Patents by Inventor Robert Beckwith

Robert Beckwith 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: 9129023
    Abstract: In an exemplary method, contacts data for a network address book is maintained, data representative of at least a portion of a local address book maintained on an access device is received over a network, and the received local address book data is used to perform at least one connected address book operation. In one example in which the contacts data includes data representative of a network address book listing associated with a user, data representative of a persona associated with the user is maintained, a request to access the network address book listing is received, and at least a subset of the data representative of the network address book listing is identified and provided in response to the request and based at least in part on the persona.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2015
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Shadman Zafar, Brian Roberts, Donald Relyea, Heath Stallings, Ruchir Rodrigues, Raul Aldrey, Michelle Felt, Jack Hao, Robert Beckwith
  • Publication number: 20140296746
    Abstract: A urine flow measuring apparatus that includes a container for receiving urine, measuring means for measuring the weight and/or volume of urine received by the container, and memory means for recording the weight and/or volume measured by the measuring means. Through a controller the measuring means: continually measures the weight and/or volume of the container at regular sampling intervals; and at each sampling interval, identifies if a positive change in the weight and/or volume of the container has occurred and then compares results within a data set, the data set including a result from the current sampling interval and results from all the sampling intervals during a given period. If a number of sampling intervals indicating a positive change in the weight and/or volume is above a certain threshold, the memory means is instructed to begin recording data, else the memory means is instructed to cease recording data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2012
    Publication date: October 2, 2014
    Applicant: Newcastle-upon-Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
    Inventors: Michael Whitaker, Michael Drinnan, Alison Bray, Clive Griffiths, Robert Beckwith
  • Patent number: 8825765
    Abstract: A first game server is configured to provide a game to a first category of user device. A second game server is configured to provide the game to a second category of user device. A game manager is configured to receive a request from a user device for the game application and to assign the request to one of the first game server and the second game server according to whether the user device is included in the first category of user device or the second category of user device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2014
    Assignees: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc., Verizon Services Organization Inc., Verizon Services Corp.
    Inventors: Christina Fyock, Mansey K. Amin, Brent Simon, Harpal S. Bassali, Marcelo D. Lechner, Robert Beckwith, Rick Utley, Stella Alvo, Kristopher T. Frazier
  • Publication number: 20100083125
    Abstract: In an exemplary method, contacts data for a network address book is maintained, data representative of at least a portion of a local address book maintained on an access device is received over a network, and the received local address book data is used to perform at least one connected address book operation. In one example in which the contacts data includes data representative of a network address book listing associated with a user, data representative of a persona associated with the user is maintained, a request to access the network address book listing is received, and at least a subset of the data representative of the network address book listing is identified and provided in response to the request and based at least in part on the persona.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2008
    Publication date: April 1, 2010
    Applicant: Verizon Data Services LLC
    Inventors: Shadman Zafar, Brian Roberts, Donald Relyea, Heath Stallings, Ruchir Rodrigues, Raul Aldrey, Michelle Felt, Jack Hao, Robert Beckwith
  • Publication number: 20080268947
    Abstract: A first game server is configured to provide a game to a first category of user device. A second game server is configured to provide the game to a second category of user device. A game manager is configured to receive a request from a user device for the game application and to assign the request to one of the first game server and the second game server according to whether the user device is included in the first category of user device or the second category of user device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2007
    Publication date: October 30, 2008
    Applicants: Verizon Services Organization Inc., Verizon Services Corp., Verizon Data Services Inc.
    Inventors: Christina Fyock, Mansey K. Amin, Brent Simon, Harpal S. Bassali, Marcelo D. Lechner, Robert Beckwith, Rick Utley, Stella Alvo
  • Publication number: 20070184566
    Abstract: Velocity (energy) modulated neutrino receiver devices consist of barium titanate bodies, feedback circuits to prevent front circuits from picking up acoustic energy from neutrino modulators, and spaces to permit modulated neutrinos to pass through said bodies from front to back forming a modulated neutrino receiver device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 5, 2007
    Publication date: August 9, 2007
    Inventor: Robert Beckwith
  • Publication number: 20070145099
    Abstract: A particle identification detector of airborne particles of interest is contained in a battery operated 4?×4?×1.5? box. Air is drawn through an internal chamber for analysis by pinging a sampling pad along the chamber with scanning microsecond bursts varying from 2 to 4 gHz. Resultant emf rings received from the particles by the pad are amplified and their amplitudes measured and stored in tables vs frequency of the ping thus forming signature profiles for particles of interest. Correlations between unknown measured profiles and tables of known profiles are used for particle identification. The box may be opened permitting the chamber to be cleaned. When used with hazardous material, the box may be placed in a clean room with wireless communications to a service computer located outside the room.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 10, 2006
    Publication date: June 28, 2007
    Inventor: Robert Beckwith
  • Publication number: 20070102107
    Abstract: Composite coated wood products, and methods to produce such products, are described by embodiments of the invention. Composite layers may comprise polymer and fillers, such as organic fillers and inorganic fillers. The composite layers may also be foamed in some embodiments of the invention. Such composite coated wood products may be structural or non-structural pieces that may provide safe, economical, easy to manufacture construction products that may be utilized with wood composites, and other plastic composites. Such products may also promote uniformity of appearance in objects constructed with the composite coated wood products in a variety of applications.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2006
    Publication date: May 10, 2007
    Inventors: Barry Curtis, Robert Beckwith, Richard Neisius
  • Publication number: 20070025494
    Abstract: A neutrino telescope is made up of four devices. A neutrino modulating device velocity modulates neutrinos passing through a thin walled steel tube. This encodes the neutrinos as being different than any neutrinos found in nature. The steel tube is electrically driven to its lengthwise resonant frequency. A directive steel tube can be added, as a second device, to restrict neutrinos passing into the telescope and the directional resolution thus improved. A third device uses a barium titanate cylinder to detect forces from modulated neutrinos. An analog circuit filters and amplifies the signal as necessary. An oscilloscope can be used to measure and study the output. A fourth device uses a Blackfin processor to provide digital processing and a service computer for further processing and studying results over periods of time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2006
    Publication date: February 1, 2007
    Inventor: Robert Beckwith
  • Publication number: 20060247133
    Abstract: A string of super-dense carbon atoms forms a superconductor unaffected by temperature changes over a wide range. Using molecular beam epitaxy technology, a number of such carbon atomic strings are connected in parallel and encased in a plastic which forms nanotubes around each string having a negatively charged inner surface on each tube formed. The superconducting electrons travel in the cylindrical space between the inside of the nanotubes and the outside of the carbon strings. Cables carrying 20,000 amperes of electric current and withstanding 81,300 pound pull are projected. Strings connect to super-dense diamond plates at the two ends of a cable which plates both carry electric current and carry the pulling force. Superconducting belts excite iron pipes sending sparks into storm clouds for withdrawing energy from the clouds.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2006
    Publication date: November 2, 2006
    Inventor: Robert Beckwith
  • Publication number: 20060133454
    Abstract: Intersil HFA processors are used to form peer to peer communications between IEDs in an electric power substation as well as between any IED and a substation access port. IEDs are identified by an 9 bit station identification code for up to 255 IED and a final 9 bit code is given to the access port. Communications is initiated by sending an 9 bit code for a station called followed by an 9 bit code for the station calling. Error checking bits are added to initiating codes forming packets. When a called station receives an error free packet an acknowledgement is sent establishing a peer to peer channel over which bi-directional messages are sent. Longer station identification codes are used to form larger communications systems. Both permanent and movable hubs are used to quickly form large area peer to peer networks in response to an emergency. GPS receivers are used to identify peers and hubs on DeLorme maps. The system in independent of availability of electric power or the internet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2005
    Publication date: June 22, 2006
    Inventor: Robert Beckwith
  • Publication number: 20060100107
    Abstract: A string of carbon 14 atoms forms a superconductor unaffected by temperature changes from absolute zero to the burning point of carbon. A number of carbon 14 atomic strings are connected in parallel and encased in a plastic which forms tubes around each string having a negatively charged inner surface on each tube formed. The superconducting electrons travel in the cylindrical space between the inside of the nanotubes and the outside of the carbon 14 strings. Quarter inch diameter cables carrying 10,000 amperes of electric current and withstanding a million pound pull are projected strings connect to C12 diamond rods at the two ends of a cable both for carrying electric current and for carrying the pulling force.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2004
    Publication date: May 11, 2006
    Inventor: Robert Beckwith
  • Publication number: 20060100108
    Abstract: A string of super-dense carbon atoms forms a superconductor unaffected by temperature changes over a wide range. Using molecular beam epitaxy technology, a number of such carbon atomic strings are connected in parallel and encased in a plastic which forms nanotubes around each string having a negatively charged inner surface on each tube formed. The superconducting electrons travel in the cylindrical space between the inside of the nanotubes and the outside of the carbon strings. Cables carrying 5,000 amperes of electric current and withstanding 81,300 pound pull are projected. Strings connect to super-dense diamond plates at the two ends of a cable which plates both carry electric current and carry the pulling force.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2005
    Publication date: May 11, 2006
    Inventor: Robert Beckwith
  • Publication number: 20050159496
    Abstract: One or more external surfaces of an extruded foam are coated by co-extruding a skin of polymer on the surface to reduce the diffusion the foaming gases out of the cells of the solidifying polymer foam. The sealing effect can involve coating one side of the extruded foam (AB foam) or both sides (ABA form). The skins can be solid or foamed. Alternatively, a cylinder is formed from an annular die and, preferably, a cylindrical cooling mandrel. By extruding and drawing the cylinder of foam onto a cooled cylindrical mandrel, which expands the diameter of the cylinder, the optimum physical properties of the structure can be achieved. This is because the foam structure is stretched in longitudinal and lateral directions. Preferable, the foaming polymer has “inherent melt strength” and “strain hardening” so that the foam cells are more consistent in size and shape. The preferred polymers are polypropylene or polystyrene.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2003
    Publication date: July 21, 2005
    Inventors: John Bambara, Robert Beckwith, Robert Hooper, Robert Hurley
  • Publication number: 20050118982
    Abstract: Apparatus and methods for studying the teleportation of divided space globes of gas, directed to receivers by contained electromagnetic field packets selectively coded with digital information, to travel through universal space at infinite speeds.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 6, 2005
    Publication date: June 2, 2005
    Inventor: Robert Beckwith
  • Publication number: 20050106406
    Abstract: Composite coated wood products, and methods to produce such products, are described by embodiments of the invention. Composite layers may comprise polymer and fillers, such as organic fillers and inorganic fillers. The composite layers may also be foamed in some embodiments of the invention. Such composite coated wood products may be structural or non-structural pieces that may provide safe, economical, easy to manufacture construction products that may be utilized with wood composites, and other plastic composites. Such products may also promote uniformity of appearance in objects constructed with the composite coated wood products in a variety of applications.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 17, 2003
    Publication date: May 19, 2005
    Inventors: Barry Curtis, Robert Beckwith, Richard Neisius
  • Publication number: 20050104567
    Abstract: Under load tapchanging voltage regulators with source and load connections, series and shunt transformers, switching devices for causing selectable levels of electric power to flow in either direction between the series and shunt transformers, and tapchanger controls for sensing the voltage at said load connections and causing the switching devices to select proper electric power flows so as to maintain desired voltages at the load connections.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 3, 2004
    Publication date: May 19, 2005
    Inventor: Robert Beckwith
  • Publication number: 20050085281
    Abstract: Apparatus and methods for studying the use of divided space globes, containing electromagnetic fields of digital information, to travel through universal space at nearly infinite speeds.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2004
    Publication date: April 21, 2005
    Inventor: Robert Beckwith
  • Publication number: 20020169863
    Abstract: A software simulation system and method that improves repeatability in simulations of computer and electrical apparatuses where a messaging broker control process acts as an intermediary between one or more servers and one or more clients associated with each server. In one embodiment, the control process resides as a stand alone system from the servers and clients it regulates, and stops the servers upon each of them reaching a synchronization point. In addition, the control process orders messages received from servers to deliver to clients in a predetermined manner, using a timestamp system maintained by the control process for all user specified events.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 8, 2001
    Publication date: November 14, 2002
    Inventors: Robert Beckwith, Robert Sanzone, Mary Albanese
  • Patent number: 4031373
    Abstract: A velocity computing chronograph includes a chain of BCD counter stages having a clock input signal gated via the outputs from a pair of spaced apart photo-electric screens for measuring the time of flight of a bullet between the screens. BCD coded numerical switches are provided for the manual entry of the distance between the screens. A multiplexer serially applies the BCD digit signals first from the numerical switches and thereafter from the counter stages to the BCD data digit input of an integrated circuit calculator chip. The calculator circuit has divide and equal command input terminals which are driven automatically at appropriate times for the projectile velocity to be computed in the calculator circuit and display on an LED display driven thereby.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 1976
    Date of Patent: June 21, 1977
    Inventor: Robert Beckwith