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).

  • Publication number: 20150082181
    Abstract: Approaches enable three-dimensional (3D) display and interaction with interfaces (such as a webpage, an application, etc.) when the device is operating in a 3D view mode. For example, interface elements can be highlighted, emphasized, animated, or otherwise altered in appearance, and/or arrangement in the renderings of those interfaces based at least in part on an orientation of the device or a position of a user using the device. Further, the 3D view mode can provide for an animated 3D departure and appearance of elements as the device navigates from a current page to a new page. Further still, approaches provide for the ability to specify 3D attributes (such as the appearance, action, etc.) of the interface elements. In this way, a developer of such interfaces can use information (e.g., tags, CSS, JavaScript, etc.) to specify a 3D appearance change to be applied to at least one interface element when the 3D view mode is activated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2013
    Publication date: March 19, 2015
    Applicant: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Charley Ames, Dennis Pilarinos, Peter Frank Hill, Sasha Mikhael Perez, Timothy Thomas Gray
  • Publication number: 20150082180
    Abstract: Approaches enable three-dimensional (3D) display and interaction with interfaces (such as a webpage, an application, etc.) when the device is operating in a 3D view mode. For example, interface elements can be highlighted, emphasized, animated, or otherwise altered in appearance, and/or arrangement in the renderings of those interfaces based at least in part on an orientation of the device or a position of a user using the device. Further, the 3D view mode can provide for an animated 3D departure and appearance of elements as the device navigates from a current page to a new page. Further still, approaches provide for the ability to specify 3D attributes (such as the appearance, action, etc.) of the interface elements. In this way, a developer of such interfaces can use information (e.g., tags, CSS, JavaScript, etc.) to specify a 3D appearance change to be applied to at least one interface element when the 3D view mode is activated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2013
    Publication date: March 19, 2015
    Applicant: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: CHARLEY AMES, DENNIS PILARINOS, PETER FRANK HILL, SASHA MIKHAEL PEREZ, TIMOTHY THOMAS GRAY
  • Publication number: 20150082145
    Abstract: Approaches enable three-dimensional (3D) display and interaction with interfaces (such as a webpage, an application, etc.) when the device is operating in a 3D view mode. For example, interface elements can be highlighted, emphasized, animated, or otherwise altered in appearance, and/or arrangement in the renderings of those interfaces based at least in part on an orientation of the device or a position of a user using the device. Further, the 3D view mode can provide for an animated 3D departure and appearance of elements as the device navigates from a current page to a new page. Further still, approaches provide for the ability to specify 3D attributes (such as the appearance, action, etc.) of the interface elements. In this way, a developer of such interfaces can use information (e.g., tags, CSS, JavaScript, etc.) to specify a 3D appearance change to be applied to at least one interface element when the 3D view mode is activated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2013
    Publication date: March 19, 2015
    Applicant: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: CHARLEY AMES, DENNIS PILARINOS, PETER FRANK HILL, SASHA MIKHAEL PEREZ, TIMOTHY THOMAS GRAY
  • Patent number: 8979217
    Abstract: An electropneumatic pressure regulating module, formed as a structural unit, is described for an electropneumatic brake system of a vehicle, including: at least two separately regulable pressure regulating channels, wherein a regulated working pressure, acting at at least one working pressure port, for at least one brake application device of the brake system is generated for each pressure regulating channel on the basis of working air originating from at least one compressed air store and as a function of braking demand signals of a brake transducer, in which to form pressure regulating channels having separate pneumatic circuits, each pressure regulating channel is assigned at least one dedicated storage pressure port which can be connected to a dedicated compressed air store, and in which the pneumatic flow paths of each pressure regulating channel are formed so as to be pneumatically separate, at least proceeding from the respective storage pressure port as far as the respective working pressure port, fro
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2015
    Assignee: Knorr-Bremse Systeme fuer Nutzfahrzeuge GmbH
    Inventors: Juergen Steinberger, Péter Frank, Michael Herges, Martin Mederer
  • Publication number: 20140372947
    Abstract: A system is disclosed that improves the ability for users to select links and/or other display elements via a touch screen, such as the touch screen of a smartphone, tablet, or other mobile device. The system achieves this effect by adjusting the sizes and/or shapes of the touch targets associated with particular display elements. For example, if a particular link on a web page is determined to be difficult to select via a touch screen (based on monitored user behaviors and/or based on an automated analysis of page content), the touch target associated with the link may be increased in size.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2014
    Publication date: December 18, 2014
    Inventor: Peter Frank Hill
  • Patent number: 8895040
    Abstract: The present invention relates to cosmetic and/or personal care formulations and/or compounds. In one embodiment, the present invention relates to ester compounds that can be used in various personal care formulations and/or compounds. In another embodiment, the present invention relates to branced ester compounds having a molecular weight of at least about 1,500 daltons that can be used in various personal care formulations and/or compounds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 25, 2014
    Assignee: Lubrizol Advanced Materials, Inc.
    Inventors: Brian J. Vondruska, Peter Frank, Anchuu Wu
  • Publication number: 20140342581
    Abstract: A vertical mount PCB coax connector having a unique cavity design. The examples provide a vertical mounted connector with improved electrical performance to transmit a microwave signal to or from a coaxial port to planar printed circuitry. The vertical mount PCB connector includes a threaded housing with a four post flange for attachment to the PCB, a center conductor and a dielectric bead to support the center conductor. The bottom of the flange has a uniquely contoured cavity to provide air space for the electromagnetic field above the planar transmission line. Four posts at the corners of the flange serve as the ground connection from the connector to the substrate ground planes. The open or large cavity under the flange is designed to provide high values of inductive reactance at the high end of the microwave band and typically requires changing the planar geometry to achieve even a narrow band impedance match.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2014
    Publication date: November 20, 2014
    Applicant: Southwest Microwave, Inc.
    Inventors: Clarence L. Clyatt, Robert Griffin, Peter Frank
  • Publication number: 20140313080
    Abstract: Multi-beam smart antenna for WLAN and cellular applications preferably has a steerable antenna system with a dipole antenna element located at the center of a ground plane. A first conductor is oriented parallel and collinear with a second conductor, and the ground plane is located therebetween. Each of first parasitic elements is positioned substantially parallel to the dipole element, and arranged on the upper-side of the ground plane in an array. Each of second parasitic elements is positioned parallel to the dipole element, and arranged on the underside of the ground plane in the same predetermined array. A plurality of switching elements connect parasitic elements and the ground plane to form reflective elements. Each parasitic element and corresponding parasitic element are oriented parallel and collinear with each other. A switching controller controls the switching elements to alter the antenna system's beam pattern by selectively activating or deactivating the reflective elements.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2013
    Publication date: October 23, 2014
    Inventors: Roland A. Smith, Peter Frank, Stephen Rayment, Lot Shafai, Michael Skof, Jim Wight
  • Publication number: 20140313093
    Abstract: An Alford antenna array having at least three driven elements disposed on a substrate, a first portion of each driven element being disposed on one side of the substrate, and a second portion of said each driven element being disposed on a second side of the substrate. At least one of the driven elements has a bent-dipole Alford loop coupled to two feed points and has an acute-angle dipole feed point and acute-angle loaded ends. In other embodiments, the driven elements may comprise any combination of bent-dipoles and/or folded-and-bent dipoles. In further embodiments, six dipoles are concentrically disposed about a central point, where three of the dipoles may operate at a different frequency than the other three dipoles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2013
    Publication date: October 23, 2014
    Inventors: Roland A. Smith, Peter Frank, Jim Wight
  • Patent number: 8850329
    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: October 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2014
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Peter Frank Hill, Brett Richard Taylor
  • Publication number: 20140195490
    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: December 31, 2013
    Publication date: July 10, 2014
    Inventors: Bruce Leverett, Michael Kazar, Alan Stuart Driscoll, Peter Frank Corbett, Devang K. Shah, Srishylam Simharajan, Toby Smith
  • Patent number: 8770899
    Abstract: The invention concerns a boring tool comprising a main tool body and a tool holder which is adjustable relative thereto, as well as a counterweight coupled to the tool holder in such a way that upon a movement of the tool holder in one direction a movement of the counterweight occurs substantially in the opposite direction, wherein both the tool holder and also the counterweight are respectively arranged at least in part in a bore in the main tool body. To provide a boring tool of the above-mentioned kind which is suitable in particular for high rotary speeds, which is advantageous in terms of manufacture and which in addition provides a reliable precise balancing function, it is proposed in accordance with the invention that the main tool body has a clamping device, by means of which the main tool body can be elastically deformed so that both the tool holder and also the counterweight are respectively clamped in the bore.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2014
    Assignee: Sandvik Intellectual Property AB
    Inventors: Peter Frank, Jens Neumann
  • Publication number: 20140136971
    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: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2013
    Publication date: May 15, 2014
    Applicant: 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
  • Publication number: 20140136951
    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: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2013
    Publication date: May 15, 2014
    Applicant: 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
  • Publication number: 20140136973
    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: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2013
    Publication date: May 15, 2014
    Applicant: 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
  • Publication number: 20140118191
    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: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2012
    Publication date: May 1, 2014
    Applicant: Ericsson Canada
    Inventors: Roland Smith, Peter Frank, Jim Wight
  • Patent number: 8686909
    Abstract: A fringe-effect vault antenna includes a communications vault having a non-conductive cover disposed substantially at ground level. An antenna element is positioned in the communications vault. A metallic reflector has an edge, positioned substantially parallel to the ground, where the metallic reflector and the edge are configured to cause an edge diffraction, or “fringe-effect” upon the RF fields of the antenna to cause those RF fields to diffract in a direction toward the ground.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2014
    Assignee: BelAir Networks Inc.
    Inventors: Peter Frank, Roland A. Smith, Dave Pell, Stephen Rayment
  • Patent number: 8655848
    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: February 26, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2014
    Assignee: NetApp, Inc.
    Inventors: Bruce Leverett, Michael Kazar, Srishylam Simharajan, Peter Frank Corbett, Toby Smith, Alan Stuart Driscoll, Devang K. Shah
  • Publication number: 20130303516
    Abstract: The present invention relates to novel triazine compounds of formula (1), methods of their preparation, pharmaceutical compositions containing these compounds and the use of these compounds to treat proliferative disorders such as tumors and cancers and also other conditions and disorders related to or associated with dysregulation of PI3 Kinases, PI3 Kinase pathway, mTOR and/or the mTOR pathway.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2012
    Publication date: November 14, 2013
    Inventors: Sundeep Dugar, Dinesh Mahajan, Chandraban Rhushikesh Deokar, Peter Frank Hollinger, Kamal Kishore Kapoor
  • Patent number: 8560162
    Abstract: A monitoring device for monitoring systems of a vehicle, at least some systems of which having self-monitoring routines for self-monitoring and/or some systems of which having external monitoring routines for performing external monitoring of other systems which are not provided for the functions of their own systems or for self-monitoring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2013
    Assignee: Knorr-Bremse Systeme fuer Nutzfahrzeuge GmbH
    Inventors: Michael Herges, Friedbert Roether, Juergen Steinberger, Péter Frank