Patents by Inventor Donald Gordon

Donald Gordon 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: 20240135113
    Abstract: The indirect querying of models to determine capabilities possessed by the model. Such indirect queries take the form of model input that potentially includes a natural language input user data. Such model input is structured such that the output of the model is either not natural language at all, or else is natural language that is not semantically responsive to the natural language input. Nevertheless, the output is evaluated to estimate or determine the capability possessed by the model. Thus, models may be more fully utilized to their better potential.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2022
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Inventors: Benjamin Goth ZORN, Carina Suzana NEGREANU, Neil Blunt TORONTO, Brian Paul SLININGER, Andrew Donald GORDON, Advait SARKAR, Elnaz NOURI, Vu Minh LE, Christian Leopold Bejamin POELITZ, Shraddha Govind BARKE, Sruti Srinivasa RAGAVAN
  • Publication number: 20230418815
    Abstract: The generation of a response to a task prompt that represents a task to perform on declarative code. The response is generated with the aid of a language model that was trained on imperative code. The declarative code includes declarations about data. A task prompt represents a task to perform on the declarative code. At least a portion of the declarative code and at least a portion of the task prompt are converted into input imperative code. The input imperative code is then caused to be provided as input to the language model, resulting in the language model generating output imperative code. At least a portion of the output imperative code is then converted into a response to the task prompt.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2022
    Publication date: December 28, 2023
    Inventors: Benjamin Goth ZORN, Carina Suzana NEGREANU, Neil Blunt TORONTO, Brian Paul SLININGER, Andrew Donald GORDON, Advait SARKAR, Sruti Srinivasa RAGAVAN
  • Patent number: 11856247
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for porting locally processed media data with low latency to a remote client device via various wireless links are provided. In one example embodiment, a transceiver module may include a local network interface and a controller that may receive a client control signal from a client device over a wireless local area network via the local network interface, transmit a media control signal based on the client control signal to a media device, receive media data based on the media control signal from the media device, and transmit to the client device over the wireless local area network via the local network interface client data based on the media data and a low-latency compression technique. The receipt of the media data and transmission of the client data may be accomplished with substantially no detectable latency. Additional embodiments are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment LLC
    Inventors: Donald Gordon, Thomas Paquin, Michael Toy, Mike Roper, Roger van der Laan
  • Publication number: 20230254520
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for porting locally processed media data with low latency to a remote client device via various wireless links are provided. In one example embodiment, a transceiver module may include a local network interface and a controller that may receive a client control signal from a client device over a wireless local area network via the local network interface, transmit a media control signal based on the client control signal to a media device, receive media data based on the media control signal from the media device, and transmit to the client device over the wireless local area network via the local network interface client data based on the media data and a low-latency compression technique. The receipt of the media data and transmission of the client data may be accomplished with substantially no detectable latency. Additional embodiments are also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2023
    Publication date: August 10, 2023
    Inventors: Donald Gordon, Thomas Paquin, Michael Toy, Mike Roper, Roger van der Laan
  • Patent number: 11636254
    Abstract: A system for provenance aware editing for propagating edits back to spreadsheets is provided. The system receives an indication of an operation to be performed at an output location. The operation indicates one or more input locations on a spreadsheet that each provides an input value. The input values are accessed and tagged with their corresponding input location on the spreadsheet. Based on the operation and the input value from each of the one or more input locations, the system derives and displays the result at the output location. A user edit to the result is received at the output location, which causes transmission of a propagation request to change the input value at one or more of the tagged input locations. Using where-provenance associated with the tagged input locations, the system propagates the user edit to one or more of the tagged input locations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: John Herbert Martin Williams, Andrew Donald Gordon, Joseph McDaid, Benjamin Edward Rampson, Brian Jones
  • Patent number: 11563993
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for porting locally processed media data with low latency to a remote client device via various wireless links are provided. In one example embodiment, a transceiver module may include a local network interface and a controller that may receive a client control signal from a client device over a wireless local area network via the local network interface, transmit a media control signal based on the client control signal to a media device, receive media data based on the media control signal from the media device, and transmit to the client device over the wireless local area network via the local network interface client data based on the media data and a low-latency compression technique. The receipt of the media data and transmission of the client data may be accomplished with substantially no detectable latency. Additional embodiments are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment LLC
    Inventors: Donald Gordon, Thomas Paquin, Michael Toy, Mike Roper, Roger van der Laan
  • Patent number: 11461544
    Abstract: A spreadsheet application displays a spreadsheet of cells in tabular form. User input is received specifying an input range of cells of the spreadsheet, a destination range of cells of the spreadsheet and a local modification. A memory stores a representation of the spreadsheet indicating formatting, values and formulas. An update of the representation is computed by applying the local modifications to the representation. Values of cells of the input range of the spreadsheet are calculated by using the updated representation and the calculated values are displayed at the destination range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Advait Sarkar, Andrew Donald Gordon, John Herbert Martin Williams
  • Publication number: 20220253597
    Abstract: A system for provenance aware editing for propagating edits back to spreadsheets is provided. The system receives an indication of an operation to be performed at an output location. The operation indicates one or more input locations on a spreadsheet that each provides an input value. The input values are accessed and tagged with their corresponding input location on the spreadsheet. Based on the operation and the input value from each of the one or more input locations, the system derives and displays the result at the output location. A user edit to the result is received at the output location, which causes transmission of a propagation request to change the input value at one or more of the tagged input locations. Using where-provenance associated with the tagged input locations, the system propagates the user edit to one or more of the tagged input locations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 5, 2021
    Publication date: August 11, 2022
    Inventors: John Herbert Martin Williams, Andrew Donald Gordon, Joseph McDaid, Benjamin Edward Rampson, Brian Jones
  • Publication number: 20220167869
    Abstract: Systems and methods described herein use near field communications to locate a radiating transponder, such as a pill swallowed by a patient. The system can be triggered to turn on and transmit a waveform to a set of antennas attached to, coupled with, or near the patient. The magnetic field emitted by the transponder can be measured by the receiving antennas, for example, using principles of mutual inductance. The differential phase and/or time shifts between the antennas can contain sufficient information to find the location of the transponder and optionally its orientation relative to body coordinates. The system can display the location and/or orientation of the transponder. Further, the pill can include a reservoir to deliver a payload at a particular site of the patient's body based at least in part on the determined location.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 9, 2021
    Publication date: June 2, 2022
    Inventors: Thomas Eugene Old, John Christopher Baker, Neal J. Carron, Donald Gordon Pritchett
  • Publication number: 20210344982
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for porting locally processed media data with low latency to a remote client device via various wireless links are provided. In one example embodiment, a transceiver module may include a local network interface and a controller that may receive a client control signal from a client device over a wireless local area network via the local network interface, transmit a media control signal based on the client control signal to a media device, receive media data based on the media control signal from the media device, and transmit to the client device over the wireless local area network via the local network interface client data based on the media data and a low-latency compression technique. The receipt of the media data and transmission of the client data may be accomplished with substantially no detectable latency. Additional embodiments are also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 1, 2021
    Publication date: November 4, 2021
    Inventors: Donald Gordon, Thomas Paquin, Michael Toy, Mike Roper, Roger van der Laan
  • Publication number: 20210256205
    Abstract: A spreadsheet application displays a spreadsheet of cells in tabular form. User input is received specifying an input range of cells of the spreadsheet, a destination range of cells of the spreadsheet and a local modification. A memory stores a representation of the spreadsheet indicating formatting, values and formulas. An update of the representation is computed by applying the local modifications to the representation. Values of cells of the input range of the spreadsheet are calculated by using the updated representation and the calculated values are displayed at the destination range.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 14, 2020
    Publication date: August 19, 2021
    Inventors: Advait SARKAR, Andrew Donald GORDON, John Herbert Martin WILLIAMS
  • Patent number: 11093702
    Abstract: Checking and/or completing for data grids is described such as for grids having rows and columns of cells at least some of which contain data values such as numbers or categories. In various embodiments predictive probability distributions are obtained from an inference engine for one or more of the cells and the predictive probability distributions are used for various tasks such as to suggest values to complete blank cells, highlight cells having outlying values, identify potential errors, suggest corrections to potential errors, identify similarities between cells, identify differences between cells, cluster rows of the data grid, and other tasks. In various embodiments a graphical user interface displays a data grid and provides facilities for completing, error checking/correcting, and analyzing data in the data grid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: Thore Graepel, Filip Radlinski, Andrew Donald Gordon, Pushmeet Kohli, John Winn, Lucas Bordeaux, Yoram Bachrach
  • Publication number: 20210224764
    Abstract: Interest rates are applied to an account at a financial institution. A computer program determines whether the account qualifies for application of a first alternate interest rate in response to the account satisfying a first alternate interest rate qualification criteria and whether the account qualifies for application of a base interest rate. The program communicates application of the first alternate interest rate to the account for an accounting period applicable to the first alternate interest rate if the account qualifies for the first alternate interest rate. In an event wherein the account does not qualify for the first alternate interest rate, the program communicates application of the base interest rate to the account for an accounting period applicable to the base interest rate if the account qualifies for the base interest rate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2021
    Publication date: July 22, 2021
    Applicant: Kasasa, Ltd.
    Inventors: Gabriel Michael Krajicek, Donald Gordon Shafer, Timothy Leroy Eisenman, Paul Rudolph Barton
  • Patent number: 11058322
    Abstract: Systems and methods described herein use near field communications to locate a radiating transponder, such as a pill swallowed by a patient. The system can be triggered to turn on and transmit a waveform to a set of antennas attached to, coupled with, or near the patient. The magnetic field emitted by the transponder can be measured by the receiving antennas, for example, using principles of mutual inductance. The differential phase and/or time shifts between the antennas can contain sufficient information to find the location of the transponder and optionally its orientation relative to body coordinates. The system can display the location and/or orientation of the transponder. Further, the pill can include a reservoir to deliver a payload at a particular site of the patient's body based at least in part on the determined location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: Rock West Medical Devices, LLC
    Inventors: Thomas Eugene Old, John Christopher Baker, Neal J. Carron, Donald Gordon Pritchett
  • Patent number: 11025971
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for porting locally processed media data with low latency to a remote client device via various wireless links are provided. In one example embodiment, a transceiver module may include a local network interface and a controller that may receive a client control signal from a client device over a wireless local area network via the local network interface, transmit a media control signal based on the client control signal to a media device, receive media data based on the media control signal from the media device, and transmit to the client device over the wireless local area network via the local network interface client data based on the media data and a low-latency compression technique. The receipt of the media data and transmission of the client data may be accomplished with substantially no detectable latency. Additional embodiments are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment LLC
    Inventors: Donald Gordon, Thomas Paquin, Michael Toy, Mike Roper, Roger van der Laan
  • Patent number: 10945635
    Abstract: Systems and methods described herein can use near field communications to locate a radiating transmitter, such as a pill transmitter swallowed by a patient. In some embodiments, the pill transmitter can include multiple transmitting elements configured to transmit signals in an axis orthogonal with respect to each other. Further, in some embodiment, the pill transmitter can also include multiple transmitting elements in each of the three axes where the three axes may be perpendicular with respect to each other. The magnetic field emitted from the pill transmitter can be measured by the receiving antennas, for example, using principles of mutual inductance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Assignee: Rock West Medical Devices, LLC
    Inventors: Neal Jay Carron, Thomas Eugene Old, Donald Gordon Pritchett, John Christopher Baker
  • Patent number: 10936804
    Abstract: To prevent spreadsheet errors, a solution is disclosed that provides a multiple-region spreadsheet including additional representations, providing readily usable creation and editing of computational structure operations, without altering the conventional grid representation of a spreadsheet or its formula syntax. The multiple-region spreadsheet may include a traditional row-column arrangement of cells in a grid format, along with a calculation view pane intended to display underlying formulas used in the grid along with truncated cell assignments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Andrew Donald Gordon, Neil Toronto, Simon Loftus Peyton Jones, Advait Sarkar, Richard Matthew McCutchen
  • Patent number: 10902194
    Abstract: Technology is disclosed herein for handing approximate (or uncertain) values in spreadsheet applications. More specifically, the technology describes spreadsheet applications that support arrays or sets of approximate (or uncertain) values as native entities. An approximate (or uncertain) value may be the value of a cell of the spreadsheet that is resolvable by formula, charts and other functionalities. In some implementations, approximate values may include a range of data and a probability distribution that can be automatically created by the spreadsheet application, generated based on context, input by the user, etc. Because the approximate (or uncertain) value is natively available, it can be incorporated in a spreadsheet like other values. Additionally, the approximate (or uncertain) values can automatically propagate through a spreadsheet calculation to obtain a final approximate result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2021
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Neil Blunt Toronto, Advait Sarkar, Christian Mendel Canton, Andrew Donald Gordon, Benjamin Edward Rampson, Johnny Campbell, Anusha Iyer
  • Patent number: 10817613
    Abstract: Access and management of a user's content may be facilitated by, in response to receiving a request for content related to a specified entity from the repository associated with at least the user's account, identifying, in a content of a file in the repository, an entity container of at least one entity container associated with the specified entity; and communicating the entity container that is associated with the specific entity to a source of the request.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Gregory Akselrod, Donald Gordon Hardy, Pradeep Chilakamarri, Shikha Devesh Desai, Bernhard S. J. Kohlmeier
  • Patent number: 10776501
    Abstract: A method of automatically augmenting content through augmentation services can include invoking a service to receive an entity determination based on the content and an entity container comprising an object of the content and one or more attributes of the object. The entity determination and corresponding entity container can be assigned as a marker to content being clipped. The marker can be used to enable access and actions that can be taken with respect to the clipping or the structured information augmenting the clipping.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2020
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Gregory Akselrod, Donald Gordon Hardy, Pradeep Chilakamarri, Shikha Devesh Desai, Bernhard S. J. Kohlmeier, Ian William Mikutel