Patents by Inventor David P. Conway

David P. Conway 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: 20120254767
    Abstract: A method of modifying, with a network-based application, a content item on a device is provided. The method may include receiving over a network, at a server, information describing the content item from the device. Next, information describing the content item is sent to a client computer and, at the client computer, the content item is presented to a user with the network-based application by displaying a graphical depiction of the device, the graphical depiction showing the content item as it would appear on a display of the device. A request is then received for a modification of the content item from the user using the network-based application. Finally, the request for the modification is sent to the device over the network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2011
    Publication date: October 4, 2012
    Applicant: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Cynthia WONG, David P. Conway, Cedric Beust
  • Patent number: 8260657
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for dynamically pricing electronic content. In one aspect, a method includes determining a likelihood that a group of users will repurchase an item of electronic content, determining that a particular user is more or less likely to repurchase the item of electronic content than the users of the group, in response to determining that the particular user is more or less likely to repurchase the item of electronic content than the users of the group, adjusting a base price associated with repurchasing the item of electronic content, and providing the particular user with an offer to repurchase the item of electronic content at the adjusted price.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2012
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventor: David P. Conway
  • Patent number: 8255720
    Abstract: In general, the subject matter described in this specification can be embodied in methods, systems, and program products for performing power management. A computer process that requires, to be performed, substantial portions of battery storage on the mobile computing device is identified. Execution of the identified process can be deferred while the mobile computing device is not connected to a power source that is for charging the battery storage and that is external to the mobile computing device. Connection of the mobile computing device to the power source is sensed. Performance of the process is triggered in response to sensing that the mobile computing device has been connected to the power source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2012
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventor: David P. Conway
  • Publication number: 20120096249
    Abstract: In some implementations, a computer-implemented method includes storing a plurality of acceleration profiles in a mobile device; receiving accelerometer data from an accelerometer in the mobile device; correlating the accelerometer data with one accelerometer profile in the plurality of accelerometer profiles; and activating a user application of the mobile device that is associated with the correlated accelerometer profile. Each acceleration profile can correspond to a sequence of acceleration forces a mobile device would be subjected to when carried with a user during an activity that corresponds to the correlated acceleration profile.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2011
    Publication date: April 19, 2012
    Applicant: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Andrew E. Rubin, David P. Conway
  • Publication number: 20120059812
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method for generating geocoded user information is disclosed. The method comprises searching user data across multiple different data corpuses for entries having location-related information and determining locations for the location-related information. The method further comprises generating a map showing a current location of a mobile device along with representations of the entries having location-related information, at the determined locations, for entries from the multiple different data corpuses.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2011
    Publication date: March 8, 2012
    Inventors: Adam Bliss, David P. Conway
  • Publication number: 20120035881
    Abstract: In some implementations, a computer-implemented method includes storing a plurality of acceleration profiles in a mobile device; receiving accelerometer data from an accelerometer in the mobile device; correlating the accelerometer data with one accelerometer profile in the plurality of accelerometer profiles; and activating a user application of the mobile device that is associated with the correlated accelerometer profile. Each acceleration profile can correspond to a sequence of acceleration forces a mobile device would be subjected to when carried with a user during an activity that corresponds to the correlated acceleration profile.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 21, 2011
    Publication date: February 9, 2012
    Inventors: Andrew E. Rubin, David P. Conway
  • Patent number: 8065508
    Abstract: In some implementations, a computer-implemented method includes storing a plurality of acceleration profiles in a mobile device; receiving accelerometer data from an accelerometer in the mobile device; correlating the accelerometer data with one accelerometer profile in the plurality of accelerometer profiles; and activating a user application of the mobile device that is associated with the correlated accelerometer profile. Each acceleration profile can correspond to a sequence of acceleration forces a mobile device would be subjected to when carried with a user during an activity that corresponds to the correlated acceleration profile.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2011
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Andrew E. Rubin, David P. Conway
  • Patent number: 8060582
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method for generating geocoded user information is disclosed. The method comprises searching user data across multiple different data corpuses for entries having location-related information and determining locations for the location-related information. The method further comprises generating a map showing a current location of a mobile device along with representations of the entries having location-related information, at the determined locations, for entries from the multiple different data corpuses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2011
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Adam Bliss, David P. Conway
  • Publication number: 20110099392
    Abstract: In general, the subject matter described in this specification can be embodied in methods, systems, and program products for performing power management. A computer process that requires, to be performed, substantial portions of battery storage on the mobile computing device is identified. Execution of the identified process can be deferred while the mobile computing device is not connected to a power source that is for charging the battery storage and that is external to the mobile computing device. Connection of the mobile computing device to the power source is sensed. Performance of the process is triggered in response to sensing that the mobile computing device has been connected to the power source.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2010
    Publication date: April 28, 2011
    Inventor: David P. Conway
  • Publication number: 20100114887
    Abstract: The subject matter of this specification can be embodied in, among other things, a computer-implemented method that includes receiving a request to provide a dictionary for a computing device associated with a user; identifying word usage information for members of a social network for the user; and generating, with the word usage information for members of the social network, a dictionary for the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2008
    Publication date: May 6, 2010
    Applicant: GOOGLE INC.
    Inventors: David P. Conway, Andy Rubin
  • Publication number: 20100106801
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method for generating geocoded user information is disclosed. The method comprises searching user data across multiple different data corpuses for entries having location-related information and determining locations for the location-related information. The method further comprises generating a map showing a current location of a mobile device along with representations of the entries having location-related information, at the determined locations, for entries from the multiple different data corpuses.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 22, 2008
    Publication date: April 29, 2010
    Applicant: Google, Inc.
    Inventors: Adam Bliss, David P. Conway
  • Publication number: 20090325607
    Abstract: A computer-implemented visual navigation method includes providing from a wireless mobile device, over a public wireless network to a server located remotely from the wireless mobile device, information identifying a geographic location. The method also includes receiving in response, from the server, image data of digital images captured from an location at the geographic location, displaying the image data to a user of the mobile device as an image of an image space around the geographic locations, and panning the image within the image space automatically in response to user motion of the wireless mobile device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 28, 2009
    Publication date: December 31, 2009
    Inventors: David P. Conway, Adam Bliss, John H. Palevich, Erick Tseng
  • Publication number: 20090132197
    Abstract: In some implementations, a computer-implemented method includes storing a plurality of acceleration profiles in a mobile device; receiving accelerometer data from an accelerometer in the mobile device; correlating the accelerometer data with one accelerometer profile in the plurality of accelerometer profiles; and activating a user application of the mobile device that is associated with the correlated accelerometer profile. Each acceleration profile can correspond to a sequence of acceleration forces a mobile device would be subjected to when carried with a user during an activity that corresponds to the correlated acceleration profile.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2008
    Publication date: May 21, 2009
    Applicant: GOOGLE INC.
    Inventors: Andrew E. Rubin, David P. Conway
  • Patent number: 5370627
    Abstract: A securing bridge for a catheter which is to be inserted into the umbilical stump of a neonate. The bridge is for the purpose of tightly securing in position the portion of the catheter extending from the umbilical stump. The bridge includes a base which is adhesively secured to the skin around the umbilical stump. Mounted on the base are a pair of pivotal flaps which are to be adhesively secured together clamping a portion of the catheter therebetween.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 1994
    Date of Patent: December 6, 1994
    Inventor: David P. Conway