Patents by Inventor Keith Stevens

Keith Stevens 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: 20240202272
    Abstract: Digitally distributing media content using a distribution backbone system, including: receiving a request for media content from a client, the request including a client profile; performing inventory and analysis of source assets by iteratively progressing through the client profile to create output; performing a capability mapping in which a series of rules that allow the source assets to be mapped to the client profile; and planning a manufacturing process, which determines work items and execution steps from capabilities mapped in response to the request for media content from the client.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2023
    Publication date: June 20, 2024
    Inventors: Rick Dinicola, David Rosen, Ryan Kido, Tatsuya Oiye, Keith Stevens
  • Patent number: 11551271
    Abstract: A feedback service for use with a cloud application and a method of the feedback service are disclosed. The feedback service is coupled to a page of the cloud application. A pane of the feedback service is selectively displayed with the page, and the pane requests user input regarding the page.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Haris Farhan Mohammad, Marck Ramon Robinson, Sreenivas Narayana Simhadri, Christopher Andrew Syers, Zoltan Pekic, Jeffrey Alexander Staiman, Vishwa Shobhit Sahay, Roland Borges, Keith Steven Brintzenhofe
  • Publication number: 20210216607
    Abstract: Digitally distributing media content using a distribution backbone system, including: receiving a request for media content from a client, the request including a client profile; performing inventory and analysis of source assets by iteratively progressing through the client profile to create output; performing a capability mapping in which a series of rules that allow the source assets to be mapped to the client profile; and planning a manufacturing process, which determines work items and execution steps from capabilities mapped in response to the request for media content from the client.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2021
    Publication date: July 15, 2021
    Inventors: Rick Dinicola, David Rosen, Ryan Kido, Tatsuya Oiye, Keith Stevens
  • Publication number: 20210065258
    Abstract: A feedback service for use with a cloud application and a method of the feedback service are disclosed. The feedback service is coupled to a page of the cloud application. A pane of the feedback service is selectively displayed with the page, and the pane requests user input regarding the page.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2019
    Publication date: March 4, 2021
    Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Haris Farhan Mohammad, Marck Ramon Robinson, Sreenivas Narayana Simhadri, Christopher Andrew Syers, Zoltan Pekic, Jeffrey Alexander Staiman, Vishwa Shobhit Sahay, Roland Borges, Keith Steven Brintzenhofe
  • Publication number: 20180339635
    Abstract: A vehicle access ramp system is provided. In various embodiments, methods, devices and systems are provided to facilitate the ingress and egress of various objects and beings to and from a vehicle. In some embodiments, a ramp system is provided that is arranged to integrate with an existing compartment of a vehicle and which maintains the utility of the existing compartment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 6, 2018
    Publication date: November 29, 2018
    Inventors: Errol Keith Stevens, Rebette Stevens
  • Patent number: 10040385
    Abstract: A vehicle access ramp system is provided. In various embodiments, methods, devices and systems are provided to facilitate the ingress and egress of various objects and beings to and from a vehicle. In some embodiments, a ramp system is provided that is arranged to integrate with an existing compartment of a vehicle and which maintains the utility of the existing compartment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2018
    Inventors: Errol Keith Stevens, Rebette Stevens
  • Publication number: 20180105091
    Abstract: A vehicle access ramp system is provided. In various embodiments, methods, devices and systems are provided to facilitate the ingress and egress of various objects and beings to and from a vehicle. In some embodiments, a ramp system is provided that is arranged to integrate with an existing compartment of a vehicle and which maintains the utility of the existing compartment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2017
    Publication date: April 19, 2018
    Inventors: Errol Keith Stevens, Rebette Stevens
  • Publication number: 20160076477
    Abstract: A dual-mode fuel injector has an internal part containing a variable volume chamber space which fills with fuel at common rail pressure and a plunger which is operable to force fuel out of the variable volume chamber space and to be injected out of the nozzle through the injection orifices at amplified pressure greater than common rail pressure. The plunger and the internal part have respective surfaces which come into mutual abutment during filling of the variable volume chamber space with fuel at common rail pressure and which, when in mutual abutment, create a seal which seals fuel in the variable volume chamber space against escape from the variable volume chamber space past the seal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2013
    Publication date: March 17, 2016
    Applicant: International Engine Intellectual Property Company, LLC
    Inventors: William Yunbiao Shen, Keith Steven Schulz, Erik Jordan Hansen
  • Publication number: 20150246800
    Abstract: A safety tool is specifically adapted to aid in opening hinged rear doors of industrial containers safely, while also ensuring that the operator of the safety tool remain outside the potential zone of danger whenever the rear door has the potential to swing open. The present safety tool not only provides convenience and leverage for commonly performed door opening procedures, but also ensures that the operator's body and hands remain safely distanced from the direction of door travel and the potential discharge path of material contained within the cargo box. In addition, the present safety tool is lightweight and compact, allowing the tool to be easily stowed in or around a cargo box and/or truck to and thereby ensure that the safety tool is available whenever it may be needed to aid in opening and/or closing the cargo box door.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2015
    Publication date: September 3, 2015
    Inventor: Keith Steven High
  • Publication number: 20150161115
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for translating a phrase block and presenting meanings and translations of the phrase block. Consistent with certain embodiments, computer-implemented systems and methods are provided for identifying parts of speech of the phrase block, determining definitions of the phrase block in the source language corresponding to the parts of speech, and determining usage examples corresponding to the definitions. Additionally, systems and methods are provided for translating the phrase block from the source language to translated text and for ranking the parts of speech based on usage. Consistent with certain embodiments, computer-implemented systems and methods are also provided for determining usage based on a user's location, based on a corpus of documents, and/or based on content stored by the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2014
    Publication date: June 11, 2015
    Applicant: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Alexander Jay Cuthbert, Chao Tian, John Denero, Keith Stevens, Sarah Nguyen
  • Patent number: 9032604
    Abstract: A safety tool is specifically adapted to aid in opening hinged rear doors of industrial containers safely, while also ensuring that the operator of the safety tool remain outside the potential zone of danger whenever the rear door has the potential to swing open. The present safety tool not only provides convenience and leverage for commonly performed door opening procedures, but also ensures that the operator's body and hands remain safely distanced from the direction of door travel and the potential discharge path of material contained within the cargo box. In addition, the present safety tool is lightweight and compact, allowing the tool to be easily stowed in or around a cargo box and/or truck to and thereby ensure that the safety tool is available whenever it may be needed to aid in opening and/or closing the cargo box door.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2015
    Inventor: Keith Steven High
  • Patent number: 8949242
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for semantic document analysis. In one aspect, methods include the actions of segmenting a document into segments; generating semantic representations, each corresponding to one of the segments; determining a corresponding segment score for one or more of the segments based on the corresponding semantic representation, such that each segment score represents a change in the corresponding segment; comparing each segment score to a threshold score, such that the threshold score represents an expectation of change for the document; and identifying segments having segment scores that indicate the change in the corresponding segment deviates from the expectation of change for the document based on the comparison.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2015
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Zhen Lin, Keith Stevens
  • Publication number: 20150014427
    Abstract: A control valve of a fuel injector includes a generally cylindrical control valve housing having an axis, and a control valve body disposed within the control valve housing. An inlet throttle passage is in fluid communication with the control valve housing and is oriented to be generally tangential to the control valve housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 6, 2012
    Publication date: January 15, 2015
    Applicant: International Engine Intellectual Property Company, LLC
    Inventors: William Yunbiao Shen, Yan Tan, Qursheed Hussain Mohammed, Keith Steven Schulz
  • Patent number: 8868541
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for scheduling resource crawls. In one aspect, a framework is provided for scheduling resource crawls such that a crawl scheduler determines the health of a document, i.e., whether it can be crawled, the popularity of the document, and the frequency of “interesting,” i.e., substantive, content changes, and based on this information, estimates an appropriate crawl interval for each web resource to improve crawl resource utilization.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 21, 2014
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Zhen Lin, Keith Stevens
  • Publication number: 20130144858
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for scheduling resource crawls. In one aspect, a framework is provided for scheduling resource crawls such that a crawl scheduler determines the health of a document, i.e., whether it can be crawled, the popularity of the document, and the frequency of “interesting,” i.e., substantive, content changes, and based on this information, estimates an appropriate crawl interval for each web resource to improve crawl resource utilization.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 21, 2011
    Publication date: June 6, 2013
    Applicant: GOOGLE INC.
    Inventors: Zhen Lin, Keith Stevens
  • Publication number: 20130086845
    Abstract: A safety tool is specifically adapted to aid in opening hinged rear doors of industrial containers safely, while also ensuring that the operator of the safety tool remain outside the potential zone of danger whenever the rear door has the potential to swing open. The present safety tool not only provides convenience and leverage for commonly performed door opening procedures, but also ensures that the operator's body and hands remain safely distanced from the direction of door travel and the potential discharge path of material contained within the cargo box. In addition, the present safety tool is lightweight and compact, allowing the tool to be easily stowed in or around a cargo box and/or truck to and thereby ensure that the safety tool is available whenever it may be needed to aid in opening and/or closing the cargo box door.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 4, 2012
    Publication date: April 11, 2013
    Inventor: Keith Steven High
  • Publication number: 20130060478
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method for controlling command voltages applied to electrodes during an electrophysiology measurement procedure using a high-throughput measurement system is provided. An initial command voltage is applied to the electrodes to obtain baseline currents respectively associated with the electrodes. A common offset voltage is determined based on the baseline currents, and an adjusted command voltage is determined based on the initial command voltage and the common offset voltage. The adjusted command voltage is applied to at least one of the electrodes to obtain an adjusted current measured by the electrode. A local offset voltage for the electrode is determined based on the adjusted current measured by the electrode. A subsequent command voltage applied to the electrode incorporates the common offset voltage and the local offset voltage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 23, 2012
    Publication date: March 7, 2013
    Applicant: MOLECULAR DEVICES, LLC
    Inventors: Yuri V. Osipchuk, Philip Churchward, Keith Steven Thomas
  • Publication number: 20120205469
    Abstract: A fuel injector for an internal combustion engine comprises a fuel intensification section and a needle control section. The fuel intensification section has an inlet and an outlet. The fuel intensification section receives fuel at a first pressure at the inlet and provides fuel at one of the first and second pressures at the outlet. The second pressure is greater than the first pressure. The needle control section has an injector needle and an injector needle control valve. The injector needle has a first position and a second position. The injector needle is disposed in the second position to allow fuel to flow from the fuel injector to the internal combustion engine. The injector needle control valve controls movement of the injector needle. All of the fuel that flows from the fuel injector to the internal combustion engine passes through the fuel outlet of the fuel intensification section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 16, 2011
    Publication date: August 16, 2012
    Applicant: International Engine Intellectual Property Company LLC
    Inventors: William Yunbiao Shen, Keith Steven Schulz, Joseph Angelino
  • Publication number: 20110009991
    Abstract: Digitally distributing media content using a distribution backbone system, including: receiving a request for media content from a client, the request including a client profile; performing inventory and analysis of source assets by iteratively progressing through the client profile to create output; performing a capability mapping in which a series of rules that allow the source assets to be mapped to the client profile; and planning a manufacturing process, which determines work items and execution steps from capabilities mapped in response to the request for media content from the client.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 11, 2010
    Publication date: January 13, 2011
    Applicants: SONY CORPORATION, SONY PICTURES ENTERTAINMENT INC.
    Inventors: Rick Dinicola, David Rosen, Ryan Kido, Tatsuya Oiye, Keith Stevens
  • Patent number: 7037030
    Abstract: A rigid frame inspection structure (“Rigi-Frame”) and method for housing radiation, contagion, explosive, and other forms of detection and surveillance equipment, while providing crash beams that form horizontal fixed obstacles with the ability to impede vehicles approaching at a high velocity. The crash beams force small passenger vehicles and larger trucks to conform to the inspection station procedure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2004
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2006
    Inventor: Keith Steven McLemore