Patents by Inventor Wayne Stewart

Wayne Stewart 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: 11930109
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method includes receiving, by a storage system, encrypted data and a set of key identifiers. Each key identifier is associated with information specifying a storage location for which the key identifier is authorized. The method also includes storing, by the storage system, the encrypted data in at least one storage location and receiving, by the storage system, at least one key identifier of the set of key identifiers with a data access request. The method includes determining, by the storage system, whether the data access request is authorized for the at least one key identifier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Steven Robert Hetzler, Wayne C. Hineman, John Stewart Best
  • Patent number: 11915541
    Abstract: A display, as for an electronic gaming machine, includes one or more rotatable mechanical reels including at least one variable displaying position at which the display may be varied. Content is displayed at the variable displaying position when the variable displaying position registers with the display. One or more reels can include a reel strip which includes at one location a pre-printed symbol and at another location a window. A video display can be arranged, configured and controlled by a processor to cast a display at the inside of the reel to impart light and video effects to pre-printed symbol locations or to cast video content through the reel strip window.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: Aristocrat Technologies Australia Pty Limited
    Inventors: Philip Jeffery Anderson, Linn Anthony McKay, Scott Monroe Stewart, Anthony Wayne Bond
  • Patent number: 11860920
    Abstract: Embodiments may provide a document system that receives a responsiveness call from a user through the task/queue framework regarding a machine call document. Theses responsiveness calls may be used to refining the scoring algorithm used by the document system of to generate a desired confidence score for the document system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: OPEN TEXT HOLDINGS, INC.
    Inventors: Duane George, Douglas Wayne Stewart
  • Publication number: 20230121279
    Abstract: Embodiments may provide a document system that receives a responsiveness call from a user through the task/queue framework regarding a machine call document. Theses responsiveness calls may be used to refining the scoring algorithm used by the document system of to generate a desired confidence score for the document system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2022
    Publication date: April 20, 2023
    Inventors: Duane George, Douglas Wayne Stewart
  • Patent number: 11562012
    Abstract: Embodiments may provide a document system that receives a responsiveness call from a user through the task/queue framework regarding a machine call document. Theses responsiveness calls may be used to refining the scoring algorithm used by the document system of to generate a desired confidence score for the document system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignee: OPEN TEXT HOLDINGS, INC.
    Inventors: Duane George, Douglas Wayne Stewart
  • Patent number: 11534989
    Abstract: A forming module for forming a composite laminate part over a tool is provided. The forming module comprises a base, a ply carrier control assembly adapted for controlling the position of a flexible ply carrier on which composite resin plies are mounted, and a head section mounted on the base and adapted for automatically forming the composite resin plies from the ply carrier onto the tool.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventors: James N. Buttrick, Dennis Wayne Stewart, Andrew E. Modin, David Paul Banks, Edoardo Depase, Jesus Sanchez
  • Publication number: 20210256047
    Abstract: Embodiments may provide a document system that receives a responsiveness call from a user through the task/queue framework regarding a machine call document. Theses responsiveness calls may be used to refining the scoring algorithm used by the document system of to generate a desired confidence score for the document system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 6, 2021
    Publication date: August 19, 2021
    Inventors: Duane George, Douglas Wayne Stewart
  • Patent number: 11030230
    Abstract: Embodiments may provide a document system that receives a responsiveness call from a user through the task/queue framework regarding a machine call document. Theses responsiveness calls may be used to refining the scoring algorithm used by the document system of to generate a desired confidence score for the document system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignee: OPEN TEXT HOLDINGS, INC.
    Inventors: Duane George, Douglas Wayne Stewart
  • Publication number: 20200039154
    Abstract: A forming module for forming a composite laminate part over a tool is provided. The forming module comprises a base, a ply carrier control assembly adapted for controlling the position of a flexible ply carrier on which composite resin plies are mounted, and a head section mounted on the base and adapted for automatically forming the composite resin plies from the ply carrier onto the tool.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2019
    Publication date: February 6, 2020
    Inventors: James N. Buttrick, Dennis Wayne Stewart, Andrew E. Modin, David Paul Banks, Edoardo Depase, Jesus Sanchez
  • Patent number: 10464265
    Abstract: A plurality of identical fabrication modules are linked together and configurable to fabricate any of a plurality of differing laminate structures in a family of structures having common features. Each of the fabrication modules is locally adapted to fabricate a section of the laminate structure on a corresponding tool. A controller controls and coordinates automated operation of the fabrication modules.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventors: James N. Buttrick, Dennis Wayne Stewart, Andrew E. Modin, David Paul Banks, Edoardo Depase, Jesus Sanchez
  • Patent number: 10276958
    Abstract: An electrical contact grid array includes a board having a top side and an opposite bottom side, a plurality of signal conductors mounted to the board, and a plurality of ground shield structures mounted to the board. Each of the signal conductors includes an upper signal contact extending beyond the top side of the board for electrically connecting with a corresponding mating contact of a mating circuit board. Each of the ground shield structures includes at least one ground contact disposed above the top side of the board that defines an upper annular shield. The upper annular shield circumferentially surrounds at least one of the upper signal contacts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2019
    Assignee: TE Connectivity Corporation
    Inventors: Jeffery Walter Mason, Wayne Stewart Alden, III, Peter David Wapenski
  • Publication number: 20190108184
    Abstract: Embodiments may provide a document system that receives a responsiveness call from a user through the task/queue framework regarding a machine call document. Theses responsiveness calls may be used to refining the scoring algorithm used by the document system of to generate a desired confidence score for the document system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2018
    Publication date: April 11, 2019
    Inventors: Duane George, Douglas Wayne Stewart
  • Patent number: 10191977
    Abstract: The invention provided is a system configured to use a topic-related generative model to build a document map from a plurality of documents in a storage medium and generate a control set from the plurality of documents including at least two stratified document sets. The system then receives a set of control set metrics regarding the control set from a user. The system selects a machine call responsive document from a document map based on a determined predictive responsiveness for that document. The system receives a responsiveness call from a user through the task/queue framework regarding a machine call document. Finally, the system compares the responsiveness of the machine call document to the control set metrics and rebuilds the document map based on the results of the comparison between the machine call document responsiveness and the control set metrics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2019
    Assignee: Open Text Holdings, Inc.
    Inventors: Duane George, Douglas Wayne Stewart
  • Publication number: 20180122198
    Abstract: A personal alarm light operates as a multi-purpose emergency tool having a power pack of batteries powering a white light beam, as well as a radially emanating red light ring. An audible alarm has a loud, typically high-pitched oscillating sound. A resonance chamber amplifies the sound, which emanates from apertures delivering sound radially away from the resonance chamber. Crowns on each end of the tool provide regions of reduced area and alternating relieved sections about the circumference thereof, in order to provide increased impact pressure from the points when used as hammers to break glass, or as strikers to cut through fabric or other sheet materials.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2017
    Publication date: May 3, 2018
    Inventor: Wayne Stewart
  • Publication number: 20180113935
    Abstract: The invention provided is a system configured to use a topic-related generative model to build a document map from a plurality of documents in a storage medium and generate a control set from the plurality of documents including at least two stratified document sets. The system then receives a set of control set metrics regarding the control set from a user. The system selects a machine call responsive document from a document map based on a determined predictive responsiveness for that document. The system receives a responsiveness call from a user through the task/queue framework regarding a machine call document. Finally, the system compares the responsiveness of the machine call document to the control set metrics and rebuilds the document map based on the results of the comparison between the machine call document responsiveness and the control set metrics.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2017
    Publication date: April 26, 2018
    Inventors: Duane George, Douglas Wayne Stewart
  • Patent number: 9886500
    Abstract: The invention provided is a system configured to use a topic-related generative model to build a document map from a plurality of documents in a storage medium and generate a control set from the plurality of documents including at least two stratified document sets. The system then receives a set of control set metrics regarding the control set from a user. The system selects a machine call responsive document from a document map based on a determined predictive responsiveness for that document. The system receives a responsiveness call from a user through the task/queue framework regarding a machine call document. Finally, the system compares the responsiveness of the machine call document to the control set metrics and rebuilds the document map based on the results of the comparison between the machine call document responsiveness and the control set metrics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2018
    Assignee: Open Text Holdings, Inc.
    Inventors: Duane George, Douglas Wayne Stewart
  • Patent number: 9877882
    Abstract: The present invention provides a wheelchair transfer handrail for use in connection with a wheelchair and a door striker on a vehicle pillar. The invention includes a clamp assembly connected to the wheelchair, and a handrail tube extending from the clamp assembly to the door striker.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Inventor: Timothy Wayne Stewart
  • Patent number: 9876298
    Abstract: A flexible connector includes a flexible substrate having a plurality of conductive pads and a plurality of conductive polymer springfingers. Each conductive polymer springfinger extends between a first end and a second end. The conductive polymer springfingers are mechanically and electrically connected to corresponding conductive pads at the corresponding second ends and the conductive polymer springfingers are configured to be mechanically and electrically connected to conductors of an electrical component at the corresponding first ends. The conductive polymer springfingers are internally conductive and compressible between the first and second ends. The conductive polymer springfingers are discrete and separated by gaps. The flexible substrate is flexible to allow the second ends of the conductive polymer springfingers to be non-coplanar and to allow the first ends of the conductive polymer springfingers to be non-coplanar for electrical connection with the electrical component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2018
    Assignee: TE Connectivity Corporation
    Inventors: Jeffery W. Mason, Wayne Stewart Alden, III, Chuan Yue
  • Publication number: 20170296408
    Abstract: The present invention provides a wheelchair transfer handrail for use in connection with a wheelchair and a door striker on a vehicle pillar. The invention includes a clamp assembly connected to the wheelchair, and a handrail tube extending from the clamp assembly to the door striker.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 19, 2016
    Publication date: October 19, 2017
    Inventor: Timothy Wayne Stewart
  • Patent number: 9761095
    Abstract: A personal alarm light operates as a multi-purpose emergency tool having a power pack of batteries powering a white light beam, as well as a radially emanating red light ring. An audible alarm has a loud, typically high-pitched oscillating sound. A resonance chamber amplifies the sound, which emanates from apertures delivering sound radially away from the resonance chamber. Crowns on each end of the tool provide regions of reduced area and alternating relieved sections about the circumference thereof, in order to provide increased impact pressure from the points when used as hammers to break glass, or as strikers to cut through fabric or other sheet materials.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2017
    Assignee: Outback Flashlights, LLC
    Inventor: Wayne Stewart