Patents by Inventor Omari Stephens

Omari Stephens 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: 11062537
    Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure relate to determining vehicle operation modes for a fleet of vehicles. This may include maintaining a storage system including vehicle parameters for a vehicle fleet such that each vehicle of the fleet is associated with a set of vehicle parameters. The vehicle operation mode may be determined by selecting one of a plurality of vehicle operation levels arranged in a hierarchy or by identifying a set of tags where each level or tag corresponds to a vehicle driving capability. The determined vehicle operation mode may be communicated to the given vehicle in order to cause the vehicle to operate according to the determined vehicle operation mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: Waymo LLC
    Inventors: Ryan Joseph Andrade, Ryan Cash, Peter Colijn, Laurens Andreas Feenstra, Congyu Gao, Dirk Haehnel, Steven Reis, Omari Stephens
  • Publication number: 20190266815
    Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure relate to determining vehicle operation modes for a fleet of vehicles. This may include maintaining a storage system including vehicle parameters for a vehicle fleet such that each vehicle of the fleet is associated with a set of vehicle parameters. The vehicle operation mode may be determined by selecting one of a plurality of vehicle operation levels arranged in a hierarchy or by identifying a set of tags where each level or tag corresponds to a vehicle driving capability. The determined vehicle operation mode may be communicated to the given vehicle in order to cause the vehicle to operate according to the determined vehicle operation mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2018
    Publication date: August 29, 2019
    Inventors: Ryan Joseph Andrade, Ryan Cash, Peter Colijn, Laurens Andreas Feenstra, Congyu Gao, Dirk Haehnel, Steven Reis, Omari Stephens
  • Patent number: 8380758
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer-readable media for efficiently and flexibly invoking programs or subroutines specified by command terminal input strings using a trie data structure include: receiving a command string; dividing the command string into one or more tokens, wherein the one or more tokens are delimited by whitespace within the command string; identifying a node-path within a trie data structure corresponding to the one or more tokens; extracting a program stored in a final node in the node-path; and executing the program.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2013
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventor: Omari Stephens