Patents by Inventor Alan Terry
Alan Terry 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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Patent number: 11924498Abstract: A facility for transferring configuration information to a target media device is described. The facility receives in the target media device a copy of media device settings stored in a source media device distinct from the target media device in a first form in which they are used in the source media device. This copy of media device settings is received by the target media device via a route other than its visual user interface. The facility causes the received copy of media device settings to be transformed into a second form in which they can be used in the target media device. The facility then stores the media receiver settings in the second form in the target media device for use by the target media device.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2021Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: DISH Network L.L.C.Inventors: Alan Terry Pattison, Robert Sadler
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Publication number: 20240040195Abstract: Embodiments detect updates to digital video broadcast (DVB) service information (SI), and forcing off-schedule updates to local meta-programming data (MPD) of a customer premises appliance in response to the update, where appropriate. For example, embodiments detect an SI update for at least one DVB content service being provided via a DVB network and determine whether a stream update descriptor in the SI is asserted. Detected assertion triggers an automatic off-schedule MPD update, including assigning a tuner to obtain updated provider MPD via an MPD service, and rebuilding local MPD based on the updated provider MPD. The local MPD is usable by the customer premises appliance to populate a meta-programming user interface (e.g., an electronic program guide) by which to display descriptive information about at least some of the plurality of DVB content services.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 16, 2023Publication date: February 1, 2024Inventors: Alan Terry Pattison, Danny J. Minnick
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Patent number: 11825163Abstract: Embodiments detect updates to digital video broadcast (DVB) service information (SI), and forcing off-schedule updates to local meta-programming data (MPD) of a customer premises appliance in response to the update, where appropriate. For example, embodiments detect an SI update for at least one DVB content service being provided via a DVB network and determine whether a stream update descriptor in the SI is asserted. Detected assertion triggers an automatic off-schedule MPD update, including assigning a tuner to obtain updated provider MPD via an MPD service, and rebuilding local MPD based on the updated provider MPD. The local MPD is usable by the customer premises appliance to populate a meta-programming user interface (e.g., an electronic program guide) by which to display descriptive information about at least some of the plurality of DVB content services.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2021Date of Patent: November 21, 2023Assignee: DISH Network L.L.C.Inventors: Alan Terry Pattison, Danny J. Minnick
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Publication number: 20230328531Abstract: A facility for establishing a wireless connection between first and second devices is described. On the first device, the facility causes a one-time pairing code to be displayed, then wirelessly receives from the second device a wireless connection solicitation having contents. On the first device, in response to the receiving, the facility determines whether the contents reflect the one-time pairing code. In response to determining that the contents reflect the one-time pairing code, on the first device, the facility establishes the wireless connection between the first and second devices.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 13, 2023Publication date: October 12, 2023Inventors: Shiqiang Chu, Alan Terry Pattison
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Patent number: 11696139Abstract: A facility for establishing a wireless connection between first and second devices is described. On the first device, the facility causes a one-time pairing code to be displayed, then wirelessly receives from the second device a wireless connection solicitation having contents. On the first device, in response to the receiving, the facility determines whether the contents reflect the one-time pairing code. In response to determining that the contents reflect the one-time pairing code, on the first device, the facility establishes the wireless connection between the first and second devices.Type: GrantFiled: January 14, 2020Date of Patent: July 4, 2023Assignee: DISH Network L.L.C.Inventors: Shiqiang Chu, Alan Terry Pattison
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Publication number: 20220321958Abstract: Embodiments detect updates to digital video broadcast (DVB) service information (SI), and forcing off-schedule updates to local meta-programming data (MPD) of a customer premises appliance in response to the update, where appropriate. For example, embodiments detect an SI update for at least one DVB content service being provided via a DVB network and determine whether a stream update descriptor in the SI is asserted. Detected assertion triggers an automatic off-schedule MPD update, including assigning a tuner to obtain updated provider MPD via an MPD service, and rebuilding local MPD based on the updated provider MPD. The local MPD is usable by the customer premises appliance to populate a meta-programming user interface (e.g., an electronic program guide) by which to display descriptive information about at least some of the plurality of DVB content services.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 30, 2021Publication date: October 6, 2022Inventors: Alan Terry Pattison, Danny J. Minnick
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Publication number: 20220116675Abstract: A facility for transferring configuration information to a target media device is described. The facility receives in the target media device a copy of media device settings stored in a source media device distinct from the target media device in a first form in which they are used in the source media device. This copy of media device settings is received by the target media device via a route other than its visual user interface. The facility causes the received copy of media device settings to be transformed into a second form in which they can be used in the target media device. The facility then stores the media receiver settings in the second form in the target media device for use by the target media device.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 20, 2021Publication date: April 14, 2022Inventors: Alan Terry Pattison, Robert Sadler
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Patent number: 11234041Abstract: A facility for transferring configuration information to a target media device is described. The facility receives in the target media device a copy of media device settings stored in a source media device distinct from the target media device in a first form in which they are used in the source media device. This copy of media device settings is received by the target media device via a route other than its visual user interface. The facility causes the received copy of media device settings to be transformed into a second form in which they can be used in the target media device. The facility then stores the media receiver settings in the second form in the target media device for use by the target media device.Type: GrantFiled: March 24, 2020Date of Patent: January 25, 2022Assignee: DISH NETWORK L.L.C.Inventors: Alan Terry Pattison, Robert Sadler
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Publication number: 20210306696Abstract: A facility for transferring configuration information to a target media device is described. The facility receives in the target media device a copy of media device settings stored in a source media device distinct from the target media device in a first form in which they are used in the source media device. This copy of media device settings is received by the target media device via a route other than its visual user interface. The facility causes the received copy of media device settings to be transformed into a second form in which they can be used in the target media device. The facility then stores the media receiver settings in the second form in the target media device for use by the target media device.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 24, 2020Publication date: September 30, 2021Inventors: Alan Terry Pattison, Robert Sadler
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Patent number: 11098965Abstract: A radiator includes a radiator frame, an array of tube assemblies each including a coolant tube and a tube clip supported in the radiator frame, and a lateral bump stop fitted between the array of tube assemblies and the radiator frame. The lateral bump stop includes cushions arranged in a staggered cushion pattern complementary to a staggered packing pattern of the tube assemblies with each of the cushions in contact with the tube clip of one of the tube assemblies.Type: GrantFiled: April 9, 2019Date of Patent: August 24, 2021Assignee: Caterpillar Inc.Inventors: Hussien A Albakhit, Virender Kumar, Jeffrey Joseph Speichinger, James McCoy Voelker, Fei Wang, Sudhakar Lakshminarayanan, Dongming Tan, Neil Alan Terry
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Publication number: 20210219017Abstract: A facility for updating software installed on a media device in connection with installation of the media device in customer premises is described. Outside the customer premises, the facility transfers a later-issued version of the software installed on the media device from a server to a portable storage device. Within the customer premises, the facility transfers the later-issued version of the software installed on the media device from the portable storage device to the media device for installation on the media device.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 14, 2020Publication date: July 15, 2021Inventors: Alan Terry Pattison, Geoffrey Kemp, Ashok Soni
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Publication number: 20210219133Abstract: A facility for establishing a wireless connection between first and second devices is described. On the first device, the facility causes a one-time pairing code to be displayed, then wirelessly receives from the second device a wireless connection solicitation having contents. On the first device, in response to the receiving, the facility determines whether the contents reflect the one-time pairing code. In response to determining that the contents reflect the one-time pairing code, on the first device, the facility establishes the wireless connection between the first and second devices.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 14, 2020Publication date: July 15, 2021Inventors: Shiqiang Chu, Alan Terry Pattison
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Publication number: 20200326143Abstract: A radiator includes a radiator frame, an array of tube assemblies each including a coolant tube and a tube clip supported in the radiator frame, and a lateral bump stop fitted between the array of tube assemblies and the radiator frame. The lateral bump stop includes cushions arranged in a staggered cushion pattern complementary to a staggered packing pattern of the tube assemblies with each of the cushions in contact with the tube clip of one of the tube assemblies.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 9, 2019Publication date: October 15, 2020Applicant: Caterpillar Inc.Inventors: Hussien A Albakhit, Virender Kumar, Jeffrey Joseph Speichinger, James McCoy Voelker, Fei Wang, Sudhakar Lakshminarayanan, Dongming Tan, Neil Alan Terry
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Patent number: 9369656Abstract: A remote control is powered by multiple batteries connected in series. The remote control includes a voltage comparison circuit configured to compare a midpoint voltage from a node connecting two of the batteries to a reference voltage. The remote control is able to determine if there is a non-uniform drain rate in the batteries based on the comparison.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2014Date of Patent: June 14, 2016Assignee: EchoStar Technologies L.L.C.Inventors: David Innes, Harold Jaramillo, Alan Terry Pattison, Jeremy Stephen Mickelsen, Adam Michael Schafer
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Publication number: 20150334471Abstract: A system includes a server configured to receive a data stream and at least one client device configured to receive the data stream from the server. The server is configured to synchronize playback of a media content instance by the server, one or more of the client devices, or both, in accordance with a timestamp associated with the data stream.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 15, 2014Publication date: November 19, 2015Applicant: ECHOSTAR TECHNOLOGIES L.L.C.Inventors: David A. Innes, Alan Terry Pattison
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Publication number: 20150281625Abstract: A remote control is powered by multiple batteries connected in series. The remote control includes a voltage comparison circuit configured to compare a midpoint voltage from a node connecting two of the batteries to a reference voltage. The remote control is able to determine if there is a non-uniform drain rate in the batteries based on the comparison.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 31, 2014Publication date: October 1, 2015Applicant: EchoStar Technologies L.L.C.Inventors: David Innes, Harold Jaramillo, Alan Terry Pattison, Jeremy Stephen Mickelsen, Adam Michael Schafer
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Patent number: 9100708Abstract: A television receiving device includes a memory configured to store an electronic program guide. The electronic program guide is divided into channel listings including program information corresponding to television programs being broadcast currently and to television programs scheduled for future broadcast. The device further includes a user interface configured to receive a user input and a processor in communication with the memory and the user interface. The processor is configured to output the electronic program guide to be displayed with, alternatively: 1) at least one channel listing including an expansion icon, where upon the user input indicating a selection of the expansion icon, a single channel listing expands into a plurality of channel listings, or 2) at least one channel including a collapsing icon, where upon the user input indicating a selection of the collapsing icon, a plurality of channel listings collapse into a single channel listing.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2012Date of Patent: August 4, 2015Assignee: EchoStar Technologies L.L.C.Inventors: William N. Moran, Alan Terry Pattison, Michael T. Dugan, Anand Menon
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Publication number: 20140369899Abstract: A cooling system in an aftertreatment unit for a multi-cylinder internal combustion engine is disclosed. The aftertreatment unit includes a selective catalyst reduction (SCR) module, an exhaust conduit portion, and a number of reductant injectors. Each reductant injector includes an injector coolant outlet. The cooling system supplies coolant to the reductant injectors by a coolant pump. A phase separation tank, positioned at a higher gravitational potential downstream of the reductant injectors, includes a number of compartments. Each compartment includes at least one inlet portion and at least one outlet portion. Each inlet portion is in fluid communication to the injector coolant outlet and each outlet portion is in fluid communication with the coolant reservoir. A coolant anti-siphon line portion facilitates fluid communication between the reductant injectors and the phase separation tank.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 1, 2014Publication date: December 18, 2014Applicant: Caterpillar Inc.Inventors: MATTHEW FAHRENKRUG, Sumeeth Shantharaju Sivanagere, Thomas George Ausman, William Charles Morris, Neil Alan Terry, David Firel Schaller, Dongming Tan, Kurtis Edward Chenoweth, Timothy Cameron Englert
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Publication number: 20140300061Abstract: A grommet for insertion into an opening of a radiator header plate may have a cylindrical outer surface having a body outer diameter, an annular shoulder proximate a top surface and extending outwardly beyond the outer surface of the body, and an annular bead proximate a bottom surface of the body and extending outwardly beyond the outer surface of the body and have a bead outer diameter that is greater than the body outer diameter. The annular bead may include a tapered bottom portion having a decreasing outer diameter as the tapered bottom portion extends downwardly toward the bottom surface of the body, with the tapered bottom portion terminating with a bottom outer diameter that is less than the body outer diameter.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 9, 2013Publication date: October 9, 2014Inventors: Sudhakara Reddy Gopireddy, Mahesh Kumar Mokire, Neil Alan Terry, Sumeeth Sivanagere, Khaled M. Mohammad, Daniel Melvin Keehner
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Publication number: 20140299304Abstract: An aluminum tube-and-fin assembly for easy insertion into a manifold seal is provided. The assembly comprises a generally cylindrical, elongated tube and fins extending radially outward from the body. A bead is formed circumferentially around the tube end. A smooth, curved, circumferentially disposed bead corner is interposed between the bead and the tube end. The bead corner has a frustoconical curved shape and a radii of curvature of at least 0.2 mm.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 9, 2013Publication date: October 9, 2014Applicant: Caterpillar Inc.Inventors: Sudhakara Reddy Gopireddy, Neil Alan Terry, Mahesh Kumar Mokire, Sumeeth Sivanagere