Patents by Inventor Eric Alberts

Eric Alberts 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: 10168164
    Abstract: In some implementations, a navigation application can integrate third party services into the navigation application in an easy to use and convenient manner. For example, the navigation application can receive user input indicating that the user is interested obtaining transportation from a ride hailing service. In response to receiving the indication, the navigation application can invoke an application extension for a third party ride hailing application. The navigation application and ride hailing application can then communicate to provide the ride hailing service through the navigation application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2019
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Ryan Shelby, Eric Albert, David Hodge, Curtis Galloway, Tara Teich, Sam Iglesias, Maria D. Ioveva
  • Publication number: 20180273364
    Abstract: Systems and methods for mast stabilization on a material handling vehicle are provided. In one aspect, the present disclosure provides systems and methods for a hydraulic circuit configured to stabilize a mast of a material handling vehicle in dynamic and static events. The hydraulic circuit is integrated into a typical hydraulic system used to raise and lower the mast and thereby a load supported by the mast.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2018
    Publication date: September 27, 2018
    Inventors: Joseph Thomas Yahner, Eric Albert Smith
  • Publication number: 20170357916
    Abstract: In some implementations, a navigation application can integrate third party services into the navigation application in an easy to use and convenient manner. For example, the navigation application can receive user input indicating that the user is interested reserving a table from a table reservation service. In response to receiving the indication, the navigation application can invoke an application extension for a third party table reservation application. The navigation application and table reservation application can then communicate to provide the table reservation service through the navigation application.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2016
    Publication date: December 14, 2017
    Inventors: Ryan Shelby, Eric Albert, David Hodge, Curtis Galloway, Tara Teich, Sam Iglesias, Maria D. Ioveva
  • Publication number: 20170356749
    Abstract: In some implementations, a navigation application can integrate third party services into the navigation application in an easy to use and convenient manner. For example, the navigation application can receive user input indicating that the user is interested obtaining transportation from a ride hailing service. In response to receiving the indication, the navigation application can invoke an application extension for a third party ride hailing application. The navigation application and ride hailing application can then communicate to provide the ride hailing service through the navigation application.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2016
    Publication date: December 14, 2017
    Inventors: Ryan Shelby, Eric Albert, David Hodge, Curtis Galloway, Tara Teich, Sam Iglesias, Maria D. Ioveva
  • Patent number: 9104476
    Abstract: Services for a personal electronic device are provided through which a form of background processing or multitasking is supported. The disclosed services permit user applications to take advantage of background processing without significant negative consequences to a user's experience of the foreground process or the personal electronic device's power resources. To effect the disclosed multitasking, one or more of a number of operational restrictions may be enforced. By way of example, inactive network applications (e.g., VOIP applications) may be placed in a suspended state until a message is received targeting the application (e.g., an incoming phone call or a heartbeat needed message). The user application may be placed into the background state to respond to the message and then returned to the non-active state (e.g., if the message was a heartbeat needed) message or to the foreground state if appropriate (e.g., the user elects to answer the incoming call).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2015
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Van Milligan, Thomas B. Duffy, Jr., Eric Albert, Damien Sorresso, Neil G. Crane, Lucia Ballard, Cahya Masputra
  • Patent number: 8886641
    Abstract: In one embodiment, access a set of recency ranking data comprising one or more recency search queries and one or more recency search results, each of the recency search queries being recency-sensitive with respect to a particular time period and being associated with a query timestamp representing the time at which the recency search query is received at a search engine, each of the recency search results being generated by the search engine for one of the recency search queries and comprising one or more recency network resources. Construct a plurality of recency features from the set of recency ranking data. Train a first ranking model via machine learning using at least the recency features.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2014
    Assignee: Yahoo! Inc.
    Inventors: Anlei Dong, Yi Chang, Ruiqiang Zhang, Zhaohui Zheng, Gilad Avraham Mishne, Jing Bai, Karolina Barbara Buchner, Ciya Liao, Shihao Ji, Gilbert Leung, Georges-Eric Albert Marie Robert Dupret, Ling Liu
  • Publication number: 20140323183
    Abstract: A hinged U-shaped battery-powered miniature wireless headset, is worn as an earring or a pair of earrings. The earset communicates with a phone or other host over a bidirectional wireless communication link allowing hands-free operation. The earset has a front and rear housings electrically and mechanically connected using a hinge, the housings containing an electronics module, a speaker assembly, a microphone assembly, an antenna, a battery, user interface devices such as a switch and LEDs, and an attachment employing either a clamp or a pierced earring post with clutch. The device is attached to the lobe of the wearer's ear. The user positions the speaker, or speaker tube, inside at the entrance to the ear canal. One microphone is mounted to point toward the user's mouth and another microphone may be positioned to receive ambient sound for signal processing to improve quality of the outgoing and/or incoming audio stream.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2013
    Publication date: October 30, 2014
    Inventor: Eric Albert Klein
  • Patent number: 8650127
    Abstract: A digital rights management (“DRM”) system is described that seeks to restrict the use and execution of certain computer program code to those hardware systems or platforms authorized by the provider of the protected software. To this end, certain computer programs (or portions thereof) are provided to authorized users in an encrypted format. When a “protected” program is to be executed, it is retrieved and stored in its encrypted format in operating system memory where it is accessible to operating system level routines (e.g., a file read operation). It is also decrypted and placed in another memory such that only the process executing the protected program has ready access to it.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2014
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Eric Albert, Michael Culbert, Simon Patience, Michael Smith
  • Patent number: 8599840
    Abstract: The battery life of a mobile device operating in a wireless network environment is extended by terminating network communication activities after a specified period of time. Network communication activities may be restored when any one of a specified number of user actions are detected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2013
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Eric Albert, Nate Begeman, Evan Doll, Charles Dominguez, Scott Herz, Dan Keen, David Myszewski, Mallory Paine, Rob Yepez
  • Patent number: 8554389
    Abstract: A thermal manager has a digital filter whose input is to receive raw temperature values from a sensor and whose output is to provide processed or filtered temperature values according to a filter function that correlates temperature at the sensor with temperature at another location in the device. The thermal manager has a look-up table that further correlates temperature at the sensor with temperature at the other location. The look-up table contains a list of processed temperature sensor values, and/or a list of temperatures representing the temperature at the other location, and their respective power consumption change commands. The thermal manager accesses the look-up table using selected, filtered temperature values, to identify their respective power consumption change commands. The latter are then evaluated and may be applied, to mitigate a thermal at the other location. Other embodiments are also described and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2013
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Keith Cox, Andrew Bradley Just, Matthew G. Watson, Eric Albert, David Matthew Powers, Daniel Ariel West, Donald J. Novotney, Michael F. Culbert
  • Patent number: 8346464
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method and device for aiding ground navigation of an aircraft on an airport in which a current position and current heading of the aircraft are determined by a set of information sources. A first determination unit determines, according to the determined current position and current heading, and according to information obtained from an airport database, a current traffic lane on which the aircraft is situated, and parameters relating to a next intersection of the current traffic lane. Parameters relating to the next intersection include the position of the next intersection; and the distance between the next intersection and the current position of the aircraft. A head-up display unit overlays, on an environment in front of the aircraft, a first symbol illustrating the determined current traffic lane and a set of second symbols illustrating the determined parameters of the next intersection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2013
    Assignee: Airbus Operations SAS
    Inventors: Adrien Gauffriau, Eric Albert
  • Patent number: 8326815
    Abstract: In one embodiment, access one or more query chains, wherein each one of the query chains comprises two or more search queries, {q1, . . . , qn}, which are recency-sensitive, are related to the same subject matter, and are issued to a search engine sequentially, and actual click-through information associated with each one of the query chains; and smooth each one of the query chains using the actual click-through information associated with the query chain. To smooth one of the query chains comprises, for each one of search queries, qj, in the query chain, where 2?j?n, if one of the network resources identified for qj has actually been clicked in connection with qj by the corresponding one network user, then presume that the one network resource has been clicked in connection with one or more search queries, qk, in the query chain, where 1?k<j.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2012
    Assignee: Yahoo! Inc.
    Inventors: Narayanan Sadagopan, Yoshiyuki Inagaki, Georges-Eric Albert Marie Robert Dupret, Ciya Liao, Anlei Dong, Yi Chang, Zhaohui Zheng
  • Patent number: 8315746
    Abstract: A thermal manager has a digital filter whose input is to receive raw temperature values from a sensor and whose output is to provide processed or filtered temperature values according to a filter function that correlates temperature at the sensor with temperature at another location in the device. The thermal manager has a look-up table that further correlates temperature at the sensor with temperature at the other location. The look-up table contains a list of processed temperature sensor values, and/or a list of temperatures representing the temperature at the other location, and their respective power consumption change commands. The thermal manager accesses the look-up table using selected, filtered temperature values, to identify their respective power consumption change commands. The latter are then evaluated and may be applied, to mitigate a thermal at the other location. Other embodiments are also described and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2012
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Keith Cox, Andrew Bradley Just, Matthew G. Watson, Eric Albert, David Powers, Daniel Ariel West, Donald J. Novotney, Michael F. Culbert
  • Patent number: 8255390
    Abstract: In one embodiment, access one or more query-resource pairs, wherein for each one of the query-resource pairs comprising one of one or more search queries and one of one or more network resources, the one search query is recency-sensitive with respect to a particular time period, and the one network resource is identified for the one search query, and a resource-view count and a resource-click count associated with each one of the query-resource pairs; and construct one or more first click features using the resource-view counts and the resource-click counts associated with the query-resource pairs. To construct one of the first click features in connection with one of the query-resource pairs comprises determine a only-resource-click count associated with the one query-resource pair; and calculate a ratio between the only-resource-click count and the resource-view count associated with the one query-resource pair as the one first click feature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2012
    Assignee: Yahoo! Inc.
    Inventors: Yoshiyuki Inagaki, Narayanan Sadagopan, Georges-Eric Albert Marie Robert Dupret, Ciya Liao, Anlei Dong, Yi Chang, Zhaohui Zheng
  • Patent number: 8230403
    Abstract: A method, computer program and device for the translation of typed data objects in a heterogeneous computational environment is described. The operating system (or installed shared code libraries) translates typed data objects from a first format (e.g., big-endian) to a second format (e.g., little-endian) if the application sending the object and the application receiving the object utilize different formats. By placing data object format translation capabilities into the operating system, the software development effort required to permit an application (e.g., a user-level application) to execute in a heterogeneous environment is significantly reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2012
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Eric Albert, Alexei Elias Kosut, Matthew George Watson, Steve Zellers
  • Publication number: 20120164128
    Abstract: The present invention provides means and methods for counteracting and/or preventing aggregation of a polyQ protein. Further provided are improved poly constructs which are, amongst other things, useful for testing assays. According to the invention, several peptidases like, e.g. tripeptidyl peptidase II (TPPII), appear to be capable of cleaving long polyQ peptides comprising at least 45 glutamine residues. Hence, according to the invention, administration of such peptidases to an individual suffering from a polyQ expansion disorder results in degradation of long polyQ peptides.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 20, 2010
    Publication date: June 28, 2012
    Applicant: Academisch Medisch Centrum
    Inventor: Eric Albert Julius Reits
  • Patent number: D799888
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2017
    Assignee: Emerson Electric Co.
    Inventors: Kevin P. McClory, Elroy R. Firkus, Eric Albert Sillies, Aldo Javier Barreto
  • Patent number: D799889
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2017
    Assignee: Emerson Electric Co.
    Inventors: Kevin P. McClory, Elroy R. Firkus, Eric Albert Sillies, Aldo Javier Barreto
  • Patent number: D799890
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2017
    Assignee: Emerson Electric Co.
    Inventors: Kevin P. McClory, Elroy R. Firkus, Eric Albert Sillies, Aldo Javier Barreto
  • Patent number: D820331
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2018
    Assignee: WORTHINGTON TORCH, LLC
    Inventors: Cliff Ryan Walters, ERic Albert Sillies, Jason Robert Phillips