Patents by Inventor Benjamin David

Benjamin David 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: 9665547
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method, computer program product, and computing system is provided for assisting a user navigating a webpage or website. In an implementation, a method may include identifying a plurality of navigation options associated with a webpage. The method may also include determining visitor navigation patterns associated with the plurality of navigation options. The method may further include providing a visual indicator based on, at least in part, the visitor navigation patterns, the visual indicator associated with a rendering of the webpage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2017
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Benjamin David Eidelson, Jason Prado, Christopher Reaves Messina, Doug Sherrets
  • Publication number: 20170143959
    Abstract: An implantable medical device is provided for the suppression or prevention of pain, movement disorders, epilepsy, cerebrovascular diseases, autoimmune diseases, sleep disorders, autonomic disorders, abnormal metabolic states, disorders of the muscular system, and neuropsychiatric disorders in a patient. The implantable medical device can be a neurostimulator configured to be implanted on or near a cranial nerve to treat headache or other neurological disorders. One aspect of the implantable medical device is that it includes an electronics enclosure, a substrate integral to the electronics enclosure, and a monolithic feed-through integral to the electronics enclosure and the substrate. In some embodiments, the implantable medical device can include a fixation apparatus for attaching the device to a patient.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 3, 2017
    Publication date: May 25, 2017
    Inventors: Carl Lance Boling, Benjamin David Pless, Ryan Powell, Anthony V. Caparso
  • Patent number: 9661491
    Abstract: In a computer-implemented method for communicating information about an update of an application, a digital distribution platform can receive, at a first time, the update of the application. The digital distribution platform can receive, at a second time, a signal from a user device. The signal can include a request to receive a transmission of a user interface customized for a user account. The digital distribution platform can automatically determine, in response to receipt of the request to receive the transmission of the user interface customized for the user account, that the application was downloaded, at a third time, to the user device. The digital distribution platform can automatically generate, in response to the second time being later than the first time, the user interface. The user interface can include the information about the update.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2017
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Andrew Abramson, Benjamin David Poiesz
  • Publication number: 20170134934
    Abstract: In a computer-implemented method for communicating information about an update of an application, a digital distribution platform can receive, at a first time, the update of the application. The digital distribution platform can receive, at a second time, a signal from a user device. The signal can include a request to receive a transmission of a user interface customized for a user account. The digital distribution platform can automatically determine, in response to receipt of the request to receive the transmission of the user interface customized for the user account, that the application was downloaded, at a third time, to the user device. The digital distribution platform can automatically generate, in response to the second time being later than the first time, the user interface. The user interface can include the information about the update.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2015
    Publication date: May 11, 2017
    Inventors: Andrew Abramson, Benjamin David Poiesz
  • Patent number: 9646355
    Abstract: Electronic signatures are authenticated utilizing near field communication (NFC) devices as proof of identity. An identification service collects an identification of a NFC device associated with a signer of a contract. The identification may be utilized as an access control mechanism that enables the signer to receive, view, or sign the contract. An electronic signature associated with the signer is received. The identification of the NFC device and the electronic signature of the signer are recorded in the contract and/or audit information associated with the contract.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2017
    Assignee: Adobe Systems Incorporated
    Inventor: Benjamin David Follis
  • Publication number: 20170123093
    Abstract: An apparatus for airborne electromagnetic surveying is provided, comprising a central hub defining an equatorial plane, a transmitter loop, and radials connecting the hub to the transmitter loop. The loop generally lies in a plane during flight, and comprises loop sections, some of which are connected with flexible joints allowing the loop to flex out of the plane during lift-offs and landings. A loop section comprises current conducting elements connected to current conducting elements of adjacent loop sections forming a transmitter loop circuit. A radial connects to the hub at a point that is substantially offset from the transmitter loop plane, thereby contributing to the stability of the transmitter loop connection point in an up-down direction relative to the hub. Additionally, a loop section comprising rigid conductive elements retained in a spaced-apart relationship by a frame member is also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 2, 2015
    Publication date: May 4, 2017
    Inventors: Gordon Fox WEST, Peter Whyte WALKER, Benjamin David POLZER
  • Patent number: 9641609
    Abstract: An system, apparatus, and methods for integrated messaging are disclosed. The apparatus may include a user interface engine, an authorization module and a messaging module. The user interface engine receives input describing a recipient and a message to be received by the recipient. The authorization module generates an authorization signal indicating whether the recipient is authorized to exchange messages via a group messaging engine. The authorization module is coupled to the user interface engine to receive the input describing the recipient. The messaging module selectively transmits the message for dispatch to a user device of the recipient via the group messaging engine or a fallback messaging service based at least in part on the authorization signal. The messaging module is coupled to the authorization module to receive the authorization signal and coupled to the user interface engine to receive the input describing the recipient and the message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Benjamin David Eidelson, Colin Gibbs
  • Publication number: 20170098249
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for personalizing landing pages. In one aspect, a method includes generating, by one or more servers belonging to a first domain and for a request, a personalized landing page that includes the personalized landing page data, wherein the landing page belongs to the first domain, and the landing page includes at least one link to a resource of the first party that belongs to the second domain; and providing, by the one or more servers, the personalized landing page to the user device, wherein the personalized landing page, when processed by the user device, generates a personalized landing page environment that belongs to the first domain.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2016
    Publication date: April 6, 2017
    Inventors: Benjamin David Eidelson, Jason Prado, Sean Liu, Doug Sherrets, Raj Krishnan
  • Patent number: 9614681
    Abstract: Techniques are disclosed for providing an electronic signature service where the content of an electronic document to be signed remains unknown to the service. A sender of the electronic document negotiates a specification for encoding the electronic document. In particular, the specification does not include any content of the electronic document. In this manner, the content of the electronic document can be encrypted and securely transmitted between the sender and the signer via the electronic signature service using one or more data packets conforming to the specification without permitting the electronic signature service to read or otherwise decipher the content. The specification enables the electronic signature service to certify that the signer has received the electronic document and assented to its terms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2017
    Assignee: Adobe Systems Incorporated
    Inventors: Benjamin David Follis, Marc Kaufman
  • Patent number: 9610646
    Abstract: A welding system includes a welder configured to output welding power to generate an arc between a welding electrode and a workpiece. The welding system also includes a power pin configured to be coupled to the welder in a first orientation or a second orientation. The power pin is configured to switch the welding power from a first polarity to a second polarity when the power pin is switched from being coupled to the welder in the first orientation to being coupled to the welder in the second orientation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2017
    Assignee: ILLINOIS TOOL WORKS INC.
    Inventors: Benjamin David Romenesko, Ronald Dewayne Woodward, Adam Richard Schmitz, Michael Thomas Schwarz
  • Patent number: 9609219
    Abstract: A camera lens element is suspended on a support structure by balls that allow movement of the camera lens elementorthogonal to the optical axis and plural flexures connected between the support structure and the camera lens element to bias them against the balls while permitting said movement of the camera lens elementorthogonal to the optical axis. Lateral movement is driven by a lateral actuation arrangement comprising plural SMA actuator wires. The flexures provide a lateral biasing force that biases the camera lens element towards a central position. An electrical connection is made through the flexures from the support structure to the camera lens element. The flexures may be connected to laminated structures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2017
    Assignee: CAMBRIDGE MECHATRONICS LIMITED
    Inventors: James Howarth, Andrew Benjamin David Brown
  • Publication number: 20170085505
    Abstract: Implementations generally relate to configuring presence and notifications in persistent conversations. In one implementation, a method includes receiving a presence state associated with a user and causing the presence state to be selectively displayed to one or more target users. The method also includes determining that an event has occurred for which a notification is to be sent to the user, and selectively delivering the notification to the user based on the configured presence state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 11, 2016
    Publication date: March 23, 2017
    Applicant: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Benjamin David Eidelson, Ujjwal Singh, Heradon Douglas, Eric Barndoller
  • Patent number: 9586283
    Abstract: A wire feeder includes a tensioner with a discrete number of compressive force settings for applying a desired compressive force to welding wire fed through the wire feeder is provided. The tensioner includes an adjustment knob with a discrete number of detents disposed along a helical surface adjacent an inner bore of the adjustment knob. The tensioner also includes a pin extending from an end of a tensioning post located in the inner bore, the pin being configured to align with the detents of the adjustment knob. Rotation of the adjustment knob adjusts alignment of the pin among the discrete number of detents, which correspond to the discrete number of compressive force settings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2017
    Assignee: ILLINOIS TOOL WORKS INC.
    Inventors: Benjamin David Romenesko, Paul William Garvey
  • Patent number: 9591050
    Abstract: A computer system collects user activity data for an online media item. The user activity data includes data for users that are consuming the online media item. The computer system identifies one or more criteria that are associated with the user activity data to use to identify one or more images in the online media item for a thumbnail for the online media item and selects one or more images in the online media item, based on the user activity data, that satisfy the one or more criteria. The computer system recommends the one or more images as the thumbnail for the online media item.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2017
    Assignee: GOOGLE INC.
    Inventors: Doug Sherrets, Benjamin David Eidelson, Jason Toff, Jason Prado, Sean Liu, Karen Kavett
  • Publication number: 20170058785
    Abstract: A system is provided. The system includes a gas turbine, the gas turbine having an operating space during operation and a current operating point during operation, a computing device communicatively coupled to the gas turbine and configured to calculate, based on the current operating point of the gas turbine, the operating space for the gas turbine by solving for a plurality of corner points that define the operating space, and display, to a user, a graph that includes the calculated operating space and the current operating point.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 2, 2015
    Publication date: March 2, 2017
    Inventor: Benjamin David Laskowski
  • Publication number: 20170055938
    Abstract: Systems and methods for generating an input to a computing device based, at least in part, on movement data generated by one or more ultrasonic transducers are described herein. An example system may include at least one ultrasonic transducer configured to be mounted to a body surface that is proximate to at least one subsurface tendon, and a controller operably coupled to the at least one ultrasonic transducer. When mounted to a body surface, the at least one ultrasonic transducer is configured to detect movement of the at least one subsurface tendon. The controller is configured to operate the at least one ultrasonic transducer to generate movement data based on detected movement of the at least one subsurface tendon, and generate an input to a computing device based, at least in part, on the generated movement data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2016
    Publication date: March 2, 2017
    Inventor: Benjamin David Krasnow
  • Publication number: 20170049554
    Abstract: A method and device to improve lung function in a patient having restricted ventilation. The device may include an implantable airway bypass device that relieves trapped air. The method may include a treatment procedure that minimizes irritation of tissue to control healing processes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2015
    Publication date: February 23, 2017
    Applicant: Soffio Medical Inc.
    Inventors: Jianmin LI, George BOURNE, Mark GELFAND, Howard LEVIN, Michael BARENBOYM, Ary CHERNOMORSKY, Benjamin David BELL, Gerhard Andrew FOELSCHE, Mark LEUNG
  • Publication number: 20170049406
    Abstract: Methods, apparatuses and systems are described for simultaneously displaying location data and physiological data for a plurality of users. The methods may include receiving physiological data corresponding to one or more physiological parameters of each of the plurality of users. The methods may also include receiving location data corresponding to a location of each of the plurality of users. The method may also include displaying the received physiological data and location data simultaneously on a same visual representation for each of the plurality of users.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 17, 2016
    Publication date: February 23, 2017
    Inventors: AARON JOHN LANZEL, BENJAMIN DAVID MORRIS, ROBERT JEFFREY NELSEN
  • Publication number: 20170053078
    Abstract: Methods, apparatuses and systems are described for determining a readiness of a user. The methods may include receiving physiological data corresponding to one or more physiological parameters of the user. The methods may also include receiving user input data corresponding to one or more subjective user state parameters of the user. The methods may also include assigning a respective component score to each of the received physiological data and user input data. The methods may further include assigning a respective weight to at least one of the one or more physiological parameters or one or more subjective user state parameters of the user. The methods may also include deriving a readiness score for the user based at least in part on the component scores of the corresponding weights. The derived readiness score may be communicated to the user via a display device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 17, 2016
    Publication date: February 23, 2017
    Inventors: AARON JOHN LANZEL, BENJAMIN DAVID MORRIS, BRIAN KEITH RUSSELL
  • Patent number: D785703
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Inventor: Benjamin David Skaggs