Patents by Inventor William Jeffreys

William Jeffreys 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: 12301648
    Abstract: As a media program is aired to listeners, agents executed by a control system monitor actions by the creator or by listeners to ensure that the creator or the listeners comply with relevant policies and that the media program is aired as scheduled. The agents are programmed with sets of rules regarding content, language, advertising or other restrictions, and configured to process signals representative of actions taken by the creator or the listeners to determine whether such actions comply with such rules. The signals may represent spoken words, written messages, or interactions by listeners, among other actions. The agents interpret the signals to identify intended actions of creators or listeners, and to determine whether the intended actions would comply with each of the rules associated with the media program. The agents are also configured to identify and execute alternative actions as necessary.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2025
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Jason Donahue, Pratik GuhaRay, Rakshit Karnawat, Sanjeev Kumar, William Jeffrey Lett, Ayman Mahfouz, Ankit Kumar Yadav
  • Patent number: 12222459
    Abstract: Airborne LiDAR bathymetry systems and methods of use are provided. The airborne LiDAR bathymetry system can collect topographic data and bathymetric data at high altitudes. The airborne LiDAR bathymetry system has a receiver system, a detector system, and a laser transmission system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: Woolpert, Inc.
    Inventors: Nathan Lee Hopper, Joseph R. Seppi, Rodney Ross Faulkner, II, Mark Douglas Smits, II, Joong Yong Park, Mark Stephen Millman, Eric Josef Cahoon, Christopher T. Cotton, Joshua Gluckman, Alexander Cheff Halterman, Grady Tuell, Andrew Wallace Stark, John Henry Gerhard, William Jeffrey Lillycrop
  • Publication number: 20240257236
    Abstract: A method for asset evaluation and funding includes receiving, in a server, a request from a client device to access a digital item associated with an asset. The method also includes collecting a personal information of a user associated with the asset, assessing a status of the user based on the personal information, and collecting a historical information associated with similar users and similar assets. The method includes searching for values of the asset in a network, determining attributes of the digital item based on the value of the asset, the status of the user, and the historical information, and generating documents for the user, wherein collecting a personal information associated with the user comprises searching for a first information from a third party database, and requesting a second information from the user. A system and a non-transitory, computer-readable medium storing instruction to perform the above method are also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 16, 2024
    Publication date: August 1, 2024
    Inventors: Brian Lee Hepp, Karun Khanna, Upendra Narayan Agashe, Rohith Gorur, Debajyoti Bhattacharyya, William Jeffrey Adams, Ryan A. McElroy
  • Patent number: 11989776
    Abstract: A method for asset evaluation and funding includes receiving, in a server, a request from a client device to access a digital item associated with an asset. The method also includes collecting a personal information of a user associated with the asset, assessing a status of the user based on the personal information, and collecting a historical information associated with similar users and similar assets. The method includes searching for values of the asset in a network, determining attributes of the digital item based on the value of the asset, the status of the user, and the historical information, and generating documents for the user, wherein collecting a personal information associated with the user comprises searching for a first information from a third party database, and requesting a second information from the user. A system and a non-transitory, computer-readable medium storing instruction to perform the above method are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: CGI Technologies and Solutions Inc.
    Inventors: Brian Lee Hepp, Karun Khanna, Upendra Narayan Agashe, Rohith Gorur, Debajyoti Bhattacharyya, William Jeffrey Adams, Ryan A. McElroy
  • Patent number: 11973365
    Abstract: An inverter and battery charger system that uses no power magnetic components to convert DC power supply from a plurality of batteries to AC power and achieves very high efficiency and small size. The inverter takes advantage of the different voltages in a series string of batteries to create small voltage steps to approximate a sinewave or other waveforms. By changing the timing where the voltage steps are selected, different frequencies can be obtained. The low frequency operation of the inverter produces little radio frequency interference. The battery charger applies charging current to the various nodes in the series string of battery cells to charge each one as needed to accommodate the differing levels of discharge used to make a sinewave or other waveform.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Inventor: William Jeffrey Schlanger
  • Patent number: 11916981
    Abstract: During an episode of a media program, a creator of the media program requests that listeners join and participate in the episode. In reply, one or more listeners provide audio data to a control system of the media program, e.g., by speaking utterances that are captured by devices of the listeners. The audio data is processed to identify the users, and to determine attributes of the audio data, to identify words expressed in the audio data, and to determine features such as sentiments or opinions of the audio data. The listeners that provided the data are ranked or scored based on information regarding the respective listeners, the attributes of the audio data, or the words or sentiments. One or more of the listeners are recommended to the creator to be permitted to participate in the episode of the media program, or automatically joined in the episode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Rakshit Karnawat, Sanjeev Kumar, William Jeffrey Lett, Maharshi N. Patel
  • Publication number: 20230417887
    Abstract: Airborne LiDAR bathymetry systems and methods of use are provided. The airborne LiDAR bathymetry system can collect topographic data and bathymetric data at high altitudes. The airborne LiDAR bathymetry system has a receiver system, a detector system, and a laser transmission system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2023
    Publication date: December 28, 2023
    Inventors: Nathan Lee Hopper, Joseph R. Seppi, Rodney Ross Faulkner, II, Mark Douglas Smits, II, Joong Yong Park, Mark Stephen Millman, Eric Josef Cahoon, Christopher T. Cotton, Joshua Gluckman, Alexander Cheff Halterman, Grady Tuell, Andrew Wallace Stark, John Henry Gerhard, William Jeffrey Lillycrop
  • Publication number: 20230396092
    Abstract: An inverter and battery charger system that uses no power magnetic components to convert DC power supply from a plurality of batteries to AC power and achieves very high efficiency and small size. The inverter takes advantage of the different voltages in a series string of batteries to create small voltage steps to approximate a sinewave or other waveforms. By changing the timing where the voltage steps are selected, different frequencies can be obtained. The low frequency operation of the inverter produces little radio frequency interference. The battery charger applies charging current to the various nodes in the series string of battery cells to charge each one as needed to accommodate the differing levels of discharge used to make a sinewave or other waveform.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2023
    Publication date: December 7, 2023
    Inventor: William Jeffrey Schlanger
  • Publication number: 20230285806
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for provided for recognizing movements of a moving body and presenting multimedia content according to the movements to provide instructional learning. As an example of the systems and methods, movement recognition is provided that generates a body object stream from raw data of movements, recognizes techniques for the movements based on the body object stream, and assesses a performance of the techniques. A coaching intelligence is provided that fetches and communicates multimedia content descriptive of the techniques according to the performance and based on one or more configuration files defining coaching strategies and a mapping of multimedia content. The systems and methods provided herein can be leveraged for recognition of human movements in a fitness environment for provisioning of multimedia content consumable for instructional learning of techniques performed as part of a fitness or exercise routine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2023
    Publication date: September 14, 2023
    Inventors: Steven Webster, William Jeffrey Burgar, Ross Andrew Arnott
  • Patent number: 11754693
    Abstract: Airborne LiDAR bathymetry systems and methods of use are provided. The airborne LiDAR bathymetry system can collect topographic data and bathymetric data at high altitudes. The airborne LiDAR bathymetry system has a receiver system, a detector system, and a laser transmission system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: WOOLPERT, INC.
    Inventors: Nathan Lee Hopper, Joseph R. Seppi, Rodney Ross Faulkner, II, Mark Douglas Smits, II, Joong Yong Park, Mark Stephen Millman, Eric Josef Cahoon, Christopher T. Cotton, Joshua Gluckman, Alexander Cheff Halterman, Grady Tuell, Andrew Wallace Stark, John Henry Gerhard, William Jeffrey Lillycrop
  • Patent number: 11580982
    Abstract: Listeners to media programs provide feedback to creators or other entities associated with the media programs in the form of one or more spoken utterances. When a listener to a media program speaks one or more words to a microphone or other system, the words are captured and processed to determine an emotion of the listener, or to determine whether the words include any objectionable content. Data including the spoken words is captured and stored, and presented to the creator of the media program. Notifications of the utterances are provided to the creator, who may identify one of the utterances, and include the utterance in the media program, or invite the listener who provided the utterances to participate in the media program.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Rakshit Karnawat, Sanjeev Kumar, William Jeffrey Lett, Maharshi N. Patel
  • Patent number: 11574026
    Abstract: A device may transmit questionnaires to a set of client devices, wherein the questionnaires include a set of questions that relate to an internal entity experience attribute and/or an external entity experience attribute. The device may receive a set of questionnaire responses and correlate the set of questionnaire responses with contextual data relating to an entity. The device may process, using a machine learning model trained based on data relating to one or more other entities, the set of questionnaire responses and the contextual data to identify a set of features and a set of feature ranks. The device may select a subset of features based on the set of feature ranks and a set of influence thresholds. The device may generate a set of recommendations associated with the subset of features and communicate with one or more other devices to implement the set of recommendations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Assignee: Avanade Holdings LLC
    Inventors: Michele D. Bennett, Mark J. Garavaglia, Michael P. Isaac, Stephanie Mills, William Jeffrey Harding, Anthony Joseph Molisani, William Scott Powell, Robert James Boisjolie
  • Patent number: 11521757
    Abstract: An inadvertent actuation block valve includes inlet and outlet orifices being in selective fluid communication via a chamber. A disc is disposed within the chamber and a bellows is configured to contract at a predetermined pressure differential between reactor fluid entering a reference pressure orifice and control fluid entering the inlet orifice. When the bellows contracts, the disc engages the outlet orifice and isolates fluid communication between the inlet and outlet orifices. The inadvertent actuation block valve prevents inadvertent opening of an emergency core cooling valve when a reactor is at operating pressure that is above the predetermined set pressure range. The inadvertent actuation block valve permits the emergency cooling valves to open and to remain open when reactor pressure is below the predetermined set pressure range. The inadvertent actuation block valve does not impede long term emergency cooling that occurs when the reactor is at low pressure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignees: CURTISS-WRIGHT FLOW CONTROL CORPORATION, NUSCALE POWER LLC
    Inventors: Hugh S. O'Brien, William Jeffrey Velkoff, Jr.
  • Patent number: 11522631
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are switch devices in terminal ends of a network and methods of using same. One embodiment relates to a terminal end of a network including a terminal end transceiver configured to communicate with one or more end user devices, and a switch device configured to automatically route communication at the terminal end transceiver between a primary communication path with a central office and an auxiliary communication path with the central office. Another embodiment relates to a method of switching between primary and auxiliary communication paths at a terminal end. Automatic switching is particularly applicable in a looped communication architecture with redundant communication paths for preventing interruption and increasing reliability for an improved user experience. Another embodiment relates to indexing with splices to reduce connections in a communication path and increase signal quality.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: CORNING RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION
    Inventors: William Jeffrey Clatanoff, Donald Kent Larson, Raman Kumar Selli
  • Publication number: 20220284369
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a worksite evaluation system for evaluating a plurality of users in a worksite comprising a plurality of data capture devices and an activity determination system configured to determine activity data of a user in dependence on the user's user data, wherein the activity determination system determines the activity data by using an activity classification algorithm, wherein the activity classification algorithm is trained to recognise a plurality of specific movement signatures of a user's head, with each specific movement signature corresponding to a different activity being performed. Each data capture device is disposed within a respective helmet for wearing by a respective user, wherein each data capture device is configured to obtain user data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 6, 2020
    Publication date: September 8, 2022
    Inventors: William Jeffrey Simon WOODHEAD, Adrian Roy CUNLIFFE
  • Publication number: 20220206128
    Abstract: Airborne LiDAR bathymetry systems and methods of use are provided. The airborne LiDAR bathymetry system can collect topographic data and bathymetric data at high altitudes. The airborne LiDAR bathymetry system has a receiver system, a detector system, and a laser transmission system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2021
    Publication date: June 30, 2022
    Inventors: Nathan Lee Hopper, Joseph R. Seppi, Rodney Ross Faulkner, II, Mark Douglas Smits, II, Joong Yong Park, Mark Stephen Millman, Eric Josef Cahoon, Christopher T. Cotton, Joshua Gluckman, Alexander Cheff Halterman, Grady Tuell, Andrew Wallace Stark, John Henry Gerhard, William Jeffrey Lillycrop
  • Patent number: 11125865
    Abstract: Airborne LiDAR bathymetry systems and methods of use are provided. The airborne LiDAR bathymetry system can collect topographic data and bathymetric data at high altitudes. The airborne LiDAR bathymetry system has a receiver system, a detector system, and a laser transmission system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2021
    Assignee: Woolpert, Inc.
    Inventors: Nathan Lee Hopper, Joseph R. Seppi, Rodney Ross Faulkner, II, Mark Douglas Smits, II, JoongYong Park, Mark Stephen Millman, Eric Josef Cahoon, Christopher T. Cotton, Joshua Gluckman, Alexander Cheff Halterman, Grady Tuell, Andrew Wallace Stark, John Henry Gerhard, William Jeffrey Lillycrop
  • Publication number: 20210281352
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are switch devices in terminal ends of a network and methods of using same. One embodiment relates to a terminal end of a network including a terminal end transceiver configured to communicate with one or more end user devices, and a switch device configured to automatically route communication at the terminal end transceiver between a primary communication path with a central office and an auxiliary communication path with the central office. Another embodiment relates to a method of switching between primary and auxiliary communication paths at a terminal end. Automatic switching is particularly applicable in a looped communication architecture with redundant communication paths for preventing interruption and increasing reliability for an improved user experience. Another embodiment relates to indexing with splices to reduce connections in a communication path and increase signal quality.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2021
    Publication date: September 9, 2021
    Inventors: William Jeffrey Clatanoff, Donald Kent Larson, Raman Kumar Selli
  • Publication number: 20210055418
    Abstract: Airborne LiDAR bathymetry systems and methods of use are provided. The airborne LiDAR bathymetry system can collect topographic data and bathymetric data at high altitudes. The airborne LiDAR bathymetry system has a receiver system, a detector system, and a laser transmission system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 1, 2020
    Publication date: February 25, 2021
    Inventors: Nathan Lee Hopper, Joseph R. Seppi, Rodney Ross Faulkner, II, Mark Douglas Smits, II, JoongYong Park, Mark Stephen Millman, Eric Josef Cahoon, Christopher T. Cotton, Joshua Gluckman, Alexander Cheff Halterman, Grady Tuell, Andrew Wallace Stark, John Henry Gerhard, William Jeffrey Lillycrop
  • Patent number: D1000036
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Inventors: Gregory James Collins, William Jeffrey Honey, Steven Roncadin, Erin Dawn Dobo