Patents by Inventor Edward A. Youngs
Edward A. Youngs 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).
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Publication number: 20210264672Abstract: Systems and methods providing for determining physical location of a device of a user of an augmented reality environment corresponding to a physical space. The systems and methods involve requesting and receiving a list of participating users having a GPS location within a predetermined radius of a first device; sending advertising and scanning beacons, via a first wireless network, to generate a second list of devices present in the physical space; performing simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) using the participating devices of the second list; generating a third list based at least partly on a Bluetooth connection between the one or more participating devices of the second list; and identifying the participating devices of the third list.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 16, 2020Publication date: August 26, 2021Inventors: Michael Conn McIntyre, JR., Edward Young Zhang, Vadim Dagman
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Patent number: 11062362Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to systems and methods for providing dynamic communication threads in response to a detected interaction with a sponsored digital content item. For example, systems and method described herein detect a user interaction with a sponsored digital content item and generate a screened communication thread between the user and the sponsor that is not available to the sponsor. The screened communication thread serves as a reminder to the user of the sponsored digital content item. Systems and methods described herein convert the screened communication thread to an open communication thread based on user interaction with the screened communication thread (e.g., after the user submits a reply in the screened communication thread). Thus, systems and methods described herein protect the user's online privacy unless and until the user indicates a desire to interact with the sponsor.Type: GrantFiled: October 25, 2017Date of Patent: July 13, 2021Inventors: Himanshu Baweja, Aditya Gopal Bhandarkar, Edward Young Zhang, Hao Lin, Dheeraj Kumar Singh, Chuan Wang, You Zhou
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Patent number: 10965723Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes determining, by a computer server machine, that a callee-user is available for a communication session based on location information associated with a client system of the callee-user; sending, by the computer server machine, in response to determining that the callee-user is available, a notification to a client system of a caller-user indicating that the callee-user is available; receiving, by the computer server machine, a request from the client system of the caller-user to initiate the communication session; establishing, by the computer server machine, the communication session to enable a media stream comprising media captured at the client system of the caller-user to be received at the client system of a callee-user; and sending, by the computer server machine, the media captured at the client system of the caller-user to the client system of the callee-user.Type: GrantFiled: January 21, 2020Date of Patent: March 30, 2021Assignee: Facebook, Inc.Inventors: Stephane Taine, Edward Young Zhang, Dwayne B. Mercredi, Michael Leggett, Brendan Benjamin Aronoff, Peter Henry Martinazzi, Evan Patrick Noon, Duckjin Kang, John Randall Ehrhardt
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Publication number: 20210032198Abstract: The invention provides compounds for use in inhibiting a microbial alternative oxidase (AOX) and/or cytochrome bc1 complex. The invention extends to the use of such inhibitors in agrochemicals and in pharmaceuticals, for treating microbial infections, including fungal infections.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 30, 2020Publication date: February 4, 2021Inventors: Anthony Lennox Moore, Mary Susan Albury, Luke Edward Young, Catherine Elliott
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Patent number: 10885044Abstract: Various embodiments are generally directed to techniques for device configuration using commerce messaging history information. In one embodiment, an apparatus may comprise a client front-end component operative to receive a client inbox request for a user account from a client device, the user account for a messaging system; and transmit an ordered business promotion contact list to the client device in response to the client inbox request; a business contact list component operative to determine a business promotion contact list for a user account for a messaging system; a predicted interest component operative to determine a predicted business messaging interest for each business contact on the business promotion contact list; and a contact ranking component operative to determine a ranking weight for each business contact on the business promotion contact list based on the predicted business messaging interest for each business contact. Other embodiments are described and claimed.Type: GrantFiled: November 11, 2016Date of Patent: January 5, 2021Assignee: FACEBOOK, INC.Inventors: Edward Young Zhang, Weiwei Ding, Qian Wang, Tsung-Chuan Chen, Guangyuan Liu
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Patent number: 10851047Abstract: The invention provides compounds for use in inhibiting a microbial alternative oxidase (AOX) and/or cytochrome bc1 complex. The invention extends to the use of such inhibitors in agrochemicals and in pharmaceuticals, for treating microbial infections, including fungal infections.Type: GrantFiled: April 24, 2013Date of Patent: December 1, 2020Assignee: THE UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEXInventors: Anthony Lennox Moore, Mary Susan Albury, Luke Edward Young, Catherine Elliott
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Patent number: 10846940Abstract: Systems and methods providing for determining physical location of a device of a user of an augmented reality environment corresponding to a physical space. The systems and methods involve requesting and receiving a list of participating users having a GPS location within a predetermined radius of a first device; sending advertising and scanning beacons, via a first wireless network, to generate a second list of devices present in the physical space; performing simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) using the participating devices of the second list; generating a third list based at least partly on a Bluetooth connection between the one or more participating devices of the second list; and identifying the participating devices of the third list.Type: GrantFiled: February 24, 2020Date of Patent: November 24, 2020Assignee: SpotMap, Inc.Inventors: Michael Conn McIntyre, Jr., Edward Young Zhang, Vadim Dagman
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Publication number: 20200335974Abstract: The invention is an augmented energy storage system that includes an energy storage subsystem that stores and supplies energy to an electric grid, a load bank that dissipates energy, a power control system that controls the flow of energy into and out of the energy storage subsystem and into the load bank, and an inverter that converts DC current to AC current used by the grid.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 22, 2019Publication date: October 22, 2020Inventors: Zhujie Lin, Roger Nelson Hitchcock, Matthew K. Senesky, Edward Young Chiao, Seth R. Sanders
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Publication number: 20200316613Abstract: According to the invention there is provided a method of processing a mixture of minerals including the steps of: (a) providing a mixture of minerals which includes a metal containing mineral and one or more unwanted gangue minerals; (b) achieving a contact between the mixture of minerals and polymeric material that includes a mineral binding moiety which selectively binds to the metal containing mineral; and (c) separating the gangue minerals and the polymeric material which has the metal containing mineral bound thereto.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 30, 2020Publication date: October 8, 2020Inventors: Warrick James David ALLEN, Simon David CHILDS, Andrea DUFFY, Nicholas HORROCKS, Elizabeth LAKIN, Paul Edward Young MILNE, James Leonard ROLFE
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Publication number: 20200259379Abstract: The invention is a flywheel rotor that includes a number of adjacent laminations, stacked one on top of another, where each of the laminations has the same shape and is rotationally symmetric around a center axis, and where the shape is substantially circular and includes a plurality of protrusions on the circumference, and each of the laminations includes at least one hole for at fastening bolts to pass through. The invention typically includes an endplate at each end of stack of laminations and one of the two endplates attaches to a stubshaft.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 11, 2020Publication date: August 13, 2020Applicant: Amber Kinetics, Inc.Inventors: Seth R. Sanders, Kyle B. Gaiser, Greg Olsen, Mark J. Holloway, Roger Nelson Hitchcock, Peter Thomas Tennessen, Matthew K. Senesky, Edward Young Chiao, Darlene W. Conolly, Keenan William Rodewald
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Patent number: 10693342Abstract: A number of flywheel units are arranged in a geometric pattern. Each of the flywheel units is enclosed in a containment unit. The containment unit includes a cylindrical tube, a cover, a bottom support, resting on the ground, on which the containment unit is mounted, and a fill medium surrounding each containment unit. The containment unit may also include a horizontal plate, mounted to the base of tube, which extends outward or radially from the base of tube a pre-determined length. In this case, the fill medium rests directly on top of the portion of the plate that extends outward from tube.Type: GrantFiled: May 1, 2017Date of Patent: June 23, 2020Assignee: Amber Kinetics, Inc.Inventors: Daniel Bakholdin, Seth R. Sanders, Edward Young Chiao, Mark S. Stout, Matthew K. Senesky, Matthew Brandon Garten, Mark J. Holloway
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Publication number: 20200162522Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes determining, by a computer server machine, that a callee-user is available for a communication session based on location information associated with a client system of the callee-user; sending, by the computer server machine, in response to determining that the callee-user is available, a notification to a client system of a caller-user indicating that the callee-user is available; receiving, by the computer server machine, a request from the client system of the caller-user to initiate the communication session; establishing, by the computer server machine, the communication session to enable a media stream comprising media captured at the client system of the caller-user to be received at the client system of a callee-user; and sending, by the computer server machine, the media captured at the client system of the caller-user to the client system of the callee-user.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 21, 2020Publication date: May 21, 2020Inventors: Stephane Taine, Edward Young Zhang, Dwayne B. Mercredi, Michael Leggett, Brendan Benjamin Aronoff, Peter Henry Martinazzi, Evan Patrick Noon, Duckjin Kang, John Randall Ehrhardt
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Patent number: 10652285Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes sending an availability-notification a caller-user in response to an occurrence of a trigger event; establishing a call session to enable a media stream comprising media of the caller-user that is of a first type to be received by a callee-user; sending the media of the first media type to the callee-user; re-establishing the call session to enable a media stream comprising media of the callee-user that is of a second media type to be received by the caller-user; and sending the media of the second media type to the caller-user.Type: GrantFiled: October 18, 2016Date of Patent: May 12, 2020Assignee: Facebook, Inc.Inventors: Stephane Taine, Edward Young Zhang, Dwayne B. Mercredi, Michael Leggett, Brendan Benjamin Aronoff, Peter Henry Martinazzi, Evan Patrick Noon, Duckjin Kang, John Randall Ehrhardt
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Patent number: 10627983Abstract: Embodiments of the invention provide techniques for providing information for avoiding specific users of an immersive virtual environment. Generally, a primary user may specify other users to be avoided in a blacklist. The blacklisted users may be specified to be avoided at all times, or may be specified to be avoided in certain situations. In one embodiment, a user may be added to the blacklist during a specific situation, resulting in the characteristics of the situation being automatically stored in the blacklist. Subsequently, the blacklist may be used to determine the locations of the blacklisted users matching the current situation. The primary user may then avoid the locations having the greatest probability of encountering blacklisted users.Type: GrantFiled: June 2, 2014Date of Patent: April 21, 2020Assignee: ACTIVISION PUBLISHING, INC.Inventors: Cary Lee Bates, Jim Chun-Ta Chen, Zachary Adam Garbow, Gregory Edward Young
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Patent number: 10603676Abstract: According to the invention there is provided a method of processing a mixture of minerals including the steps of: (a) providing a mixture of minerals which includes a metal containing mineral and one or more unwanted gangue minerals; (b) achieving a contact between the mixture of minerals and polymeric material that includes a mineral binding moiety which selectively binds to the metal containing mineral; and (c) separating the gangue minerals and the polymeric material which has the metal containing mineral bound thereto.Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 2012Date of Patent: March 31, 2020Assignee: CiDRA Minerals Processing Inc.Inventors: Warrick James David Allen, Simon David Childs, Andrea Duffy, Nicholas Horrocks, Elizabeth Lakin, Paul Edward Young Milne, James Leonard Rolfe
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Patent number: 10609093Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes determining an occurrence of a trigger event; sending a notification to the caller-user; receiving a request from the caller-user to initiate the call session; establishing the call session to enable a media stream of the caller-user to be received by the callee-user; and sending the media stream to the callee-user.Type: GrantFiled: May 6, 2016Date of Patent: March 31, 2020Assignee: Facebook, Inc.Inventors: Stephane Taine, Edward Young Zhang, Dwayne B. Mercredi, Michael Leggett, Brendan Benjamin Aronoff, Peter Henry Martinazzi, Evan Patrick Noon, Duckjin Kang, John Randall Ehrhardt
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Patent number: 10439977Abstract: Exemplary embodiments provide techniques for promoting and providing subscribed content via a messaging platform. An article may be viewed via a social networking service (such as in a social network's news feed), or on a partner website integrated with the social networking service and/or messaging service. When opening the article (e.g., in a web-based view), a banner may be displayed in association with the article indicating that the article could have been received as part of a messaging-based subscription service. The banner may include a control to subscribe to the publisher with the messaging service. Topics related to an article may be suggested in the message thread for the subscription, with the selection of a topic retrieving additional articles from that publisher related to that topic. These additional articles may be selected using social networking topic determination.Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 2016Date of Patent: October 8, 2019Assignee: FACEBOOK, INC.Inventors: Edward Young Zhang, Weiwei Ding, Qian Wang, Ming Xiao, Guangyuan Liu
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Patent number: 10426300Abstract: Modular toilet paper dispenser with shelf has a modular. Modular toilet paper dispenser with shelf has four main modules: a dispenser, a stanchion, a shelf, and a base. Each module may be disassembled and assembled by hand without tools. All components of each module may be disassembled and assembled by hand without tools. The modular aspect of modular toilet paper dispenser with shelf allows the user to easily assemble toilet paper dispenser with shelf with variously colored modules according to the user's taste or according to the season of the year. For instance, during the Christmas season, the user may assemble modular toilet paper dispenser with shelf 5 with red and white modules or modules with Christmas décor on them. During Halloween the user may assemble modular toilet paper dispenser with shelf 5 with orange and black modules, or modules with Halloween décor on them, and so forth.Type: GrantFiled: January 9, 2019Date of Patent: October 1, 2019Inventor: George Edward Young
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Patent number: 10305837Abstract: A user of a user device with a first account with an online service selects a contact to invite to join the online service. A server receives the selected contact to invite from the user device, and in response to receiving the selected contact, generates a second account for the selected contact. The second account includes a plurality of fields, one or more of which are populated with contact information of the selected contact. A link to the second account is generated and provided in an invitation for the selected contact to activate the second account with the online service.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2016Date of Patent: May 28, 2019Assignee: FACEBOOK, INC.Inventors: Topraj Gurung, Joshua James Ketellapper, Edward Young Zhang, Paul Chang
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Patent number: 10293771Abstract: A vehicle bumper assembly includes a bumper beam and a crash box. At least one of the bumper beam or the crash box is cast from metal, such as aluminum or magnesium, to reduce weight, reduce manufacturing process steps, and improve performance characteristics of the bumper assembly. In an embodiment, both of the bumper beam and the crash box are cast from metal to establish an integral connection therebetween. One of the bumper beam or the crash box can be open along a top and bottom portion of the bumper assembly and include at least one reinforcing rib cast integral therewith. In an embodiment, both of the bumper beam and the crash box can be open along a top and bottom portion of the bumper assembly and each include at least one reinforcing rib cast integral therewith.Type: GrantFiled: July 8, 2015Date of Patent: May 21, 2019Assignee: MAGNA INTERNATIONAL INC.Inventors: Edward K. Steinebach, Mark Justin Jones, Jeffrey Jay Mellis, Jeremiah John Brady, Richard Lee Winfree, Warren Edward Young, Erryn Leigh Ashmore, Darren Andrew Womack, Venugopal Garimella, Paul James Marston