Patents by Inventor Steven Nichols
Steven Nichols 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: 20230062781Abstract: Systems and methods for implementing and using digital imaging and communications in medicine (DICOM) structured reporting (SR) object consolidation. The consolidation process may be applied to a plurality of objects generated based on a same medical imaging data. The consolidation process includes assessing each object of the plurality of objects, with the assessing including determining whether the object is a parent of another object in the plurality of objects, and discarding the object when it is a parent of another object. A composite object is then generated based on the plurality of objects, with the generating including, when only one object remains after the assessing, copying that object into the consolidated object; otherwise when a plurality of remaining objects remains after the assessing, processing the remaining objects, in sequence from newest to oldest, with the processing including, for copying each data element in each remaining object into the composite object.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 27, 2021Publication date: March 2, 2023Inventors: Tracy Hunter, Peter Wlczek, Christian Walheim, Steven Nichols
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Patent number: 10608698Abstract: Systems, apparatuses and methods for synchronizing communication actions between multiple communication devices by accounting for discrepancies between timing functionality in communicating devices. A time value indicative of a remote device's view of current time is received. Where it is determined that the time value differs from a locally generated view of current time by at least an established amount, the range of time in which communications signals with the remote device will be monitored and transmitted is extended.Type: GrantFiled: July 13, 2017Date of Patent: March 31, 2020Assignee: Ademco Inc.Inventors: Robert Juntunen, Steven Nichols, Kenneth Kidder
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Patent number: 10601882Abstract: Systems, methods and apparatuses for binding two or more communication devices through their common association with one or more other devices. Information associated with a common device is stored at a first device. The information associated with the common device is also stored at a second device. A message is transmitted from the first device using the stored information as at least part of a broadcast address identifier. The message can then be accepted at the second device as a result of the information being known to the second device. A “binding by association” is thus effected by virtue of each of the first and second devices having been privy to the same information affiliated with the common device.Type: GrantFiled: April 17, 2018Date of Patent: March 24, 2020Assignee: Ademco Inc.Inventor: Steven Nichols
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Patent number: 10436977Abstract: An HVAC controller may be programmed using a mobile device having a touch screen display, a wireless port and a controller that is in operative communication with the touch screen display and the wireless port. The controller may establish communication with and download an application program code from the remote download server. The controller may establish a direct wireless connection between the wireless port of the mobile device and the wireless interface of the HVAC controller and execute the application program code, which provides one or more configuration screens on the touch screen display of the mobile device to enable the user to configure the HVAC controller via one or more configuration parameters, and then upload the one or more configuration parameters to the HVAC controller via the direct wireless connection between the wireless port of the mobile device and the wireless interface of the HVAC controller.Type: GrantFiled: December 9, 2014Date of Patent: October 8, 2019Assignee: Ademco Inc.Inventors: Gabriel Bergman, David Quam, Jeffrey Stuart, John Amundson, Paul Schwendinger, Kevin Weirich, Michael Bruce, Soumitri Kolavennu, Steven Nichols
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Patent number: 10284632Abstract: Systems and methods for cabling verification may include one or more operations including, but not limited to: receiving floor plan data representing a floor plan of a premises; receiving at least one user input specifying a location of at least one cabling endpoint relative to the floor plan; receiving at least one user input selecting at least one cabling verification test for the at least one cabling endpoint; receiving one or more cabling verification test results for the at least one cabling endpoint obtained by at least one testing device; and updating at least one database element associated with the at least one cabling endpoint and maintained by the cloud-based server.Type: GrantFiled: June 24, 2016Date of Patent: May 7, 2019Assignee: WOW INSITES LLCInventors: Steven Kanne, Gordon Whitten, Jamie Bumgardner, Joshua Galley, Dixon Greenfield, Brian Kenkel, Steven Nichols, Chad Bokowski, Sam Miller
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Publication number: 20180241789Abstract: Systems, methods and apparatuses for binding two or more communication devices through their common association with one or more other devices. Information associated with a common device is stored at a first device. The information associated with the common device is also stored at a second device. A message is transmitted from the first device using the stored information as at least part of a broadcast address identifier. The message can then be accepted at the second device as a result of the information being known to the second device. A “binding by association” is thus effected by virtue of each of the first and second devices having been privy to the same information affiliated with the common device.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 17, 2018Publication date: August 23, 2018Inventor: Steven Nichols
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Patent number: 9979763Abstract: Systems, methods and apparatuses for binding two or more communication devices through their common association with one or more other devices. Information associated with a common device is stored at a first device. The information associated with the common device is also stored at a second device. A message is transmitted from the first device using the stored information as at least part of a broadcast address identifier. The message can then be accepted at the second device as a result of the information being known to the second device. A “binding by association” is thus effected by virtue of each of the first and second devices having been privy to the same information affiliated with the common device.Type: GrantFiled: December 7, 2015Date of Patent: May 22, 2018Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.Inventor: Steven Nichols
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Publication number: 20170310359Abstract: Systems, apparatuses and methods for synchronizing communication actions between multiple communication devices by accounting for discrepancies between timing functionality in communicating devices. A time value indicative of a remote device's view of current time is received. Where it is determined that the time value differs from a locally generated view of current time by at least an established amount, the range of time in which communications signals with the remote device will be monitored and transmitted is extended.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 13, 2017Publication date: October 26, 2017Inventors: Robert Juntunen, Steven Nichols, Kenneth Kidder
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Patent number: 9735831Abstract: Systems, apparatuses and methods for synchronizing communication actions between multiple communication devices by accounting for discrepancies between timing functionality in communicating devices. A time value indicative of a remote device's view of current time is received. Where it is determined that the time value differs from a locally generated view of current time by at least an established amount, the range of time in which communications signals with the remote device will be monitored and transmitted is extended.Type: GrantFiled: September 22, 2009Date of Patent: August 15, 2017Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.Inventors: Robert Juntunen, Steven Nichols, Kenneth Kidder
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Publication number: 20160381123Abstract: Systems and methods for cabling verification may include one or more operations including, but not limited to: receiving floor plan data representing a floor plan of a premises; receiving at least one user input specifying a location of at least one cabling endpoint relative to the floor plan; receiving at least one user input selecting at least one cabling verification test for the at least one cabling endpoint; receiving one or more cabling verification test results for the at least one cabling endpoint obtained by at least one testing device; and updating at least one database element associated with the at least one cabling endpoint and maintained by the cloud-based server.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 24, 2016Publication date: December 29, 2016Inventors: Steven Kanne, Gordon Whitten, Jamie Bumgardner, Joshua Galley, Dixon Greenfield, Brian Kenkel, Steven Nichols, Chad Bokowski, Sam Miller
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Patent number: 9400301Abstract: Systems and methods for cabling verification may include one or more operations including, but not limited to: receiving floor plan data representing a floor plan of a premises; receiving at least one user input specifying a location of at least one cabling endpoint relative to the floor plan; receiving at least one user input selecting at least one cabling verification test for the at least one cabling endpoint; receiving one or more cabling verification test results for the at least one cabling endpoint obtained by at least one testing device; and updating at least one database element associated with the at least one cabling endpoint and maintained by the cloud-based server.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2014Date of Patent: July 26, 2016Assignee: WOW Insites LLCInventors: Steven Kanne, Gordon Whitten, Jamie Bumgardner, Joshua Galley, Dixon Greenfield, Brian Kenkel, Steven Nichols, Chad Bokowski, Sam Miller
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Publication number: 20160088041Abstract: Systems, methods and apparatuses for binding two or more communication devices through their common association with one or more other devices. Information associated with a common device is stored at a first device. The information associated with the common device is also stored at a second device. A message is transmitted from the first device using the stored information as at least part of a broadcast address identifier. The message can then be accepted at the second device as a result of the information being known to the second device. A “binding by association” is thus effected by virtue of each of the first and second devices having been privy to the same information affiliated with the common device.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 7, 2015Publication date: March 24, 2016Inventor: Steven Nichols
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Patent number: 9210125Abstract: Systems, methods and apparatuses for binding two or more communication devices through their common association with one or more other devices. Information associated with a common device is stored at a first device. The information associated with the common device is also stored at a second device. A message is transmitted from the first device using the stored information as at least part of a broadcast address identifier. The message can then be accepted at the second device as a result of the information being known to the second device. A “binding by association” is thus effected by virtue of each of the first and second devices having been privy to the same information affiliated with the common device.Type: GrantFiled: October 17, 2008Date of Patent: December 8, 2015Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.Inventor: Steven Nichols
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Publication number: 20150159899Abstract: An HVAC controller may be programmed using a mobile device having a touch screen display, a wireless port and a controller that is in operative communication with the touch screen display and the wireless port. The controller may establish communication with and download an application program code from the remote download server. The controller may establish a direct wireless connection between the wireless port of the mobile device and the wireless interface of the HVAC controller and execute the application program code, which provides one or more configuration screens on the touch screen display of the mobile device to enable the user to configure the HVAC controller via one or more configuration parameters, and then upload the one or more configuration parameters to the HVAC controller via the direct wireless connection between the wireless port of the mobile device and the wireless interface of the HVAC controller.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 9, 2014Publication date: June 11, 2015Inventors: Gabriel Bergman, David Quam, Jeffrey Stuart, John Amundson, Paul Schwendinger, Kevin Weirich, Michael Bruce, Soumitri Kolavennu, Steven Nichols
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Patent number: 8891586Abstract: Systems, apparatuses and methods for identifying frequencies for use in communicating data. Frequency hopping sequences are used in the communication of data without the need to store or exchange the sequences themselves. A seed value is obtained, and the frequency hopping sequence is calculated using the seed each time data is to be communicated using that frequency hopping sequence. The data is communicated via one or more frequencies in the calculated frequency hopping sequence.Type: GrantFiled: October 17, 2008Date of Patent: November 18, 2014Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.Inventor: Steven Nichols
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Patent number: 8861566Abstract: Systems, apparatuses and methods for managing message communications in systems employing frequency hopping. One method according to the invention involves transmitting a message via a frequency of a frequency hopping sequence, and determining when the same frequency will reoccur in the frequency hopping sequence. Relevant portions of the device enter a sleep mode, and the device emerges from the sleep mode when the frequency at which the message was transmitted reoccurs in the frequency hopping sequence. The device monitors for a response to the message via the frequency at which the message was transmitted when the frequency reoccurs in the frequency hopping sequence.Type: GrantFiled: August 9, 2012Date of Patent: October 14, 2014Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.Inventor: Steven Nichols
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Publication number: 20140292348Abstract: Systems and methods for cabling verification may include one or more operations including, but not limited to: receiving floor plan data representing a floor plan of a premises; receiving at least one user input specifying a location of at least one cabling endpoint relative to the floor plan; receiving at least one user input selecting at least one cabling verification test for the at least one cabling endpoint; receiving one or more cabling verification test results for the at least one cabling endpoint obtained by at least one testing device; and updating at least one database element associated with the at least one cabling endpoint and maintained by the cloud-based server.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 31, 2014Publication date: October 2, 2014Applicant: WOW Insites LLCInventors: Steven Kanne, Gordon Whitten, Jamie Bumgardner, Joshua Galley, Dixon Greenfield, Brian Kenkel, Steven Nichols, Chad Bokowski, Sam Miller
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Patent number: 8791225Abstract: A method for making polyethylene terephthalate resin in which a titanium-nitride polycondensation catalyst is introduced during the initial stages of esterification or transesterification. The titanium-nitride polycondensation catalyst may be added to a mixture containing a terephthalate component and a diol component during the formation of a polyethylene terephthalate precursor. Subsequent polycondensation of the polyethylene terephthalate precursor forms a polyethylene terephthalate polymer.Type: GrantFiled: June 5, 2009Date of Patent: July 29, 2014Assignee: DAK Americas Mississippi Inc.Inventor: Carl Steven Nichols
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Patent number: 8677342Abstract: Systems, methods and apparatuses for replacing communication devices in a system. Configuration data of a replacement device (which may include a sub-part of the device) that is requesting inclusion in the system is received by a receiving device, which determines whether the received configuration data matches existing configuration data stored for an existing device currently included in the system. Upon identifying a match of the relevant configuration data, the device data associated with the existing device is identified, and replaced with device data of the replacement device, thereby effecting a one-step replacement of the existing device by providing the configuration data of the replacement device.Type: GrantFiled: October 17, 2008Date of Patent: March 18, 2014Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.Inventors: Kenneth Kidder, Steven Nichols, Cary Leen
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Patent number: 8553743Abstract: Systems, apparatuses and methods for communicating messages via frequency hopping and utilizing multiple different frequency hopping sequences to facilitate the message or other data exchange. A transmitter frequency hopping sequence is provided that is derived from a set of available frequencies. A receiver frequency hopping sequence is also derived from those frequencies. The transmitter frequency hopping sequence differs from the receiver frequency hopping sequence, at least in regards to the order that the frequencies of the respective sequence will be involved in the message communication. The next frequency in the transmitter frequency hopping sequence is identified in which to transmit data. The data is transmitted at the identified communication frequency when that same frequency arises in the receiver frequency hopping sequence.Type: GrantFiled: October 17, 2008Date of Patent: October 8, 2013Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.Inventors: Steven Nichols, Kenneth Kidder, Robert Juntunen