Patents by Inventor William R. Powers

William R. Powers 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: 20230112071
    Abstract: Embodiments are disclosed for assessing fall risk of a mobile device user. In some embodiments, a method comprises: obtaining one or more mobility metrics indicative of a user’s mobility, the mobility metrics obtained at least in part from sensor data output by at least one sensor of the mobile device; evaluating the one or more mobility metrics over one or more specified time periods to derive one or more longitudinal features; estimating a plurality of walking steadiness indicators based on a plurality of component models and the one or more longitudinal features; inferring the user’s risk of falling based at least in part on the plurality of walking steadiness indicators; and initiating an action or application on the mobile device based at least in part on the user’s risk of falling.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 3, 2022
    Publication date: April 13, 2023
    Inventors: Asif Khalak, Mariah W. Whitmore, Maxsim L. Gibiansky, Richard A. Fineman, Jaehyun Bae, Sheena Sharma, Carolyn R. Oliver, Mark P. Sena, Maryam Etezadi-Amoli, Allison L. Gilmore, William R. Powers, III, Edith M. Arnold, Gabriel A. Blanco, Sohum R. Thakkar, Adeeti V. Ullal
  • Patent number: 11601372
    Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure include a content delivery network (CDN) for delivering content associated with a plurality of different types of applications/devices. Using a CDN flow application, a plurality of network flow parameters are generated for content delivery unique to different types of applications or devices. The network flow parameters include customized data transmission rates. The network flow parameters include predetermined settings for transmission control protocol (TCP) connections between the CDN and devices using a TCP flow control mechanism. Upon receiving a content request, the CDN fulfills the content request based upon first network flow parameters. The network flow parameters may be adjusted for each of the plurality of different types of applications/devices. The network flow parameters may be generated based upon requests or based upon the performance of each of the plurality of applications/devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: Level 3 Communications, LLC
    Inventors: Joseph C. Lawrence, William R. Power
  • Publication number: 20230026415
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method, in a content delivery (CD) network that delivers content on behalf of multiple content providers. The method includes, at a server in the CDN, wherein the server is currently processing at least one other request in at least one other session: receiving a connection request from a client, the connection request being associated with a corresponding content request; determining whether handling the content request will cause the server to become overloaded; and, based on the determining in (B) and on information about the content request, conditionally (i) accepting the content request, and (ii) terminating or throttling at least one session on the server.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2022
    Publication date: January 26, 2023
    Applicant: Level 3 Communications, LLC
    Inventors: William R. Power, Christopher Newton, Laurence Lipstone, William Crowder
  • Publication number: 20230018743
    Abstract: A content delivery method, and related apparatus, that involves the operations of receiving a request for a content resource including at least one embedded resource with a tag. Upon identification of the tag, using at least one delivery parameter to generate a modified embedded resource. Embedding the modified embedded resource in a content resource, such as an HTML document. Delivering, such as in response to request from a browser, the content resource with the modified embedded resource.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2022
    Publication date: January 19, 2023
    Applicant: Level 3 Communications, LLC
    Inventors: Christopher Newton, William R. Power
  • Publication number: 20220407913
    Abstract: The present application describes a system and method for determining a latency between a client device and various servers of a networking system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 26, 2022
    Publication date: December 22, 2022
    Applicant: Level 3 Communications, LLC
    Inventors: John R. B. Woodworth, Dean Ballew, Paul Carpenter, William R. Power, Laurence R. Lipstone
  • Patent number: 11463512
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method, in a content delivery (CD) network that delivers content on behalf of multiple content providers. The method includes, at a server in the CDN, wherein the server is currently processing at least one other request in at least one other session: receiving a connection request from a client, the connection request being associated with a corresponding content request; determining whether handling the content request will cause the server to become overloaded; and, based on the determining in (B) and on information about the content request, conditionally (i) accepting the content request, and (ii) terminating or throttling at least one session on the server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: Level 3 Communications, LLC
    Inventors: William R. Power, Christopher Newton, Laurence Lipstone, William Crowder
  • Patent number: 11451612
    Abstract: A content delivery method, and related apparatus, that involves the operations of receiving a request for a content resource including at least one embedded resource with a tag. Upon identification of the tag, using at least one delivery parameter to generate a modified embedded resource. Embedding the modified embedded resource in a content resource, such as an HTML document. Delivering, such as in response to request from a browser, the content resource with the modified embedded resource.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: Level 3 Communications, LLC
    Inventors: Christopher Newton, William R. Power
  • Publication number: 20220116474
    Abstract: Provided is a content delivery method and architecture for ways to improve the caching of content at one or more content providing devices of a Content Delivery Network (CDN). In particular, systems and methods are disclosed that vary the requirements to store resources or content within a caching device using a dynamic popularity threshold. This popularity threshold may be varied based on a measured fullness of the storage capacity of the cache device. In another example, the dynamic popularity threshold may be further varied based on a cache pressure, which is an indication of how often the cache replaces stored items with new items. The adjustment to the popularity threshold for caching particular content at the caching device may thus be based on a number of requests for content received at the device to tune the caching procedure for a particular region of the CDN.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 24, 2021
    Publication date: April 14, 2022
    Applicant: Level 3 Communications, LLC
    Inventors: William R. Power, Pawel Jakobowski
  • Patent number: 11272028
    Abstract: A server in a content delivery (CD) network that distributes content on behalf of one or more subscribers. Responsive to a request from a client for a particular resource, if the particular resource is already in a cache on the server, serving the particular to the client from the cache; otherwise if the particular resource is not already cached on the server, when a count value exceeds a first threshold value, obtaining, caching, and serving the particular resource. When the count value is less than a second threshold value, obtaining and serving the particular resource. When the count value is: (i) not less than the second threshold value, and (ii) not greater than the first threshold value, then obtaining the particular resource and selectively caching the particular resource; and serving the particular resource to the client.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: Level 3 Communications, LLC
    Inventors: Daniel Lee Jensen, William Crowder, Christopher Newton, William R. Power
  • Patent number: 11252254
    Abstract: Provided is a content delivery method and architecture for ways to improve the caching of content at one or more content providing devices of a Content Delivery Network (CDN). In particular, systems and methods are disclosed that vary the requirements to store resources or content within a caching device using a dynamic popularity threshold. This popularity threshold may be varied based on a measured fullness of the storage capacity of the cache device. In another example, the dynamic popularity threshold may be further varied based on a cache pressure, which is an indication of how often the cache replaces stored items with new items. The adjustment to the popularity threshold for caching particular content at the caching device may thus be based on a number of requests for content received at the device to tune the caching procedure for a particular region of the CDN.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: Level 3 Communications, LLC
    Inventors: William R. Power, Pawel Jakobowski
  • Publication number: 20210393162
    Abstract: One or more electronic device may use motion and/or activity sensors to estimate a user's maximum volumetric flow of oxygen, or VO2 max. In particular, although a correlation between heart rate and VO2 max may be linear at high heart rate levels, there is not a linear correlation at lower heart rate levels. Therefore, for users without extensive workout data, the motion sensors and activity sensors may be used to determine maximum calories burned by the user, workout data, including heart rate data, and body metric data. Based on these parameters, a personalized relationship between the user's heart rate and oxygen pulse (which is a function of VO2) may be determined, even with a lack of high intensity workout data. In this way, a maximum heart rate and therefore a VO2 max value may be approximated for the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 3, 2021
    Publication date: December 23, 2021
    Inventors: Britni A. Crocker, Katherine Niehaus, Aditya Sarathy, Asif Khalak, Allison L. Gilmore, James P. Ochs, Bharath Narasimha Rao, Gabriel A. Quiroz, Hui Chen, Kyle A. Reed, William R. Powers, III, Maxsim L. Gibiansky, Paige N. Stanley, Umamahesh Srinivas, III, Karthik Jayaraman Raghuram, Adeeti V. Ullal
  • Patent number: 11165879
    Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure involve systems, methods, computer program products, and the like, for providing failover and load clustering features to one or more proxy servers of a content delivery network (CDN). In one embodiment, one or more proxy servers may announce a virtual host internet protocol (IP) and, to provide a failover feature, two or more of the proxy servers may also announce a more generic virtual network IP address that includes a broader range of IP addresses associated with the virtual network IP address. In another embodiment, each of the proxy servers in communication with the router may announce a generic IP network address to the router. In response to receiving a request for content from an end user of the CDN, the router may select a proxy server and load balance the received requests among the proxy servers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: Level 3 Communications, LLC
    Inventors: William R. Power, Paul K. McDonnell
  • Publication number: 20210336891
    Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure include a content delivery network (CDN) for delivering content associated with a plurality of different types of applications/devices. Using a CDN flow application, a plurality of network flow parameters are generated for content delivery unique to different types of applications or devices. The network flow parameters include customized data transmission rates. The network flow parameters include predetermined settings for transmission control protocol (TCP) connections between the CDN and devices using a TCP flow control mechanism. Upon receiving a content request, the CDN fulfills the content request based upon first network flow parameters. The network flow parameters may be adjusted for each of the plurality of different types of applications/devices. The network flow parameters may be generated based upon requests or based upon the performance of each of the plurality of applications/devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 6, 2021
    Publication date: October 28, 2021
    Applicant: Level 3 Communications, LLC
    Inventors: Joseph C. Lawrence, William R. Power
  • Patent number: 11063875
    Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure include a content delivery network (CDN) for delivering content associated with a plurality of different types of applications/devices. Using a CDN flow application, a plurality of network flow parameters are generated for content delivery unique to different types of applications or devices. The network flow parameters include customized data transmission rates. The network flow parameters include predetermined settings for transmission control protocol (TCP) connections between the CDN and devices using a TCP flow control mechanism. Upon receiving a content request, the CDN fulfills the content request based upon first network flow parameters. The network flow parameters may be adjusted for each of the plurality of different types of applications/devices. The network flow parameters may be generated based upon requests or based upon the performance of each of the plurality of applications/devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: Level 3 Communications, LLC
    Inventors: Joseph C. Lawrence, William R. Power
  • Patent number: 11057452
    Abstract: A content delivery network with at least one first content server bound to a first domain associated with a first characteristic (e.g., popular) associated with content servable from the content delivery network. The content delivery network includes at least one second content server bound to a second domain associated with a second characteristic (e.g., unpopular) associated with content servable from the content delivery network. At least one processing device including computer executable instructions for receiving a request to provide an embedded resource including either a first host name associated with the first domain or a second host name associated with the second domain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: Level 3 Communications, LLC
    Inventors: Christopher Newton, William R. Power
  • Publication number: 20210194981
    Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure involve systems, methods, computer program products, and the like, for providing failover and load clustering features to one or more proxy servers of a content delivery network (CDN). In one embodiment, one or more proxy servers may announce a virtual host internet protocol (IP) and, to provide a failover feature, two or more of the proxy servers may also announce a more generic virtual network IP address that includes a broader range of IP addresses associated with the virtual network IP address. In another embodiment, each of the proxy servers in communication with the router may announce a generic IP network address to the router. In response to receiving a request for content from an end user of the CDN, the router may select a proxy server and load balance the received requests among the proxy servers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2021
    Publication date: June 24, 2021
    Applicant: Level 3 Communications, LLC
    Inventors: William R. Power, Paul K. McDonnell
  • Patent number: 11032387
    Abstract: A content delivery network has at least a first tier of servers. A content delivery method includes at a first server in the first tier of servers, obtaining a request from a client for a resource. If the resource is available at the first server or at a peer of the first server, then the resource is served to the client from the first server. Otherwise, it is determined whether the resource is popular, and if the resource is determined to be popular, then the first server obtains the resource and the first server serves the resource to the client. If the resource is determined not to be popular, the server contacts a second server to obtain the resource, not in the first tier of servers, and the second server provides the resource to the first server. The first server is instructed not to cache the unpopular content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignee: Level 3 Communications, LLC
    Inventors: Christopher Newton, Kevin Johns, William R. Power
  • Publication number: 20210112134
    Abstract: Provided is a content delivery method and architecture for ways to improve the caching of content at one or more content providing devices of a Content Delivery Network (CDN). In particular, systems and methods are disclosed that vary the requirements to store resources or content within a caching device using a dynamic popularity threshold. This popularity threshold may be varied based on a measured fullness of the storage capacity of the cache device. In another example, the dynamic popularity threshold may be further varied based on a cache pressure, which is an indication of how often the cache replaces stored items with new items. The adjustment to the popularity threshold for caching particular content at the caching device may thus be based on a number of requests for content received at the device to tune the caching procedure for a particular region of the CDN.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2020
    Publication date: April 15, 2021
    Applicant: Level 3 Communications, LLC
    Inventors: William R. Power, Pawel Jakobowski
  • Patent number: 10934682
    Abstract: A dipper having an inlet and an outlet. The dipper includes a front wall and an opposite back wall extending between the inlet and the outlet. The front wall has a substantially linear inner surface between the inlet and the outlet. The dipper further includes two side walls connected between the front wall and the back wall and extending between the inlet and the outlet. Further, the dipper has a lip coupled to the front wall and extending outwardly from the inlet in a direction away from the outlet, the lip having a lip inner surface arranged generally parallel with the substantially linear inner surface of the front wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: Joy Global Surface Mining Inc
    Inventors: Dan Feld, Richard Nicoson, William R. Powers
  • Patent number: 10938941
    Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure involve systems, methods, computer program products, and the like, for providing failover and load clustering features to one or more proxy servers of a content delivery network (CDN). In one embodiment, one or more proxy servers may announce a virtual host internet protocol (IP) and, to provide a failover feature, two or more of the proxy servers may also announce a more generic virtual network IP address that includes a broader range of IP addresses associated with the virtual network IP address. In another embodiment, each of the proxy servers in communication with the router may announce a generic IP network address to the router. In response to receiving a request for content from an end user of the CDN, the router may select a proxy server and load balance the received requests among the proxy servers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: Level 3 Communications, LLC
    Inventors: William R. Power, Paul K. McDonnell