Patents by Inventor Paul A. Morris

Paul A. Morris 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).

  • Publication number: 20200280482
    Abstract: Methods and systems are described for enabling an operative coupling to a network. In use, first data is received at a first node in a first network. The first data is forwarded between the first node to a second node in a second network, using a network relay. Additionally it is determined that a specified decoupling condition is met, and subsequent to forwarding the first data and in response to determining that the decoupling condition is met, the second operative coupling is disabled while the first operative coupling remains enabled for receiving second data for forwarding.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2020
    Publication date: September 3, 2020
    Inventor: Robert Paul Morris
  • Patent number: 10764171
    Abstract: In various embodiments, an apparatus, a non-transitory computer-readable media, and a method are provided, involving a technique to: receive an indication of a receipt, via a first path segment, of a first packet that includes a header that is configured for use in identifying a path segment identifier data structure that includes a sequence of path segment identifiers including at least one first path segment identifier configured for use in identifying the first path segment, a second path segment identifier that identifies a region of a network that does not include the current node and that is configured for use in identifying a second path segment, and a third path segment identifier configured for use in identifying a third path segment; detect, using the header of the first packet, the path segment identifier data structure and an active identifier indicator for designating one of the path segment identifiers in the sequence for use by the current node; determine that the active identifier indicator de
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: SITTING MAN, LLC
    Inventor: Robert Paul Morris
  • Patent number: 10758680
    Abstract: This disclosure refers to a dosing mechanism for use in a drug delivery device implementing a dialing mode and a dispensing mode, wherein the dosing mechanism comprises a dose button, a housing and a determination unit. The dose button is activatable by the user for dose dispense, causing displacement of an indicating element connected to the housing from a first position to a second position. The determination unit is adapted such that it detects the indicating element in its second position and thereby determines that the dosing mechanism is in the dispensing mode. With some embodiments, it is possible to distinguish between the dialing mode and the dispensing mode. Some embodiments further refer to a drug delivery device comprising the above dosing mechanism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: Sanofi-Aventis Deutschland GMBH
    Inventors: Samuel Steel, Richard James Vincent Avery, Anthony Paul Morris, Barry Yates, Matthew Meredith Jones
  • Patent number: 10754505
    Abstract: Methods and apparatuses are comprising: a screen; an input device; at least one non-transitory memory storing instructions; and one or more processors in communication with the screen, the input device, and the at least one non-transitory memory, wherein the one or more processors execute the instructions to: display, utilizing the screen, a contactor window including: at least one contactor user interface element configured to have presented, in connection therewith, a plurality of contactor identifiers of a contactor communicant represented by a contactor email communications agent, at least one contactee user interface element configured to have presented, in connection therewith, a plurality of contactee identifiers of a plurality of contactee communicants each represented by a corresponding contactee email communications agent, a message user interface element configured to present a message addressed from one of the plurality of contactor identifiers of the contactor selected in connection with the at l
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2020
    Assignee: GRUS TECH, LLC
    Inventor: Robert Paul Morris
  • Patent number: 10757010
    Abstract: In various embodiments, a method and apparatus are configured for identifying a plurality of segment identifiers by accessing a data structure that relates each of the segment identifiers to one or more nodes in a network, where advertisements are used to communicate the segment identifiers; assembling the plurality of segment identifiers into a segment identifier stack for routing of a message; inserting the segment identifier stack into a header associated with the message; and forwarding the message according to an entry in a table corresponding to a segment identifier of the segment identifier stack.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2020
    Assignee: SITTING MAN, LLC
    Inventor: Robert Paul Morris
  • Patent number: 10757020
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a non-transitory computer-readable media is provided storing computer instructions that, when executed by one or more processors of a first node in a network, cause the first node to: receive an Internet Protocol (IP) packet that includes a first identifier and further includes an outside-scope second identifier that, for the first node, identifies a first region that does not include the first node and that is communicatively coupled to the first node via a second node; select, based on the outside-scope second identifier and based on at least one of a policy, a metric, or a routing table, an outgoing network interface included in at least one path segment of a plurality of path segments that communicatively couple the first node and at least one other node communicatively coupled to the first region, the plurality of path segments including at least one multi-hop path segment; and forward, via the outgoing network interface and to the second node, data received in the IP packet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2020
    Assignee: SITTING MAN, LLC
    Inventor: Robert Paul Morris
  • Patent number: 10750230
    Abstract: Methods and systems are described. In one aspect, a control user interface including selectable representations identifying a plurality of operating media players is presented. A user selection identifying a selected portion of the plurality of operating media players is received. And, an indication is provided allowing a media player in the selected portion access to a presentation device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2020
    Assignee: AMERICAN INVENTOR TECH, LLC
    Inventor: Robert Paul Morris
  • Patent number: 10747853
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a computer-implemented method is provided, comprising: developing at least a portion of a particular application that is configured to be installed on at least one device including an operating system, a web browser, and another application; developing a web page that includes a Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) link; causing the web page that includes the HTTP link to be hosted by at least one server in connection with a web site; causing to be stored, in connection with the particular application, first information identifying at least one aspect of the web site; causing to be stored, at the at least one server, second information identifying the particular application; via at least one network, receiving, at the at least one server and from the at least one device, a first request initiated via the web browser of the at least one device; and in response to the first request, serving, to the at least one device via the at least one network, the web page that includes the HTTP link such t
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2020
    Assignee: VULPECULA, LLC
    Inventor: Robert Paul Morris
  • Patent number: 10744270
    Abstract: A dose setting mechanism comprising a first element and a second element; the first element being moveable with respect to the second element; the first element and the second element being coupled by a ratchet mechanism allowing motion of the first element with respect to the second element from a first position to a second position only in a first direction while preventing motion in a second direction that is opposite to the first direction; once passing the second position, the first element being moveable with respect to the second element in the first direction and in the second direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2020
    Assignee: Sanofi
    Inventors: Richard James Vincent Avery, Matthew Meredith Jones, William Geoffrey Arthur Marsh, Anthony Paul Morris, David Aubrey Plumptre, Samuel Keir Steel, Robert Frederick Veasey
  • Patent number: 10742774
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method is provided, comprising causing access to be provided, to a client computer, to code that causes the client computer to operate in accordance with a protocol that is separate from TCP, in order to establish a protocol connection with another server computer, by: receiving a packet, detecting an idle time period parameter field in the packet, identifying metadata in the idle time period parameter field for an idle time period, where, after the idle time period is detected, the second protocol connection is deemed inactive, and creating or modifying, by the client computer and based on the metadata, a timeout attribute associated with the second protocol connection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2020
    Assignee: Jenam Tech, LLC
    Inventor: Robert Paul Morris
  • Patent number: 10735306
    Abstract: In various embodiments, a method and apparatus are configured to receive information associated with a path from a first node to a second node; and generate a set of one or more segment identifiers at least one of which is in an address space having a span in a current region in which the first node resides, and is configured for use in identifying a next region, wherein the set of one or more segment identifiers encodes the path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2020
    Assignee: SITTING MAN, LLC
    Inventor: Robert Paul Morris
  • Publication number: 20200241857
    Abstract: Methods and systems are described for processing an excludable addressable entity. Source code is received that includes a first addressable entity specified in a programming language. An excludable indicator is detected, in the source code, indicating that the first addressable entity is excludable from a second translation of the source code. A first translation, of the source code, is generated that includes a first translation of the first addressable entity. In response to the detecting of the excludable indicator, excluding information is generated that identifies the first translation of the first addressable entity as excludable for excluding the first addressable entity from the second translation generated from the first translation of the source code.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 17, 2020
    Publication date: July 30, 2020
    Inventor: Robert Paul Morris
  • Publication number: 20200244719
    Abstract: Methods and systems are described for selecting a resource based on a measure of a processing cost. Resource information is received identifying a first resource and a second resource for processing by a program component. One or more of a first measure of a specified processing cost for the processing of the first resource and a second measure of the processing cost for the processing of the second resource is determined. One of the first resource and the second resource is selected based on at least one of the first measure and the second measure. The selected one of the first resource and the second resource is identified to the program component for processing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 17, 2020
    Publication date: July 30, 2020
    Inventor: Robert Paul Morris
  • Publication number: 20200245382
    Abstract: Methods and systems are described for processing a contextual channel identifier. A channel identifier is detected. A context setting is detected identifying a first channel binding for the channel identifier. The first channel binding identifies a frequency channel accessible via a frequency tuner for presenting, via an output device, data from the first frequency channel. A detection is made that the context setting identifies a second channel context. The first channel identifier identifies a second channel binding based on the second channel context. In response to detecting that the context setting identifies the second channel context, a second data source identified by the second channel binding is accessed to present data from the second data source via an output device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 17, 2020
    Publication date: July 30, 2020
    Inventor: Robert Paul Morris
  • Patent number: 10722657
    Abstract: A method for assembling a drug delivery device that includes mounting a cartridge with a bung, the mechanism, the plunger and the spring within a housing such that a spring biases a plunger in a dispensing direction and that a drum and/or the release member is attached to the plunger attaching a tool with torque measurement capability to the drum or a release member of a dose mechanism in a state where at least one housing part is detached from further housing part; setting a dose by rotating the dose setting member in a first direction, activating a trigger and monitoring the torque applied to the drum or the release member; releasing the trigger upon detection of a predetermined change in the torque measured by the tool; and releasing the tool and closing the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2020
    Assignee: Sanofi
    Inventors: William Geoffrey Arthur Marsh, Anthony Paul Morris, Mike Cameron Bainton, Matthew Meredith Jones
  • Patent number: 10721164
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a non-transitory computer-readable media is provided for storing instructions, that when executed by one or more processors of a topology node, cause the topology node to: identify a first sequence of identifiers for data routing in a label switching network from a first node in the label switching network; identify a second sequence of identifiers for data routing in the label switching network from a second node in the label switching network; identify a policy for use in constraining data routing from the first node to a third node; include the first sequence of identifiers and the second sequence of identifiers in a third sequence of identifiers that reflects the policy such that data routing is constrained from the first node to the third node via a plurality of network paths that each include at least one node in the label switching network; and provide path information that identifies the third sequence of identifiers, for constraining data routing, according to the policy, to the th
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2020
    Assignee: SITTING MAN, LLC
    Inventor: Robert Paul Morris
  • Publication number: 20200222635
    Abstract: A sensor device removably attachable to a drug delivery device includes a sensing arrangement arranged within the sensor device and circuitry configured to process signals provided by the sensing arrangement. The sensing arrangement is configured such that, when the sensor device is attached to the drug delivery device, the sensing arrangement is operable to read encoded information present on a rotatable component internal to the drug delivery device and that is able to be sensed through a window or aperture of the drug delivery device, and is operable to sense through the window or aperture at least a part of a drive mechanism of the drug delivery device. The circuitry is configured to determine information relating to a set dose, and to determine information relating to whether the drug delivery device is in a dose setting mode or whether the device is in a dose delivery mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2020
    Publication date: July 16, 2020
    Inventors: Christian Rehbein, Samuel Steel, Anthony Paul Morris, Matthew Meredith Jones, Robert Veasey, Richard James Vincent Avery, William Marsh
  • Patent number: 10708168
    Abstract: In various embodiments, a system and method are provided for generating segment routing (SR) segment lists. In one embodiment, a node receives information that identifies a path from a first node to a second node. Based on the received path, a set of segment identifiers that encodes the path is generated. A packet that is forwarded along the set of segment identifiers travels the received path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2020
    Assignee: SITTING MAN, LLC
    Inventor: Robert Paul Morris
  • Patent number: 10702659
    Abstract: The present invention is generally directed to an assembly for a drug delivery device comprising a first threaded member (50, 50?), a second threaded member (40, 60?) with a longitudinal axis and a thread (61), having at least two consecutive portions (62, 63, 64) with different leads. The first threaded member (50, 50?) and the second threaded member (40, 60?) are adapted and arranged to rotate with respect to one another about the longitudinal axis of the second threaded member (40, 60?) during dose setting operation of the assembly, the first threaded member (50, 50?) thereby being axially displaced along the second threaded member (40, 60?) from a start position to an end position with respect to the second threaded member (40, 60?) due to the mechanical cooperation of the first threaded member (50, 50?) with the thread (61).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2020
    Assignee: Sanofi
    Inventors: Anthony Paul Morris, Paul Griffin
  • Patent number: 10695503
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to a drive sleeve with a hollow body having a ring of crown teeth with a first outer diameter forming a clutch interface at a first end and a thread extending on an outer surface of the body. The thread has a major diameter and a minor diameter, wherein the ring of crown teeth has at least two cavities. The at least two cavities extend on the outer surface of the body from the first end to the thread and defining a second outer diameter which is smaller than the major diameter of the thread. Further, some embodiments are directed to a drug delivery device with such a drive sleeve and a method for assembling a drug delivery device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2020
    Assignee: Sanofi
    Inventors: William Marsh, Anthony Paul Morris