Patents by Inventor Mark Austin

Mark 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).

  • Publication number: 20250147991
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include systems and methods, for example, including receiving a user input in natural language, retrieving a first answer including a list of a first number of documents relevant to the user input by searching indexed documents in a knowledge base, applying the first answer to a large language model reader, resulting in a second answer, re-ranking the first answer by using the second answer, resulting in a third answer including a re-ranked list of the first number of documents, and generating a final response including the second answer and one or more documents among the third answer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2023
    Publication date: May 8, 2025
    Applicant: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Chuanyun Zang, Mark Austin
  • Publication number: 20250047644
    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: October 21, 2024
    Publication date: February 6, 2025
    Applicants: 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: 20240420012
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, obtaining one or more information items or documents, checking the one or more information items or documents for determined sensitivity and determining role-based access for the one or more information items or documents, based on the checking and the determining, performing a preliminary analysis of the one or more information items or documents, wherein the preliminary analysis involves one or more pre-processing procedures, one or more chunking procedures, one or more embedding procedures, one or more customization procedures for particular use cases, or a combination thereof, and storing results of the preliminary analysis in a vector knowledge base for training one or more generative artificial intelligence (AI) large language models (LLMs). Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2023
    Publication date: December 19, 2024
    Applicant: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Mark Austin, Abhay Dabholkar, Brian Nab, Andrew Markus
  • Patent number: 12162461
    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: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignee: Horizon Global Americas Inc.
    Inventors: Marcia Albright, Chandrakumar Kulkarni, Jerald Prater, Jason Reichard, Dennis Morse, Mark Austin, Pat Burgess, Marvin Hoot, Larry Eccleston, Steve Zavodny
  • Patent number: 12150473
    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: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Assignee: NICOVENTURES TRADING LIMITED
    Inventors: Richard Hepworth, Mark Austin, Benjamin Taylor, Marina Trani, Muhammad Fahim Ashraf
  • Patent number: 12155629
    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: April 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Assignees: AT&T MOBILITY II LLC, AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.
    Inventors: Mark Austin, Shahab Azmoudeh, Joseph Dorsey, Victor Nilson, Christopher Sambar, Jerald Weber
  • Publication number: 20240373911
    Abstract: A mouthpiece for use in an aerosol provision system, the mouthpiece including two or more cylindrical sections circumscribed with a first, inner wrapper and a second, outer wrapper. The first, inner wrapper is a high wet strength wrapper; and the second, outer wrapper can be a porous wrapper.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2022
    Publication date: November 14, 2024
    Inventors: Pablo Javier BALLESTEROS GOMEZ, James FORSHAW, Mark AUSTIN, Ninizam BIN MAJININ, Divya KUMARAN SIVARETNAM
  • Patent number: 11987332
    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: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: Premier Remotes and Products, LLC
    Inventors: Matt Brown, Dustin Smith, Paul Berkemeier, Mark Austin
  • Publication number: 20240090565
    Abstract: An article (and a method of manufacturing an article) for use with a non-combustible aerosol provision system is described. The article may comprise a rod of aerosol generating material and a hollow tube in axial alignment with the rod of aerosol generating material. The hollow tube may have a weight less than 8.5 mg/mm in an axial direction. The hollow tube may comprise a plurality of layers of a sheet material. The hollow tube may be provided adjacent to and in abutment with the rod of aerosol generating material, wherein the hollow tube has a length in an axial direction of 5 mm or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2021
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Inventors: Pablo Javier BALLESTEROS GOMEZ, Ninizam BIN MAJININ, Divya KUMARAN A/L SIVARETNAM, Andrei GRISHCHENKO, James FORSHAW, Mark AUSTIN
  • Patent number: 11842258
    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: November 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Mark Austin, Lauren Savage, Joshua Whitney, Abhay Dabholkar, Vijayan Nagarajan
  • Publication number: 20230254282
    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: April 13, 2023
    Publication date: August 10, 2023
    Applicants: 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: 20230180050
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, obtaining first quality-of-service (QoS) information associated with a first communication session between a first communication device and a radio element of a wireless network, the first communication session comprising a first communication that is transmitted from the first communication device to the radio element; determining, based at least in part upon the first QoS information, whether the first communication is to be processed by one or more first servers of an edge node of a packet core network, the determining resulting in a first determination; responsive to the first determination being that the first communication is to be processed by the one or more first servers of the edge node, directing the first communication from the radio element to the edge node, the directing of the first communication to the edge node facilitating a providing of a first latency to the first communication; and responsive to the first determination being that
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2021
    Publication date: June 8, 2023
    Applicants: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P., AT&T Mobility II LLC
    Inventors: Sheldon Kent Meredith, Mark Austin, Zachary Meredith
  • Publication number: 20230171674
    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: January 10, 2023
    Publication date: June 1, 2023
    Applicants: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P., Cricket Wireless LLC
    Inventors: Sheldon Kent Meredith, Justin McNamara, Rajeev Garg, Mark Austin
  • Patent number: 11658938
    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: June 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    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: 20230104531
    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: November 29, 2022
    Publication date: April 6, 2023
    Applicant: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Mark Austin, Lauren Savage, Joshua Whitney, Abhay Dabholkar, VIJAYAN NAGARAJAN
  • Publication number: 20230044161
    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: October 18, 2022
    Publication date: February 9, 2023
    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
  • Patent number: 11576107
    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: August 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Assignees: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P., Cricket Wireless LLC
    Inventors: Sheldon Kent Meredith, Justin McNamara, Rajeev Garg, Mark Austin
  • Publication number: 20230017866
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a method that includes identifying, by a processing system including a processor, a first content source and a second content source as a ground truth set, training a machine learning model for use in determining a target audience score under a user-defined metric for a target audience of a content source not included in the ground truth set, and generating the target audience score using the trained model. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2021
    Publication date: January 19, 2023
    Applicant: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Mark Austin, Rhythm Garg
  • 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