Patents by Inventor Robert Cobb

Robert Cobb 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: 10554592
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for a collective address book system. One of the methods includes: receiving a request from a user to contact a person of interest; determining that contact information for the person of interest is not available in the user's contact information to which the system has access; determining that the collective address book system has access to contact information for the person of interest; generating proxy contact data for the person of interest; and providing the proxy contact data to the first user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2020
    Assignee: The Fin Exploration Company
    Inventors: Sidharth Shanker, Venkataramanan Iyer Nandagopal, Robert Cheung, Robert Cobb, Daniel Cosson, Andrew Kortina, Samuel Lessin, Michael Richter, Andrew Staub
  • Publication number: 20190132266
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for a collective address book system. One of the methods includes: receiving a request from a user to contact a person of interest; determining that contact information for the person of interest is not available in the user's contact information to which the system has access; determining that the collective address book system has access to contact information for the person of interest; generating proxy contact data for the person of interest; and providing the proxy contact data to the first user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2018
    Publication date: May 2, 2019
    Applicant: The Fin Exploration Company
    Inventors: Sidharth Shanker, Venkataramanan Iyer Nandagopal, Robert Cheung, Robert Cobb, Daniel Cosson, Andrew Kortina, Samuel Lessin, Michael Richter, Andrew Staub
  • Patent number: 10212105
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for a collective address book system. One of the methods includes: receiving a request from a user to contact a person of interest; determining that contact information for the person of interest is not available in the user's contact information to which the system has access; determining that the collective address book system has access to contact information for the person of interest; generating proxy contact data for the person of interest; and providing the proxy contact data to the first user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2019
    Assignee: The Fin Exploration Company
    Inventors: Sidharth Shanker, Venkataramanan Iyer Nandagopal, Robert Cheung, Robert Cobb, Daniel Cosson, Andrew Kortina, Samuel Lessin, Michael Richter, Andrew Staub
  • Publication number: 20190034474
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for resolving inconsistencies in information graphs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 23, 2018
    Publication date: January 31, 2019
    Applicant: The Fin Exploration Company
    Inventors: Venkataramanan Iyer Nandagopal, Greg Einfrank, Samuel Lessin, Andrew Kortina, Robert Cobb, Jeremiah Rogers, David Seeto, Ben Vishny, Daniel Cosson
  • Publication number: 20180285765
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for identifying user-specific values for entity attributes. One of the methods includes maintaining data representing a particular cluster of a plurality of claims about a particular entity, wherein each claim is an assertion by a respective claimant about an attribute value of the particular entity; receiving a request for a value of a particular attribute of the particular entity that has been submitted by a requesting user; determining, from attribute values for the particular attribute identified by the claims in the particular cluster, a user-specific attribute value for the particular attribute value; and providing the user-specific attribute value in response to the request.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2017
    Publication date: October 4, 2018
    Applicant: The Fin Exploration Company
    Inventors: Venkataramanan Iyer Nandagopal, Greg Einfrank, Samuel Lessin, Andrew Kortina, Robert Cobb, Jeremiah Rogers, David Seeto, Ben Vishny, Daniel Cosson
  • Publication number: 20180212922
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for a collective address book system. One of the methods includes: receiving a request from a user to contact a person of interest; determining that contact information for the person of interest is not available in the user's contact information to which the system has access; determining that the collective address book system has access to contact information for the person of interest; generating proxy contact data for the person of interest; and providing the proxy contact data to the first user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2017
    Publication date: July 26, 2018
    Applicant: The Fin Exploration Company
    Inventors: Sidharth Shanker, Venkataramanan Iyer Nandagopal, Robert Cheung, Robert Cobb, Daniel Cosson, Andrew Kortina, Samuel Lessin, Michael Richter, Andrew Staub
  • Patent number: 9444260
    Abstract: An energy management controller for controlling and limiting the time during which high current draws may be made by one or more of a plurality of single serve coffee brewers that are commonly connected to the same circuit and which include heater constructions that require and draw high power at certain times during operation, and require and draw lower power at other times. It includes one controller board, connected to the primary brewer to complete a circuit, and which board includes heat and wait timer functions to monitor the power status usage with respect to all of the brewers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2016
    Assignee: Newco Enterprises, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert Cobb, Joseph Webster
  • Publication number: 20130200706
    Abstract: An energy management controller for controlling and limiting the time during which high current draws may be made by one or more of a plurality of single serve coffee brewers that are commonly connected to the same circuit and which include heater constructions that require and draw high power at certain times during operation, and require and draw lower power at other times. It includes one controller board, connected to the primary brewer to complete a circuit, and which board includes heat and wait timer functions to monitor the power status usage with respect to all of the brewers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 7, 2013
    Publication date: August 8, 2013
    Inventors: Robert Cobb, Joseph Webster