Patents by Inventor Charles Lyon

Charles Lyon 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: 11514465
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus to perform multi-level hierarchical demographic classification are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: The Nielsen Company (US), LLC
    Inventors: Jiabo Li, Devin T. Jones, Kevin Charles Lyons
  • Publication number: 20210295388
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus for managing models for classification of online users are disclosed. An example method includes determining a segment associated with a received impression, determining whether the received impression includes an indication that the received impression is the result of a conversion associated with the segment, determining a current ratio of converted to non-converted impressions associated with a classification model associated with the segment, determining a difference between the current ratio and a target ratio, and storing an indication of the received impression for use in at least one of training or updating a classification model associated with the segment when: (a) the difference does not meet a threshold or (b) counting the received impression in the ratio would reduce the difference.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2021
    Publication date: September 23, 2021
    Inventors: Kevin Charles Lyons, Elad Efraim, Matthew Fornari, Devin Jones, Alon Kaftan
  • Patent number: 10949889
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus for managing models for classification of online users are disclosed. An example method includes determining a segment associated with a received impression, determining whether the received impression includes an indication that the received impression is the result of a conversion associated with the segment, determining a current ratio of converted to non-converted impressions associated with a classification model associated with the segment, determining a difference between the current ratio and a target ratio, and storing an indication of the received impression for use in at least one of training or updating a classification model associated with the segment when: (a) the difference does not meet a threshold or (b) counting the received impression in the ratio would reduce the difference.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Assignee: EXELATE MEDIA LTD.
    Inventors: Kevin Charles Lyons, Elad Efraim, Matthew Fornari, Devin Jones, Alon Kaftan
  • Patent number: 10570003
    Abstract: A method and means by which capping chucks can be torque adjusted without removing the capping chuck from production or taking the adjustment assembly apart for setting the torque on the equipment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Inventors: Michael Patrick Scott, Matthew Charles Lyon
  • Publication number: 20190218085
    Abstract: A method and means by which capping chucks can be torque adjusted without removing the capping chuck from production or taking the adjustment assembly apart for setting the torque on the equipment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 17, 2018
    Publication date: July 18, 2019
    Inventors: Michael Patrick Scott, Matthew Charles Lyon
  • Publication number: 20180253743
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus to perform multi-level hierarchical demographic classification are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2017
    Publication date: September 6, 2018
    Inventors: Jiabo Li, Devin T. Jones, Kevin Charles Lyons
  • Publication number: 20170193558
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus for managing models for classification of online users are disclosed. An example method includes determining a segment associated with a received impression, determining whether the received impression includes an indication that the received impression is the result of a conversion associated with the segment, determining a current ratio of converted to non-converted impressions associated with a classification model associated with the segment, determining a difference between the current ratio and a target ratio, and storing an indication of the received impression for use in at least one of training or updating a classification model associated with the segment when: (a) the difference does not meet a threshold or (b) counting the received impression in the ratio would reduce the difference.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2016
    Publication date: July 6, 2017
    Inventors: Kevin Charles Lyons, Elad Efraim, Matthew Fornari, Devin Jones, Alon Kaftan
  • Patent number: 9564173
    Abstract: Some embodiments provide a program that creates a composite media presentation from several media clips. The program creates an audition set for a particular location in a composite display area for placing media clips to specify a description of the composite media presentation. The program adds to the audition set several different types of media clips that are candidates for placement in the composite display area at the particular location. The program iteratively selects a different media clip in the audition set as the only committed media clip in the audition set to include in the composite media presentation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2017
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Anne Swenson, Giovanni Agnoli, Enrique Rodriguez, Charles Lyons, Brian Meaney, Dave Cerf, Mike Stern
  • Publication number: 20160370809
    Abstract: A system including a first element to provide a first parameter value that varies with a first temperature of fluid adjacent the first element, a second element to provide a second parameter value, the first element connected to the second element at an output such that output signals at the output correspond to differences between the first parameter value and the second parameter value, a heater element situated between the first element and the second element to provide heat to the fluid, and a circuit to evaluate the output signals at the output and a threshold value that corresponds to a fluid flow set point and to determine whether flow of the fluid, in at least one direction, across the first element, the heater element, and the second element exceeds the fluid flow set point.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 19, 2015
    Publication date: December 22, 2016
    Inventors: Charles Stanley Miller, Suman Minnaganti, David Charles Lyons, Benjamin Allen Skibsted, Louis Lavern Mead
  • Patent number: 9317172
    Abstract: A computer readable medium storing a media editing application for creating media presentations is described. The application includes a graphical user interface (GUI). The GUI has (1) a composite display area for displaying graphical representations of a set of media clips that are part of the composite presentation and (2) a navigation tool including several selectable navigation markers associated with several navigable locations in the composite presentation. The selection of a navigation marker causes the composite display area to present the navigable location in the composite presentation that is associated with the selected navigation marker.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2016
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Charles Lyons, Wendy Van Wazer, Lisa Diener, Douglas DeVore, Peter Warner
  • Patent number: 9032299
    Abstract: For a media-editing application that creates composite presentations, a novel grouping tool for grouping several media clips in the composite presentation by drawing a boundary about the media clips is described. The media editing application includes a composite display area for displaying media clips that are part of the composite presentation. The composite display area includes a timeline and one or more tracks that span the timeline for holding one or more media clips. The grouping tool provides a drawing tool that allows a user to draw a boundary in the composite display area. The drawing tool includes a moveable drawing element that moves about the media clips in the composite display area in order to draw the boundary.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2015
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Charles Lyons, Wendy Van Wazer, Douglas DeVore, Peter Warner
  • Publication number: 20150095806
    Abstract: A computer readable medium storing a media editing application for creating media presentations is described. The application includes a graphical user interface (GUI). The GUI has (1) a composite display area for displaying graphical representations of a set of media clips that are part of the composite presentation, (2) a navigation tool including several selectable navigation markers associated with several navigable locations in the composite presentation, and (3) a version management feature for (a) indicating whether each location has been modified, (b) providing an option to create a new version of each location, and (c) providing access to previously-saved versions of each location.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 3, 2014
    Publication date: April 2, 2015
    Inventors: Charles Lyons, Patrick Vasta, Jeff Roenning, Lisa Diener
  • Patent number: 8881013
    Abstract: A computer readable medium storing a media editing application for creating media presentations is described. The application includes a graphical user interface (GUI). The GUI has (1) a composite display area for displaying graphical representations of a set of media clips that are part of the composite presentation, (2) a navigation tool including several selectable navigation markers associated with several navigable locations in the composite presentation, and (3) a version management feature for (a) indicating whether each location has been modified, (b) providing an option to create a new version of each location, and (c) providing access to previously-saved versions of each location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2014
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Charles Lyons, Patrick Vasta, Jeff Roenning, Lisa Diener
  • Patent number: 8769421
    Abstract: Some embodiments provide a computer readable medium storing a media editing application for creating multimedia presentations. The application includes a graphical user interface (GUI). The GUI includes a composite display area for displaying a portion of a timeline to which multimedia clips are assigned to create a composite media presentation. The timeline is divided into user-defined segments. The GUI includes an outline window for displaying a list of selectable items representing the user-defined segments, the selectable items for use in applying various operations to the user-modifiable segments. In some embodiments, the various operations include operations to insert a new segment into the timeline, to merge at least two segments into one segment, to hide a particular segment from view, to focus on a particular segment or group of segments in the composite display area, as well as other operations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2014
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Brian Meaney, Melissa Breglio, Mike Stern, Jerremy Holland, Dave Cerf, Colleen Pendergast, Peter A. Steinauer, Michaelle Stikich, Charles Lyons
  • Publication number: 20140059436
    Abstract: Some embodiments provide a media editing application. The application places several committed media clips in a composite display area to specify a description of a composite presentation. In response to receiving a request to create a new version for a first media clip placed at a particular location in the composite display area, the application creates an audition set at the particular location in the composite display area. The application creates a second media clip from the first media clip. The application adds the first and second media clips to the audition set. At least one of the first and second media clips is a candidate media clip that is insertable at the location in the composite display area but is not a media clip that has been committed for inclusion in the description of the composite presentation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 26, 2013
    Publication date: February 27, 2014
    Applicant: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Anne Swenson, Giovanni Agnoli, Enrique Rodriguez, Charles Lyons, Brian Meaney, Dave Cerf, Michael P. Stern
  • Publication number: 20140033041
    Abstract: A computer readable medium storing a media editing application for creating media presentations is described. The application includes a graphical user interface (GUI). The GUI has (1) a presentation display area for displaying a composite presentation that the application creates by compositing several media clips, (2) a composite display area for displaying a set of graphical representations that represent a set of committed media clips that are committed to be a part of the composite presentation, (3) several selectable location markers that are associated with several locations in the composite display area, and (4) an audition display area associated with each location marker for receiving and displaying one or more candidate media clips for adding to the composite presentation at the location of the associated location marker.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2013
    Publication date: January 30, 2014
    Applicant: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Charles Lyons, Wendy Devore
  • Patent number: D960486
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: The Hershey Company
    Inventors: Andrew Markle, Kevin Charles Lyons
  • Patent number: D977220
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Assignee: The Hershey Company
    Inventors: Andrew Markle, Kevin Charles Lyons
  • Patent number: D977221
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Assignee: The Hershey Company
    Inventors: Andrew Markle, Kevin Charles Lyons
  • Patent number: D977222
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Assignee: The Hershey Company
    Inventors: Andrew Markle, Kevin Charles Lyons