Patents by Inventor Steven Richards

Steven Richards 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).

  • Publication number: 20140309352
    Abstract: A curable polymer composition comprising: (A) a thermoset maleimide resin precursor component; and further comprising one or both of: (B) an arylsulphone-containing maleimide component; and (C) a polyarylpolymer thermoplastic toughening agent component, wherein in the absence of component (B), said component (C) comprises one or more maleimide pendant and/or end groups, and thermoset resins and composites derived therefrom.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2012
    Publication date: October 16, 2014
    Applicant: CYTEC INDUSTRIES INC.
    Inventors: Steven Richard Ward, Paul Mark Cross, Robin Maskell
  • Publication number: 20140304920
    Abstract: The invention relates to a pillow (10), comprising two sheets of flexible material, joined together to define a space, suitable for inflating to provide a cushioned support. The pillow has a head zone (16) for providing cushioning means to a users head and two wings (18), configured to extend away from the head zone such that the pillow is substantially U-shaped in the plane of the pillow, when deflated. A channel (22) is provided between the sheets of flexible material to connect the wings (18). The channel (22) is positioned at a point in the head zone (16) furthermost from the wing ends (20). The width of the channel increases from the centre line (24) such that when the pillow is inflated, the pillow has a substantially V-shaped profile, formed about the centre line (24) and centerred on the channel (22).
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2014
    Publication date: October 16, 2014
    Applicant: D G Capital Limited
    Inventors: Barnaby Bevan EDWARDS, Steven Richard SPONG
  • Publication number: 20140310551
    Abstract: While an information handling device is in a reduced power state, the information handling device transitions from the reduced power state to a higher power state in response to receiving a message over an established wireless network connection that maintains a presence on a wireless network. In turn, the information handling device processes the message accordingly in the higher power state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2014
    Publication date: October 16, 2014
    Inventors: Jeffrey Clark, Mark Charles Davis, Justin Tyler Dubs, Steven Richard Perrin, Jennifer Greenwood Zawacki, Dekui Zhang
  • Publication number: 20140307607
    Abstract: While an information handling device is in a reduced power state, the information handling device transitions from the reduced power state to a higher power state in response to receiving a message over an established wireless network connection that maintains a presence on a wireless network. In turn, the information handling device processes the message accordingly in the higher power state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2014
    Publication date: October 16, 2014
    Inventors: Jeffrey Clark, Mark Charles Davis, Justin Tyler Dubs, Steven Richard Perrin, Jennifer Greenwood Zawacki, Dekui Zhang
  • Patent number: 8856991
    Abstract: The invention relates to a pillow (10), comprising two sheets of flexible material, joined together to define a space, suitable for inflating to provide a cushioned support. The pillow has a head zone (16) for providing cushioning means to a user's head and two wings (18), configured to extend away from the head zone such that the pillow is substantially U-shaped in the plane of the pillow, when deflated. A channel (22) is provided between the sheets of flexible material to connect the wings (18). The channel (22) is positioned at a point in the head zone (16) furthermost from the wing ends (20). The width of the channel increases from the center line (24) such that when the pillow is inflated, the pillow has a substantially V-shaped profile, formed about the center line (24) and centered on the channel (22).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 14, 2014
    Assignee: D G Capital Limited
    Inventors: Barnaby Bevan Edwards, Steven Richard Spong
  • Patent number: 8855687
    Abstract: A device and method include detecting signal strength received at a mobile cellular communication device. A dropped call is detected between the device and another device as a function of detected signal strength. The dropped call is reconnected when detected signal strength reaches a selected first threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 7, 2014
    Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Howard J. Locker, Axel Ramirez Flores, Bradley Park Strazisar, James Stephen Rutledge, Jennifer Greenwood Zawacki, Michael Thano Matthews, Scott Edwards Kelso, Steven Richard Perrin, Yi Zhou
  • Publication number: 20140293994
    Abstract: A telecommunications panel and associated system are disclosed. In one example, the panel includes a panel housing having a first side and a second side, one or more data connectors on the first side, and a power input signal connector on the first side. The panel includes one or more combined power output and data signal connectors on the second side, each of the combined power output and data signal connectors configured to electrically connect to a twisted pair cable and including a plurality of twisted pairs each having first and second wire contacts. The one or more twisted pairs are configured to carry a power signal as a direct current voltage difference between the first and second wire contacts, and the remaining twisted pairs from the plurality of twisted pairs are configured to carry differential data signals. The telecommunications panel is configured to selectably allow pairs of the remaining twisted pairs from the plurality of twisted pairs to cooperate to carry a power signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2014
    Publication date: October 2, 2014
    Applicant: Tyco Electronics Corporation
    Inventors: PAUL JOHN PEPE, STEVEN RICHARD BOPP
  • Patent number: 8850209
    Abstract: In one embodiment, an object in a database schema may be verified as having a valid digital signature associated with a trusted entity. An application may be permitted access to the object of the database schema only when the object of the database schema is verified to have a valid digital signature associated with the trusted entity. In another embodiment, an object in a database schema may be verified as having a digital signature associated with at least one trusted entity. An application may be permitted access to the object of the database schema only when the digital signature for the object is verified to be associated with the at least one trusted entity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2014
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Tanmoy Dutta, Raul Garcia, Steven Richard Gott, Ruslan Pavlovich Ovechkin, Roger Lynn Wolter
  • Publication number: 20140285463
    Abstract: An apparatus can include a processor; a memory device that includes memory accessible by the processor; a touchscreen operatively coupled to the processor; and circuitry to decode fields received via the touchscreen, the fields being modulated according to modulation codes associated with a set of tokens positionable on the touchscreen. Various other apparatuses, systems, methods, etc., are also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2013
    Publication date: September 25, 2014
    Applicant: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Steven Richard Perrin, John Weldon Nicholson, Howard J. Locker
  • Publication number: 20140275906
    Abstract: A garment for a medical device comprises a front panel; a back panel; at least one opening for a body part; at least one pocket; and at least one fastener. In some embodiments, the garment can be worn by the user of an insulin pump.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Publication date: September 18, 2014
    Inventor: Steven Richard Hackenburg
  • Publication number: 20140282239
    Abstract: For selecting a touch screen hot spot, an indication module sequentially indicates each hot spot within a specified selection area about a projection of the selection object onto a touch screen. The sequential indication may be in response to the selection object hovering within a hover range of the touch screen. A selection module selects a hot spot in response to detecting movement of the selection object towards the touch screen concurrent with the indication of the selected hot spot.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Publication date: September 18, 2014
    Applicant: LENOVO (SINGAPORE) PTE, LTD.
    Inventors: Howard Locker, John Weldon Nicholson, Steven Richard Perrin
  • Publication number: 20140282149
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method including storing in a memory presentation data, including image data, processing the image data to generate positioning data for positioning the image on a presentation in accordance with a plurality of image positioning techniques, and selecting positioning data for positioning the image in accordance with at least one of the plurality of image positioning techniques. A user interface, which may be graphical, permits a user to toggle through the positions generated by the various techniques, and to lock the image in a desired position. Also disclosed are a system and a computer-usable storage medium having instructions thereon for implementing the method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2013
    Publication date: September 18, 2014
    Applicant: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: John Weldon NICHOLSON, Mark Charles DAVIS, Elif KARAKAYA, Scott Edwards KELSO, Steven Richard PERRIN
  • Publication number: 20140273634
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a telecommunications connector having cross-talk compensations, and a method of managing alien crosstalk in such a connector. In one example, the telecommunications connector includes electrical conductors arranged in differential pairs and a circuit board with conductive layers that provide a cross-talk compensation arrangement for applying capacitance between the electrical conductors. The circuit board includes conductive paths that provide capacitive coupling and a conductive plate that intensifies capacitive coupling of the electrical conductors. In another example, the telecommunications connector is used with a twisted pair system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2014
    Publication date: September 18, 2014
    Applicants: TYCO ELECTRONICS UK LTD., TYCO ELECTRONICS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Steven Richard Bopp, Bernard Harold Hammond, JR.
  • Publication number: 20140248806
    Abstract: An electrical connector includes a front wire terminal and a rear wire terminal. The front wire terminal and the rear wire terminal are configured to couple to a conductor of a cable. A front signal trace is coupled to the front wire terminal. A rear signal trace is coupled to the rear wire terminal. The front signal trace is positioned adjacent to the rear signal trace. A front mating contact is coupled to the front signal trace. A rear mating contact is coupled to the rear signal trace. The front signal trace conveys an electrical signal between the front wire terminal and the front mating contact. The rear signal trace conveys an electrical signal between the rear wire terminal and the rear mating contact. An electro-mechanical compensation is positioned between the front signal trace and the rear signal trace to control crosstalk between the front signal trace and the rear signal trace.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2013
    Publication date: September 4, 2014
    Applicant: TYCO ELECTRONICS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Steven Richard Bopp, Ralph Sykes Martin, Paul John Pepe
  • Patent number: 8821446
    Abstract: A microneedle applicator is provided which has two roughly concentric portions which may be, for example, a solid disk and an annulus surrounding it. On the skin-facing side of the inner portion of the applicator a microneedle array is located. The outer portion of the applicator is placed against the skin, contacting it at a zone. The microneedle array is then pressed towards the skin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2014
    Assignee: Corium International, Inc.
    Inventors: Joseph C. Trautman, Robert Wade Worsham, Danir F. Bayramov, Danny Lee Bowers, Steven Richard Klemm, Parminder Singh
  • Publication number: 20140235110
    Abstract: An electrical connector that includes a circuit board having a board substrate that has opposite board surfaces and a thickness measured along an orientation axis that extends between the opposite board surfaces. The circuit board has associated pairs of input and output terminals and signal traces that electrically connect the associated pairs of input and output terminals. The input and output terminals being configured to communicatively coupled to mating and cable conductors, respectively. Each associated pair of input and output terminals is electrically connected through a corresponding signal trace that has a conductive path extending along the board substrate between the corresponding input and output terminals. At least two signal traces form a broadside-coupling region in which the conductive paths of the at least two signal traces are stacked along the orientation axis and spaced apart through the thickness and extend parallel to each other for a crosstalk-reducing distance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2013
    Publication date: August 21, 2014
    Applicant: Tyco Electronics Corporation
    Inventors: Steven Richard Bopp, Neil Ktul Nay
  • Patent number: 8812699
    Abstract: An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for synchronizing inbound and outbound data in an environment that offers multiple data pathways. When an attempt to send data by a host computer fails, the host computer notifies a secondary device with a separate network connection of the failure. The secondary device attempts to send the data over its separate network connection. If the secondary device fails to send the data, the host computer generates new attempts to send the data over its network connection. The secondary device does the same if the host computer continues to fail in its attempts to send the data. When either the host computer or the secondary device sends the outbound data, it notifies the other of the successful send. The devices then stop further attempts to transmit the data. For inbound data, the host computer and secondary device obtain unique identifiers for inbound data items, compare them, and request from the other those inbound data items that it has not received.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 19, 2014
    Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) PTE. Ltd.
    Inventors: Steven Richard Perrin, James Joseph Thrasher, Michael Terrell Vanover, Jennifer Greenwood Zawacki, Justin Tyler Dubs
  • Publication number: 20140223945
    Abstract: A solar thermal air conditioning unit is provided. The solar thermal air condition unit includes a pressurized water tank with a water entrance port for receiving water. A copper coil tube may be within the pressurized water tank. The copper coiled tube may include a liquid refrigerant inlet and a gas refrigerant outlet. A solar heat converter may be connected to the pressurized water tank and may heat the water within the pressurized water tank, thereby heating the copper coil tube. The liquid refrigerant may be injected into the copper coil tube via the liquid refrigerant inlet and travels through the copper coil and is heated, thereby turning the liquid refrigerant to a gas refrigerant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 21, 2014
    Publication date: August 14, 2014
    Inventor: Steven Richard Rahl
  • Publication number: 20140215542
    Abstract: A system and a method are disclosed for presenting an interactive video ad in a mobile web browser that does not support embedded video playback in the browser. The interactive video ad comprises an overlay of transparent frame and visible elements, wherein the visible elements include instructions on performing a gesture to interact with the video ad. The system generates an HTML underlay, which is a web page with embedded link to continue playback of the interactive video ad and one or more interactivity options. The HTML underlay is displayed when the gesture is performed. Interactions with the video ad can be selected from the one or more options presented by the HTML underlay.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2013
    Publication date: July 31, 2014
    Applicant: RHYTHM NEWMEDIA INC
    Inventor: Steven Richard Terpe
  • Publication number: 20140207924
    Abstract: An embodiment includes a system having: a display device having a first operating platform; a base device having a second operating platform and being configured to connect with the display device through a hardware connection; the hardware connection including a communication link between the first and second operating platforms; and a server module and a client module; the server module configured to, responsive to selecting an active operating platform, communicate settings of a previously active operating platform via the hardware connection to the client module to maintain continuity of settings after switching active operating platforms. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2014
    Publication date: July 24, 2014
    Inventors: Matthew Roper, Steven Richard Perrin, Scott Edwards Kelso, Mark Charles Davis, Li Bin, Wang Sheng