Patents by Inventor Mark Gerard

Mark Gerard 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: 9955440
    Abstract: Previously available network monitoring and management systems fail to provide adequate transmit power control in WiFi networks having multiple neighboring wireless access points. By contrast, various implementations disclosed herein include systems, methods and apparatuses that generate an interference map based at least on co-channel interference reported in a number of neighbor lists, wherein each of the neighbor lists is associated with a respective one of a plurality of compliant wireless access points included in one of a local area network (LAN) and a portion of a virtual LAN (VLAN); and determine a respective transmit power adjustment for each of the plurality of compliant wireless access points included in the interference map based on at least one interference criterion characterizing the interference on each of the plurality of compliant wireless access points included in the interference map and respective neighboring wireless access points.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2018
    Assignee: CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC.
    Inventors: Robert Tristan Shanks, Mark Gerard Hendrick, Jr.
  • Patent number: 9948712
    Abstract: In a network of mobile agents, data integrity can be improved by providing an agent server that can migrate between devices operating in the region of interest (ROI). The agent server distributes agent clients onto devices in the ROI and provides agent server services to the agent clients, including receiving and storing data from the agents. When the agent server device is to leave the ROI, the agent server can migrate to any device executing an agent client and continue to provide the agent server services, including data collection and aggregation, from the device to which the agent server has migrated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2018
    Assignee: OL SECURITY LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY
    Inventor: Mark Gerard
  • Patent number: 9947647
    Abstract: A method of fabricating an overvoltage protection device and an over-voltage circuit protection device are provided. The over-voltage circuit protection device includes a plurality of transient voltage suppression (TVS) devices coupled in electrical parallel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2018
    Assignee: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
    Inventors: Avinash Srikrishnan Kashyap, Peter Micah Sandvik, Mark Gerard Roberto, David Mulford Shaddock, Joe Walter Kirstein
  • Publication number: 20180099805
    Abstract: A spill proof integrated container having a flexible cover, a snack container, a beverage cup and a straw. The snack container is attached to the beverage container. The snack container has a straw port. The flexible cover is secured over at least the snack container and has a diaphragm with slit openings formed through the diaphragm in order to access a first compartment within the snack container. The integrated container being useful for carrying both snacks and a beverage, all within a single integrated container.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2017
    Publication date: April 12, 2018
    Inventors: Kevin Douglas JOHNSON, Mark A. HATHERILL, Mark Gerard TEBBE, Adlin ASLAN
  • Publication number: 20180025405
    Abstract: An online system displays relevant products along with a video watched by a user in a synchronized manner, which allows the user to explore relevant content (e.g., products recommended to the user) while the user is watching the video. The online system receives a video including a sequence of video frames to be displayed to the user, and the video may be associated with a specific theme, e.g., a soccer game, and one or more video frames may include points of interest (referred as “Q points”). The online system detects or receives Q points associated with corresponding video frames, where a Q point in a video frame identifies an object of interest in the video frame. The online system also correlates user profile information of the user with the detected points to select relevant products tailored to the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2016
    Publication date: January 25, 2018
    Inventors: Christopher William Jones, Mark Gerard D'Arcy, Ji Byol Lee
  • Publication number: 20180003751
    Abstract: A monitoring system includes a capacitor can having one or more capacitors. The monitoring system includes an antenna. The monitoring system includes at least one sensor disposed within the capacitor can and configured to detect an operating characteristic associated with health of the one or more capacitors of the capacitor can. The monitoring system includes a processor configured to receive a first signal from the at least one sensor indicative of the operating characteristic. The processor is configured to send a second signal, via the antenna, indicative of a value of the operating characteristic to a receiving device outside of the capacitor can.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2016
    Publication date: January 4, 2018
    Inventors: Ertugrul Berkcan, Mark Gerard Adamiak, Karim Younsi, Sachin N. Dekate, Kamala Raghavan
  • Patent number: 9799041
    Abstract: A method includes determining a plurality of data points, determining a distance between each data point and each of the other plurality of data points, choosing a first one of the plurality of data points, identifying all of the other plurality of data points within a maximum distance of the chosen data point, repeating steps the previous steps to choose a different one of the plurality of data points until all of the data points have been chosen, identifying one or more clusters each having a predefined minimum number, K, of data points within a predefined search radius and analyzing the one or more clusters with respect to K linkages.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2017
    Assignee: The Nielsen Company (US), LLC
    Inventors: Kevin D. Karty, Steven H. Lamoureux, Jenkin Espinosa Lee, Mark Gerard Flynn, Xinyan Chen
  • Patent number: 9781699
    Abstract: In order to determine the location of wireless network devices without inherent location capabilities, a wireless network device such as an access point can receive geolocation information from transient data sources such as mobile devices requiring network access from the access point. The access point stores geolocation records including location coordinates received from the transient data sources. The geolocation records can be processed to determine the position and movement of the access point. The geolocation records and/or location information can be passed to other transient clients that do not have inherent location capability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2017
    Assignee: Open Invention Network, LLC
    Inventors: Robert W. Peterson, Mark Gerard
  • Publication number: 20170245730
    Abstract: A bottle rack is provided. For example, a bottle rack can include a reservoir, a perforated tray and a first pivot housing member. The reservoir is for retention of a liquid. The perforated tray can enable the liquid to pass through to the reservoir. The first pivot housing member includes a first peg to hold an article. The first pivot housing member comprises an axle within the first pivot housing member. The first peg is rotatable via the axle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2017
    Publication date: August 31, 2017
    Inventors: Steven Bryan DUNN, Mark A. HATHERILL, Yong Sun Simon KANG, Mark Gerard TEBBE
  • Publication number: 20170224128
    Abstract: A protective cover is described which can be secured onto a car seat or other similar seating apparatus. The cover has multiple layers which are rollable to allow different levels of exposure of the infant to the external environment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 6, 2017
    Publication date: August 10, 2017
    Inventors: Mark Gerard Tebbe, Maryann Benshin Chi, Steven Bryan Dunn, Mark Hatherill
  • Publication number: 20170217468
    Abstract: A versatile cover is described which can be secured onto a shopping cart, high chair, stroller or other similar seating apparatus. The cover is rollable into a low profile, shape with a handle, and can be unrolled to fit within a seat basket of a shopping cart or high chair.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 2, 2017
    Publication date: August 3, 2017
    Inventors: Nicholas Arthur Trumbo, Sung Yun Chan, Mark Gerard Tebbe, Tal Zaksenberg
  • Publication number: 20170210516
    Abstract: A spill proof container assembly having a receptacle, a non spill barrier, a collar with a hook, a handle and a cover. The cover has in integrated hinge strap disposed at a peripheral edge. The hinge strap has a first surface having a curved notch and a second surface with a raised bump. When the hinge strap is attached to the hook, the cover pivots between an open position and closed position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2017
    Publication date: July 27, 2017
    Inventors: Mark Gerard TEBBE, Agnes Yena LEE, Sung Yun CHAN
  • Publication number: 20170208928
    Abstract: Modular and flexible interchangeable brush system to scrub a container. The brush system includes a handle having a first core and a second core. A sleeve is provided into which the first core and the second core are disposed. A flexible stem is removably connected to the first core of the handle. The flexible stern has at least one gap into which a resilient material is disposed. The location of the gap is at a bend location along a longitudinal axis of the handle. A first brush is operatively connected to the flexible stem, and a second brush is operatively connected to, and received within, the second core of the handle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2017
    Publication date: July 27, 2017
    Inventors: Thomas E. Birkert, Sung Yun Chan, Mark Gerard TEBBE, Steven Bryan Dunn, Mark A. Hatherill, Yong Sun Simon Kang
  • Publication number: 20170209803
    Abstract: An illumination stacker game is described having audiovisual signals for placing rings of different colors onto a central core. Upon placement, sensors determine which ring has been placed and provide audiovisual feedback as to whether the ring placed is the one which was requested in the game sequence. Different levels of difficulties and different audiovisual modes of communication are involved including multiple languages.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 26, 2017
    Publication date: July 27, 2017
    Inventors: Mark Gerard Tebbe, Steven Bryan Dunn, Mark Hatherill, Kevin Douglas Johnson, Richard Ernest Scott, JR.
  • Publication number: 20170204917
    Abstract: A controllable one-way clutch includes a first race and a second race. The first race has a periphery with a tooth. The second race has a rocker with an associated solenoid. The rocker is pivotable between a first position and a second position. In the first position, the rocker is engaged with the tooth. In the second position, the rocker is disengaged from the tooth. The solenoid has an armature arranged to move the rocker from the first position to the second position and/or from the second position to the first position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2016
    Publication date: July 20, 2017
    Inventors: Norman Jerry Bird, Mark Gerard Czapski
  • Patent number: 9684700
    Abstract: A system includes a Synchrophasor Data Management System (SDMS), in which the SDMS includes a Synchrophasor Processor System (SPS). The SPS includes a Phasor Data Concentrator (PDC) configured to receive a first plurality of inputs from a first Phasor Measurement Unit (PMU), transform at least one of the first plurality of inputs into a first time aligned output by time aligning the at least one of the first plurality of inputs. The SPS further includes a virtual PMU configured to aggregate the first time aligned output into a PMU dataset, in which the SPS is configured to transmit the PMU dataset to a second PMU, an external PDC, a super PDC, or a combination thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2017
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Mitalkumar Gulabrai Kanabar, Oscar Lopez Aguirre, Rodrigo Gutierrez Argandona, Jason Antonio Rodrigues, Mark Gerard Adamiak
  • Publication number: 20170099349
    Abstract: In a network of mobile agents, data integrity can be improved by providing an agent server that can migrate between devices operating in the region of interest (ROI). The agent server distributes agent clients onto devices in the ROI and provides agent server services to the agent clients, including receiving and storing data from the agents. When the agent server device is to leave the ROI, the agent server can migrate to any device executing an agent client and continue to provide the agent server services, including data collection and aggregation, from the device to which the agent server has migrated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2016
    Publication date: April 6, 2017
    Applicant: OL SECURITY LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY
    Inventor: Mark Gerard
  • Patent number: 9591457
    Abstract: In order to determine the location of wireless network devices without inherent location capabilities, a wireless network device such as an access point can receive geolocation information from transient data sources such as mobile devices requiring network access from the access point. The access point stores geolocation records including location coordinates received from the transient data sources. The geolocation records can be processed to determine the position and movement of the access point. The geolocation records and/or location information can be passed to other transient clients that do not have inherent location capability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2017
    Assignee: Open Invention Network, LLC
    Inventors: Robert W. Peterson, Mark Gerard
  • Publication number: 20160381645
    Abstract: Previously available network monitoring and management systems fail to provide adequate transmit power control in WiFi networks having multiple neighboring wireless access points. By contrast, various implementations disclosed herein include systems, methods and apparatuses that generate an interference map based at least on co-channel interference reported in a number of neighbor lists, wherein each of the neighbor lists is associated with a respective one of a plurality of compliant wireless access points included in one of a local area network (LAN) and a portion of a virtual LAN (VLAN); and determine a respective transmit power adjustment for each of the plurality of compliant wireless access points included in the interference map based on at least one interference criterion characterizing the interference on each of the plurality of compliant wireless access points included in the interference map and respective neighboring wireless access points.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2015
    Publication date: December 29, 2016
    Inventors: Robert Tristan Shanks, Mark Gerard Hendrick, JR.
  • Patent number: D801590
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2017
    Assignee: CENTRAL GARDEN & PET COMPANY
    Inventor: Mark Gerard Agresta