Patents by Inventor Brent Curtis

Brent Curtis 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: 11960264
    Abstract: A load control system may control an electrical load in a space of a building based on one or more parameters regarding the physical condition of an occupant. The parameters may be gathered by one or more sensing devices. The sensing devices may be included in a mobile device. A system controller may receive the parameters and may automatically control the electrical loads in response to the parameters. The system controller may control the electrical load to attempt to adjust the physical condition of the occupant in response to the sensed parameters. The system controller may control the electrical load to provide an alert, an alarm, and/or a warning in response to the sensed parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Lutron Technology Company LLC
    Inventors: Rhodes B. Baker, Jason C. Killo, Galen Edgar Knode, Sanjeev Kumar, Brent Protzman, Daniel Curtis Raneri, Greg Edward Sloan
  • Publication number: 20240085084
    Abstract: An appliance air freshener having a frame and an air freshener medium. The frame defines an enclosure having a first face, and a second face opposite and spaced from the first face. The first face and the second face form an outer perimeter of the enclosure. The frame also defines a passage located within and spaced from the outer perimeter and extending along a passage axis from the first face to the second face. The air freshener medium is located within the enclosure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Inventors: Josh Hanson, Ramesh Subramanian, Eric Hitchcock, Brent Curtis, Belinda Zhang
  • Patent number: 11859891
    Abstract: An appliance air freshener having a frame and an air freshener medium. The frame defines an enclosure having a first face, and a second face opposite and spaced from the first face. The first face and the second face form an outer perimeter of the enclosure. The frame also defines a passage located within and spaced from the outer perimeter and extending along a passage axis from the first face to the second face. The air freshener medium is located within the enclosure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: Electrolux Home Products, Inc.
    Inventors: Josh Hanson, Ramesh Subramanian, Eric Hitchcock, Brent Curtis, Belinda Zhang
  • Publication number: 20210018247
    Abstract: An appliance air freshener having a frame and an air freshener medium, The frame defines an enclosure having a first face, and a second face opposite and spaced from the first face. The first face and the second face form an outer perimeter of the enclosure. The frame also defines a passage located within and spaced from the outer perimeter and extending along a passage axis from the first face to the second face. The air freshener medium is located within the enclosure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 17, 2019
    Publication date: January 21, 2021
    Inventors: Josh Hanson, Ramesh Subramanian, Eric Hitchcock, Brent Curtis, Belinda Zhang
  • Patent number: 9633392
    Abstract: An integrated finding experience is a workflow configured to facilitate a search by a user for one or more items among many items (e.g., an inventory of items). An integrated finding experience machine may provide one or more user interfaces that support the workflow in presenting information differently as the user progresses through a search process (e.g., a finding experience) with respect to a database (e.g., storing information regarding one or more items). For example, the workflow may include various stages of a search process from defining a query, to refining the query, to visually scanning search results, to displaying details of one or more selected search results, to comparing selected search results to each other. Each stage may have a specialized user interface configured to facilitate one or more user activities pertinent to that stage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2017
    Assignee: PAYPAL, INC.
    Inventors: Belmer Perella Garcia Negrillo, Jonas Klink, Andrew David Palmer, Brent Curtis Leffew
  • Patent number: 9590927
    Abstract: A system and method for improved client and server communications, more particularly, an improved protocol that may be used for communication between a client and a server, such as in an email environment. Many features are provided for improved communications. An email server may provide the best message body available for an email message, may transfer an entire data object if requested property or properties are not well defined within the data object, may provide progress data for use in tracking download progress, and may send error information for a data object having an error. Email changes may be optimized at an email server component, even if the email changes occurred at another email server component. An email server may maintain a table of changes that occur to folders at an associated data store, and may notify a subscribed email client component of changes that occur in the table.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2017
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Joseph R. Warren, Karl Froelich, Remi A. Lemarchand, Robert R. Novitskey, Ronald E. Gray, Aaron Hartwell, Brendan Power, Brent Curtis, Nicole A. Bonilla
  • Patent number: 9400132
    Abstract: A refrigerator may include an insulated cabinet configured to preserve food, an insulated door mounted on the insulated cabinet, the insulated door being configured to close the insulated cabinet, the insulated door including an inner wall, the inner wall including one or more recesses, and an article dispenser including a dispensing portion and a mounting portion on a back side of the dispensing portion, the mounting portion being configured to removably mount the dispensing portion within the recesses, the dispensing portion being configured to store one or more articles and dispense the articles according to a user's demand.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2016
    Assignee: ELECTROLUX HOME PRODUCTS, INC.
    Inventors: Benjamin P. Shrader, Brent Curtis, Samuel Chi Chiu Li, Justin Shaun Elgin
  • Publication number: 20150292792
    Abstract: A refrigerator may include an insulated cabinet configured to preserve food, an insulated door mounted on the insulated cabinet, the insulated door being configured to close the insulated cabinet, the insulated door including an inner wall, the inner wall including one or more recesses, and an article dispenser including a dispensing portion and a mounting portion on a back side of the dispensing portion, the mounting portion being configured to removably mount the dispensing portion within the recesses, the dispensing portion being configured to store one or more articles and dispense the articles according to a user's demand.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 11, 2014
    Publication date: October 15, 2015
    Applicant: Electrolux Home Products, Inc.
    Inventors: Benjamin P. Shrader, Brent Curtis, Samuel Chi Chiu Li, Justin Shaun Elgin
  • Publication number: 20130297709
    Abstract: A system and method for improved client and server communications, more particularly, an improved protocol that may be used for communication between a client and a server, such as in an email environment. Many features are provided for improved communications. An email server may provide the best message body available for an email message, may transfer an entire data object if requested property or properties are not well defined within the data object, may provide progress data for use in tracking download progress, and may send error information for a data object having an error. Email changes may be optimized at an email server component, even if the email changes occurred at another email server component. An email server may maintain a table of changes that occur to folders at an associated data store, and may notify a subscribed email client component of changes that occur in the table.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 12, 2013
    Publication date: November 7, 2013
    Inventors: Joseph R. Warren, Karl Froelich, Remi A. Lemarchand, Robert R. Novitskey, Ronald E. Gray, Aaron Hartwell, Brendan Power, Brent Curtis, Nicole A. Bonilla
  • Patent number: 8473560
    Abstract: A system and method for improved client and server communications, more particularly, an improved protocol that may be used for communication between a client and a server, such as in an email environment. Many features are provided for improved communications. An email server may provide the best message body available for an email message, may transfer an entire data object if requested property or properties are not well defined within the data object, may provide progress data for use in tracking download progress, and may send error information for a data object having an error. Email changes may be optimized at an email server component, even if the email changes occurred at another email server component. An email server may maintain a table of changes that occur to folders at an associated data store, and may notify a subscribed email client component of changes that occur in the table.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2013
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Joseph R. Warren, Karl Froelich, Remi A. Lemarchand, Robert R. Novitskey, Ronald E. Gray, Aaron Hartwell, Brendan Power, Brent Curtis, Nicole A. Bonilla
  • Patent number: 8423621
    Abstract: A system and method for improved client and server communications, more particularly, an improved protocol that may be used for communication between a client and a server, such as in an email environment. Many features are provided for improved communications. An email server may provide the best message body available for an email message, may transfer an entire data object if requested property or properties are not well defined within the data object, may provide progress data for use in tracking download progress, and may send error information for a data object having an error. Email changes may be optimized at an email server component, even if the email changes occurred at another email server component. An email server may maintain a table of changes that occur to folders at an associated data store, and may notify a subscribed email client component of changes that occur in the table.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2013
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Joseph R. Warren, Karl Froelich, Remi A. Lemarchand, Robert R. Novitskey, Ronald E. Gray, Aaron Hartwell, Brendan Power, Brent Curtis, Nicole A. Bonilla
  • Publication number: 20120265647
    Abstract: An integrated finding experience is a workflow configured to facilitate a search by a user for one or more items among many items (e.g., an inventory of items). An integrated finding experience machine may provide one or more user interfaces that support the workflow in presenting information differently as the user progresses through a search process (e.g., a finding experience) with respect to a database (e.g., storing information regarding one or more items). For example, the workflow may include various stages of a search process from defining a query, to refining the query, to visually scanning search results, to displaying details of one or more selected search results, to comparing selected search results to each other. Each stage may have a specialized user interface configured to facilitate one or more user activities pertinent to that stage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2012
    Publication date: October 18, 2012
    Applicant: eBay Inc.
    Inventors: Belmer Perella Garcia Negrillo, Jonas Klink, Andrew David Palmer, Brent Curtis Leffew
  • Publication number: 20120209928
    Abstract: A system and method for improved client and server communications, more particularly, an improved protocol that may be used for communication between a client and a server, such as in an email environment. Many features are provided for improved communications. An email server may provide the best message body available for an email message, may transfer an entire data object if requested property or properties are not well defined within the data object, may provide progress data for use in tracking download progress, and may send error information for a data object having an error. Email changes may be optimized at an email server component, even if the email changes occurred at another email server component. An email server may maintain a table of changes that occur to folders at an associated data store, and may notify a subscribed email client component of changes that occur in the table.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 20, 2012
    Publication date: August 16, 2012
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Joseph R. Warren, Karl Froelich, Remi A. Lemarchand, Robert R. Novitskey, Ronald E. Gray, Aaron Hartwell, Brendan Power, Brent Curtis, Nicole A. Bonilla
  • Publication number: 20110161448
    Abstract: A system and method for improved client and server communications, more particularly, an improved protocol that may be used for communication between a client and a server, such as in an email environment. Many features are provided for improved communications. An email server may provide the best message body available for an email message, may transfer an entire data object if requested property or properties are not well defined within the data object, may provide progress data for use in tracking download progress, and may send error information for a data object having an error. Email changes may be optimized at an email server component, even if the email changes occurred at another email server component. An email server may maintain a table of changes that occur to folders at an associated data store, and may notify a subscribed email client component of changes that occur in the table.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 6, 2011
    Publication date: June 30, 2011
    Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Joseph R. Warren, Karl Froelich, Remi A. Lemarchand, Robert R. Novitskey, Ronald E. Gray, Aaron Hartwell, Brendan Power, Brent Curtis, Nicole A. Bonilla
  • Patent number: D973111
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: Electrolux Home Products, Inc.
    Inventors: Saba Rizzi, Brent Curtis
  • Patent number: D973112
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: Electrolux Home Products, Inc.
    Inventors: Saba Rizzi, Brent Curtis
  • Patent number: D973859
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: Electrolux Home Products, Inc.
    Inventors: Eric Hitchcock, Josh Hanson, Belinda Zhang, Brent Curtis
  • Patent number: D973860
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: Electrolux Home Products, Inc.
    Inventors: Eric Hitchcock, Josh Hanson, Belinda Zhang, Brent Curtis
  • Patent number: D997330
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: Electrolux Home Products, Inc.
    Inventors: Eric Hitchcock, Josh Hanson, Belinda Zhang, Brent Curtis
  • Patent number: D998129
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: Electrolux Home Products, Inc.
    Inventors: Eric Hitchcock, Josh Hanson, Belinda Zhang, Brent Curtis