The Invention Science Fund I LLC

Applied Minds, Inc.

Searete LLC

Elwha LLC

Applied Invention, LLC

Qualcomm Incorporated

Oracle America, Inc.

Google Inc.

Sun Microsystems, Inc.

Herman Miller, Inc.

Gearbox LLC

Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation

Disney Enterprises, Inc.

University of Southern California

Thinking Machines Corporation

W Daniel Hillis

Lowell L Wood, Jr

Nathan P Myhrvold

Bran Ferren

Clarence T Tegreene

Roderick A Hyde

Edward K Y Jung

Muriel Y Ishikawa

Victoria Y H Wood

Charles Whitmer

Jordin T Kare

William Henry Gates, Iii

Eric Leuthardt

David Bazeley Tuckerman

Russel Howe

Robert Samuel Langer

Thomas A Weaver

Elizabeth A Sweeney

Randall Adam Yates

Geoffrey Frank Deane

John Latham

Luke Walter Khanlian

William Henry Mangione-Smith

Richa Wilson

Tony S Pan

Paul G Allen

Conor L Myhrvold

William David Duncan

Michael Baym

Eleanor V Goodall

Clinton Blake Hope

Mathias L Kolehmainen

Mark A Malamud

Royce A Levien

Robert C Petroski

Alexander G Gounares

Philip Andrew Eckhoff

Craig J Mundie

Gary William Flake

Richard F Rashid

Eric Theodore Bax

Kenneth G Caldeira

Stephen Hugh Salter

Ira M Lichtman

Mark Sox Setrakian

Christopher D Payne

Edward Stuart Boyden

Dennis James Rivet, Ii

Alistair K Chan

Michael A Smith

Adrian Kaehler

Mahalaxmi Gita Bangera

Thomas Anthony Tombrello, Jr

Kjerstin Irja Williams

James Wallace Sarrett

Thomas McKnight

Augusto Callejas

Harry Kao

Terry Briggs

Clark J Gilbert

Anthony N Gardner

Robert W Lord

Thomas J Nugent, Jr

Kenneth D Salter

Mark E Duttweiler

Ian Swett

Rudy Yukich

Braddock Gaskill

Randall A Yates

Heather L Callahan

Max Nathan Mankin

Dev Kumar

Gerard Roccanova

Daniel Abrutyn

Taylor Roan

Jeffrey A Bowers

Neil Gilbert Siegel

David B Agus

Cameron A Myhrvold

David C Douglas

Michael Dubno

Frank Kastenholz

Steven Willis

Lars Arnt Jangaard

Chris Hassapis

Charles Frederick Harrison

Michael Harvey Peterson

Ryan McKinley

Dan Danknick

Brian Eno

Robert Dunne

Fred Graver

Neal E Chapman

Mark Duttweiler

At least one embodiment of this disclosure includes a method for an autonomous vehicle (e.g., a fully autonomous or semi-autonomous vehicle) to communicate with external observers. The method includes: receiving a task at the autonomous vehicle; collecting data that characterizes a surrounding environment of the autonomous vehicle from a sensor coupled to the autonomous vehicle; determining an intended course of action for the autonomous vehicle to undertake based on the task and the collected data; and conveying a human understandable output via an output device, the human understandable output expressly or implicitly indicating the intended course of action to an external observer.

Communication between autonomous vehicle and external observers

Data in a portable electronic device is protected by using external and internal status detection means to determine if the device is misplaced, lost, or stolen. The device then takes, singly or in combination, one of several actions to protect the data on the device, including declaring its location to an owner or service provider, locking the device or specific functions of the device to disable all data retrieval functionality, erasing or overwriting all the stored data in the device or, where the data has been stored in the device in an encrypted format, destroying an internally-stored encryption key, thereby preventing unauthorized access to the encrypted data in the device.

Method and apparatus for protecting data in a portable electronic device

A secure communication system enabling secure transport of information is disclosed. The system comprises a secure network with one or more packet processing units connected by links through an internal communication system. The secure network transports packets of information between credentialed and authenticated agents. Each packet is associated with a visa issued by a visa service. The visa specifies the procedures governing the processing of the packet by the packet processing units as it is transported along a compliant flow, between agents thorough the network, according to a set of policies specified in a network configuration. Packet processing units include docks and forwarders. Adaptors serving the agents communicate with the network through tie-ins to docks. The system also includes and admin service, accessible to one more admins, that facilitates configuration and management of the network.

Secure communication system

Disclosed are a method and apparatus for limiting the number of results returned by a data store in response to a query. Upon receiving an initial query, the data store returns a page of results that includes a subset of the data items within the data store satisfying the conditions of the query. The data store also provides a marker indicating the extent of the set of data items. If a subsequent query that requests additional results which satisfy the same query conditions and that includes the marker is received, the data store returns a page of results that includes a subset of data items that are disjoint from the initial subset, and provides an updated marker which indicates the extent of the union of the initial and subsequent subsets. If still further results are desired from the data store, an additional query containing the updated marker may be submitted.

Data store with lock-free stateless paging capacity

The invention is a modular vehicle that is intended for a variety of operations including both military and civilian operations. The vehicle addresses the issue of performing special purpose tasks that the vehicle is asked to do. Such tasks can be accomplished by configuring the vehicle as an ambulance, as a fire-fighting vehicle, as a communications van, as a command and control vehicle, etc. Thus, the vehicle is readily adapted using standardized and customized modules that are readily attached to a standardized platform that includes an appropriate interconnection means.

Modular vehicle

A power distribution and communication system includes nodes connected by power lines and communication links. The system receives power from one or more power sources. Each node contains at least one power port, data port and load port. Associated with each power port and load port is a port monitor for measuring current flowing into or out of the port and the voltage difference between the port outlet and ground, which measurements are passed to a processing element. The processing element and monitor analyze measured values to detect fault conditions. Upon fault condition detection, the port is disabled by opening a switch, disconnecting the port from the system voltage. The processing element receives power directly from the power line, thus receiving power from a live power line even if the associated power port is disabled allowing the processing element to enable a disabled node following a failure.

Redundant and fault-tolerant power distribution system having an integrated communication network

A phased adoption procedure is disclosed for adopting a new communication system that provides potential adopters a high degree of confidence in the reliability of the proposed communication system prior to committed adoption.

Method and apparatus for communication system upgrade via phased adoption

Essentially coincident with the capture of an image by the imaging device, biometric information indicating the identity of the operator of the device is obtained from at least one biometric sensor. The biometric information and captured image are then stored in a manner reliably associating each with the other. At a later time, biometric information is obtained from a supposed operator of the imaging device. By comparing this candidate biometric information with the stored biometric information, the supposed operator may be authenticated as the operator of the imaging device at the time of capture of the stored image.

Imaging method and device using biometric information for operator authentication

The present disclosure provides methods and mechanisms for measuring small masses attached to a substrate within a microcantilever. Specifically, the disclosure describes the measurement of small particles accumulated at a substrate that cannot be flowed through a microchannel within a microcantilever. A resonance measurement is acquired at a first time. A pair resonance measurements is then acquired at a second point in time&#x2014;one with the test mass at a first position off or along the microcantilever, the second with the test mass at a second position along the microcantilever. Comparing the resonance frequencies determined for the two test mass positions allows for disambiguation of changes in the mass of the particles from changes in the resonant behavior of the microcantilever itself.

Test mass compensation of mass measurement drift in a microcantilever resonator

Disclosed are a method and apparatus for limiting the number of results returned by a store in response to a query. Upon receiving an initial query, the data store returns a page of results that includes a subset of the data items within the data store satisfying the conditions of the query. The data store also provides a marker indicating the extent of the set of data items. If a subsequent query that requests additional results which satisfy the same query conditions and that includes the marker is received, the data store returns a page of results that includes a subset of data items that are disjoint from the initial subset, and provides an updated marker which indicates the extent of the union of the initial and subsequent subsets. If still further results are desired from the data store, an additional query containing the updated marker may be submitted.

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