Patents by Inventor Steven Walker

Steven Walker 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: 11218639
    Abstract: A system and method for providing a mobile interface for marking and organizing images is described herein. In some instances, the system may present, on a display device, an image region that displays a capturable image that is capturable by an image sensor of the wireless mobile electronic device and a preview region including a series of one or more annotatable image previews. The system may receive an input instructing the wireless mobile electronic device to capture a second image using the image sensor of the wireless mobile electronic device, generate a second image preview representing the second image, and update the graphical user interface to include the second image preview at the preview region. The system may receive an input including an annotation using an input device of the wireless mobile electronic device and update the graphical user interface to represent the annotation at the preview region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: Staples, Inc.
    Inventors: M. Steven Walker, Nathan Petersen
  • Publication number: 20210254166
    Abstract: Methods for characterising and/or prognosing cancer in a subject comprise determining the expression level of at least one, and preferably 12, genes selected from Table 1 in a sample from the subject wherein the determined expression level is used to provide a characterisation of and/or a prognosis for the cancer. Determined expression levels are used to generate a signature score. The methods permit metastatic disease to be identified and monitored and guide therapeutic interventions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2016
    Publication date: August 19, 2021
    Applicant: ALMAC DIAGNOSTICS LIMITED
    Inventors: Steven WALKER, Laura HILL, Andrena MCCAVIGAN, Sinead DONEGAN, Timothy DAVISON, Richard KENNEDY, Denis Paul HARKIN, Bethanie PRICE
  • Publication number: 20210233374
    Abstract: A smoke detector with an audible alarm wherein the smoke detection chamber is also an acoustic chamber for spreading the sound waves generated by the piezoelectric sounder as alarm signal. A slim profile can be obtained.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 5, 2018
    Publication date: July 29, 2021
    Inventors: Steven Walker, Doug Lawrence
  • Publication number: 20210019679
    Abstract: A novel location and marking system is configured to provide a seamless in-the-field access to resource and asset information databases with automated functionality that effectively and more efficiently manages, controls, and distributes data according to some embodiments. In some embodiments, such systems can enable utilities to manage assets in real-time, provide map asset status, and provide automatic ticket routing, dispatching and management. For example, in some embodiments, the system is configured to generate maps with identifiers or components of an active division including tickets of one or more assets of an active division. These assets include sites of residential and business gas, electrical, and/or water and sewer conduits and metering systems, as well as related underground infrastructure that can be susceptible to earthquakes, ground disturbances, and other emergency situations according to some embodiments.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 17, 2020
    Publication date: January 21, 2021
    Inventors: Shelbey Warner, Bob Wolf, William Glenn, Michael Hansen, Morgan Sharif, Jason Klemm, Zac Scofield, Eddie Dotson, Travis Huston, Steven Walker, Michael Glass, Patrick Buckles, Tony Chen, Siva Jasti
  • Patent number: 10885496
    Abstract: A restocking hub with interchangeable buttons mapped to item identifiers is described herein. In some instances, a local hub may receive an actuation signal from a particular button of a set of interchangeable buttons communicatively coupled with the local hub, the local hub being communicatively coupled with a remote server. The local hub may transmit a signal including a button ID of the particular button to the remote server based on the particular button being activated and the local hub receiving the actuation signal from the particular button. In some implementations, the remote server may determine an item associated with the particular button and attributes of the item based on the button ID of the particular button and a mapping of button IDs to items in a database accessible by the remote server, and execute a defined action using the attributes of the item associated with the particular button.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2021
    Assignee: Staples, Inc.
    Inventors: Ranjeet Sonone, Faisal Masud, M. Steven Walker
  • Patent number: 10740809
    Abstract: According to an example implementation, a method comprises generating a graphical asynchronous messaging user interface including an input region containing a set of digital images of items and an activity region displaying graphical messaging elements respectively representing messages sent between a consumer node and a provider node, displaying the graphical asynchronous messaging user interface, receiving a first user input from a user via the input region selecting a first digital image associated with a first item from the set of digital images of items in the input region, generating a first message including the first digital image associated with the first item, including the first message including the first digital image associated with the first item in a first messaging element in the activity region displayed to the user on the display device, and transmitting the first message via a public computer network as a request to the provider node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2020
    Assignee: Staples, Inc.
    Inventors: Ian Goodwin, Ryan Bartley, M. Steven Walker, Pratabkumar Vemana, Faisal Masud
  • Patent number: 10706456
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method and system are described for ordering items within a zone of a physical location. An example method may include wirelessly receiving at a server via a computer network a unique identifier associated with a physical ordering device, the physical ordering device being remotely located from the server, retrieving, at the server from an information source, item information describing an item configured to be associated with the unique identifier of the physical ordering device, retrieving, at the server from the information source, shipping data including a physical location uniquely associated with the physical ordering device, and generating at the server a purchase request for re-ordering the item. The method may further include processing at the server the purchase request, and authorizing at the server shipment of the item to the physical location associated with the physical ordering device responsive to the processing of the purchase request.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2020
    Assignee: Staples, Inc.
    Inventors: Ian Goodwin, Faisal Masud, Shiv Agarwal, Ryan Bartley, M. Steven Walker, Pratabkumar Vemana, Daniel Hailemariam
  • Publication number: 20190370888
    Abstract: A system and method for intelligent item reordering using an adaptable mobile graphical user interface is described herein. In some instances, the system may generate a graphical user interface including a first set of graphical elements representing a first set of items, and receive a first input selecting a particular item of the first set of items, the first set of graphical elements including a graphical element representing the particular item. The system may generate a graphical list of quantities and render the graphical list of quantities at a first position in the graphical user interface based on the graphical element representing the particular item in the graphical user interface. In some instances, the system may receive a second input identifying a selected quantity from the graphical list of quantities and modify the graphical element representing the particular item to indicate the selected quantity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 29, 2019
    Publication date: December 5, 2019
    Inventors: M. Steven Walker, Ranjeet Sonone, Faisal Masud
  • Publication number: 20190371162
    Abstract: A restocking hub with interchangeable buttons mapped to item identifiers is described herein. In some instances, a local hub may receive an actuation signal from a particular interchangeable button communicatively coupled with the local hub. The actuation signal may include a button ID that identifies the particular interchangeable button and may indicating an actuation of the particular interchangeable button. The local hub may generate an order signal identifying the button ID based on the actuation signal, and may transmit the order signal instructing a remote server to perform a defined operation using the button ID. In some instances, the local hub may output a confirmation notification based on data received from the remote server based on the defined operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 29, 2019
    Publication date: December 5, 2019
    Inventors: M. Steven Walker, Ranjeet Sonone, Faisal Masud
  • Publication number: 20190316203
    Abstract: An immune response subtype of cancer is associated with DNA damage which allows subjects to be stratified for particular therapies including immune therapies which may be combined with DNA damage therapeutics. A method for predicting responsiveness to an antagonist of an inhibitory immune checkpoint and/or an agonist of a stimulatory immune checkpoint comprises determining the expression level of at least one gene selected from Table 2B, 2A or 1 in a sample from the subject. The determined expression level is used to predict responsiveness to an antagonist of an inhibitory immune checkpoint and/or an agonist of a stimulatory immune checkpoint.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 21, 2016
    Publication date: October 17, 2019
    Applicant: ALMAC DIAGNOSTICS LIMITED
    Inventors: Timothy Davison, Jude O'Donnell, Max Bylesjo, Fionnuala Patterson, Steve Deharo, Laura A. Hill, Katherine E. Keating, Vitali Proutski, Denis Paul Harkin, Richard Kennedy, Nicolas Goffard, Steven Walker, Laura Taggart, Eileen Parkes
  • Publication number: 20190287160
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method and system are described for ordering items within a zone of a physical location. An example method may include wirelessly receiving at a server via a computer network a unique identifier associated with a physical ordering device, the physical ordering device being remotely located from the server, retrieving, at the server from an information source, item information describing an item configured to be associated with the unique identifier of the physical ordering device, retrieving, at the server from the information source, shipping data including a physical location uniquely associated with the physical ordering device, and generating at the server a purchase request for re-ordering the item. The method may further include processing at the server the purchase request, and authorizing at the server shipment of the item to the physical location associated with the physical ordering device responsive to the processing of the purchase request.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 5, 2019
    Publication date: September 19, 2019
    Inventors: Ian Goodwin, Faisal Masud, Shiv Agarwal, Ryan Bartley, M. Steven Walker, Pratabkumar Vemana
  • Patent number: 10354315
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method and system are described for ordering items within a zone of a physical location. An example method may include wirelessly receiving at a server via a computer network a unique identifier associated with a physical ordering device, the physical ordering device being remotely located from the server, retrieving, at the server from an information source, item information describing an item configured to be associated with the unique identifier of the physical ordering device, retrieving, at the server from the information source, shipping data including a physical location uniquely associated with the physical ordering device, and generating at the server a purchase request for re-ordering the item. The method may further include processing at the server the purchase request, and authorizing at the server shipment of the item to the physical location associated with the physical ordering device responsive to the processing of the purchase request.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2019
    Assignee: Staples, Inc.
    Inventors: Ian Goodwin, Faisal Masud, Shiv Agarwal, Ryan Bartley, M. Steven Walker, Pratabkumar Vemana, Daniel Hailemariam
  • Publication number: 20190122169
    Abstract: A restocking hub with interchangeable buttons mapped to item identifiers is described herein. In some instances, a local hub may receive an actuation signal from a particular button of a set of interchangeable buttons communicatively coupled with the local hub, the local hub being communicatively coupled with a remote server. The local hub may transmit a signal including a button ID of the particular button to the remote server based on the particular button being activated and the local hub receiving the actuation signal from the particular button. In some implementations, the remote server may determine an item associated with the particular button and attributes of the item based on the button ID of the particular button and a mapping of button IDs to items in a database accessible by the remote server, and execute a defined action using the attributes of the item associated with the particular button.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2018
    Publication date: April 25, 2019
    Inventors: Ranjeet Sonone, Faisal Masud, M. Steven Walker
  • Patent number: 10225272
    Abstract: For each event detected during execution of a monitored application comprising a plurality of application components, a determination is made of which of the plurality of application components corresponds to the detected event. Also, a dependency subgroup that includes the application component that corresponds to the detected event is identified, wherein a dependency subgroup indicates dependencies among a subgroup of the plurality of application components. A location within the dependency subgroup of the application component corresponding to the detected event is determined. An order of correction for the application components determined to correspond to detected events are determined based, at least in part, on the determined location. Correction of the application components determined to correspond to detected events are initiated according to the determined order of correction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2019
    Assignee: CA, Inc.
    Inventors: Erhan Giral, Mark Jacob Addleman, Corey Adam Cohen, David Brooke Martin, Andreas Gerhard Reiss, Michael Steven Walker
  • Patent number: 10196697
    Abstract: A method is provided for characterizing and/or prognosing prostate cancer in a subject comprising determining the expression level of at least one of CREM, ERRFI1, SRSF5, PDK4, HJURP, PDRG1, TRPM3, PDE4D, FI2, ADAMTS1, ADAMTS9, B3GNT5, CD38, CEBPD, CENPF, DKK1, EMP1, F3, IL1R1, IL8, JUNB, KLFIO, KLF4, LDLR, LGALS3, LPARI, MALAT1, MTUS1, MYBPC1, NFIL3, NR4A3, OAT, PI15, PTGS2, RHOBTB3, RIN2, RNFT2, SELE, SLC15A2, SOCS2, SOCS3, SSTR1, ST6GAL1, TSC22D1, XBP1 and ZFP36 in a sample from the subject. The method may be used to predict the likelihood of metastasis. Also disclosed are methods for diagnosing and selecting treatment for prostate cancer, together with corresponding methods of treatment. Systems, kits and computer programs for performing the methods are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2019
    Assignee: ALMAC DIAGNOSTICS LIMITED
    Inventors: Steven Walker, Andrena McCavigan, Timothy Davison, Richard Kennedy, Paul Harkin, Laura Hill
  • Patent number: 9884733
    Abstract: Embodiments of the inventive technology disclosed herein may improve efficiency of conveyed bottle apparatus by providing bottle jam prevention guides that may be rotatable, whether freely or in response to a motorized force. Such guides may force downward a bottle that undergone excessive swing in a forward and/or rearward direction, and thus has jammed or is in an incipient jam condition. Advantages may include not only increased efficiency of a conveyed bottle process, but also reduction or even elimination of chatter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2018
    Assignee: Flexibility Engineering, LLC
    Inventors: Joseph Pawelski, Thomas Ingraham, Steven Walker
  • Patent number: 9854037
    Abstract: A controller is operable to: identify virtual machines to be protected in a first storage system; identify logical volumes used by the virtual machines based on first relationship information; calculate workload, based on information of workload monitored for the identified logical volumes; and calculate size of a buffer area in the first storage system to be used for temporarily storing copy data to be sent to a second storage system in remote copy procedure of one or more remote copy pairs, based on the calculated workload, each copy pair being formed by a logical volume of the identified logical volumes in the first storage system as primary logical volume and another logical volume in the second storage system as secondary logical volume, so that the buffer area having a size equal to or greater than the calculated size can be used to manage protection of the identified virtual machines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2017
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Randall Murrish, Steven Walker, Oswald Luraghi, Christopher Liu
  • Publication number: 20170346842
    Abstract: For each event detected during execution of a monitored application comprising a plurality of application components, a determination is made of which of the plurality of application components corresponds to the detected event. Also, a dependency subgroup that includes the application component that corresponds to the detected event is identified, wherein a dependency subgroup indicates dependencies among a subgroup of the plurality of application components. A location within the dependency subgroup of the application component corresponding to the detected event is determined. An order of correction for the application components determined to correspond to detected events are determined based, at least in part, on the determined location. Correction of the application components determined to correspond to detected events are initiated according to the determined order of correction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2016
    Publication date: November 30, 2017
    Inventors: Erhan Giral, Mark Jacob Addleman, Corey Adam Cohen, David Brooke Martin, Andreas Gerhard Reiss, Michael Steven Walker
  • Patent number: 9807979
    Abstract: The present invention provides devices and methods for the impregnation of air with the vapor or aerosol of a substance in a ‘controllable manner to enable the testing or training of detection means to evaluate and quantify the presence of the substance in an enclosed volume, and i?• particular to enable production of training aids and quality assurance test items for use in canine-olfaction based security screening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignee: The Secretary of State for Defence
    Inventors: Timothy Graham Foat, Steven Walker, Christopher Coffey, Matthew Brookes
  • Publication number: 20170148072
    Abstract: According to an example implementation, a method comprises generating a graphical asynchronous messaging user interface including an input region containing a set of digital images of items and an activity region displaying graphical messaging elements respectively representing messages sent between a consumer node and a provider node, displaying the graphical asynchronous messaging user interface, receiving a first user input from a user via the input region selecting a first digital image associated with a first item from the set of digital images of items in the input region, generating a first message including the first digital image associated with the first item, including the first message including the first digital image associated with the first item in a first messaging element in the activity region displayed to the user on the display device, and transmitting the first message via a public computer network as a request to the provider node.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2016
    Publication date: May 25, 2017
    Inventors: Ian Goodwin, Ryan Bartley, M. Steven Walker, Pratabkumar Vemana, Faisal Masud