Patents by Inventor David Sharp

David Sharp 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: 9945979
    Abstract: A system for recording metadata is disclosed. The system includes an acoustic vibration sensing system. The system also includes one or more sensors operable to measure characteristic parameters. The sensors are coupled to the acoustic vibration sensing system and include one or more channels for recording metadata. The system further includes one or more optical modulators. The optical modulators modulate a signal received from the one or more sensors and direct the modulated signal to the acoustic vibration sensing system. The system further includes one or more sources of the metadata coupled to the one or more optical modulators.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2018
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher Lee Stokely, John L. Maida, David Sharp
  • Publication number: 20180082657
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are system, apparatus, article of manufacture, method, and/or computer program product embodiments for providing a representation to a connected device. An embodiment operates by recognizing a new device connected to a display device, collecting device fingerprint information from the new device, and requesting a device class representation information determined based on the device fingerprint information. Another embodiment operates by receiving device fingerprint information from a display device via a network connection, wherein the device fingerprint information is collected from a device connected to a display device, and providing device class representation information to the display device via the network connection, when the device class representation information corresponding to the device fingerprint information is available.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2017
    Publication date: March 22, 2018
    Inventors: David SHARP, Jeff Bush, Jim Funk, Wim Michiels, Dale Luck
  • Publication number: 20180057816
    Abstract: Methods and compositions are provided for inhibiting or treating metastasis based on discoveries regarding Kif19 and Cep192. Methods and compositions are provided for enhancing wound healing, treating fibrosis, reducing scarring and treating nerve pain.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2017
    Publication date: March 1, 2018
    Applicant: ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE, INC.
    Inventor: David Sharp
  • Patent number: 9865225
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are system, apparatus, article of manufacture, method, and/or computer program product embodiments for providing a representation to a connected device. An embodiment operates by recognizing a new device connected to a display device, collecting device fingerprint information from the new device, and requesting a device class representation information determined based on the device fingerprint information. Another embodiment operates by receiving device fingerprint information from a display device via a network connection, wherein the device fingerprint information is collected from a device connected to a display device, and providing device class representation information to the display device via the network connection, when the device class representation information corresponding to the device fingerprint information is available.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2018
    Assignee: Roku, Inc.
    Inventors: David Sharp, Jeff Bush, Jim Funk, Wim Michiels, Dale Luck
  • Publication number: 20170223712
    Abstract: A communication system for communication between one or more terminal units includes: a communication manager that is configured to define and manage one or more adjustable communication links for efficient bandwidth utilization, wherein the one or more communication links are adjustable by the communication manager adjusting the bandwidth of each of the one or more communication links, the frequency bands utilized by each of the one or more communication links, and the latency for each of the one or more communication links.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 5, 2015
    Publication date: August 3, 2017
    Applicant: OCADO INNOVATION LIMITED
    Inventors: Paul Richard STEPHENS, Fraser Murray EDWARDS, Montague Fraser BARLOW, Adam Nikolai GREEN, David SHARP
  • Publication number: 20170209986
    Abstract: A ratcheting spreader system includes a construction frame that has a pair of lateral arms. A spreader has a first half is slidably coupled to a second half. The spreader includes an urging unit extending between the first half and the second half. The urging unit may be manipulated thereby spacing the first half a selected distance from the second half. The spreader is selectively positioned between the lateral arms such each of the first half and the second half engages an associated one of the lateral arms. The urging unit urges each of the lateral arms a precise distance apart from each other. Thus, the lateral arms may be secured during construction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2016
    Publication date: July 27, 2017
    Inventor: David Sharp
  • Patent number: 9678039
    Abstract: An ion mobility spectrometry method comprising determining whether a sample comprises ions having a first characteristic, and in the event that it is determined that the sample comprises ions having the first characteristic, applying thermal energy together with a radio frequency, RF, electric field to parent ions so as to obtain daughter ions having a second characteristic for inferring at least one identity for the parent ions based on the first characteristic and the second characteristic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2017
    Assignee: Smiths Detection-Watford Limited
    Inventors: David Sharp, Jonathan Atkinson
  • Publication number: 20170162169
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are system, apparatus, article of manufacture, method, and/or computer program product embodiments for providing a representation to a connected device. An embodiment operates by recognizing a new device connected to a display device, collecting device fingerprint information from the new device, and requesting a device class representation information determined based on the device fingerprint information. Another embodiment operates by receiving device fingerprint information from a display device via a network connection, wherein the device fingerprint information is collected from a device connected to a display device, and providing device class representation information to the display device via the network connection, when the device class representation information corresponding to the device fingerprint information is available.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2017
    Publication date: June 8, 2017
    Inventors: David SHARP, Jeff BUSH, Jim FUNK, Wim MICHIELS, Dale LUCK
  • Patent number: 9613586
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are system, apparatus, article of manufacture, method, and/or computer program product embodiments for providing a representation to a connected device. An embodiment operates by recognizing a new device connected to a display device, collecting device fingerprint information from the new device, and requesting a device class representation information determined based on the device fingerprint information. Another embodiment operates by receiving device fingerprint information from a display device via a network connection, wherein the device fingerprint information is collected from a device connected to a display device, and providing device class representation information to the display device via the network connection, when the device class representation information corresponding to the device fingerprint information is available.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2017
    Assignee: ROKU, Inc.
    Inventors: David Sharp, Jeff Bush, Jim Funk, Wim Michiels, Dale Luck
  • Publication number: 20170060858
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are system, apparatus, article of manufacture, method, and/or computer program product embodiments for a crowd sourced indexing and/or searching of content. An embodiment operates by receiving one or more requests for content from one or more media devices, each request comprising content identifier information that identifies the content, determining whether crowd sourced content index information has been generated for the content, transmitting a response to the one or more media devices of the one or more media devices, in response to the one or more requests, the response comprising content location information and a content indexing request, and receiving content index information for the content identified by the content identifier information from the one or more media devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2016
    Publication date: March 2, 2017
    Inventor: David SHARP
  • Publication number: 20170036940
    Abstract: A modular mold assembly comprising two mold halves wherein each mold half comprises separable and interchangeable components that allow for the production of a plurality of unique glass containers is discloses. A new method of manufacturing customized glass containers which utilizes such modular mold assembly is also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2016
    Publication date: February 9, 2017
    Inventors: Joel David Sharp, Elliot Austin Dale Sharp
  • Patent number: 9511824
    Abstract: A method of engaging an automated breakout assembly includes receiving, by a tow socket having a rotatable sleeve multiple mating connectors, a cable into the tow socket through a slot. The cable comprises a tow ball. Each mating connector is electrically coupled to an electrical conductor. The method includes receiving, by the rotatable sleeve, the randomly-aligned tow ball through an entrance. The method includes rotating a cam configured to rotate the rotatable sleeve to substantially align the mating connectors of the tow socket with connectors of the tow ball such that each electrical conductor electrically coupled to a mating connector couples to a corresponding connector of the tow ball. The method includes transferring a tow loading force between the cable and the tow socket by moving the cable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Assignee: Raytheon Company
    Inventors: James R. Sturges, Haywood Hartwell, David A. Sharp, Christopher Blake, Joseph Ricci, Jr.
  • Publication number: 20160237428
    Abstract: Methods and compositions are provided for inhibiting or treating metastasis based on discoveries regarding Kif19 and Cep192. Methods and compositions are provided for enhancing wound healing, treating fibrosis, reducing scarring and treating nerve pain.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2014
    Publication date: August 18, 2016
    Applicant: Albert Einstein College of Medicine, inc.
    Inventor: David Sharp
  • Publication number: 20160187297
    Abstract: A portable ion mobility spectrometry apparatus (1) for detecting an aerosol and a method for using the apparatus. The apparatus comprises an ion mobility spectrometer (3); a portable power source (5) carried by the apparatus for providing power to the apparatus (1); an inlet (7) for collecting a flow of air to be tested by the spectrometer (3); a heater (4) configured to heat the air to be tested to vapourise an aerosol carried by the air and a controller (2) configured to control the spectrometer (3) to obtain samples from the heated air, wherein the controller is configured to increase a heat output from the heater (4) for a selected time period before obtaining samples from the heated air.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2014
    Publication date: June 30, 2016
    Inventors: David SHARP, Alastair CLARK, William MUNRO, Paul ARNOLD, John FITZGERALD, David CUTMORE, Rod WILSON
  • Publication number: 20160179459
    Abstract: A display device has a processor and a memory connected to the processor. The memory stores instructions executed by the processor to make a first determination that an internal display device speaker is disabled. A second determination that an external sound system is unavailable is established. A prompt is provided in response to the first determination and the second determination. The prompt includes an option to enable the internal display device speaker.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2015
    Publication date: June 23, 2016
    Applicant: Roku, Inc.
    Inventor: David SHARP
  • Publication number: 20160180806
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are system, apparatus, article of manufacture, method, and/or computer program product embodiments for providing a representation to a connected device. An embodiment operates by recognizing a new device connected to a display device, collecting device fingerprint information from the new device, and requesting a device class representation information determined based on the device fingerprint information. Another embodiment operates by receiving device fingerprint information from a display device via a network connection, wherein the device fingerprint information is collected from a device connected to a display device, and providing device class representation information to the display device via the network connection, when the device class representation information corresponding to the device fingerprint information is available.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2015
    Publication date: June 23, 2016
    Applicant: Roku, Inc.
    Inventors: David SHARP, Jeff Bush, Jim Funk
  • Publication number: 20160154142
    Abstract: A system for recording metadata is disclosed. The system includes an acoustic vibration sensing system. The system also includes one or more sensors operable to measure characteristic parameters. The sensors are coupled to the acoustic vibration sensing system and include one or more channels for recording metadata. The system further includes one or more optical modulators. The optical modulators modulate a signal received from the one or more sensors and direct the modulated signal to the acoustic vibration sensing system. The system further includes one or more sources of the metadata coupled to the one or more optical modulators.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 2, 2013
    Publication date: June 2, 2016
    Inventors: Christopher Lee Stokely, John L. Maida, David Sharp
  • Publication number: 20160137270
    Abstract: A method of engaging an automated breakout assembly includes receiving, by a tow socket having a rotatable sleeve multiple mating connectors, a cable into the tow socket through a slot. The cable comprises a tow ball. Each mating connector is electrically coupled to an electrical conductor. The method includes receiving, by the rotatable sleeve, the randomly-aligned tow ball through an entrance. The method includes rotating a cam configured to rotate the rotatable sleeve to substantially align the mating connectors of the tow socket with connectors of the tow ball such that each electrical conductor electrically coupled to a mating connector couples to a corresponding connector of the tow ball. The method includes transferring a tow loading force between the cable and the tow socket by moving the cable.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2015
    Publication date: May 19, 2016
    Inventors: James R. Sturges, Haywood Hartwell, David A. Sharp, Christopher Blake, Joseph Ricci, JR.
  • Publication number: 20160054263
    Abstract: An ion mobility spectrometry method comprising determining whether a sample comprises ions having a first characteristic, and in the event that it is determined that the sample comprises ions having the first characteristic, applying thermal energy together with a radio frequency, RF, electric field to parent ions so as to obtain daughter ions having a second characteristic for inferring at least one identity for the parent ions based on the first characteristic and the second characteristic.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2014
    Publication date: February 25, 2016
    Inventors: David SHARP, Jonathan ATKINSON
  • Patent number: 9263060
    Abstract: A system for classification of the emotional content of music is provided. An encoder receives a digital audio recording of a piece of music, and encodes it using musical notes and associated amplitudes. The artificial neural network is configured to take a plurality of encoded time slices and provide output indicative of the emotional content of the music.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2016
    Assignee: MARIAN MASON PUBLISHING COMPANY, LLC
    Inventor: David A. Sharp