Patents by Inventor Daniel J. Berlin

Daniel J. Berlin 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: 20180097467
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for a dynamic solar tile network. In one aspect, a method includes designating a first solar tile in a set of solar tiles as a control tile. Selecting a subset of solar tiles in the set of solar tiles as controlled tiles that are each controlled by the control tile to form a solar tile network that includes the control tile and the controlled tiles. Receiving, at the control tile, status information from each of the controlled tiles. Determining, by the control tile, an operational state for each of the controlled tiles based on the status information. Transmitting, by the control tile, operation instructions to the controlled tiles that cause each controlled tile to switch to the operational state determined by the control tile.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2017
    Publication date: April 5, 2018
    Inventors: Maxwell Andrew Sills, Daniel J. Berlin
  • Patent number: 9843286
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for a dynamic solar tile network. In one aspect, a method includes designating a first solar tile in a set of solar tiles as a control tile. Selecting a subset of solar tiles in the set of solar tiles as controlled tiles that are each controlled by the control tile to form a solar tile network that includes the control tile and the controlled tiles. Receiving, at the control tile, status information from each of the controlled tiles. Determining, by the control tile, an operational state for each of the controlled tiles based on the status information. Transmitting, by the control tile, operation instructions to the controlled tiles that cause each controlled tile to switch to the operational state determined by the control tile.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2017
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Max Andrew Sills, Daniel J. Berlin
  • Publication number: 20170025983
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for a dynamic solar tile network. In one aspect, a method includes designating a first solar tile in a set of solar tiles as a control tile. Selecting a subset of solar tiles in the set of solar tiles as controlled tiles that are each controlled by the control tile to form a solar tile network that includes the control tile and the controlled tiles. Receiving, at the control tile, status information from each of the controlled tiles. Determining, by the control tile, an operational state for each of the controlled tiles based on the status information. Transmitting, by the control tile, operation instructions to the controlled tiles that cause each controlled tile to switch to the operational state determined by the control tile.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 23, 2015
    Publication date: January 26, 2017
    Inventors: Max Andrew Sills, Daniel J. Berlin
  • Publication number: 20120197979
    Abstract: Method, computer-readable media, and systems for centralizing votes submitted for content items hosted on multiple distinct and uncoordinated content sources, and ranking the content items against one another across the multiple distinct and uncoordinated content sources based on the centralized votes are disclosed. Recommendations of content items hosted by an original content source can be provided to users on the content interfaces of other content sources and additional votes for the recommended content items can be collected through the voting controls accompanying the recommend content items on the content interfaces of these other content sources.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2012
    Publication date: August 2, 2012
    Inventors: Leon G. Palm, Doug Coker, Colby D. Ranger, Daniel J. Berlin, Helen V. Hunt, Ethan C. Ambabo, John D. Westbrook