Patents by Inventor Christopher Rayner
Christopher Rayner 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).
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Publication number: 20240107022Abstract: Lossy or lossless compression and transmission, comprising the steps of: (i) receiving an input image; (ii) encoding it to produce a y latent representation; (iii) encoding the y latent representation to produce a z hyperlatent representation; (iv) quantizing the z hyperlatent representation to produce a quantized z hyperlatent representation; (v) entropy encoding the quantized z hyperlatent representation into a first bitstream, (vi) processing the quantized z hyperlatent representation to obtain a location entropy parameter ?y, an entropy scale parameter ?y, and a context matrix Ay of the y latent representation; (vii) processing the y latent representation, the location entropy parameter py and the context matrix Ay, to obtain quantized latent residuals; (viii) entropy encoding the quantized latent residuals into a second bitstream; and (ix) transmitting the bitstreams.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 19, 2023Publication date: March 28, 2024Inventors: Chri BESENBRUCH, Aleksandar CHERGANSKI, Christopher FINLAY, Alexander LYTCHIER, Jonathan RAYNER, Tom RYDER, Jan XU, Arsalan ZAFAR
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Patent number: 11829913Abstract: In one aspect of the present disclosure, activities of users within an IT service end user are recorded. A given record of a user activity may include an output of a command executed by the user, and execution information, input parameter(s) to the command, output of the command, and/or any other type of execution information. In implementations, intelligence may be built into a proxy module corresponding to the command to track an execution of the command started by the user. The execution of the command is captured and stored in a buffer such that another user within the IT service end user can review the execution of the command. In another aspect, user interfaces are provided to facilitate a user within an IT service end user to review activities in administering IT services by another user within the IT service end user.Type: GrantFiled: January 19, 2021Date of Patent: November 28, 2023Assignee: SkyKick, Inc.Inventors: Christopher Rayner, Evan Richman, Bradley Younge, Robert P. Karaban, John Dennis, Todd Schwartz, Darren D. Peterson, Peter Joseph Wilkins, Matthew Steven Hintzke, Sergii Semenov, Alex Zammitt, Philip Pittle
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Patent number: 11741410Abstract: In one aspect, just-in-time authentication is provided to assist an administrator or staff of an IT service end user to invoke a function call to a service. The just-time-authentication can provide on-the-fly authentication to the service. In another aspect, granular permissions in executing a task or tasks for a service is enabled for a given administrator or staff of an IT service end user. In some embodiments, the granular permission involves assigning permissions to users either directly or indirectly via a mediating abstraction (such as groups, roles, etc.). Still in another aspect, stateful execution of a command/function call to a service is provided. In the stateful execution, the command/function call to the service is associated with a key, which can comprise a session id, a function name, a count of function executions for current session, and hash of input parameters for the command/function call, and/or any other information.Type: GrantFiled: January 19, 2021Date of Patent: August 29, 2023Assignee: SkyKick, Inc.Inventors: Christopher Rayner, Evan Richman, Bradley Younge, Robert P. Karaban, John Dennis, Todd Schwartz, Darren D. Peterson, Peter Joseph Wilkins, Matthew Steven Hintzke, Sergii Semenov, Alex Zammitt, Philip Pittie
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Publication number: 20230249127Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of capturing CO2 from a gas stream. The method uses a two liquid phase capture composition.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 14, 2021Publication date: August 10, 2023Applicant: C-Capture LtdInventors: Douglas Barnes, Caspar Schoolderman, Duncan Holdsworth, Christopher Rayner
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Patent number: 11712096Abstract: An illuminated backpack assembly includes a backpack that is wearable on a user's back. A plurality of light strips is each attached to the backpack to emit light outwardly from the backpack. Each of the light strips is strategically positioned on the backpack for enhancing visibility of the backpack in a darkened environment to facilitate the user to be visually identified by a companion from a distance in the darkened environment. A communication unit is integrated into the backpack and the communication unit is in remote communication with a personal electronic device. The communication unit is in communication with each of the light strips and the communication unit downloads an operational subroutine from the personal electronic device. In this way the light strips can be actuated according to the operational subroutine to enhance the ornamental appearance of the backpack.Type: GrantFiled: November 10, 2022Date of Patent: August 1, 2023Inventor: William Christopher Rayner
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Publication number: 20220297053Abstract: The invention provides a method for the capture of at least one acid gas in a composition, the release of said gas from said composition and the subsequent regeneration of said composition for re-use. The method comprises the step of capturing an acid gas by contacting said acid gas with a capture composition comprising at least one salt of a carboxylic acid dissolved in a solvent system consisting substantially of water.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 7, 2022Publication date: September 22, 2022Applicant: C-Capture LtdInventors: Douglas Barnes, Caspar Schoolderman, Gergely Jakab, Christopher Rayner
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Patent number: 11351498Abstract: The invention provides a method for the capture of at least one acid gas in a composition, the release of said gas from said composition and the subsequent regeneration of said composition for re-use. The method comprises the step of capturing an acid gas by contacting said acid gas with a capture composition comprising at least one salt of a carboxylic acid dissolved in a solvent system consisting substantially of water.Type: GrantFiled: August 2, 2018Date of Patent: June 7, 2022Assignee: C-Capture LtdInventors: Douglas Barnes, Caspar Schoolderman, Gergely Jakab, Christopher Rayner
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Publication number: 20210226957Abstract: In one aspect, just-in-time authentication is provided to assist an administrator or staff of an IT service end user to invoke a function call to a service. The just-time-authentication can provide on-the-fly authentication to the service. In another aspect, granular permissions in executing a task or tasks for a service is enabled for a given administrator or staff of an IT service end user. In some embodiments, the granular permission involves assigning permissions to users either directly or indirectly via a mediating abstraction (such as groups, roles, etc.). Still in another aspect, stateful execution of a command/function call to a service is provided. In the stateful execution, the command/function call to the service is associated with a key, which can comprise a session id, a function name, a count of function executions for current session, and hash of input parameters for the command/function call, and/or any other information.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 19, 2021Publication date: July 22, 2021Applicant: SKYKICK, INC.Inventors: Christopher Rayner, Evan Richman, Bradlley Younge, Robert P. Karaban, John Dennis, Todd Schwartz, Darren D. Peterson, Peter Joseph Wilkins, Matthew Steven Hintzke, Sergii Semevov, Alex Zammitt, Philip Pittle
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Publication number: 20210224712Abstract: In one aspect of the present disclosure, activities of users within an IT service end user are recorded. A given record of a user activity may include an output of a command executed by the user, and execution information, input parameter(s) to the command, output of the command, and/or any other type of execution information. In implementations, intelligence may be built into a proxy module corresponding to the command to track an execution of the command started by the user. The execution of the command is captured and stored in a buffer such that another user within the IT service end user can review the execution of the command. In another aspect, user interfaces are provided to facilitate a user within an IT service end user to review activities in administering IT services by another user within the IT service end user.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 19, 2021Publication date: July 22, 2021Applicant: SKYKICK, INC.Inventors: Christopher Rayner, Evan Richman, Bradley Younge, Robert P. Karaban, John Dennis, Todd Schwartz, Darren D. Peterson, Peter Joseph Wilkins, Matthew Steven Hintzke, Sergii Semenov, Alex Zammitt, Philip Pittle
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Publication number: 20210224300Abstract: An information retrieval method for cloud service administration is provided. The method may include establishing a connection with a semantic database. In some embodiments, the semantic database is configured to store information for different cloud services, and the information includes information regarding a first cloud service and information regarding a second cloud service. In some embodiments, the information regarding the first cloud service includes a first entity information and the information regarding the second cloud service includes a second entity information. The method further includes transmitting to the semantic database a request to obtain information regarding an asset. Then the method may include receiving from the semantic database an indication that first entity information and the second entity information being linked and being both related to the asset.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 19, 2021Publication date: July 22, 2021Applicant: SKYKICK, INC.Inventors: Christopher Rayner, Evan Richman, Bradley Younge, Robert P. Karaban, John Dennis, Todd Schwartz, Darren D. Peterson, Peter Joseph Wilkins, Matthew Steven Hintzke, Sergii Semenov, Alex Zammitt, Philip Pittle
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Publication number: 20200356445Abstract: A backup, search, and restore service is provided. The service can be achieved through a backup system, and a search and restore server. A user can be enabled to initiate a search request for one or more data items. A search can be performed by the search and restore server using metadata for the data items backed up by the backup system to return the one or more data items. The metadata for the data items can be generated by the backup system when data items are backed up by the backup system. The backup system may back up the data items on an incremental basis. The user can be enabled to select a data item in the one or more data items for restoration on the data system. Header information of the selected data item can be obtained from the data system to determine whether the restoration is necessary.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 30, 2020Publication date: November 12, 2020Applicant: SkyKick, Inc.Inventors: John Dennis, Evan Richman, Todd Schwartz, Bradley Younge, Douglas Handler, Corey Brent Caldwell, Matthew Steven Hintzke, Christopher Rayner, Robert William Davis
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Patent number: 10778669Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for automatically configuring an email client during a migration process. An client-side assistant can be deployed to an end-user's computer via a migration platform. After being deployed to a particular client computer, the client-side assistant can be configured to obtain user information to identify the end-user associated with the client computer. After identifying the end-user, destination system information regarding the end-user can be pushed to client computer for inclusion in new configuration information for the email client. Before generating the new configuration information, user credential for logging into the source system can be obtained. The client-side assistant can be configured to cause the destination system to confirm this credential. After generating the new configuration information, the client-side assistant can instruct the client-side assistant to use the new configuration information to at a specific time and date.Type: GrantFiled: August 8, 2018Date of Patent: September 15, 2020Assignee: SKYKICK, INC.Inventors: John Dennis, Evan Richman, Todd Schwartz, Bradley Younge, Trent Robert Schwartz, Robert P. Karaban, Richard James Tett, Bernard Clark, Christopher Rayner
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Patent number: 10771452Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for automatically configuring an email client during a migration process. An client-side assistant can be deployed to an end-user's computer via a migration platform. After being deployed to a particular client computer, the client-side assistant can be configured to obtain user information to identify the end-user associated with the client computer. After identifying the end-user, destination system information regarding the end-user can be pushed to client computer for inclusion in new configuration information for the email client. Before generating the new configuration information, user credential for logging into the source system can be obtained. The client-side assistant can be configured to cause the destination system to confirm this credential. After generating the new configuration information, the client-side assistant can instruct the client-side assistant to use the new configuration information to at a specific time and date.Type: GrantFiled: March 4, 2016Date of Patent: September 8, 2020Assignee: SKYKICK, INC.Inventors: John Dennis, Evan Richman, Todd Schwartz, Bradley Younge, Trent Robert Schwartz, Robert P. Karaban, Richard James Tett, Bernard Clark, Christopher Rayner
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Patent number: 10747622Abstract: A backup, search, and restore service is provided. The service can be achieved through a backup system, and a search and restore server. A user can be enabled to initiate a search request for one or more data items. A search can be performed by the search and restore server using metadata for the data items backed up by the backup system to return the one or more data items. The metadata for the data items can be generated by the backup system when data items are backed up by the backup system. The backup system may back up the data items on an incremental basis. The user can be enabled to select a data item in the one or more data items for restoration on the data system. Header information of the selected data item can be obtained from the data system to determine whether the restoration is necessary.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2016Date of Patent: August 18, 2020Assignee: SKYKICK, INC.Inventors: John Dennis, Evan Richman, Todd Schwartz, Bradley Younge, Douglas Handler, Corey Brent Caldwell, Matthew Steven Hintzke, Christopher Rayner, Robert William Davis
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Patent number: 10733207Abstract: Systems, methods, and apparatuses can provide staged migration from one or more user accounts from a source system to a destination system using an application local to the source systems. The automated staged data migration can provide coordinated staged data migration of large amounts of data in a single automated process. The system can provide automated and remotely controlled staged migrations of data that may perform source system type detection and work with multiple types of systems.Type: GrantFiled: January 18, 2019Date of Patent: August 4, 2020Assignee: SKYKICK, INC.Inventors: Evan Richman, Todd Schwartz, Trent Robert Schwartz, Bradley Younge, John Dennis, Roger Neil Moore, Christopher Rayner
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Publication number: 20200206677Abstract: The invention provides a method for the capture of at least one acid gas in a composition, the release of said gas from said composition and the subsequent regeneration of said composition for re-use. The method comprises the step of capturing an acid gas by contacting said acid gas with a capture composition comprising at least one salt of a carboxylic acid dissolved in a solvent system consisting substantially of water.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 2, 2018Publication date: July 2, 2020Applicant: C-Capture LtdInventors: Douglas Barnes, Caspar Schoolderman, Gergely Jakab, Christopher Rayner
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Publication number: 20190155818Abstract: Systems, methods, and apparatuses can provide staged migration from one or more user accounts from a source system to a destination system using an application local to the source systems. The automated staged data migration can provide coordinated staged data migration of large amounts of data in a single automated process. The system can provide automated and remotely controlled staged migrations of data that may perform source system type detection and work with multiple types of systems.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 18, 2019Publication date: May 23, 2019Applicant: SKYKICK, INC.Inventors: Evan RICHMAN, Todd SCHWARTZ, Trent Robert SCHWARTZ, Bradley YOUNGE, John DENNIS, Roger Neil MOORE, Christopher RAYNER
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Patent number: 10210232Abstract: Systems, methods, and apparatuses can provide staged migration from one or more user accounts from a source system to a destination system using an application local to the source systems. The automated staged data migration can provide coordinated staged data migration of large amounts of data in a single automated process. The system can provide automated and remotely controlled staged migrations of data that may perform source system type detection and work with multiple types of systems.Type: GrantFiled: October 1, 2015Date of Patent: February 19, 2019Assignee: SKYKICK, INC.Inventors: Evan Richman, Todd Schwartz, Trent Robert Schwartz, Bradley Younge, John Dennis, Roger Neil Moore, Christopher Rayner
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Publication number: 20180351940Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for automatically configuring an email client during a migration process. An client-side assistant can be deployed to an end-user's computer via a migration platform. After being deployed to a particular client computer, the client-side assistant can be configured to obtain user information to identify the end-user associated with the client computer. After identifying the end-user, destination system information regarding the end-user can be pushed to client computer for inclusion in new configuration information for the email client. Before generating the new configuration information, user credential for logging into the source system can be obtained. The client-side assistant can be configured to cause the destination system to confirm this credential. After generating the new configuration information, the client-side assistant can instruct the client-side assistant to use the new configuration information to at a specific time and date.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 8, 2018Publication date: December 6, 2018Applicant: SKYKICK, INC.Inventors: John DENNIS, Evan RICHMAN, Todd SCHWARTZ, Bradley YOUNGE, Trent Robert SCHWARTZ, Robert P. KARABAN, Richard James TETT, Bernard CLARK, Christopher RAYNER
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Publication number: 20160292043Abstract: A backup, search, and restore service is provided. The service can be achieved through a backup system, and a search and restore server. A user can be enabled to initiate a search request for one or more data items. A search can be performed by the search and restore server using metadata for the data items backed up by the backup system to return the one or more data items. The metadata for the data items can be generated by the backup system when data items are backed up by the backup system. The backup system may back up the data items on an incremental basis. The user can be enabled to select a data item in the one or more data items for restoration on the data system. Header information of the selected data item can be obtained from the data system to determine whether the restoration is necessary.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 31, 2016Publication date: October 6, 2016Applicant: SkyKick, Inc.Inventors: John Dennis, Evan Richman, Todd Schwartz, Bradley Younge, Douglas Handler, Corey Brent Caldwell, Matthew Steven Hintzke, Christopher Rayner, Robert William David