Patents by Inventor David A. Brandon

David A. Brandon 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: 20170109002
    Abstract: As provided herein, a user of a client device may perform a search to generate a search results webpage. The search results webpage may be populated with links to webpages along with selection options used to selectively designate which webpages to open. The user may select one or more of the selection options, such as a first selection option for a first webpage and a third selection option for a third webpage. Accordingly, the first webpage may be presented within a first user interface tab and the third webpage may be presented within a second user interface tab (e.g., the first user interface tab may be presented within a foreground and the second user interface tab may be presented within a background based upon the user selecting the first selection option before the second selection option). In this way, the user may selectively open webpages within user interface tabs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2015
    Publication date: April 20, 2017
    Inventors: Amol Ghanekar, John Peng, Bharadhwaj Narayanan, David Brandon Miller, Arun Krishnankutty Autuchirayll
  • Publication number: 20160253776
    Abstract: Described is a technology for use with general discrete Fourier transforms (DFTs) performed on a graphics processing unit (GPU). The technology is implemented in a general library accessed through GPU-independent APIs. The library handles complex and real data of any size, including for non-power-of-two data sizes. In one implementation, the radix-2 Stockham formulation of the fast Fourier transform (FFT) is used to avoid computationally expensive bit reversals. For non-power of two data sizes, a Bluestein z-chirp algorithm may be used.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2016
    Publication date: September 1, 2016
    Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: David Brandon Lloyd, Charles Neil Boyd, Naga K. Govindaraju
  • Patent number: 9342486
    Abstract: Described is a technology for use with general discrete Fourier transforms (DFTs) performed on a graphics processing unit (GPU). The technology is implemented in a general library accessed through GPU-independent APIs. The library handles complex and real data of any size, including for non-power-of-two data sizes. In one implementation, the radix-2 Stockham formulation of the fast Fourier transform (FFT) is used to avoid computationally expensive bit reversals. For non-power of two data sizes, a Bluestein z-chirp algorithm may be used.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2016
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: David Brandon Lloyd, Charles Neil Boyd, Naga K. Govindaraju
  • Patent number: 9274613
    Abstract: As keys of the keyboard of a portable communication device are asserted, the device dynamically determines at least a portion of a corresponding telephone number to present on the device's display by, at least in part, considering likelihoods of differing explicit and implicit interpretations of these key assertions. By one approach this can comprise according a likelihood advantage to an explicit interpretation of one or more of the key assertions and/or implicit interpretations of such key assertions. These likelihood advantages need not be necessarily dispositive with respect to the resultant interpretation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2016
    Assignee: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventors: David Brandon Sosby, My Phuong Thi Vu, Satyam Babu Kothapally
  • Patent number: 9227173
    Abstract: A method for dynamic filtration of a pharmaceutical product is provided. The method includes using an unconditioned resin configured to selectively retain one or more components from a mixture having the pharmaceutical product and where the unconditioned resin is configured to be activated by a medium of the mixture. The method further includes the use of at least one positioning material disposed adjacent to the unconditioned resin, where the positioning material is configured to provide mechanical support to the resin to at least partially retain the resin in position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2016
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Andrew Michael Leach, Peter Miller, Eric John Telfeyan, David Brandon Whitt
  • Publication number: 20150166376
    Abstract: A method for separating dispersed algae from an aqueous system is provided. The method includes adding to the aqueous system a polymer including tannin to form flocculated aggregates, and separating the flocculated aggregates from the aqueous system. A method for pretreating water comprising dispersed algae in an algae biofuel production system is also provided. The method includes adding to the water a polymer including tannin to form flocculated aggregates, and separating the flocculated aggregates from the water.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2012
    Publication date: June 18, 2015
    Inventors: Gerald Cecil Walterick, JR., David Brandon Whitt, John Gerard Juchcinski
  • Patent number: 8892086
    Abstract: Personalization of a mobile device, including receiving at the mobile device a unique code; selecting, from a plurality of personalization policies stored on the mobile device a personalization policy that corresponds to the unique code; and storing the selected personalization policy in a persistent protected storage element of the mobile device. Customizing a mobile device, including determining at the mobile device a unique code; selecting, from a plurality of customized data sets stored on the mobile device a data set that corresponds to the unique code; and activating the selected data set on the mobile device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2014
    Assignees: BlackBerry Limited, 2236008 Ontario Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas Owen Parry, Robert David Turner, Timothy Ryan Salter, Nicole Melissa Debickes, David Brandon Sosby, Melanie Arlene Barker, Martin John Bowyer, Douglas Eugene Ross, Richard Enrique Lopez, Paul Munguia, Cora Lynne Collins, James Arthur Bruck
  • Publication number: 20140306896
    Abstract: As keys of the keyboard of a portable communication device are asserted, the device dynamically determines at least a portion of a corresponding telephone number to present on the device's display by, at least in part, considering likelihoods of differing explicit and implicit interpretations of these key assertions. By one approach this can comprise according a likelihood advantage to an explicit interpretation of one or more of the key assertions and/or implicit interpretations of such key assertions. These likelihood advantages need not be necessarily dispositive with respect to the resultant interpretation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2014
    Publication date: October 16, 2014
    Inventors: David Brandon SOSBY, My Phuong Thi VU, Satyam Babu KOTHAPALLY
  • Publication number: 20140213233
    Abstract: Personalization of a mobile device, including receiving at the mobile device a unique code; selecting, from a plurality of personalization policies stored on the mobile device a personalization policy that corresponds to the unique code; and storing the selected personalization policy in a persistent protected storage element of the mobile device. Customizing a mobile device, including determining at the mobile device a unique code; selecting, from a plurality of customized data sets stored on the mobile device a data set that corresponds to the unique code; and activating the selected data set on the mobile device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2013
    Publication date: July 31, 2014
    Applicants: QNX SOFTWARE SYSTEMS LIMITED, RESEARCH IN MOTION LIMITED
    Inventors: Thomas Owen PARRY, Robert David TURNER, Timothy Ryan Salter, Nicole Melissa DEBICKES, David Brandon SOSBY, Melanie Arlene Barker, Martin John Bowyer, Douglas Eugene ROSS, Richard Enrique Lopez, Paul Munguia, Cora Lynne Collins, James Arthur BRUCK
  • Patent number: 8773359
    Abstract: As keys of the keyboard of a portable communication device are asserted, the device dynamically determines at least a portion of a corresponding telephone number to present on the device's display by, at least in part, considering likelihoods of differing explicit and implicit interpretations of these key assertions. By one approach this can comprise according a likelihood advantage to an explicit interpretation of one or more of the key assertions and/or implicit interpretations of such key assertions. These likelihood advantages need not be necessarily dispositive with respect to the resultant interpretation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2014
    Assignee: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventors: David Brandon Sosby, My Phuong Thi Vu, Satyam Babu Kothapally
  • Patent number: 8763410
    Abstract: Methods and apparatuses that facilitate dissolving a hyperpolarized agent within a polarizer and transporting it to a receiver is provided. The methods include delivering water to a hyperpolarized agent contained within a polarizer, forming a hyperpolarized aqueous solution, transporting the aqueous solution through a fluid path system out of the polarizer, filtering the aqueous solution through a partical size exclusion filter to a receiver, and modifying the pH of the filtered hyperpolarized aquous solution with a dissolution medium contained in the receiver. Also disclosed herein are apparatuses for dissolving a hyperpolarized agent comprising a vial for containing a hyperpolarized imaging agent therein, a dissolution fluid path, a delivery fluid path, a particle size exclusion filter, and a receiver connected to the particle size exclusion filter and positioned to receive the filtered aqueous solution of the hyperpolarized imaging agent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2014
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: David Brandon Whitt, Andrew Michael Leach, Peter Miller, Eric Telfeyan
  • Patent number: 8745918
    Abstract: A garden planting aid including a biodegradable ground cover having a plurality of grid spaces formed by spaced horizontal and vertical lines. A first measure tape having a plurality of first indicia; a second measure tape having a plurality of second indicia. The first indicia are associated with columns of grid spaces and the second indicia are associated with rows of grid spaces such that each grid space has a unique designation that includes a first and second indicia. The aid includes a plan designating garden objects that can be placed at the unique designation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2014
    Inventors: Chris Dyson-Coope, Warren Moore, David Brandon Westlund
  • Patent number: 8731640
    Abstract: A fluid path system includes a vial containing a pharmaceutical product therein. A dissolution fluid path is also included in the fluid path system, the dissolution fluid path having an output end in fluid communication with the vial and an input end attached to a pressure vessel containing a dissolution medium. A delivery fluid path is also included in the system having a first end hermetically attached to the vial to transport therefrom a mixture of dissolved pharmaceutical product and dissolution medium and a second end connected to a receiving vessel to receive the mixture. A dissolution fluid path valve is positioned between the pressure vessel and the dissolution fluid path to control flow of the dissolution medium, and a delivery fluid path valve is also included in the fluid path system to control flow of the mixture from the delivery fluid path to the receiving vessel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 20, 2014
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: John Arthur Urbahn, Jan Henrik Ardenkjaer-Larsen, Andrew Michael Leach, Eric John Telfeyan, David Key Dietrich, David Brandon Whitt, Peter Miller, Ernst Wolfgang Stautner
  • Publication number: 20130344920
    Abstract: As keys of the keyboard of a portable communication device are asserted, the device dynamically determines at least a portion of a corresponding telephone number to present on the device's display by, at least in part, considering likelihoods of differing explicit and implicit interpretations of these key assertions. By one approach this can comprise according a likelihood advantage to an explicit interpretation of one or more of the key assertions and/or implicit interpretations of such key assertions. These likelihood advantages need not be necessarily dispositive with respect to the resultant interpretation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 20, 2013
    Publication date: December 26, 2013
    Applicant: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventors: David Brandon SOSBY, My-Phuong Ti VU, Satyam Babu KOTHAPALLY
  • Patent number: 8514180
    Abstract: As keys of the keyboard of a portable communication device are asserted, the device dynamically determines at least a portion of a corresponding telephone number to present on the device's display by, at least in part, considering likelihoods of differing explicit and implicit interpretations of these key assertions. By one approach this can comprise according a likelihood advantage to an explicit interpretation of one or more of the key assertions and/or implicit interpretations of such key assertions. These likelihood advantages need not be necessarily dispositive with respect to the resultant interpretation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2013
    Assignee: Research In Motion Limited
    Inventors: David Brandon Sosby, My-Phuong Thi Vu, Satyam Babu Kothapally
  • Publication number: 20130158394
    Abstract: Devices, systems and methods are disclosed for measurement and reduction or prevention of fluid movement in lactiferous ducts, detection of diseased conditions in the breasts, and treatments thereof. Such techniques, methods and devices are applicable to a variety of conditions including carcinomas.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 14, 2011
    Publication date: June 20, 2013
    Applicant: THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA
    Inventors: Sylvia Hon, Anahitta Khosraviani, Amar Miglani, David Brandon Smith, Lanping Amy Sung, Geert W. Schmid-Schonbein
  • Publication number: 20130009877
    Abstract: As keys of the keyboard of a portable communication device are asserted, the device dynamically determines at least a portion of a corresponding telephone number to present on the device's display by, at least in part, considering likelihoods of differing explicit and implicit interpretations of these key assertions. By one approach this can comprise according a likelihood advantage to an explicit interpretation of one or more of the key assertions and/or implicit interpretations of such key assertions. These likelihood advantages need not be necessarily dispositive with respect to the resultant interpretation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 8, 2011
    Publication date: January 10, 2013
    Applicant: RESEARCH IN MOTION LIMITED
    Inventors: David Brandon Sosby, My-Phuong Thi Vu, Satyam Babu Kothapally
  • Publication number: 20120117985
    Abstract: A fluid path system includes a vial containing a pharmaceutical product therein. A dissolution fluid path is also included in the fluid path system, the dissolution fluid path having an output end in fluid communication with the vial and an input end attached to a pressure vessel containing a dissolution medium. A delivery fluid path is also included in the system having a first end hermetically attached to the vial to transport therefrom a mixture of dissolved pharmaceutical product and dissolution medium and a second end connected to a receiving vessel to receive the mixture. A dissolution fluid path valve is positioned between the pressure vessel and the dissolution fluid path to control flow of the dissolution medium, and a delivery fluid path valve is also included in the fluid path system to control flow of the mixture from the delivery fluid path to the receiving vessel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2012
    Publication date: May 17, 2012
    Applicant: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
    Inventors: John Arthur Urbahn, Jan Henrik Ardenkjaer-Larsen, Andrew Michael Leach, Eric John Telfeyan, David Key Dietrich, David Brandon Whitt, Peter Miller, Ernst Wolfgang Stautner
  • Publication number: 20120055085
    Abstract: A garden planting aid including a biodegradable ground cover having a plurality of grid spaces formed by spaced horizontal and vertical lines. A first measure tape having a plurality of first indicia; a second measure tape having a plurality of second indicia. The first indicia are associated with columns of grid spaces and the second indicia are associated with rows of grid spaces such that each grid space has a unique designation that includes a first and second indicia. The aid includes a plan designating garden objects that can be placed at the unique designation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 9, 2011
    Publication date: March 8, 2012
    Inventors: Chris Dyson-Coope, Warren Moore, David Brandon Westlund
  • Publication number: 20120053364
    Abstract: A method for dynamic filtration of a pharmaceutical product is provided. The method includes using an unconditioned resin configured to selectively retain one or more components from a mixture having the pharmaceutical product and where the unconditioned resin is configured to be activated by a medium of the mixture. The method further includes the use of at least one positioning material disposed adjacent to the unconditioned resin, where the positioning material is configured to provide mechanical support to the resin to at least partially retain the resin in position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2011
    Publication date: March 1, 2012
    Applicant: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
    Inventors: Andrew Michael Leach, Peter Miller, Eric John Telfeyan, David Brandon Whitt