Patents by Inventor James Gardner

James Gardner 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: 20180368712
    Abstract: A neural interface device that comprises an implantable microelectrode body. The implantable microelectrode body includes a neural interface probe, which includes a thin film metal trace connected to an interface pad and an amorphous silicon carbide insulation. The amorphous silicon carbide insulation surrounds the thin film metal trace to form an outside surface of the neural interface probe. The interface pad is exposed to an ambient environment of the neural interface probe through an opening in the amorphous silicon carbide insulation. Methods of manufacturing the neural interface device are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2018
    Publication date: December 27, 2018
    Inventors: Timothy James Gardner, Stuart F. Cogan
  • Publication number: 20180367336
    Abstract: To reduce performance losses and costs associated with serializing parallel communications when communicating with other computing devices over a local area network (“LAN”) or a wide area network (“WAN”), bus virtualization is provided to maintain parallelization for inter machine communications over a network. Control lines and data lines associated with a parallel bus communication can be received by a network adapter, and instead of serializing the communications, the network adapter can map each of the control and data lines to respective virtual local area networks (“VLAN”). Multiple VLANs can exist together on a LAN or WAN while logically segmented, allowing the respective VLANs to facilitate communications for the control and data lines over the network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2018
    Publication date: December 20, 2018
    Inventor: James A. Gardner
  • Patent number: 10148756
    Abstract: Methods, computer-readable media and devices are disclosed for caching traffic of a transmission in a storage resource of a storage area network when a route for the transmission fails to satisfy a latency requirement. For example, a processor may receive a latency requirement for a transmission via a communications network, select a route for the transmission through the communications network, submit to a storage area network a request for a storage resource for the transmission and receive from the storage area network a notification of a storage resource of the storage area network assigned to the transmission. When the route fails to satisfy the latency requirement, the processor may cache traffic of the transmission in the storage resource.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2018
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventor: James A. Gardner
  • Publication number: 20180324252
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and products mirror data between local memory and remote storage. A write command is sent from a server to a remote storage device, and a timer is established. A current time of the timer is compared to a maximum time period. If the maximum time period expires without receipt of an acknowledgment to the write command, then a write error is assumed to exist to the remote storage device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2018
    Publication date: November 8, 2018
    Applicant: AT&T Intellectual Property II, L.P.
    Inventors: James A. Gardner, Darrell G. Freeman
  • Patent number: 10116485
    Abstract: This disclosure provides systems, methods, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for contemporaneously estimating transmitter in-phase and quadrature (I/Q) imbalances, receiver I/Q imbalances, and transmit carrier leakage in a wireless transceiver. In some implementations, first, second, and third frequency-domain multi-tone (FDMT) signals transmitted through a calibration path of the wireless transceiver are captured to generate frequency domain representations of the first, second, and third FDMT signals. The frequency domain representations of the first, second, and third FDMT signals may be used to contemporaneously estimate the transmitter I/Q imbalances, receiver I/Q imbalances, and the transmit carrier leakage, which in turn may be used to determine transmitter and receiver I/Q imbalance correction filter coefficients and a transmit carrier leakage correction factor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2018
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Tienyow Liu, James Gardner, Jayanand Asok Kumar
  • Patent number: 10109139
    Abstract: Systems and methods of the invention relate to reducing a number of jams that can occur in an automated teller machine with the employment of a moveable platen that increases a width of a channel for documents. A document analysis area can receive a document via a first transport path, wherein the document analysis area can include a channel in which the document travels to enable at least one scan component to capture an image of the document. The channel is created by one or more platen. The one or more platen can be movable to increase the width of the channel so as to allow documents to pass through the document analysis area without causing a jam or error for the automated teller machine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2018
    Assignee: Diebold Nixdorf Incorporated
    Inventors: Sathish Irudayam, Timothy Allison, Jeffrey M. Eastman, Michael James Gardner, Aaron Christopher Graham, John E. McCloskey
  • Patent number: 10086604
    Abstract: A method of operating a printing device during a power loss event includes, with a power loss detection device, detecting an power loss to a number of high voltage devices. The method further includes, with a voltage regulator coupled to printhead fire control circuitry, maintaining a power loss protection supply voltage (VDD_plp) to the printhead fire control circuitry.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2018
    Assignee: HEWLETT-PACKARD DEVELOPMENT COMPANY, L.P.
    Inventors: James Gardner, Daryl E Anderson, Eric T Martin
  • Patent number: 10084614
    Abstract: To reduce performance losses and costs associated with serializing parallel communications when communicating with other computing devices over a local area network (“LAN”) or a wide area network (“WAN”), bus virtualization is provided to maintain parallelization for inter machine communications over a network. Control lines and data lines associated with a parallel bus communication can be received by a network adapter, and instead of serializing the communications, the network adapter can map each of the control and data lines to respective virtual local area networks (“VLAN”). Multiple VLANs can exist together on a LAN or WAN while logically segmented, allowing the respective VLANs to facilitate communications for the control and data lines over the network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2018
    Assignee: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.
    Inventor: James A. Gardner
  • Patent number: 10044805
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and products mirror data between local memory and remote storage. A write command is sent from a server to a remote storage device, and a timer is established. A current time of the timer is compared to a maximum time period. If the maximum time period expires without receipt of an acknowledgment to the write command, then a write error is assumed to exist to the remote storage device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2018
    Assignee: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY II, L.P.
    Inventors: James A. Gardner, Darrell G. Freeman
  • Publication number: 20180158271
    Abstract: Systems and methods of the invention relate to reducing a number of jams that can occur in an automated teller machine with the employment of a moveable platen that increases a width of a channel for documents. A document analysis area can receive a document via a first transport path, wherein the document analysis area can include a channel in which the document travels to enable at least one scan component to capture an image of the document. The channel is created by one or more platen. The one or more platen can be movable to increase the width of the channel so as to allow documents to pass-through the document analysis area without causing a jam or error for the automated teller machine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 26, 2016
    Publication date: June 7, 2018
    Inventors: Sathish M. Irudayam, Timothy Allison, Jeffrey M. Eastman, Michael James Gardner, Aaron Christopher Graham, John E. McCloskey
  • Publication number: 20180131984
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a method for providing redundancy in a video data stream. For every data frame of a plurality of data frames of video content, the method includes dividing the data frame into a plurality of data segments and copying a plurality of each of the plurality of data segments to the plurality of data frames in a data stream to provide redundancy for the data frame within the plurality of data frames in the data stream. The plurality of each of the plurality of data segments is distributed across the plurality of data frames to provide generate a plurality of redundancy-enhanced data frames that provide the redundancy over a protection interval associated with a network path. The method includes transmitting a data stream comprising the plurality of redundancy-enhanced data frames to a receiver via the network path. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 9, 2018
    Publication date: May 10, 2018
    Applicant: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventor: James Gardner
  • Publication number: 20180053367
    Abstract: Systems and methods of the invention relate to reducing a number of jams that can occur in an automated teller machine with the employment of a moveable platen that increases a width of a channel for documents. A document analysis area can receive a document via a first transport path, wherein the document analysis area can include a channel in which the document travels to enable at least one scan component to capture an image of the document. The channel is created by one or more platen. The one or more platen can be movable to increase the width of the channel so as to allow documents to pass through the document analysis area without causing a jam or error for the automated teller machine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 5, 2017
    Publication date: February 22, 2018
    Inventors: Sathish Irudayam, Timothy Allison, Jeffrey M. Eastman, Michael James Gardner, Aaron Christopher Graham, John E. McCloskey
  • Patent number: 9900643
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a method for providing redundancy in a video data stream. For every data frame of a plurality of data frames of video content, the method includes dividing the data frame into a plurality of data segments and copying a plurality of each of the plurality of data segments to the plurality of data frames in a data stream to provide redundancy for the data frame within the plurality of data frames in the data stream. The plurality of each of the plurality of data segments is distributed across the plurality of data frames to provide generate a plurality of redundancy-enhanced data frames that provide the redundancy over a protection interval associated with a network path. The method includes transmitting a data stream comprising the plurality of redundancy-enhanced data frames to a receiver via the network path. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2018
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventor: James Gardner
  • Patent number: 9856392
    Abstract: Various embodiments of radiation curable coating compositions are provided. In one embodiment, a radiation curable coating composition includes a (meth)acrylate functional compound and an adhesion promoting (meth)acrylate compound. The radiation curable coating composition can also include a (meth)acrylate functional compound, a poly(meth)acrylate and a reactive diluent. The (meth)acrylate functional compound can be made from the reaction of a multifunctional isocyanate, a polyol and a hydroxyl functional (meth)acrylate in the presence of a catalyst.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2018
    Assignee: AKZO NOBEL COATINGS INTERNATIONAL B.V.
    Inventors: Gary Pierce Craun, Kenneth James Gardner, Patricia Miller
  • Publication number: 20170325169
    Abstract: Power conservation in a radio frequency front end of a user equipment (UE) during wireless local area network (WLAN) communication is achieved by adjusting a power mode of the radio frequency front end. In one instance, the UE determines a signal strength of a received frame of a packet during a short training field of a preamble of the received frame. The determining occurs when a WLAN receiver is operating in a low power mode. The UE then switches the WLAN receiver to a high power mode during the short training field of the preamble or during a first segment of a long training field of the preamble when the signal strength is above a predetermined signal strength.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2017
    Publication date: November 9, 2017
    Inventors: Mohammad EMADI, Alireza KHALILI, Mazhareddin TAGHIVAND, Youhan KIM, Kai DIETZE, Michael KOHLMANN, James GARDNER, Tevfik YUCEK, Beomsup KIM
  • Patent number: 9813085
    Abstract: A system and method for calibrating digital pre-distortion in a wireless device. A pre-distortion circuit may output a first training signal while a power amplifier of the wireless device is on, to generate a first feedback signal. The first feedback signal may be fed back to the pre-distortion circuit via a receive path of the wireless device. The pre-distortion circuit may output a second training signal while the power amplifier is off, to generate a second feedback signal. The second feedback signal may be fed back to the pre-distortion circuit via the receive path. The pre-distortion circuit may then determine one or more pre-distortion coefficients based on the first and second feedback signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Paul Brandon Butler, James Gardner, Niranjan Talwalkar, Burcin Baytekin
  • Publication number: 20170305150
    Abstract: A method of operating a printing device during a power loss event includes, with a power loss detection device, detecting an power loss to a number of high voltage devices. The method further includes, with a voltage regulator coupled to printhead fire control circuitry, maintaining a power loss protection supply voltage (VDD_plp) to the printhead fire control circuitry.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2014
    Publication date: October 26, 2017
    Applicant: HEWLETT-PACKARD DEVELOPMENT COMPANY, L.P.
    Inventors: James GARDNER, Daryl E ANDERSON, Eric T MARTIN
  • Publication number: 20170297328
    Abstract: A method of operating a printing device during a power loss event includes, with a power loss protection supply voltage generator coupled to a printhead driving circuit, maintaining a power loss protection supply voltage (VDD—plp) to the printhead driving circuit until a high voltage power supply (VPP) to the high voltage devices drops below a threshold voltage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2014
    Publication date: October 19, 2017
    Applicant: HEWLETT-PACKARD DEVELOPMENT COMPANY, L.P.
    Inventors: Eric T Martin, Daryl E Anderson, James Gardner
  • Patent number: 9794091
    Abstract: A method and apparatus are disclosed for a wireless communication device capable of scanning for radar signals while detecting and/or receiving a wireless communication signal. The wireless communication device may include a plurality of local oscillator synthesizers to allow distinct frequency bands to be used for wireless communication signals and radar detection. In some embodiments, the wireless communication device may include a radar detection physical layer (PHY) circuit to detect the presence of radar signals within a received RF signal. The radar detection PHY may have limited functionality suitable primarily for radar signal analysis and not suitable for processing (decoding) communication signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2017
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Tevfik Yucek, Felix Bitterli, Shahram Abdollahi-Alibeik, Lalitkumar Nathawad, James Gardner, Christopher Pisz, Patrick Kelliher, Burcin Baytekin, Suresh Chandrasekaran, Mani Krishnan Venkatachari
  • Patent number: 9754434
    Abstract: Systems and methods of the invention relate to reducing a number of jams that can occur in an automated teller machine with the employment of a moveable platen that increases a width of a channel for documents. A document analysis area can receive a document via a first transport path, wherein the document analysis area can include a channel in which the document travels to enable at least one scan component to capture an image of the document. The channel is created by one or more platen. The one or more platen can be movable to increase the width of the channel so as to allow documents to pass through the document analysis area without causing a jam or error for the automated teller machine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2017
    Assignee: DIEBOLD, INC.
    Inventors: Sathish Irudayam, Timothy Allison, Jeffrey M. Eastman, Michael James Gardner, Aaron Christopher Graham, John E. McCloskey