Patents by Inventor Mark A. Austin

Mark A. Austin 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: 11556737
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, receiving a plurality of proposed machine learning solutions to a machine learning problem including receiving, for each respective proposed machine learning solution of the plurality of proposed machine learning solutions, one or more of a machine learning model, a dataset and a data pipeline output; automatically determining hybrid solutions to the machine learning problem, including combining, by the processing system, at least one of a first component from a first proposed machine learning solution with at least one of a second component from a second proposed machine learning solution; and ranking the hybrid solutions including determining a log loss score for each hybrid solution and sorting the hybrid solutions according to the log loss score for each hybrid solution. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Mark Austin, Abhay Dabholkar, Vijayan Nagarajan, Lauren Savage, Joshua Whitney
  • Publication number: 20220403048
    Abstract: An isolated antigen-binding protein characterised in that it is capable of binding specifically to human Arginase II (ARG2) and inhibiting the enzyme activity of human ARG2.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 21, 2020
    Publication date: December 22, 2022
    Applicants: Cancer Research Technology Limited, Medimmune Limited
    Inventors: Alexandra Addyman, Mark Austin, Michelle Barnard, Vincenzo Cerundolo, Denice Chan, Agata Diamandakis, Sebastian Fielder, Maria Groves, Stuart Haynes, Sarah Holt, Lesley Jenkinson, Stephanie Keswick, Fiona McLaughlin, Pooja Sharma, Yoko Shibata, Louise Slater, Jessica Whitehouse, Mark D Carr, Daniel Burschowsky, Chitra Seewooruthun
  • Publication number: 20220380007
    Abstract: A boat lift controller may include a digital switch, a power-isolation relay, and a motor-direction-select relay, together which control a motor. The digital switch may provide power to the power-isolation relay. The power-isolation relay may provide power to the motor-direction-select relay and to the motor. The motor-direction-select relay may control the direction in which the shaft of the motor turns.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2022
    Publication date: December 1, 2022
    Inventors: Matt Brown, Dustin Smith, Paul Berkemeier, Mark Austin
  • Patent number: 11507979
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a method for processing an advertising request message, including, receiving an advertising request message from a mobile device, determining if an advertising exchange server associated with the advertising request is permitted to receive enhanced information associated with the mobile device if a service provider is permitted to provide location information associated with the mobile device responsive to determining that the advertising exchange server associated with the advertising request is permitted to receive the enhanced information, responsive to determining that the service provider is permitted to provide location information, adding location information associated with the mobile device to a header of the advertising request message, and transmitting the advertising request message to the advertising exchange server. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignees: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P., AT&T Mobility II LLC
    Inventors: Mark Austin, Sheldon Kent Meredith, R. Blair Bardwell, Andrew Jones, III, Christopher Parsons
  • Publication number: 20220327326
    Abstract: An example method includes receiving data to be provided to an application using a scoring model for calculating a score, determining that the data is incompatible with a current feature set of the scoring model applied by the application, receiving a next best model of features in response to the determining that the data is incompatible with the current feature set, executing the application to calculate the score with the data and the features of the next best model, and generating an output in accordance with the score.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 9, 2021
    Publication date: October 13, 2022
    Inventors: Lauren Savage, Mark Austin, Prince Paulraj, Ana Armenta, James Pratt
  • Publication number: 20220183350
    Abstract: An article for use in a non-combustible aerosol provision system, the article comprising an aerosol generating material and a mouthpiece downstream of the aerosol generating material, wherein the mouthpiece comprises a body of material in the form of a cylinder having a longitudinal axis and a capsule embedded within the body of material such that the capsule is surrounded on all sides by the material forming the body, the capsule having a shell encapsulating a liquid aerosol modifying agent, and wherein the largest cross sectional area of the capsule measured perpendicularly to the longitudinal axis is less than 28% of the cross sectional area of the body of material measured perpendicularly to the longitudinal axis. There is also provided a system including the article and a non-combustible aerosol provision device for heating the aerosol generating material of the article.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2020
    Publication date: June 16, 2022
    Inventors: William ENGLAND, Benjamin TAYLOR, Richard HEPWORTH, Mark AUSTIN, Valerio SEBOLD, Andrei GRISHCHENKO
  • Publication number: 20220175021
    Abstract: Embodiments of the disclosure relate to an article for use in a non-combustible aerosol provision system, the article comprising an aerosol generating material and a mouthpiece connected to the aerosol generating material, wherein the mouthpiece comprises a cavity having an internal volume greater than 450 mm3. There is also provided a system including the article and a non-combustible aerosol provision device for heating the aerosol generating material of the article.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2020
    Publication date: June 9, 2022
    Applicant: Nicoventures Trading Limited
    Inventors: Mark Austin, Richard Hepworth, Benjamin Taylor, Valerio Sebold
  • Publication number: 20220142236
    Abstract: A non-combustible aerosol provision system includes an article comprising a rod of aerosol generating material having a circumference greater than 19 mm and a non-combustible aerosol provision device for heating the aerosol generating material of the article, the non-combustible aerosol provision device comprising a coil.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2020
    Publication date: May 12, 2022
    Applicant: Nicoventures Trading Limited
    Inventors: Richard Hepworth, Mark Austin, Benjamin Taylor, Marina Trani, Muhammad Fahim Ashraf
  • Publication number: 20220142234
    Abstract: There is described an aerosol generating article, the aerosol generating article comprising an aerosol generating material and a laminate wrapper arranged around the aerosol generating material, the laminate wrapper comprising at least three layers; wherein the outermost layer of the laminate wrapper comprises a lacquer, an intermediate layer comprises a non-combustible material, and the innermost layer comprises paper; and wherein at least part of the innermost layer is disposed in contact with the aerosol generating material. The aerosol generating article may serve to prevent a user lighting or igniting the aerosol generating material in the aerosol generating article.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2019
    Publication date: May 12, 2022
    Inventors: William ENGLAND, Mark AUSTIN
  • Publication number: 20220086191
    Abstract: A network access credential can be shared among devices based on location information for a device. Location information can include timed fingerprint location information. In an aspect, location information can be associated with a location of user equipment. This location information can be correlated with network access credentials. Location information can be used to access a relevant network access credential. The relevant network access credential can be shared with other devices. In an embodiment, sharing a network access credential can be between mobile devices. In another embodiment, sharing a network access credential can be between a remote computing device and a mobile device. Sharing a credential can allow for access to a network without having to generate or input new credentials.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2021
    Publication date: March 17, 2022
    Inventors: Rick Tipton, Mark Austin, Mario Kosseifi, Mostafa Tofighbakhsh
  • Publication number: 20210410044
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, determining whether a past throughput of past traffic communicated between a communication device and a communication network meets a first threshold value, resulting in a first determination; responsive to the first determination being that the past throughput meets the first threshold, transmitting an instruction to the communication device to restrict a first subsequent throughput of first subsequent traffic to no greater than a second threshold value; determining whether the first subsequent throughput has been restricted, resulting in a second determination; and responsive to the second determination being that the first subsequent throughput has not been restricted, taking one or more actions to enforce a second subsequent throughput of second subsequent traffic to no greater than a third threshold value, wherein the third threshold value is lower than the second threshold value. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 12, 2021
    Publication date: December 30, 2021
    Applicants: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P., Cricket Wireless LLC
    Inventors: Sheldon Kent Meredith, Justin McNamara, Rajeev Garg, Mark Austin
  • Patent number: 11212320
    Abstract: A network access credential can be shared among devices based on location information for a device. Location information can include timed fingerprint location information. In an aspect, location information can be associated with a location of user equipment. This location information can be correlated with network access credentials. Location information can be used to access a relevant network access credential. The relevant network access credential can be shared with other devices. In an embodiment, sharing a network access credential can be between mobile devices. In another embodiment, sharing a network access credential can be between a remote computing device and a mobile device. Sharing a credential can allow for access to a network without having to generate or input new credentials.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignees: AT&T Mobility II LLC, AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.
    Inventors: Rick Tipton, Mark Austin, Mario Kosseifi, Mostafa Tofighbakhsh
  • Publication number: 20210380086
    Abstract: Towed vehicles can be extremely heavy. Accordingly, it is too much of a burden to the braking system of a towing vehicle to not have brakes on the towed vehicle. Controlling the brakes of the towed vehicle must be accurately applied otherwise undesirable conditions can be created. There is a need for a method for controlling braking of a towed vehicle. This method comprises receiving a first signal via a communication bus of a towing vehicle, the first signal relating to at least one operating condition of at least one the towing vehicle and a towed vehicle, sending a second signal to brakes of the towed vehicle, the second signal based on said first signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2021
    Publication date: December 9, 2021
    Inventors: Marcia Albright, Chandrakumar Kulkarni, Jerald Prater, Jason Reichard, Dennis Morse, Mark Austin, Pat Burgess, Marvin Hoot, Larry Eccleston, Steve Zavodny
  • Patent number: 11160001
    Abstract: Techniques for facilitating cellular or wireless fidelity access point selection are provided. In one example herein a method is provided comprising receiving, by a mobile device comprising a processor, first radio load data associated with a predicted radio load of a first channel of a first wireless device. Based on a first condition associated with the first radio load being determined to have been satisfied, the method can facilitate, by the mobile device, receiving second radio load data, indicative of a current radio load, from a second wireless device. Additionally, in response to a second condition associated with the current radio load being determined to have been satisfied, the method can utilize, by the mobile device, a second channel of the second wireless device for a communication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Sheldon Meredith, Mark Austin, Rick Tipton
  • Patent number: 11134430
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, determining whether a past throughput of past traffic communicated between a communication device and a communication network meets a first threshold value, resulting in a first determination; responsive to the first determination being that the past throughput meets the first threshold, transmitting an instruction to the communication device to restrict a first subsequent throughput of first subsequent traffic to no greater than a second threshold value; determining whether the first subsequent throughput has been restricted, resulting in a second determination; and responsive to the second determination being that the first subsequent throughput has not been restricted, taking one or more actions to enforce a second subsequent throughput of second subsequent traffic to no greater than a third threshold value, wherein the third threshold value is lower than the second threshold value. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2021
    Assignees: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P., Cricket Wireless LLC
    Inventors: Sheldon Kent Meredith, Justin McNamara, Rajeev Garg, Mark Austin
  • Publication number: 20210297389
    Abstract: A content filtering system and method includes receiving in a network device in a network from a user device, a user selected set of rules identifying a set of URLs to be blocked. The set of rules are loaded into the network device. The network device receives from the user device a request to access a specified URL. A determination is made at the network device whether the specified URL is in the user selected set of rules. If the specified URL is in the user selected set of rules, then the specified URL is blocked.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2021
    Publication date: September 23, 2021
    Inventors: Mark Austin, Shahab Azmoudeh, Joseph Dorsey, Victor Nilson, Christopher Sambar, Jerald Weber
  • Patent number: 11050715
    Abstract: A content filtering system and method includes receiving in a network device in a network from a user device, a user selected set of rules identifying a set of URLs to be blocked. The set of rules are loaded into the network device. The network device receives from the user device a request to access a specified URL. A determination is made at the network device whether the specified URL is in the user selected set of rules. If the specified URL is in the user selected set of rules, then the specified URL is blocked.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2021
    Assignees: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P., AT&T Mobility II LLC
    Inventors: Mark Austin, Shahab Azmoudeh, Joseph Dorsey, Victor Nilson, Christopher Sambar, Jerald Weber
  • Publication number: 20210174130
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, receiving a plurality of proposed machine learning solutions to a machine learning problem including receiving, for each respective proposed machine learning solution of the plurality of proposed machine learning solutions, one or more of a machine learning model, a dataset and a data pipeline output; automatically determining hybrid solutions to the machine learning problem, including combining, by the processing system, at least one of a first component from a first proposed machine learning solution with at least one of a second component from a second proposed machine learning solution; and ranking the hybrid solutions including determining a log loss score for each hybrid solution and sorting the hybrid solutions according to the log loss score for each hybrid solution. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2019
    Publication date: June 10, 2021
    Applicant: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Mark Austin, ABHAY DABHOLKAR, VIJAYAN NAGARAJAN, Lauren Savage, Joshua Whitney
  • Publication number: 20210140175
    Abstract: The invention involves using composite panels to a framework to create a standard reusable rapidly deployable building structure, even in remote areas under favourable weather conditions. The invention discloses a minimal set of components, assemblies and methods where logistics are simplified through the use of flat-pack shipping and minimal use of field fasteners/tools. No crane or specialized trades are required to construct the building on site Standardization allows for interchangeability of components for repair or changing of building dimensions either during the initial construction or later. Most components are commercially available materials joined into assemblies using simplified manufacturing operations to reduce costs. Most assemblies, including flanges and cleats connecting adjacent composite panels, rectangular and/or triangular lattice (truss), transom, pier, columns, shear pins with retention means, are re-usable should the building require repairs, re-purposing or relocation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2018
    Publication date: May 13, 2021
    Applicant: Her Majesty the Qeen in right of Canada as represented by the ministry of natural resources
    Inventor: Mark Austin DOUGLAS
  • Publication number: 20210012383
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a method for processing an advertising request message, including, receiving an advertising request message from a mobile device, determining if an advertising exchange server associated with the advertising request is permitted to receive enhanced information associated with the mobile device if a service provider is permitted to provide location information associated with the mobile device responsive to determining that the advertising exchange server associated with the advertising request is permitted to receive the enhanced information, responsive to determining that the service provider is permitted to provide location information, adding location information associated with the mobile device to a header of the advertising request message, and transmitting the advertising request message to the advertising exchange server. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2020
    Publication date: January 14, 2021
    Applicants: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P., AT&T Mobility II LLC
    Inventors: Mark Austin, Sheldon Kent Meredith, R. Blair Bardwell, Andrew Jones, III, Christopher Parsons