Patents by Inventor Peter Frank

Peter 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: 10031891
    Abstract: A system and process are disclosed for providing users with page previews during page loading events, such that the delay experienced before the display of page content is reduced. The previews may include screenshots of the pages or of portions thereof, and may be generated periodically and cached by the system for delivery to user devices. The process of generating and delivering the previews via the Internet or some other network may be implemented partly or wholly within an intermediary system that sits logically between the user devices and content servers. The process may be used with existing browsers without the need for any browser modifications, or may be used with a “preview-aware” browser that includes special program code for providing page previews.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies Inc.
    Inventors: Rohit Krishna Kumar, Scott Zachary Bressler, Ivan King Yu Sham, Ian William Stewart, Brett Richard Taylor, Peter Frank Hill, Aakarsh Nair, Steven Michael Reddie, Patrick Joseph Armstrong, Samuel John Young, Ameet Nirmal Vaswani, Andrew Hayden
  • Patent number: 10014977
    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: September 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2018
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property II, L.P.
    Inventors: Peter Frank Driessen, Mathias R. Kretschmer, Schuyler Reynier Quackenbush, James H. Snyder
  • Patent number: 9987591
    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 catalyze a reaction between carbon monoxide and sulphur dioxide to produce carbon dioxide and sulphur.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2018
    Assignee: Le Gaz Integral SAS
    Inventor: Peter Frank Cross
  • Patent number: 9963204
    Abstract: A hull configuration has a bow and a stern, and is for use in a single or multiple hull vessel. The hull configuration comprises: a pair of cutting edges, each cutting edge sloping rearwardly, downwardly and in an outwardly lateral direction, from the bow; a pair of keels, each keel extending longitudinally rearwardly and laterally inwardly from an end of a respective one of the cutting edges and converging at the stern; a pair of sidewalls, each sidewall extending generally upwardly from a respective one of the cutting edges and from a respective one of the keels, the sidewalls extending rearwardly to the stern; and a bottom channel defined between the cutting edges and between the keels. The channel comprises a forward portion having a concave upper surface and rearward portion having a planar upper surface. The channel decreases in width from ends of the cutting edges towards the stern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2018
    Inventor: Peter Franke
  • Patent number: 9855610
    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: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2018
    Assignee: Sandvik Intellectual Property AB
    Inventor: Peter Frank
  • Publication number: 20170363544
    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: September 6, 2017
    Publication date: December 21, 2017
    Inventors: Mohammed A. AL-MONIEE, Naim AKMAL, Peter Frank SANDERS
  • Patent number: 9772287
    Abstract: An analytical system and method for 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: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2017
    Assignee: Saudi Arabian Oil Company
    Inventors: Mohammed A. Al-Moniee, Naim Akmal, Peter Frank Sanders, Fahad N. Al-Abeedi
  • Patent number: 9760550
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure are directed to, among other things, managing browsing histories based at least in part on metadata and/or tags associated with a web request. In some examples, a web service may collect metadata associated with the web request. Based at least in part on the collected metadata, content tags associated with the web request may be identified. Additionally, in some examples, one or more browsing metrics may be generated. The browsing metric may be configured to identify at least a web request characteristic to be compared with a second web request characteristic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2017
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Peter Frank Hill, Brett Richard Taylor
  • Publication number: 20170249329
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for replicating a data container of a source storage server at the logical level in an unordered stream of individual data units are described. In certain embodiments, the replication operations can be performed without regard to the differences in geometry of physical persistent storage of the source and destination storage servers and without regard to the differences in data container format of the source and destination storage servers. An initial replication operation of the source data container is performed by transferring the data objects within the source data container to a replica data container in the destination storage server as an unordered stream of individual data units while preserving data object identifiers of the source data objects. Afterwards, incremental replication operations can be performed to capture modifications to the source data container over time after the initial replication operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 1, 2017
    Publication date: August 31, 2017
    Inventors: Bruce Leverett, Michael Kazar, Alan Stuart Driscoll, Peter Frank Corbett, Devang K. Shah, Srishylam Simharajan, Toby Smith
  • Publication number: 20170226868
    Abstract: An apparatus and method of cooling a tip of an airfoil for a gas turbine engine, includes a rib circumscribing the tip to define a tip plenum. A tip baffle partially divides the tip plenum, being spaced from the rib by a baffle slot. The rib includes a tip slot in fluid communication with the baffle slot to provide a flow of cooling fluid along the tip of the airfoil for exhausting out the tip slot.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 9, 2016
    Publication date: August 10, 2017
    Inventors: Peter Frank Martinello, Stephen Mark Molter, Brian David Keith
  • Patent number: 9727327
    Abstract: A server determines that a software update is available for a computing device and creates a software bundle that includes the software update. In the software bundle, the server includes instructions to install the software bundle in a user partition of a memory of the computing device that is used to store content and applications and to modify a path variable in an operating system of the computing device to include a location in which the software bundle is installed. The server enables the computing device to download the software bundle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2017
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Peter Frank Hill, Donald Ryan Willhoit
  • Publication number: 20170222326
    Abstract: A slot antenna comprising a conductor, a principal slot, a feed point and one or more side slots is provided. The conductor has an axis defining a first conductor side and a second conductor side. The principal slot extends longitudinally within the conductor along the axis. The feed point comprises a first coupling point and a second coupling point respectively located on the first and second conductor sides. The one or more side slots extend from the principal slot. The slot antenna has a reduced physical length compared to the length of a typical slot antenna at the same frequency of operation. Electronic device comprising a ground plane and one or more slot antenna is provided. The one or more slot antennas are mounted on the ground plane.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 3, 2014
    Publication date: August 3, 2017
    Applicant: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Jim WIGHT, Peter FRANK, Mike SKOF, Roland SMITH
  • Patent number: 9715549
    Abstract: Aspects of adaptive topic marker navigation are described. According to one feature, an adaptive topic is established and associated with a marker. The adaptive topic may be initially established based on a user's history of browsing activity. Over time, a change in status associated with the adaptive topic is monitored. The change in status may be associated with a change in purchase history of the user, a change in geographic location of the user, or a change in content associated with the active topic, for example. In response to the change in status, a query associated with the adaptive topic may be updated and performed, to provide an updated collection of content for the adaptive topic. In another feature, a navigation page including static and active topic markers may be reorganized over time according to a relevancy of adaptive topics, to provide an adaptive navigation page for the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2017
    Assignee: AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventor: Peter Frank Hill
  • Patent number: 9687780
    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: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2017
    Assignee: Le Gaz Integral SAS
    Inventor: Peter Frank Cross
  • Publication number: 20170163675
    Abstract: Distributed split browser content inspection and analysis are described. A server, comprising a browser engine, stores a definition of sets of browser policies. A definition of one or more sets of users is stored. The server stores an association with a respective set of browser policies for the one or more sets of users. A request is received from a client browser associated with a user, wherein the client browser is configured to communicate with the server browser engine. The server determines which set of users the user is associated with. The server identifies a first set of browser policies that is associated with the determined set of users and applies the identified first set of browser policies to the request. A determination is made, for one or more browser processes, which browser processes are to be executed by the server browser engine and which browser processes are to be executed by the client browser.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2017
    Publication date: June 8, 2017
    Inventors: Leon Robert Warman, Kurt Kufeld, Peter Sven Vosshall, Jesper Mikael Johansson, Kyle Bradley Peterson, Peter Frank Hill
  • Patent number: 9659026
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for replicating a data container of a source storage server at the logical level in an unordered stream of individual data units are described. In certain embodiments, the replication operations can be performed without regard to the differences in geometry of physical persistent storage of the source and destination storage servers and without regard to the differences in data container format of the source and destination storage servers. An initial replication operation of the source data container is performed by transferring the data objects within the source data container to a replica data container in the destination storage server as an unordered stream of individual data units while preserving data object identifiers of the source data objects. Afterwards, incremental replication operations can be performed to capture modifications to the source data container over time after the initial replication operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2017
    Assignee: NetApp, Inc.
    Inventors: Bruce Leverett, Michael Kazar, Alan Stuart Driscoll, Peter Frank Corbett, Devang K. Shah, Srishylam Simharajan, Toby Smith
  • Publication number: 20170136878
    Abstract: A method for operating a motor vehicle involves displaying a first assistance graphic of a first active driver assistance system in a first display mode on at least one display device of the motor vehicle when the motor vehicle is operated in a first driving mode, and displaying the first assistance graphic of the first active driver assistance system in a second display mode on the at least one display device when the motor vehicle is operated in a second driving mode that is different from the first driving mode. The first assistance graphic is displayed in a first perspective in the first display mode and is displayed in a second perspective, which is different from the first perspective, in the second display mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2015
    Publication date: May 18, 2017
    Inventors: Peter FRANK, Marie FRIEDRICH, Friedemann KUHN, Hans-Josef KÜTING
  • Publication number: 20170139882
    Abstract: Aspects of expanded icon navigation are described. In one example, the hierarchical structure of a network site accessible over a computer network is indexed to generate an indexed zone hierarchy of the network site. Access across the indexed zone hierarchy of the network site is monitored to assemble a collection of accessed resources on the network site. A resource at the network site is registered as a marked resource, and a marked resource anchor associated with the marked resource is generated. A number of branches of the marked resource anchor are them populated for the network site based on the indexed zone hierarchy of the network site, the marked resource, and the collection of accessed resources.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2017
    Publication date: May 18, 2017
    Inventor: Peter Frank HILL
  • Patent number: 9635041
    Abstract: Distributed split browser content inspection and analysis are described. A server, comprising a browser engine, stores a definition of sets of browser policies. A definition of one or more sets of users is stored. The server stores an association with a respective set of browser policies for the one or more sets of users. A request is received from a client browser associated with a user, wherein the client browser is configured to communicate with the server browser engine. The server determines which set of users the user is associated with. The server identifies a first set of browser policies that is associated with the determined set of users and applies the identified first set of browser policies to the request. A determination is made, for one or more browser processes, which browser processes are to be executed by the server browser engine and which browser processes are to be executed by the client browser.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2017
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Leon Robert Warman, Kurt Kufeld, Peter Sven Vosshall, Jesper Mikael Johansson, Kyle Bradley Peterson, Peter Frank Hill
  • 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