Patents by Inventor Péter Frank

Péter Frank 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: 9575942
    Abstract: Aspects of expanded icon navigation are described. In one embodiment, one or more marked locations are registered, for example, as bookmarks, during navigation of network pages or files. A hierarchical structure of at least one location associated with the one or more marked locations is indexed to generate a marked zone hierarchy. Further, a collection of accessed locations is assembled according to traced access across the indexed hierarchical structure, network pages, or files. The access across the indexed hierarchical structure, network pages, or files may be traced over a period of time. In other aspects, the one or more marked locations are categorized among the collection of accessed locations to provide an assimilated set of locations, and one or more anchors are established. Further, at least one branch of the one or more anchors is populated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2017
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Peter Frank Hill
  • Patent number: 9479519
    Abstract: Techniques and solutions are described for detecting potential problems with web pages. For example, a web page can be analyzed (e.g., during loading of the web page) to determine statistics, such as size and structure statistics. The web page can be compared, using the statistics, to a statistical model representing the web page to determine if the web page is consistent with the statistical model. The statistical model can be created from previous page loads of the web page. Problems such as web page spoofing can be detected if the same web page content (e.g., content with a high degree of statistical similarity) is obtained from two different web sites. For example, a web page that is retrieved from one web site that matches a statistical model representing the same web page from another web site can indicate a spoofed web page.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2016
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Peter Frank Hill, John W. Gray, III, Kurt Kufeld, Dennis Pilarinos, Arun Sundaram, Peter Sven Vosshall, David John Ward, Jr.
  • Patent number: 9426158
    Abstract: Applications executing on mobile client devices may access remote resources via network connections. Operational capabilities and financial costs of these connections may differ. Developers, network administrators, and other parties may wish to moderate usage of various available conditions to conform to business rules. Connectivity information including one or more network grants are integrated into an application received from a developer at ingestion by an application management server, which accesses those business rules. The client devices may coordinate with a proxy server to provide additional controls. Networking public interfaces provide the developer with a simplified pathway for development of applications which use network connections, particularly on mobile devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2016
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Xavier Federico Lopez Suarez, Lorne A. Millwood, Peter Frank Hill, Donald Ryan Willhoit
  • Patent number: 9413840
    Abstract: Features are disclosed for enabling users to efficiently store and share browsing sessions or portions thereof with other users or the general public. Browsing session requests and other activities may be sent to an intermediary system, which can retrieve requested content and store a representation of the requested content or data regarding the requested content. The stored data may be organized as a saved browsing session such that users may access the shared browsing session at a subsequent time and view the browsing session substantially in its entirety. Users may search for shared browsing sessions and access data regarding the requests made during a browsing session. In addition, data regarding client devices used during shared browsing sessions may be tracked and associated with the shared browsing sessions such that subsequent users can search for shared browsing sessions based partly on such device characteristics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2016
    Assignee: AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Brett Richard Taylor, Peter Frank Hill, Ameet Nirmal Vaswani, Samuel John Young, Aaron Michael Brown, Steven Michael Reddie, Matthew Lloyd Trahan
  • Publication number: 20160179798
    Abstract: A graphical user interface system is provided. The system includes a display configured to provide a plurality of panels, each panel associated with a document in a datacenter, wherein the datacenter comprises an architecture having a plurality of hierarchy layers, each hierarchy layer storing at least a document; a memory storing commands; and a processor coupled to the display and configured to execute the commands to cause the graphical user interface to navigate through the datacenter architecture by: receiving a first user gesture to access a first hierarchy layer in the datacenter; receiving a second user gesture to access a second hierarchy layer in the datacenter; and displaying in the display a visual effect when at least one of the first hierarchy layer and the second hierarchy layers are accessed. An apparatus including a graphical user interface system as above and a method for its use are also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2014
    Publication date: June 23, 2016
    Inventors: Matthew Peter Franks, Patrick Fabian Marsh, JR., Charles Martin Fisher, Philip Spencer Knapp, Justin Edward Boyce, Lauren Briana Mazzio, Eric Alan Boggs, Jonathan Kolko
  • Patent number: 9342490
    Abstract: Features are disclosed for enabling users to select portions of content pages, including predefined portions and arbitrarily defined portions, for which to receive update notifications or which to share with other users. Notifications regarding updates to the selected portions may be displayed to the user in a notification overlay. The notification overlay may be at least partially transparent so as to allow users to see content on a content page displayed beneath the overlay. The notification overlay may be displayed persistently as the user navigates or otherwise transitions from page to page. Users may also access shared, predefined, and context-sensitive notification overlays created by other users, entities, or automated processes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2016
    Assignee: AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Brett Richard Taylor, Aakarsh Nair, Peter Frank Hill, Dhruva Lakshmana Rao Batni, Ranganath Atreya, Patrick Joseph Armstrong, Peter Sven Vosshall, Bryan Kenneth Summersett, Ameet Nirmal Vaswani
  • Patent number: 9326996
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the use of xenon in the preparation of a medicament for preventing and/or alleviating one or more anesthetic-induced neurological deficits in a neonatal subject. The present invention further relates to combinations of xenon and sevoflurane, and use thereof as preconditioning agents for administration prior to hypoxic-ischaemic injury.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2016
    Inventors: Nicholas Peter Franks, Mervyn Maze
  • Publication number: 20160119427
    Abstract: A storage area network (SAN)-attached storage system architecture is disclosed. The storage system provides strongly consistent distributed storage communication protocol semantics, such as SCSI target semantics. The system includes a mechanism for presenting a single distributed logical unit, comprising one or more logical sub-units, as a single logical unit of storage to a host system by associating each of the logical sub-units that make up the single distributed logical unit with a single host visible identifier that corresponds to the single distributed logical unit. The system further includes mechanisms to maintain consistent context information for each of the logical sub-units such that the logical sub-units are not visible to a host system as separate entities from the single distributed logical unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2015
    Publication date: April 28, 2016
    Applicant: NETAPP, INC.
    Inventors: Santosh Ananth Rao, Geoffrey Stewart Brown, Srikumar Natarajan, Pranab Patnaik, Kai Tan, Peter Frank Corbett, Vivek Venkatesan
  • Patent number: 9315179
    Abstract: A method for controlling a brake system, which has pressure medium-activated wheel brakes and is at least partially electronic, and which is in a vehicle that includes at least two axles, including generating brake pressures for the wheel brakes on an axle in a pressure-controlled manner, and electronically regulating the brake pressures for the pressure medium-actuated wheel brakes on at least one further axle in terms of a brake pressure regulation for adjusting an actual brake pressure to a desired brake pressure. A related braking system device is also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2016
    Assignee: KNORR-BREMSE SYSTEME FUER NUTZFAHRZEUGE GMBH
    Inventors: Michael Herges, Peter Frank, Falk Hecker
  • Patent number: 9285958
    Abstract: A browser interface is described for displaying predictive content that is predicted to be interesting to a user. In one embodiment, a forward button in a browser may become a predictive forward button when the user is at the end of a history stack. By selecting the predictive forward button, the user may access predictive content, such as content related to one or more pages viewed during the current browsing session. In some embodiments, the user can sequentially select the predictive forward button any number of times to iteratively explore new content, such as content that is related to other content viewed during the current session.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2016
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Peter Frank Hill, Charley Ames
  • Publication number: 20160059187
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for removing sulphur dioxide from gaseous effluent, wherein a mixture of gaseous outlet gasses or gaseous effluent includes sulphur dioxide and carbon monoxide, and wherein, to perform a catalytic reduction, a catalyst is used to catalyse a reaction between carbon monoxide and sulphur dioxide to produce carbon dioxide and sulphur.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2014
    Publication date: March 3, 2016
    Inventor: Peter Frank Cross
  • Patent number: 9246235
    Abstract: Controllable directional antenna apparatus and method preferably includes structure and/or steps whereby a Yagi antenna array has a first driven element, a first reflector, and plurality of first directors disposed on a common substrate. The first reflector is bent such that (i) an unbent length thereof is longer than a length of the first driven element, but (ii) a bent length thereof is shorter than the length of the first driven element. A second driven element is also disposed on the common substrate but is angled with respect to the first driven element. A second reflector and a plurality of second directors are also disposed on the common substrate. The second reflector is bent like the first reflector, to reduce the footprint of the array on the substrate. Preferably, the Yagi antenna elements are printed on a printed circuit board.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2016
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson
    Inventors: Roland Smith, Peter Frank, Jim Wight
  • Publication number: 20160013886
    Abstract: A system and method for transmitting data over a channel, in which the data are categorized in at least two different categories. For example, the data are categorized according to the effect on perceived degradation on the data when error mitigation is performed on the data. Corrupted data of the first category are replaced using a first replacement method, such as retransmission and forward error correction. The corrupted data of the second category are replaced using a second replacement method different from the first replacement method, e.g., error mitigation or interpolation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2015
    Publication date: January 14, 2016
    Inventors: Peter Frank Driessen, Mathias R. Kretschmer, Schuyler Reynier Quackenbush, James H. Snyder
  • Patent number: 9203900
    Abstract: A storage area network (SAN)-attached storage system architecture is disclosed. The storage system provides strongly consistent distributed storage communication protocol semantics, such as SCSI target semantics. The system includes a mechanism for presenting a single distributed logical unit, comprising one or more logical sub-units, as a single logical unit of storage to a host system by associating each of the logical sub-units that make up the single distributed logical unit with a single host visible identifier that corresponds to the single distributed logical unit. The system further includes mechanisms to maintain consistent context information for each of the logical sub-units such that the logical sub-units are not visible to a host system as separate entities from the single distributed logical unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2015
    Assignee: NetApp, Inc.
    Inventors: Santosh Anath Rao, Geoffrey Stewart Brown, Srikumar Natarajan, Pranab Patnaik, Kai Tan, Peter Frank Corbett, Vivek Venkatesan
  • Publication number: 20150300955
    Abstract: An analytical system and method periodically monitoring an injection water distribution pipeline for the presence and concentration of formaldehyde or other aldehyde-functional biocide includes pumps, one of which provides a predetermined volume of injection water drawn from the pipeline at a sampling point and the other a predetermined volume of a reagent, preferably a buffered solution of dimedone, from a reagent storage vessel which are mixed and then heated in a chamber to a predetermined temperature to promote formation of any reaction products. The heated reaction mixture is passed to a detection cell and exposed to light of predetermined wavelength which, in accordance with the Hantzsch reaction, molecules having an aldehyde functional group that reacted with dimedone produce a fluorescence-emitting reaction product, the intensity of which is measured and compared to data previously obtained from standard aldehyde-containing solutions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 16, 2014
    Publication date: October 22, 2015
    Inventors: Mohammed A. AL-MONIEE, Naim AKMAL, Peter Frank SANDERS, Fahad N. AL-ABEEDI
  • Publication number: 20150291992
    Abstract: The invention relates to an apparatus and method for determining presence of microorganisms in, e.g., sea water or other water samples. Means are provided for taking a sample of the water to be tested, moving it through a series of reservoirs, and combining it with an indicator, such as a dye, which binds to DNA of any microorganisms in the sample. Any binding of indicator is measured by, e.g., a spectrofluorometer, or other device suitable for measuring the indicator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2015
    Publication date: October 15, 2015
    Inventors: Mohammed A. AL-MONIEE, Lone TANG, Susanne JUHLER, Niels Vinther VOIGT, Peter Frank SANDERS
  • Patent number: 9160495
    Abstract: A system and method for transmitting data over a channel, in which the data are categorized in at least two different categories. For example, the data are categorized according to the effect on perceived degradation on the data when error mitigation is performed on the data. Corrupted data of the first category are replaced using a first replacement method, such as retransmission and forward error correction. The corrupted data of the second category are replaced using a second replacement method different from the first replacement method, e.g., error mitigation or interpolation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2015
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property II, L.P.
    Inventors: Peter Frank Driessen, Mathias R. Kretschmer, Schuyler Reynier Quackenbush, James H. Snyder
  • Publication number: 20150231706
    Abstract: A tool for machining work pieces is disclosed. In order to provide a tool which exhibits only very small vibrations during operation, the tool body of the tool has a cavity in which a multiplicity of hollow structural elements having an outer closed shell, within which at least one solid particle or a hollow body is arranged in a freely movable manner, are accommodated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 21, 2013
    Publication date: August 20, 2015
    Applicant: Sandvik Intellectual Property AB
    Inventor: Peter Frank
  • Publication number: 20150216897
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the use of xenon in the preparation of a medicament for preventing and/or alleviating one or more anesthetic-induced neurological deficits in a neonatal subject. The present invention further relates to combinations of xenon and sevoflurane, and use thereof as preconditioning agents for administration prior to hypoxic-ischaemic injury.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2015
    Publication date: August 6, 2015
    Inventors: Nicholas Peter Franks, Mervyn Maze
  • Publication number: 20150151245
    Abstract: A process for removing sulphur dioxide from the gaseous effluent of a smelter furnace comprising the steps of: providing the gaseous effluent from a smelter; separating the sulphur dioxide from the gaseous effluent to provide concentrated sulphur dioxide and effluent for discharge into the atmosphere; mixing the concentrated sulphur dioxide with a fuel gas; heating the mixture such that the concentrated sulphur dioxide and fuel gas react to form a gaseous product mixture comprising sulphur and hydrogen sulphide; and removing the majority of preferably substantially all of the sulphur and hydrogen sulphide from the gaseous product mixture; wherein the remaining gaseous product mixture is incinerated before being vented into the atmosphere or is recycled into the smelter furnace.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2013
    Publication date: June 4, 2015
    Applicant: Frank Cross Limited
    Inventor: Peter Frank Cross