Patents by Inventor Benjamin Hillman

Benjamin Hillman 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: 20240411950
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including medium-encoded computer program products, for an access controlled power grid model. A power grid model can include multiple regions. Access can be provided only to a subset of regions based on access privileges, and the user can be denied access to regions of the power grid model outside of the subset. A simulation can be executed using input from the user and can include simulation parameters for at least one of the regions in the subset. The simulation can be executed on the regions of the power grid model in the subset and at least one additional region that is not in the subset. The simulation can produce results that can include electrical values of components in the regions within the subset and values of components in at least one additional region. The output can include only the simulation results for regions within the subset.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2024
    Publication date: December 12, 2024
    Inventors: Hamed Khalilinia, Raymond Daly, Arthur Robert Pope, Sushant Kumar, Sergei Babinskii, Phillip Ellsworth Stahlfeld, Laura Elizabeth Fedoruk, Aryeh Benjamin Hillman
  • Patent number: 12118587
    Abstract: A method includes making a determination at a user device to transition the user device to a standby mode. The method includes sending a message from the user device to a server of a service provider in response to the determination, where the service provider provides a service to the user device. The method includes receiving, in response to the message, a content stream at the user device. The method includes sending video content generated from the content stream to a display device while the user device is in the standby mode. The method also includes, in response to a time in the standby mode exceeding a threshold, transmitting a second message to the server from the user device. In response to the second message, receipt of the content stream ceases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Jason Buxton, Benjamin Hillman, Brian Wilson
  • Publication number: 20220172252
    Abstract: A method includes making a determination at a user device to transition the user device to a standby mode. The method includes sending a message from the user device to a server of a service provider in response to the determination, where the service provider provides a service to the user device. The method includes receiving, in response to the message, a content stream at the user device. The method includes sending video content generated from the content stream to a display device while the user device is in the standby mode. The method also includes, in response to a time in the standby mode exceeding a threshold, transmitting a second message to the server from the user device. In response to the second message, receipt of the content stream ceases.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2022
    Publication date: June 2, 2022
    Applicant: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Jason Buxton, Benjamin Hillman, Brian Wilson
  • Patent number: 11288707
    Abstract: A method includes making a determination at a user device to transition the user device to a standby mode. The method includes sending a message from the user device to a server of a service provider in response to the determination, where the service provider provides a service to the user device. The method includes receiving, in response to the message, a content stream at the user device. The method includes sending video content generated from the content stream to a display device while the user device is in the standby mode. The method also includes, in response to a time in the standby mode exceeding a threshold, transmitting a second message to the server from the user device. In response to the second message, receipt of the content stream ceases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.
    Inventors: Jason Buxton, Benjamin Hillman, Brian Wilson
  • Publication number: 20190244250
    Abstract: A method includes making a determination at a user device to transition the user device to a standby mode. The method includes sending a message from the user device to a server of a service provider in response to the determination, where the service provider provides a service to the user device. The method includes receiving, in response to the message, a content stream at the user device. The method includes sending video content generated from the content stream to a display device while the user device is in the standby mode. The method also includes, in response to a time in the standby mode exceeding a threshold, transmitting a second message to the server from the user device. In response to the second message, receipt of the content stream ceases.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 16, 2019
    Publication date: August 8, 2019
    Inventors: Jason Buxton, Benjamin Hillman, Brian Wilson
  • Patent number: 10304088
    Abstract: A method includes making, at a user device, a determination to transition to a standby mode. The method includes sending a message from the user device to a network device in response to the determination. The method includes receiving, in response to the message, an advertising stream at the user device from the network device. The method includes processing the advertising stream at the user device to generate advertising content. The method also includes sending the advertising content to a display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2019
    Assignee: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.
    Inventors: Jason Buxton, Benjamin Hillman, Brian Wilson
  • Publication number: 20160162948
    Abstract: A method includes making, at a user device, a determination to transition to a standby mode. The method includes sending a message from the user device to a network device in response to the determination. The method includes receiving, in response to the message, an advertising stream at the user device from the network device. The method includes processing the advertising stream at the user device to generate advertising content.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2014
    Publication date: June 9, 2016
    Inventors: Jason Buxton, Benjamin Hillman, Brian Wilson
  • Publication number: 20070193080
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a display article (1) comprising a first member (3) and a second member (5) movable relative to each other between an open position and a closed position. A section (20, 22, 24) of the first member (3) is displaceable away from an adjacent area thereof to enable said section (20, 22, 24) to be silhouetted by light emitted from a device for emitting light (37). The present invention also relates to a blank (31) for forming the display article (1).
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2006
    Publication date: August 23, 2007
    Inventor: Benjamin Hillman