Patents by Inventor Stephen Kelley

Stephen Kelley 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: 10994240
    Abstract: A piece of equipment commonly used in many petrochemical and refinery processes is a pressure swing adsorption (PSA) unit. A PSA unit may be used to recover and purify hydrogen process streams, such as from hydrocracking and hydrotreating process streams. Aspects of the present disclosure are directed to monitoring PSA unit processes for potential and existing issues, providing alerts, and/or adjusting operating conditions to optimize PSA unit life. There are many process performance indicators that may be monitored including, but not limited to, flow rates, chemical analyzers, temperature, and/or pressure. In addition, valve operation may be monitored, including opening speed, closing speed, and performance. The system may adjust one or more operating characteristics to decrease the difference between the actual operating performance in the recent and the optimal operating performance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Assignee: UOP LLC
    Inventors: Chad E. Bjorklund, Stephen Kelley, Jeffrey Guenther, Ryan McCool
  • Patent number: 10867285
    Abstract: A service appointment can be mapped to an automobile. Mapping a service appointment to an automobile can include receiving the diagnostic trouble code (DTC) from the automobile, interpreting, via a computing device, a service operation that resolves the DTC, and updating, via the computing device, the plurality of attributes of the plurality of service centers. Mapping the service appointment to an automobile can also include mapping, via the computing device, the service operation to a selected service center from the plurality of service centers based on the plurality of attributes of the selected service center and scheduling an appointment with the service center.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: CDK GLOBAL, LLC
    Inventor: Stephen Kelley
  • Patent number: 10853769
    Abstract: A service appointment can be scheduled with a service center. Scheduling a service appointment can include reading a diagnostic trouble code (DTC) of an automobile stored in an electronic memory and providing via a network interface, the DTC to a scheduling system. Scheduling a service appointment can include receiving a potential service appointment with a service center to resolve the DTC and acknowledging the potential service appointment to schedule the potential service appointment with the service center.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2020
    Assignee: CDK GLOBAL LLC
    Inventor: Stephen Kelley
  • Patent number: 10332068
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides systems and methods for stocking an automobile. Stocking the automobile can include reading the location of the automobile in an electronic memory, comparing, via one or more processors, the location of the automobile with the location of the dealership to determine whether the automobile has arrived at the dealership, and notifying, via a network interface, the stocking system that the automobile has arrived at the dealership. Stocking the automobile can also include receiving a notification, via the network interface, from the dealership that the automobile is checked-in.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: CDK GLOBAL, LLC
    Inventor: Stephen Kelley
  • Publication number: 20190083920
    Abstract: A piece of equipment commonly used in many petrochemical and refinery processes is a pressure swing adsorption (PSA) unit. A PSA unit may be used to recover and purify hydrogen process streams, such as from hydrocracking and hydrotreating process streams. Aspects of the present disclosure are directed to monitoring PSA unit processes for potential and existing issues, providing alerts, and/or adjusting operating conditions to optimize PSA unit life. There are many process performance indicators that may be monitored including, but not limited to, flow rates, chemical analyzers, temperature, and/or pressure. In addition, valve operation may be monitored, including opening speed, closing speed, and performance. The system may adjust one or more operating characteristics to decrease the difference between the actual operating performance in the recent and the optimal operating performance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2018
    Publication date: March 21, 2019
    Inventors: Chad E. Bjorklund, Stephen Kelley, Jeffrey Guenther, Ryan McCool
  • Publication number: 20170308865
    Abstract: A service appointment can be mapped to an automobile. Mapping a service appointment to an automobile can include receiving the diagnostic trouble code (DTC) from the automobile, interpreting, via a computing device, a service operation that resolves the DTC, and updating, via the computing device, the plurality of attributes of the plurality of service centers. Mapping the service appointment to an automobile can also include mapping, via the computing device, the service operation to a selected service center from the plurality of service centers based on the plurality of attributes of the selected service center and scheduling an appointment with the service center.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 21, 2016
    Publication date: October 26, 2017
    Inventor: Stephen Kelley
  • Publication number: 20170308864
    Abstract: A service appointment can be scheduled with a service center. Scheduling a service appointment can include reading a diagnostic trouble code (DTC) of an automobile stored in an electronic memory and providing via a network interface, the DTC to a scheduling system. Scheduling a service appointment can include receiving a potential service appointment with a service center to resolve the DTC and acknowledging the potential service appointment to schedule the potential service appointment with the service center.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 21, 2016
    Publication date: October 26, 2017
    Inventor: Stephen Kelley
  • Publication number: 20170308844
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides systems and methods for stocking an automobile. Stocking the automobile can include reading the location of the automobile in an electronic memory, comparing, via one or more processors, the location of the automobile with the location of the dealership to determine whether the automobile has arrived at the dealership, and notifying, via a network interface, the stocking system that the automobile has arrived at the dealership. Stocking the automobile can also include receiving a notification, via the network interface, from the dealership that the automobile is checked-in.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 21, 2016
    Publication date: October 26, 2017
    Inventor: Stephen Kelley
  • Patent number: 6662232
    Abstract: The invention relates to a system and method for re-transmitting an e-mail message transmitted from a sender to a recipient based upon predetermined criteria. The method performing the steps of prescribing at least one time period for performing messaging tasks and defining messaging tasks to be initiated for the e-mail message during the at least one prescribed time period. When an e-mail message is received in a recipients e-mail account a determination is made as to whether if the e-mail message was received within the at least one prescribed time period. And re-transmitting the e-mail message in accordance with the defined messaging tasks if the e-mail message was determined to be received within the prescribed time period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 1998
    Date of Patent: December 9, 2003
    Assignee: Pitney Bowes Ltd.
    Inventors: Timothy J. Nicholls, Robert W. Allport, Stephen Kelley, Christopher J. Capelli
  • Patent number: 6363414
    Abstract: A invention relates to a system and method for re-transmitting an e-mail message transmitted from a sender to a recipient based upon predetermined criteria. The method including the steps of receiving in a recipients e-mail account an e-mail message transmitted from a sender and interrogating the address block of the e-mail message to determine if predetermined criteria has been met in the sender addressing information portion of the e-mail message. The e-mail message is re-transmitted to the recipient such that the recipient receives at least the messaging information content of the e-mail message at a location other than the recipients intended e-mail address if the predetermined criteria has been met.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 1998
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2002
    Assignee: Pitney Bowes Ltd.
    Inventors: Timothy J. Nicholls, Robert W. Allport, Stephen Kelley, Christopher J. Capelli