Patents by Inventor Jason An

Jason An 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).

  • Pressure actuated ported sub for subterranean cement completions
    Patent number: 9359865
    Abstract: A shifting sleeve has differential piston areas so that applied pressure displaces the sleeve against spring bias, which preferably is a series of Belleville washer stacks associated with modular mandrel components, to obtain the desired opposing force to the movement initiated with pressure applied to differential piston areas. An indexing feature is located between the sleeve and the mandrel passage wall and on a predetermined number of cycles disables the Belleville washer stacks from biasing the sleeve in an opposed direction as when pressure is applied. At this time the pressure in the mandrel acting on the differential piston area simply shifts the sleeve to open a lateral port so that fracturing through the cement that was earlier placed with the port closed can take place.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2016
    Assignee: Baker Hughes Incorporated
    Inventors: Jason C. Mailand, Justin C. Kellner, James S. Sanchez, Paul Madero, Charles C. Johnson, Robert W. Putch
  • Gaming system and method for selectively providing an elimination tournament that funds an award through expected values of unplayed tournament games of eliminated players
    Patent number: 9361754
    Abstract: A gaming system including a central server operable to communicate a plurality of different commands to a plurality of gaming devices to provide non-tournament game play and provide an elimination tournament. The gaming system contributes an average expected payout value of tournament games that were determined to be subsequently played by tournament players but were then not played because the players were eliminated before the end of the tournament to a tournament award. The tournament award is provided to a winner of the tournament.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2016
    Assignee: IGT
    Inventors: Rogelio S. Decasa, Jr., Jason P. Pawloski, Ryan W. Cuddy, Karen M. Kendall, Kelsy J. Grace, Benjamin M. Fuller
  • Video injection for video communication
    Patent number: 9363472
    Abstract: A method for video communication comprises initiating video communication on a channel with a first electronic device, communicating first content on the channel with the first electronic device, selecting second content from a source external to the video communication, switching video communication using the second content, and transmitting the second content on the channel to the first electronic device instead of the first content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2016
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jason Rowe, Daniel Gicklhorn, Fabio Gava, Ho Suk Chung
  • System and method for querying data
    Patent number: 9361437
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes maintaining, by a computer system, a plurality of data and at least one classification for each of the plurality of data. Each data of the plurality of data is aggregated from a plurality data sources and is abstracted into one or more of a plurality of standardized formats based on a type of the data. The computer system has executing thereon a plurality of classification engines. The plurality of classification engines include an a priori classification engine, an a posteriori classification engine, and a heuristics engine. Each at least one classification is generated by one of the plurality of classification engines. In addition, the method includes receiving query input from a user. Further, the method includes querying at least a portion of the plurality of data responsive to the query input.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2016
    Assignee: Dell Software Inc.
    Inventors: Michel Brisebois, Jason Aylesworth, Curtis Johnstone, Andrew John Leach, Elena Vinogradov, Joel Stacy Blaiberg, Stephen Pope, Shawn Donald Holmesdale, Guangning Hu
  • Playlist configuration and preview
    Patent number: 9361942
    Abstract: In some implementations, a user can play a music track from a dynamically generated playlist. The user can provide input indicating that the user likes or dislikes the music track and the playlist can be adjusted based on the user input. In some implementations, information can be presented to the user so that the user can preview changes to the playlist before the changes are made to the playlist. In some implementations, a user can adjust playlist criteria (configuration) by adjusting specific music characteristics. In some implementations, a user can adjust playlist criteria by manipulating a list of representative music tracks. In some implementations, a user can compare the user's playlist to playlists of other users.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2016
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Sharon E. Friesen, Jorge S. Fino, Jason A. Skinder
  • Maintaining a relational database and its schema in response to a stream of XML messages based on one or more arbitrary and evolving XML schemas
    Patent number: 9361398
    Abstract: A facility for representing in a relational database informational content of the series of tag-language messages is described. The facility reads an arbitrary number of the tags contained by the series of messages. For each read tag, the facility determines a path for the tag, the name of a relational table assigned to the path, values specified for the tag and/or attributes of the tag, in the name of columns of relational tables assigned to the tag and/or tag attribute values. After doing this processing, the facility updates the relational database so that and it includes all of the assigned relational tables and a relational table columns, and populates the value specified for the tags and/or attributes of tags to the relational database.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2016
    Assignee: Liberty Mutual Insurance Company
    Inventors: Kevin Patrick Connell, Andrew Mark Winterbauer, Kari Danielle Wittgens, Jason Alex Haley
  • Downhole system with filtering and method
    Patent number: 9359872
    Abstract: A downhole system includes a tubular having a plurality of spaced apertures radially extending through a wall of the tubular. A section of the tubular blocking radial fluid flow through the wall between an interior and exterior of the tubular. The section arranged from a first end to a second end of the tubular. A plurality of filter pucks respectively inserted into at least some of the plurality of apertures. The filter pucks each including a body configured for insertion in one of the apertures and a filtering element within each body; and, at least one control or monitoring line arranged on the section. Further is a method of controlling sand in a downhole system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2016
    Assignee: BAKER HUGHES INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Philippe J. Legrand, Jason J. Barnard, Henry M. Sobczak
  • Systems and methods for appearance-intent-directed document format conversion for mobile printing
    Patent number: 9361049
    Abstract: An embodiment generally relates to systems and methods for determining a conversion location based on the content of a document and an intended quality level of the document. More particularly, processing logic can be configured to analyze a document submitted for rendering to determine a content level of the document. Further the processing logic can compare the content level to an intended quality level specified by a user of the document to determine whether to convert the document on local resources or in a cloud-based network. An associated conversion application in the appropriate location can convert the document into a printable format, and a print engine can render the converted document.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2016
    Assignee: XEROX CORPORATION
    Inventors: Francis K. Tse, Jason Slack, James Mayer, Robert Nuuja
  • Gaming machine with screen split and merge feature
    Patent number: 9361750
    Abstract: A gaming machine includes a display device and a processor. The processor is programmed to cause the display device to display a first game using a first frame, detect a first trigger condition during play of the first game in the first frame, based on the first trigger condition, display a second game in a second frame on the display device, and enable simultaneous play of the first game in the first frame and the second game in the second frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2016
    Assignee: Video Gaming Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Jason Todd Sprinkle
  • Recoverable data acquisition system and method of sensing at least one parameter of a subterranean bore
    Patent number: 9359887
    Abstract: A recoverable data acquisition system includes at least a portion of at least one sensor be positionable within a tubular of a completion system, the at least a portion being recoverable therefrom and a retainer movably disposed at the tubular between at least a first position and a second position, a cavity being defined between the tubular and the retainer when the retainer is in the first position, the at least a portion of the at least one sensor being removable from the cavity in response to movement of the retainer from the first position to the second position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2016
    Assignee: BAKER HUGHES INCORPORATED
    Inventors: James L. Miller, II, Jason Mailand, Elias Pena, James Scott Sanchez, William B. Handy, Christopher Elliott, Daniel Matthews
  • System, method and computer program for autonomously emulating robot manipulators of continuously-varying configurations
    Patent number: 9358687
    Abstract: The invention is a modular and autonomously reconfigurable manipulator system, which introduces a new dimension to the versatility of robot manipulation for diverse tasks. The hardware component is a redundant mechanism which can lock any number of its joints at any relative position to form a particular configuration with a certain number of degrees of freedom and specific values for 5 kinematic, dynamic and control parameters, optimum for a given task to be performed. The process of identifying the optimum configuration for a given task and implementing it on the manipulator is done autonomously through the system software. Therefore, no manual interaction is required to form a new configuration most suitable for a given task. The kinematic, dynamic and control parameters of the system can vary continuously enabling the manipulator to form virtually an infinite number of configurations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2016
    Inventors: Mohammad Reza Emami, Jason Alexander Kereluk
  • Formation-engaging structures having retention features, earth-boring tools including such structures, and related methods
    Patent number: 9359826
    Abstract: An earth-boring tool includes a formation-engaging structure with a formation-engaging surface at a distal end and a side surface between a proximal end and the distal end along a central axis of the formation-engaging structure. A generally linear recess may be formed in the side surface along an axis oriented at a non-parallel angle relative to the central axis of the formation-engaging structure. A generally helical recess may be formed in the side surface, and the generally helical recess may intersect the generally linear recess. Earth-boring tools may include such formation-engaging structures. Methods may be used to form such formation-engaging structures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2016
    Assignee: Baker Hughes Incorporated
    Inventors: Do Van Do, Juan Miguel Bilen, S. Craig Russell, Kenneth R. Evans, Jason E. Hoines, Oliver Matthews, R. Keith Glasgow, Chaitanya K. Vempati
  • Method for semiconductor selective etching and BSI image sensor
    Patent number: 9362332
    Abstract: A method of selectively etching a semiconductor device and manufacturing a BSI image sensor device includes etching a doped silicon substrate with an HNA solution for a predetermined time duration to obtain an etching solution having a concentration C1 of nitrite ions, etching the semiconductor device using the obtained etching solution. Etching the semiconductor device requires an initial concentration C0 of nitride ions that is lower than C1. The HNA solution comprises a hydrofluoric acid (HF), a nitric acid (HNO3), and a acetic acid (CH3COOH). The BSI image sensor device will have a uniform thickness when etched using the thus obtained etching solution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2016
    Assignee: Semiconductor Manufacturing International (Shanghai) Corporation
    Inventors: Simon Wang, Phil Wu, Victor Luo, Silver Xi, Jason Chang, Kevin Shi
  • Method of providing tactile feedback and apparatus
    Patent number: 9361018
    Abstract: A method includes detecting a query gesture and actuating, in response to the query gesture, an actuator to provide tactile feedback including information associated with the query gesture. The query gesture may be detected on a touch-sensitive display of a portable electronic device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2016
    Assignee: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventors: Michael Defazio, Jerome Pasquero, David Ryan Walker, Jason Tyler Griffin
  • Optics assembly for high power laser tools
    Patent number: 9360631
    Abstract: There is provided a high power laser rotational optical assembly for use with, or in high power laser tools for performing high power laser operations. In particular, the optical assembly finds applications in performing high power laser operations on, and in, remote and difficult to access locations. The optical assembly has rotational seals and bearing configurations to avoid contamination of the laser beam path and optics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2016
    Assignee: Foro Energy, Inc.
    Inventors: Jason D. Fraze, Brian O. Faircloth, Mark S. Zediker
  • Fused tricyclic dual inhibitors of CDK 4/6 and FLT3
    Patent number: 9359355
    Abstract: Compounds of Formula I are useful inhibitors of CDK 4, CDK6, and FLT3. Such compounds are useful in treating cancer and various other disease conditions. Compounds of Formula I have the following structure: where R1 is a group of Formula IA, Formula IB, Formula IC, or Formula ID and the definitions of the other variables are provided herein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2016
    Assignee: AMGEN INC.
    Inventors: Xiaoqi Chen, Kang Dai, Jason Duquette, Michael W. Gribble, Jr., Justin N. Huard, Kathleen S. Keegan, Zhihong Li, Sarah E. Lively, Lawrence R. McGee, Mark L. Ragains, Xianghong Wang, Margaret F. Weidner, Jian Zhang
  • Gaming system and method providing a battling symbol generators game
    Patent number: 9361765
    Abstract: Various embodiments of the present disclosure provide a gaming system and method providing a battling symbol generators game. In various embodiments, each symbol generator of a set of symbol generators employed for the battling symbol generators game is associated with one of a plurality of different characteristics. During play of the battling symbol generators game, the gaming system modifies the set of symbol generators upon the occurrence of various symbol generator set modification events such that more symbol generators of the set are associated with a particular characteristic and/or such that fewer symbol generators of the set are associated with another characteristic. The gaming system provides a bonus when a designated quantity of the symbol generators of the set are each associated with a particular characteristic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2016
    Assignee: IGT
    Inventor: Jason R. Smalley
  • Two-piece contoured metallic container
    Patent number: D758207
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2016
    Assignee: BALL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jason M. Kaanta, Daniel A. Edwards
  • Display screen with icons
    Patent number: D758428
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2016
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Jason Nelson, Christopher Raykovich
  • Filter cartridge with adapter for jug container
    Patent number: D758529
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2016
    Assignee: KX Technologies LLC
    Inventors: Kelly Boudreau, Keith D. Johnson, Michael J. Sherman, Frank A. Brigano, Richard A. Kirchner, Paul A. Pilosi, Jason J. Ness