Patents by Inventor William FitzGerald
William FitzGerald 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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Patent number: 9916481Abstract: The invention is directed to systems and methods for detecting the loss, theft or unauthorized use of a device and/or altering the functionality of the device in response. In one embodiment, a method includes detecting that a security compromise event has occurred for a mobile device. The method also includes altering a function of the mobile device in response to the security compromise event to mitigate loss of control by an authorized user. Altering the function of the mobile device includes denying access to data stored on the mobile device.Type: GrantFiled: August 13, 2012Date of Patent: March 13, 2018Assignee: YOUGETITBACK LIMITEDInventors: William Fitzgerald, Peter Bermingham, Frank Hannigan, Paul Prendergast
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Patent number: 9886599Abstract: The invention is directed to systems and methods for that provide a user interface on an electronic device, the user interface including: (i) an auxiliary interface for receiving input from a user and providing output to the user; and (ii) a primary access interface. Using the auxiliary interface, a message to the user is provided, without requiring the user to be authenticated through the primary access interface.Type: GrantFiled: August 24, 2009Date of Patent: February 6, 2018Assignee: YOUGETITBACK LIMITEDInventors: William Fitzgerald, Peter Bermingham, Frank Hannigan, Paul Prendergast
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Patent number: 9881152Abstract: The invention is directed to systems and methods for detecting the loss, theft or unauthorized use of a device and/or altering the functionality of the device in response. In one embodiment, a device monitors its use, its local environment, and/or its operating context to determine that the device is no longer within the control of an authorized user. The device may receive communications or generate an internal signal altering its functionality, such as instructing the device to enter a restricted use mode, a surveillance mode, to provide instructions to return the device and/or to prevent unauthorized use or unauthorized access to data. Additional embodiments also address methods and systems for gathering forensic data regarding an unauthorized user to assist in locating the unauthorized user and/or the device.Type: GrantFiled: September 3, 2008Date of Patent: January 30, 2018Assignee: YOUGETITBACK LIMITEDInventors: William Fitzgerald, Peter Bermingham, Frank Hannigan, Paul Prendergast
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Patent number: 9838877Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention delineate systems and methods for dynamically assessing and mitigating risk of an insured entity. Additional embodiments of the present invention delineate systems and methods for providing a user of a mobile device with information relevant to a position of a mobile device, wherein such information may describe one of a risk and an opportunity within a predetermined distance of a location for the mobile device.Type: GrantFiled: July 22, 2011Date of Patent: December 5, 2017Assignee: YOUGETITBACK LIMITEDInventors: William Fitzgerald, Peter Bermingham, Frank Hannigan, Paul Prendergast
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Publication number: 20170315007Abstract: There is presented a system and method for detecting mobile device fault conditions, including detecting fault conditions by software operating on the mobile device. In one embodiment, the present invention provides for systems and methods for detecting a that a mobile device has a cracked screen, and reporting the status of the screen, working or not, so that appropriate action may be taken by a third party. In one embodiment, the data obtained by testing of the mobile device is encrypted to prevent tampering or spoofing by the user of the mobile device, and is suitably decrypted by the recipient or software running within a server.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 28, 2017Publication date: November 2, 2017Applicant: Yougetitback LimitedInventors: William Fitzgerald, Donal O'Shaughnessy, Donie Kelly
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Publication number: 20170270629Abstract: A refinement verification engine authenticates a user submitting a subject tax return. The user is associated with an initial taxpayer identity confidence score in an intermediate range, such that the authenticity of the user is uncertain. The refinement verification engine is configured to perform the following steps: receiving tax information associated with the subject tax return for a subject taxpayer; acquiring an initial taxpayer identity confidence score that is indicative of a likelihood that the user is genuine; determining that the initial taxpayer identity confidence score falls into a predetermined range; identifying a verifiable data set within the taxpayer information; accessing an external data store containing information related to the verifiable data set; and determining whether information indicative of the verifiable data set is present in the external data store.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 15, 2016Publication date: September 21, 2017Inventor: William Fitzgerald
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Publication number: 20170270526Abstract: System, method and media for detecting fraud in submissions of tax return data. Machine learning techniques including cluster analysis and tree-based classifiers are used to analyze large volumes of previously submitted tax returns based on tax data and submission-related data to detect patterns in genuine and fraudulent returns. These patters are then used to generate rules that can be installed in fraud detection systems in real time to prevent the submission of fraudulent returns. Previous classifications and fraud scores of submitted returns can be updated based on new rules or external indications of fraud.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 15, 2016Publication date: September 21, 2017Inventor: William Fitzgerald
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Publication number: 20170164204Abstract: The invention is directed to systems and methods for detecting the loss, theft or unauthorized use of a device and/or altering the functionality of the device in response. In one embodiment, a device monitors its use, its local environment, and/or its operating context to determine that the device is no longer within the control of an authorized user. The device may receive communications or generate an internal signal altering its functionality, such as instructing the device to enter a restricted use mode, a surveillance mode, to provide instructions to return the device and/or to prevent unauthorized use or unauthorized access to data. Additional embodiments also address methods and systems for gathering forensic data regarding an unauthorized user to assist in locating the unauthorized user and/or the device.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 21, 2017Publication date: June 8, 2017Applicant: Yougetitback LimitedInventors: William Fitzgerald, Peter Bermingham, Paul Prendergast, Frank Hannigan
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Patent number: 9576157Abstract: The invention is directed to systems and methods for detecting the loss, theft or unauthorized use of a device and/or altering the functionality of the device in response. In one embodiment, a device monitors its use, its local environment, and/or its operating context to determine that the device is no longer within the control of an authorized user. The device may receive communications or generate an internal signal altering its functionality, such as instructing the device to enter a restricted use mode, a surveillance mode, to provide instructions to return the device and/or to prevent unauthorized use or unauthorized access to data. Additional embodiments also address methods and systems for gathering forensic data regarding an unauthorized user to assist in locating the unauthorized user and/or the device.Type: GrantFiled: September 3, 2008Date of Patent: February 21, 2017Assignee: YOUGETITBACK LIMITEDInventors: William Fitzgerald, Peter Bermingham, Frank Hannigan, Paul Prendergast
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Patent number: 9555750Abstract: A vehicle switch module includes a sub-network having switches connected thereto and a sub-network controller in operative communication with the sub-network and the switches. Each switch includes a microprocessor programmed to generate switch messages that include address and switch logic state data. The sub-network controller transmits switch queries onto the sub-network to a number of switch addresses to determine a connection status and switch state of switches in the switch module and receives switch messages responsive to the queries from switches at addresses to which the switch queries were transmitted. The received switch messages verify the identity of a switch in the module and provide a switch state for the switch. The sub-network controller interprets the received switch messages and—based on the switch address and switch state data in the messages—controls operation of a vehicle output or load associated with each of the switches.Type: GrantFiled: October 15, 2013Date of Patent: January 31, 2017Assignee: Eaton CorporationInventors: Andrew James Blackwood, David Mark Nelsen, Richard William Fitzgerald
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Publication number: 20160287937Abstract: The invention relates to systems and methods for monitoring one or more athletic performance characteristic and physiological characteristic of a user. An exemplary system includes a first sensing unit adapted to monitor at least one performance characteristic of a user, a second sensing unit adapted to monitor at least one physiological characteristic of the user, and a transmitter for transmitting the at least one performance characteristic and at least one physiological characteristic to a remote receiver that is adapted to identify a relationship between the at least one performance characteristic and the at least one physiological characteristic.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 9, 2016Publication date: October 6, 2016Inventors: Michael William On Fitzgerald, Bryan Decker Gothie, Anne Gutmann, Sean B. Murphy, Katherine Elizabeth Petrecca, Pedro Rodrigues, Trampas Tenbroek, Christopher James Wawrousek
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Patent number: 9258326Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention include a primary access interface where messages are in an auxiliary interface area, where a user can see/hear the message without having to log in (that is, when they normally would have to have logged in to access the message). Included in various embodiments are types of messages output, emergency messages, advertising messages and conditions for outputting messages. Also provided is allowing for user input through an auxiliary interface triggering services or features normally requiring login (before they can be used). What is further provided is an application programming interface for independent or third party applications. What is also provided is an advertising server system integrated with a front-end interface.Type: GrantFiled: August 24, 2009Date of Patent: February 9, 2016Assignee: YOUGETITBACK LimitedInventors: William Fitzgerald, Peter Bermingham, Frank Hannigan, Paul Prendergast
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Patent number: 9253205Abstract: The invention is directed to a user interface on a provided electronic device, the user interface including: (i) an auxiliary interface for receiving input from a user and providing output to the user; and (ii) a primary access interface. Using the auxiliary interface, a message to the user is provided, wherein the message is provided without requiring the user to be authenticated through the primary access interface. Input from the user is accepted through the auxiliary interface to access a service available from the provided electronic device, wherein access to the service is provided without requiring the user to be authenticated through the primary access interface.Type: GrantFiled: August 24, 2009Date of Patent: February 2, 2016Assignee: YOUGETITBACK LimitedInventors: William Fitzgerald, Peter Bermingham, Frank Hannigan, Paul Prendergast
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Publication number: 20150311010Abstract: A switch guard for preventing accidental actuation of a control switch is disclosed. The switch guard includes a rigid wall structure comprising a pair of side walls and a pair of end walls arranged to accommodate positioning of the control switch therein, each of the pair of end walls including at least one opening formed therein. The switch guard also includes a mating feature provided at each of the end walls of the wall structure, with each mating feature being a separate component from the rigid wall structure and being configured to selectively translate through the at least one opening formed in the respective end wall between a first position and a second position to secure the switch guard about the control switch.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 29, 2014Publication date: October 29, 2015Applicant: Eaton CorporationInventors: Davin Robert Lee, Richard William Fitzgerald, Robert W. Nickerson, Dana Kathryn Leland
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Patent number: 9031536Abstract: The invention is directed to systems and methods for detecting the loss, theft or unauthorized use of a device and/or altering the functionality of the device in response. In one embodiment, a device monitors its use, its local environment, and/or its operating context to determine that the device is no longer within the control of an authorized user. The device may receive communications or generate an internal signal altering its functionality, such as instructing the device to enter a restricted use mode, a surveillance mode, to provide instructions to return the device and/or to prevent unauthorized use or unauthorized access to data. Additional embodiments also address methods and systems for gathering forensic data regarding an unauthorized user to assist in locating the unauthorized user and/or the device.Type: GrantFiled: April 2, 2008Date of Patent: May 12, 2015Assignee: Yougetitback LimitedInventors: William Fitzgerald, Peter Bermingham, Frank Hannigan, Paul Prendergast
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Publication number: 20150102665Abstract: A vehicle switch module includes a sub-network having switches connected thereto and a sub-network controller in operative communication with the sub-network and the switches. Each switch includes a microprocessor programmed to generate switch messages that include address and switch logic state data. The sub-network controller transmits switch queries onto the sub-network to a number of switch addresses to determine a connection status and switch state of switches in the switch module and receives switch messages responsive to the queries from switches at addresses to which the switch queries were transmitted. The received switch messages verify the identity of a switch in the module and provide a switch state for the switch. The sub-network controller interprets the received switch messages and—based on the switch address and switch state data in the messages—controls operation of a vehicle output or load associated with each of the switches.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 15, 2013Publication date: April 16, 2015Inventors: Andrew James Blackwood, David Mark Nelsen, Richard William Fitzgerald
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Publication number: 20150082410Abstract: There is provided a method and system for securely coupling and transferring data between devices. In a preferred embodiment, the devices may comprise two devices, a transferring device and a receiving device, and both devices are mobile devices. Embodiments of the present invention allow the wireless transfer of data such as contacts, photo images, video files, or other data from one device to another device, without need for special hardware or cabling.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 23, 2014Publication date: March 19, 2015Applicant: YOUGETITBACK LIMITEDInventors: William Fitzgerald, Dan Gustafsson, Donal O'Shaughnessy, Peter Bermingham
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Publication number: 20150068900Abstract: The present invention provides a remote monitoring system for monitoring the operation of a fluid treatment system and/or the qualities, characteristics, properties, etc., of the fluid being processed or treated by the fluid treatment system. The present invention also relates to carbon nanotube sensors.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 12, 2014Publication date: March 12, 2015Inventors: Corey Alan Salzer, Russell Martin Young, Michael Mario Carabba, Vishnu Vardhanan Rajasekharan, Christopher Patrick Fair, Terrance William Fitzgerald, Frank Howland Carpenter, JR., John Edwin Lee
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Patent number: 8932368Abstract: The invention is directed to systems and methods for detecting the loss, theft or unauthorized use of a device and/or altering the functionality of the device in response. In one embodiment, a device monitors its use, its local environment, and/or its operating context to determine that the device is no longer within the control of an authorized user. The device may receive communications or generate an internal signal altering its functionality, such as instructing the device to enter a restricted use mode, a surveillance mode, to provide instructions to return the device and/or to prevent unauthorized use or unauthorized access to data. Additional embodiments also address methods and systems for gathering forensic data regarding an unauthorized user to assist in locating the unauthorized user and/or the device.Type: GrantFiled: September 3, 2008Date of Patent: January 13, 2015Assignee: Yougetitback LimitedInventors: William Fitzgerald, Peter Bermingham, Frank Hannigan, Paul Prendergast
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Patent number: D782423Type: GrantFiled: May 29, 2015Date of Patent: March 28, 2017Assignee: Eaton CorporationInventors: Davin Robert Lee, Richard William Fitzgerald, Robert W. Nickerson, Dana Kathryn Leland