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).
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Publication number: 20250147991Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: November 7, 2023Publication date: May 8, 2025Applicant: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.Inventors: Chuanyun Zang, Mark Austin
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Publication number: 20250047644Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: October 21, 2024Publication date: February 6, 2025Applicants: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P., AT&T Mobility II LLCInventors: Mark Austin, Shahab Azmoudeh, Joseph Dorsey, Victor Nilson, Christopher Sambar, Jerald Weber
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Publication number: 20240420012Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: June 14, 2023Publication date: December 19, 2024Applicant: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.Inventors: Mark Austin, Abhay Dabholkar, Brian Nab, Andrew Markus
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Patent number: 12162461Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: August 25, 2021Date of Patent: December 10, 2024Assignee: 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
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Patent number: 12150473Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 11, 2020Date of Patent: November 26, 2024Assignee: NICOVENTURES TRADING LIMITEDInventors: Richard Hepworth, Mark Austin, Benjamin Taylor, Marina Trani, Muhammad Fahim Ashraf
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Patent number: 12155629Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: April 13, 2023Date of Patent: November 26, 2024Assignees: 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
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Publication number: 20240373911Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: March 31, 2022Publication date: November 14, 2024Inventors: Pablo Javier BALLESTEROS GOMEZ, James FORSHAW, Mark AUSTIN, Ninizam BIN MAJININ, Divya KUMARAN SIVARETNAM
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Patent number: 11987332Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: May 18, 2022Date of Patent: May 21, 2024Assignee: Premier Remotes and Products, LLCInventors: Matt Brown, Dustin Smith, Paul Berkemeier, Mark Austin
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Publication number: 20240090565Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: December 14, 2021Publication date: March 21, 2024Inventors: Pablo Javier BALLESTEROS GOMEZ, Ninizam BIN MAJININ, Divya KUMARAN A/L SIVARETNAM, Andrei GRISHCHENKO, James FORSHAW, Mark AUSTIN
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Patent number: 11842258Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: November 29, 2022Date of Patent: December 12, 2023Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.Inventors: Mark Austin, Lauren Savage, Joshua Whitney, Abhay Dabholkar, Vijayan Nagarajan
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Publication number: 20230254282Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: April 13, 2023Publication date: August 10, 2023Applicants: AT & T Intellectual Property I, L.P., AT & T Mobility II LLCInventors: Mark Austin, Shahab Azmoudeh, Joseph Dorsey, Victor Nilson, Christopher Sambar, Jerald Weber
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Publication number: 20230180050Abstract: 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 thatType: ApplicationFiled: December 3, 2021Publication date: June 8, 2023Applicants: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P., AT&T Mobility II LLCInventors: Sheldon Kent Meredith, Mark Austin, Zachary Meredith
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Publication number: 20230171674Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: January 10, 2023Publication date: June 1, 2023Applicants: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P., Cricket Wireless LLCInventors: Sheldon Kent Meredith, Justin McNamara, Rajeev Garg, Mark Austin
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Patent number: 11658938Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: June 7, 2021Date of Patent: May 23, 2023Assignees: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P., AT&T Mobility II LLCInventors: Mark Austin, Shahab Azmoudeh, Joseph Dorsey, Victor Nilson, Christopher Sambar, Jerald Weber
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Publication number: 20230104531Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: November 29, 2022Publication date: April 6, 2023Applicant: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.Inventors: Mark Austin, Lauren Savage, Joshua Whitney, Abhay Dabholkar, VIJAYAN NAGARAJAN
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Publication number: 20230044161Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: October 18, 2022Publication date: February 9, 2023Applicants: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P., AT&T Mobility II LLCInventors: Mark Austin, Sheldon Kent Meredith, R. Blair Bardwell, Andrew Jones, III, Christopher Parsons
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Patent number: 11576107Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: August 12, 2021Date of Patent: February 7, 2023Assignees: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P., Cricket Wireless LLCInventors: Sheldon Kent Meredith, Justin McNamara, Rajeev Garg, Mark Austin
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Publication number: 20230017866Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: November 18, 2021Publication date: January 19, 2023Applicant: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.Inventors: Mark Austin, Rhythm Garg
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Patent number: 11556737Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: December 4, 2019Date of Patent: January 17, 2023Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.Inventors: Mark Austin, Abhay Dabholkar, Vijayan Nagarajan, Lauren Savage, Joshua Whitney
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Publication number: 20220403048Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: August 21, 2020Publication date: December 22, 2022Applicants: Cancer Research Technology Limited, Medimmune LimitedInventors: 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