Patents by Inventor Russell Lee

Russell Lee 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: 9633121
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes accessing a social graph that includes a plurality of nodes and edges. A first node corresponds to a first user associated with an online social network and second nodes correspond to a concept or a second user. The method further comprises scoring a first set of nodes of the second nodes based on user-engagement factors. The method further comprises identifying common nodes that are connected by edges to nodes of the first set of nodes that have a score greater than a threshold score. The method further comprises generating structured queries and sending the structured queries to the user, the sent structured queries being a personalized query.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2017
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Maxime Boucher, Russell Lee-Goldman, Kathryn Hymes, Martin Jean Raison
  • Publication number: 20170097808
    Abstract: Parsed attachments from email communications may be sorted. In some examples, an application, such as an email processing application, may display email summaries associated with emails within an email summary view of the email application interface. A selected email associated with a selected email summary may be displayed in an email view. The email processing application may identify one or more attachments within the emails. Attachment summaries associated with the one or more attachments may be displayed within an attachment summary view of the email application interface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 2, 2015
    Publication date: April 6, 2017
    Inventors: Joey Masterson, Russell Lee Simpson, JR., IIya Smirnov, Paul Limont, Kip Fern, Jason Cook, Elena Catrinescu, Hayley Steplyk, David Meyers
  • Patent number: 9604419
    Abstract: A patch for a structure has a rework area with an inconsistency formed therein. The patch comprises a patch body having at least two regions including a fail-safe region and a safe-life region encompassing the fail-safe region. The safe-life region has a mode I interlaminar fracture toughness that is less than the mode I interlaminar fracture toughness of the fail-safe region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2017
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventors: Eugene Dan-Jumbo, Russell Lee Keller, Everett A. Westerman
  • Publication number: 20170052152
    Abstract: A method for analyzing a structure includes processing nondestructive inspection (NDI) data for a multi-layer structure to define areas of inconsistency at an internal layer or an interface between adjacent layers. The method includes mapping the areas of inconsistency to finite elements of a finite element model of a nominal of the structure. These finite elements are thereby identified as affected finite elements and include finite elements for the affected internal layer or interface. The method includes producing a reconstructed finite element model of the affected structure from the nominal finite element model, and a modified property or state value assigned to respective element datasets of the affected finite elements. The method includes performing a finite element method (FEM) failure analysis of the reconstructed finite element model under a load, which indicates an extent of residual integrity of the affected structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 21, 2015
    Publication date: February 23, 2017
    Inventors: Hong Hue Tat, Kelly M. Greene, John Z. Lin, Carlyn R. Brewer, Russell Lee Keller
  • Patent number: 9567773
    Abstract: An apparatus and method is disclosed for electronic locks with a selectable power off function. The electronic lock includes an electronic controller disposed within a lock housing and operable to control a state of the lock between locked and unlocked positions. An electronic actuator electrically coupled to the controller is movable between first and second positions corresponding to a locked position and an unlocked position of the lock, respectively. The electronic lock further includes at least one electrical energy storage device and a selector switch coupled to the controller to define a desired state of the lock between one of an electrically locked (EL) and an electrically unlocked (EU) state in an electric power off condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2017
    Assignee: Schlage Lock Company LLC
    Inventors: Sundar Raj Dore Vasudevan, Dilip Bangaru, Adam Michael Litwinski, William Brian Ainley, Russell Lee Steiner, Michelle Vickrey
  • Patent number: 9508047
    Abstract: A rework system for a vehicle having an inconsistency on a component of the vehicle. A rework assessor is configured to examine a rework parameter array to ascertain whether a rework procedure is to be performed. The rework parameter array defines at least volumetric dimensions of the component, a type of the inconsistency, and location coordinates of the inconsistency with respect to the component or the vehicle. A rework interrogator is in communication with the rework assessor. The rework interrogator is configured to, when a rework is to be performed, identify a candidate for addressing the inconsistency. The candidate selected from the group that includes: a candidate part, a candidate rework procedure, and both the candidate part and the candidate rework procedure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2016
    Assignee: THE BOEING COMPANY
    Inventors: Keith L. McIver, Russell Lee Keller, Cong Nghiep Duong, Nicolette P. Yovanof, Myles Leonard Baker, Scott Michael Young, Kevin Michael Roughen, Kelly M. Greene
  • Publication number: 20160333650
    Abstract: A test stand, for testing several parameters of power tongs used to make and break drill and casing pipe segments, comprises a base having a vertical, rotating shaft bearing along its length one or more disk brakes for stopping rotation of the shaft induced by tongs. In a particular embodiment, a vertical mast on the base supports a rotatable gantry which can lift and move power tongs into place above the test stand. Sensors detect several parameters which determine tong performance. Measurements of torque, RPM, temperature, pressure and speed are contrasted to standards for power tongs of like size and capacity and feedback as to the tongs' ability to make and break drill and pipe joints is provided. In another embodiment, a derrick sits atop the base and supports a second, inverted test stand for testing integrated power tongs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2015
    Publication date: November 17, 2016
    Inventors: RUSSELL LEE BERRIER, DEARL LYNN BERRIER
  • Patent number: 9481041
    Abstract: End mills are disclosed which may be made monolithically of ceramic or other materials. The cutting portions of the end mills have lengths of cut that are no more than twice their cutting diameters and cores which are at least 0.7 times their cutting diameters. Their axial blades have cutting edges with negative radial rake and are separated by helical flutes. Their cutting ends have negative axial rake and are gashed ahead of center and have radial cutting edges with negative rake. Such end mills also have radiused corners and gashes transitioning from radial to axial at a flute. Methods of milling materials using such ceramic end mills are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2016
    Assignee: KENNAMETAL INC
    Inventors: Danny Ray Davis, Sean Erin Landwehr, Russell Lee Yeckley
  • Patent number: 9479440
    Abstract: Systems and methods can provide for specifying and enforcing IPv4 and IPv6 CPE limits in a modem device. In some implementations, such systems and methods can inspect a packet originating from CPEs behind a modem to determine whether the packet is an IPv4 or IPv6 packet. Such systems and methods can compare the packet source MAC address to determine whether the address exists in the IPv4 and/or IPv6 CPE tables. The modem can then perform varying actions based on IPv4 or IPv6 CPE limit enforcement mechanisms, thereby alleviating the problem of a single CPE limit enforcement policy for all CPEs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2016
    Assignee: ARRIS Enterprises, Inc.
    Inventor: Russell Lee Crisp
  • Patent number: 9448776
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are a number of embodiments for effective and user-friendly tools that are designed to automatically convert a website into a native app for execution by a mobile computing device such as an Android device or an iOS device. Such tools permit website owners to quickly generate native apps for their websites without the need for any significant programming efforts by app developers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2016
    Assignee: APPNOTCH LLC
    Inventors: Lakshmanan Sankaran, Russell Lee Bockhorst, Ken Spear Adriano
  • Patent number: 9440422
    Abstract: A peel-resistant mechanism includes a body and a plurality of arms extending from the body such that a recess is defined between each pair of adjacent arms. At least one of the arms is positionable to facilitate restricting an edge disbond from spreading across the body of the patch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2016
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventors: Kenneth Harlan Griess, Gary E. Georgeson, Russell Lee Keller
  • Publication number: 20160203238
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a text query to search for news-posts of the online social network. The method includes parsing the text query to identify one or more n-grams. The method includes searching an index of keyword phrases to identify one or more keyword phrases matching one or more of the n-grams of the text query. Each of the identified keyword phrases is news-related. The method includes calculating a news-score for each of the identified keyword phrases. The method includes generating one or more suggested queries. Each suggested query includes one or more n-grams identified form the text query and one or more identified keyword phrases having a news-score greater than a threshold news-score. The method includes sending one or more of the suggested queries to search for news-posts of the online social network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 9, 2015
    Publication date: July 14, 2016
    Inventors: Ilia Cherniavskii, Alexander Perelygin, Russell Lee-Goldman
  • Publication number: 20160188702
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes accessing a post of an online social network, extracting keywords from the content of the first post and the metadata associated with the first post, determining topics associated with each extracted keyword, calculating a topic-score based on a relevance of the topic to the post for each topic, generating a suggested keyword query corresponding to the post, the suggested keyword query comprising extracted keywords corresponding to each topic having a topic-score greater than a threshold topic-score, and sending the post and the suggested keyword query to a client device of a first user for display.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2014
    Publication date: June 30, 2016
    Inventors: Russell Lee-Goldman, Kurchi Subhra Hazra
  • Patent number: 9314979
    Abstract: A composite rework patch and method. The composite rework patch comprises a trapezoidal shape, a first region, and a second region. The trapezoidal has a first base and a second base, the first base parallel to the second base. The first region comprises a first composite material portion and a first adhesive portion. The second region comprises a second composite material portion and a second adhesive portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2016
    Assignee: THE BOEING COMPANY
    Inventors: Eugene A. Dan-Jumbo, Russell Lee Keller
  • Patent number: 9282518
    Abstract: Methods and systems for preserving the life of a transport refrigeration system power source are provided. The method can include determining whether a control unit of the transport refrigeration system is off. Also, the method can include measuring an input voltage of a network coordinator when the control unit is off. Further the method can include instructing one or more parasitic electronic devices of the transport refrigeration mode to operate in a hibernation mode when the input voltage of the transport refrigeration system power source remains below a voltage threshold value for a time period and the control unit is off.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2016
    Assignees: THERMO KING CORPORATION, INVENSYS SYSTEMS, INC.
    Inventors: Russell Lee Sanders, Mark Daniel Leasure, Kim Vitkus, Mark Johnson
  • Publication number: 20160063093
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes receiving from a client system of a first user an unstructured text query. The method includes parsing the text query to identify one or more n-grams. At least one of the n-grams is an ambiguous n-gram. The method includes searching a plurality of keyword generators to identify one or more keyword suggestions matching the ambiguous n-gram. The method further includes calculating a keyword score for each identified keyword suggestions and generating one or more suggested queries including one or more n-grams identified from the text query. The one or more identified keyword suggestions having a keyword score greater than a threshold keyword score. The method includes sending one or more of the suggested queries to the client system of the first user for display.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2014
    Publication date: March 3, 2016
    Inventors: Maxime Boucher, Xiao Li, Alexander Perelygin, Veselin S. Stoyanov, Russell Lee-Goldman, Necip Fazil Ayan
  • Publication number: 20160042069
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes receiving unstructured text from a user of a social-networking system, determining whether the unstructured text includes a request for a recommendation, identifying one or more first entity names in the unstructured text, generating a structured query based upon the one or more first entity names, identifying, in the social graph, one or more second entity names corresponding to the structured query, and presenting the one or more second entity names and the unstructured text in a social context of the user. The unstructured text may include text of a post or message generated by the user on a social-networking system. A score may be generated based on the unstructured text to determine whether the text includes a request for recommendation using a machine-learning model based on comparison of the unstructured text to the one or more predetermined words associated with requests for recommendation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2014
    Publication date: February 11, 2016
    Inventors: Russell Lee-Goldman, Lada Ariana Adamic, David M. Goldblatt, Yuval Kesten, Mark Andrew Rich, Nidhi Gupta, Amy Campbell, Andrew Rocco Tresolini Fiore
  • Patent number: 9251697
    Abstract: A refrigerated container system is described that includes a wireless personal area network (WPAN) including a plurality of wireless sensor nodes and a coordinator node through which the sensors provide sensor data to a controller for the refrigerated container system. The wireless sensors and the coordinator incorporate a variety of features that ensure efficient utilization of battery life by preventing unintended pairing of sensors with other WPANs and excessive sensor signal processing arising from door chatter. Finally, pairing is performed without pressing a button on the wireless door sensor. Instead, the sensor's magnetic reed switch is enlisted to detect swiping of a magnet by a user to enter a pairing mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2016
    Assignee: Invensys Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Mark Alan Johnson, Stephen Michael Pasek, Kimble Allyn Vitkus, Russell Lee Sanders, Mark Daniel Leasure
  • Patent number: 9224287
    Abstract: A refrigerated container system is described that includes a wireless personal area network (WPAN) including a plurality of wireless sensor nodes and a coordinator node through which the sensors provide sensor data to a controller for the refrigerated container system. The wireless sensors and the coordinator incorporate a variety of features that ensure efficient utilization of battery life by preventing unintended pairing of sensors with other WPANs and excessive sensor signal processing arising from door chatter. Finally, pairing is performed without pressing a button on the wireless door sensor. Instead, the sensor's magnetic reed switch is enlisted to detect swiping of a magnet by a user to enter a pairing mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2015
    Assignee: Invensys Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Kimble Allyn Vitkus, Stephen Michael Pasek, Mark Alan Johnson, Russell Lee Sanders, Mark Daniel Leasure
  • Publication number: 20150338296
    Abstract: A structural repair includes a tell-tale optical witness that allows the health of the repair to be visually monitored. The optical witness includes a stress sensitive fluorescent dye that shows changes in local strain/stress patterns when the repair is subjected to electromagnetic energy of a particular wavelength. The dyes fluoresce more or less strongly as a function of the local stress/strain.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2015
    Publication date: November 26, 2015
    Inventors: Gary E. Georgeson, Kenneth Harlan Griess, Russell Lee Keller, Everett A. Westerman