Patents by Inventor Richard N. Blair
Richard N. Blair 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).
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Publication number: 20230096006Abstract: Various methods and systems are provided for an automated clinical exam workflow. In one example, method comprises performing a signal quality check of an electronic stethoscope at a first recording location on a subject, recording physiological data for an exam at the first recording location via the electronic stethoscope in response to the signal quality check satisfying a quality threshold, and outputting a signal quality alert in response to the signal quality check not satisfying the quality threshold. In this way, clinically relevant data may be obtained with reduced user effort and fewer manual inputs.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 29, 2021Publication date: March 30, 2023Inventors: Richard N. Blair, John Prince, John Maidens, Niladri Bora, Tyler Crouch, Jordan Crivelli-Decker, Subramaniam Venkatraman, John Zorko, Neraj Bobra
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Patent number: 9904356Abstract: A system is provided that includes sensors(s) configured to provide sensed input including measurements of motion and/or orientation of a user during performance of a task to work a complex-system component. The system includes a front-end system configured to process the sensed input including the measurements to identify a known pattern that indicates a significance of the sensed input from which to identify operations of an electronic resource. The front-end system is configured to form and communicate an input to cause the electronic resource to perform the operations and produce an output. The operations include determination of an action of the user during performance of the task, or calculation of a process variable related to performance of the task, from the measurements. And the front-end system is configured to receive the output from the electronic resource, and communicate the output to a display device, audio output device or haptic sensor.Type: GrantFiled: May 28, 2013Date of Patent: February 27, 2018Assignee: THE BOEING COMPANYInventors: Brian Dale Laughlin, Richard N. Blair, William David Kelsey
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Patent number: 9645652Abstract: A system is provided that includes sensor(s) configured to provide sensed input including measurements of motion of a user during performance of a task, and in which the motion may include a gesture performed in one of a plurality of 3D zones in an environment of the user that are defined to accept respective, distinct gestures. A front-end system may receive and process the sensed input including the measurements to identify the gesture and from the gesture, identify operations of an electronic resource. The front-end system may identify the gesture based on the one of the plurality of 3D zones in which the gesture is performed. The front-end system may then form and communicate an input to cause the electronic resource to perform the operations and produce an output. And the front-end system may receive the output from the electronic resource, and communicate the output to a display device.Type: GrantFiled: November 14, 2013Date of Patent: May 9, 2017Assignee: The Boeing CompanyInventors: William D. Kelsey, Brian D. Laughlin, Richard N. Blair
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Patent number: 9395810Abstract: A system is provided for that includes sensor(s) configured to provide sensed input characteristic of a user, the user's environment or the user's interaction with their environment, and including from a 3D scanner, measurements of points on a surface of an object in the user's environment. A front-end system may receive and process the sensed input including the measurements to identify a known pattern that indicates a significance of the sensed input from which to identify operations of electronic resource(s). The front-end system may form and communicate an input to the electronic resource(s) to cause the resource(s) to perform the operations, including generation of a point cloud from the measurements, and transformation of the point cloud to a 3D model of the object. And the front-end system may receive an output including the 3D model from the resource(s), and communicate the output for display by a display device.Type: GrantFiled: May 28, 2013Date of Patent: July 19, 2016Assignee: The Boeing CompanyInventors: Brian Dale Laughlin, William David Kelsey, Richard N. Blair
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Patent number: 9344439Abstract: Disclosed herein is a method for executing unprotected mode services in a protected mode computing environment includes initiating a protected mode service that is configured to execute in a protected mode. Further, the method includes verifying an integrity of one or more unprotected mode services configured to execute in an unprotected mode. The one or more unprotected mode services is registered with the protected mode service. The method also includes initiating an unprotected mode service of the one or more unprotected mode services in response to the integrity of the unprotected mode service being verified.Type: GrantFiled: January 20, 2014Date of Patent: May 17, 2016Assignee: The Boeing CompanyInventors: Richard N. Blair, Winfeng Li, Arun Ayyagari, Lester L. Houston, III
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Patent number: 9262641Abstract: A system for authorizing data to be provided to a mobile computing device is provided. The system includes the mobile computing device and a server computer that includes a processor and a memory coupled to the processor, the memory including processor-executable instructions for performing the steps of storing, in the memory, parameters for authorizing data to be provided to the mobile computing device and determining at least one contextual cue associated with at least one of a task to be performed, the mobile computing device, and a user of the mobile computing device, wherein the at least one contextual cue is associated with the parameters. The processor-executable instructions also perform the steps of authorizing data to be provided to the mobile computing device when the at least one contextual cue aligns with the parameters and providing the data to the mobile computing device.Type: GrantFiled: August 29, 2013Date of Patent: February 16, 2016Assignee: The Boeing CompanyInventors: Brian Dale Laughlin, William David Kelsey, Richard N. Blair
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Publication number: 20150207805Abstract: Disclosed herein is a method for executing unprotected mode services in a protected mode computing environment includes initiating a protected mode service that is configured to execute in a protected mode. Further, the method includes verifying an integrity of one or more unprotected mode services configured to execute in an unprotected mode. The one or more unprotected mode services is registered with the protected mode service. The method also includes initiating an unprotected mode service of the one or more unprotected mode services in response to the integrity of the unprotected mode service being verified.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 20, 2014Publication date: July 23, 2015Applicant: The Boeing CompanyInventors: Richard N. Blair, Winfeng Li, Arun Ayyagari, Lester L. Houston, III
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Publication number: 20140354528Abstract: A system is provided for that includes sensor(s) configured to provide sensed input characteristic of a user, the user's environment or the user's interaction with their environment, and including from a 3D scanner, measurements of points on a surface of an object in the user's environment. A front-end system may receive and process the sensed input including the measurements to identify a known pattern that indicates a significance of the sensed input from which to identify operations of electronic resource(s). The front-end system may form and communicate an input to the electronic resource(s) to cause the resource(s) to perform the operations, including generation of a point cloud from the measurements, and transformation of the point cloud to a 3D model of the object. And the front-end system may receive an output including the 3D model from the resource(s), and communicate the output for display by a display device.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 28, 2013Publication date: December 4, 2014Inventors: Brian Dale Laughlin, William David Kelsey, Richard N. Blair
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Publication number: 20140359540Abstract: A system is provided that includes sensor(s) configured to provide sensed input including measurements of motion of a user during performance of a task, and in which the motion may include a gesture performed in one of a plurality of 3D zones in an environment of the user that are defined to accept respective, distinct gestures. A front-end system may receive and process the sensed input including the measurements to identify the gesture and from the gesture, identify operations of an electronic resource. The front-end system may identify the gesture based on the one of the plurality of 3D zones in which the gesture is performed. The front-end system may then form and communicate an input to cause the electronic resource to perform the operations and produce an output. And the front-end system may receive the output from the electronic resource, and communicate the output to a display device.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 14, 2013Publication date: December 4, 2014Applicant: The Boeing CompanyInventors: William D. Kelsey, Brian D. Laughlin, Richard N. Blair
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Publication number: 20140354529Abstract: A system is provided that includes sensors(s) configured to provide sensed input including measurements of motion and/or orientation of a user during performance of a task to work a complex-system component. The system includes a front-end system configured to process the sensed input including the measurements to identify a known pattern that indicates a significance of the sensed input from which to identify operations of an electronic resource. The front-end system is configured to form and communicate an input to cause the electronic resource to perform the operations and produce an output. The operations include determination of an action of the user during performance of the task, or calculation of a process variable related to performance of the task, from the measurements. And the front-end system is configured to receive the output from the electronic resource, and communicate the output to a display device, audio output device or haptic sensor.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 28, 2013Publication date: December 4, 2014Applicant: The Boeing CompanyInventors: Brian Dale Laughlin, Richard N. Blair, William David Kelsey
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Patent number: 8791816Abstract: A method and apparatus for managing events in an electrical distribution system. A number of events in the electrical distribution system are identified for an operator based on a profile for the operator. A wireless mobile device is assigned to the operator and the profile includes a role of the operator. The number of events is sent to the wireless mobile device assigned to the operator.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2011Date of Patent: July 29, 2014Assignee: The Boeing CompanyInventors: William David Kelsey, Richard N. Blair
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Publication number: 20120326864Abstract: A method and apparatus for managing events in an electrical distribution system. A number of events in the electrical distribution system are identified for an operator based on a profile for the operator. A wireless mobile device is assigned to the operator and the profile includes a role of the operator. The number of events is sent to the wireless mobile device assigned to the operator.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 27, 2011Publication date: December 27, 2012Applicant: THE BOEING COMPANYInventors: William David Kelsey, Richard N. Blair
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Patent number: 5506999Abstract: A blackboard parallel processing system for carrying out a general processing task using a plurality of parallel processors. In one application of the blackboard processing system, a workstation (102), which is part of an an automated workstation manufacturing system (AWMS), includes a blackboard control unit (BCU) (106) on which four separate functions are implemented in separate identical modules. The BCU includes a database module (34) having access to a global database, which is available to each of the plurality of parallel processors, referred to as knowledge source processors (KSPs) (40). A trigger module (46) includes trigger patterns that are compared to the data developed from messages transmitted by the KSPs to initiate specific tasks according to a predefined sequence. A scheduler module (42) responds to the trigger signals, by transmitting a signal to initiate each task, either by a specified KSP or by the KSP that is the least loaded with previously assigned processing task.Type: GrantFiled: September 22, 1994Date of Patent: April 9, 1996Assignee: The Boeing CompanyInventors: Thomas L. Skillman, Richard N. Blair, Arthur J. Boland, Yong-Long C. Ling, Richard M. Pier