Patents by Inventor Curtis Ray

Curtis Ray 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: 12295126
    Abstract: Methods and systems for managing the operation of data processing systems are disclosed. A data processing system may include a computing device that may provide computer implemented services. To provide the computer implemented services, hardware components of the data processing system may need to operate in predetermined manners. To manage the operation of the hardware components, the data processing system may heat them when their temperatures fall outside of thermal operating ranges. To mitigate some risk associated with heating, the data processing system may proactively calibrate temperature sensors used to guide the heating process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Curtis Ray Genz, Yu-Hung Wang, Nicole Mutesi, Randy Alton Frazier, Donald W. Gerhart
  • Patent number: 12277046
    Abstract: Methods and systems for managing the operation of data processing systems are disclosed. A data processing system may include a computing device that may provide computer implemented services. To provide the computer implemented services, hardware components of the data processing system may need to operate in predetermined manners. To manage the operation of the hardware components, the data processing system may implement a framework for improving the likelihood that the management components have access to consistent state information. The framework may include use of multiple management components that conserve and/or distribute information regarding the states of and events impacting the operation of hardware components.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2025
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Donald W. Gerhart, Balamurugan Gnanasambandam, Randy Alton Frazier, Curtis Ray Genz
  • Publication number: 20250110328
    Abstract: A dual axis MEMS mirror assembly is disclosed. The assembly has a mirror and two arms, each having a rotational degree of motion and a translational degree of freedom. Each arm is hingedly attached to opposite ends of the mirror. A first pair of actuators is coupled to opposite ends of the first arm. A second pair of actuators is coupled to opposite ends of the second arm. The mirror is rotated around a first axis by the first and second arms when the first and second pair of actuators are rotated in the same angular direction causing the arms to translate in the translational degree of freedom. The mirror is rotated around a second axis by the first and second arms when the first and second pair of actuators are rotated in the opposite angular direction causing the arms to move in the rotational degree of motion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2023
    Publication date: April 3, 2025
    Inventors: Trent Huang, Jia Li, Curtis Ray, Jianing Zhao
  • Patent number: 12267462
    Abstract: Implementations relate to determination and display of estimated hold durations for calls. In some implementations, a computer-implemented method includes obtaining an identifier of a target entity, the identifier usable by a first call device to initiate a call between the first call device and the target entity. A hold duration is determined that is an estimated amount of time before the call is matched to a human agent when the call is initiated at a particular time that is prospective to a current time. The hold duration is determined based on previous calls between one or more call devices and the target entity. The hold duration is provided for display by the first call device prior to the initiation of the call between the first call device and the target entity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Joseph Joseph Cherukara, Hong Chen, Andrew George Shebanow, Rebecca Chiou, Yixuan Geng, Curtis Ray Robinson, Jr., Yi Wang, Yue Gan, Charlotte Hult, Bin Sun
  • Patent number: 12267981
    Abstract: Methods and systems for managing the operation of data processing systems are disclosed. A data processing system may include a computing device that may provide computer implemented services. To provide the computer implemented services, hardware components of the data processing system may need to operate in predetermined manners. To manage the operation of the hardware components, the data processing system may heat them when their temperatures fall outside of thermal operating ranges. To mitigate some risk associated with heating, the data processing system may proactively validate the operation of hardware and/or software used to manage the components that provide the heat.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Donald W. Gerhart, Randy Alton Frazier, Curtis Ray Genz
  • Patent number: 12248302
    Abstract: Methods and systems for managing the operation of data processing systems are disclosed. A data processing system may include a computing device that may provide computer implemented services. To provide the computer implemented services, hardware components of the data processing system may need to operate in predetermined manners. To manage the operation of the hardware components, the data processing system may heat them when their temperatures fall outside of thermal operating ranges. The data processing system may implement a distributed management framework for managing the operation of a thermal management subsystem tasked with maintaining the temperatures of the hardware components through heating.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Donald W. Gerhart, Alaric Joaquim Narcissius Silveira, Eric Michael Tunks, Balamurugan Gnanasambandam, Curtis Ray Genz, Randy Alton Frazier, Jeffrey Leighton Kennedy
  • Patent number: 12242316
    Abstract: Methods and systems for managing the operation of data processing systems are disclosed. A data processing system may include a computing device that may provide computer implemented services. To provide the computer implemented services, hardware components of the data processing system may need to operate in predetermined manners. To manage the operation of the hardware components, the data processing system may heat them when their temperatures fall outside of thermal operating ranges. To heat the hardware components, the data processing system may implement a dual device detection framework to identify and characterize various devices that may be usable to heat its hardware components.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Curtis Ray Genz, Donald W. Gerhart, Jeffrey Leighton Kennedy, Randy Alton Frazier, Nicole Mutesi
  • Publication number: 20250014206
    Abstract: Performing object detection in a video feed can include using a main object detector and a backup object detector. The backup object detector compares background or border patterns in select locations between different image frames of the video feed and labels the image frames containing the object when the main object detector fails to identify the object. In some embodiments, the image frames labeled by the backup object detector are used to further train and improve the main object detector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2022
    Publication date: January 9, 2025
    Inventor: Curtis Ray Robinson, JR.
  • Patent number: 11990631
    Abstract: A battery cabinet with a plurality of spaced apart shelves of equal width and depth. Each shelf supports a removable battery module. In turn, each module has a fixed adapter that holds batteries as a battery bank where the module and adapter occupy most of the space between shelves. Battery cells are vertically or horizontally aligned with terminals joined to comb-shaped straps with blades joined to battery terminals. The space between blades allows for thermal expansion without wear on terminals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: Villara Corporation
    Inventors: Robert P. Kittell, Curtis Ray Wylie, Jr., Calvin Richard Wylie, Eric S. Johnson, William A. Landgraf
  • Publication number: 20240070547
    Abstract: Disclosed are systems and methods for autonomous computing replacing or augmenting a human user of computer programs, where access to internal operations of the computer program is not used. An application controller can use the display output of a computer program to determine a current state of the computer program, using the disclosed embodiments. For example, identity of menu options of the computer program can be determined from image frames obtained from the display output of the computer program and used to determine the current state of the computer program. The application controller can provide input commands to the computer program to execute the computer program from the current state to a destination state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2023
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Inventor: Curtis Ray Robinson, JR.
  • Publication number: 20230388422
    Abstract: Implementations relate to determination and display of estimated hold durations for calls. In some implementations, a computer-implemented method includes obtaining an identifier of a target entity, the identifier usable by a first call device to initiate a call between the first call device and the target entity. A hold duration is determined that is an estimated amount of time before the call is matched to a human agent when the call is initiated at a particular time that is prospective to a current time. The hold duration is determined based on previous calls between one or more call devices and the target entity. The hold duration is provided for display by the first call device prior to the initiation of the call between the first call device and the target entity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2023
    Publication date: November 30, 2023
    Inventors: Joseph Joseph Cherukara, Hong Chen, Andrew George Shebanow, Rebecca Chiou, Yixuan Geng, Curtis Ray Robinson, Jr., Yi Wang, Yue Gan, Charlotte Hult, Bin Sun
  • Patent number: 11809971
    Abstract: Disclosed are systems and methods for autonomous computing replacing or augmenting a human user of computer programs, where access to internal operations of the computer program is not used. An application controller can use the display output of a computer program to determine a current state of the computer program, using the disclosed embodiments. For example, identity of menu options of the computer program can be determined from image frames obtained from the display output of the computer program and used to determine the current state of the computer program. The application controller can provide input commands to the computer program to execute the computer program from the current state to a destination state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Inventor: Curtis Ray Robinson, Jr.
  • Patent number: 11765274
    Abstract: Implementations relate to determination and display of estimated hold durations for calls. In some implementations, a computer-implemented method includes obtaining an identifier of a target entity, the identifier usable by a first call device to initiate a call between the first call device and the target entity. A hold duration is determined that is an estimated amount of time before the call is matched to a human agent when the call is initiated at a particular time that is prospective to a current time. The hold duration is determined based on previous calls between one or more call devices and the target entity. The hold duration is provided for display by the first call device prior to the initiation of the call between the first call device and the target entity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Joseph Joseph Cherukara, Hong Chen, Andrew George Shebanow, Rebecca Chiou, Yixuan Geng, Curtis Ray Robinson, Jr., Yi Wang, Yue Gan, Charlotte Hult, Bin Sun
  • Publication number: 20230060694
    Abstract: Implementations relate to determination and display of estimated hold durations for calls. In some implementations, a computer-implemented method includes obtaining an identifier of a target entity, the identifier usable by a first call device to initiate a call between the first call device and the target entity. A hold duration is determined that is an estimated amount of time before the call is matched to a human agent when the call is initiated at a particular time that is prospective to a current time. The hold duration is determined based on previous calls between one or more call devices and the target entity. The hold duration is provided for display by the first call device prior to the initiation of the call between the first call device and the target entity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2021
    Publication date: March 2, 2023
    Applicant: Google LLC
    Inventors: Joseph Joseph CHERUKARA, Hong CHEN, Andrew George SHEBANOW, Rebecca CHIOU, Yixuan GENG, Curtis Ray ROBINSON, JR., Yi WANG, Yue GAN, Charlotte HULT, Bin SUN
  • Publication number: 20220294055
    Abstract: A battery cabinet with a plurality of spaced apart shelves of equal width and depth. Each shelf supports a removable battery module. In turn, each module has a fixed adapter that holds batteries as a battery bank where the module and adapter occupy most of the space between shelves. Battery cells are vertically or horizontally aligned with terminals joined to comb-shaped straps with blades joined to battery terminals. The space between blades allows for thermal expansion without wear on terminals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2022
    Publication date: September 15, 2022
    Applicant: Villara Corporation
    Inventors: Robert P. Kittell, Curtis Ray Wylie, JR., Calvin Richard Wylie, Eric S. Johnson, William A. Landgraf
  • Patent number: 11381786
    Abstract: Disclosed are methods and systems for a security camera. In one embodiment, a mobile application is disclosed that generates a transparent camera activity with a camera preview undetectable by human eye. The camera activity can run on top of other applications of a mobile computing device and capture images and/or video of an unauthorized user without being detected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Inventor: Curtis Ray Robinson, Jr.
  • Publication number: 20210319342
    Abstract: Disclosed are systems and methods for autonomous computing replacing or augmenting a human user of computer programs, where access to internal operations of the computer program is not used. An application controller can use the display output of a computer program to determine a current state of the computer program, using the disclosed embodiments. For example, identity of menu options of the computer program can be determined from image frames obtained from the display output of the computer program and used to determine the current state of the computer program. The application controller can provide input commands to the computer program to execute the computer program from the current state to a destination state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 16, 2021
    Publication date: October 14, 2021
    Inventor: Curtis Ray Robinson, JR.
  • Patent number: 11010679
    Abstract: Disclosed are systems and methods for autonomous computing replacing or augmenting a human user of computer programs, where access to internal operations of the computer program is not used. An application controller can use the display output of a computer program to determine a current state of the computer program, using the disclosed embodiments. For example, identity of menu options of the computer program can be determined from image frames obtained from the display output of the computer program and used to determine the current state of the computer program. The application controller can provide input commands to the computer program to execute the computer program from the current state to a destination state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Inventor: Curtis Ray Robinson, Jr.
  • Publication number: 20200250231
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to systems and methods of autonomously or semi-autonomously generating a graph based upon ingested data, triggered by a user or a machine driven request, including for organizations that do not possess a fully ingested/inflated graph. Nodes of a graph may comprise expressions tied to specific data and/or data fields of the organization. Dimensional hierarchies may also be mapped to the specific data and/or data fields. Also disclosed are systems and methods for extrapolating and inflating ingested data and providing analysis to a user. The present disclosure also: (1) provides autonomous (or semi-autonomous) ingestion of data and inflation of a graph across potentially billions of nodes attributable to a particular organization; (2) retrieving insights and analysis on demand at various levels of detail; and (3) permits system resources to identify and analyze patterns, trends and anomalies in the graph for making adjustments and enhancements.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2020
    Publication date: August 6, 2020
    Inventors: Robert Brian Seigel, Curtis Ray Eubanks, Pierre Elisseeff, David Tarasi, Gary Dolliver, Eugeniu Cazacu
  • Publication number: 20200169703
    Abstract: Disclosed are methods and systems for a security camera. In one embodiment, a mobile application is disclosed that generates a transparent camera activity with a camera preview undetectable by human eye. The camera activity can run on top of other applications of a mobile computing device and capture images and/or video of an unauthorized user without being detected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2019
    Publication date: May 28, 2020
    Inventor: Curtis Ray Robinson, JR.