Patents by Inventor Thomas A. Ferguson
Thomas A. Ferguson 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).
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Publication number: 20170208098Abstract: In some implementations, a method of managing access to resources in a single device including receiving, from a first resource assigned to a first perimeter, a request to access a second resource assigned to a second perimeter different from the first perimeter. The single device includes the first perimeter and the second perimeter. Whether access to the second resource is prohibited is determined based on a management policy for the first perimeter. The management policy defining one or more rules for accessing resources assigned to the second perimeter including the second resource.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 4, 2017Publication date: July 20, 2017Inventors: Geordon Thomas Ferguson, Christopher Lyle Bender, Alberto Daniel Zubiri, Kenneth Cyril Schneider, Oliver Whitehouse, Christopher William Lewis Hobbs
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Patent number: 9707707Abstract: A battery headlamp assembly that includes a light engine bezel, an adjustable linkage supporting the bezel and including an electrically conductive system terminating at the bezel. Also, a headband assembly supports the adjustable linkage and includes a longitudinal rigid-flex circuit assembly. This assembly has a strip of rigid-flex circuit having two longitudinally opposed ends and including battery contacts on the ends. Also, two networks of electrical components are each supported by and electrically connected together, and to one of the battery contacts, by the strip of rigid-flex circuit, which includes conductive traces connecting both the networks to the electrically conductive system and to each other, to power the bezel from the battery contacts and to permit communications between the networks. In addition, a further electrically conductive element, electrically connects at least one conductive trace of the rigid-flex circuit to the electrically conductive system of the adjustable linkage.Type: GrantFiled: March 25, 2016Date of Patent: July 18, 2017Assignee: RIVERPOINT MEDICAL, LLCInventor: John Thomas Ferguson
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Patent number: 9687314Abstract: A lamp having a front surface from which light is emitted and that includes a high efficiency light source assembly producing a beam having a 3 dB beamwidth of greater than 100°, and which includes a substrate, a high efficiency light source supported by the substrate; and a dome-lens that contains the high efficiency light source. Also, an optical assembly is positioned to receive light from the light emitting diode assembly and to produce a headlamp light beam emitted from the front surface of the lamp. Further, an annular light block defines an annulus and is placed about the lens, so that the lens protrudes through the annulus, thereby creating a sharp boundary for the output light beam.Type: GrantFiled: August 21, 2013Date of Patent: June 27, 2017Assignee: RIVERPOINT MEDICAL, LLCInventor: John Thomas Ferguson
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Patent number: 9684688Abstract: A system and method are provided, the method comprising: receiving, at a registry service, a request to register an identifiable pattern for matching patterns in text; registering, in a registry, the identifiable pattern and a corresponding handler for performing an action; and updating at least one client library accessible to a corresponding client process with the identifiable pattern.Type: GrantFiled: July 6, 2012Date of Patent: June 20, 2017Assignee: BlackBerry LimitedInventors: Geordon Thomas Ferguson, Jonathan Chan, Cassidy Paul Gentle, Ngoc Bich Ngo
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Publication number: 20170116293Abstract: A portable electronic device includes a display for displaying results of a search for data records, and a memory for storing a plurality of applications and, for each application of the plurality of applications, respective associated metadata identifying a location of the data records associated with the application, a mapping for associating data in the data records with a unified format utilized by a search client, and an identification of filterable fields and the filtering method. The portable electronic device also includes a processor coupled to the display and to the memory to utilize the metadata stored in association with the plurality of applications to perform a search of the data records and identify a plurality of the data records that accord with the search query to provide search results, and provide the search results in a unified format on the portable electronic device.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 27, 2015Publication date: April 27, 2017Inventors: James Arthur BRUCK, Geordon Thomas FERGUSON, Song Tao QI, Francis Patrick JUDGE, Cora Lynne COLLINS
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Patent number: 9619785Abstract: A control circuit detects an opportunity to send a message notwithstanding that no recipient is yet identified and identifies, without user input, a specific recipient from amongst a plurality of possible recipients of the message based, for example, on metadata regarding at least some of the possible recipients using one or more predetermined selection criteria. The control circuit can also determine a domain context for a message as corresponds to such an opportunity and use that domain context along with information corresponding to the message to query an invocation framework that cannot itself natively intuit domain context from the information. Received possible recipients can then be presented via a display to facilitate a user-based selection of one of the recipients.Type: GrantFiled: October 25, 2012Date of Patent: April 11, 2017Assignee: BlackBerry LimitedInventor: Geordon Thomas Ferguson
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Patent number: 9613219Abstract: In some implementations, a method of managing access to resources in a single device including receiving, from a first resource assigned to a first perimeter, a request to access a second resource assigned to a second perimeter different from the first perimeter. The single device includes the first perimeter and the second perimeter. Whether access to the second resource is prohibited is determined based on a management policy for the first perimeter. The management policy defining one or more rules for accessing resources assigned to the second perimeter including the second resource.Type: GrantFiled: November 10, 2011Date of Patent: April 4, 2017Assignees: BlackBerry Limited, 2236008 Ontario Inc.Inventors: Geordon Thomas Ferguson, Christopher Lyle Bender, Alberto Daniel Zubiri, Kenneth Cyril Schneider, Oliver Whitehouse, Christopher William Lewis Hobbs
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Patent number: 9568177Abstract: A medical headlamp assembly, having a headband subassembly, including an electrical network, including a battery and an electrical jack, and a headlamp mount. Also, an electrical headlamp subassembly, has a mounting element matingly and removably engaged to the headlamp mount, and an electrical plug, matingly and removably engaged to the jack and an electrical headlamp, electrically connected to the plug. Further, the headband subassembly produces an electrical input for the headlamp subassembly and the headband subassembly includes a key resistor, the resistance value of which sets a characteristic of the electrical input.Type: GrantFiled: June 25, 2015Date of Patent: February 14, 2017Assignee: RIVERPOINT MEDICAL, LLCInventor: John Thomas Ferguson
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Patent number: 9563780Abstract: In some implementations, a method of managing access to resources in a single device including receiving, from a first resource assigned to a first perimeter, a request to access a second resource assigned to a second perimeter different from the first perimeter. The single device includes the first perimeter and the second perimeter. Whether access to the second resource is prohibited is determined based on a management policy for the first perimeter. The management policy defining one or more rules for accessing resources assigned to the second perimeter including the second resource.Type: GrantFiled: November 10, 2011Date of Patent: February 7, 2017Assignees: BlackBerry Limited, 2236008 Ontario Inc.Inventors: Geordon Thomas Ferguson, Christopher Lyle Bender, Alberto Daniel Zubiri, Kenneth Cyril Schneider, Oliver Whitehouse, Christopher William Lewis Hobbs
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Patent number: 9524488Abstract: Information is shared between processing entities that each have a corresponding private data area by placing data corresponding to information for a first one of the private data areas for a first one of the processing entities directly into a second one of the private data areas for a second one of the processing entities without placing the data in an intervening shared data area and without directly invoking a system administrator-like entity. In addition, these private data areas can be pre-populated with a plurality of directories that each have a one-to-one correspondence to a particular predetermined information recipient and then providing a link to a given one of the recipients as corresponds to a given one of the directories when information is placed in that directory to provide the corresponding predetermined information recipient with at least read access to the information.Type: GrantFiled: October 25, 2012Date of Patent: December 20, 2016Assignees: BlackBerry Limited, 2236008 ONTARIO INC.Inventors: Geordon Thomas Ferguson, Daniel Jonas Major, Danny Thomas Dodge, Sivakumar Nagarajan
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Publication number: 20160289173Abstract: The present invention generally relates to devices and methods for crystallizing a compound. In certain industries, crystallization techniques require additional filtration steps in order to obtain products of relatively high yield and/or high purity. In some embodiments, the devices and methods described herein facilitate continuous production of high yield and/or high purity products without the need for additional filtration steps. In some embodiments, the devices and methods comprise flowing a fluid comprising a compound (e.g., a crystallizable compound, a solidifiable compound) over a substrate such that the compound crystallizes and/or precipitates on the substrate. In some embodiments, the crystallized compound can be recovered (e.g., at a high purity in solution). In certain embodiments, the substrate is orientated substantially vertically (e.g., such that flow of the fluid is driven by gravity). In some cases, the substrate comprises a plurality of crystallization promoting structures.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 30, 2016Publication date: October 6, 2016Applicant: MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGYInventors: ALLAN STUART MYERSON, RICHARD DEAN BRAATZ, STEVEN THOMAS FERGUSON, MIN SU, BERNHARDT LEVY TROUT, LIFANG ZHOU, NIMA YAZDAN PANAH
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Publication number: 20160207228Abstract: A battery headlamp assembly that includes a light engine bezel, an adjustable linkage supporting the bezel and including an electrically conductive system terminating at the bezel. Also, a headband assembly supports the adjustable linkage and includes a longitudinal rigid-flex circuit assembly. This assembly has a strip of rigid-flex circuit having two longitudinally opposed ends and including battery contacts on the ends. Also, two networks of electrical components are each supported by and electrically connected together, and to one of the battery contacts, by the strip of rigid-flex circuit, which includes conductive traces connecting both the networks to the electrically conductive system and to each other, to power the bezel from the battery contacts and to permit communications between the networks. In addition, a further electrically conductive element, electrically connects at least one conductive trace of the rigid-flex circuit to the electrically conductive system of the adjustable linkage.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 25, 2016Publication date: July 21, 2016Applicant: Riverpoint Medical, LLCInventor: John Thomas Ferguson
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Patent number: 9351799Abstract: A battery headlamp assembly that includes a light engine bezel, an adjustable linkage supporting the bezel and including an electrically conductive system terminating at the bezel. Also, a headband assembly supports the adjustable linkage and includes a longitudinal rigid-flex circuit assembly. This assembly has a strip of rigid-flex circuit having two longitudinally opposed ends and including battery contacts on the ends. Also, two networks of electrical components are each supported by and electrically connected together, and to one of the battery contacts, by the strip of rigid-flex circuit, which includes conductive traces connecting both the networks to the electrically conductive system and to each other, to power the bezel from the battery contacts and to permit communications between the networks. In addition, a further electrically conductive element, electrically connects at least one conductive trace of the rigid-flex circuit to the electrically conductive system of the adjustable linkage.Type: GrantFiled: October 18, 2013Date of Patent: May 31, 2016Assignee: Riverpoint Medical, LLCInventor: John Thomas Ferguson
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Publication number: 20160147815Abstract: A system and method are provided, the method comprising: receiving, at a registry service, a request to register an identifiable pattern for matching patterns in text; registering, in a registry, the identifiable pattern and a corresponding handler for performing an action; and updating at least one client library accessible to a corresponding client process with the identifiable pattern.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 6, 2012Publication date: May 26, 2016Applicant: BlackBerry LimitedInventors: Geordon Thomas FERGUSON, Jonathan CHAN, Cassidy Paul GENTLE, Ngoc Bich NGO
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Publication number: 20160123563Abstract: A medical headlamp having a front from which light is selectively emitted. The headlamp includes a beam origination portion that produces a light beam and an iris assembly, positioned in front of the beam origination portion, having a user accessible actuator and an iris, responsive to the actuator to block a user selectable portion of the light beam. The iris is also responsive to the actuator to block none of the light beam, for maximum efficiency, when a user so selects.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 12, 2016Publication date: May 5, 2016Applicant: RIVERPOINT MEDICAL, LLCInventors: John Thomas Ferguson, Ned Nestorovic
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Patent number: 9234653Abstract: A medical headlamp having a front from which light is selectively emitted. The headlamp includes a beam origination portion that produces a light beam and an iris assembly, positioned in front of the beam origination portion, having a user accessible actuator and an iris, responsive to the actuator to block a user-selectable portion of the light beam. The iris is also responsive to the actuator to block none of the light beam, for maximum efficiency, when a user so selects.Type: GrantFiled: April 2, 2014Date of Patent: January 12, 2016Assignee: RIVERPOINT MEDICAL, LLCInventor: John Thomas Ferguson
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Publication number: 20150289943Abstract: A medical headlamp assembly, having a headband subassembly, including an electrical network, including a battery and an electrical jack, and a headlamp mount. Also, an electrical headlamp subassembly, has a mounting element matingly and removably engaged to the headlamp mount, and an electrical plug, matingly and removably engaged to the jack and an electrical headlamp, electrically connected to the plug. Further, the headband subassembly produces an electrical input for the headlamp subassembly and the headband subassembly includes a key resistor, the resistance value of which sets a characteristic of the electrical input.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 25, 2015Publication date: October 15, 2015Applicant: RIVERPOINT MEDICAL, LLCInventor: John Thomas Ferguson
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Patent number: 9091428Abstract: A medical headlamp assembly has a headband subassembly, including an electrical network, including a battery and an electrical jack and a headlamp mount. An electrical headlamp subassembly, has a mounting element that is matingly and removably engaged to the headlamp mount, and an electrical plug that is matingly and removably engaged to the jack and an electrical headlamp, electrically connected to the plug.Type: GrantFiled: January 23, 2014Date of Patent: July 28, 2015Assignee: RIVERPOINT MEDICAL, LLCInventor: John Thomas Ferguson
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Publication number: 20150112734Abstract: Proposed are a parametric, event-driven critical illness insurance system based on a resource-pooling system (1) and method for risk sharing of critical illness risks of a variable number of risk exposure components (21, 22, 23) by providing a dynamic self-sufficient risk protection for the risk exposure components (21, 22, 23) by means of the resource-pooling system (1). The resource-pooling system (1) comprises an assembly module (5) to process risk-related component data (211,221,231) and to provide the likelihood (212, 222, 232) of said risk exposure for one or a plurality of the pooled risk exposure components (21, 22, 23, . . . ) based on the risk-related component data (211, 221, 231).Type: ApplicationFiled: October 14, 2014Publication date: April 23, 2015Applicant: SWISS REINSURANCE COMPANY LTD.Inventors: Timothy John KNAUST, David Thomas FERGUSON, Nicola PLEWS, Alan James DOTT, Helen Elizabeth Chung PATTERSON
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Publication number: 20150112735Abstract: Proposed are a parametric, event-driven critical illness insurance system based on a resource-pooling system (1) and method for risk sharing of critical illness risks of a variable number of risk exposure components (21, 22, 23) by providing a dynamic self-sufficient risk protection for the risk exposure components (21, 22, 23) by means of the resource-pooling system (1). The resource-pooling system (1) comprises an assembly module (5) to process risk-related component data (211,221,231) and to provide the likelihood (212, 222, 232) of said risk exposure for one or a plurality of the pooled risk exposure components (21, 22, 23, . . . ) based on the risk-related component data (211, 221, 231).Type: ApplicationFiled: October 14, 2014Publication date: April 23, 2015Applicant: SWISS REINSURANCE COMPANY LTD.Inventors: Timothy John KNAUST, David Thomas FERGUSON, Nicola PLEWS, Alan James DOTT, Helen Elizabeth Chung PATTERSON