Patents by Inventor Brendan Kelly

Brendan Kelly 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: 20140337158
    Abstract: In an example embodiment, a system for displaying a product in a touch-sensitive display of a hand-held electronic device comprises at least one module, executing on one or more computer processors to present a graphical image representative of the product in the touch-sensitive display, detect a slide-based contact with the touch-sensitive display at or over a first predefined location corresponding to the product image in the display, and display, in response to the detection of the slide-based contact, an array of swatch images associated with variants of the product in the touch-sensitive display.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 7, 2013
    Publication date: November 13, 2014
    Applicant: eBay Inc.
    Inventor: Brendan Kelly
  • Publication number: 20140058887
    Abstract: Disclosed in some examples is a method, system and medium relating to a user selection of items for inclusion in a registry. An example method includes using at least one processor to present an interface to a user; displaying a plurality of items for sale on the interface; displaying on the interface, a registry selection element associated with each item of the plurality of items for sale, the registry selection element being selectable by a user to select the associated item for inclusion in a registry; and responsive to a user selection of a first registry selection element associated with a first item of the plurality of items for sale, recording, in a database, the first item as being included in the registry.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 22, 2012
    Publication date: February 27, 2014
    Applicant: eBay Inc.
    Inventor: Brendan Kelly
  • Patent number: 8296400
    Abstract: A system and method for interfacing with a network component is described. One embodiment includes an electronic method that accesses a network component; retrieves a command set from the network component; generates a configuration schema corresponding to the network component using the retrieved command set; and then stores the generated configuration schema.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2001
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2012
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Scott B. Gorthy, Brendan Kelly, Derek S. Hearne, David B. Heiser, Bret C. Taylor
  • Publication number: 20060232266
    Abstract: An on-state low current detector uses a transistor with main (32) and sense (34) cells. Feedback circuit (36) acts to keep the voltage across main cells (32) at a substantially constant target value when the load current falls below a level that generates the target voltage value in the main cells. The target voltage value is sufficiently high to ensure that the voltages of low current detection comparator (18) are readily measurable.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 14, 2004
    Publication date: October 19, 2006
    Inventor: Brendan Kelly
  • Publication number: 20060227487
    Abstract: A driver for an inductive load such as a solenoid coil 92 includes three FETs 4,6,8. Two of the FETs are reversely connected between battery and output terminals 16, 18, and one of the FETs is connected between output and ground terminals 16, 14. A driver circuit 10 having high and low side control circuitry 58,56 is formed in a common substrate with two of the FETs 4,6. In use, a coil 92 is connected to the output terminal 16, and driven in an energise mode in which current in the coil 92 is built up as indicated by arrow 100, a freewheel mode in which current circulates freely as indicated by arrow 102, and then may be switched off. The reversely connected FETs allow both short circuits to be prevented in the energise mode and allow the coil to be rapidly switched off. In spite of the control circuitry being formed in a common substrate with some of the FETs, the arrangement allows the FETs to be properly driven.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 8, 2004
    Publication date: October 12, 2006
    Inventors: John Cutter, Brendan Kelly
  • Publication number: 20060001084
    Abstract: A vertical insulated gate field effect power transistor (3) has a plurality of parallel transistor cells (TC3) with a peripheral gate structure (G31, G2) at the boundary between each two transistor cells (TC3). The gate structure (G31, G32) comprises first (G31) and second (G32) gates isolated from each other so as to be independently operable. The first gate (G31) is a trench-gate (21, 22), and the second gate (G32) has at least an insulated planar gate portion (13, 14). Simultaneous operation of the first (G31) and second (G32) gates forms a conduction channel (23c, 23b) between source (16) and drain (12) regions of the device (3). The device (3) has on-state resistance approaching that of a trench-gate device, better switching performance than a DMOS device, and a better safe operating area than a trench-gate device. The device (3) may be a high side power transistor is series with a low side power transistor (6) in a circuit arrangement (50) (FIG. 14) for supplying a regulated output voltage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2003
    Publication date: January 5, 2006
    Applicant: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS ELECTRONICS, N.V.
    Inventors: Brendan Kelly, Steven Peake, Raymond Grover
  • Publication number: 20030051008
    Abstract: A system and method for interfacing with a network component is described. One embodiment includes an electronic method that accesses a network component; retrieves a command set from the network component; generates a configuration schema corresponding to the network component using the retrieved command set; and then stores the generated configuration schema.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2001
    Publication date: March 13, 2003
    Inventors: Scott B. Gorthy, Brendan Kelly, Derek S. Hearne, David B. Heiser, Bret C. Taylor