Patents by Inventor Nicholas Franks
Nicholas Franks 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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Patent number: 10347063Abstract: A method includes, receiving a biometric identifier from a visitor to the property, determining an arrival time of the visitor based on receiving the biometric identifier, comparing the arrival time of the visitor to an expected arrival time of an expected visitor, based on comparing the arrival time of the visitor to an expected arrival time, transmitting the biometric identifier and data identifying the expected visitor, receiving, by the monitoring system and from the external server, (i) data indicating that the biometric identifier corresponds to the expected visitor and (ii) data indicating that an electronic device of the expected visitor is located at the property, and based on (i) the data indicating that the biometric identifier corresponds to the expected visitor and (ii) the data indicating that the electronic device of the expected visitor is located at the property, granting, by the monitoring system, the visitor access to the property.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2018Date of Patent: July 9, 2019Assignee: Alarm.com IncorporatedInventors: Nicholas Frank LaRovere, Matthew Daniel Correnti, Abraham Joseph Kinney
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Publication number: 20190035244Abstract: Techniques for providing status information of a defined location are described. Data indicative of signal strength associated with radio frequency (RF) signals received by one or more devices communicating via a wireless communications protocol is accessed. A baseline signal strength profile based on the data is determined. The data indicative of signal strength associated with RF signals received by the one or more devices is monitored. Based on a comparison of the monitored data to the baseline signal strength profile, a presence of at least one person in a vicinity of the one or more devices is determined. At least one action based on the determined presence is initiated.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 31, 2017Publication date: January 31, 2019Inventors: Parag Kumar Garg, Nicholas Frank LaVassar, Joseph Reid Baird, Donald Smyth, Jonathan Kevin Gagliardoni, Daniel Sihe Kuang Lee
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Publication number: 20180212791Abstract: Systems and methods for providing contextual interaction with connected devices are described. A mobile device having a display that presents a user interface enabling access to functionalities provided by connected devices. The user interface may be updated as various contextually-related data is received. For example, data representing a current position of the mobile device, such as Bluetooth low energy beacon signals, WiFi signals, and the like, may be monitored. In response to determining that the current position is within a threshold proximity of a first location, the user interface may be updated to emphasize a first location interface corresponding to the first location over interfaces corresponding to other locations.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 6, 2017Publication date: July 26, 2018Inventors: Parag Kumar Garg, Nicholas Frank LaVassar, Joseph Reid Baird, Donald Smyth, Jonathan Kevin Gagliardoni, Darrin Michael Johnson
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Publication number: 20170141671Abstract: What is presented is an apparatus for providing electrical energy for an extended period of time. The apparatus comprises a battery bank for generating electrical energy, a current-conversion component is electrically connected to the battery bank, a secondary generator, a motor, and the load circuit. The motor is started by the electrical energy generated from the battery bank and converts electrical energy into mechanical energy. A primary generator is mechanically connected to the motor and electrically connected to the battery bank. The primary generator converts the mechanical energy from the motor into electrical energy and provides the electrical energy to the battery bank. The secondary generator is also mechanically connected to the motor and converts the mechanical energy from the motor into electrical energy and provides this energy to the current-conversion component.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 13, 2015Publication date: May 18, 2017Applicant: Frank N Stubb LLCInventors: Brad Stubbings, Nicholas Frank
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Publication number: 20160127141Abstract: A system and method are disclosed for the repair of IP multicast sessions. A repair server polls multiple transmit servers to accumulate as many of the packets missing from the multicast session as possible. A network includes a source of multicast packets in a multicast session and a plurality of multicast recipients in that session. A repair server in the network provides the packets it receives to the recipients. The repair server includes a missing packet detector. There is a plurality of retransmit servers in the network buffering portions of the packets they respectively receive during the session. The repair server maintains an ordered list of the retransmit servers that are most likely to have buffered copies of packets missing from the session. When the repair server detects that there are packets missing from the session it has received, it uses the ordered list to sequentially request the missing packets from respective ones of the plurality of retransmit servers.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 12, 2016Publication date: May 5, 2016Applicant: AT&T Intellectual Property II, L.P.Inventors: Nicholas Frank Maxemchuk, David McManamon, David Hilton Shur, Aleksandr Zelezniak
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Patent number: 9270475Abstract: A system and method are disclosed for the repair of IP multicast sessions. A repair server polls multiple transmit servers to accumulate as many of the packets missing from the multicast session as possible. A network includes a source of multicast packets in a multicast session and a plurality of multicast recipients in that session. A repair server in the network provides the packets it receives to the recipients. The repair server includes a missing packet detector. There is a plurality of retransmit servers in the network buffering portions of the packets they respectively receive during the session. The repair server maintains an ordered list of the retransmit servers that are most likely to have buffered copies of packets missing from the session. When the repair server detects that there are packets missing from the session it has received, it uses the ordered list to sequentially request the missing packets from respective ones of the plurality of retransmit servers.Type: GrantFiled: June 6, 2014Date of Patent: February 23, 2016Assignee: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY II, L.P.Inventors: Nicholas Frank Maxemchuk, David McManamon, David Hilton Shur, Aleksandr Zelezniak
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Publication number: 20140286172Abstract: A system and method are disclosed for the repair of IP multicast sessions. A repair server polls multiple transmit servers to accumulate as many of the packets missing from the multicast session as possible. A network includes a source of multicast packets in a multicast session and a plurality of multicast recipients in that session. A repair server in the network provides the packets it receives to the recipients. The repair server includes a missing packet detector. There is a plurality of retransmit servers in the network buffering portions of the packets they respectively receive during the session. The repair server maintains an ordered list of the retransmit servers that are most likely to have buffered copies of packets missing from the session. When the repair server detects that there are packets missing from the session it has received, it uses the ordered list to sequentially request the missing packets from respective ones of the plurality of retransmit servers.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 6, 2014Publication date: September 25, 2014Inventors: Nicholas Frank Maxemchuk, David McManamon, David Hilton Shur, Aleksandr Zelezniak
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Patent number: 8751865Abstract: A system and method are disclosed for the repair of IP multicast sessions. A repair server polls multiple transmit servers to accumulate as many of the packets missing from the multicast session as possible. A network includes a source of multicast packets in a multicast session and a plurality of multicast recipients in that session. A repair server in the network provides the packets it receives to the recipients. The repair server includes a missing packet detector. There is a plurality of retransmit servers in the network buffering portions of the packets they respectively receive during the session. The repair server maintains an ordered list of the retransmit servers that are most likely to have buffered copies of packets missing from the session. When the repair server detects that there are packets missing from the session it has received, it uses the ordered list to sequentially request the missing packets from respective ones of the plurality of retransmit servers.Type: GrantFiled: July 30, 2013Date of Patent: June 10, 2014Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property II, L.P.Inventors: Nicholas Frank Maxemchuk, David McManamon, David Hilton Shur, Aleksandr Zelezniak
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Publication number: 20130315127Abstract: A system and method are disclosed for the repair of IP multicast sessions. A repair server polls multiple transmit servers to accumulate as many of the packets missing from the multicast session as possible. A network includes a source of multicast packets in a multicast session and a plurality of multicast recipients in that session. A repair server in the network provides the packets it receives to the recipients. The repair server includes a missing packet detector. There is a plurality of retransmit servers in the network buffering portions of the packets they respectively receive during the session. The repair server maintains an ordered list of the retransmit servers that are most likely to have buffered copies of packets missing from the session. When the repair server detects that there are packets missing from the session it has received, it uses the ordered list to sequentially request the missing packets from respective ones of the plurality of retransmit servers.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 30, 2013Publication date: November 28, 2013Applicant: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY II, L.P.Inventors: Nicholas Frank Maxemchuk, David McManamon, David Hilton Shur, Aleksandr Zelezniak
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Patent number: 8499211Abstract: A system and method are disclosed for the repair of IP multicast sessions. A repair server polls multiple transmit servers to accumulate as many of the packets missing from the multicast session as possible. A network includes a source of multicast packets in a multicast session and a plurality of multicast recipients in that session. A repair server in the network provides the packets it receives to the recipients. The repair server includes a missing packet detector. There is a plurality of retransmit servers in the network buffering portions of the packets they respectively receive during the session. The repair server maintains an ordered list of the retransmit servers that are most likely to have buffered copies of packets missing from the session. When the repair server detects that there are packets missing from the session it has received, it uses the ordered list to sequentially request the missing packets from respective ones of the plurality of retransmit servers.Type: GrantFiled: October 14, 2009Date of Patent: July 30, 2013Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property II, L.P.Inventors: Nicholas Frank Maxemchuk, David McManamon, David Hilton Shur, Aleksandr Zelezniak
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Patent number: 8061018Abstract: A machine is provided for making a fluid level sender assembly having a first mounting member with a flange and a fluid level sender including a second mounting member that telescopically connects with the first mounting member. The machine has a base, a holding member to support the first mounting member, a head member having an outer ring configured to rotate the flange, the head member moving between a first and second position to allow placing the first mounting member on the holding member and a second position to allow the outer ring to rotate the flange and a sensor receiving member to engage the fluid level sender. The sensor receiving member may move with respect to the holding member to telescopically position the fluid level sender and the plurality of different longitudinal positions such that a plurality of differently sized fluid level sender assemblies can be constructed.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2007Date of Patent: November 22, 2011Assignee: Medallion Instrumentation Systems LLCInventors: Gregory Philip Stepanek, Nicholas Frank DeVille
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Patent number: 7620847Abstract: A system and method are disclosed for the repair of IP multicast sessions. A repair server polls multiple transmit servers to accumulate as many of the packets missing from the multicast session as possible. A network includes a source of multicast packets in a multicast session and a plurality of multicast recipients in that session. A repair server in the network provides the packets it receives to the recipients. The repair server includes a missing packet detector. There is a plurality of retransmit servers in the network buffering portions of the packets they respectively receive during the session. The repair server maintains an ordered list of the retransmit servers that are most likely to have buffered copies of packets missing from the session. When the repair server detects that there are packets missing from the session it has received, it uses the ordered list to sequentially request the missing packets from respective ones of the plurality of retransmit servers.Type: GrantFiled: January 26, 2009Date of Patent: November 17, 2009Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property II, L.P.Inventors: Nicholas Frank Maxemchuk, David McManamon, David Hilton Shur, Aleksandr Zelezniak
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Patent number: 7590889Abstract: A system and method are disclosed for the repair of IP multicast sessions. A repair server polls multiple transmit servers to accumulate as many of the packets missing from the multicast session as possible. A network includes a source of multicast packets in a multicast session and a plurality of multicast recipients in that session. A repair server in the network provides the packets it receives to the recipients. The repair server includes a missing packet detector. There is a plurality of retransmit servers in the network buffering portions of the packets they respectively receive during the session. The repair server maintains an ordered list of the retransmit servers that are most likely to have buffered copies of packets missing from the session. When the repair server detects that there are packets missing from the session it has received, it uses the ordered list to sequentially request the missing packets from respective ones of the plurality of retransmit servers.Type: GrantFiled: June 23, 2004Date of Patent: September 15, 2009Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property II, L.P.Inventors: Nicholas Frank Maxemchuk, David McManamon, David Hilton Shur, Aleksandr Zelezniak
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Publication number: 20090139083Abstract: A machine is provided for making a fluid level sender assembly having a first mounting member with a flange and a fluid level sender including a second mounting member that telescopically connects with the first mounting member. The machine has a base, a holding member to support the first mounting member, a head member having an outer ring configured to rotate the flange, the head member moving between a first and second position to allow placing the first mounting member on the holding member and a second position to allow the outer ring to rotate the flange and a sensor receiving member to engage the fluid level sender. The sensor receiving member may move with respect to the holding member to telescopically position the fluid level sender and the plurality of different longitudinal positions such that a plurality of differently sized fluid level sender assemblies can be constructed.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 30, 2007Publication date: June 4, 2009Applicant: MEDALLION INSTRUMENTATION SYSTEMS LLCInventors: Gregory Philip Stepanek, Nicholas Frank DeVille
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Patent number: 7325685Abstract: A reticle SMIF pod includes a dome having a plurality of latchkeys and a cassette having a plurality of primary engagement locations thereon into which the latchkeys are intended to engage when sealing the cassette to the dome. A plurality of secondary engagement locations are positioned in the cassette above the plurality of primary engagement locations to prevent the cassette from falling should the plurality of latchkeys fail to engage in the primary engagement locations.Type: GrantFiled: November 25, 2003Date of Patent: February 5, 2008Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Nicholas Frank Ciminello, David L. Schmoke, Edward Sherwood
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Publication number: 20070104796Abstract: The present invention relates to the use of xenon in the preparation of a medicament for the treatment of neonatal asphyxia in a neonatal subject, wherein said medicament is for use in combination with hypothermia.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 11, 2004Publication date: May 10, 2007Applicant: PROTEXEON LIMITEDInventors: Nicholas Franks, Mervyn Maze
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Publication number: 20060233885Abstract: In a first aspect, the present invention relates to the use of xenon in the preparation of a medicament for providing analgesia in a newborn subject and/or a fetal subject. In a second aspect, the invention relates to a method of providing analgesia in a newborn subject, the method comprising administering to the subject a therapeutically effective amount of xenon. In a third aspect, the invention relates to a method of providing analgesia in a fetal subject, the method comprising administering to the mother of the fetal subject a therapeutically effective amount of xenon for both the mother and fetal subject.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 5, 2003Publication date: October 19, 2006Inventors: Nicholas Franks, Mervyn Maze
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Publication number: 20050238726Abstract: The present invention relates to methods of controlling neurological deficits in patients who have undergone cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB) by administering xenon to said patients.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 1, 2003Publication date: October 27, 2005Inventors: Nicholas Franks, Mervyn Maze
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Patent number: D703045Type: GrantFiled: April 17, 2013Date of Patent: April 22, 2014Assignee: Smokey Caps, Inc.Inventor: Nicholas Frank Stathos
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Patent number: D810187Type: GrantFiled: November 17, 2015Date of Patent: February 13, 2018Assignee: Frank Brothers Guitar Company Limited PartnershipInventors: Nicholas Frank, Timothy Frank