Patents by Inventor Sean DAVID

Sean DAVID 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).

  • VEHICLE SEAT HAVING EXTENDABLE BOLSTERS AND THIGH SUPPORTS
    Publication number: 20160288680
    Abstract: A vehicle seating assembly for a vehicle has a lower seat with a center seat cushion and a forward thigh supporting portion having a first refracted position and a second extended position. A leading edge of the forward thigh supporting portion is longitudinally displaced forward of the lower seat in the second extended position relative the first retracted position. A seat bolster is coupled with the forward thigh supporting portion extending laterally from at least one side of the seat, wherein the seat bolster has a first retracted position and a second extended position. A user control is operational to move the forward thigh supporting portion between the first retracted position and the second extended position, which simultaneously moves the seat bolster relative to the center seat cushion, respectively, between the first retracted position and a second extended position of the seat bolster.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2015
    Publication date: October 6, 2016
    Inventors: MICHAEL KOLICH, Amber LaVerne Hall, Marcos Silva Kondrad, Sean David Fannin, Johnathan Andrew Line
  • Portable sliding electronic device operable to disable a touchscreen display when opening and closing the device
    Patent number: 9432490
    Abstract: A portable electronic device (200), including a first housing (204), a second housing (202) slidably coupled to the first housing, the first housing and the second housing movable between a closed position, an open position and a transition position between the open position and the closed position, at least one input device (212), and at least one position sensor (230, 232) operable to detect whether the portable electronic device is in the open position, the closed position or the transition position. When the at least one position sensor detects the transition position, the at least one input device is disabled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2016
    Assignee: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventors: Rohit Krishna Koppal, Aaron Robert Allen, Douglas Wayne Moskowitz, Laura Ann Mahan, Michael George Langlois, Donald James Lindsay, Sean David Drew Wilson, Tomas Manuel Trujillo
  • Touch-sensitive display method and apparatus
    Patent number: 9383921
    Abstract: An example method includes associating a first area of a non-display area of a touch-sensitive display with a first control, wherein a touch associated with the first control results in moving an indicator through the information in a first direction and in a second direction. The method may also include associating a second area of the non-display area with a second control, wherein a touch associated with the second control results in moving the indicator through the information in the first direction and in the second direction. The method may also include detecting a first touch associated with the first control, in response to detecting the first touch, moving the indicator in the first direction, detecting a second touch associated with the second control, and in response to detecting the second touch, moving the indicator in the first direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2016
    Assignee: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventors: Peter Anthony Van Eerd, Sean David Drew Wilson, James Ehrismann
  • NETWORK COMPONENT PLACEMENT ARCHITECTURE
    Publication number: 20160191414
    Abstract: A network component placement architecture addresses the difficult technical challenge of determining where specific technical components of an overall service may be provisioned. The architecture is particularly effective at determining where, among a myriad of possible service provides, platforms, and regions, the technical components can be placed and meet all of the applicable technical constraints on the placement of the technical components. In one implementation, the placement architecture includes a sequence of pipeline stages that define an analysis sequence leading to a set of possible placement options.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2016
    Publication date: June 30, 2016
    Inventors: Patrick Francis Cimprich, Michael Gerald DeLuca, Jack Q.W. Cantwell, Sean David Peterson, Marshall J. Wells
  • TYPE-TO-TYPE ANALYSIS FOR CLOUD COMPUTING TECHNICAL COMPONENTS
    Publication number: 20160164723
    Abstract: Cloud computing has emerged as an extremely popular implementation option for a wide range of computing services. However, provisioning services into the cloud is an extremely difficult technical challenge. This is due in part to the regular emergence of new cloud service providers, as well as the routine changing and reconfiguration of the disparate computing platforms, services, assets, supported technical components, and other features offered by the service providers. An analysis architecture determines how to map a particular technical component into the execution environment of any particular service provider.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 21, 2015
    Publication date: June 9, 2016
    Inventors: Patrick Francis Cimprich, Michael Gerald DeLuca, Jack Q. W. Cantwell, Sean David Peterson, Marshall J. Wells
  • NETWORK COMPONENT PLACEMENT ARCHITECTURE
    Publication number: 20160164746
    Abstract: A network component placement architecture addresses the difficult technical challenge of determining where specific technical components of an overall service may be provisioned. The architecture is particularly effective at determining where, among a myriad of possible service provides, platforms, and regions, the technical components can be placed and meet all of the applicable technical constraints on the placement of the technical components. In one implementation, the placement architecture includes a sequence of pipeline stages that define an analysis sequence leading to a set of possible placement options.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 21, 2015
    Publication date: June 9, 2016
    Inventors: Patrick Francis Cimprich, Michael Gerald DeLuca, Jack Q.W. Cantwell, Sean David Peterson, Marshall J. Wells
  • MULTI-CLOUD PROVISIONING ARCHITECTURE WITH TEMPLATE AGGREGATION
    Publication number: 20160164753
    Abstract: Provisioning resources into the cloud is a constantly increasing technical challenge as more cloud service providers emerge, each offering disparate computing platforms, services, assets, supported technical components, and other features. A cloud computing provisioning architecture implements a sequence of complex technical analyses that successfully provisions complex cloud computing services. The provisioning architecture disaggregates resources into individual provisioning actions, and also selectively re-aggregates the resources into template blocks which a service provider accepts for native provisioning.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 21, 2015
    Publication date: June 9, 2016
    Inventors: Patrick Francis Cimprich, Michael Gerald Deluca, Jack Q.W. Cantwell, Sean David Peterson, Marshall J. Wells
  • CLOUD COMPUTING PLACEMENT AND PROVISIONING ARCHITECTURE
    Publication number: 20160164727
    Abstract: Provisioning resources into the cloud is a constantly increasing technical challenge as more cloud service providers emerge, each offering disparate computing platforms, services, assets, supported technical components, and other features. A cloud computing provisioning architecture implements a sequence of complex technical analyses that successfully provisions complex cloud computing services.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 21, 2015
    Publication date: June 9, 2016
    Inventors: Patrick Francis Cimprich, Michael Gerald DeLuca, Jack Q.W. Cantwell, Sean David Peterson, Marshall J. Wells
  • TECHNICAL COMPONENT PROVISIONING USING METADATA STRUCTURAL HIERARCHY
    Publication number: 20160164743
    Abstract: Determining placement options for technical components of a specified service is a difficult technical challenge. A metadata architecture addresses, in part, the technical challenge by defining a complex metadata collection and attachment mechanism. In one implementation, the metadata architecture defines metadata domains and obtains descriptive metadata for those domains, e.g., metadata for the technical components from multiple disparate sources and across multiple different characteristics of the technical components. The metadata architecture is linked to the technical components and the metadata architecture injects specific metadata subsets into, e.g., a placement pipeline that determines where the technical components may be placed in the extensive provider/platform/service space.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 21, 2015
    Publication date: June 9, 2016
    Inventors: Patrick Francis Cimprich, Michael Gerald DeLuca, Jack Q. W. Cantwell, Sean David Peterson, Marshall J. Wells
  • DYNAMIC NETWORK COMPONENT PLACEMENT
    Publication number: 20160164744
    Abstract: A network component placement architecture addresses the difficult technical challenge of determining where specific technical components of an overall service may be provisioned. However, the placement decision can change over time in response to complex updates relating to service providers, the regions they support, the assets they support, and many other dynamic factors. Dynamic network component placement effectively determines updated possibilities for placing the technical components of a specified service, while meeting all of the applicable technical constraints on the placement of the technical components.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 21, 2015
    Publication date: June 9, 2016
    Inventors: Patrick Francis Cimprich, Michael Gerald DeLuca, Jack Q.W. Cantwell, Sean David Peterson, Marshall J. Wells
  • Head restraint with a multi-cell bladder assembly
    Patent number: 9340131
    Abstract: A vehicle seating assembly includes a pump and a headrest. The headrest has a support base, a flexible foam layer coupled with the support base, a flexible substrate overlying the foam layer and defining an outer surface, and an inflatable bladder assembly positioned between the base and the foam layer. The bladder assembly has a plurality of cells corresponding to respective regions of the outer surface that are independently operable between inflated and deflated conditions by the pump. The seating assembly further includes a control operably coupled to the pump.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2016
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Michael Kolich, Amber LaVerne Hall, Sean David Fannin, Keith Allen Godin
  • HEAD RESTRAINT WITH A MULTI-CELL BLADDER ASSEMBLY
    Publication number: 20160129815
    Abstract: A vehicle seating assembly includes a pump and a headrest. The headrest has a support base, a flexible foam layer coupled with the support base, a flexible substrate overlying the foam layer and defining an outer surface, and an inflatable bladder assembly positioned between the base and the foam layer. The bladder assembly has a plurality of cells corresponding to respective regions of the outer surface that are independently operable between inflated and deflated conditions by the pump. The seating assembly further includes a control operably coupled to the pump.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2014
    Publication date: May 12, 2016
    Inventors: Michael Kolich, Amber LaVerne Hall, Sean David Fannin, Keith Allen Godin
  • LANE DEPARTURE FEEDBACK SYSTEM
    Publication number: 20160129920
    Abstract: A lane departure warning system for a vehicle includes a positional input device and a seat having an inflatable bladder therein and a vibrational unit coupled with the bladder. A controller is communicatively coupled with the positional input device and with the vibrational unit and includes electronic circuitry programmed to detect a lane departure based on a signal from the positional input device and to cause the vibrational unit to vibrate in response thereto.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2014
    Publication date: May 12, 2016
    Inventors: Amber LaVerne Hall, Michael Kolich, Sean David Fannin, Keith Allen Godin
  • REAR SEAT CUSHION WITH H-POINT ARTICULATION
    Publication number: 20160096451
    Abstract: A vehicle seat assembly includes a fixed mounting plate and a support bar coupled with the mounting plate and slidable with respect thereto along an arcuate path. A cushion support is coupled with the support bar, and a drive mechanism is operably coupled with the cushion support to rotate the cushion support about a center of the arcuate path positioned opposite the rail by sliding of the support bar along the path.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 2, 2014
    Publication date: April 7, 2016
    Inventors: Johnathan Andrew Line, Robert Damerow, Patrick Maloney, Sean David Fannin, Balakrishna Reddy, Mandeep Singh Sidhu, Christian J. Hosbach
  • REAR SEAT CUSHION WITH H-POINT ARTICULATION
    Publication number: 20160096459
    Abstract: A vehicle seat assembly includes a seat pan and four linkage arms individually pivotably coupled with the seat pan. The assembly further includes a mounting plate, each of the four linkage arms being pivotably coupled therewith. A gear rack is coupled with the seat pan and defines an articulation path therefor, and a pinion is operably engaged with the rack to drive articulation of the seat pan including pivoting of the four linkage arms and sliding of the mounting plate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 3, 2014
    Publication date: April 7, 2016
    Inventors: Johnathan Andrew Line, Robert Damerow, Patrick Maloney, Sean David Fannin, Balakrishna Reddy, Mandeep Singh Sidhu, Christian J. Hosbach
  • Integrated tray table for a motor vehicle
    Patent number: 9302629
    Abstract: An integrated tray table is provided for a motor vehicle. The tray table includes a support that extends in a first plane and a retention panel that includes a pivot connecting the retention panel to the support. The retention panel is pivotally displaceable about the pivot between a home position wherein the retention panel extends in second plane substantially parallel to or the same as the first plane and a deployed position wherein the retention panel rests within a third plane in an angle to the second plane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2016
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Amber LaVerne Hall, Sean David Fannin
  • Touch-Sensitive Display Method and Apparatus
    Publication number: 20150378601
    Abstract: An example method includes associating a first area of a non-display area of a touch-sensitive display with a first control, wherein a touch associated with the first control results in moving an indicator through the information in a first direction and in a second direction. The method may also include associating a second area of the non-display area with a second control, wherein a touch associated with the second control results in moving the indicator through the information in the first direction and in the second direction. The method may also include detecting a first touch associated with the first control, in response to detecting the first touch, moving the indicator in the first direction, detecting a second touch associated with the second control, and in response to detecting the second touch, moving the indicator in the first direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2015
    Publication date: December 31, 2015
    Applicant: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventors: Peter Anthony Van Eerd, Sean David Drew Wilson, James Ehrismann
  • SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR LAUNCHING AN APPLICATION ON AN ELECTRONIC DEVICE
    Publication number: 20150370617
    Abstract: A method and system are provided for operating an electronic device to launch an application. The method includes detecting an event associated with the application and, when an indicator of user presence is detected within a predetermined period of time after the event, launching the application. The method may further include loading the application in the background upon detecting the event if the application has not been loaded, wherein launching the application includes bringing the application to the foreground. The method may further include, when an indicator of user presence is not detected within the predetermined period of time after the event, closing the application loaded in the background.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2012
    Publication date: December 24, 2015
    Inventor: Sean David EVANS
  • Touch-sensitive display method and apparatus
    Patent number: 9141280
    Abstract: An example method includes associating a first area of a non-display area of a touch-sensitive display with a first control, wherein a touch associated with the first control results in moving an indicator through the information in a first direction and in a second direction. The method may also include associating a second area of the non-display area with a second control, wherein a touch associated with the second control results in moving the indicator through the information in the first direction and in the second direction. The method may also include detecting a first touch associated with the first control, in response to detecting the first touch, moving the indicator in the first direction, detecting a second touch associated with the second control, and in response to detecting the second touch, moving the indicator in the first direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2015
    Assignee: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventors: Peter Anthony Van Eerd, Sean David Drew Wilson, James Clement Ehrismann
  • Method for prompting user confirmation
    Patent number: 9124721
    Abstract: Prompting user confirmation of an action in a display window on a display of a mobile electronic device including displaying a pair of soft key icons, receiving a request to initiate an action from a user and displaying a confirmation message to confirm that a user wishes to proceed with the action. When the confirmation message is displayed, the pair of soft key icons are modified to create a pair of updated soft key icons. The receiving of the request may include detection of a soft key event. The updated soft key icons provide a first response and a second response to the confirmation message for selection by the user. The soft key icons and updated soft key icons may be displayed at the bottom portion of the display in a manner that does not obstruct the display window.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2015
    Assignee: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventors: Sean David Drew Wilson, Carl Edward Kilgour Pacey, Patrick Wong