Patents by Inventor Steven A. Duncan

Steven A. Duncan 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: 11973806
    Abstract: Techniques are disclosed relating to automatically altering a displayed user interface for an event. A server computer system may cause, via a conferencing service, display of a user interface for an event having a group of users accessing the conferencing service via a plurality of user devices, the displayed interface including an indication of a video feed of a user in the group of users that is currently active. The system may store, in a database, data for the event, including content of audio and video feeds of users in the event. The system may analyze a set of characteristics included in the content of the audio and video feeds. The system may alter, while the indication of the video feed of the user is being displayed, aspects of the displayed user interface other than the indication, where the altering is performed based on the analyzing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Toucan Events Inc.
    Inventors: Ivo Walter Rothschild, Paul Robert Murphy, Asahi Sato, Antonia Theodora Hellman, Ethan Duncan He-Li Hellman, Steven Emmanuel Hellman
  • Patent number: 11966351
    Abstract: A network interface device comprises a streaming data processing path comprising a first data processing engine and hubs. A first scheduler associated with a first hub controls an output of data by the first hub to the first data processing engine and a second scheduler associated with a second hub controls an output of data by the second hub. The first hub is arranged upstream of the first data processing engine on the data processing path and is configured to receive data from a first upstream data path entity and from a first data processing entity implemented in programmable circuitry via a data ingress interface of the first hub. The first data processing engine is configured to receive data from the first hub, process the received data and output the processed data to the second hub arranged downstream of first data processing engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: XILINX, INC.
    Inventors: Steven Leslie Pope, Derek Edward Roberts, Dmitri Kitariev, Neil Duncan Turton, David James Riddoch, Ripduman Sohan
  • Patent number: 11960596
    Abstract: A network interface device comprises a first area of trust comprising a first part of the network interface device, the first part comprising one or more first kernels. A second area of trust comprising a second part of the network interface device different to said first part is provided, the second part comprising one or more second kernels. A communication link is provided between the first area of trust and the second area of trust. At least one of the first and second areas of trust is provided with isolation circuitry configured to control which data which is passed to the other of the first and second areas via the communication link.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: XILINX, INC.
    Inventors: Steven Leslie Pope, Derek Edward Roberts, Dmitri Kitariev, Neil Duncan Turton, David James Riddoch, Ripduman Sohan
  • Publication number: 20240097924
    Abstract: Techniques are disclosed for automatically executing scripts for event in response to user activity within the event. A server executing a video conferencing service, receives meeting scheduling information and a set of user-specified scripting information from a user requesting to generate an event. In response to receiving a request from user device to access the event, the server causes display of an event interface to the device, the displayed interface including indications of sub-groups of a group of users accessing the conferencing service via a plurality of user devices and an indication of a video feed of a user in the group of users that is currently active. In response to one or more triggers corresponding to the event, one or more scripts are executed for the event, where executing the one or more scripts includes altering the displayed interface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 27, 2023
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Inventors: Antonia Theodora Hellman, Ethan Duncan He-Li Hellman, Steven Emmanuel Hellman, Ivo Walter Rothschild, Paul Robert Murphy, Asahi Sato, William Hans Von Hippel, Michel Henri Georges Cassius
  • Publication number: 20180244792
    Abstract: Disclosed are methods for treating fibrosis in a subject using a CD70 agonist. In some examples, the agent is an antibody that binds CD70, an antigen biding fragments thereof, soluble CD27, or a small molecule. In some embodiments, the fibrosis is fibrosis of the skin and/or the lung. In some embodiments, the subject is administered a nucleic acid molecule encoding a CD70 agonist.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2016
    Publication date: August 30, 2018
    Applicant: University of Pittsburgh - Of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education
    Inventor: Steven Duncan
  • Patent number: 5615387
    Abstract: A method of reworking a printed circuit board having a surface including areas needing to be reworked including the steps of covering the surface with a dielectric leaving uncovered at least the areas of the surface to be reworked, and selectively providing corrective circuitry on the dielectric interconnected to the uncovered areas of the surface needing to be reworked. In addition, a printed circuit board having a surface including reworked areas including a dielectric covering the surface leaving uncovered at least the reworked areas, and corrective circuitry on the dielectric interconnected to the uncovered reworked areas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 1996
    Date of Patent: March 25, 1997
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Charles H. Crockett, Jr., Steven A. Duncan, Stephen A. Dunn, David W. Malone, Michael G. McMaster
  • Patent number: 5600259
    Abstract: A multi-pin probe including a printed circuit board with multiple electrically conductive vias, multiple probes, each probe inserted into one of the electrically conductive vias, and a housing having multiple cavities inserted over the multiple probes, each cavity having a first and a second aperture around one of the probes, the first aperture being smaller than the second aperture. In addition, a method of manufacturing a multi-pin probe including the steps of manufacturing a printed circuit board with multiple electrically conductive vias, inserting multiple probes into the electrically conductive vias, and inserting a housing having multiple cavities over the multiple probes, each cavity having a first and a second aperture around one of the probes, the first aperture being smaller than the second aperture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 1996
    Date of Patent: February 4, 1997
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Bernd Bartyzel, Steven A. Duncan, Daniel A. Fields, Keith A. Vanderlee
  • Patent number: 5214250
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method of reworking a circuit panel, and a reworked circuit panel structure. The method includes providing a conformal, polymeric, dielectric coating or coatings on the surface of the panel, providing conductive circuitization atop the conformal, polymeric, dielectric coating or coatings on the surface of the panel, and providing a top conformal, polymeric, dielectric coating atop the conductive circuitization layer. Also disclosed is a rerouted circuit panel having at least two surface features that are connected by a rerouted current lead. The current lead is formed of a dielectric encapsulated conductor electrically joining the two surface features. The dielectric encapsulated conductor structure includes a conformal, polymeric dielectric bottom layer adherent to a surface of the circuit board, with a provided conductor on the conformal, polymeric dielectric layer, and a conformal, polymeric dielectric layer provided atop the provided conductor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 1991
    Date of Patent: May 25, 1993
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Burtran J. Cayson, John A. Covert, Steven A. Duncan, John M. Lauffer, Issa S. Mahmoud, Richard A. Schumacher
  • Patent number: 5088508
    Abstract: An apparatus for eliminating sidestream smoke from a cigarette or other smoking article includes a smoke collecting chamber adapted to collect sidestream smoke from the lit end of the smoking article along with air for combustion of the sidestream smoke and to direct the mixture of sidestream smoke and air to a combustion area associated with the smoke collecting chamber. An ignition device is included in the apparatus for igniting at least a portion of the sidestream smoke received in the combustion area by heating the smoke in the combustion area to an ignition temperature. The preferred ignition device includes a heat source for constantly producing a flame in the combustion area. The apparatus may also include a smoke particle capturing arrangement in a capture chamber connected to the smoke collecting chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 1991
    Date of Patent: February 18, 1992
    Inventor: Steven A. Duncan