Patents by Inventor James Helm

James Helm 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: 20240317286
    Abstract: A system for railroad directive management is presented. The system can receive a myriad of data related to a directive, track segments, and/or vehicle events on the track and/or track segments. Vehicle- and/or event-specific data can be compared with one or more thresholds, including force thresholds, temporal thresholds, environmental thresholds, and/or event thresholds to determine whether and what kind of directive modification should be instantiated. Specialized algorithms can be implemented to trace vehicle paths along the track to determine whether directive-related segments are traversed, and specialized clustering algorithms can be utilized to cluster data unique to a particular segment on a per-segment basis. The system can be integrated with existing track infrastructure and can further generate alerts to notify coupled systems and/or personnel of directives and/or modification thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 3, 2024
    Publication date: September 26, 2024
    Applicant: BNSF Railway Company
    Inventors: Christopher Neil Pickard, Kyle Keilty Williams, Greg Harrison, James Helm
  • Patent number: 11999397
    Abstract: A system for railroad directive management is presented. The system can receive a myriad of data related to a directive, track segments, and/or vehicle events on the track and/or track segments. Vehicle- and/or event-specific data can be compared with one or more thresholds, including force thresholds, temporal thresholds, environmental thresholds, and/or event thresholds to determine whether and what kind of directive modification should be instantiated. Specialized algorithms can be implemented to trace vehicle paths along the track to determine whether directive-related segments are traversed, and specialized clustering algorithms can be utilized to cluster data unique to a particular segment on a per-segment basis. The system can be integrated with existing track infrastructure and can further generate alerts to notify coupled systems and/or personnel of directives and/or modification thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2024
    Assignee: BNSF Railway Company
    Inventors: Christopher Neil Pickard, Kyle Keilty Williams, Gregory Harrison, James Helm
  • Publication number: 20230084425
    Abstract: A system for railroad directive management is presented. The system can receive a myriad of data related to a directive, track segments, and/or vehicle events on the track and/or track segments. Vehicle- and/or event-specific data can be compared with one or more thresholds, including force thresholds, temporal thresholds, environmental thresholds, and/or event thresholds to determine whether and what kind of directive modification should be instantiated. Specialized algorithms can be implemented to trace vehicle paths along the track to determine whether directive-related segments are traversed, and specialized clustering algorithms can be utilized to cluster data unique to a particular segment on a per-segment basis. The system can be integrated with existing track infrastructure and can further generate alerts to notify coupled systems and/or personnel of directives and/or modification thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 12, 2022
    Publication date: March 16, 2023
    Applicant: BNSF Railway Company
    Inventors: Christopher Neil Pickard, Kyle Keilty Williams, Gregory Harrison, James Helm
  • Patent number: 11453423
    Abstract: A system for railroad directive management is presented. The system can receive a myriad of data related to a directive, track segments, and/or vehicle events on the track and/or track segments. Vehicle- and/or event-specific data can be compared with one or more thresholds, including force thresholds, temporal thresholds, environmental thresholds, and/or event thresholds to determine whether and what kind of directive modification should be instantiated. Specialized algorithms can be implemented to trace vehicle paths along the track to determine whether directive-related segments are traversed, and specialized clustering algorithms can be utilized to cluster data unique to a particular segment on a per-segment basis. The system can be integrated with existing track infrastructure and can further generate alerts to notify coupled systems and/or personnel of directives and/or modification thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignee: BNSF Railway Company
    Inventors: Christopher Neil Pickard, Kyle Keilty Williams, Gregory Harrison, James Helm
  • Publication number: 20070005450
    Abstract: Advertising is targeted to a specific user of a user console. A product data request is received from a user console and includes a user identifier, user data, and at least a first product identifier. A user account record associated with the user identifier is identified. The user account record includes a subscription service level identifier and a user account history. The user data are then associated with the user account record. A product catalog is searched for any product related entries associated with the request, and when any product related entries associated with the product data request are found, each such product related entry is provided to the user console.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2005
    Publication date: January 4, 2007
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Shyam Krishnamoorthy, Daniel Walther, Daniel Holt, James Helm, Jerry Hook
  • Publication number: 20060121992
    Abstract: Systems and method for providing a single sign in a gaming console that associates online activity that is out-of-game/cross game, and/or online activity that is in-game, and/or activity that is offline and in-game with that account. While online, a service tracks activity of gamers and provides usage statistics in a profile. While offline, the game console tracks the player's activity via a mechanism to collect detailed information about a specific player's in-game statistics and accomplishments. The offline activity is cached and uploaded when the console connects to the online service. Players can accumulate achievements offline that are credited towards online activities.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2004
    Publication date: June 8, 2006
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Michal Bortnik, Erik Arthur, James Macauley, Ling Chen, Yasser Asmi, Steven Lamb, James Helm
  • Publication number: 20050222961
    Abstract: A system for facilitating contactless payment transactions across different contactless payment systems using a common mobile device that acts as a stored value device is provided. A combination of a mobile application and a communication module allows the mobile device, which is associated with one payment system, to emulate various transmission standards and data exchange formats that are used in different payment systems in order to perform contactless payment transactions with merchants that are associated with different contactless payment systems. A service application running in a service operator computer communicates with the various contactless payment systems to facilitate the settlement of the amount owed to various payment systems by the one payment system associated with the mobile device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2004
    Publication date: October 6, 2005
    Inventors: Philippe Staib, James Helm, Thierry Renard