Patents by Inventor Joe Downing

Joe Downing 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: 20240044416
    Abstract: A spring-operated relief valve can include an adjustable main spring to bias the valve closed and a load cell that is configured to measure a force exerted by the main spring. Measurements from the load cell can be used to determine a set or crack pressure in the spring-operated relief valve, and to monitor operation of the spring-operated relief valve.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2023
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Inventors: Vishwa Kalyanasundaram, Katherine Si, Joe Downing
  • Patent number: 11788637
    Abstract: A spring-operated relief valve can include an adjustable main spring to bias the valve closed and a load cell that is configured to measure a force exerted by the main spring. Measurements from the load cell can be used to determine a set or crack pressure in the spring-operated relief valve, and to monitor operation of the spring-operated relief valve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: Emerson Automation Solutions Final Control US LP
    Inventors: Vishwa Kalyanasundaram, Katherine Si, Joe Downing
  • Publication number: 20210262579
    Abstract: A spring-operated relief valve can include an adjustable main spring to bias the valve closed and a load cell that is configured to measure a force exerted by the main spring. Measurements from the load cell can be used to determine a set or crack pressure in the spring-operated relief valve, and to monitor operation of the spring-operated relief valve.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2021
    Publication date: August 26, 2021
    Inventors: Vishwa Kalyanasundaram, Katherine Si, Joe Downing
  • Patent number: 10430024
    Abstract: A storage machine holds instructions executable by a logic machine to receive a digital representation of a spoken command. The digital representation is provided to a speech recognizer trained with a user-specific grammar library. The logic machine then receives from the speech recognizer a confidence rating for each of a plurality of different media items. The confidence rating indicates the likelihood that the media item is named in the spoken command. The logic machine then automatically plays back the media item with a greatest confidence rating.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2019
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: Vignesh Sachidanandam, Joe Downing, Cory Cirrincione, Catherine Pham
  • Patent number: 9766905
    Abstract: One embodiment provides machine-readable memory encoding a localization resource for a computer system. The resource comprises an array of delimited strings, each string including a range to be compared to a content limiter by the computer system. Associated with the range is text to be presented on a user interface of the computer system if the content limiter is within the range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2017
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: Joe Downing, Noam Chitayat
  • Patent number: 9278289
    Abstract: Various embodiments relating to validating a user's entitlement to play a game are provided. In one embodiment, a request for a user to play a game is received at a validation service. The request may include an obfuscate-encoded bundle including a signed user ID identifying the user, a signed hardware ID of a computing machine on which the game is requested to be played, and a signed receipt. The obfuscate-encoded bundle may be decoded and the request may be validated according to a plurality of security checks including determining that one or both of the signed hardware ID or the signed user ID respectively match a hardware ID and/or a user ID included in the signed receipt. If the request to play the game is valid, an authentication token may be sent to the computing machine that allows the user to play the game on the computing machine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2016
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: Vincent Bannister, Bryan Born, Brahmnes TF Fung, Joe Downing, Avi Ben-Menahem, Devin Jenson
  • Publication number: 20150134334
    Abstract: A storage machine holds instructions executable by a logic machine to receive a digital representation of a spoken command. The digital representation is provided to a speech recognizer trained with a user-specific grammar library. The logic machine then receives from the speech recognizer a confidence rating for each of a plurality of different media items. The confidence rating indicates the likelihood that the media item is named in the spoken command. The logic machine then automatically plays back the media item with a greatest confidence rating.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2013
    Publication date: May 14, 2015
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Vignesh Sachidanandam, Joe Downing, Cory Cirrincione, Catherine Pham
  • Publication number: 20140295955
    Abstract: Various embodiments relating to validating a user's entitlement to play a game are provided. In one embodiment, a request for a user to play a game is received at a validation service. The request may include an obfuscate-encoded bundle including a signed user ID identifying the user, a signed hardware ID of a computing machine on which the game is requested to be played, and a signed receipt. The obfuscate-encoded bundle may be decoded and the request may be validated according to a plurality of security checks including determining that one or both of the signed hardware ID or the signed user ID respectively match a hardware ID and/or a user ID included in the signed receipt. If the request to play the game is valid, an authentication token may be sent to the computing machine that allows the user to play the game on the computing machine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2013
    Publication date: October 2, 2014
    Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Vincent Bannister, Bryan Born, Brahmnes TF Fung, Joe Downing, Avi Ben-Menahem, Devin Jenson
  • Publication number: 20140289616
    Abstract: One embodiment provides machine-readable memory encoding a localization resource for a computer system. The resource comprises an array of delimited strings, each string including a range to be compared to a content limiter by the computer system. Associated with the range is text to be presented on a user interface of the computer system if the content limiter is within the range.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2013
    Publication date: September 25, 2014
    Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Joe Downing, Noam Chitayat