Patents by Inventor David Fox

David Fox 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: 20140214356
    Abstract: A data acquisition system (DAS) includes a plurality of processors comprising at least one first processor and a plurality of second processors. The at least one first processor is configured to receive at least one configuration file and generate at least one measurement data application from the at least one configuration file. The DAS also includes a field-programmable gate array (FPGA) coupled to the plurality of processors. The FPGA is configured to receive the at least one measurement data application and allocate at least a portion of one of the FPGA and at least one second processor of the plurality of second processors to calculate measurement data at least partially based on the at least one measurement data application and an availability of the at least a portion of the FPGA.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2013
    Publication date: July 31, 2014
    Applicant: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
    Inventors: Dustin Delany Hess, Adam Anthony Weiss, Jeremy David Fox
  • Patent number: 8788593
    Abstract: A system for fetching multiple documents associated with a document from a server computer displays the document with an embedded document fetching icon on a client computer's monitor. In response to a single user selection of the document fetching icon, the system downloads from the server computer all the associated documents in a user-specified format to a user-specified location in the client computer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2014
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Darick M. Tong, Kevin David Fox
  • Patent number: 8787233
    Abstract: Providing a mobile terminal with system information which enables the terminal to access one of the cells of a cellular telecommunications system includes transmitting from the telecommunications system to all terminals within the cell, including the terminal, a system information indicator that makes available to the terminal system information to provide access to the system. The system information indicator is transmitted on the broadcast channel (BCH). The system information indicator may be a sub-set of the system information conventionally transmitted on the BCH but which is sufficient to allow the mobile terminal to access the network and obtain in the downlink further system information. Alternatively, the information transmitted in the BCH may be a profile index value which directs the mobile terminal to retrieve from a store of the mobile terminal system information pre-stored on the mobile terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2014
    Assignee: Vodafone Group PLC
    Inventor: David Fox
  • Publication number: 20140185630
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for performing fiber node splits in DOCSIS cable systems by performing remote modulation and/or demodulation in the fiber node. In the downstream direction, a high-speed digital fiber optic interface can be used to send data from the CMTS to the fiber node, which then modulates the data onto separate downstream interfaces for subsequent distribution of the downstream data to CMs and/or STBs. In the upstream direction, different upstream interfaces from the CMs and/or STBs may be demodulated into digital streams which can then be combined into a single, time division multiplexed digital stream that is transmitted to the CMTS. As such, the modulation and demodulation functions are performed remotely in the fiber node instead of at the CMTS.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 3, 2013
    Publication date: July 3, 2014
    Applicant: CASA SYSTEMS, INC.
    Inventors: David Fox, Weidong Chen, Jerry Guo, Douglas Rosich
  • Publication number: 20140153921
    Abstract: A monitoring apparatus for detecting uncharacteristic short-term power level changes of an optical signal transmitted through an optical fiber, said monitoring apparatus comprising a power level variance calculation unit adapted to calculate a power level variance on the basis of a long-term power level and a current power level of said optical signal and a short-term variance filter adapted to filter transient changes indicated by the calculated power level variance and to generate a trouble occurrence indication indicating an uncharacteristic short-term power level change, if the filtered power level variance exceeds a predetermined power level variance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2012
    Publication date: June 5, 2014
    Applicant: ADVA Optical Networking SE
    Inventors: David FOX, Lawrence T. DILLARD, III, Neil GRAYSON
  • Publication number: 20140132413
    Abstract: A method of receiving data indicative of at least one physiological parameter of a patient, receiving image data of the patient, determining that a value of the at least one physiological parameters signifies an alarm condition in the patient, generating an alarm data set including image or audio data of the patient and the value of at least one physiological parameter, and transmitting a notification of the alarm condition including the alarm data set to a clinician.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 12, 2012
    Publication date: May 15, 2014
    Applicant: COVIDIEN LP
    Inventors: David Fox, Robert T. Boyer, William A. Jordan
  • Publication number: 20140111321
    Abstract: Systems and methods for local wireless network remote control of ancillary railway implements are described herein. In one implementation, a portable computing module uses a wireless module to control an ancillary railway implement. In one implementation, the portable computing module connects through ancillary railway implement to control one or more nodes, where the nodes are additional ancillary railway implements.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 22, 2013
    Publication date: April 24, 2014
    Applicant: Railway Equipment Company, Inc.
    Inventor: David Fox
  • Patent number: 8670481
    Abstract: A system and method for dynamic profile management in a cable modem termination system (CMTS) is provided. A CMTS receiver is in communications with a plurality of cable modems, and a dynamic profile management module is in communication with the CMTS receiver. The dynamic profile management module establishes a communications profile for an upstream channel used by the CMTS receiver and at least one of the plurality of cable modems (the communications profile including a plurality of parameters associated with the upstream channel), continuously monitors performance metrics associated with communications across the upstream channel, and automatically adjusts the plurality of parameters of the communications profile in response to the monitored performance metrics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2014
    Assignee: Casa Systems, Inc.
    Inventor: David Fox
  • Patent number: 8649389
    Abstract: Transmitting from a mobile terminal to a telecommunication network data stored in a plurality of queues, each queue having a respective transmission priority, includes setting the data in each of the queues to be either primary data or secondary data, or a combination of primary data and secondary data. The data may be transmitted from the queues in an order in dependence upon the priority of the queue and whether the data in that queue are primary data or secondary data. Resources for data transmission may be allocated such that the primary data of each of the queues are transmitted at a minimum predetermined rate and such that the secondary data of each of the queues are transmitted at a maximum predetermined rate, greater than the minimum predetermined rate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2014
    Assignee: Vodafone Group Services Limited
    Inventors: David Fox, Alessandro Goia
  • Publication number: 20140040771
    Abstract: A system for displaying images associated with a received electronic message concurrently displays the received electronic message, a view-all-images icon and a respective view icon for each image of a plurality of images attached to the received electronic message as a plurality of distinct attachments. In response to a single user selection of the view-all-images icon, where the user selection of the view-all-images icon is made while the received electronic message and the view-all-images icon are concurrently displayed, the system fetches from a document storage system a single document containing the plurality of images and display the plurality of images contained in the document. In response to user selection of the view icon for a respective image attached to the received electronic message, the system displays the respective image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 7, 2013
    Publication date: February 6, 2014
    Applicant: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Darick M. Tong, Paul T. Buchheit, Kevin David Fox
  • Patent number: 8644837
    Abstract: A mobile telecommunications network includes a plurality of terminals, a core and a radio access network having a radio device for providing wireless communication resources to the terminals. Further provided is a processing device for recording information indicative of a movement cycle of at least one of the terminals through the radio access network and for identifying points within the movement cycle at which there are spare communication resources to provide a list of spare resource points to the terminal to enable the prediction of optimal data transfer points during a subsequent movement cycle of the terminal through the radio access network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2014
    Assignee: Vodafone IP Licensing Limited
    Inventors: David Fox, Youssef Chami
  • Publication number: 20140028289
    Abstract: A system for sensing voltage in an isolated converter includes an input circuit isolated from an output circuit using a first transformer, the first transformer having a primary coil and a secondary coil, wherein the output circuit includes an output inductor and an output capacitor, and wherein the input circuit includes a power source that provides power to the output circuit through the first transformer; a feedback winding coupled to the output inductor to form a second transformer; and a monitor circuit that calculates a voltage across the output capacitor using a voltage across the feedback winding, a voltage across the primary coil of the first transformer, a turns ratio of the first transformer, and a turns ratio of the second transformer in order to provide feedback to control the input circuit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2012
    Publication date: January 30, 2014
    Applicant: Hamilton Sundstrand Space Systems International, Inc.
    Inventors: Jason A. Ohnemus, David A. Fox
  • Patent number: 8625492
    Abstract: An SAE/LTE or 4G cellular telecommunications network is disclosed which comprises a plurality of eNodeBs 5 and a network core 3. A plurality of mobile telecommunications devices 1 are registered with the network and communicate with the network core 3 via the eNodeBs 5. A joining relay 20 and at least one other relay 22 is provided between the eNodeB 5 and the mobile telecommunications device 1 to extend the radio coverage provided by the eNodeB 5. The joining relay 20 analyses the characteristics of the path between the joining relay and the eNodeB 5 and selectively changes the path to optimise the path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2014
    Assignee: Vodafone Group PLC
    Inventors: Tim Frost, David Fox, Gavin Wong
  • Publication number: 20140006968
    Abstract: At a client computer, a communications list of a computer user is displayed in an inbox view, listing communications in which the computer user is a participant. In response to user selection, from the inbox view, of a respective communication in the displayed list, displaying the user selected communication. Further, in a contact list view distinct from the inbox view, display a contact list of a computer user. While displaying the contact list in the contact list view, receiving a user selection of an entry in the displayed contact list. In response to the user selection of the entry in the displayed contact list, concurrently displaying (A) contact information for a party corresponding to the user selected contact list entry, and (B) a list of communications corresponding to at least a subset of communications in which both the party and the computer user are participants.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 3, 2013
    Publication date: January 2, 2014
    Applicant: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Kevin David Fox, Darick M. Tong
  • Publication number: 20130328538
    Abstract: A DC/DC converter includes an internal transistor and a current sensor that is operable to sense a current passing through the transistor. The DC/DC converter also includes an output current estimator module that estimates the output current based on the sensed transistor current.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2012
    Publication date: December 12, 2013
    Inventors: David A. Fox, Jason A. Ohnemus
  • Publication number: 20130272353
    Abstract: A system and method for dynamic profile management in a cable modem termination system (CMTS) is provided. A CMTS receiver is in communications with a plurality of cable modems, and a dynamic profile management module is in communication with the CMTS receiver. The dynamic profile management module establishes a communications profile for an upstream channel used by the CMTS receiver and at least one of the plurality of cable modems (the communications profile including a plurality of parameters associated with the upstream channel), continuously monitors performance metrics associated with communications across the upstream channel, and automatically adjusts the plurality of parameters of the communications profile in response to the monitored performance metrics.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 12, 2012
    Publication date: October 17, 2013
    Inventor: David Fox
  • Patent number: 8554939
    Abstract: A system for displaying multiple images associated with an electronic message displays an image viewing icon in conjunction with the displayed electronic message on a client computer's monitor. In response to a single user selection of the image viewing icon, the system downloads from a document storage system a single document containing all associated images and displays the single document on the client computer's monitor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2013
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Darick M. Tong, Paul T. Buchheit, Kevin David Fox
  • Patent number: 8543112
    Abstract: A system and method for restricting public access to a mobile telecommunications network in order to prevent congestion. The system and method are particularly useful in situations where the number of end users exceeds, or is likely to exceed, network capacity, for example in emergency situations or for large public gatherings, such as sporting events or New Years Eve celebrations. The system and method disclosed uses filtering by network elements, such as the base stations and MSCs. In particular the system and method can filter low data messages, such as SMS, from more demanding services, such as voice calls, so that all low data messages are transmitted, while the more demanding services are terminated, unless special conditions are met.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2013
    Assignee: Vodafone Group PLC
    Inventors: David Fox, Gavin Wong, John Mahony Watson
  • Patent number: 8538810
    Abstract: Methods and systems for members of a member network to create and target advertisement to other members of the member network. A member can target advertisement to other members in the member network by establishing a member profile that includes associations and/or nexuses with the targeted members. Fees can be charged to members who create and disseminate advertisement to other members in the member network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2013
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventor: Kevin David Fox
  • Publication number: 20130124397
    Abstract: A collaborative first order logic system with dynamic ontology for example that enables collaborative discussion of documents, subjects associated within the documents, assertions about the subjects and theorems that utilize the assertions along with dynamic creation and association of two or more subjects that may represent the same thing. Enables geographical and temporal displays of assertions and opinions regarding the assertions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2011
    Publication date: May 16, 2013
    Inventor: David Fox