Patents by Inventor Paul Fernandes

Paul Fernandes 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: 20240046112
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for generating control policies for controlling agents in an environment. One of the methods includes, at each of a plurality of iterations: obtaining a current joint control policy for a plurality of agents, the current joint control policy specifying a respective current control policy for each agent; and updating the current joint control policy, comprising, for each agent: generating a respective reward estimate for each of a plurality of alternate control policies that is an estimate of a reward received by the agent if the agent is controlled using the alternate control policy while the other agents are controlled using the respective current control policies; computing a best response for the agent from the respective reward estimates; and updating the respective current control policy for the agent using the best response for the agent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 7, 2022
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Inventors: Luke Christopher Marris, Paul Fernand Michel Muller, Marc Lanctot, Thore Kurt Hartwig Graepel
  • Patent number: 10178238
    Abstract: A method at a user equipment to facilitate activation and splitting of data billing between at least two parties, the method including starting, at the user equipment, a virtual subscriber identity module platform (‘VSP’) service on the user equipment; verifying VSP configuration information with a network server; upon verification, starting a data networking access point name (‘APN’) based on the configuration information on the user equipment; and setting a status indicator on the user equipment to indicate the VSP service is enabled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2019
    Assignees: BlackBerry Limited, 2236008 Ontario Limited
    Inventors: Peter Steven Pieda, Sivakumar Nagarajan, Mark De Abreu, Barry Fraser Yerxa, Pierre Pierre Blais, Thomas Leonard Trevor Plestid, Kevin Paul Fernandes
  • Patent number: 9794418
    Abstract: A method at a user equipment to facilitate activation and splitting of data billing between at least two parties, the method including starting, at the user equipment, a virtual subscriber identity module platform (‘VSP’) service on the user equipment; verifying VSP configuration information with a network server; upon verification, starting a data networking access point name (‘APN’) based on the configuration information on the user equipment; and setting a status indicator on the user equipment to indicate the VSP service is enabled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2017
    Assignees: BlackBerry Limited, 2236008 Ontario Inc.
    Inventors: Peter Steven Pieda, Sivakumar Nagarajan, Mark De Abreu, Barry Fraser Yerxa, Pierre Pierre Blais, Thomas Leonard Trevor Plestid, Kevin Paul Fernandes
  • Publication number: 20170228745
    Abstract: Provided herein are systems and methods for a perception and feeling tool having multiple modules configured to allow participants to express perceptions and feelings at one or more moments during, for example, a study. The perception and feeling tool can be configured to record the participants' perceptions and feelings at the one or more moments during the study as collected data, as well as display results for any one or more of the participants or an aggregate of all the participants for the perceptions and the feelings at the one or more moments. A collection module can be configured to collect raw data including the participants' perceptions and feelings. One or more analytical modules can be configured to apply analytics to the raw data. One or more servers can be configured to deliver user interfaces to the participants and allow the participants to express the study.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2017
    Publication date: August 10, 2017
    Inventors: Sarah Garcia, Laura Hammond, Anna Soederstroem, Antonio Fernandes, Paul Fernandes, Kimberly Blair Koeneman, Norene Bylski Kelly
  • Patent number: 9628633
    Abstract: A method at a user equipment to verify enablement of data billing splitting using a virtual subscriber identity module platform (‘VSP’) service, the method including receiving a credential at the user equipment, the credential including an international mobile subscriber identity (IMSI) from a physical universal integrated circuit card (UICC) subscriber identity module (SIM) application; storing the credential on the user equipment; checking, at a VSP service module on the user equipment, whether the credential matches an IMSI of a UICC currently inserted into the user equipment; if the checking determines a match, enabling the data billing splitting; and if the checking determines a mismatch, preventing enablement of the data billing splitting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventors: Thomas Leonard Trevor Plestid, Peter Steven Pieda, Kevin Paul Fernandes, Srdan Dikic
  • Patent number: 8730845
    Abstract: A communications system may include a plurality of electronic devices having respective different device types and each configured to wirelessly communicate via a plurality of different wireless communications formats. The system may also include a mobile wireless communications device including a plurality of application modules associated with respective electronic device types and configured to communicate via a first one of the wireless communications formats.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 20, 2014
    Assignee: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventors: David James Byrne, Alberto Daniel Zubiri, Tomasz Buczek, Kevin Paul Fernandes, Graham Pancio
  • Patent number: 8358596
    Abstract: A communications system may include a plurality of electronic devices having respective different device types and each configured to wirelessly communicate via a plurality of different wireless communications formats. The system may also include a mobile wireless communications device including a plurality of application modules associated with respective electronic device types and configured to communicate via a first one of the wireless communications formats.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2013
    Assignee: Research In Motion Limited
    Inventors: David James Byrne, Alberto Daniel Zubiri, Tomasz Buczek, Kevin Paul Fernandes, Graham Pancio
  • Publication number: 20120069772
    Abstract: A communications system may include a plurality of electronic devices having respective different device types and each configured to wirelessly communicate via a plurality of different wireless communications formats. The system may also include a mobile wireless communications device including a plurality of application modules associated with respective electronic device types and configured to communicate via a first one of the wireless communications formats.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2011
    Publication date: March 22, 2012
    Applicant: Research In Motion Limited
    Inventors: David James Byrne, Alberto Daniel Zubiri, Tomasz Buczek, Kevin Paul Fernandes, Graham Pancio
  • Patent number: 7941397
    Abstract: A system comprised of trigger mechanisms, a staging area, and an archived warehouse metadata table is used to extract, store, and archive extract, transform, and load (ETL) tasks from operational metadata in a data-warehousing environment. Operational metadata is comprised of ETL information; ETL task execution statuses, run number, definitions, control flow, and execution schedules. Specified ETL information is monitored and captured so that it may be extracted from operational metadata and transformed every time a trigger mechanism activates an update of stored data. Administrator-specified ETL task information is then stored in staging table. At specified intervals a staging table is refreshed with changes in operational data for each of the administrator-specified monitored and captured ETL tasks. Overwritten data, or outdated ETL task information, is then moved and stored in an archived warehouse metadata table.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2004
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2011
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Paul Fernand Wilms, Cheung-Yuk Wu
  • Publication number: 20030183767
    Abstract: A system for counting living beings moving on a first surface (0) and passing through a second cylindrical surface with substantially vertical generatrix, consists of N thermal radiating detection cells (11) having in particular a thermopile (30) including at least a sensitive element (31), and elements focusing (34) the thermal radiation and generating a field of vision (111) extended along a direction, the N detection cells (11) being distributed between two curves, one of the curves coinciding with the base line of the cylindrical surface crossed by the living beings, and the other curve being distant from the former one by a length D (42) equal to 5 cm at least, the direction of the extension of the field of vision of each cell being substantially tangent to one of the two curves.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 2, 2003
    Publication date: October 2, 2003
    Inventors: Gilbert Bruno Meunier, Paul Fernand Jean-Pierre Deparis