel
  • Patent number: 11627141
    Abstract: A system includes a communication module that receives a request to post content to an event gallery associated with an event. The request in turn includes geo-location data for a device sending the content, and identification data identifying the device or a user of the device. The system further has an event gallery module to perform a first authorization operation that includes determining that the geo-location data corresponds to a geo-location fence associated with an event. The event gallery module also performs a second authorization operation that includes using the identification data to verify an attribute of the user. Finally, based on the first and second authorization operations, the event gallery module may selectively authorize the device to post the content to the event gallery.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventors: Nicholas Richard Allen, Sheldon Chang
  • Patent number: 11611846
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for receiving input increasing a default predetermined window of time that a new media collection is accessible, sending a request to a server computer for activation of the new media collection including the input, and receiving confirmation that the new media collection was activated for the increased predetermined window of time and a geographic boundary size for where media content originates. The systems and methods further provide for causing a plurality of content messages comprising media content originating in the geographical boundary size to be included in the new media collection and displayed in response to a request from a computing device to view the new media collection based on determining the request occurs within the increased predetermined window of time that the new media collection is accessible.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventors: Nicholas Richard Allen, Sheldon Chang, Maria Pavlovskaia, Amer Shahnawaz, Jianchao Yang
  • Patent number: 11603981
    Abstract: The present disclosure is an improvement in bi-focus lenses. The disclosure relates to the use of multiple channels of LED/Lens combinations to achieve a smooth and continuous range of emitted beam angles of light in a wider range of beam angles than previously possible through only two channels of LED/Lens combinations. The resultant product will produce a continuous range of beam angles in a range exceeding 35 degrees from narrowest bean angle to widest beam angle. The lens channels selected are weighted so as to maximize the contribution of a single channel lens to the overall beam projection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: Videndum Production Solutions Inc.
    Inventors: Richard Allen Rosen, Victor Hau Chen
  • Publication number: 20230076102
    Abstract: HIPAA-compliant computer security method and system for recording, using a video camera, electronic visual personal health information of at least two individuals, including an individual under care, and preventing unauthorized access of the user to the video information. The video is compared to physical attribute information of the individuals stored in the computer system's memory, and the individuals are identified by facial matching. The user's stored caseload has authorization profile information including access to individuals under care. The identified individuals are compared to the user's caseload information, and the user is granted access to part of the video of the individual under care, the video of the other individuals is blurred, and the resulting video is transmitted to the user's caseload for viewing. Data fields of an information request are populated using formatted data from the video information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2022
    Publication date: March 9, 2023
    Applicant: Therap Services, LLC
    Inventors: Richard Allen Robbins, Justin Mark Brockie, James Michael Kelly, Asif Ali, Mojahedul Hoque Abul Hasanat, Omar Faruq, Sazzad Rafique, Tahseen Mohammad, Ummy Habiba, Suraiya Parveen, Jeremy Ian Schulman Robbins