Patents by Inventor Dean Collins

Dean Collins 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: 11911701
    Abstract: Implementations described herein relate to methods, systems, and computer-readable media to automatically present suitable content for a particular audience. In some implementations, a computer-implemented method receiving virtual experience content associated with a first virtual experience associated with a first target audience and including content that is restricted as not viewable by a second target audience, receiving at least one content alternative, generating a first rating for the received virtual experience content and a second rating for the at least one content alternative, and automatically providing only one of the received virtual experience content or the at least one content alternative to user devices based on the first rating and the second rating.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: Roblox Corporation
    Inventors: Daniel Jakob Cassel, Matthew Dean, Alevtina Stolpnik, Alex Michael Quartulli, Craig Harris Collins, Jr., Gavin Fynbo, Chen Zou
  • Publication number: 20230082886
    Abstract: One example method for integrating software application content into video conferences includes receiving, by a video conferencing application executed by a client device from a video conference provider, one or more participant video streams, each participant video stream corresponding to a participant in a video conference; receiving, by the video conferencing application from a software application, software application content; receiving, by the video conferencing application from the software application, display layout information; generating, by the video conferencing application, a graphical representation of the video conference according to the display layout information, the graphical representation comprising at least a portion of the software application content and at least one of the one or more participant video streams; and displaying, by the video conferencing application, the graphical representation of the video conference.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 26, 2022
    Publication date: March 16, 2023
    Applicant: Zoom Video Communications, Inc.
    Inventors: Simon Edward BOOTH, Raghavendra Bhagavatha, Roger Dean Collins, Andy Hendrickson, Corey Hobbs, Arun Janakiraman, Shengwu Zhou
  • Patent number: 9432180
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for a programmable parallel computation and data manipulation accelerator that may be used, for example, in cryptographic calculations. They allow acceleration of a broad variety of cryptographic algorithms and/or portions of algorithms, and are not algorithm specific. This system comprises a butterfly and inverse butterfly multiplexing permuter network and a lookup table. This system may allow replication of input registers, “expansion,” so that an individual bit may be used in multiple calculations in parallel, accelerating completion of the cryptographic algorithm. The system may allow “diffusion” of the expanded bits through the system's butterfly and inverse butterfly network, and may provide for “confusion” of the resulting bits through the system's lookup table. In some implementations, the system may allow completion of a computation within an algorithm within one clock cycle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2016
    Assignee: Harris Corporation
    Inventors: Michael Dean Collins, Lee P. Noehring, Bryan Doi
  • Publication number: 20120311349
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for a programmable parallel computation and data manipulation accelerator that may be used, for example, in cryptographic calculations. They allow acceleration of a broad variety of cryptographic algorithms and/or portions of algorithms, and are not algorithm specific. This system comprises a butterfly and inverse butterfly multiplexing permuter network and a lookup table. This system may allow replication of input registers, “expansion,” so that an individual bit may be used in multiple calculations in parallel, accelerating completion of the cryptographic algorithm. The system may allow “diffusion” of the expanded bits through the system's butterfly and inverse butterfly network, and may provide for “confusion” of the resulting bits through the system's lookup table. In some implementations, the system may allow completion of a computation within an algorithm within one clock cycle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 4, 2012
    Publication date: December 6, 2012
    Inventors: Michael Dean Collins, Lee P. Noehring, Bryan Doi
  • Publication number: 20120072243
    Abstract: Vehicle insurance customers select parameters for monitoring using one or more telematics devices. The parameters may comprise an operating characteristic associated with at least one vehicle associated with a personal insurance product. Selection and measurement of parameters may result in lower insurance premiums. In one embodiment, an apparatus causes, based on a user selection of at least one of a plurality of menu-selectable options, a remotely programmable memory of at least one monitoring device to store an indication of the monitoring parameters represented by the user selection.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2011
    Publication date: March 22, 2012
    Applicant: THE TRAVELERS COMPANIES, INC.
    Inventors: Dean Collins, Bryan Smith, William Krysinski
  • Publication number: 20120072244
    Abstract: Business insurance customers select parameters for monitoring in vehicle fleets using one or more telematics devices. The parameters may comprise an operating characteristic associated with fleet vehicles associated with a business insurance product. Selection and measurement of parameters may result in lower insurance premiums. In one embodiment, an apparatus causes, based on a user selection of at least one of a plurality of menu-selectable options, a remotely programmable memory of at least one monitoring device to store an indication of the monitoring parameters represented by the user selection.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2011
    Publication date: March 22, 2012
    Applicant: THE TRAVELERS COMPANIES, INC.
    Inventors: Dean Collins, Bryan Smith, William Krysinski
  • Patent number: 8010365
    Abstract: The present invention relates particularly to a method and system for integrating an interactive voice response (IVR) environment into an existing host processing system to provide automated telephone responses to callers to the host system. The integrated IVR environment is highly scaleable with hardware and software open to the host system for in-house modification and/or addition of components and applications to accommodate additional and/or modified host business logic, host applications, and other host requirements. The integrated IVR environment also alleviates the high cost often associated with the purchase, installation, and maintenance of the IVR functionality for a host processing system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2011
    Assignee: The Travelers Indemnity Company
    Inventors: Dean Collins, Kathleen D'Auria, Raul Matamoros
  • Publication number: 20110161119
    Abstract: A “busyness” metric is determined for various different objects, such as businesses, roads, vehicles, buildings, locations, transportation systems, communication systems, devices, equipment, and/or systems, using various sensing and/or other technologies. The busyness metric may be used for a broad range of applications, such as assessing and controlling insurance risk, determining insurance premiums, prioritizing tasks, travel, navigation, advertising, and other purposes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 24, 2010
    Publication date: June 30, 2011
    Applicant: THE TRAVELERS COMPANIES, INC.
    Inventor: Dean Collins
  • Publication number: 20110077977
    Abstract: A worker compensation data mining computer system includes a data collection computer interface receiving worker's compensation data, optionally stored by a third party data provider or a state database, and a data mining computer processing unit analyzing the worker's compensation data to determine trends in the worker's compensation data. The data mining computer processing unit generates one or more of the following: a fraud communication, a model, a predictive variable, a marketing communication, a sales communication, a pricing communication, a prospecting communication, a ratings communication, a sales communication, and an underwriting communication. The system also optionally includes a modeling computer processing unit, that analyzes one or more of the worker's compensation data, underwriting models, sales models, pricing models, ratings models, marketing models, fraud models, and prospecting models, to determine whether to modify the at least one of the models.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2010
    Publication date: March 31, 2011
    Inventors: Dean Collins, Adam Kaprove, Paul Ramont
  • Patent number: 7684989
    Abstract: The present invention relates particularly to a method and system for integrating an interactive voice response (IVR) environment into an existing host processing system to provide automated telephone responses to callers to the host system. The integrated IVR environment is highly scaleable with hardware and software open to the host system for in-house modification and/or addition of components and applications to accommodate additional and/or modified host business logic, host applications, and other host requirements. The integrated IVR environment also alleviates the high cost often associated with the purchase, installation, and maintenance of the IVR functionality for a host processing system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2003
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2010
    Assignee: Travelers Property Casualty Corp.
    Inventors: Dean Collins, Kathleen D'Auria, Raul Matamoros
  • Publication number: 20090265193
    Abstract: Methods and systems for automated property insurance inspection include a remote inspection device having video inspection equipment capable of providing video images of property for use by an insurance company. The images may be used for expediting claim processing, inspecting damage in hazardous or hard to reach places, loss avoidance/risk control, fraud detection, detecting changes in risk profile, underwriting, rating, and quoting on new accounts and renewals, and prospecting new customers. The inspections may be performed on the exterior or interior of the property, and may be performed periodically, on-demand or continuously.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 17, 2009
    Publication date: October 22, 2009
    Inventors: Dean COLLINS, Erin Mack NAIR, Jared KRECHKO, Adam KAPROVE, Henry EDINGER
  • Publication number: 20030131574
    Abstract: A front mounted hitching device designed to be attached to a front-end loader and tractor for the purpose of pushing a farm implement and at the same time, towing a farm implement to accomplish a one-step operation such as raking and baling hay.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 16, 2002
    Publication date: July 17, 2003
    Inventors: George Willard Collins, Billy Dean Collins
  • Patent number: RE49910
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for locking a detonating cord against a shaped charge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Hunting Titan, Inc.
    Inventors: William Richard Collins, Debra Christine McDonald, Bradley Dean Schulte