Patents by Inventor Henry Owen Newton-Dunn

Henry Owen Newton-Dunn 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: 9615350
    Abstract: Systems, device and techniques are disclosed for determining whether a mobile device is in vehicle mode. A notification may be received while the mobile device is in vehicle mode and the notification may be determined to be important or unimportant. If the notification is determined to be important, then the notification may be provided to the user via an output mode (e.g., display or speaker). If the notification is determined to be unimportant, then the notification may not be provided to the user via the display until the mobile device is no longer in vehicle mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2017
    Assignee: GOOGLE INC.
    Inventors: Evan Malahy, Donald Geoffrey Schuller, Henry Owen Newton-Dunn
  • Publication number: 20160152240
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides techniques for dynamic driver attention and event notification management based on the current contextual information about a vehicle, driver attention, and a distraction weight of a notification of an event. A method may include receiving a first contextual information about a motorized vehicle. An indication of the occurrence of a first event may be received. It may be determined that the first event has a first event notification weight that satisfies a first notification threshold based on the first contextual information. As a result, a first notification of the first event may be provided to a user of the motorized vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 9, 2016
    Publication date: June 2, 2016
    Inventors: Henry Owen Newton-Dunn, Donald Geoffrey Schuller, Evan Malahy
  • Patent number: 9272658
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides techniques for dynamic driver attention and event notification management based on the current contextual information about a vehicle, driver attention, and a distraction weight of a notification of an event. A method may include receiving a first contextual information about a motorized vehicle. An indication of the occurrence of a first event may be received. It may be determined that the first event has a first event notification weight that satisfies a first notification threshold based on the first contextual information. As a result, a first notification of the first event may be provided to a user of the motorized vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2016
    Assignee: GOOGLE INC.
    Inventors: Henry Owen Newton-Dunn, Donald Geoffrey Schuller, Evan Malahy
  • Publication number: 20150373666
    Abstract: Systems device and techniques are disclosed for determining whether a mobile device is in vehicle mode. A notification may be received while the mobile device is in vehicle mode and the notification may be determined to be important or unimportant. If the notification is determined to be important, then the notification may be provided to the user via, an output mode (e.g., display or speaker). If the notification is determined to be unimportant, then the notification may not be provided to the user via the display until the mobile device is no longer in vehicle mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2014
    Publication date: December 24, 2015
    Inventors: Evan Malahy, Donald Geoffrey Schuller, Henry Owen Newton-Dunn
  • Publication number: 20150370461
    Abstract: Systems and techniques are provided for management of media player functionality. A template user interface including slots, each slot including definition for a control, may be received. The definition may include a position within a user interface and a size for the control. The control may be associated with a feature for media applications. A list including a feature for a first media application may be received. The feature for the first media application may use one of the slots of the template user interface. A translated interface for the first media application may be generated by replacing one the controls associated with the slots with a control for the feature of the first media application, where the control for the feature of the first media application uses the position in the definition associated with the slot for the replace control. The translated interface may be displayed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2014
    Publication date: December 24, 2015
    Inventors: Lei Zhang, Donald Geoffrey Schuller, Andy Anderson Stewart, Henry Owen Newton-Dunn, Evan Malahy
  • Publication number: 20150367770
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides techniques for dynamic driver attention and event notification management based on the current contextual information about a vehicle, driver attention, and a distraction weight of a notification of an event. A method may include receiving a first contextual information about a motorized vehicle. An indication of the occurrence of a first event may be received. It may be determined that the first event has a first event notification weight that satisfies a first notification threshold based on the first contextual information. As a result, a first notification of the first event may be provided to a user of the motorized vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2014
    Publication date: December 24, 2015
    Inventors: Henry Owen Newton-Dunn, Donald Geoffrey Schuller, Evan Malahy
  • Publication number: 20150373138
    Abstract: Systems, device and techniques are disclosed for modifying a cache value based on an upcoming reduction in connection. A determination be made that a user device is in a travel mode and intended travel data may be received accordingly. Data throughput information corresponding to the intended travel data may be received. A determination that there is an upcoming reduction in connection may be made based on the data throughput information. A cache value (e.g., amount of data received, provided, or cached) may be modified based on the upcoming reduction in connection.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2014
    Publication date: December 24, 2015
    Inventors: Andrew Brenner, Henry Owen Newton-Dunn, Donald Geoffrey Schuller, Joe Onorato, Lei Zhang, Zhen Song
  • Patent number: 7228108
    Abstract: An RF tag 25 is incorporated in a mouse 20, and an RF tag reader 15 is mounted on the main body side of a computer 10. When using the mouse 20 to a specified computer 10, a user moves the mouse close to the reader 15 to read identification information (ID) of the mouse 20, which is included in the RF tag 25. On the main body side of the computer 10, the mouse 20 is designated in accordance with the read ID and communication with the mouse 20 is set. There may be a case where a plurality of computers and peripheral equipment intermingle, but, by making joint use of the ID reader 15 in a short-range, a corresponding relationship between the main body of the computer 10 and the wireless equipment 20 is made clear.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2002
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2007
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Yuji Ayatsuka, Junichi Rekimoto, Shigeru Tajima, Ivan Poupyrev, Eduardo Agusto Sciammarella, Henry Owen Newton-Dunn, Nobuyuki Matsushita, Hiroaki Tobita
  • Publication number: 20040015625
    Abstract: An RF tag 25 is incorporated in a mouse 20, and an RF tag reader 15 is mounted on the main body side of a computer 10. When using the mouse 20 to a specified computer 10, a user moves the mouse close to the reader 15 to read identification information (ID) of the mouse 20, which is included in the RF tag 25. On the main body side of the computer 10, the mouse 20 is designated in accordance with the read ID and communication with the mouse 20 is set.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2003
    Publication date: January 22, 2004
    Inventors: Yuji Ayatsuka, Junichi Rekimoto, Shigeru Tajima, Ivan Poupyrev, Eduardo Agusto Sciammarella, Henry Owen Newton-Dunn, Nobuyuki Matsushita, Hiroaki Tobita