Patents by Inventor Robert Alberts

Robert Alberts 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: 10620660
    Abstract: A method may include obtaining a concurrent application including processes, each including operations, and obtaining an initial hybrid timestamp for an initial operation of a process. The initial hybrid timestamp may include a vector list timestamp including vector clocks, each including a clock value for each of the processes. The method may further include determining a synchronization category for a next operation of the process, and in response to the synchronization category indicating that the next operation does not require inter-process synchronization, generating a next hybrid timestamp for the next operation. The next hybrid timestamp may include a differential timestamp relative to the initial hybrid timestamp.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2020
    Assignee: Oracle International Corporation
    Inventors: Yang Zhao, Nicholas John Allen, Cristina Nicole Cifuentes, Nathan Robert Albert Keynes
  • Publication number: 20190392449
    Abstract: An authentication platform for authenticating an online user is provided. The authentication platform includes a memory device including an authentication profile and at least one processor coupled to the memory device. The at least one processor is programmed to receive an authentication request message. The authentication request message includes authentication data. The at least one processor is also programmed to extract the authentication data from the authentication request message, generate, based at least in part on the extracted authentication data, risk-based authentication (RBA) result data including a risk score, and route the RBA result data based on the authentication profile and the RBA result data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2019
    Publication date: December 26, 2019
    Inventors: Julia Sharon Gosset, Robert Albert Ederle, Ranjita Shankar Iyer, Brian Piel, Christopher John Merz, Felix Johannes Flory
  • Publication number: 20190392450
    Abstract: An authentication platform for authenticating an online user in a transaction without use of strong consumer authentication (SCA) includes receiving an authentication request message for a transaction involving a regulated market includes authentication data and a transaction value, extracting the authentication data from the authentication request message, generating risk-based authentication (RBA) result data, determining that a risk of fraud in the transaction satisfies a risk threshold established by the regulatory entity by evaluating the risk score relative to the risk threshold, determining that the transaction value is below a transaction limit set by the regulatory entity, the transaction limit identifies a threshold transaction value below which strong consumer authentication may be avoided for transactions satisfying the risk threshold, and transmitting an authentication response message authenticating the transaction without strong consumer authentication having been performed based on satisfying
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2019
    Publication date: December 26, 2019
    Inventors: Julia Sharon Gosset, Robert Albert Ederle, Ranjita Shankar Iyer, Brian Piel, Christopher John Merz, Felix Johannes Flory, Nimit Gulati, Paul Baker
  • Publication number: 20190392448
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method for authenticating an online user with an access control server (ACS) is provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2019
    Publication date: December 26, 2019
    Inventors: Julia Sharon Gosset, Robert Albert Ederie, Ranjita Shankar Iyer, Brian Piel, Christopher John Merz, Felix Johannes Flory, Andres Gonzalez
  • Publication number: 20190392440
    Abstract: An authentication platform for authenticating an online user is provided. The authentication platform includes a memory device including an authentication profile and at least one processor coupled to the memory device. The at least one processor is programmed to receive an authentication request message for a transaction. The authentication request message includes authentication data. The at least one processor is also programmed to extract the authentication data from the authentication request message and determine if the ACS is available to process the transaction. If the ACS is unavailable, the at least one processor is further programmed to generate, based at least in part on the extracted authentication data, risk-based authentication (RBA) result data including a risk score and transmit an authentication response message based on the RBA result data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2019
    Publication date: December 26, 2019
    Inventors: Robert Albert Ederle, Julia Sharon Gosset, Ranjita Shankar Iyer, Brian Piel, Dennis A. Gamiello, Christopher John Merz, Felix Johnnes Flory
  • Publication number: 20190384695
    Abstract: A method may include generating, for a concurrent application, an execution trace that includes operations, extracting actor pairs from the execution trace, assigning each of the operations to an actor pair, and generating vector clocks for the operations. Each vector clock may include a clock value for each of the actor pairs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2018
    Publication date: December 19, 2019
    Inventors: Nicholas John Allen, Yang Zhao, Cristina Nicole Cifuentes, Nathan Robert Albert Keynes
  • Patent number: 10482537
    Abstract: A computer-implement method may bundle insurance and financial products, and visually depict a current status for an application for each product within the bundle, such as applications related auto, home, life, or renters insurance, and/or vehicle loans. In one aspect, the method may determine a standard status icon or message for each product. A data server may receive a customer identification and selection of a first product offered, and determine a context of an application for the first product, wherein the context represents a state of progress of the application for the first product, and determine a standard status of the application corresponding to the context. The status is selected from a group of statuses standardized across two or more product lines sold by the company. The data server may further generate a status message including the status of the application and transmit the status message to a client device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2019
    Assignee: STATE FARM MUTUAL AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE COMPANY
    Inventors: Arlene Serapin, Pawn Johnson-Paul, Robert Albert, Twanna Edwards, Tracy Warne, Lisa Bianco, Elizabeth Orzolek, Mark R. Yoder, David B. Christensen, Dustin Mardis, Benjamin R. Murphy
  • Patent number: 10435943
    Abstract: A roller shutter comprising a shutter moveable between a retracted position and an extended position is described. The shutter comprises one or more laths wherein the one or more laths comprise first and second surfaces mechanically connected by first and second sides and one or more internal supports. The one or more internal supports are configured to collapse preferentially with respect to the first and second sides. The presence of the one or more internal supports provides the laths with increased mechanical strength. However, by configuring the internal supports to collapse preferentially with respect to the first and second sides provides a means for absorbing and dissipating this force through the shutter. The roller shutter finds particular application as a horizontal shutter within heavy industry environments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2019
    Assignee: System 2000 Group Limited
    Inventors: John Edward Rowley, Robert Albert Rowley
  • Publication number: 20190294205
    Abstract: A method may include obtaining a concurrent application including processes, each including operations, and obtaining an initial hybrid timestamp for an initial operation of a process. The initial hybrid timestamp may include a vector list timestamp including vector clocks, each including a clock value for each of the processes. The method may further include determining a synchronization category for a next operation of the process, and in response to the synchronization category indicating that the next operation does not require inter-process synchronization, generating a next hybrid timestamp for the next operation. The next hybrid timestamp may include a differential timestamp relative to the initial hybrid timestamp.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2018
    Publication date: September 26, 2019
    Applicant: ORACLE INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yang ZHAO, Nicholas John Allen, Cristina Nicole Cifuentes, Nathan Robert Albert Keynes
  • Patent number: 10315072
    Abstract: A stretch stride system comprising a mat having a first stride pattern and a second stride pattern positioned thereon. The first stride pattern may include two or more step patterns spaced at a first interval. The second stride pattern may include two or more step pattern spaced at a second interval. The first interval and the second interval may be determined using different extended step lengths.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2019
    Inventor: Robert Albert Skulman
  • Patent number: 10236665
    Abstract: A temporary insulating switch cabinet cover is installed in the doorway of an electrical switch cabinet having high voltage energized switchgear in order to enable a worker to perform maintenance tasks on the switchgear while the switchgear is energized. The cover is designed to expose a part of the energized switchgear while covering and isolating another part of the energized switchgear so that a worker is enabled to work on the exposed part of the energized switchgear while being protected and insulated from the unexposed covered part of the energized switchgear.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2019
    Assignee: INFRATECH CORPORATION
    Inventors: Robert Albert Groner, Stephen August Karle
  • Publication number: 20180304120
    Abstract: A stretch stride system comprising a mat having a first stride pattern and a second stride pattern positioned thereon. The first stride pattern may include two or more step patterns spaced at a first interval. The second stride pattern may include two or more step pattern spaced at a second interval. The first interval and the second interval may be determined using different extended step lengths.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 17, 2018
    Publication date: October 25, 2018
    Inventor: Robert Albert Skulman
  • Publication number: 20180138668
    Abstract: A temporary insulating switch cabinet cover is installed in the doorway of an electrical switch cabinet having high voltage energized switchgear in order to enable a worker to perform maintenance tasks on the switchgear while the switchgear is energized. The cover is designed to expose a part of the energized switchgear while covering and isolating another part of the energized switchgear so that a worker is enabled to work on the exposed part of the energized switchgear while being protected and insulated from the unexposed covered part of the energized switchgear.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 7, 2017
    Publication date: May 17, 2018
    Inventors: Robert Albert Groner, Stephen August Karle
  • Patent number: 9950213
    Abstract: A stretch stride system comprising a mat having a first stride pattern and a second stride pattern positioned thereon. The first stride pattern may include two or more step patterns spaced at a first interval. The second stride pattern may include two or more step pattern spaced at a second interval. The first interval and the second interval may be determined using different extended step lengths.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2018
    Inventor: Robert Albert Skulman
  • Publication number: 20170083914
    Abstract: Methods, media, and systems directed to a platform for receiving, from at least one external user of an authentication system, a record including customer information for the external user and associated with at least an enrollment of the at least one external user to the authentication system; receiving, by a computer interfaced with an authentication database storing historical external user customer information, the record including the customer information for the external user; validating the record including customer information for the external user and the historical external user customer information; and storing an indication of the validated record.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2015
    Publication date: March 23, 2017
    Inventors: Paul Stephen Baker, Robert Albert Ederle, John Artman, Stephanie Dickinson, Craig Gilbert, Karen Jeanne Gieselman, Brian John Piel
  • Publication number: 20160071220
    Abstract: A computer-implement method may bundle insurance and financial products, and visually depict a current status for an application for each product within the bundle, such as applications related auto, home, life, or renters insurance, and/or vehicle loans. In one aspect, the method may determine a standard status icon or message for each product. A data server may receive a customer identification and selection of a first product offered, and determine a context of an application for the first product, wherein the context represents a state of progress of the application for the first product, and determine a standard status of the application corresponding to the context. The status is selected from a group of statuses standardized across two or more product lines sold by the company. The data server may further generate a status message including the status of the application and transmit the status message to a client device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 28, 2015
    Publication date: March 10, 2016
    Inventors: Arlene Serapin, Pawn Johnson-Paul, Robert Albert, Twanna Edwards, Tracy Warne, Lisa Bianco, Elizabeth Orzolek, Mark R. Yoder, David B. Christensen, Dustin Mardis, Benjamin R. Murphy
  • Publication number: 20150322711
    Abstract: A roller shutter comprising a shutter moveable between a retracted position and an extended position is described. The shutter comprises one or more laths wherein the one or more laths comprise first and second surfaces mechanically connected by first and second sides and one or more internal supports. The one or more internal supports are configured to collapse preferentially with respect to the first and second sides. The presence of the one or more internal supports provides the laths with increased mechanical strength. However, by configuring the internal supports to collapse preferentially with respect to the first and second sides provides a means for absorbing and dissipating this force through the shutter. The roller shutter finds particular application as a horizontal shutter within heavy industry environments.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2013
    Publication date: November 12, 2015
    Inventors: John Edward Rowley, Robert Albert Rowley
  • Publication number: 20150080181
    Abstract: A stretch stride system comprising a mat having a first stride pattern and a second stride pattern positioned thereon. The first stride pattern may include two or more step patterns spaced at a first interval. The second stride pattern may include two or more step pattern spaced at a second interval. The first interval and the second interval may be determined using different extended step lengths.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2014
    Publication date: March 19, 2015
    Inventor: Robert Albert Skulman
  • Patent number: D731079
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2015
    Assignee: System 2000 Group Limited
    Inventors: John Edward Rowley, Robert Albert Rowley
  • Patent number: D747174
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2016
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Steven Owens, Robert Albert Armbruster, Jr., Christopher Sheridan, Scott Patrick Leute, Dennis Richter, James Samuel Bishar