Patents by Inventor Scott Furman
Scott Furman 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: 11924983Abstract: Systems and methods for providing an electronics module including a raceway for mounting submodules and establishing electrical communication with said submodules. The raceway comprises a base structure and a conductive trace formed by a conductive plating process. Connection pads on the raceway are configured to receive connection nodes of the submodules for providing a continuous electrical connection between the raceway and the submodules for electrical communication and power transmission.Type: GrantFiled: March 18, 2022Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: Honeywell Federal Manufacturing & Technologies, LLCInventors: Ryan J. Eickbush, Neiko P. Levenhagen, Christopher Scott Marchman, Steven Patterson, Nicholas J. Furman
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Patent number: 11817727Abstract: One or more battery sub-modules are selected by obtaining at least one voltage from each battery sub-module and selecting based at least in part on the obtained voltages. The battery sub-modules are electrically connected in series in order to provide power to a primary load. Each battery sub-module includes a plurality of cells electrically connected in series and each battery sub-module further includes a battery management system that monitors the cells in that battery sub-module. Those battery management systems in the selected sub-modules are turned off so that the battery management systems in the selected sub-modules do not consume power at least temporarily from the cells in the selected sub-modules while (1) the battery sub-modules are not providing power to the primary load and (2) the battery sub-modules are not being charged.Type: GrantFiled: August 5, 2021Date of Patent: November 14, 2023Assignee: Wisk Aero LLCInventors: Scott Furman, Lewis Romeo Hom
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Patent number: 11724183Abstract: A system and method are described for managing the state of an online video game. A method includes initiating a new online video game in response to user input from a client device, the online video game being in a first state on a first server when initiated; executing the online video game on the server, thereby causing the online video game to enter a second state; pausing or terminating the online video game; determining differences between the first state and the second state and generating difference data containing the differences; transmitting the difference data over a network to a second server; and recreating the second state from the difference data and the first state in response to user input indicating that the user wishes to resume the online video game and in response to the second server being selected as the server on which to execute the video game.Type: GrantFiled: February 16, 2021Date of Patent: August 15, 2023Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment LLCInventors: Stephen G. Perlman, Roger van der Laan, Timothy Cotter, Scott Furman, Robert McCool, Ian Buckley
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Publication number: 20220014028Abstract: One or more battery sub-modules are selected by obtaining at least one voltage from each battery sub-module and selecting based at least in part on the obtained voltages. The battery sub-modules are electrically connected in series in order to provide power to a primary load. Each battery sub-module includes a plurality of cells electrically connected in series and each battery sub-module further includes a battery management system that monitors the cells in that battery sub-module. Those battery management systems in the selected sub-modules are turned off so that the battery management systems in the selected sub-modules do not consume power at least temporarily from the cells in the selected sub-modules while (1) the battery sub-modules are not providing power to the primary load and (2) the battery sub-modules are not being charged.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 5, 2021Publication date: January 13, 2022Inventors: Scott Furman, Lewis Romeo Hom
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Patent number: 11128151Abstract: One or more battery sub-modules are selected by obtaining at least one voltage from each battery sub-module and selecting based at least in part on the obtained voltages. The battery sub-modules are electrically connected in series in order to provide power to a primary load. Each battery sub-module includes a plurality of cells electrically connected in series and each battery sub-module further includes a battery management system that monitors the cells in that battery sub-module. Those battery management systems in the selected sub-modules are turned off so that the battery management systems in the selected sub-modules do not consume power at least temporarily from the cells in the selected sub-modules while (1) the battery sub-modules are not providing power to the primary load and (2) the battery sub-modules are not being charged.Type: GrantFiled: May 8, 2019Date of Patent: September 21, 2021Assignee: WISK AERO LLCInventors: Scott Furman, Lewis Romeo Hom
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Patent number: 11033814Abstract: A computer-implemented system and method for streaming video from a server to a client are described. For example, a method according to one embodiment comprises: receiving at the server a request for video content from the client; in response to the request, determining the hardware/software configuration of the client; generating and/or selecting a temporary decoder based on the hardware/software configuration of the client; transmitting the temporary decoder to the client, the client installing the temporary decoder; encoding and streaming the requested video content from the server to the client, the video content being encoded based on the capabilities of the temporary decoder, the video content being decoded by the temporary decoder and rendered on the client; detecting that the client has ended the session with the server; and in response to detecting that the client has ended the session, temporarily disabling and/or removing the temporary decoder from the client.Type: GrantFiled: May 8, 2018Date of Patent: June 15, 2021Assignee: SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT LLCInventors: Stephen G. Perlman, Roger van der Laan, Timothy Cotter, Scott Furman, Robert McCool, Ian Buckley
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Publication number: 20210162302Abstract: A system and method are described for managing the state of an online video game. A method includes initiating a new online video game in response to user input from a client device, the online video game being in a first state on a first server when initiated; executing the online video game on the server, thereby causing the online video game to enter a second state; pausing or terminating the online video game; determining differences between the first state and the second state and generating difference data containing the differences; transmitting the difference data over a network to a second server; and recreating the second state from the difference data and the first state in response to user input indicating that the user wishes to resume the online video game and in response to the second server being selected as the server on which to execute the video game.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 16, 2021Publication date: June 3, 2021Inventors: Stephen G. Perlman, Roger van der Laan, Timothy Cotter, Scott Furman, Robert McCool, Ian Buckley
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Patent number: 10918939Abstract: A system and method are described for managing the state of an online video game. A method includes initiating a new online video game in response to user input from a client device, the online video game being in a first state on a first server when initiated; executing the online video game on the server, thereby causing the online video game to enter a second state; pausing or terminating the online video game; determining differences between the first state and the second state and generating difference data containing the differences; transmitting the difference data over a network to a second server; and recreating the second state from the difference data and the first state in response to user input indicating that the user wishes to resume the online video game and in response to the second server being selected as the server on which to execute the video game.Type: GrantFiled: August 6, 2019Date of Patent: February 16, 2021Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment LLCInventors: Stephen G. Perlman, Roger van der Laan, Timothy Cotter, Scott Furman, Robert McCool, Ian Buckley
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Patent number: 10868430Abstract: Battery sub-modules are selecting to electrically connect to a common power bus, including by: determining if a discharge-related fault indication for a given battery sub-module indicates that the given battery sub-module is in a discharge-related fault condition. If so, the given battery sub-module is excluded from the selected battery sub-modules such that said given battery sub-module is electrically disconnected from the common power bus. The selected battery sub-modules are configured so that the selected battery sub-modules are electrically connected to the common power bus; the selected battery sub-modules that are electrically connected to the common power bus are charged.Type: GrantFiled: April 23, 2020Date of Patent: December 15, 2020Assignee: WISK AERO LLCInventors: Lewis Romeo Hom, Brian Robert Viele, Scott Furman
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Publication number: 20200206618Abstract: A computer-implemented system and method for streaming video from a server to a client are described. For example, a method according to one embodiment comprises: receiving at the server a request for video content from the client; in response to the request, determining the hardware/software configuration of the client; generating and/or selecting a temporary decoder based on the hardware/software configuration of the client; transmitting the temporary decoder to the client, the client installing the temporary decoder; encoding and streaming the requested video content from the server to the client, the video content being encoded based on the capabilities of the temporary decoder, the video content being decoded by the temporary decoder and rendered on the client; detecting that the client has ended the session with the server; and in response to detecting that the client has ended the session, temporarily disabling and/or removing the temporary decoder from the client.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 5, 2020Publication date: July 2, 2020Inventors: Stephen G. Perlman, Roger van der Laan, Timothy Cotter, Scott Furman, Robert McCool, Ian Buckley
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Patent number: 10673252Abstract: Battery sub-modules are selecting to electrically connect to a common power bus, including by: determining if a discharge-related fault indication for a given battery sub-module indicates that the given battery sub-module is in a discharge-related fault condition. If so, the given battery sub-module is excluded from the selected battery sub-modules such that said given battery sub-module is electrically disconnected from the common power bus. The selected battery sub-modules are configured so that the selected battery sub-modules are electrically connected to the common power bus; the selected battery sub-modules that are electrically connected to the common power bus are charged.Type: GrantFiled: May 7, 2019Date of Patent: June 2, 2020Assignee: WISK AERO LLCInventors: Lewis Romeo Hom, Brian Robert Viele, Scott Furman
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Publication number: 20200036195Abstract: One or more battery sub-modules are selected by obtaining at least one voltage from each battery sub-module and selecting based at least in part on the obtained voltages. The battery sub-modules are electrically connected in series in order to provide power to a primary load. Each battery sub-module includes a plurality of cells electrically connected in series and each battery sub-module further includes a battery management system that monitors the cells in that battery sub-module. Those battery management systems in the selected sub-modules are turned off so that the battery management systems in the selected sub-modules do not consume power at least temporarily from the cells in the selected sub-modules while (1) the battery sub-modules are not providing power to the primary load and (2) the battery sub-modules are not being charged.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 8, 2019Publication date: January 30, 2020Inventors: Scott Furman, Lewis Romeo Hom
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Publication number: 20190358539Abstract: A system and method are described for managing the state of an online video game. A method includes initiating a new online video game in response to user input from a client device, the online video game being in a first state on a first server when initiated; executing the online video game on the server, thereby causing the online video game to enter a second state; pausing or terminating the online video game; determining differences between the first state and the second state and generating difference data containing the differences; transmitting the difference data over a network to a second server; and recreating the second state from the difference data and the first state in response to user input indicating that the user wishes to resume the online video game and in response to the second server being selected as the server on which to execute the video game.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 6, 2019Publication date: November 28, 2019Inventors: Stephen G. Perlman, Roger van der Laan, Timothy Cotter, Scott Furman, Robert McCool, Ian Buckley
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Publication number: 20190260216Abstract: Battery sub-modules are selecting to electrically connect to a common power bus, including by: determining if a discharge-related fault indication for a given battery sub-module indicates that the given battery sub-module is in a discharge-related fault condition. If so, the given battery sub-module is excluded from the selected battery sub-modules such that said given battery sub-module is electrically disconnected from the common power bus. The selected battery sub-modules are configured so that the selected battery sub-modules are electrically connected to the common power bus; the selected battery sub-modules that are electrically connected to the common power bus are charged.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 7, 2019Publication date: August 22, 2019Inventors: Lewis Romeo Hom, Brian Robert Viele, Scott Furman
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Patent number: 10369465Abstract: A system and method are described for managing the state of an online video game. A method includes initiating a new online video game in response to user input from a client device, the online video game being in a first state on a first server when initiated; executing the online video game on the server, thereby causing the online video game to enter a second state; pausing or terminating the online video game; determining differences between the first state and the second state and generating difference data containing the differences; transmitting the difference data over a network to a second server; and recreating the second state from the difference data and the first state in response to user input indicating that the user wishes to resume the online video game and in response to the second server being selected as the server on which to execute the video game.Type: GrantFiled: June 5, 2017Date of Patent: August 6, 2019Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment America LLCInventors: Stephen G. Perlman, Roger van der Laan, Timothy Cotter, Scott Furman, Robert McCool, Ian Buckley
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Patent number: 10355496Abstract: For each battery sub-module in a plurality of battery sub-modules, a voltage associated with a cell in that battery sub-module is received wherein each battery sub-module in the plurality of battery sub-modules includes a plurality of cells. A battery sub-module is selected based at least in part on the received voltages and a set of one or more loads, which draws power from the selected battery sub-module and is not powered by any other battery sub-module in the plurality of battery sub-modules, is configured so that the set of loads at least temporarily does not draw power from the selected battery sub-module.Type: GrantFiled: July 26, 2018Date of Patent: July 16, 2019Assignee: Kitty Hawk CorporationInventors: Scott Furman, Lewis Romeo Hom
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Patent number: 10333328Abstract: Battery sub-modules are selecting to electrically connect to a common power bus, including by: determining if a discharge-related fault indication for a given battery sub-module indicates that the given battery sub-module is in a discharge-related fault condition. If so, the given battery sub-module is excluded from the selected battery sub-modules such that said given battery sub-module is electrically disconnected from the common power bus. The selected battery sub-modules are configured so that the selected battery sub-modules are electrically connected to the common power bus; the selected battery sub-modules that are electrically connected to the common power bus are charged.Type: GrantFiled: September 19, 2018Date of Patent: June 25, 2019Assignee: Kitty Hawk CorporationInventors: Lewis Romeo Hom, Brian Robert Viele, Scott Furman
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Patent number: 10209969Abstract: A protocol compiler to generate flight code and routing tables is disclosed. In various embodiments, one or more definition files are received. The one or more definition files are parsed to extract flight control system definition data. A communication topology comprising a set of entities of the flight control system and communication links between said entities is determined based on the flight control system definition data. A set of one or more routing tables is generated programmatically based at least in part on the communication topology and message type definition data. Flight code to implement a flight control system defined at least in part by said flight control system definition data is generating programmatically, based at least in part on the flight control system definition data, including code to route messages according to said one or more routing tables.Type: GrantFiled: August 1, 2018Date of Patent: February 19, 2019Assignee: Kitty Hawk CorporationInventors: Scott Furman, Chad Smith, Brian Robert Viele, Patrick Kim, Allen H. Ibara, Dejapong Suwaratana, Matthew Walker, Gary Stempler
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Patent number: 10120662Abstract: A protocol compiler to generate flight code and routing tables is disclosed. In various embodiments, one or more definition files are received. The one or more definition files are parsed to extract flight control system definition data. A communication topology comprising a set of entities of the flight control system and communication links between said entities is determined based on the flight control system definition data. A set of one or more routing tables is generated programmatically based at least in part on the communication topology and message type definition data. Flight code to implement a flight control system defined at least in part by said flight control system definition data is generating programmatically, based at least in part on the flight control system definition data, including code to route messages according to said one or more routing tables.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2018Date of Patent: November 6, 2018Assignee: Kitty Hawk CorporationInventors: Scott Furman, Chad Smith, Brian Robert Viele, Patrick Kim, Allen H. Ibara, Dejapong Suwaratana, Matthew Walker, Gary Stempler
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Patent number: 10110033Abstract: A metric is received for each battery sub-module in a plurality of battery sub-modules in order to obtain a plurality of metrics associated with the plurality of battery sub-modules. One or more battery sub-modules are selected from the plurality of battery sub-modules to electrically connect to a common power bus. The selected battery sub-modules are configured so that the selected battery sub-modules are electrically connected to the common power bus. The selected battery sub-modules that are electrically connected to the common power bus are charged.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2018Date of Patent: October 23, 2018Assignee: Kitty Hawk CorporationInventors: Lewis Romeo Hom, Brian Robert Viele, Scott Furman