Patents by Inventor A. Steven Young

A. Steven Young 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: 9984168
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes identifying a first node and a second node in a social graph. The historical location data is available for the first node and for the second node. The method also includes accessing one or more component metrics for computing a geo-metric. The geo-metric represents an assessment of a spatial commonality between the first node and the second node. The spatial commonalities are determined based on historical location data stored for the first node and historical location data stored for the second node. The method also includes accessing one or more coefficients each corresponding to one of the component metrics; calculating the geo-metric by applying the received coefficients to the component metrics and combining the component metrics; and providing the calculated geo-metric.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2018
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Amir Hussain Memon, Scott J. Bratsman, Steven Young, Joshua Chaim Roberts, Aapo Kyrölä, Timothy A. Stanke
  • Patent number: 9946430
    Abstract: The invention provides a display interface in a social networking system that enables the presentation of information related to a user in a timeline or map view. The system accesses information about a user of a social networking system, including both data about the user and social network activities related to the user. The system then selects one or more of these pieces of data and/or activities from a certain time period and gathers them into timeline units based on their relatedness and their relevance to users. These timeline units are ranked by relevance to the user, and are used to generate a timeline or map view for the user containing visual representations of the timeline units organized by location or time. The timeline or map view is then provided to other users of the social networking system that wish to view information about the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2018
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Samuel Lessin, William Joseph Flynn, III, Daniel Klatzko Gibson, Burak Guzel, Drew W. Hamlin, Jeff Huang, Paul M. McDonald, Stefan Parker, Arun Vijayvergiya, Josh Wiseman, Zizhuang Yang, Wei Zhong Yeh, Steven Young, Raylene Kay Yung, Mark E. Zuckerberg
  • Patent number: 9947341
    Abstract: A voice signal may be adjusted to mask traits such as the gender of a speaker by separating source and filter components of a voice signal using cepstral analysis, adjusting the components based on pitch and formant parameters, and synthesizing a modified signal. Features are disclosed to support real-time voice masking in a computer network by limiting computational complexity and reducing delays in processing and transmission while maintaining signal quality.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2018
    Assignee: Interviewing.io, Inc.
    Inventors: Andrew Tatanka Marsh, Steven Young Yi
  • Patent number: 9948798
    Abstract: Devices, systems, and methods for managing a facsimile transmission receive, at a fax driver of a fax device, a request to transmit a fax job; determine whether a fax destination number for the fax job exists; in response to determining that the fax destination number for the fax job does not exist, send a request to display a notification; receive the fax destination number for the fax job; and send the received fax destination number for the fax job to the fax device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2018
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Chihsin Steven Young
  • Patent number: 9896610
    Abstract: Embodiments disclosed herein relate to aqueous based wellbore fluids for preventing wellbore fluid loss downhole containing at least one copolymer formed from at least one natural polymer monomer and at least one latex monomer, and an aqueous base fluid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2018
    Assignee: M-I L.L.C.
    Inventors: Steven Young, Emanuel Stamatakis
  • Publication number: 20170366029
    Abstract: According to at least one aspect, embodiments herein provide a traffic light power management system comprising a power source, a first output, a service bypass unit and a power management unit. The service bypass unit is configured to receive AC power from the power source, convert the AC power to a first DC power in a first mode of operation, provide the first DC power to the first output in the first mode of operation, and provide the AC power to a power management unit in a second mode of operation. The power management unit is coupled to the service bypass unit, and is configured to receive the AC power from the service bypass unit in the second mode of operation, convert the AC power to a second DC power in the second mode of operation, and provide the DC power to the first output in the second mode of operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2016
    Publication date: December 21, 2017
    Inventors: Brian McKenna, Kaushal J. Patel, Kenneth J. Steeves, Marcel B. Grenier, Qinghong Yu, Jeffrey M. August, James Edward Briggs, Steven Allen Diggins, Jeffrey Steven Young, Devin Patrick Auclair, James Walter Frey
  • Patent number: 9844275
    Abstract: In one example, this disclosure describes a method including determining, at a central controller of an air mattress system, whether a user is present on a mattress of the air mattress system, initiating a timer in response to determining that the user is present on the mattress, enabling a light control feature of the air mattress system upon determining that the user is present on the mattress after expiration of the timer, and after enabling the light control feature, transmitting, from the central controller, at least one instruction to turn on at least one light of the air mattress system in response to determining that the user is no longer present on the mattress.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2017
    Assignees: Select Comfort Corporation, SleepIQ Labs Inc.
    Inventors: Rob Nunn, Wade Daniel Palashewski, Yi-ching Chen, Steven Young, Carl Hewitt
  • Publication number: 20170351773
    Abstract: The invention provides a display interface in a social networking system that enables the presentation of information related to a user in a timeline or map view. The system accesses information about a user of a social networking system, including both data about the user and social network activities related to the user. The system then selects one or more of these pieces of data and/or activities from a certain time period and gathers them into timeline units based on their relatedness and their relevance to users. These timeline units are ranked by relevance to the user, and are used to generate a timeline or map view for the user containing visual representations of the timeline units organized by location or time. The timeline or map view is then provided to other users of the social networking system that wish to view information about the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 22, 2017
    Publication date: December 7, 2017
    Inventors: Raylene Kay Yung, Ryan Case, Jeff Huang, Samuel Lessin, Ryan David Mack, Paul M. McDonald, Serkan Piantino, Arun Vijayvergiya, Joshua Wiseman, Steven Young, Mark E. Zuckerberg
  • Patent number: 9784773
    Abstract: According to one aspect, embodiments of the invention provide a system for monitoring a load center including a plurality of current sensors, a communication bus, a plurality of sensor circuits, a power module configured to be coupled to a load center input line and to receive input AC power from the input line, a collector, and a cable configured to be coupled between the power module and the collector, wherein the power module is further configured to provide power to the plurality of sensor circuits via the communication bus, provide power to the collector via the cable, measure at least one of voltage, frequency and phase of input AC power and provide signals related to the measured voltage, frequency or phase to the collector via the cable, receive current measurement signals from the plurality of sensor circuits and provide the received current measurement signals to the collector via the cable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2017
    Assignee: SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC IT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Vishwas Mohaniraj Deokar, Namwook Paik, Jeffrey Steven Young
  • Patent number: 9767205
    Abstract: The invention provides a display interface in a social networking system that enables the presentation of information related to a user in a timeline or map view. The system accesses information about a user of a social networking system, including both data about the user and social network activities related to the user. The system then selects one or more of these pieces of data and/or activities from a certain time period and gathers them into timeline units based on their relatedness and their relevance to users. These timeline units are ranked by relevance to the user, and are used to generate a timeline or map view for the user containing visual representations of the timeline units organized by location or time. The timeline or map view is then provided to other users of the social networking system that wish to view information about the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2017
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Raylene Kay Yung, Ryan Case, Jeff Huang, Samuel Lessin, Ryan David Mack, Paul M. McDonald, Serkan Piantino, Arun Vijayvergiya, Joshua Wiseman, Steven Young, Mark E. Zuckerberg
  • Publication number: 20170253787
    Abstract: Wellbore fluid compositions herein may include an oleaginous base fluid having an aqueous internal phase forming a micelle, a solid phase material, a hydrophobic surface modifier that interacts with the solid phase material, and a bifunctional surface modifier with a first functional group capable of interacting with the solid phase material, and a second functional group of the bifunctional surface modifier that interacts with the micelle. Methods herein may include emplacing a wellbore fluid into a wellbore, the wellbore fluid containing an oleaginous base fluid, a solid phase material, and a hydrophobic surface modifier that interacts with the solid phase material. The fluid may further include a bifunctional surface modifier with a first functional group capable of interacting with the solid phase material, and a second functional group capable of interacting with a micelle of the aqueous fluid.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2016
    Publication date: September 7, 2017
    Inventors: Yiyan Chen, Steven Young
  • Publication number: 20170206776
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for the adaptive detection of audio alarms. A system comprises a microphone configured to receive a series of sounds, a memory configured to store a defined set of alarm templates, a communications network interface, and a processor. The processor is configured to receive and analyze sounds for alarm or background sound characteristics and compare them to a defined set of alarm templates stored in the memory. If not contained in the defined set of alarm templates previously stored in the memory, new alarm templates are learned and stored. An alert is then transmitted to a client device that an audio alarm has been recognized.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 15, 2016
    Publication date: July 20, 2017
    Inventors: Stephen Paul Linder, Jeffrey Steven Young
  • Publication number: 20170174975
    Abstract: Methods may include drilling at least a section of a wellbore using an invert emulsion wellbore fluid, where the invert emulsion wellbore fluid may contain an emulsifier, a first wellbore strengthening material (WBS)-forming component, and a second WBS-forming component; and increasing the shear experienced at the bit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2016
    Publication date: June 22, 2017
    Applicant: M-I L.L.C.
    Inventors: Guido De Stefano, Steven Young, Brandi Katherine Price Hoelscher
  • Publication number: 20170174974
    Abstract: Wellbore strengthening compositions and methods of use are disclosed herein, where the wellbore strengthening compositions may include a base fluid and a plurality of hydrogel particles or a plurality of core-shell particles suspended in the base fluid. A method of treating a formation may include pumping a wellbore fluid into the formation, where the wellbore fluid includes a base fluid; and a plurality of hydrogel particles or a plurality of core-shell particles suspended in the base fluid.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2016
    Publication date: June 22, 2017
    Applicant: M-I L.L.C.
    Inventors: Guido De Stefano, Brandi Katherine Price Hoelscher, Steven Young
  • Patent number: 9665314
    Abstract: Systems, devices, and methods for managing a print-setting user interface (UI) receive a request to display a print-setting UI of a printer driver from an application, wherein the request includes one or more of an application identification (ID) of the application; obtain a hardware profile data of an application-host device, wherein the application-host device has the application installed thereon; and obtain one or more sets of print-setting UI data corresponding to one or more of the application ID and the hardware profile data; and display a print-setting UI based on the one or more sets of print-setting UI data obtained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2017
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Charles Thomas Armstrong, Chihsin Steven Young
  • Publication number: 20170107127
    Abstract: Non-emulsifying compositions may contain one or more sorbitan esters; one or more non-ionic surfactants; and one or more amphoteric surfactants, wherein the ratio of the one or more sorbitan esters to the one or more non-ionic surfactants to the one or more amphoteric surfactants is in the range of 1:1:1 to 1:5:3. Methods may include contacting an emulsion with a treatment fluid, the treatment fluid containing one or more sorbitan esters, one or more non-ionic surfactants, and one or more amphoteric surfactants, wherein the ratio of the one or more sorbitan esters to the one or more non-ionic surfactants to the one or more amphoteric surfactants is in the range of 1:1:1 to 1:5:3; and separating the emulsion into an aqueous phase and an oleaginous phase.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2016
    Publication date: April 20, 2017
    Applicant: M-I L.L.C.
    Inventors: Changping Sui, Pawilai Chinwangso, Hui Zhang, Steven Young
  • Publication number: 20170106311
    Abstract: Emulsion-preventing compositions may contain one or more sorbitan esters; and one or more non-ionic surfactants; where the ratio of the one or more sorbitan esters to the one or more non-ionic surfactants is in the range of 1:1 to 1:5. Methods may include contacting an emulsion with a treatment fluid, the treatment fluid containing one or more sorbitan esters and one or more non-ionic surfactants, where the ratio of the one or more sorbitan esters to the one or more non-ionic surfactants is in the range of 1:1 to 1:5; and separating the emulsion into an aqueous phase and an oleaginous phase.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2016
    Publication date: April 20, 2017
    Applicant: M-I L.L.C.
    Inventors: Changping Sui, Pawilai Chinwangso, Hui Zhang, Steven Young
  • Publication number: 20170088762
    Abstract: A wellbore fluid comprising a first aqueous base fluid and a plurality of silica nanoparticles suspended in the first aqueous base fluid. The nanoparticles are present in the fluid in an amount to have an effect of decreasing a crystallization temperature by at least 4 to 55° F. as compared to a second aqueous base fluid without the silica nanoparticles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2016
    Publication date: March 30, 2017
    Applicant: M-I L.L.C.
    Inventors: Hui Joyce Zhang, Xia Wei, Steven Young
  • Publication number: 20170089923
    Abstract: Methods for identifying subjects as candidates for embryo implantation are provided. In some embodiments, the methods include providing a sample of endometrium isolated from a subject during the second half of the subject's menstrual cycle and determining whether the subject is a candidate based on the expression of BCL6 in the sample. Also provided are methods for identifying an increased risk for implantation failure subsequent to in vitro fertilization (IVF) and/or frozen embryo transfer (FET), methods for detecting endometrial receptivity, methods for facilitating diagnoses of infertility, methods for increasing the likelihood of embryo implantation, methods for detecting the presence of endometriosis, and methods for managing treatment of subjects with potential endometriosis, subfertility, or both.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2015
    Publication date: March 30, 2017
    Applicants: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Greenville Health System
    Inventors: Steven Young, Bruce Lessey
  • Publication number: 20170029688
    Abstract: A method of sealing a formation that includes drilling a wellbore through the formation while pumping a non-aqueous based wellbore fluid comprising an encapsulated first component into the wellbore, the non-aqueous based wellbore fluid forming a filter cake on the walls of the wellbore; and adding a second component to the wellbore fluid when fluid losses are registered during drilling, whereby the first and second components react to form a chemical sealing layer in the filter cake is disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2015
    Publication date: February 2, 2017
    Inventors: Guido De Stefano, James Friedheim, Steven Young