Patents by Inventor Alexander Austin

Alexander Austin 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).

  • Publication number: 20230334239
    Abstract: A method includes receiving a request from a user device accessing a webpage, the request including a webpage uniform resource locator (URL) and a user device identifier. The method includes retrieving a list of events associated with the user device based on the device identifier. The method further includes retrieving sets of rules. Each set of rules indicates events and URLs that satisfy the set of rules. Each set of rules is associated with a template that includes link rendering data for rendering a link on the user device. The method includes identifying a set of rules that is satisfied by the received URL and events, transmitting link rendering data associated with the identified set of rules to the user device, and transmitting link routing data to the user device. The link routing data is configured to route the user device to an application state corresponding to the webpage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2023
    Publication date: October 19, 2023
    Applicant: Branch Metrics, Inc.
    Inventors: Alexander Austin, William Lindemann, Cheng-chao Yang, Eric J. Glover, Dmitri Gaskin, Kan Yu, Sofus Macskassy
  • Patent number: 11704483
    Abstract: A method includes receiving a request from a user device accessing a webpage, the request including a webpage uniform resource locator (URL) and a user device identifier. The method includes retrieving a list of events associated with the user device based on the device identifier. The method further includes retrieving sets of rules. Each set of rules indicates events and URLs that satisfy the set of rules. Each set of rules is associated with a template that includes link rendering data for rendering a link on the user device. The method includes identifying a set of rules that is satisfied by the received URL and events, transmitting link rendering data associated with the identified set of rules to the user device, and transmitting link routing data to the user device. The link routing data is configured to route the user device to an application state corresponding to the webpage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: Branch Metrics, Inc.
    Inventors: Alexander Austin, William Lindemann, Cheng-chao Yang, Eric J. Glover, Dmitri Gaskin, Kan Yu, Sofus Macskassy
  • Patent number: 11476383
    Abstract: A device that includes a metal(III)-polar III-nitride substrate having a first surface opposite a second surface, a tunnel junction formed on one of the first surface or a buffer layer disposed on the first surface, a p-type III-nitride layer formed directly on the tunnel junction, and a number of material layers; a first material layer formed on the p-type III-nitride layer, each subsequent layer disposed on a preceding layer, where one layer from the number of material layers is patterned into a structure, that one layer being a III-nitride layer. Methods for forming the device are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: Cornell University
    Inventors: Henryk Turski, Debdeep Jena, Huili Grace Xing, Shyam Bharadwaj, Alexander Austin Chaney, Kazuki Nomoto
  • Publication number: 20220303736
    Abstract: A user device includes a local service module application and an advertising application. The user device receives, at the advertising application, advertisement data from an application-specific server associated with the advertising application. The advertisement data includes advertisement content data configured to render an advertisement. The user device is further configured to send the advertisement data from the advertising application to the local service module application. The user device is further configured to receive, at the local service module application, an advertisement request from an advertisement requesting application installed on the user device. The user device is further configured to send, from the local service module application, the advertisement data to the advertisement requesting application in response to the advertisement request.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2022
    Publication date: September 22, 2022
    Applicant: Branch Metrics, Inc.
    Inventors: Eric Glover, Rishi Khaitan, Antonio Garcia-Martinez, Colin Nathan Behr, Alexander Austin
  • Publication number: 20220114187
    Abstract: A user device includes a processing unit that executes a search application. Executing the search application causes the processing unit to receive a user search query, send the user search query to a plurality of target applications, and receive a set of search results from each of the target applications. Each search result includes application state access data configured to access an application state of the target application associated with the search result. Executing the search application causes the processing unit to rank the search results, display the ranked search results, and detect user selection of one of the displayed search results. Additionally, executing the search application causes the processing unit to send the application state access data associated with the selected search result to the target application associated with the selected search result and display the application state accessed using the application state access data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2021
    Publication date: April 14, 2022
    Applicant: Branch Metrics, Inc.
    Inventors: Sojan Ponthanplavil Razallian, Eric J. Glover, Alexander Austin, Kan Yu
  • Patent number: 11216471
    Abstract: A user device includes a processing unit that executes a search application. Executing the search application causes the processing unit to receive a user search query, send the user search query to a plurality of target applications, and receive a set of search results from each of the target applications. Each search result includes application state access data configured to access an application state of the target application associated with the search result. Executing the search application causes the processing unit to rank the search results, display the ranked search results, and detect user selection of one of the displayed search results. Additionally, executing the search application causes the processing unit to send the application state access data associated with the selected search result to the target application associated with the selected search result and display the application state accessed using the application state access data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: Branch Metrics, Inc.
    Inventors: Sojan Ponthanplavil Razallian, Eric J. Glover, Alexander Austin, Kan Yu
  • Publication number: 20210043795
    Abstract: A device that includes a metal(III)-polar III-nitride substrate having a first surface opposite a second surface, a tunnel junction formed on one of the first surface or a buffer layer disposed on the first surface, a p-type III-nitride layer formed directly on the tunnel junction, and a number of material layers; a first material layer formed on the p-type III-nitride layer, each subsequent layer disposed on a preceding layer, where one layer from the number of material layers is patterned into a structure, that one layer being a III-nitride layer. Methods for forming the device are also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2019
    Publication date: February 11, 2021
    Applicant: Cornell University
    Inventors: Henryk Turski, Debdeep Jena, Huili Grace Xing, Shyam Bharadwaj, Alexander Austin Chaney, Kazuki Nomoto
  • Publication number: 20200380203
    Abstract: A method includes receiving a request from a user device accessing a webpage, the request including a webpage uniform resource locator (URL) and a user device identifier. The method includes retrieving a list of events associated with the user device based on the device identifier. The method further includes retrieving sets of rules. Each set of rules indicates events and URLs that satisfy the set of rules. Each set of rules is associated with a template that includes link rendering data for rendering a link on the user device. The method includes identifying a set of rules that is satisfied by the received URL and events, transmitting link rendering data associated with the identified set of rules to the user device, and transmitting link routing data to the user device. The link routing data is configured to route the user device to an application state corresponding to the webpage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 20, 2020
    Publication date: December 3, 2020
    Applicant: Branch Metrics, Inc.
    Inventors: Alexander Austin, William Lindemann, Cheng-chao Yang, Eric J. Glover, Dmitri Gaskin, Kan Yu, Sofus Macskassy
  • Patent number: 10769364
    Abstract: A method includes receiving a request from a user device accessing a webpage, the request including a webpage uniform resource locator (URL) and a user device identifier. The method includes retrieving a list of events associated with the user device based on the device identifier. The method further includes retrieving sets of rules. Each set of rules indicates events and URLs that satisfy the set of rules. Each set of rules is associated with a template that includes link rendering data for rendering a link on the user device. The method includes identifying a set of rules that is satisfied by the received URL and events, transmitting link rendering data associated with the identified set of rules to the user device, and transmitting link routing data to the user device. The link routing data is configured to route the user device to an application state corresponding to the webpage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Assignee: Branch Metrics, Inc.
    Inventors: Alexander Austin, William Lindemann, Cheng-chao Yang, Eric J. Glover, Dmitri Gaskin, Kan Yu, Sofus Macskassy
  • Publication number: 20200081930
    Abstract: A method includes storing entity records that include entity information that describes an entity and an application link that accesses an application state associated with the entity. The method includes receiving event data from user devices that indicates a number of times each of the application states was accessed by the user devices. The method includes determining a popularity score for each entity record based on the received event data, wherein the popularity score indicates the number of times the application state for the entity record was accessed relative to the number of times other application states were accessed. The method includes identifying a set of preliminary result entity records based on a search request, generating result scores for each of the preliminary result entity records based on the popularity scores, and generating search results that include application links from the preliminary result entity records.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 5, 2019
    Publication date: March 12, 2020
    Applicant: Branch Metrics, Inc.
    Inventors: Zeesha Currimbhoy, Alexander Austin, Eric J. Glover, Jyotsna Jayaraman, Jonas Frederick Bauer, Kan Yu, Charles Currin Gilliam, Rishi Khaitan
  • Publication number: 20190317941
    Abstract: A user device includes a processing unit that executes a search application. Executing the search application causes the processing unit to receive a user search query, send the user search query to a plurality of target applications, and receive a set of search results from each of the target applications. Each search result includes application state access data configured to access an application state of the target application associated with the search result. Executing the search application causes the processing unit to rank the search results, display the ranked search results, and detect user selection of one of the displayed search results. Additionally, executing the search application causes the processing unit to send the application state access data associated with the selected search result to the target application associated with the selected search result and display the application state accessed using the application state access data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 16, 2019
    Publication date: October 17, 2019
    Applicant: Branch Metrics, Inc.
    Inventors: Sojan Ponthanplavil Razallian, Eric J. Glover, Alexander Austin, Kan Yu
  • Publication number: 20190253503
    Abstract: A method includes receiving a user ID for a user device and entity identification data that indicates an entity. The method includes identifying first and second action links using the entity identification data. The first and second action links are configured to cause the user device to access first and second application states associated with the entity. The first and second action links are associated with first and second action IDs that indicate functionality of the first and second application states. The method includes determining first and second usage values using the user ID. The first and second usage values indicate a number of times the user device accessed application states associated with the first and second action IDs. The method includes scoring the action links based on the first and second usage values, selecting one of the action links based on the scores, and transmitting the selected action link.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2019
    Publication date: August 15, 2019
    Applicant: Branch Metrics, Inc.
    Inventors: Alexander Austin, Eric J. Glover, Vishwa Ranjan, Augustus Hong, Zeesha Currimbhoy, John Saleigh
  • Publication number: 20180357215
    Abstract: A method includes receiving a request from a user device accessing a webpage, the request including a webpage uniform resource locator (URL) and a user device identifier. The method includes retrieving a list of events associated with the user device based on the device identifier. The method further includes retrieving sets of rules. Each set of rules indicates events and URLs that satisfy the set of rules. Each set of rules is associated with a template that includes link rendering data for rendering a link on the user device. The method includes identifying a set of rules that is satisfied by the received URL and events, transmitting link rendering data associated with the identified set of rules to the user device, and transmitting link routing data to the user device. The link routing data is configured to route the user device to an application state corresponding to the webpage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 8, 2018
    Publication date: December 13, 2018
    Applicant: Branch Metrics, Inc.
    Inventors: Alexander Austin, William Lindemann, Cheng-chao Yang, Eric J. Glover, Dmitri Gaskin, Kan Yu, Sofus Macskassy
  • Publication number: 20150125774
    Abstract: A liquid electrolyte fuel cell system (10) comprises at least one fuel cell with a liquid electrolyte chamber between opposed electrodes, the electrodes being an anode and a cathode, and means (30, 32) for supplying a gas stream to a gas chamber adjacent to the cathode and withdrawing a spent gas stream (38) from the gas chamber adjacent to the cathode, the system also comprising a liquid electrolyte storage tank (40), and means (42, 44, 47, 48) to circulate liquid electrolyte between the liquid electrolyte storage tank (40) and the fuel cells. In addition the system comprises a gas heater (50) and a humidification chamber (52) in the duct (36) leading to the said gas chamber, and means (53, 66, 68) to supply liquid electrolyte to the humidification chamber (52) so the gas is humidified by contact with the liquid electrolyte.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 29, 2013
    Publication date: May 7, 2015
    Inventors: James Alexander Austin, Martin Thomas, Naveed Akhtar
  • Publication number: 20070051293
    Abstract: A device for transferring a person or object across fluid or unstable surfaces such as mud, snow, ice, water or sand, has a base member for supporting the person or object and at least one inflatable structure which forms a wall around only part of the periphery of the base member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2006
    Publication date: March 8, 2007
    Inventor: Alexander Austin
  • Patent number: D1023324
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: HYPERICE IP SUBCO, LLC
    Inventors: Alexander Joseph Aguiar, Trevor Austin Kerth, Ellen Posch
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    Patent number: D1023325
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: HYPERICE IP SUBCO, LLC
    Inventors: Alexander Joseph Aguiar, Trevor Austin Kerth, Ellen Posch
  • Patent number: D1023326
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: HYPERICE IP SUBCO, LLC
    Inventors: Alexander Joseph Aguiar, Trevor Austin Kerth, Ellen Posch