Patents by Inventor Ian Christopher

Ian Christopher 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: 10983746
    Abstract: A method of generating display data at a display control device for display on a movable display involves receiving and storing a current frame of display data from a host device. The current frame is then processed and output for display on the movable display. Sensor data from sensors associated with the movable display is received and stored, the sensor data indicating movement and/or position of the movable display. If it is determined that a next frame of display data is not ready at the display control device for processing and outputting to the movable display at a required time, then an estimated next frame of display data is generated using the stored current frame and the stored sensor data and the estimated frame of display data is output for display on the movable display. The sensor data may be received either before or after the current frame is received, stored, processed or output.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignee: DISPLAYLINK (UK) LIMITED
    Inventors: Ian Christopher Doidge, Patrick David Cooper
  • Publication number: 20210103203
    Abstract: This invention concerns a method of filming a subject to be projected as a Pepper's Ghost image. The method may comprise filming a subject under a lighting arrangement having one or more front lights for illuminating a front of a subject and one or more backlights. The lights may be controlled such that the total brightness of the one or more front lights, as measured of the subject, is less than or approximately the same as the total brightness of the one or more backlights, as measured at the subject. The subject may be located directly above one or more floor lights such the subject is illuminated from below by the one or more floor lights.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 21, 2020
    Publication date: April 8, 2021
    Applicant: Holicom Film Limited
    Inventors: Stephen Ley, Ian Christopher O'Connell, Bruce Finn
  • Patent number: 10958523
    Abstract: A user input is obtained at a central monitoring device to deploy in a destination monitoring server a monitoring configuration stored at a source monitoring server. The source monitoring server is configured to monitor at least one parameter for a first set of computing devices and the destination monitoring server is configured to monitor the at least one parameter for a second set of computing devices. The central monitoring device accesses the source monitoring server using a first service account and exports the monitoring configuration to generate an export file. The central monitoring device then accesses the destination monitoring server using a second service account and transfers the export file to the destination monitoring server. The central monitoring server then deploys the monitoring configuration at the destination monitoring server based on the export file.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2021
    Assignee: Bank of America Corporation
    Inventors: Annamalai Arunachalam, Ian Christopher Raeburn, Satpal Singh Dua
  • Publication number: 20210082531
    Abstract: According to a certain embodiment, the semiconductor memory device includes a memory cell array, a control circuit, and a data register storing an erase verify fail flag. An erase target block is divided into word line groups. The control circuit includes: a counter configured to count the number of the erase verify fail flags to be output as a count value for each group; a plurality of counter registers configured to store the count value for each group; an arithmetic circuit configured to take a difference of the plurality of count values respectively stored in the plurality of counter registers and to output a result of the difference as a number of second fail flags; and a comparator configured to compare the number of criteria of the erase verify fail flag and the number of the second fail flags to be output as a memory state detected result.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2020
    Publication date: March 18, 2021
    Applicant: Kioxia Corporation
    Inventors: Koichi SHINOHARA, Katsuki MATSUDERA, Ian Christopher GAMARA, Yoshikazu I HARADA, Noritaka KAI, Yusuke TANEFUSA
  • Patent number: 10950231
    Abstract: Techniques for selecting a skill, to respond to a user input, using skill rankings are described. A skill's ranking may be determined in different manners. In one example, a skill's ranking may be determined based on a number of different users inputting commands that invoke the skill over a period of time. In another example, a skill's ranking may be determined based on a number of different devices that capture user inputs that invoke the skill over a period of time. A system may determine whether to automatically enable a skill (e.g., without user input received after the original user input), or ask the user whether the skill should be enabled, based on the skill's ranking. Moreover, a system may use a skill's ranking to determine whether to interact with a user, to enable the skill, using a graphical user interface or a voice user interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Mark Conrad Kockerbeck, John Peach, Kevin Boehm, Tina Orooji, Ian Christopher Suttle, Robert Pulciani
  • Publication number: 20210069225
    Abstract: Compositions and method are therefore disclosed for treating ARDS. In particular, disclosed a composition that contains one, two, or more cytidine diphosphate (CDP)-conjugated precursors selected from the group consisting of CDP-choline, CDP-ethanolamine, and CDP-diacylglycerol (CDP-DAG) in a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier for use in treating ARDS.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2020
    Publication date: March 11, 2021
    Inventor: Ian Christopher Davis
  • Publication number: 20210045951
    Abstract: A patient support apparatus, such as a bed, cot, stretcher, or the like, includes a litter frame, a support deck, a plurality of force sensors adapted to output signals corresponding to downward forces exerted on the support deck, and a controller configured carrying out various functions and to display various screens on a touchscreen or display, including a scale home screen and a scale equipment screen. A patient's current weight can be displayed on the scale home screen and the weight of equipment supported on the apparatus can be displayed on the scale home screen and the scale equipment screen. When a patient's current weight is characterized as possibly including non-patient weight, the controller can display a warning screen.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 13, 2020
    Publication date: February 18, 2021
    Inventors: Kurosh Nahavandi, David Buick, Placide Nibakuze, Sujay Sukumaran, Celso Henrique Farnese Pires Pereira, Ian Christopher Geiman
  • Publication number: 20210045948
    Abstract: A patient support apparatus, such as a bed, cot, stretcher, operating table, recliner, or the like, includes a litter frame, a support deck supported on the litter frame and adapted to support a mattress thereon, a touchscreen and a controller configured for carrying out various functions and to display various screens on the touchscreen, including screens for controlling a mattress therapy function or for controlling a non-mattress function of the patient support apparatus. A notification regarding the status of a mattress therapy function can be displayed on various screens. Status indications can be provided as a banner across a portion of the touchscreen.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 13, 2020
    Publication date: February 18, 2021
    Inventors: Kurosh Nahavandi, Ian Christopher Geiman
  • Patent number: 10893400
    Abstract: A method at a power-limited computing station for communicating in an intelligent transport system, the method including operating the computing station in one of a non-critical radio operating state and a safety-critical radio operating state; receiving a trigger at the computing station; determining whether the trigger should cause the computing station to transition a radio operating state; and if the trigger should cause the computing station to transition the radio operating state, changing the radio operating state to the other of the non-critical radio operating state and the safety-critical radio operating state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2021
    Assignee: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventors: James Randolph Winter Lepp, Stephen John Barrett, Ian Christopher Drummond Doig, Gordon Peter Young, Michael Peter Montemurro
  • Patent number: 10885781
    Abstract: A method at a computing device for the computing device to act as an intelligent transportation system (ITS) station for a vehicle, the method including detecting that the computing device is proximate to the vehicle; determining whether ITS messages are being sent on behalf of the vehicle; and if the determining finds ITS messages are not being sent on behalf of the vehicle, the computing device acting as the ITS station for the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2021
    Assignee: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventors: Ian Christopher Drummond Doig, Stephen John Barrett, Nicholas Patrick Alfano, James Randolph Winter Lepp, Roland Emlyn Williams
  • Patent number: 10874684
    Abstract: Compositions and method are therefore disclosed for treating ARDS. In particular, disclosed a composition that contains one, two, or more cytidine diphosphate (CDP)-conjugated precursors selected from the group consisting of CDP-choline, CDP-ethanolamine, and CDP-diacylglycerol (CDP-DAG) in a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier for use in treating ARDS.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: Ohio State Innovation Foundation
    Inventor: Ian Christopher Davis
  • Publication number: 20200382925
    Abstract: A method at a first computing device within an Intelligent Transportation System for vehicle length reporting, the method including receiving, at the computing device, a position from a second computing device; finding position information for the first computing device; calculating a difference between the position found for the first computing device and the position reported from the second computing device; and using the difference for vehicle length reporting.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 13, 2020
    Publication date: December 3, 2020
    Inventors: Ian Christopher Drummond Doig, Stephen John Barrett
  • Publication number: 20200359070
    Abstract: A method of compensating for potential interruptions in a wireless connection (110) over which data is transmitted from a host device (11) to a client device (12) involves determining an expectation of an interruption to the wireless connection (110), setting a second compression level for compressing the data when an interruption is due, the second compression level being set at a higher level than a first compression level normally used for the data, compressing the data at the second compression level, and forwarding the data compressed at the second compression level to a transmitting component (16) for transmittal to the client device (12).
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 4, 2018
    Publication date: November 12, 2020
    Applicant: DISPLAYLINK (UK) LIMITED
    Inventor: Ian Christopher Doidge
  • Publication number: 20200322770
    Abstract: A method at a power-limited computing station for communicating in an intelligent transport system, the method including operating the computing station in one of a non-critical radio operating state and a safety-critical radio operating state; receiving a trigger at the computing station; determining whether the trigger should cause the computing station to transition a radio operating state; and if the trigger should cause the computing station to transition the radio operating state, changing the radio operating state to the other of the non-critical radio operating state and the safety-critical radio operating state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 19, 2020
    Publication date: October 8, 2020
    Inventors: James Randolph Winter LEPP, Stephen John BARRETT, Ian Christopher Drummond DOIG, Gordon Peter YOUNG, Michael Peter MONTEMURRO
  • Patent number: 10728729
    Abstract: A method at a power-limited computing station for communicating in an intelligent transport system, the method including operating the computing station in one of a non-critical radio operating state and a safety-critical radio operating state; receiving a trigger at the computing station; determining whether the trigger should cause the computing station to transition a radio operating state; and if the trigger should cause the computing station to transition the radio operating state, changing the radio operating state to the other of the non-critical radio operating state and the safety-critical radio operating state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2020
    Assignee: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventors: James Randolph Winter Lepp, Stephen John Barrett, Ian Christopher Drummond Doig, Gordon Peter Young, Michael Peter Montemurro
  • Patent number: D891463
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2020
    Assignee: Stryker Corporation
    Inventors: Kurosh Nahavandi, Benjamin John Purrenhage, Donald Scott Herzog, Ian Christopher Geiman, Jeffrey Alan Kennedy
  • Patent number: D896266
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2020
    Assignee: Stryker Corporation
    Inventors: Jeffrey Alan Kennedy, Kurosh HNahavandi, Benjamin John Purrenhage, Ian Christopher Geiman, Donald Scott Herzog
  • Patent number: D896267
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2020
    Assignee: Stryker Corporation
    Inventors: Jeffrey Alan Kennedy, Kurosh Nahavandi, Benjamin John Purrenhage, Ian Christopher Geiman, Donald Scott Herzog
  • Patent number: D916873
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignee: Stryker Corporation
    Inventors: Jeffrey Alan Kennedy, Kurosh Nahavandi, Benjamin John Purrenhage, Donald Scott Herzog, Ian Christopher Geiman
  • Patent number: D916874
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignee: Stryker Corporation
    Inventors: Jeffrey Alan Kennedy, Kurosh Nahavandi, Benjamin John Purrenhage, Donald Scott Herzog, Ian Christopher Geiman