Patents by Inventor Patrick Thomas

Patrick Thomas 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: 12281914
    Abstract: Computer-implemented methods, computer-readable storage media storing instructions and computer systems for labeling significant locations based on contextual data can be implemented to perform operations that include determining a location of a computing device, and determining a label for the determined location based on contextual data associated with the significant location. The location can be a significant location that has meaning to a user of the device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Michael P. Dal Santo, Hyo Jeong Shin, Krishna M. Behara, Marcos R. Vescovi, Patrick Thomas Dillon, Richard B. Warren, Ronald K. Huang, Xufeng Han
  • Publication number: 20250086558
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, obtaining and aggregating first image content of an equipment site resulting in first aggregated image content, and providing the first aggregated image content to communication devices that render it on a respective display. Further embodiments include identifying first equipment from first user-generated input, and adjusting the first aggregated image content with a first equipment image resulting in second aggregated image content. Additional embodiments include identifying second equipment from second user-generated input, and adjusting the second aggregated image content with a second equipment image resulting in third aggregated image content.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 25, 2024
    Publication date: March 13, 2025
    Applicant: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Benjamin J. Leffler, Amanda Jean Peterlin, Jeffrey Patrick Thomas, Richard Raley, Alicia Shewring
  • Publication number: 20250052780
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and devices are provided for determining a status of a container. Some example systems include a container configured to rotate such that material(s) that may be disposed within the container are able to exit the container due to gravitational force. The systems also include a device connected to the container, which includes an accelerometer configured to sense movement corresponding to the container discharging the material(s). Such systems may also include a processor and a memory, and the processor may be configured to receive accelerometer data from the accelerometer, determine a tilt angle of the container based on the accelerometer data, determine whether the tilt angle satisfies a predetermined threshold, and cause a user to be notified when the tilt angle satisfies the predetermined threshold. The predetermined threshold may be a value representative of an assumption that a certain amount of the material(s) has been removed from the container.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 10, 2023
    Publication date: February 13, 2025
    Inventor: Patrick Thomas Altman
  • Patent number: 12210570
    Abstract: Embodiments as disclosed herein provide for a system and method that can manage indexing for search index partitions in a computerized search system in an automated, efficient, and intelligent manner. In particular, a search index may be partitioned. One or more index partitions may be specifically indicated as one or more reserved partitions configured to handle indexing requests associated with processing a very large amount of information. When an indexing request is received that requests indexing of a very large amount of information, the indexing request may be processed for a reserved index partition that is reserved for indexing objects associated with a very large amount of information; otherwise, the request may be processed for another index partition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: OPEN TEXT SA ULC
    Inventor: Patrick Thomas Sidney Pidduck
  • Patent number: 12204585
    Abstract: A search engine may maintain a list of derived metadata. When an event occurs that requires updating a search index, the search engine can determine which metadata is derived metadata and take appropriate actions with respect to the derived metadata. For example, if a request is received to update the index for a particular object, the search engine may protect the derived metadata from change while updating the other metadata in the index. As another example, if a request is received to update the text content for the object, the search engine may change the text content and the derived metadata. By identifying derived metadata, the search engine can protect the derived metadata from change when a request is received that otherwise causes metadata to change and can change the derived metadata when a request is received that would otherwise not change the metadata portion of the index.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: OPEN TEXT SA ULC
    Inventor: Patrick Thomas Sidney Pidduck
  • Patent number: 12190272
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, obtaining and aggregating first image content of an equipment site resulting in first aggregated image content, and providing the first aggregated image content to communication devices that render it on a respective display. Further embodiments include identifying first equipment from first user-generated input, and adjusting the first aggregated image content with a first equipment image resulting in second aggregated image content. Additional embodiments include identifying second equipment from second user-generated input, and adjusting the second aggregated image content with a second equipment image resulting in third aggregated image content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.
    Inventors: Benjamin J. Leffler, Amanda Jean Peterlin, Jeffrey Patrick Thomas, Richard Raley, Alicia Shewring
  • Patent number: 12178857
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to the use of alkaline phosphatases, and in particular improved alkaline phosphatases such as RecAP, for the prevention, treatment, cure, or amelioration of the symptoms of acute kidney injury caused, e.g., by sepsis. The application relates to methods of preserving renal function renal function, shortening the duration of renal replacement therapy, increasing the creatinine clearance, decreasing the risk of death in subjects with sepsis-associate acute kidney injury (SA-AKI) or at risk of SA-AKI.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: AM-Pharma B.V.
    Inventors: Roelof Peter Pickkers, Ravindra Lall Mehta, Patrick Thomas Murray, Michael Joannidis, Erik Jan Van Den Berg, Jacques Salomon Robert Arend
  • Patent number: 12169440
    Abstract: Responsive to a request from a user device, a content server may perform an electronic discovery function. The request may include information on a quantity of data objects desired from a collection of data objects stored in a repository. Objects stored in the repository may be managed by the content server. The content server may determine a number of batches and process the collection of data objects into batches, each having a batch size. An efficient selection process may be determined and utilized in selecting data objects from each of the batches such that a total number of data objects selected from the collection is not less than the quantity of data objects desired. The content server may make a disk image of the selected data objects and communicate same to the user device over a network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignee: OPEN TEXT SA ULC
    Inventors: Patrick Thomas Sidney Pidduck, Laura Hélène Boyd
  • Patent number: 12164582
    Abstract: Embodiments as disclosed may provide a search operator that addresses the problems inherent in the searching based on an entire block of text. Specifically, embodiments as disclosed may provide a search operator that may address the problem of complex query construction and efficient and effective implementation for finding objects based on a block of text.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignee: OPEN TEXT SA ULC
    Inventors: Patrick Thomas Sidney Pidduck, Michael James Dent
  • Patent number: 12152293
    Abstract: A niobium-silicide based alloy and a turbine having at least a turbine component formed from the niobium-silicide based alloy are provided. The niobium-silicide based alloy comprises: between about 14 atomic percent and about 24 atomic percent titanium (Ti); between about 11 atomic percent and about 19 atomic percent silicon (Si); between about 4 atomic percent and about 8 atomic percent chromium (Cr); between about 2 atomic percent and about 6 atomic percent hafnium (Hf); up to about 4 atomic percent aluminum (Al); between about 0.5 atomic percent and about 1 atomic percent tin (Sn); between about 5 atomic percent and about 15 atomic percent tantalum (Ta); between about 1 atomic percent and about 5 atomic percent tungsten (W); up to about 5 atomic percent rhenium (Re); up to about 5 atomic percent zirconium (Zr); up to about 6 atomic percent yttrium (Y); and a balance of niobium (Nb).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Assignee: GE Infrastructure Technology LLC
    Inventors: Akane Suzuki, Bernard Patrick Bewlay, Chen Shen, Scott Michael Oppenheimer, Patrick Thomas Brennan
  • Publication number: 20240311432
    Abstract: A search system as disclosed analyzes a file name to identify any potential tokens or words that might be relevant, and creates supplementary information for the file name. The supplementary information is indexed and searchable, thereby significantly improving the ability of a search engine to discover and return successful search hits.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 16, 2024
    Publication date: September 19, 2024
    Inventor: Patrick Thomas Sidney Pidduck
  • Patent number: 12060960
    Abstract: Formation of a sterile connection includes inserting a first aseptic coupling device into a second aseptic coupling device, removing a first membrane from the first aseptic coupling device and a second membrane from the second aseptic coupling device, and rotating a locking clip on the first aseptic coupling device to compress a first seal member of the first aseptic coupling device with a second seal member of the second aseptic coupling device to form a sterile fluid passageway.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2024
    Assignee: Colder Products Company
    Inventors: Todd Charles Andrews, Patrick Thomas Gerst, Jeremy Henry Nichols, Randall Scott Williams
  • Publication number: 20240247345
    Abstract: A niobium-silicide based alloy and a turbine having at least a turbine component formed from the niobium-silicide based alloy are provided. The niobium-silicide based alloy comprises: between about 14 atomic percent and about 24 atomic percent titanium (Ti); between about 11 atomic percent and about 19 atomic percent silicon (Si); between about 4 atomic percent and about 8 atomic percent chromium (Cr); between about 2 atomic percent and about 6 atomic percent hafnium (Hf); up to about 4 atomic percent aluminum (Al); between about 0.5 atomic percent and about 1 atomic percent tin (Sn); between about 5 atomic percent and about 15 atomic percent tantalum (Ta); between about 1 atomic percent and about 5 atomic percent tungsten (W); up to about 5 atomic percent rhenium (Re); up to about 5 atomic percent zirconium (Zr); up to about 6 atomic percent yttrium (Y); and a balance of niobium (Nb).
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 19, 2023
    Publication date: July 25, 2024
    Inventors: Akane Suzuki, Bernard Patrick Bewlay, Chen Shen, Scott Michael Oppenheimer, Patrick Thomas Brennan
  • Publication number: 20240236122
    Abstract: The present invention is related to the prevention of intrusions on an in-vehicle network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2020
    Publication date: July 11, 2024
    Inventors: Patrick Thomas Michael Klapper, Christopher Roth
  • Patent number: 12013903
    Abstract: A search system as disclosed analyzes a file name to identify any potential tokens or words that might be relevant, and creates supplementary information for the file name. The supplementary information is indexed and searchable, thereby significantly improving the ability of a search engine to discover and return successful search hits.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Assignee: OPEN TEXT SA ULC
    Inventor: Patrick Thomas Sidney Pidduck
  • Patent number: 11977581
    Abstract: Embodiments as disclosed herein allow simple specification of prioritized searches of chains of regions and efficient implementation of such searches. Specifically, embodiments as disclosed may provide a search operator that addresses the problem of complex query construction for finding objects having a particular value in one of a prioritized set of regions and efficiently implement the searches specified by such search operators.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: OPEN TEXT SA ULC
    Inventors: Patrick Thomas Sidney Pidduck, Laura Dianne Ramsahai
  • Patent number: 11972093
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus for facilitating a comparison of content in a user interface are described. Two or more open browser interfaces of a browser are identified, each of the two or more open browser interfaces containing an item description of one or more items. The browser interfaces include at least one of a tab of the browser or a window of the browser. One or more features related to each of the one or more items from at least two of the item descriptions are extracted or identified. The comparison for a plurality of items is generated based on the extracted or identified one or more features. The comparison of the plurality of items is displayed within at least one of the browser interfaces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: eBay Inc.
    Inventor: Evan Patrick Thomas
  • Publication number: 20240134749
    Abstract: Responsive to a request from a user device, a content server may perform an electronic discovery function. The request may include information on a quantity of data objects desired from a collection of data objects stored in a repository. Objects stored in the repository may be managed by the content server. The content server may determine a number of batches and process the collection of data objects into batches, each having a batch size. An efficient selection process may be determined and utilized in selecting data objects from each of the batches such that a total number of data objects selected from the collection is not less than the quantity of data objects desired. The content server may make a disk image of the selected data objects and communicate same to the user device over a network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2023
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Inventors: Patrick Thomas Sidney Pidduck, Laura Hélène Boyd
  • Publication number: 20240137373
    Abstract: The present invention is related to the prevention of intrusions on an in-vehicle network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2020
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Inventors: Patrick Thomas Michael Klapper, Christopher Roth
  • Publication number: 20240102822
    Abstract: Computer-implemented methods, computer-readable storage media storing instructions and computer systems for labeling significant locations based on contextual data can be implemented to perform operations that include determining a location of a computing device, and determining a label for the determined location based on contextual data associated with the significant location. The location can be a significant location that has meaning to a user of the device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Inventors: Michael P. Dal Santo, Hyo Jeong Shin, Krishna M. Behara, Marcos R. Vescovi, Patrick Thomas Dillon, Richard B. Warren, Ronald K. Huang, Xufeng Han