Patents by Inventor Steve Dabell

Steve Dabell 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: 11781883
    Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a predictive traffic law enforcement profiler apparatus and method which incorporates a means to determine current location, time, velocity and also incorporates a means to utilize a database derived from historic traffic law enforcement records, crowd sourced records and historical traffic data and also incorporates a predictive processing means to provide historic traffic law enforcement records and estimates of enforced speed limits and enforcement profiles, patrol locations and schedules of traffic law enforcement to a driver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Inventor: Steve Dabell
  • Patent number: 11508022
    Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a predictive traffic law enforcement profiler apparatus and method which incorporates a means to determine current location, time, velocity and also incorporates a means to utilize a database derived from historic traffic law enforcement records, crowd sourced records and historical traffic data and also incorporates a predictive processing means to provide historic traffic law enforcement records and estimates of enforced speed limits and enforcement profiles, patrol locations and schedules of traffic law enforcement to a driver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Inventor: Steve Dabell
  • Patent number: 11507870
    Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a predictive traffic law enforcement profiler apparatus and method which incorporates a means to determine current location, time, velocity and also incorporates a means to utilize a database derived from historic traffic law enforcement records, crowd sourced records and historical traffic data and also incorporates a predictive processing means to provide historic traffic law enforcement records and estimates of enforced speed limits and enforcement profiles, patrol locations and schedules of traffic law enforcement to a driver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Inventor: Steve Dabell
  • Patent number: 10904323
    Abstract: The disclosed technology includes accessing a first network application programming interface exposed by a first cloud provider of the plurality of cloud providers to identify a first pricing profile, the first pricing profile associated with the first Cloud provider. Upon identifying the first pricing profile, accessing a second network application programming interface exposed by a second cloud provider of the plurality of cloud providers to identify a second pricing profile, the second pricing profile associated with the second Cloud provider. A load balancing decision is determined comparing the identified first pricing profile with the identified second pricing profile. Next, the determined load balancing decision is executed on a monitored computing-traffic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2021
    Assignee: F5 Networks, Inc.
    Inventors: Steve Dabell, Timothy Scott Michels, Thomas Troksa
  • Patent number: 10895928
    Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide an apparatus and method for emulating touch and gesture events on a capacitive touch sensor array comprising: an electric field detection means for measuring the electric field intensity emitted as a function of time from a plurality of scan electrodes of said capacitive touch sensor array; and an electric field synthesizing means to create time variant electric fields coincident to electric fields emitted from said plurality of scan electrodes; and a capacitive coupling means to couple said synthesized electric fields to said plurality of electrodes inducing voltages which emulate time sequential touch events at said plurality of emulated touch locations animating said emulated gesture movement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2021
    Inventor: Steve Dabell
  • Patent number: 10748076
    Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a predictive traffic law enforcement profiler apparatus and method which incorporates a means to determine current location, time, velocity and also incorporates a means to utilize a database derived from historic traffic law enforcement records, crowd sourced records and historical traffic data and also incorporates a predictive processing means to provide historic traffic law enforcement records and estimates of enforced speed limits and enforcement profiles, patrol locations and schedules of traffic law enforcement to a driver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2020
    Inventor: Steve Dabell
  • Patent number: 10719899
    Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a predictive traffic law enforcement profiler apparatus and method which incorporates a means to determine current location, time, velocity and also incorporates a means to utilize a database derived from historic traffic law enforcement records, crowd sourced records and historical traffic data and also incorporates a predictive processing means to provide historic traffic law enforcement records and estimates of enforced speed limits and enforcement profiles, patrol locations and schedules of traffic law enforcement to a driver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2020
    Inventor: Steve Dabell
  • Publication number: 20180359312
    Abstract: Network traffic management systems, apparatuses, and methods involving a load balancer, responsive to a processor operable by the set of executable instructions storable in relation to a memory device, configured to: monitor computing-traffic for each Cloud provider of a plurality of Cloud providers to determine a traffic profile for each Cloud provider of the plurality of Cloud providers; access a first network application programming interface exposed by a first Cloud provider of the plurality of Cloud providers to identify a first pricing profile, the first pricing profile associated with the first Cloud provider; access a second network application programming interface exposed by a second Cloud provider of the plurality of Cloud providers to identify a second pricing profile, the second pricing profile associated with the second Cloud provider; and compare the first pricing profile with the second pricing profile to influence a load balancing decision, whereby a pricing profile comparison is providable.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 8, 2018
    Publication date: December 13, 2018
    Applicant: F5 Networks, Inc.
    Inventors: Steve Dabell, Tim Michels, Tom Troksa
  • Patent number: 10088940
    Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide an apparatus and method for emulating touch and gesture events on a capacitive touch sensor array comprising: an electric field detection means for measuring the electric field intensity emitted as a function of time from a plurality of scan electrodes of said capacitive touch sensor array; and an electric field synthesizing means to create time variant electric fields coincident to electric fields emitted from said plurality of scan electrodes; and a capacitive coupling means to couple said synthesized electric fields to said plurality of electrodes inducing voltages which emulate time sequential touch events at said plurality of emulated touch locations animating said emulated gesture movement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2018
    Inventor: Steve Dabell
  • Patent number: 9779357
    Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a predictive traffic law enforcement profiler apparatus and method which incorporates a means to determine current location, time, velocity and also incorporates a means to utilize a database derived from historic traffic law enforcement records, crowd sourced records and historical traffic data and also incorporates a predictive processing means to provide historic traffic law enforcement records and estimates of enforced speed limits and enforcement profiles, patrol locations and schedules of traffic law enforcement to a driver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2017
    Inventor: Steve Dabell
  • Patent number: 9171461
    Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a predictive traffic law enforcement profiler apparatus and method which incorporates a means to determine current location, time, velocity and also incorporates a means to utilize a database derived from historic traffic law enforcement records, crowd sourced records and historical traffic data and also incorporates a predictive processing means to provide historic traffic law enforcement records and estimates of enforced speed limits and enforcement profiles, patrol locations and schedules of traffic law enforcement to a driver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2015
    Inventor: Steve Dabell
  • Patent number: 9110543
    Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide an apparatus and method for emulating touch and gesture events on a capacitive touch sensor array comprising: an electric field detection means for measuring the electric field intensity emitted as a function of time from a first plurality of scan electrodes of said capacitive touch sensor array; a predictive scan pattern means to infer the scan times and scan stimulus waveforms of a second plurality of scan electrodes at a plurality of emulated touch locations spanning an emulated gesture movement on said capacitive touch sensor array from said measured electric field intensity; and an electric field synthesizing means to create a time sequence of time variant electric fields coincident to said inferred scan time, and coherent and proportional to said inferred scan stimulus waveform for each said second plurality of scan electrodes; and a capacitive coupling means to couple said synthesized electric fields to said second plurality of electrodes inducing vol
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2015
    Inventor: Steve Dabell
  • Patent number: 8229658
    Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a predictive traffic law enforcement profiler apparatus and method which incorporates a means to determine current location, date and time, speed and also incorporates a means to utilize a database of historic traffic law enforcement and historical traffic data and also incorporates a predictive processing means to statistically predict likely patrol locations and schedules of traffic law enforcement and traffic hazards and a means to provide this information to the driver. It is yet another object of the present invention to provide a predictive parking meter law enforcement profiler apparatus which further includes a means to utilize a database of historical parking law enforcement citations to statistically profile parking law enforcement to predict patrol locations, schedules, and intervals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2012
    Inventor: Steve Dabell
  • Patent number: 6621862
    Abstract: An equalization method and apparatus for equalizing a plurality of input signals received on a multichannel link leverages shared equalization resources to generate dedicated tap coefficients for application to the signals and updates the dedicated tap coefficients upon measured degradation in the quality of the signals. The equalization method and apparatus achieves acceptable bit error rates with relatively low overhead.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2000
    Date of Patent: September 16, 2003
    Assignee: Alcatel Internetworking (PE), Inc.
    Inventor: Steve Dabell
  • Patent number: 6559894
    Abstract: A block-adaptive method of performing equalization on a signal received over a broadcast system, includes providing a set of predetermined symbols that correspond to symbols in a data field synchronization segment of a data field having a plurality of segments wherein a data frame having at least two of these data fields is transmitted over the signal in the broadcast system during a block-time interval, correlating complex samples of the signal with the set of predetermined symbols to extract a corresponding impulse response during the block-time interval, selecting a phase identifying the start of the block-time interval from the correlated complex samples, estimating an equalizer filter using the set of predetermined symbols and an initial data field synchronization segment provided at the start of the block-time interval, updating the equalizer filter using subsequent complex samples of the signal to extract a subsequent impulse response and correlate with a reference segment, wherein the reference segmen
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2001
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2003
    Assignee: Digeo, Inc.
    Inventors: Jimmy Kazuhiro Omura, Thomas Ross Henderson, Steve Dabell, Mark Robert Peting
  • Publication number: 20020009135
    Abstract: A block-adaptive method of performing equalization on a signal received over a broadcast system, includes providing a set of predetermined symbols that correspond to symbols in a data field synchronization segment of a data field having a plurality of segments wherein a data frame having at least two of these data fields is transmitted over the signal in the broadcast system during a block-time interval, correlating complex samples of the signal with the set of predetermined symbols to extract a corresponding impulse response during the block-time interval, selecting a phase identifying the start of the block-time interval from the correlated complex samples, estimating an equalizer filter using the set of predetermined symbols and an initial data field synchronization segment provided at the start of the block-time interval, updating the equalizer filter using subsequent complex samples of the signal to extract a subsequent impulse response and correlate with a reference segment, wherein the reference segmen
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 11, 2001
    Publication date: January 24, 2002
    Inventors: Jimmy Kazuhiro Omura, Thomas Ross Henderson, Steve Dabell, Mark Robert Peting