Daniel C Robbins

US Patent:

7868786, Jan 11, 2011

Filed:

Oct 19, 2004

Appl. No.:

10/968861

Inventors:

Kentaro Toyama - Miami FL, US
Ramaswamy Hariharan - Irvine CA, US
Ross G. Cutler - Duvall WA, US
John R. Douceur - Bellevue WA, US
Nuria M. Oliver - Seattle WA, US
Eric K. Ringger - Issaquah WA, US
Daniel C. Robbins - Seattle WA, US
Matthew T. Uyttendaele - Seattle WA, US

Assignee:

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

International Classification:

G08G 1/123

US Classification:

340988, 340992, 701200

Abstract:

A location history is a collection of locations over time for an object. A stay is a single instance of an object spending some time in one place, and a destination is any place where one or more objects have experienced a stay. Location histories are parsed using stays and destinations. In a described implementation, each location of a location history is recorded as a spatial position and a corresponding time at which the spatial position is acquired. Stays are extracted from a location history by analyzing locations thereof with regard to a temporal threshold and a spatial threshold. Specifically, two or more locations are considered a stay if they exceed a minimum stay duration and are within a maximum roaming distance. Each stay includes a location, a starting time, and an ending time. Destinations are produced from the extracted stays using a clustering operation and a predetermined scaling factor.

US Patent:

59409142, Aug 24, 1999

Filed:

Aug 14, 1997

Appl. No.:

8/911541

Inventors:

Daniel J. Robbins - Miami Beach FL

Assignee:

Magic fingers of America, Inc. - Miami Beach FL

International Classification:

A47C 2700

US Classification:

5694

Abstract:

An assembly for vibrating a bed system, such as a box spring mattress. The assembly includes a clip system, a vibrating device with a housing that has several slots to engaging a lattice wire inside a box spring mattress as well as the clip system. The clip system is used to secure the vibrating device to the box spring mattress. The clip system includes a tension portion that has a mounting portion to engage the slots of the vibrating device and an indentation portion, extending from the mounting portion, to engage the other slots of the vibrating device. The clip system is secured to the box spring mattress with locking ties. Alternatively, the clip assembly includes a support clip for engaging the lattice wire and the slots of the vibrating device, instead of the slots directly engaging the lattice wire.