Patents by Inventor Peter Kent

Peter Kent 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: 11915326
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a concept for determining the relevance of a tag within a post. Responsive to receiving a post composed by a first user and containing a tag referring to a second user, a post context based on a topic of the post, a user context based on a record of the first user and a tag context based on a record of the second user are obtained. The post context and the user context are compared to the tag context, and it is determined whether the tag is relevant to the post and the first user based on comparing the post context and the user context to the tag context.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Christopher John Poole, Joseph Peter Kent, Thomas James Waterton
  • Patent number: 11829559
    Abstract: A computer system may modify the user interactions by receiving, by a computer system, a sequence of image frames in a time period, from a camera application on a mobile device, wherein the time period starts before and ends after a shutter is activated on the camera application; monitoring, by a computer system, movement of the mobile device within the time period; calculating a movement score for a user of the mobile device, by analyzing the sequence of image frames and the movement of the mobile device; and using the movement score to modify the user's interaction with the mobile device interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Christopher John Poole, Mark Andrew Woolley, Joseph Peter Kent, Thomas James Waterton
  • Publication number: 20230289177
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method, computer program product, and system for managing an application. The computer-implemented method comprises defining, by a first application, a specification of a second application and sending, by the first application, a request to a subsystem, wherein the request comprises a file, the file comprising the specification, and request data to be processed. The computer-implemented method further comprises configuring, by the subsystem, an instance of the second application, wherein the configuring comprises provisioning the instance according to the specification and sending the received request data to the instance. The computer-implemented method further comprises processing, by the instance, the request data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2022
    Publication date: September 14, 2023
    Inventors: Christopher John Poole, Mark Andrew Woolley, Thomas James Waterton, Joseph Peter Kent
  • Publication number: 20230131470
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a concept for determining the relevance of a tag within a post. Responsive to receiving a post composed by a first user and containing a tag referring to a second user, a post context based on a topic of the post, a user context based on a record of the first user and a tag context based on a record of the second user are obtained. The post context and the user context are compared to the tag context, and it is determined whether the tag is relevant to the post and the first user based on comparing the post context and the user context to the tag context.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 22, 2021
    Publication date: April 27, 2023
    Inventors: Christopher John Poole, Joseph Peter Kent, Thomas James Waterton
  • Publication number: 20230061708
    Abstract: A computer system may modify the user interactions by receiving, by a computer system, a sequence of image frames in a time period, from a camera application on a mobile device, wherein the time period starts before and ends after a shutter is activated on the camera application; monitoring, by a computer system, movement of the mobile device within the time period; calculating a movement score for a user of the mobile device, by analyzing the sequence of image frames and the movement of the mobile device; and using the movement score to modify the user's interaction with the mobile device interface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2021
    Publication date: March 2, 2023
    Inventors: Christopher John Poole, Mark Andrew Woolley, Joseph Peter Kent, Thomas James Waterton
  • Publication number: 20220138026
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides for sharing data structure values between applications via messaging in a computer operating system. A plurality of data structures are defined, each with a given topic name, and a data structure including a collection of defined formats of multiple data elements. Interest by applications in topics is registered. Within an application a collection of multiple data elements having the formats of a defined data structure are identified, and an item is stored in association with the given topic name of the defined data structure, where the item is a collection of data values of the identified data elements. The item is made available to an application registered to the topic for input of the values in a corresponding data structure in the application.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 4, 2020
    Publication date: May 5, 2022
    Inventors: Christopher John Poole, Thomas James Waterton, Joseph Peter Kent
  • Publication number: 20210349160
    Abstract: A detachable test instrument remote controller 10 comprising a top part 2 comprising a housing including a switch or a plug 30 having switch means for connecting to a testing cable 42, a bottom part 1 configured to be fitted on a patch cable 20 and adapted to secure the top part 2 to the patch cable 20, and a testing cable 42 connected to the top part 2 and adapted to be communicatively coupled with a tester product 46, wherein once the bottom part 1 is fitted to the patch cable 20, the top part 2 is slid onto it and held in place such that the housing, when in use, covers at least part of the plug 30 not in the socket/or abuts the plug 30. The present invention also relates to a cable for a circuit tester comprising the detachable test instrument remote controller 10.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 11, 2021
    Publication date: November 11, 2021
    Inventors: Ian Mercer, Peter Kent
  • Patent number: 10591528
    Abstract: A system for use in locating and testing a cable having a first end connected to a first connector and a second end connected to a second connector where the second connector is one of a plurality of connectors within a patch panel. The system includes a first device having a first cable certification and test circuitry which is couplable to the first connector and a second device having a second cable certification and test circuitry which is couplable to the second connector. One of the first device and the second device further includes circuitry for generating a tone signal that is to be applied to the cable and the other one of the first device and the second device further includes a probe for receiving the tone signal and for generating an output indicative of a strength of the received tone signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: Ideal Industries Network Limited
    Inventors: Ian Mercer, Peter Kent
  • Patent number: 10476778
    Abstract: A system for use in testing a local area network (LAN) cabling system having a LAN cable communicatively coupled to a pair of sockets. The system includes a first LAN testing device that is adapted to exchange test communication signals with a second LAN testing device through the LAN cabling system and a cable communicatively coupled to the first LAN testing device having a plug sized and arranged to communicatively couple with a one of the pair of sockets. The plug includes a switch device and an indicator device that are communicatively coupled to the first LAN testing device via the cable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2019
    Assignee: Ideal Industries Networks Limited
    Inventors: Peter Kent, Ian Mercer
  • Publication number: 20190049505
    Abstract: A system for use in locating and testing a cable having a first end connected to a first connector and a second end connected to a second connector where the second connector is one of a plurality of connectors within a patch panel. The system includes a first device having a first cable certification and test circuitry which is couplable to the first connector and a second device having a second cable certification and test circuitry which is couplable to the second connector. One of the first device and the second device further includes circuitry for generating a tone signal that is to be applied to the cable and the other one of the first device and the second device further includes a probe for receiving the tone signal and for generating an output indicative of a strength of the received tone signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2018
    Publication date: February 14, 2019
    Inventors: Ian Mercer, Peter Kent
  • Publication number: 20180123937
    Abstract: A system for use in testing a local area network (LAN) cabling system having a LAN cable communicatively coupled to a pair of sockets. The system includes a first LAN testing device that is adapted to exchange test communication signals with a second LAN testing device through the LAN cabling system and a cable communicatively coupled to the first LAN testing device having a plug sized and arranged to communicatively couple with a one of the pair of sockets. The plug includes a switch device and an indicator device that are communicatively coupled to the first LAN testing device via the cable.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2016
    Publication date: May 3, 2018
    Inventors: Peter Kent, Ian Mercer
  • Publication number: 20160174773
    Abstract: Shower pan and drain systems are disclosed which accommodate all users. The system includes a removable trench cover which serves to both provide an easy ramp into the shower area, but also covers an internal channel system designed to direct water to a primary drain portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 7, 2015
    Publication date: June 23, 2016
    Inventors: Peter Kent Summers, Michael Steven Marcinek
  • Patent number: 9156436
    Abstract: A vehicle immobilizing device includes a lock, user interface, memory configured to store an unlock code, and processor. The lock has a latch mechanism and the processor controls movement of the latch mechanism from a locked position to an unlocked position so that the immobilizing device can be removed from a vehicle. A person installing the immobilizing device on a vehicle utilizes the user interface to enter and store an unlock code and an identification code in the device memory at the time of installation. Upon payment of an outstanding fine, a vehicle owner is provided with an unlock code. To remove the device from the vehicle, an unlock code is entered via the user interface and the processor causes the latch mechanism to move to the unlocked position upon determining that the unlock code input via the user interface matches an unlock code stored in the memory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 29, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2015
    Assignee: PRA Group, Inc.
    Inventors: Gregory S. Hopper, Peter Kent McCammon, Neal Harris Stern, Elizabeth Wells Shumadine
  • Publication number: 20150239429
    Abstract: A vehicle immobilizing device includes a lock, a user interface, memory configured to store an unlock code, and a processor. The lock has a latch mechanism and the processor controls movement of the latch mechanism from a locked position to an unlocked position so that the immobilizing device can be removed from a vehicle. A person installing the immobilizing device on a vehicle utilizes the user interface to enter and store an unlock code and an identification code in the device memory at the time of installation. Upon payment of an outstanding fine, a vehicle owner is provided with an unlock code. To remove the device from the vehicle the owner utilizes the user interface to enter unlock code and the processor causes the latch mechanism to move to the unlocked position upon determining that the unlock code input via the user interface matches an unlock code stored in the memory.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 14, 2015
    Publication date: August 27, 2015
    Inventors: Gregory S. Hopper, Peter Kent McCammon, Neal Harris Stern, Elizabeth Wells Shumadine
  • Patent number: 8905992
    Abstract: A portable microbubble and drug mixing device is provided. The portable microbubble and drug mixing device comprises a flexible outer container comprising an interior chamber for accommodating a drug, and a rigid inner container within the flexible outer container and comprising an interior chamber for accommodating microbubbles. The outer container has a tensile strength at break less than or equal to approximately 15 MPa, and the inner container has a tensile strength at break greater than or equal to approximately 20 MPa and is capable of storing microbubbles at a concentration higher than or equal to approximately 5×106 microbubbles/ml. The inner container is configured to separate the microbubbles in the interior chamber of the inner container from the drug in the interior chamber of the outer container until a point of mixing when the microbubbles are released into the interior chamber of the outer container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 9, 2014
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Kevin Peter Kent, Hae Won Lim, Jason William Castle
  • Publication number: 20140248520
    Abstract: A jacket for a multi-cell battery pack, the jacket having: outer walls defining a chamber for coolant fluid; a mid-wall partitioning the jacket into two regions; cell holders for holding the cells in place in the jacket so that each cell extends through the mid-wall; an inlet for coolant fluid on a first side of the mid-wall; and an outlet for coolant fluid on a second side of the mid-wall; the jacket defining a fluid path for the coolant fluid between the inlet and the outlet, the fluid path passing each cell of a set of the cells on both the first and second sides of the mid-wall.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2013
    Publication date: September 4, 2014
    Applicant: McLaren Automotive Limited
    Inventors: Richard Ward, Peter Kent
  • Publication number: 20140032402
    Abstract: Financial obligation satisfaction methods, systems and computer program products aggregate data from a plurality of third parties regarding financial obligations of a plurality of persons, monitor the data to determine if a person has exceeded a threshold number of financial obligations and/or a threshold financial obligation amount, and initiate a financial obligations satisfaction process in response to determining that the person has exceeded a threshold number of financial obligations and/or a threshold financial obligation amount. Initiating a financial obligation satisfaction process may include distraining property of the person and may include providing information about how to satisfy the one or more financial obligations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2012
    Publication date: January 30, 2014
    Inventors: Neal Harris Stern, Peter Kent McCammon, Elizabeth Wells Shumadine, Francesco Domenico Mancia, Glen Alyn Everroad
  • Publication number: 20130226795
    Abstract: A vehicle immobilizing device includes a lock, a user interface, memory configured to store an unlock code, and a processor. The lock has a latch mechanism and the processor controls movement of the latch mechanism from a locked position to an unlocked position so that the immobilizing device can be removed from a vehicle. A person installing the immobilizing device on a vehicle utilizes the user interface to enter and store an unlock code and an identification code in the device memory at the time of installation. Upon payment of an outstanding fine, a vehicle owner is provided with an unlock code. To remove the device from the vehicle the owner utilizes the user interface to enter unlock code and the processor causes the latch mechanism to move to the unlocked position upon determining that the unlock code input via the user interface matches an unlock code stored in the memory.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 29, 2012
    Publication date: August 29, 2013
    Inventors: Gregory S. Hopper, Peter Kent McCammon, Neal Harris Stern, Elizabeth Wells Shumadine
  • Publication number: 20130112575
    Abstract: A portable microbubble and drug mixing device is provided. The portable microbubble and drug mixing device comprises a flexible outer container comprising an interior chamber for accommodating a drug, and a rigid inner container within the flexible outer container and comprising an interior chamber for accommodating microbubbles. The outer container has a tensile strength at break less than or equal to approximately 15 MPa, and the inner container has a tensile strength at break greater than or equal to approximately 20 MPa and is capable of storing microbubbles at a concentration higher than or equal to approximately 5×106 microbubbles/ml. The inner container is configured to separate the microbubbles in the interior chamber of the inner container from the drug in the interior chamber of the outer container until a point of mixing when the microbubbles are released into the interior chamber of the outer container.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2011
    Publication date: May 9, 2013
    Applicant: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
    Inventors: Kevin Peter Kent, Hae Won Lim, Jason William Castle
  • Patent number: D564058
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2008
    Inventor: Peter Kent Warren Stebbings