Patents by Inventor Robert Dobson
Robert Dobson 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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Patent number: 11288083Abstract: A server may include a memory and a processor configured to cooperate with the memory to provide access to shared applications by a client computing device, extract text displayed by the shared applications on the display while the shared applications are being used by the client computing device, associate the extracted text with actions initiated by the client computing device in a relational database after displaying respective text on the display, and weight the extracted text within the relational database. The processor may further determine a suggested action to perform based upon text subsequently displayed on the display and the relational database, generate an overlay to be displayed on the display including the suggested action, and change a weighting associated with the extracted text in the relational database based upon a response to the suggested action included in the overlay by the at least one client computing device.Type: GrantFiled: August 28, 2020Date of Patent: March 29, 2022Assignee: CITRIX SYSTEMS, INC.Inventors: Robert Dobson, Robert Breker
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Publication number: 20200394057Abstract: A server may include a memory and a processor configured to cooperate with the memory to provide access to shared applications by a client computing device, extract text displayed by the shared applications on the display while the shared applications are being used by the client computing device, associate the extracted text with actions initiated by the client computing device in a relational database after displaying respective text on the display, and weight the extracted text within the relational database. The processor may further determine a suggested action to perform based upon text subsequently displayed on the display and the relational database, generate an overlay to be displayed on the display including the suggested action, and change a weighting associated with the extracted text in the relational database based upon a response to the suggested action included in the overlay by the at least one client computing device.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 28, 2020Publication date: December 17, 2020Inventors: Robert DOBSON, Robert BREKER
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Patent number: 10768953Abstract: A computing system may include at least one client computing device and a display associated therewith, and a server configured to provide access to a plurality of shared applications by the at least one client computing device, and extract text displayed by the shared applications on the display while the shared applications are being used by the at least one client computing device. The server may also be configured to generate a concept map associating the extracted text with actions initiated by the at least one computing device after displaying respective text on the display, and determine a suggested action to perform based upon text subsequently displayed on the display and the concept map.Type: GrantFiled: August 7, 2018Date of Patent: September 8, 2020Assignee: CITRIX SYSTEMS, INC.Inventors: Robert Dobson, Robert Breker
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Publication number: 20200050467Abstract: A computing system may include at least one client computing device and a display associated therewith, and a server configured to provide access to a plurality of shared applications by the at least one client computing device, and extract text displayed by the shared applications on the display while the shared applications are being used by the at least one client computing device. The server may also be configured to generate a concept map associating the extracted text with actions initiated by the at least one computing device after displaying respective text on the display, and determine a suggested action to perform based upon text subsequently displayed on the display and the concept map.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 7, 2018Publication date: February 13, 2020Inventors: Robert Dobson, Robert Breker
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Patent number: 10382456Abstract: A computing device may include a memory and a processor cooperating therewith to operate a plurality of virtual computing sessions for a plurality of client devices. Each of the virtual computing sessions may have access to a network. The processor may further operate at least one security agent configured to detect security threats from the virtual computing sessions, and a virtual management agent configured to, responsive to detection of a security threat from a given virtual computing session, discontinue access to the computing network by the given virtual computing session.Type: GrantFiled: September 19, 2016Date of Patent: August 13, 2019Assignee: CITRIX SYSTEMS, INC.Inventors: Simon Frost, Robert Dobson
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Publication number: 20180083984Abstract: A computing device may include a memory and a processor cooperating therewith to operate a plurality of virtual computing sessions for a plurality of client devices. Each of the virtual computing sessions may have access to a network. The processor may further operate at least one security agent configured to detect security threats from the virtual computing sessions, and a virtual management agent configured to, responsive to detection of a security threat from a given virtual computing session, discontinue access to the computing network by the given virtual computing session.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 19, 2016Publication date: March 22, 2018Inventors: Simon Frost, Robert Dobson
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Publication number: 20110286606Abstract: A noise cancellation signal is generated based on detected ambient noise, such that the noise cancellation signal and a wanted sound signal can be applied to a speaker. Gain control is applied to the wanted sound signal based on a comparison between the detected ambient noise level and the wanted sound signal level, for example such that the level of the wanted sound signal after the gain has been applied exceeds the level of a detected ambient noise signal by a certain threshold. Steps may also be taken such that the total level of the wanted sound signal after the gain has been applied and of the detected ambient noise signal do not exceed a second threshold, to avoid saturating the speaker to which they are applied.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 18, 2010Publication date: November 24, 2011Inventors: Khaldoon Taha Al-Naimi, Robert Dobson
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Publication number: 20080034209Abstract: A system for performing authentication of a first user to a second user includes the ability for the first user to submit multiple instances of authentication data which are evaluated and then used to generate an overall level of confidence in the claimed identity of the first user. The individual authentication instances are evaluated based upon: the degree of match between the user provided by the first user during the authentication and the data provided by the first user during his enrollment; the inherent reliability of the authentication technique being used; the circumstances surrounding the generation of the authentication data by the first user; and the circumstances surrounding the generation of the enrollment data by the first user. This confidence level is compared with a required trust level which is based at least in part upon the requirements of the second user, and the authentication result is based upon this comparison.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 16, 2007Publication date: February 7, 2008Inventors: Alexander Dickinson, Brian Berger, Robert Dobson
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Publication number: 20070280123Abstract: This invention relates to systems, methods and computer program code for testing, troubleshooting and evaluation of a mobile phone network. We describe a method of processing network data which includes a plurality of session related parameters. The method comprises inputting one or more queries, a query defining a statistic relating to said parameters and to be computed from said network data, formatting a query to define said statistic in terms of one or more intermediate statistics from which said statistic is computable, operating with said formatted query to determine said one or more intermediate statistics, and storing these in a data store for analysis, preferably indexed by said parameters. Preferably entries for the parameters are stored at time positions in a data pipe.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 27, 2004Publication date: December 6, 2007Inventors: Jeffrey Atkins, Robert Dobson
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Publication number: 20070254644Abstract: A method of testing a digital mobile phone network such as a GPRS or 3G network comprises either using real traffic or creating test traffic using test mobile phone coupled to a computer, and using the computer to measure a parameter associated with the network's response to the traffic. The measurements made by the computer are themselves sent as traffic to create one or more data streams within the mobile phone network comprising the traffic, measurements relating to the traffic, and signalling relating to the traffic, whereby this data stream or these streams can be captured at interface points within the network and analysed to investigate the functioning of the network dynamically as the network is exercised with the traffic. Software and test equipment for performing the method are also described.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 3, 2007Publication date: November 1, 2007Inventors: Robert Dobson, Yiu Ko
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Publication number: 20070195696Abstract: A method of testing a digital mobile phone network such as a GPRS or 3G network comprises either using real traffic or creating test traffic using test mobile phone coupled to a computer, and using the computer to measure a parameter associated with the network's response to the traffic. The measurements made by the computer are themselves sent as traffic to create one or more data streams within the mobile phone network comprising the traffic, measurements relating to the traffic, and signalling relating to the traffic, whereby this data stream or these streams can be captured at interface points within the network and analysed to investigate the functioning of the network dynamically as the network is exercised with the traffic. Software and test equipment for performing the method are also described.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 24, 2007Publication date: August 23, 2007Inventors: Robert Dobson, Yiu Ko
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Publication number: 20050260982Abstract: A method of testing a digital mobile phone network such as a GPRS or 3 G network comprises creating test traffic using an unmodified test mobile phone coupled to a computer, and using the computer to measure a parameter associated with the network's response to the test traffic. The measurements made by the computer are encoded into the test traffic to create a data stream within the mobile phone network comprising test traffic, measurements relating to the test traffic, and signalling relating to the test traffic, whereby this data stream can be captured at points within the network and analysed to investigate the functioning of the network dynamically as the network is exercised with the test traffic. Software and test equipment for performing the method are also described.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 30, 2005Publication date: November 24, 2005Inventors: Yiu Ko, Robert Dobson
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Publication number: 20040184938Abstract: The bladder, of flimsy ptfe tubing, is attached to the stem of an end-fitting. The stem is formed with a helical screw-thread form. The tubing is heat-shrunk down over the stem. Then, a helical coil spring is screwed onto the form, whereby the thickness of the ptfe tubing lies trapped and squeezed between the stem and the spring. This manner of attaching the bladder to the stem is mechanically adequate even when the bladder tubing is of small diameter.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 28, 2004Publication date: September 23, 2004Inventors: Jamieson Edward Champ, Andrew Robert Dobson, Bruce Randal Blackburn, Douglas James Belshaw
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Patent number: 6656516Abstract: Bread products derived from a dough having a continuous network of developable protein having levels of reducing sugar sufficiently low such that browning under frying conditions is substantially reduced.Type: GrantFiled: November 1, 2000Date of Patent: December 2, 2003Assignee: Kerry Ingredients (UK) LimitedInventors: Matthew J. Frost, Simon J. Goddard, Julie Ann Howard, Jane L. Atkinson, Adrian Robert Dobson
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Patent number: 6039291Abstract: A control system for use with a toy train system having a layout area including a track upon which a toy train runs includes a system component configured to operate within the toy train system and having a plurality of selective operative states. A control device remote from the system component is configured to emit a limited width visible light signal responsively to activation by an operator. A receiver mechanism is disposed in operative communication with the system component. The receiver mechanism is configured to receive the signal and to distinguish the signal from ambient light.Type: GrantFiled: April 13, 1998Date of Patent: March 21, 2000Inventor: Robert A. Dobson, IV
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Patent number: 5052938Abstract: A through-wall connection assembly comprises a shield plug extending through a wall or barrier and slidable for axial displacement preferably by being located in a tubular liner. A housing mounted on the wall or barrier receives an end of the shield plug. The housing contains a removable carrier for a first connector part which is releasably engageable with a corresponding second connector part at the end of the shield plug.Type: GrantFiled: February 20, 1990Date of Patent: October 1, 1991Assignee: British Nuclear Fuels plcInventors: Stuart M. Hansford, Robert Dobson