Patents by Inventor Roger Beck
Roger Beck 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: 20240078073Abstract: Systems and methods for identifying the most impactful moments or segments of music, which are those most likely to elicit a chills effect in a human listener. A digital music signal is processed using two or more objective processing metrics that measure acoustic features known to be able to elicit the chills effect. Individual detection events are identified in the output of each metric based on the output being above or below thresholds relative to the overall output. A combination algorithm aggregates concurrent detection events to generate a continuous concurrence data set of the number of concurrent detection events during the music signal, which can be calculated per beat. A phrase detection algorithm can identify impactful segments of the music based on at least one of peaks, peak-proximity, and a moving average of the continuous concurrence data.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 5, 2023Publication date: March 7, 2024Inventors: Roger Dumas, Jon Beck, Aaron Prust, Gary Katz, Paul J. Moe, Daniel J. Levitin
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Publication number: 20240062737Abstract: Described herein are methods for coordinating movement of a group of people, comprising: receiving numerical coordinates for each count of a drill for each person in a group of people, wherein the numerical coordinates indicate a location on a field for each person; receiving a starting count for each of the one or more sets and a number of counts in each of the one or more sets for each person; combining the numerical coordinates with the start count and the number of counts for each of the one or more sets; deriving human readable coordinates for each count of the drill for each person, wherein the human readable coordinates indicate the location on the field for each person; and transmitting the human readable coordinates to one or more receiving devices each associated with one person in the group of people.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 10, 2023Publication date: February 22, 2024Inventors: Andrew Allan Dunham, Patrick Eugene Frohoff, Steven R. Lilly, Eric Roger Becks
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Patent number: 11817071Abstract: Described herein are methods for coordinating movement of a group of people, comprising: receiving numerical coordinates for each count of a drill for each person in a group of people, wherein the numerical coordinates indicate a location on a field for each person; receiving a starting count for each of the one or more sets and a number of counts in each of the one or more sets for each person; combining the numerical coordinates with the start count and the number of counts for each of the one or more sets; deriving human readable coordinates for each count of the drill for each person, wherein the human readable coordinates indicate the location on the field for each person; and transmitting the human readable coordinates to one or more receiving devices each associated with one person in the group of people.Type: GrantFiled: October 8, 2020Date of Patent: November 14, 2023Assignee: Marching Assistance Company, LLCInventors: Andrew Allan Dunham, Patrick Eugene Frohoff, Steven R. Lilly, Eric Roger Becks
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Patent number: 11709884Abstract: There is presented a method and system for providing a compact graphical user interface for flexible filtering of data. The method comprises showing a search interface on a display device for filtering a content set by a plurality of domains, including a first domain, displaying, within the search interface, a first graphical representation of a parameter set of the first domain in response to a selecting of the first domain, receiving a first parameter subset from the first graphical representation, filtering a content set using the first parameter subset to obtain a search result, and displaying the search result on a display device. The search interface includes a temporally visible menu for selecting parameter sets of the domains and a compact single line query box to display graphical representations of parameter sets or to provide a conventional text entry box.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2018Date of Patent: July 25, 2023Assignee: Disney Enterprises, Inc.Inventors: Krispin J. Leydon, Douglas E. Lesan, Matthew F. Schnittker, Dale Roger Beck
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Publication number: 20230049422Abstract: A mobile transport device and a method for introducing an installation frame into a shaft, in particular an elevator shaft, are used for transporting an installation frame and for introducing the installation frame into the shaft. The installation frame has a base frame and a bearing frame on which the installation frame is supported from above. The transport device additionally has a fixing device arranged on the base frame for fixing the base frame to a shaft opening of a shaft wall of the shaft and for preventing the transport device from tilting. The bearing frame is supported by the base frame and is movable in the horizontal direction relative to the base frame such that, when the base frame is arranged outside of the shaft, the bearing frame , and thus also the installation frame, can be moved into the shaft from outside the shaft through the shaft opening.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 4, 2021Publication date: February 16, 2023Inventors: Guido Achermann, Roger Beck, Gabriele Bizzozero, Dragan Gavric, Ralph Harmath, Nico Langhi, Stefan Weber, Andre Weibel
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Publication number: 20210110804Abstract: Described herein are methods for coordinating movement of a group of people, comprising: receiving numerical coordinates for each count of a drill for each person in a group of people, wherein the numerical coordinates indicate a location on a field for each person; receiving a starting count for each of the one or more sets and a number of counts in each of the one or more sets for each person; combining the numerical coordinates with the start count and the number of counts for each of the one or more sets; deriving human readable coordinates for each count of the drill for each person, wherein the human readable coordinates indicate the location on the field for each person; and transmitting the human readable coordinates to one or more receiving devices each associated with one person in the group of people.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 8, 2020Publication date: April 15, 2021Inventors: Andrew Allan Dunham, Patrick Eugene Frohoff, Steven R. Lilly, Eric Roger Becks
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Patent number: 10179668Abstract: A method and machine for packaging smoking articles or other tobacco industry products in which the products and packaging may be transported from selected product supply systems and packaging material supply systems selectively along a plurality of alternative transport routes through the machine through a series of workstations arranged to incorporate batches of smoking products selectively in different packaging materials according to the transport route selected.Type: GrantFiled: January 16, 2008Date of Patent: January 15, 2019Assignee: BRITISH AMERICAN TOBACCO (INVESTMENTS) LIMITEDInventors: Anthony Bray, Gary Fallon, Roger Beck
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Publication number: 20180203854Abstract: There is presented a method and system for providing a compact graphical user interface for flexible filtering of data. The method comprises showing a search interface on a display device for filtering a content set by a plurality of domains, including a first domain, displaying, within the search interface, a first graphical representation of a parameter set of the first domain in response to a selecting of the first domain, receiving a first parameter subset from the first graphical representation, filtering a content set using the first parameter subset to obtain a search result, and displaying the search result on a display device. The search interface includes a temporally visible menu for selecting parameter sets of the domains and a compact single line query box to display graphical representations of parameter sets or to provide a conventional text entry box.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 15, 2018Publication date: July 19, 2018Inventors: Krispin J. Leydon, Douglas E. Lesan, Matthew F. Schnittker, Dale Roger Beck
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Patent number: 9953039Abstract: There is presented a method and system for providing a compact graphical user interface for flexible filtering of data. The method comprises showing a search interface on a display device for filtering a content set by a plurality of domains, including a first domain, displaying, within the search interface, a first graphical representation of a parameter set of the first domain in response to a selecting of the first domain, receiving a first parameter subset from the first graphical representation, filtering a content set using the first parameter subset to obtain a search result, and displaying the search result on a display device. The search interface includes a temporally visible menu for selecting parameter sets of the domains and a compact single line query box to display graphical representations of parameter sets or to provide a conventional text entry box.Type: GrantFiled: July 19, 2011Date of Patent: April 24, 2018Assignee: Disney Enterprises, Inc.Inventors: Krispin J. Leydon, Douglas E. Lesan, Matthew F. Schnittker, Dale Roger Beck
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Publication number: 20150023208Abstract: A GSM or UMTS mobile telecommunications network is provided including a radio access network comprising macro base stations with additional access points. The access points are connected to a network core via a hub and a concentrator and may appear to a mobile terminal as a conventional base station that communicates with the mobile terminal using GSM or UMTS protocols and does not require modification to a standard GSM or UMTS mobile terminal. The access points are associated as a cluster. A procedure includes performing initial configuration of the access points such that one or more of the access points operates in a transmit mode while the other access points operate in a receive mode only. The strength of the received signal is processed by a processor associated with the concentrator which calculates and provides parameters to each of the access points to provide optimum radio coverage within premises.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 25, 2014Publication date: January 22, 2015Inventors: Roger Beck, Toby Proctor
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Patent number: 8804555Abstract: Disclosed is a method of identifying interference in a cellular telecommunications network including a plurality of cells controlled by a base stations 5, each cell serving a plurality of mobile devices 1 by radio link by using communication resources allocated to each of the mobile devices, the network having a frequency band allocated thereto. The method includes detecting radio quality within the frequency band at at least one of the cells to produce measurement values; and analyzing selected ones of the measurement values to determine if the selected measurement values indicate the presence of interference, wherein the selected measurement values exclude the measurement values relating to the communication resources allocated to each of the mobile devices served by the cell.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 2011Date of Patent: August 12, 2014Assignee: Vodafone IP Licensing LimitedInventors: John Turk, Roger Beck, Ashley Mills
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Patent number: 8792364Abstract: A GSM or UMTS mobile telecommunications network is provided including a radio access network comprising macro base stations with additional access points. The access points are connected to a network core via a hub and a concentrator and may appear to a mobile terminal as a conventional base station that communicates with the mobile terminal using GSM or UMTS protocols and does not require modification to a standard GSM or UMTS mobile terminal. The access points are associated as a cluster. A procedure includes performing initial configuration of the access points such that one or more of the access points operates in a transmit mode while the other access points operate in a receive mode only. The strength of the received signal is processed by a processor associated with the concentrator which calculates and provides parameters to each of the access points to provide optimum radio coverage within premises.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2009Date of Patent: July 29, 2014Assignee: Vodafone IP Licensing LimitedInventors: Roger Beck, Toby Proctor
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Publication number: 20130024801Abstract: There is presented a method and system for providing a compact graphical user interface for flexible filtering of data. The method comprises showing a search interface on a display device for filtering a content set by a plurality of domains, including a first domain, displaying, within the search interface, a first graphical representation of a parameter set of the first domain in response to a selecting of the first domain, receiving a first parameter subset from the first graphical representation, filtering a content set using the first parameter subset to obtain a search result, and displaying the search result on a display device. The search interface includes a temporally visible menu for selecting parameter sets of the domains and a compact single line query box to display graphical representations of parameter sets or to provide a conventional text entry box.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 19, 2011Publication date: January 24, 2013Applicant: DISNEY ENTERPRISES, INC.Inventors: Krispin J. Leydon, Douglas E. Lesan, Matthew F. Schnittker, Dale Roger Beck
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Patent number: 8346159Abstract: Configuring a cellular telecommunications network base station repeater for use at a particular location includes performing data collection activity at the location to obtain an indication of the transmit frequency of a nearby base station of the cellular telecommunications network. The repeater is then set to amplify received signals at that frequency. By only amplifying this particular frequency, the repeater can provide cellular telecommunications coverage at a location (for example a basement) where coverage might not otherwise be available by amplifying only the relevant frequency. This is in contrast to amplifying indiscriminately a wide range of frequencies, which can interfere with other radio transmissions.Type: GrantFiled: October 4, 2007Date of Patent: January 1, 2013Assignee: Vodafone Group PLCInventors: Alan Law, Roger Beck, Toby Proctor
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Publication number: 20120155307Abstract: Disclosed is a method of identifying interference in a cellular telecommunications network including a plurality of cells controlled by a base stations 5, each cell serving a plurality of mobile devices 1 by radio link by using communication resources allocated to each of the mobile devices, the network having a frequency band allocated thereto. The method includes detecting radio quality within the frequency band at at least one of the cells to produce measurement values; and analysing selected ones of the measurement values to determine if the selected measurement values indicate the presence of interference, wherein the selected measurement values exclude the measurement values relating to the communication resources allocated to each of the mobile devices served by the cell.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 19, 2011Publication date: June 21, 2012Applicant: VODAFONE IP LICENSING LIMITEDInventors: John TURK, Roger BECK, Ashley MILLS
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Publication number: 20120140642Abstract: A GSM or UMTS mobile telecommunications network is provided including a radio access network comprising macro base stations with additional access points. The access points are connected to a network core via a hub and a concentrator and may appear to a mobile terminal as a conventional base station that communicates with the mobile terminal using GSM or UMTS protocols and does not require modification to a standard GSM or UMTS mobile terminal. The access points are associated as a cluster. A procedure includes performing initial configuration of the access points such that one or more of the access points operates in a transmit mode while the other access points operate in a receive mode only. The strength of the received signal is processed by a processor associated with the concentrator which calculates and provides parameters to each of the access points to provide optimum radio coverage within premises.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 30, 2009Publication date: June 7, 2012Inventors: Roger Beck, Toby Proctor
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Publication number: 20120129517Abstract: A mobile telecommunications network includes a core and a radio access network having a radio for wireless communication with mobile terminals registered with the network. The radio access network includes a controller operable to control the use of network resources by the mobile terminals. The controller may include an application programming interface, API, which provides a consistent interface to a multiplicity of applications hosted on the control mean. The controller may be provided at an access node site and/or a gateway site.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 5, 2011Publication date: May 24, 2012Inventors: David Andrew Fox, Youssef Chami, Neil Holmes, Roger Beck, Mark Tait, Steve Allen, John McCracken, Matthew Cheng, Marina Gallego-Lopez
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Publication number: 20100297994Abstract: Configuring a cellular telecommunications network base station repeater for use at a particular location includes performing data collection activity at the location to obtain an indication of the transmit frequency of a nearby base station of the cellular telecommunications network. The repeater is then set to amplify received signals at that frequency. By only amplifying this particular frequency, the repeater can provide cellular telecommunications coverage at a location (for example a basement) where coverage might not otherwise be available by amplifying only the relevant frequency. This is in contrast to amplifying indiscriminately a wide range of frequencies, which can interfere with other radio transmissions.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 4, 2007Publication date: November 25, 2010Inventors: Alan Law, Roger Beck, Toby Proctor
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Publication number: 20100170202Abstract: A method and machine for packaging smoking articles or other tobacco industry products in which the products and packaging may be transported from selected product supply systems (22a-e) and packaging material supply systems (42a-g) selectively along a plurality of alternative transport routes through the machine through a series of workstations (61-69) arranged to incorporate batches of smoking products selectively in different packaging materials according to the transport route selected.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 16, 2008Publication date: July 8, 2010Inventors: Anthony Bray, Gary Fallon, Roger Beck
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Publication number: 20030076691Abstract: A trouble light apparatus constructed in accordance with the principles of the present invention employs high output Light Emitting Diodes to provide improved service over existing trouble lights by having extremely long life lighting elements, being extremely resistant to impacts and shocks that easily damage incandescent and fluorescent lamps, uses low power and does not generate hazardous levels of heat. The invention also anticipates other fabrication methods and the use of various spectra of LEDs to cause diagnostic markers to fluoresce.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 19, 2001Publication date: April 24, 2003Inventors: Eric Roger Becks, Thomas Frederick Gauthier, Donald Lewis Russell