Patents by Inventor Steve Edwards

Steve Edwards 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: 11468172
    Abstract: Presented herein are techniques for automatically generating information about risks associated with browser extensions used by browsers in an enterprise network for purposes of determining whether to whitelist a browser extension in response to a request from a user. A request to install a browser extension is obtained from a user device of a plurality of user devices associated with an organization, wherein the request comprises an extension identifier for the browser extension. A risk score is generated for the browser extension based on risk values for each of one or more permissions requested by the browser extension. The risk score is compared to a threshold value to determine whether the browser extension satisfies risk standards of the organization, and if so, the browser extension is automatically added to a whitelist of permitted extensions for future installation on the plurality of user devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC.
    Inventors: Jacob Rickerd, Steve Edwards, Zack Hardie, Peter Jackson, Kyle Lady, Benjamin Peters, Art Sturdevant
  • Publication number: 20200250316
    Abstract: Presented herein are techniques for automatically generating information about risks associated with browser extensions used by browsers in an enterprise network for purposes of determining whether to whitelist a browser extension in response to a request from a user. A request to install a browser extension is obtained from a user device of a plurality of user devices associated with an organization, wherein the request comprises an extension identifier for the browser extension. A risk score is generated for the browser extension based on risk values for each of one or more permissions requested by the browser extension. The risk score is compared to a threshold value to determine whether the browser extension satisfies risk standards of the organization, and if so, the browser extension is automatically added to a whitelist of permitted extensions for future installation on the plurality of user devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 2, 2019
    Publication date: August 6, 2020
    Inventors: Jacob Rickerd, Steve Edwards, Zack Hardie, Peter Jackson, Kyle Lady, Benjamin Peters, Art Sturdevant
  • Publication number: 20160351065
    Abstract: A system for providing access to a gaming software is provided. The present invention includes a computer having a processor and a memory. The processor receives an initiation command from a first user to initiate the gaming software loaded on the memory, launches a gateway software loaded on the memory, produces at least a first learning set and questions for the first user to answer and determine if the entered answers to the questions match a preset answers saved on the memory. The gaming software is initiated if the answers match the preset answers. Alternatively, the gaming software is not initiated if the answers do not match the preset answers and at least one new learning set and questions are produced for the first user to try again.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2016
    Publication date: December 1, 2016
    Inventors: Thomas J. Sinnickson, Steve Edwards, Bediako George
  • Publication number: 20120059266
    Abstract: A docking station for use in combined imaging of a tissue wound and a test substrate comprising a sample from a tissue wound, the docking station comprises means for connecting the station to a processor which processes and stores the images. The docking station also incorporates means for receiving a test substrate comprising a sample from a tissue wound. The docking station also includes means for docking a sensor in the station, which sensor detects the light reflected from an illuminated tissue wound, such that an image of the tissue wound can be communicated from the station to the processor. The means for docking is arranged such that when the sensor is docked in the station and the test substrate is received by the docking station, the sensor is positioned to detect the intensity of reflected light from the test substrate and communicates the detected intensity of reflected light to the processor to thus permit combined imaging of the tissue wound and test substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2010
    Publication date: March 8, 2012
    Inventors: Paul James Davis, Steve Edwards
  • Publication number: 20050250619
    Abstract: An exercise apparatus that is to be mounted in a doorway and held in position by the user's own body weight during use. In one aspect the invention comprises: first and second L-shaped members disposed in side-by-side relation, each having a horizontal section and a vertical section; a first member having a length less than a width of the doorway and connected to the vertical sections of the first and second L-shaped members; a second member having a length greater than the width of the doorway and connected to the horizontal sections of the first and second L-shaped members at a first horizontal distance from the first member; a first gripping bar connected to the horizontal section of the first L-shaped member at a second horizontal distance from the first member, the second horizontal distance being greater than the first horizontal distance; and a second gripping bar connected to the horizontal section of the second L-shaped member at approximately the second horizontal distance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 7, 2004
    Publication date: November 10, 2005
    Inventors: Carl Daikeler, Jonathan Congdon, Steve Edwards, Leigh Miller, Tony Horton
  • Publication number: 20020037536
    Abstract: Assays where harsh sample pretreatment for releasing an analyte is required are routinely performed in two separate vessels or on two physically separate surfaces. The present invention provides for the preparation of a surface suitable for performing assays where sample pretreatment is necessary. The appropriate surface is coated with a molecule coupled to biotin wherein the resulting surface is resistant to the analyte releasing step. It can then be overcoated with avidin. Treatment of samples with strong alkali and reducing agents to release complexed or bound analyte molecules prior to assay can be carried out in the presence of the coated surface without significantly reducing its binding activity. In this way, pretreatment and assay can be accomplished on the same surface or in the same reaction vessel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 1999
    Publication date: March 28, 2002
    Inventors: STEVE EDWARDS, JOANNA SEFTON, BEVERLEY HIPKISS, HEATHER ANNE EDGAR
  • Patent number: 6014176
    Abstract: A video/graphics overlay integrated circuit receives an analog composite video signal and a digital composite video signal and combines them in a predetermined format into an output composite video signal which is transmitted to a display device such as a television set. The digital video signal may be comprised of digital video, graphics data or a combination of digital video and graphics data. The digital video and graphics data are encoded by a digital encoder integrated circuit into a digital composite video signal. The digital composite video signal is coupled to the video/graphics overlay integrated circuit. An automatic phase correction circuit detects any phase difference between the burst signals of the analog composite video signal and the digital composite video signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 1996
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2000
    Assignees: Sony Corporation, Sony Electronics, Inc.
    Inventors: Mehrdad Nayebi, Steve Edwards
  • Patent number: 5907367
    Abstract: A video/graphics overlay circuit receives an analog input composite video signal and a digital input composite video signal and combines them into a linear combination output composite video signal depending on the state of one or more mixer control signals. The two composite video input signals are each capacitively coupled to buffer and clamp circuits through which the blank or DC level of each signal is clamped to two volts. The outputs of the buffer and clamp circuits are then fed to a mixer circuit and burst separator circuits. The mixer circuit generates the output composite video signal which is a linear combination of the input composite video signals as controlled by the one or more mixer control signals. The burst separator circuits separate the burst signal from the input composite video signals. The extracted burst signals are then provided to a burst signal phase-locked loop for locking the burst signals of the input composite video signals in phase.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 1998
    Date of Patent: May 25, 1999
    Assignees: Sony Corporation, Sony Electronics, Inc.
    Inventors: Steve Edwards, Duc Ngo, Mehrdad Nayebi
  • Patent number: 5815212
    Abstract: A video/graphics overlay circuit receives an analog input composite video signal and a digital input composite video signal and combines them into a linear combination output composite video signal depending on the state of one or more mixer control signals. The two composite video input signals are each capacitively coupled to buffer and clamp circuits through which the blank or DC level of each signal is clamped to two volts. The outputs of the buffer and clamp circuits are then fed to a mixer circuit and burst separator circuits. The mixer circuit generates the output composite video signal which is a linear combination of the input composite video signals as controlled by the one or more mixer control signals. The burst separator circuits separate the burst signal from the input composite video signals. The extracted burst signals are then provided to a burst signal phase-locked loop for locking the burst signals of the input composite video signals in phase.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 1996
    Date of Patent: September 29, 1998
    Assignees: Sony Corporation, Sony Electronics, Inc.
    Inventors: Steve Edwards, Duc Ngo, Mehrdad Nayebi
  • Patent number: 5689309
    Abstract: A mixer control circuit generates content control signals which are used by a mixer circuit to control the content of an output signal. The output signal will include either an analog signal, a digital signal or a mixture of the analog and digital signals. The level of a digital content control signal corresponds to the percentage of the output signal which includes the digital signal. The level of an analog content control signal corresponds to the percentage of the output signal which includes the analog signal. When the output signal includes a mixture of the analog and digital signals, a differential pair and an external control voltage are used to specify the percentage of each signal to be included within the output signal. During a horizontal blanking period, when the signals are being mixed, the differential pair and the external control voltage are bypassed and only the analog signal is included within the output signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 1996
    Date of Patent: November 18, 1997
    Assignees: Sony Corporation, Sony Electronics, Inc.
    Inventors: Mehrdad Nayebi, Duc Trong Ngo, Steve Edwards