Stephen Bryson Lang

US Patent:

20030191805, Oct 9, 2003

Filed:

Feb 11, 2003

Appl. No.:

10/361921

Inventors:

William Seymour - Merrimac NH, US
Stephen Lang - Hollis NH, US

International Classification:

G06F015/16
G09G005/00

US Classification:

709/204000, 345/730000, 709/203000

Abstract:

Methods, apparatus, and systems are provided for on-line seminars over a network. A client receives sets of program code that perform operations requested by a presenter. A stream is transmitted from a server to the client for the presentation. The server detects the operations requested by the presenter and pushes an event that indicates the requested operation into the stream. The client receives the event, selects a set of program codes based on information in the pushed event, and executes the selected set of program code in synchronization with the at least one stream.

US Patent:

48705802, Sep 26, 1989

Filed:

Apr 25, 1986

Appl. No.:

6/856608

Inventors:

Stephen W. Lang - Hollis NH
Michael L. Oristaglio - Paris, FR

Assignee:

Schlumberger Technology Corporation - New York NY

International Classification:

G01V 136
G01V 134
G01V 128

US Classification:

364421

Abstract:

Disclosed is separation of the compressional and shear components of the wavefield measured in 3-component vertical seismic profiling. The separation involves working in the zx plane defined by the borehole axis (z) and the surface seismic source space therefrom along the x-axis, and in successive and overlapping windows each defined by (i) a depth interval centered at the depth level currently being processed and including several depth levels above and below and (ii) a time interval sufficiently long to allow the relevant seismic wavefield to be measured by the geophones. The total wavefield measurements in a window are rotated to give the wavefield along the borehole axis (z) and that perpendicular to it in the zx plane of interest. In one embodiment, the result is forward Fourier transformed in two dimensions, then filtered in wavenumber-frequency space by means of a matrix filter which depends on previously estimated compressional and shear speeds of the region that produced the VSP measurements being filtered, and the result is inverse Fourier transformed to derive the compressional component. Subtracting the compressional component from the total measured wavefield gives the shear component.

US Patent:

45367230, Aug 20, 1985

Filed:

Nov 25, 1983

Appl. No.:

6/555095

Inventors:

Stephen C. Lang - Merrimack NH
Paul E. Gili - Brookline NH

Assignee:

Sanders Associates, Inc. - Nashua NH

International Classification:

H03K 302

US Classification:

331127

Abstract:

A high-frequency, high-power generator of the type in which energy is stored in the capacitance of a transmission line and then discharged into a load by the action of a spark discharge device. The load is connected between one end of a transmission line conductor and ground and the other end of the same conductor is grounded. The line is folded and both ends of the other transmission line conductor are connected to the spark discharge device. A charging circuit applies a voltage to the latter conductor and when it reaches the discharge potential of the spark discharge device, the latter discharges to connect both ends of that conductor to ground. This provides relatively well-defined positive and negative pulses to the load.

US Patent:

20200171388, Jun 4, 2020

Filed:

Nov 7, 2019

Appl. No.:

16/676718

Inventors:

- Santa Monica CA, US
Christian K. Widmer - Los Angeles CA, US
Brian S. Feldstein - Playa Vista CA, US
Stephen A. Lang - Lyons CO, US

International Classification:

A63F 13/60
A63F 13/67
A63F 13/69

Abstract:

The present specification describes an assistive tool that facilitates the design of video games to achieve a true randomized, non-biased and neutral gaming environment that is bounded so that extremes of disincentives and excess incentives are avoided. In one embodiment, the tool allows for simulation of game environment and generates variables that enable reward acquisition by players. In one embodiment, the tool allows the game systems to be defined in such a way that an agent, such as an artificial player implemented by a computer program, can interact with the game environment. In one embodiment, the present tool uses generative models driven by data from previous versions of a game to define the behavior of such agents in simulated games.

US Patent:

20180147491, May 31, 2018

Filed:

May 5, 2017

Appl. No.:

15/588000

Inventors:

- Santa Monica CA, US
Christian K. Widmer - Los Angeles CA, US
Brian S. Feldstein - Playa Vista CA, US
Stephen A. Lang - Lyons CO, US

International Classification:

A63F 13/58
A63F 13/35
A63F 13/795
A63F 13/537

Abstract:

The present specification describes an assistive tool that facilitates the design of video games to achieve a true randomized, non-biased and neutral gaming environment that is bounded so that extremes of disincentives and excess incentives are avoided. In one embodiment, the tool allows for simulation of game environment and generates variables that enable reward acquisition by players. In one embodiment, the tool allows the game systems to be defined in such a way that an agent, such as an artificial player implemented by a computer program, can interact with the game environment. In one embodiment, the present tool uses generative models driven by data from previous versions of a game to define the behavior of such agents in simulated games.