Patents by Inventor Thomas Pedersen

Thomas Pedersen 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: 20160100042
    Abstract: A headset system for use with especially in a call center environment, in which method a wireless connection is established between headset and base unit, and the wireless connection is maintained while indicating from a headset user interface to the base unit that the headset is available for receiving an incoming call. The headset system is connected to a telephone system and has a processor configured to receive mode information and to operate according to the received mode information. The headset has a headset user interface and controls the headset signal processor to operate in accordance with user input. The headset is further configured to provide the end-of-call information to the base unit while maintaining the wireless connection.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2015
    Publication date: April 7, 2016
    Inventor: Thomas Pedersen
  • Patent number: 9197728
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method of programming a processing unit by firmware in a protocol converter for providing first data received from a telephone device in accordance with a first protocol to a headset system in accordance with a second protocol and for providing second data received from the headset system in accordance with the second protocol to the telephone in accordance with the first protocol, the operation of the protocol converter being controlled by the processing unit. The invention further relates to a protocol converter, such as an Electronic Hook Switch adapter, for providing first data received from a telephone device in accordance with a first protocol to a headset system in accordance with a second protocol and for providing second data received from the headset system in accordance with the second protocol to the telephone device in accordance with the first protocol. The headset system provides firmware to the protocol converter in accordance with the second protocol.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2015
    Assignee: GN Netcom A/S
    Inventors: Thomas Pedersen, Bo Schmidt
  • Publication number: 20150170872
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an assembly for holding a sample during characterisation of said sample in an electron microscope, the assembly comprising a feedthrough, a middle portion and a tip portion, wherein the tip portion comprises a frame structure, a light handling system attached thereto, and a temperature controlling arrangement also attached to the frame structure. The present invention further relates to a tip portion for the assembly for holding the sample.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2013
    Publication date: June 18, 2015
    Applicant: DANMARKS TEKNISKE UNIVERSITET
    Inventors: Filippo CAVALCA, Thomas Willum HANSEN, Christian Danvad DAMSGAARD, Jakob Birkedal WAGNER, Thomas PEDERSEN, Ole HANSEN, Christoph LANGHAMMER
  • Publication number: 20140295758
    Abstract: A docking station (1) for a handheld telecommunication device (2), such as a mobile phone or a smartphone, which telecommunication device (2) comprises a first short-range transceiver (4) adapted to communicate according to a first radio standard. The docking station (1) comprises a holder (5) for holding the telecommunication device (2) and sensing means (6) for detecting if the telecommunication device (2) is held by the holder (5). Upon detecting that the telecommunication is held by the holder (5) the docking station (1) provides an activating signal, which activates a second short-range transceiver (7; 8) according to the first radio standard. The second short-range transceiver (7; 8) is comprised by the docking station (1) or a second device (3) connected to the docking station (1). The invention also relates to a docking system (9) comprising such a docking station (1).
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2010
    Publication date: October 2, 2014
    Inventor: Thomas Pedersen
  • Patent number: 8781108
    Abstract: A communications system and a method of detecting and learning new ringtones in an automatic manner, comprising a desk phone (1), a hook switch, a ringtone detector (3), and a communications device (2). In a first embodiment a mechanical hook switch device is connected to the desk phone (1), and in a second embodiment an electronic hook switch unit (9) is connected to the desk phone (1). The ringtone detector (3) adaptively sets the filter and amplifier parameters according to the sensor position and pick-up sensitivity. The ringtone detector (3) automatically detects and learns the characteristics of new ringtones. The communications device (2) may comprise a base station (6) and a headset (7).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2014
    Assignee: GN Netcom A/S
    Inventor: Thomas Pedersen
  • Patent number: 8761383
    Abstract: A self configuring headset system comprising an interface unit, a method of setting up a headset system to a telephone device using and interface unit and a telephone interface unit is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2014
    Assignee: GN Netcom A/S
    Inventors: Thomas Pedersen, Jesper Birk Jepsen
  • Patent number: 8632506
    Abstract: A medical delivery system comprising a container (202) for accommodation of a medicament and a dosing assembly (204) adapted to be fastened to the container. The medical delivery system comprises a coding mechanism for ensuring that only a predetermined container can be fastened to a predetermined dosing assembly. A container for use in the medical delivery system. A dosing assembly for use in the medical delivery system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2014
    Assignee: Novo Nordisk A/S
    Inventors: Søren Steenfeldt-Jensen, Thomas Pedersen, Michael Ejstrup Hansen
  • Patent number: 8613731
    Abstract: A dosing assembly (204) and/or a container (202) comprising fastening means (206,208) for fastening the container to the dosing assembly, the fastening means of the dosing assembly and/or the container defining an asymmetrical pattern in a plane transverse to an axial direction of the dosing assembly and/or a container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2013
    Assignee: Novo Nordisk A/S
    Inventors: Michael Ejstrup Hansen, Søren Steenfeldt-Jensen, Thomas Pedersen, Claus Schmidt Møller
  • Publication number: 20130260840
    Abstract: A headset system for use with a telephone system, especially in a call center environment, and a method of operating a wireless headset system in a call center environment, in which method a wireless connection is established between headset and base unit, and the wireless connection is maintained while indicating from a headset user interface to the base unit that the headset is available for receiving an incoming call. The headset system is connected to a telephone system and has a processor configured to receive mode information and to operate according to the received mode information. The headset has a headset user interface and controls the headset signal processor to operate in accordance with user input. The received mode information comprises a call center mode information in which mode the base unit transceiver is controlled to maintain a wireless connection with the headset transceiver, and wherein the user input includes end-of-call information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2013
    Publication date: October 3, 2013
    Inventor: Thomas Pedersen
  • Publication number: 20130259223
    Abstract: A self configuring headset system comprising an interface unit, a method of setting up a headset system to a telephone device using and interface unit and a telephone interface unit is provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2013
    Publication date: October 3, 2013
    Inventors: Thomas Pedersen, Jesper Birk Jepsen
  • Publication number: 20130243182
    Abstract: A communications system and a method of detecting and learning new ringtones in an automatic manner, comprising a desk phone (1), a hook switch, a ringtone detector (3), and a communications device (2). In a first embodiment a mechanical hook switch device is connected to the desk phone (1), and in a second embodiment an electronic hook switch unit (9) is connected to the desk phone (1). The ringtone detector (3) adaptively sets the filter and amplifier parameters according to the sensor position and pick-up sensitivity. The ringtone detector (3) automatically detects and learns the characteristics of new ringtones. The communications device (2) may comprise a base station (6) and a headset (7).
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2012
    Publication date: September 19, 2013
    Applicant: GN NETCOM A/S
    Inventor: Thomas Pedersen
  • Patent number: 8528367
    Abstract: In one embodiment, an optical fiber cooling system includes a first cooling tube oriented substantially in parallel with and spaced apart from a second cooling tube such that an optical fiber pathway is positioned between the first cooling tube and the second cooling tube. The first cooling tube includes a plurality of cooling fluid outlets positioned along an axial length of the first cooling tube which are oriented to direct a flow of cooling fluid across the optical fiber pathway towards the second cooling tube. The second cooling tube includes a plurality of cooling fluid outlets positioned along an axial length of the second cooling tube which are oriented to direct a flow of cooling fluid across the optical fiber pathway towards the first cooling tube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2013
    Assignee: Corning Incorporated
    Inventors: Gary Alan Cummings, Samir Khanna, Douglas Gregg Neilson, Thomas A Pedersen, Massoud Rahiminejad, Bruce Warren Reding
  • Publication number: 20120260697
    Abstract: In one embodiment, an optical fiber cooling system includes a first cooling tube oriented substantially in parallel with and spaced apart from a second cooling tube such that an optical fiber pathway is positioned between the first cooling tube and the second cooling tube. The first cooling tube includes a plurality of cooling fluid outlets positioned along an axial length of the first cooling tube which are oriented to direct a flow of cooling fluid across the optical fiber pathway towards the second cooling tube. The second cooling tube includes a plurality of cooling fluid outlets positioned along an axial length of the second cooling tube which are oriented to direct a flow of cooling fluid across the optical fiber pathway towards the first cooling tube.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2012
    Publication date: October 18, 2012
    Inventors: Gary Alan Cummings, Samir Khanna, Douglas Gregg Neilson, Thomas A. Pedersen, Massoud Rahiminejad, Bruce Warren Reding
  • Patent number: 8275122
    Abstract: A communications system and a method of detecting and learning new ringtones in an automatic manner, comprising a desk phone (1), a hook switch, a ringtone detector (3), and a communications device (2). In a first embodiment a mechanical hook switch device is connected to the desk phone (1), and in a second embodiment an electronic hook switch unit (9) is connected to the desk phone (1). The ringtone detector (3) adaptively sets the filter and amplifier parameters according to the sensor position and pick-up sensitivity. The ringtone detector (3) automatically detects and learns the characteristics of new ringtones. The communications device (2) may comprise a base station (6) and a headset (7).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2012
    Assignee: GN Netcom A/S
    Inventor: Thomas Pedersen
  • Patent number: 8230704
    Abstract: In one embodiment, an optical fiber cooling system includes a first cooling tube oriented substantially in parallel with and spaced apart from a second cooling tube such that an optical fiber pathway is positioned between the first cooling tube and the second cooling tube. The first cooling tube includes a plurality of cooling fluid outlets positioned along an axial length of the first cooling tube which are oriented to direct a flow of cooling fluid across the optical fiber pathway towards the second cooling tube. The second cooling tube includes a plurality of cooling fluid outlets positioned along an axial length of the second cooling tube which are oriented to direct a flow of cooling fluid across the optical fiber pathway towards the first cooling tube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2012
    Assignee: Corning Incorporated
    Inventors: Gary Alan Cummings, Samir Khanna, Douglas Gregg Neilson, Thomas A Pedersen, Massoud Rahiminejad, Bruce Warren Reding
  • Publication number: 20110312304
    Abstract: A communications system and a method of detecting and learning new ringtones in an automatic manner, comprising a desk phone (1), a hook switch, a ringtone detector (3), and a communications device (2). In a first embodiment a mechanical hook switch device is connected to the desk phone (1), and in a second embodiment an electronic hook switch unit (9) is connected to the desk phone (1). The ringtone detector (3) adaptively sets the filter and amplifier parameters according to the sensor position and pick-up sensitivity. The ringtone detector (3) automatically detects and learns the characteristics of new ringtones. The communications device (2) may comprise a base station (6) and a headset (7).
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2009
    Publication date: December 22, 2011
    Inventor: Thomas Pedersen
  • Publication number: 20110094717
    Abstract: In one embodiment, an optical fiber cooling system includes a first cooling tube oriented substantially in parallel with and spaced apart from a second cooling tube such that an optical fiber pathway is positioned between the first cooling tube and the second cooling tube. The first cooling tube includes a plurality of cooling fluid outlets positioned along an axial length of the first cooling tube which are oriented to direct a flow of cooling fluid across the optical fiber pathway towards the second cooling tube. The second cooling tube includes a plurality of cooling fluid outlets positioned along an axial length of the second cooling tube which are oriented to direct a flow of cooling fluid across the optical fiber pathway towards the first cooling tube.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2010
    Publication date: April 28, 2011
    Inventors: Gary Alan Cummings, Samir Khanna, Douglas Gregg Neilson, Thomas A. Pedersen, Massoud Rahiminejad, Bruce Warren Reding
  • Publication number: 20100152657
    Abstract: A medical delivery system comprising a container (202) for accommodation of a medicament and a dosing assembly (204) adapted to be fastened to the container. The medical delivery system comprises a coding mechanism for ensuring that only a predetermined container can be fastened to a predetermined dosing assembly. A container for use in the medical delivery system. A dosing assembly for use in the medical delivery system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2007
    Publication date: June 17, 2010
    Inventors: Søren Steenfeldt-Jensen, Thomas Pedersen, Michael Ejstrup Hansen
  • Publication number: 20100042054
    Abstract: A medical delivery system comprising a container for accommodation of a medicament and a dosing assembly adapted to be fastened to the container. The medical delivery system comprises a coding mechanism (150, 152) for ensuring that only a predetermined container can be fastened to a predetermined dosing assembly. The coding mechanism comprises axially extending protrusions (154, 156, 158) arranged at the interface between container and dosing assembly and arranged in a ring configuration concentric with a proximal rim portion of the container. A container for use in the medical delivery system. A dosing assembly for use in the medical delivery system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 17, 2007
    Publication date: February 18, 2010
    Applicant: Novo Nordisk A/S
    Inventors: Ramin Nateghi Elahi, Jonas Torry-Smith, Michael Ejstrup Hansen, Nikolaj Eusebius Jakobsen, Thomas Pedersen, Thomas Geertsen
  • Publication number: 20090281505
    Abstract: A dosing assembly (204) and/or a container (202) comprising fastening means (206,208) for fastening the container to the dosing assembly, the fastening means of the dosing assembly and/or the container defining an asymmetrical pattern in a plane transverse to an axial direction of the dosing assembly and/or a container.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2007
    Publication date: November 12, 2009
    Applicant: Novo Nordisk A/S
    Inventors: Michael Ejstrup Hansen, Søren Steenfeldt-Jensen, Thomas Pedersen, Claus Schmidt Møller