Patents by Inventor William Hopkin
William Hopkin 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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DEVICES, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS TO MONITOR AND CHARACTERIZE THE MOTIONS OF A USER VIA FLEXIBE CIRCUITS
Publication number: 20240172963Abstract: A system configured to monitor and characterize motions of a user is disclosed herein. The system can include a wearable article including a tubular body comprising a resilient material, a flexible circuit including a fluid-phase conductor configured to generate a first signal, and an inertial measurement unit (“IMU”) coupled to the resilient material, wherein the IMU is configured to generate a second signal. The system can further include a processor communicably coupled to the flexible circuit and the IMU.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 7, 2022Publication date: May 30, 2024Applicant: Liquid Wire LLCInventors: Jorge E. Carbo, Jr., Katherine M. Nelson, Michael Jasper Wallans, Michael Adventure Hopkins, Mark William Ronay, Casey Culbertson -
Publication number: 20240147631Abstract: Devices, systems, and methods for making and using highly sustainable circuit assemblies are disclosed herein. In various aspects, the highly sustainable circuit assembly includes a substrate layer; and a pattern of contact points supported by the substrate layer. The pattern of contact points can be configured to correspond to at least one terminal of an electrical component. The pattern of contact points can include a deformable conductive material. The deformable conductive material can be a non-hazardous, readily reclaimable, readily recyclable material.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 25, 2022Publication date: May 2, 2024Applicant: Liquid Wire, LLCInventors: Jorge E. Carbo, JR., Sai Srinivas Desabathina, Michael Adventure Hopkins, Charles J. Kinzel, Mark S. Kruskopf, Jesse Michael Martinez, Katherine M. Nelson, Taylor V. Neumann, Trevor Antonio Rivera, Mark William Ronay, Michael Jasper Wallans, Austin Michael Clarke
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Patent number: 11955420Abstract: A circuit assembly may include a substrate and a pattern of contact points formed from deformable conductive material supported by the substrate. The assembly may further include an electric component supported by the substrate and having terminals arranged in a pattern corresponding to the pattern of contacts points. The one or more of the terminals of the electric component may contact one or more of the corresponding contact points to form one or more electrical connections between the electric component and the contact points.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2023Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: Liquid Wire Inc.Inventors: Mark William Ronay, Trevor Antonio Rivera, Michael Adventure Hopkins, Edward Martin Godshalk, Charles J. Kinzel
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Publication number: 20240036970Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure involve systems and methods for improving the performance of a telecommunications network by monitoring the performance of one or more storage drives. Operational data is received from a plurality of storage drives of a storage server of a telecommunications network. A plurality of operational coefficients for each of the plurality of storage drives is derived based on the operational data, and a cluster plot is created from the plurality of operational coefficients for each of the plurality of storage drives. A distance is calculated between a subset of operational coefficients of the plurality of operational coefficients of the cluster plot, and a remedial action is initiated on a storage drive of the plurality of storage drives when a calculated distance of an operational coefficient associated with the storage drive exceeds a distance value from a cluster of the cluster plot.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 12, 2023Publication date: February 1, 2024Applicant: Level 3 Communications, LLCInventors: William Hopkins, Lawrence W. Gowin
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Patent number: 11789809Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure involve systems and methods for improving the performance of a telecommunications network by monitoring the performance of one or more storage drives. Operational data is received from a plurality of storage drives of a storage server of a telecommunications network. A plurality of operational coefficients for each of the plurality of storage drives is derived based on the operational data, and a cluster plot is created from the plurality of operational coefficients for each of the plurality of storage drives. A distance is calculated between a subset of operational coefficients of the plurality of operational coefficients of the cluster plot, and a remedial action is initiated on a storage drive of the plurality of storage drives when a calculated distance of an operational coefficient associated with the storage drive exceeds a distance value from a cluster of the cluster plot.Type: GrantFiled: May 16, 2022Date of Patent: October 17, 2023Assignee: Level 3 Communications, LLCInventors: William Hopkins, Lawrence W. Gowin
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Publication number: 20230003677Abstract: A system for imaging material, typically in an underground scenario, comprising of a plurality of conductive electrodes supported on a conductive substrate positionable in an environment to be imaged, a signal generator connected to at least two of the electrodes, and a signal detector connected to at least two of the electrodes, and wherein an impedance compensator is arranged between each electrode and its substrate to counter parasitic impedance between the two. Typically the impedance compensator may be arranged to act as a negative capacitance, which may be approximately equal to any capacitance between the electrode and the substrate. An electrode may be a drive electrode coupled to a signal generator, or a detector electrode coupled to a detector, or may be reconfigurable to act as either one.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 17, 2020Publication date: January 5, 2023Inventors: Michael William Hopkins, Rajinder Singh, Lyn David Jones
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Publication number: 20220276921Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure involve systems and methods for improving the performance of a telecommunications network by monitoring the performance of one or more storage drives. Operational data is received from a plurality of storage drives of a storage server of a telecommunications network. A plurality of operational coefficients for each of the plurality of storage drives is derived based on the operational data, and a cluster plot is created from the plurality of operational coefficients for each of the plurality of storage drives. A distance is calculated between a subset of operational coefficients of the plurality of operational coefficients of the cluster plot, and a remedial action is initiated on a storage drive of the plurality of storage drives when a calculated distance of an operational coefficient associated with the storage drive exceeds a distance value from a cluster of the cluster plot.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 16, 2022Publication date: September 1, 2022Applicant: Level 3 Communications, LLCInventors: William Hopkins, Lawrence W. Gowin
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Patent number: 11334424Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure involve systems and methods for improving the performance of a telecommunications network by monitoring the performance of one or more storage drives. Operational data is received from a plurality of storage drives of a storage server of a telecommunications network. A plurality of operational coefficients for each of the plurality of storage drives is derived based on the operational data, and a cluster plot is created from the plurality of operational coefficients for each of the plurality of storage drives. A distance is calculated between a subset of operational coefficients of the plurality of operational coefficients of the cluster plot, and a remedial action is initiated on a storage drive of the plurality of storage drives when a calculated distance of an operational coefficient associated with the storage drive exceeds a distance value from a cluster of the cluster plot.Type: GrantFiled: March 10, 2021Date of Patent: May 17, 2022Assignee: Level 3 Communications, LLCInventors: William Hopkins, Lawrence W. Gowin
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Patent number: 11323412Abstract: A method of generating a routing table containing information as to the weighted distance between client's that use a resolver and each rack gateway, taking into account how traffic to each client can egress from the CDN AS. The routing table is generated from matrix multiplication of two matrices. One matrix contains information as to the proportion of each client's use of each resolver in a first autonomous system. The second matrix contains information as to the distance between each client and each rack, with respect to an egress gateway, in a second autonomous system. The resulting routing table is used to identify a gateway from which to serve content to a client.Type: GrantFiled: November 25, 2020Date of Patent: May 3, 2022Assignee: Level 3 Communications, LLCInventors: William Hopkins, Joelle T. Maslak
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Publication number: 20210326199Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure involve systems and methods for improving the performance of a telecommunications network by monitoring the performance of one or more storage drives. Operational data is received from a plurality of storage drives of a storage server of a telecommunications network. A plurality of operational coefficients for each of the plurality of storage drives is derived based on the operational data, and a cluster plot is created from the plurality of operational coefficients for each of the plurality of storage drives. A distance is calculated between a subset of operational coefficients of the plurality of operational coefficients of the cluster plot, and a remedial action is initiated on a storage drive of the plurality of storage drives when a calculated distance of an operational coefficient associated with the storage drive exceeds a distance value from a cluster of the cluster plot.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 10, 2021Publication date: October 21, 2021Applicant: Level 3 Communications, LLCInventors: William Hopkins, Lawrence W. Gowin
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Publication number: 20210084006Abstract: A method of generating a routing table containing information as to the weighted distance between client's that use a resolver and each rack gateway, taking into account how traffic to each client can egress from the CDN AS. The routing table is generated from matrix multiplication of two matrices. One matrix contains information as to the proportion of each client's use of each resolver in a first autonomous system. The second matrix contains information as to the distance between each client and each rack, with respect to an egress gateway, in a second autonomous system. The resulting routing table is used to identify a gateway from which to serve content to a client.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 25, 2020Publication date: March 18, 2021Applicant: Level 3 Communications, LLCInventors: William Hopkins, Joelle T. Maslak
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Patent number: 10949288Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure involve systems and methods for improving the performance of a telecommunications network by monitoring the performance of one or more storage drives. Operational data is received from a plurality of storage drives of a storage server of a telecommunications network. A plurality of operational coefficients for each of the plurality of storage drives is derived based on the operational data, and a cluster plot is created from the plurality of operational coefficients for each of the plurality of storage drives. A distance is calculated between a subset of operational coefficients of the plurality of operational coefficients of the cluster plot, and a remedial action is initiated on a storage drive of the plurality of storage drives when a calculated distance of an operational coefficient associated with the storage drive exceeds a distance value from a cluster of the cluster plot.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2020Date of Patent: March 16, 2021Assignee: Level 3 Communications, LLCInventors: William Hopkins, Lawrence W. Gowin
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Publication number: 20210036938Abstract: Systems and methods for configuring telecommunications networks include obtaining network data flow information for a telecommunications network that includes attributes of multiple routes of data transmission through the telecommunications network. Utilizing at least one processing device, a filtering criteria is applied to the network data flow information to identify a subset of the routes having a shared attribute to generate filtered data. The filtered data is then used to generate a diagrammatic representation of the network flows and/or processed to automatically generate reconfiguration messages to improve network traffic distribution and flow.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 21, 2020Publication date: February 4, 2021Applicant: Level 3 Communications, LLCInventor: William Hopkins
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Publication number: 20210011798Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure involve systems and methods for improving the performance of a telecommunications network by monitoring the performance of one or more storage drives. Operational data is received from a plurality of storage drives of a storage server of a telecommunications network. A plurality of operational coefficients for each of the plurality of storage drives is derived based on the operational data, and a cluster plot is created from the plurality of operational coefficients for each of the plurality of storage drives. A distance is calculated between a subset of operational coefficients of the plurality of operational coefficients of the cluster plot, and a remedial action is initiated on a storage drive of the plurality of storage drives when a calculated distance of an operational coefficient associated with the storage drive exceeds a distance value from a cluster of the cluster plot.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 29, 2020Publication date: January 14, 2021Applicant: Level 3 Communications, LLCInventors: William Hopkins, Lawrence W. Gowin
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Patent number: 10855646Abstract: A method of generating a routing table containing information as to the weighted distance between client's that use a resolver and each rack gateway, taking into account how traffic to each client can egress from the CDN AS. The routing table is generated from matrix multiplication of two matrices. One matrix contains information as to the proportion of each client's use of each resolver in a first autonomous system. The second matrix contains information as to the distance between each client and each rack, with respect to an egress gateway, in a second autonomous system. The resulting routing table is used to identify a gateway from which to serve content to a client.Type: GrantFiled: August 22, 2019Date of Patent: December 1, 2020Assignee: Level 3 Communications, LLCInventors: William Hopkins, Joelle T. Maslak
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Patent number: 10819595Abstract: Systems and methods for configuring telecommunications networks include obtaining network data flow information for a telecommunications network that includes attributes of multiple routes of data transmission through the telecommunications network. Utilizing at least one processing device, a filtering criteria is applied to the network data flow information to identify a subset of the routes having a shared attribute to generate filtered data. The filtered data is then used to generate a diagrammatic representation of the network flows and/or processed to automatically generate reconfiguration messages to improve network traffic distribution and flow.Type: GrantFiled: April 8, 2019Date of Patent: October 27, 2020Assignee: Level 3 Communications, LLCInventor: William Hopkins
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Patent number: 10795757Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure involve systems and methods for improving the performance of a telecommunications network by monitoring the performance of one or more storage drives. Operational data is received from a plurality of storage drives of a storage server of a telecommunications network. A plurality of operational coefficients for each of the plurality of storage drives is derived based on the operational data, and a cluster plot is created from the plurality of operational coefficients for each of the plurality of storage drives. A distance is calculated between a subset of operational coefficients of the plurality of operational coefficients of the cluster plot, and a remedial action is initiated on a storage drive of the plurality of storage drives when a calculated distance of an operational coefficient associated with the storage drive exceeds a distance value from a cluster of the cluster plot.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2018Date of Patent: October 6, 2020Assignee: Level 3 Communications, LLCInventors: William Hopkins, Lawrence W. Gowin
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Patent number: 10666522Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure involve systems and methods for monitoring and quantifying the performance of a content delivery network (CDN) from a client side perspective based on server side events. In one particular embodiment, one or more content servers of the CDN may provide connectivity or other performance information to a collector device or site. This information may be reported by each of the content servers for each request for content received at the server. The collector site may then store the received performance information in a database for analysis by one or more systems.Type: GrantFiled: August 19, 2019Date of Patent: May 26, 2020Assignee: Level 3 Communications, LLCInventors: William Hopkins, William R. Power
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Patent number: 10577920Abstract: A sensor system for the measurement of a physical parameter, such as temperature or pressure comprises a first, fixed module (5), and a second module (20) positionable proximate to the first. The first module has a measurement coil (6) and a reference coil (7), where the measurement coil forms part of an electrical circuit that is subject to variation by the physical parameter, and the reference coil forms part of a circuit not subject to the physical parameter being measured. The second module has a pair of reading coils (22, 23), each arranged to couple to respective measurement and reference coils, where the reading coils are connectable to signal generation and measurement equipment, and the system is arranged to measure electrical characteristics of the measurement and reference coils via the coupling. It has particular utility in harsh environments such as in wells, where the first module may be fixed, and the second module may be lowered adjacent the first.Type: GrantFiled: December 1, 2016Date of Patent: March 3, 2020Assignee: QINETIQ LIMITEDInventors: Rajinder Singh, Michael William Hopkins
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Publication number: 20190379631Abstract: A method of generating a routing table containing information as to the weighted distance between client's that use a resolver and each rack gateway, taking into account how traffic to each client can egress from the CDN AS. The routing table is generated from matrix multiplication of two matrices. One matrix contains information as to the proportion of each client's use of each resolver in a first autonomous system. The second matrix contains information as to the distance between each client and each rack, with respect to an egress gateway, in a second autonomous system. The resulting routing table is used to identify a gateway from which to serve content to a client.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 22, 2019Publication date: December 12, 2019Applicant: Level 3 Communications, LLCInventors: William HOPKINS, Joelle T. MASLAK