Patents by Inventor Anthony Bond
Anthony Bond 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: 20240073468Abstract: Introduced here are systems to manage and discover a processing offloader. A first multimedia device may identify a processing offloader in a networked environment. A first multimedia device may determine that a bandwidth of a second multimedia device in the networked environment falls below a threshold bandwidth, indicating that the second multimedia device may process instructions and render multimedia information with increased latency or delay. Based on this determination, the first multimedia device may forward instructions from the second multimedia device to the processing offloader for the processing offloader to process and render multimedia information on behalf of the second multimedia device based on the received instructions. The first multimedia device may forward rendered multimedia information from the processing offloader to the second multimedia device, and the second multimedia device may output the rendered multimedia information to an output device.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 2, 2023Publication date: February 29, 2024Inventors: Manuel Novoa, III, Kan Man Wong, Vishal Neeralike, Shiqiang Chu, Aram Semerjyan, Anthony Bond, Michael Song, Anthony Kallas, Derick Wong
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Patent number: 11915541Abstract: A display, as for an electronic gaming machine, includes one or more rotatable mechanical reels including at least one variable displaying position at which the display may be varied. Content is displayed at the variable displaying position when the variable displaying position registers with the display. One or more reels can include a reel strip which includes at one location a pre-printed symbol and at another location a window. A video display can be arranged, configured and controlled by a processor to cast a display at the inside of the reel to impart light and video effects to pre-printed symbol locations or to cast video content through the reel strip window.Type: GrantFiled: December 30, 2020Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: Aristocrat Technologies Australia Pty LimitedInventors: Philip Jeffery Anderson, Linn Anthony McKay, Scott Monroe Stewart, Anthony Wayne Bond
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Publication number: 20240064361Abstract: Disclosed are methods for supplementing the processing capabilities of multimedia devices in a networked environment. A method can include providing a processing offloader module to physically connect to a first multimedia device in the networked environment. The offloader can be internal and/or external to the device. The method can include identifying the offloader, identifying a second multimedia device, and determining that a bandwidth of the second device falls below a threshold bandwidth. Instructions can be forwarded from the second device to the offloader when the bandwidth of the second device exceeds the threshold bandwidth. The offloader is configured to process the instructions and render multimedia information based on the instructions.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 2, 2023Publication date: February 22, 2024Inventors: Manuel Novoa, III, Kan Man Wong, Vishal Neeralike, Shiqiang Chu, Aram Semerjyan, Anthony Bond, Michael Song, Anthony Kallas, Derick Wong
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Publication number: 20230396825Abstract: Introduced here are systems to manage and discover a processing offloader. A first multimedia device may identify a processing offloader in a networked environment. A first multimedia device may determine that a bandwidth of a second multimedia device in the networked environment falls below a threshold bandwidth, indicating that the second multimedia device may process instructions and render multimedia information with increased latency or delay. Based on this determination, the first multimedia device may forward instructions from the second multimedia device to the processing offloader for the processing offloader to process and render multimedia information on behalf of the second multimedia device based on the received instructions. The first multimedia device may forward rendered multimedia information from the processing offloader to the second multimedia device, and the second multimedia device may output the rendered multimedia information to an output device.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 16, 2023Publication date: December 7, 2023Inventors: Manuel Novoa, III, Kan Man Wong, Vishal Neeralike, Shiqiang Chu, Aram Semerjyan, Anthony Bond, Michael Song, Anthony Kallas, Derick Wong
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Patent number: 11818412Abstract: Disclosed are methods for supplementing the processing capabilities of multimedia devices in a networked environment. A method can include providing a processing offloader module to physically connect to a first multimedia device in the networked environment. The offloader can be internal and/or external to the device. The method can include identifying the offloader, identifying a second multimedia device, and determining that a bandwidth of the second device falls below a threshold bandwidth. Instructions can be forwarded from the second device to the offloader when the bandwidth of the second device exceeds the threshold bandwidth. The offloader is configured to process the instructions and render multimedia information based on the instructions.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 2019Date of Patent: November 14, 2023Assignee: DISH Network L.L.C.Inventors: Manuel Novoa, III, Kan Man Wong, Vishal Neeralike, Shiqiang Chu, Aram Semerjyan, Anthony Bond, Michael Song, Anthony Kallas, Derick Wong
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Patent number: 11812082Abstract: Introduced here are systems to manage and discover a processing offloader. A first multimedia device may identify a processing offloader in a networked environment. A first multimedia device may determine that a bandwidth of a second multimedia device in the networked environment falls below a threshold bandwidth, indicating that the second multimedia device may process instructions and render multimedia information with increased latency or delay. Based on this determination, the first multimedia device may forward instructions from the second multimedia device to the processing offloader for the processing offloader to process and render multimedia information on behalf of the second multimedia device based on the received instructions. The first multimedia device may forward rendered multimedia information from the processing offloader to the second multimedia device, and the second multimedia device may output the rendered multimedia information to an output device.Type: GrantFiled: May 3, 2022Date of Patent: November 7, 2023Assignee: DISH Network L.L.C.Inventors: Manuel Novoa, III, Kan Man Wong, Vishal Neeralike, Shiqiang Chu, Aram Semerjyan, Anthony Bond, Michael Song, Anthony Kallas, Derick Wong
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Patent number: 11736754Abstract: Introduced here are systems to manage and discover a processing offloader. A first multimedia device may identify a processing offloader in a networked environment. A first multimedia device may determine that a bandwidth of a second multimedia device in the networked environment falls below a threshold bandwidth, indicating that the second multimedia device may process instructions and render multimedia information with increased latency or delay. Based on this determination, the first multimedia device may forward instructions from the second multimedia device to the processing offloader for the processing offloader to process and render multimedia information on behalf of the second multimedia device based on the received instructions. The first multimedia device may forward rendered multimedia information from the processing offloader to the second multimedia device, and the second multimedia device may output the rendered multimedia information to an output device.Type: GrantFiled: May 5, 2022Date of Patent: August 22, 2023Assignee: DISH Network L.L.C.Inventors: Manuel Novoa, III, Kan Man Wong, Vishal Neeralike, Shiqiang Chu, Aram Semerjyan, Anthony Bond, Michael Song, Anthony Kallas, Derick Wong
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Publication number: 20220264169Abstract: Introduced here are systems to manage and discover a processing offloader. A first multimedia device may identify a processing offloader in a networked environment. A first multimedia device may determine that a bandwidth of a second multimedia device in the networked environment falls below a threshold bandwidth, indicating that the second multimedia device may process instructions and render multimedia information with increased latency or delay. Based on this determination, the first multimedia device may forward instructions from the second multimedia device to the processing offloader for the processing offloader to process and render multimedia information on behalf of the second multimedia device based on the received instructions. The first multimedia device may forward rendered multimedia information from the processing offloader to the second multimedia device, and the second multimedia device may output the rendered multimedia information to an output device.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 5, 2022Publication date: August 18, 2022Inventors: Manuel Novoa, III, Kan Man Wong, Vishal Neeralike, Shiqiang Chu, Aram Semerjyan, Anthony Bond, Michael Song, Anthony Kallas, Derick Wong
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Publication number: 20220264167Abstract: Introduced here are systems to manage and discover a processing offloader. A first multimedia device may identify a processing offloader in a networked environment. A first multimedia device may determine that a bandwidth of a second multimedia device in the networked environment falls below a threshold bandwidth, indicating that the second multimedia device may process instructions and render multimedia information with increased latency or delay. Based on this determination, the first multimedia device may forward instructions from the second multimedia device to the processing offloader for the processing offloader to process and render multimedia information on behalf of the second multimedia device based on the received instructions. The first multimedia device may forward rendered multimedia information from the processing offloader to the second multimedia device, and the second multimedia device may output the rendered multimedia information to an output device.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 3, 2022Publication date: August 18, 2022Inventors: Manuel Novoa, III, Kan Man Wong, Vishal Neeralike, Shiqiang Chu, Aram Semerjyan, Anthony Bond, Michael Song, Anthony Kallas, Derick Wong
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Publication number: 20220231244Abstract: Colloidal quantum dot devices are provided including an integrated circuit; a colloidal quantum dot structure on the integrated circuit; and an encapsulation layer on the colloidal quantum dot structure, the encapsulation layer having a thickness from about 0.5 nm to about 500 nm.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 19, 2022Publication date: July 21, 2022Inventors: Ethan J.D. Klem, Christopher Gregory, Jeffery Allan Hilton, JR., Michael Anthony Bond, Katherine Elizabeth Violette
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Patent number: 11336942Abstract: Introduced here are systems to manage and discover a processing offloader. A first multimedia device may identify a processing offloader in a networked environment. A first multimedia device may determine that a bandwidth of a second multimedia device in the networked environment falls below a threshold bandwidth, indicating that the second multimedia device may process instructions and render multimedia information with increased latency or delay. Based on this determination, the first multimedia device may forward instructions from the second multimedia device to the processing offloader for the processing offloader to process and render multimedia information on behalf of the second multimedia device based on the received instructions. The first multimedia device may forward rendered multimedia information from the processing offloader to the second multimedia device, and the second multimedia device may output the rendered multimedia information to an output device.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 2019Date of Patent: May 17, 2022Assignee: DISH Network L.L.C.Inventors: Manuel Novoa, III, Kan Man Wong, Vishal Neeralike, Shiqiang Chu, Aram Semerjyan, Anthony Bond, Michael Song, Anthony Kallas, Derick Wong
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Patent number: 11330317Abstract: Introduced here are systems to manage and discover a processing offloader. A first multimedia device may identify a processing offloader in a networked environment. A first multimedia device may determine that a bandwidth of a second multimedia device in the networked environment falls below a threshold bandwidth, indicating that the second multimedia device may process instructions and render multimedia information with increased latency or delay. Based on this determination, the first multimedia device may forward instructions from the second multimedia device to the processing offloader for the processing offloader to process and render multimedia information on behalf of the second multimedia device based on the received instructions. The first multimedia device may forward rendered multimedia information from the processing offloader to the second multimedia device, and the second multimedia device may output the rendered multimedia information to an output device.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 2019Date of Patent: May 10, 2022Assignee: DISH Network L.L.C.Inventors: Manuel Novoa, III, Kan Man Wong, Vishal Neeralike, Shiqiang Chu, Aram Semerjyan, Anthony Bond, Michael Song, Anthony Kallas, Derick Wong
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Patent number: 8169616Abstract: In some embodiments, the pathlength difference (retardation) in a step scanning infrared (IR) spectrometer interferometer is maintained under AC servomechanism (servo) control for a first period following a step change, and under DC servo control for a second period following the first period. Data is acquired during and/or after the DC servo control period. Switching off the AC servo control prior to data acquisition allows limiting the dither-frequency noise that could otherwise affect signals of interest, particularly in fast-time-scale applications such as high-speed time-resolved spectroscopy (TSR). A mirror position control circuit controls a mirror position stepping as well as switching a mirror servo control from AC to DC.Type: GrantFiled: February 16, 2010Date of Patent: May 1, 2012Assignee: Agilent Technologies Australia (M) Pty LtdInventors: David B. Johnson, Anthony Bond
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Publication number: 20110199614Abstract: In some embodiments, the pathlength difference (retardation) in a step scanning infrared (IR) spectrometer interferometer is maintained under AC servomechanism (servo) control for a first period following a step change, and under DC servo control for a second period following the first period. Data is acquired during and/or after the DC servo control period. Switching off the AC servo control prior to data acquisition allows limiting the dither-frequency noise that could otherwise affect signals of interest, particularly in fast-time-scale applications such as high-speed time-resolved spectroscopy (TSR). A mirror position control circuit controls a mirror position stepping as well as switching a mirror servo control from AC to DC.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 16, 2010Publication date: August 18, 2011Inventors: David B. Johnson, Anthony Bond
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Patent number: 7331215Abstract: Apparatus for deploying equipment in a fluid container or fluid conduit comprises a fluid housing having an outlet aperture, the fluid housing being adapted to be secured to the container or conduit such that the outlet aperture is in fluid communication with an aperture in the container or conduit. The apparatus further includes a piston in the fluid housing dividing the fluid housing into first and second fluid chambers, the second fluid chamber being in fluid communication with the interior of the container or conduit via the outlet aperture when the fluid housing is secured in fluid communication with the container or conduit. The piston is movable within the fluid housing toward the outlet aperture in response to increases of fluid pressure in the first fluid chamber. The apparatus further includes a guide means for guiding deployment of the equipment into the container or conduit.Type: GrantFiled: March 24, 2005Date of Patent: February 19, 2008Assignee: WRc plcInventor: Anthony Bond
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Publication number: 20050181873Abstract: A method of dynamically linking abstracted hardware devices, which are used in association with gaming machines, to gaming software is disclosed. The game machine has a central processing unit (“CPU”), a resource manager, driver pools, and a communication link that connect a plurality of intelligent Input/Output controller boards (“IOCB”) to hardware devices interfaced to the game. The resource manager's functional blocks are: a resource manager control task, a plurality of Input/output (“I/O”) communication drivers to connect to the IOCBs, a low level and high level driver manager, a low level and high level driver pool, and a plurality of resource repositories that interface to the gaming software. The resource manager starts an I/O communication driver to scan for the primary IOCB on the I/O memory bus, Universal Serial Bus, or Firewire. Once the primary IOCB is found, the resource control task will load more I/O communication drivers for any secondary A IOCBs.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 30, 2005Publication date: August 18, 2005Inventor: Anthony Bond
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Publication number: 20050181874Abstract: A method of dynamically linking abstracted hardware devices, which are used in association with gaming machines, to gaming software is disclosed. The game machine has a central processing unit (“CPU”), a resource manager, driver pools, and a communication link that connect a plurality of intelligent Input/Output controller boards (“IOCB”) to hardware devices interfaced to the game. The resource manager's functional blocks are: a resource manager control task, a plurality of Input/Output (“I/O”) communication drivers to connect to the IOCBs, a low level and high level driver manager, a low level and high level driver pool, and a plurality of resource repositories that interface to the gaming software. The resource manager starts an I/O communication driver to scan for the primary IOCB on the I/O memory bus, Universal Serial Bus, or Firewire. Once the primary IOCB is found, the resource control task will load more I/O communication drivers for any secondary IOCBs.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 30, 2005Publication date: August 18, 2005Inventor: Anthony Bond
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Publication number: 20050172737Abstract: Apparatus for deploying equipment in a fluid container or fluid conduit comprises a fluid housing having an outlet aperture, the fluid housing being adapted to be secured to the container or conduit such that the outlet aperture is in fluid communication with an aperture in the container or conduit. The apparatus further includes a piston in the fluid housing dividing the fluid housing into first and second fluid chambers, the second fluid chamber being in fluid communication with the interior of the container or conduit via the outlet aperture when the fluid housing is secured in fluid communication with the container or conduit. The piston is movable within the fluid housing toward the outlet aperture in response to increases of fluid pressure in the first fluid chamber. The apparatus further includes a guide means for guiding deployment of the equipment into the container or conduit.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 24, 2005Publication date: August 11, 2005Inventor: Anthony Bond
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Publication number: 20050159203Abstract: An electronic Input/Output Interface and device abstraction system used in gaming machine includes: a game central processing unit (the game “CPU”); an intelligent Input/output controller board (the “IOCB”); an Industry Standard Architecture PC bus (“IBA bus”); and a framed message transport protocol. The IOCB facilitates the communications between the game CPU and virtual device services, which, are peripheral devices associated with the gaming system. These include devices such as displays, buttons, hoppers, coin mechanisms and bill validators. The framed message transport protocol includes: a message header, a body containing a virtual device message, and a packet validation signature. The game CPU communicates to gaming peripherals by sending virtual device messages across the ISA bus to the IOCB. The IOCB then routes the virtual device message to the appropriate virtual device services.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 17, 2005Publication date: July 21, 2005Inventors: Anthony Bond, Ronald Mach
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Patent number: 6889703Abstract: Apparatus for deploying equipment in a fluid container or fluid conduit comprises a fluid housing having an outlet aperture, the fluid housing being adapted to be secured to the container or conduit such that the outlet aperture is in fluid communication with an aperture in the container or conduit. The apparatus further includes a piston in the fluid housing dividing the fluid housing into first and second fluid chambers, the second fluid chamber being in fluid communication with the interior of the container or conduit via the outlet aperture when the fluid housing is secured in fluid communication with the container or conduit. The piston is movable within the fluid housing toward the outlet aperture in response to increases of fluid pressure in the first fluid chamber. The apparatus further includes a guide means for guiding deployment of the equipment into the container or conduit.Type: GrantFiled: March 7, 2002Date of Patent: May 10, 2005Assignee: WRC PLCInventor: Anthony Bond