Patents by Inventor Marc Alexander

Marc Alexander 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).

  • Patent number: 10085331
    Abstract: A lighting system, including: light emitting elements; a reset switch operable in a first and second state; non-volatile reset memory configured to record the state of the reset switch when power is provided to the system; a wireless communication system; non-volatile communication memory configured to store default settings and configuration settings; a control system operable, in response to initial power provision to the control system, between: a configured mode when an instantaneous reset switch state matches the recorded state, the configured mode including: connecting the wireless communication system to a remote device based on the configuration settings, receiving instructions from the remote device, and controlling light emitting element operation based on the instructions; and a reset mode when the instantaneous reset switch state differs from the recorded state, the reset mode including: erasing the configuration settings from the communication memory and operating the system based on the default
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2018
    Assignee: LIFI Labs, Inc.
    Inventors: Marc Alexander, Philip Anthony Bosua
  • Publication number: 20180249563
    Abstract: A connected downlight including: a housing module including a first housing end and a second housing end; a lighting module mounted to the first housing end; and a wireless communication module including an antenna and arranged within the housing interior proximal the second housing end.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2018
    Publication date: August 30, 2018
    Inventor: Marc Alexander
  • Publication number: 20180228318
    Abstract: An apparatus, pan and method for the preparation of food with hot air including a pan bottom providing a pan surface area for receiving food to be prepared, and side-walls at least partly surrounding the pan surface area, and a mounting connector for temporarily mounting the pan inside a food preparation chamber of an apparatus for preparing food. The pan bottom is provided with a plurality of through-holes as a hot air passage. The through-holes cover approximately 3 to 50% of the flat pan surface area and the heat capacity per area of a bottom surface of the pan bottom is between 10 and 75 JK?1 dm?2.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 12, 2018
    Publication date: August 16, 2018
    Inventors: GODWIN DIRK ZWANENBURG, JANINE WILLEMIJN MEDEMA, MARC ALEXANDER PASTOORS
  • Patent number: 10047912
    Abstract: A lighting assembly including a shell, wherein the shell includes an inner wall defining an inner lumen, an outer wall encircling the inner wall, a set of radial fins connecting the inner and outer walls, the set of fins cooperatively defining a set of cooling channels between adjacent fins, the inner wall, and the outer wall; an insert removably mounted within the inner lumen, the insert defining a power storage lumen; a power storage unit arranged within the power storage lumen; a circuit board coupled to the power storage unit, the circuit board comprising a processor and communication module; a lighting module electrically connected to the circuit board, wherein the lighting module includes a substrate and a set of light emitting elements mounted to a first broad face of the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Assignee: LIFI Labs, Inc.
    Inventors: Philip Anthony Bosua, Marc Alexander
  • Patent number: 10027748
    Abstract: The disclosure is directed to data replication in a distributed computing system. The data, e.g., received from a client, is replicated to a first set of servers (“sync replica set”) synchronously and to a second set of servers asynchronously (“async tree”). A server can be a primary, secondary or a follower server. A sync replica set includes a primary server and one or more secondary servers. The async tree includes multiple follower servers deployed in a tree structure. A primary server can replicate the data to the secondary servers synchronously, and the secondary servers can replicate the data to one or more follower servers, e.g., a root node of the async tree, asynchronously. The root node then replicates the data to children of the root node, which then replicate to their children and so on until the leaf nodes of the async tree receive the data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2018
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Muthukaruppan Annamalai, Zelaine Fong, Marc Alexander Celani, Vishal Kathuria, Sanketh Indarapu, Rohit Subhash Bhoj, Benjamin Francois Marie Renard, Sumeet Ungratwar
  • Publication number: 20180199417
    Abstract: A lighting module, including: a baseboard configured to receive a user signal indicating a user lighting preference; a communication submodule configured to receive the user signal and convert the user signal to machine readable data indicating the user lighting preference; a control submodule communicably coupled to the wireless communication submodule for receiving the machine readable data, wherein the microcontroller submodule comprises: memory configured to store a lighting parameter provided by a provider, and a processor configured to generate lighting driver instructions based on the user lighting preference and the lighting parameter; and a lighting mode output submodule configured to output the lighting driver instructions to a lighting driver module of a lighting assembly for controlling light emitting elements of the lighting assembly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2018
    Publication date: July 12, 2018
    Inventor: Marc Alexander
  • Publication number: 20180177033
    Abstract: A lighting system, including: light emitting elements; a reset switch operable in a first and second state; non-volatile reset memory configured to record the state of the reset switch when power is provided to the system; a wireless communication system; non-volatile communication memory configured to store default settings and configuration settings; a control system operable, in response to initial power provision to the control system, between: a configured mode when an instantaneous reset switch state matches the recorded state, the configured mode including: connecting the wireless communication system to a remote device based on the configuration settings, receiving instructions from the remote device, and controlling light emitting element operation based on the instructions; and a reset mode when the instantaneous reset switch state differs from the recorded state, the reset mode including: erasing the configuration settings from the communication memory and operating the system based on the default
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2018
    Publication date: June 21, 2018
    Inventors: Marc Alexander, Philip Anthony Bosua
  • Patent number: 9980605
    Abstract: The present invention relates to food preparation. In order to provide an apparatus for preparing food with hot air with an improved flow characteristic, an apparatus (10) for preparing food is provided, comprising a food preparation chamber (12), an air movement device (14), a heating device (16), and air guiding means (18). The food preparation chamber is provided by a container structure (22) at least partly enclosing a receiving volume (24) for receiving food to be prepared by a through-streaming of hot air; wherein the container structure comprises sidewalls (26) and a bottom wall (28), wherein the bottom wall and/or one of the side walls is air-permeable providing an air entry opening (30) for entering of hot air into the receiving volume, and wherein the container structure comprises an air discharge opening (32). The heating device is configured to heat air of an air flow provided by the air movement device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2018
    Assignee: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.
    Inventors: Rogier Enrico De Haas, Marc Alexander Pastoors, Reindert Jannes Van Wifferen, Adarsh Shrivastava, Christian Zainitzer, Rudolf Wurmitzer
  • Publication number: 20180124895
    Abstract: A controllable dynamic lighting system including a lighting element device with a set of controllable zone and a controlling means. A method for controlling a lighting system including: receiving lighting system operation inputs, determining operation instructions for one more controllable zones based on the operation inputs, and controlling controllable zone operation based on the respective operation instructions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 2, 2017
    Publication date: May 3, 2018
    Inventors: Marc Alexander, John Cameron
  • Publication number: 20180113866
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus related to using document feature(s) of a document that is responsive to a query, and optionally query feature(s) of the query, to determine a presentation characteristic for presenting a search result that corresponds to the document. In some implementations, measures associated with the document feature(s) and/or query feature(s) may be used to determine the presentation characteristic. The measures may be based on past interactions, by corresponding users, with other documents that share one or more of the document features with the document, where a plurality of the other documents are different from the document (and optionally each different from one another). In some implementations, the document and/or the other documents include, or are restricted to, documents that are access restricted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2016
    Publication date: April 26, 2018
    Inventors: Mike Bendersky, Marc Alexander Najork, Donald Metzler, Xuanhui Wang
  • Publication number: 20180113865
    Abstract: Methods, systems, apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage medium, to facilitate identification of additional trigger-terms for a structured information card. In one aspect, the method includes actions of accessing data associated with a template for presenting structured information, wherein the accessed data references (i) a label term and (ii) a value. Other actions may include obtaining a candidate label term, identifying one or more entities that are associated with the label term, identifying one or more of the entities that are associated with the candidate label term, and for each particular entity of the one or more entities that are associated with the candidate label term, associating, with the candidate label term, (i) a label term that is associated with the particular entity, and (ii) the value associated with the label term.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2016
    Publication date: April 26, 2018
    Inventors: Marc Alexander Najork, Sujith Ravi, Michael Bendersky, Peter Shao-sen Young, Timothy Youngjin Sohn, Mingyang Zhang, Thomas Nelson, Xuanhui Wang
  • Patent number: 9953185
    Abstract: In various implementations, a plurality of non-private n-grams that satisfy a privacy criterion may be identified within a search log of private search queries and corresponding post-search activity. A plurality of query patterns may be generated based on the plurality of non-private n-grams. Aggregate search activity statistics associated with each of the plurality of query patterns may be determined from the search log. Aggregate search activity statistics associated with each query pattern may be indicative of search activity associated with a plurality of private search queries in the search log that match the query pattern. In response to a determination that aggregate search activity statistics for a given query pattern satisfy a performance criterion, a methodology for generating data that is presented in response to search queries that match the given query pattern may be altered based on aggregate search activity statistics associated with the given query pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2018
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Mike Bendersky, Donald Metzler, Marc Alexander Najork, Dor Naveh, Vlad Panait, Xuanhui Wang
  • Patent number: 9949348
    Abstract: A lighting module, including: a baseboard configured to receive a user signal indicating a user lighting preference; a communication submodule configured to receive the user signal and convert the user signal to machine readable data indicating the user lighting preference; a control submodule communicably coupled to the wireless communication submodule for receiving the machine readable data, wherein the microcontroller submodule comprises: memory configured to store a lighting parameter provided by a provider, and a processor configured to generate lighting driver instructions based on the user lighting preference and the lighting parameter; and a lighting mode output submodule configured to output the lighting driver instructions to a lighting driver module of a lighting assembly for controlling light emitting elements of the lighting assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2018
    Assignee: LIFI Labs, Inc.
    Inventor: Marc Alexander
  • Publication number: 20180103522
    Abstract: The method of spatial lightbulb operation includes determining the position of the lightbulb relative to a physical space, detecting a contextual event, determining a spatial lighting pattern associated with the contextual event, and selectively controlling lightbulb light emitting elements based on the position of the lightbulb and the spatial lighting pattern.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2017
    Publication date: April 12, 2018
    Inventors: Phillip Anthony Bosua, Marc Alexander
  • Publication number: 20180093027
    Abstract: A medical fluid delivery system includes: a medical fluid delivery machine including a component having at least one of associated output data or associated test data; at least one of a (i) component output replacement limit and a component output soft limit for the component or (ii) a component testing replacement limit or a component testing soft limit for the component; and a computer programmed to store at least one of (i) or (ii), and for (i) analyze the output data to provide a first indication of how well the component is performing relative to the component output replacement limit and the component output soft limit, and for (ii) analyze the test data to provide a second indication of how well the at least one component is testing relative to the component testing replacement limit and the component testing soft limit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2017
    Publication date: April 5, 2018
    Applicant: Baxter Healthcare SA,
    Inventors: Shawn Collin Oppegard, Marc Alexander Barten
  • Patent number: 9936168
    Abstract: A system and methods are provided for controlling a surveying device. In one embodiment, a method includes displaying a control screen including image data captured by a surveying device, detecting an input associated with the control screen, and determining a control command for the surveying device based on the input associated with the control screen. The method may further include controlling operation of the surveying device based on the control command, wherein the surveying device is configured to rotate in one more of a horizontal and vertical direction based on the control command. The device and methods may advantageously allow for precise pointing of a surveying device and translation of input position to surveying device commands.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2018
    Assignee: Trimble Inc.
    Inventors: Mikael Wilhelm Nordenfelt, Marc Alexander Howell, Robert Michael Miller, Volker Koehler, Omar Soubra, Nico Becke
  • Patent number: 9936566
    Abstract: A lighting system, including: light emitting elements; a reset switch operable in a first and second state; non-volatile reset memory configured to record the state of the reset switch when power is provided to the system; a wireless communication system; non-volatile communication memory configured to store default settings and configuration settings; a control system operable, in response to initial power provision to the control system, between: a configured mode when an instantaneous reset switch state matches the recorded state, the configured mode including: connecting the wireless communication system to a remote device based on the configuration settings, receiving instructions from the remote device, and controlling light emitting element operation based on the instructions; and a reset mode when the instantaneous reset switch state differs from the recorded state, the reset mode including: erasing the configuration settings from the communication memory and operating the system based on the default
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2018
    Assignee: LIFI Labs, Inc.
    Inventors: Marc Alexander, Phillip Anthony Bosua
  • Patent number: 9888811
    Abstract: An apparatus, pan and method for the preparation of food with hot air including a pan bottom providing a pan surface area for receiving food to be prepared, and side-walls at least partly surrounding the pan surface area, and a mounting connector for temporarily mounting the pan inside a food preparation chamber of an apparatus for preparing food. The pan bottom is provided with a plurality of through-holes as a hot air passage. The through-holes cover approximately 3 to 50% of the flat pan surface area and the heat capacity per area of a bottom surface of the pan bottom is between 10 and 75 JK?1 dm?2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2018
    Assignee: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.
    Inventors: Godwin Dirk Zwanenburg, Janine Willemijn Medema, Marc Alexander Pastoors
  • Patent number: 9883563
    Abstract: The method of spatial lightbulb operation includes determining the position of the lightbulb relative to a physical space, detecting a contextual event, determining a spatial lighting pattern associated with the contextual event, and selectively controlling lightbulb light emitting elements based on the position of the lightbulb and the spatial lighting pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: LIFI Labs, Inc.
    Inventors: Phillip Anthony Bosua, Marc Alexander
  • Publication number: 20170346527
    Abstract: A power outlet for controlling power to an external device and transmitting data to the external device, the power outlet including: a housing containing at least one alternating-current power input connection; a power output connection; a data connector; a sensor module; a wireless communication module, including an antenna; a processing unit configured to receive data and control an electrically connected device through the power output connection and/or data connector based on the received data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 21, 2017
    Publication date: November 30, 2017
    Inventors: Phillip Bosua, Marc Alexander