Patents by Inventor Duncan

Duncan 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: 20150158513
    Abstract: An aerial camera system includes an aerial device disposed onboard a non-aerial vehicle as the non-aerial vehicle moves along a route. The aerial device also can be configured to fly above the route during movement of the vehicle along the route. The camera unit is configured to be disposed onboard the aerial device and to generate image data during flight of the aerial device. The one or more image analysis processors are configured to examine the image data and to identify a hazard disposed ahead of the non-aerial vehicle along a direction of travel of the non-aerial vehicle based on the image data. A method for identifying route-related hazards using image data obtained from a camera unit on an aerial device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2015
    Publication date: June 11, 2015
    Inventors: Brad Thomas Costa, Seneca Snyder, Jerry Duncan, Mark Bradshaw Kraeling, Michael Scott Miner, Shannon Joseph Clouse, Anwarul Azam, Matthew Lawrence Blair, Nidhi Naithani, Dattaraj Jagdish Rao, Anju Bind, Sreyashi Dey Chaki, Scott Daniel Nelson, Nikhil Uday Naphade, Wing Yeung Chung, Daniel Malachi Ballesty, Glenn Robert Shaffer, Jeffrey James Kisak, Dale Martin DiDomenico
  • Publication number: 20150163193
    Abstract: A tracking system comprising a non-transitory computer readable storage medium having stored therein data representing instructions executable by a programmed processor is provided. The storage medium of the tracking system includes instructions for receiving a request for content from a device using a first shortened content address, the first shortened content address including a shortened content address base and a first link identifier. The storage medium further includes instructions for determining a content address identifier associated with the first shortened content address and instructions for searching the device for a cookie associated with the content address identifier, the cookie including a cookie link identifier.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2015
    Publication date: June 11, 2015
    Applicant: Yahoo! Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel Gray Goldstein, Sharad Goel, Duncan James Watts
  • Publication number: 20150158495
    Abstract: A vehicle may include a monitoring unit configured to determine a characteristic of performance of an operator of the vehicle. The characteristic of operator performance may include a characteristic of historical performance by the operator, a current impairment of the operator, and/or the like. For example, the characteristic may be determined by monitoring inputs to vehicle controls, by monitoring the operator, and/or by monitoring a physiological characteristic of the operator. The characteristic of operator performance may be transmitted to one or more nearby vehicles to improve the ability of manual operators and/or automatic-driving software of the nearby vehicles to predict maneuvers and/or behaviors by the operator. Record of the transmission of the characteristic of operator performance and/or of any acknowledgements of receipt of the characteristic of operator performance by the nearby vehicles may be logged to a persistent storage device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2013
    Publication date: June 11, 2015
    Inventors: William David Duncan, Roderick A. Hyde, Jordin T. Kare, Robert C. Petroski, Lowell L. Wood
  • Patent number: 9050067
    Abstract: A device for delivering a percutaneous nephrostomy plug is provided. The device comprises a tubular member configured for insertion into a biological body. The device further comprises a handle coupled to a proximal end of the tubular member. The handle comprises a pusher element, an actuation element, and a transmission. The pusher element is disposed within the tubular member, and is configured to deliver a plug through a distal end of the tubular member. The transmission is coupled to the tubular member and the actuation element, and the transmission is configured to cause a retraction of the tubular member relative to the pusher element in response to a depression of the actuation element. A first depression of the actuation element toward the tubular member urges a partial exposure of the plug. A second depression of the actuation element urges a further exposure of the plug.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2015
    Assignee: Cook Medical Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Kate Duncan, Gregory A. Frankland
  • Patent number: 9054959
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method used to indicate a service interruption source, in a client device of said service comprising an interface to a first network, said device being connected to a remote server by means of a gateway to which said device is connected by means of said first network; comprising the steps for starting up a downloading session from said remote server of a content, the end of the session requiring an acknowledgement from the user, detecting the connection loss between the device and the gateway, detecting the connection recovery between the device and the gateway, sending information (S6) to the server indicating the device disconnection period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2015
    Assignee: THOMSON LICENSING
    Inventors: Thierry Quere, Duncan Lamb, Jean-François Lagardere
  • Patent number: 9055473
    Abstract: A transmission entity (e.g., user equipment (UE)) is expected to reduce the segmentation of Radio Link Control (RLC) Service Data Units (SDUs) while also minimizing padding. Signaling or provisioning of a constraint value such as a maximum padding amount or minimum segmentation size is employed in a determinative way in the UE to balance these objectives. A receiving entity (e.g., evolved base node (eNB)) benefits from being able to signal these parameters, whose application to RLC instances can discriminate between data and signaling radio bearers. Compliance can also be voluntary, such as the network entity employing at least a portion of the same approach on the downlink.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2015
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Shailesh Maheshwari, Saiyiu Duncan Ho
  • Patent number: 9053321
    Abstract: A removable media device, which may be a USB attached device or other type of removable media device, includes a software program located on the device which upon startup or access, the software program scans one or more of electronic files stored on the removable media device and electronic files being transferred to or from the electronic media device and to or from a host computing system for the detection of viruses therein. The software program is further configured to block the transfer of detected virus-containing electronic files and to disallow the copy or writing of files to or from the removable media device to or from a host computing system that can not be scanned. The software program is further configured to block the encryption of files being written to a removable media device if such device contains hardware or software encryption if such files can not be scanned.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2015
    Assignee: Imation Corp.
    Inventors: David Paul Duncan, David Blake Farmer
  • Publication number: 20150152065
    Abstract: A series of benzimidazole derivatives, being potent modulators of human TNF? activity, are accordingly of benefit in the treatment and/or prevention of various human ailments, including autoimmune and inflammatory disorders; neurological and neurodegenerative disorders; pain and nociceptive disorders; cardiovascular disorders; metabolic disorders; ocular disorders; and oncological disorders.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 11, 2013
    Publication date: June 4, 2015
    Inventors: Daniel Christopher Brookings, Mark Daniel Calmiano, Ellen Olivia Gallimore, Helen Tracey Horsley, Martin Clive Hutchings, James Andrew Johnson, Boris Kroeplien, Fabien Claude Lecomte, Martin Alexander Lowe, Timothy John Norman, John Robert Porter, Joanna Rachel Quincey, James Thomas Reuberson, Matthew Duncan Selby, Michael Alan Shaw, Zhaoning Zhu, Anne Marie Foley
  • Publication number: 20150156626
    Abstract: A mobile device includes a motion sensor configured to acquire motion data, a light sensor configured to detect an ambient light level and generate light data, and a processing circuit. The processing circuit is configured to receive the motion data from the motion sensor, receive the light data from the light sensor, analyze the motion data to determine displacement data corresponding to a displacement of the mobile device, analyze the light data to detect a light transition, and analyze the displacement data and the light transition to determine whether to initiate an action.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2015
    Publication date: June 4, 2015
    Applicant: ELWHA LLC
    Inventors: Alistair K. Chan, William D. Duncan, Roderick A. Hyde, Tony S. Pan, Robert C. Petroski, David B. Tuckerman, Lowell L. Wood, JR.
  • Publication number: 20150156216
    Abstract: Verifying application security vulnerabilities includes receiving a source code to analyze, performing a static analysis using the received source code and generating a vulnerability call trace for the received source code. Responsive to a determination that all static analysis results are not validated, mock objects are generated using the vulnerability call trace and a unit test is created using the generated mock objects. The unit test is executed using the generated mock objects and responsive to a determination that an identified vulnerability was validated; a next static analysis result is selected. Responsive to a determination that all static analysis results are validated, results and computed unit tests are reported.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2014
    Publication date: June 4, 2015
    Inventors: Nevon C. Brake, Paul Ionescu, Iosif Viorel Onut, John T. Peyton, JR., Wayne Duncan Smith
  • Publication number: 20150153929
    Abstract: An electronic device includes a touch-sensitive surface and a display. The device displays, on the display, a first user interface. The device detects a gesture on the touch-sensitive surface. The gesture includes movement of a contact in a respective direction on the touch-sensitive surface. In response to detecting the gesture: in accordance with a determination that the movement of the contact is entirely on a first portion of the touch-sensitive surface, the device performs an operation in the first user interface that corresponds to the gesture; and in accordance with a determination that the movement of the contact is entirely on a second portion of the touch-sensitive surface, the device replaces display of the first user interface with display of a second user interface different from the first user interface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2015
    Publication date: June 4, 2015
    Inventors: Jeffrey Traer Bernstein, Avi E. Cieplinski, Duncan R. Kerr, Nicholas V. King
  • Publication number: 20150151446
    Abstract: A tubular film cutting arrangement for cutting tubular shrink film into sleeves of suitable length for application to containers includes a support member having a film passage opening therein; a plurality of knife drive pulleys rotatably mounted to the support member and spaced apart around the film passage opening, each knife drive pulley having a knife member mounted thereon for rotation with the knife drive pulley; a plurality of idler rollers rotatably mounted to the support member, each idler roller arranged between two of the knife drive pulleys, wherein a drive belt path is formed between the knife drive pulleys and the idler rollers; and a drive belt extending along the drive belt path such that a first side of the drive belt is in contact with each of the knife drive pulleys and a second side of the drive belt is in contact with each of the idler rollers; wherein the idler rollers are positioned to interact with the second side of the drive belt in order to hold the first side of the drive belt in c
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2013
    Publication date: June 4, 2015
    Inventor: Adam W. Duncan
  • Publication number: 20150156088
    Abstract: A tracking system comprising a non-transitory computer readable storage medium having stored therein data representing instructions executable by a programmed processor for monitoring a database is provided. The storage medium includes instructions for storing a plurality of link identifiers in a database, each link identifier associated with a content address identifier and instructions for receiving a current shortened content address with an appended link identifier from a requesting user. The storage medium further includes instructions for determining a requested content address identifier associated with the current shortened content address and instructions for determining if the tracking system has previously received any previous shortened content address associated with the requested content address identifier from the requesting user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2015
    Publication date: June 4, 2015
    Applicant: Yahoo! Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel Gray Goldstein, Sharad Goel, Duncan James Watts
  • Patent number: D731346
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2015
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Jody Akana, Bartley K. Andre, Shota Aoyagi, Anthony Michael Ashcroft, Jeremy Bataillou, Daniel J. Coster, Daniele De Iuliis, M. Evans Hankey, Julian Hoenig, Richard P. Howarth, Jonathan P. Ive, Duncan Robert Kerr, Marc A. Newson, Matthew Dean Rohrbach, Peter Russell-Clarke, Benjamin Andrew Shaffer, Mikael Silvanto, Christopher J. Stringer, Eugene Antony Whang, Rico Zörkendörfer
  • Patent number: D731363
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2015
    Assignee: MAHINDRA TRACTOR ASSEMBLY, INC.
    Inventors: Terence Duncan, Axel Vollmer, Evan Carpenter-Crawford
  • Patent number: D731364
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2015
    Assignee: Mahindra Tractor Assembly, Inc.
    Inventors: Terence Duncan, Axel Vollmer, Evan Carpenter-Crawford
  • Patent number: D731434
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2015
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Jody Akana, Bartley K. Andre, Jeremy Bataillou, Daniel J. Coster, Daniele De Iuliis, M. Evans Hankey, Julian Hoenig, Richard P. Howarth, Jonathan P. Ive, Duncan Robert Kerr, Shin Nishibori, Matthew Dean Rohrbach, Peter Russell-Clarke, Christopher J. Stringer, Eugene Antony Whang, Rico Zörkendörfer
  • Patent number: D731473
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2015
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Jody Akana, Bartley K. Andre, Shota Aoyagi, Jeremy Bataillou, Daniel J. Coster, Daniele De Iuliis, M. Evans Hankey, Julian Hoenig, Richard P. Howarth, Jonathan P. Ive, Duncan Robert Kerr, Matthew Dean Rohrbach, Peter Russell-Clarke, Mikael Silvanto, Christopher J. Stringer, Eugene Antony Whang, Rico Zörkendörfer
  • Patent number: D731481
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2015
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Jody Akana, Bartley K. Andre, Shota Aoyagi, Anthony Michael Ashcroft, Jeremy Bataillou, Daniel J. Coster, Daniele De Iuliis, M. Evans Hankey, Julian Hoenig, Richard P. Howarth, Jonathan P. Ive, Duncan Robert Kerr, Matthew Dean Rohrbach, Peter Russell-Clarke, Benjamin Andrew Shaffer, Mikael Silvanto, Christopher J. Stringer, Eugene Antony Whang, Rico Zörkendörfer
  • Patent number: RE45547
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2015
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Bartley K. Andre, Daniel J. Coster, Daniele De Iuliis, Richard P. Howarth, Jonathan P. Ive, Duncan Robert Kerr, Shin Nishibori, Matthew Dean Rohrbach, Douglas B. Satzger, Christopher J. Stringer, Eugene Antony Whang, Bruce H. Waltrous, Jr., Vincent Keane Seid