Patents Examined by Nathan Mitchell
  • Patent number: 10979567
    Abstract: An electronic device unit for detection of emergency calls initiated (emanating) from cell phone or other personal wireless communication handheld units, wherein the electronic device unit for detection of emergency calls is installed and integrated as a component detector of a fire alarm system, intrusion alarm system, surveillance system, access control system, SCADA system or other building and facility monitoring systems. A cell phone and other personal wireless devices that transmit special signals that are received by an electronic device unit for detection of emergency calls. A cell phone and other personal wireless devices that performs two way data communications with an electronic device unit for detection of emergency calls.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: Greenwich Technology Associstes
    Inventor: Carl M. Elam
  • Patent number: 10959079
    Abstract: Locational tracking aids emergency management plans. Occupants of a building or campus are determined based on presence or detection of wireless devices. When an emergency occurs, the occupants may move to safety based on the current locations of their wireless devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2021
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Craig Arthur Klein, Gregory O. Harp, Joseph Eric Sineath, Stephen James Waken
  • Patent number: 10944860
    Abstract: Agencies oftentimes desire to monitor personnel in the field during the course of their duties. To provide flexible monitoring capabilities to agencies, a common mobile device such as a mobile phone is converted for use as a radio-based listening system to collect and transmit audio data. Phone features and accessories are leveraged to collect additional data for transmission. Collected data is streamed or otherwise transmitted to monitoring devices at the agency or in the field for operational oversight and recordation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Assignee: World Emergency Network-Nevada, Ltd.
    Inventor: Christopher Ryan Bennett
  • Patent number: 10939403
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a system that provides a first message to a communication device that includes a temporary international mobile subscriber identity (IMSI) to be provisioned onto the device. A first registration message is sent to a registration function server, wherein the server includes a registry, wherein the first registration message indicates to the server to add the temporary IMSI to the registry. A second registration message is sent to the server in response to detecting expiration of a limited time period, wherein the second registration message indicates to the server to remove the temporary IMSI from the registry. A second message is provided to the wireless communication device that indicates to the wireless communication device the expiration of the limited time period, and that the temporary IMSI is removed from the registry of the registration function server. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignees: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P., AT&T Mobility II LLC
    Inventors: Walter Cooper Chastain, Stephen Emille Chin
  • Patent number: 10932086
    Abstract: Methods, apparatuses, systems, and non-transitory computer readable storage media for providing on-demand services to vehicles are described. The disclosed technology determines information associated with a vehicle, generates a request for a fuel delivery on-demand service using the information, confirms identification of the vehicle using a wireless signal of the vehicle, provides access to the vehicle to enable performance of the fuel delivery on-demand service and secures the vehicle after completion of the fuel delivery on-demand service.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Assignee: Nissan North America, Inc.
    Inventors: Siddharth Thakur, Gregory D. Dibb, GianLuca Storti, Masahide Nakamura
  • Patent number: 10922764
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for managing personalized dining checks created by individualized check item ownership or payment enabled by associating device and table indicia. One method includes: receiving information identifying the mobile devices of one or more patrons and information identifying a table indicia as a result of associating the mobile devices of the one or more patrons with a table indicia; receiving requests for dining items, transaction amounts for each dining item, and payment preferences associated with each dining item from each of the one or more patrons; determining the amounts owed by each patron, based on the dining items requested by each patron, transaction amounts for each dining item, and the payment preference of each patron for each requested dining item; and outputting the amount owed by each patron to an electronic storage medium or display of the mobile device of each patron.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Assignee: Worldpay, LLC
    Inventors: Coy A. Christensen, Scot Bryant, Michael de la Fuente
  • Patent number: 10861114
    Abstract: Systems and methods are presented by which a contractor can initiate a proposed variation to a project contract and request payments against the proposed variation even before the variation is approved by the other party to the project contract. A data structure representative of proposed variation is generated and maintained as the proposed variation is reviewed, approved, and elevated to become part of the actual budget for the project. Because the same data structure is maintained throughout the process and after the proposed variation is approved, payment requests, payments, and any other actions taken against the data structure before the proposed variation is approved are automatically linked to the actual budget after approval and, thereby, are recognized and processed by external accounting systems as though the variations were created by the other party to the contract.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: TEXTURA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Paul F. Erbe, David M. Freeman, John W. Smith, Christopher R. Vernon, James Stanley Bohnert
  • Patent number: 10853410
    Abstract: A method and electronic mobile device display imaging satellite information on a screen of the mobile device. A viewing direction and angle of a camera of the mobile device, a location of the mobile device, and orbit information for satellites in a vicinity of the mobile device are all determined. Satellite tracks for each of the satellites determined to be in the vicinity of the mobile device are then computed based on the location of the mobile device, the viewing direction and angle of the camera of the mobile device, and the orbit information corresponding to each of the respective one or more satellites. A graphical representation of the computed satellite tracks may then be displayed on a display screen of the mobile device as an overlay over a real world image being captured in real time by the camera of the mobile device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2020
    Assignee: Orbit Logic, Inc.
    Inventor: Alexander Herz
  • Patent number: 10820146
    Abstract: A lost tracking device associated with a tracking system can be located by leveraging one or more community members by inviting these members to join a search party. Search party criteria can be identified and candidate search party members can be selected and invited based on the search party criteria. When invited candidate search party members accept the invitations, they are added to the search party. A last known location of the tracking device can be provided to the search party members, and the search party can remain in effect until the lost tracking device is located. The location of the lost tracking device is provided to the tracking system, which forwards it to the owner of the lost tracking device. A reward can be provided by the owner of the lost tracking device to the tracking system, which releases the reward to the search party member that located the lost tracking device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Assignee: Tile, Inc.
    Inventors: Guilherme Chapiewski, Mayank Kumar
  • Patent number: 10798649
    Abstract: Methods, systems and apparatus are provided for camping, assisted serving cell addition or removal, and discontinuous reception (DRX) in networks having a macro cell and at least one assisted serving cell. In other aspects, enhancements to Layer 1 channels and uplink timing alignments are provided in networks having a macro cell and at least one assisted serving cell. In further aspects, assisted serving cell Layer 2 architecture and transport channels are provided in networks having a macro cell and at least one assisted serving cell. In further aspects, collaborated HARQ solutions are provided in networks having a macro cell and at least one assisted serving cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventors: Zhijun Cai, Yi Song, Chandra Sekhar Bontu
  • Patent number: 10785638
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a system that manages reuse of mobile subscriber identity information. Further aspects may include mobile subscriber identity information used in a device having multiple device profiles indexed, directly or indirectly, by multiple ki (e.g. shared secret keys). Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2020
    Assignees: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P., AT&T Mobility II LLC
    Inventors: Walter Cooper Chastain, Stephen Emille Chin
  • Patent number: 10762488
    Abstract: A transaction data processing apparatus, which communicates with an electronic receipt server, includes a communication interface and a processor configured to perform electronic receipt processing on transaction data having a first format, by (i) extracting, from the transaction data, information items required for generating an electronic receipt, (ii) identifying, for each extracted information item, an information type indicating a category of the extracted information item, (iii) generating exchange data based on the extracted information items and the corresponding information type, the generated exchange data having a second format different from the first format, and (iv) transmitting the generated exchange data to the electronic receipt server through the communication interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: TOSHIBA TEC KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Hiromasa Suzuki
  • Patent number: 10755361
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method of instructing an annex operation linked to the execution of a main transaction in a bank payment system including at least two distinct client devices and a third party device connected to an annex operation managing system, that is configured to carry out a main transaction between the two client devices. After having received from the third party device, in the annex operation managing system, information relative to the execution of the main transaction between the two client devices, at least one rule for executing the annex operation is identified according to at least one first information item of the received information. The annex operation is then executed according to the at least one identified rule and according to at least one second information item of the received information, that is distinct from the first information item.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2020
    Assignee: HEOH
    Inventor: Ghislain Audemard D'Alançon
  • Patent number: 10755226
    Abstract: An information management system includes a blockchain infrastructure configured to maintain a blockchain for one or more smart contracts generated for one or more assets managed by the information management system, and one or more application programming interfaces configured to provide access to the one or more smart contracts of the blockchain enabling input of data to a given smart contract for a given asset and retrieval of data from the given smart contract of the given asset.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2020
    Assignee: EMC IP Holding Company LLC
    Inventors: Adam Robyak, Bertrand Sirodot, Brandon Kaier
  • Patent number: 10748223
    Abstract: In an embodiment, a computer-implemented method comprises receiving, from a plurality of different mobile computing devices that are located in different distributed geographic locations, a plurality of different expense report line item records, the expense report line item records generated by instances of expense tracking application programs hosted at the mobile computing devices, each of the expense report line item records comprising at least an account identification value and a geo-location value, the geo-location value indicating a then-current geographical location of a particular mobile computing device; digitally storing the plurality of different expense report line item records in a digital data repository; receiving, from a client computer, a request to report one or more of: all account identification values that are within a specified geographic region; or the last recorded locations of a particular account identification value; generating and submitting a database query to the digital data r
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2020
    Assignee: COUPA SOFTWARE INCORPORATED
    Inventor: Donna Wilczek
  • Patent number: 10726409
    Abstract: A point-of-sale (POS) system includes a counter, a cash processing machine, and a register machine. The cash processing machine has a cash receiving port and a cash dispensing port that are accessible from a first lateral side of the counter but not a second lateral side of the counter that is opposite to the first lateral side. The register machine has a display and an operational panel and coupled with the cash processing machine such that the display and the operational panel face the second lateral side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2020
    Assignee: TOSHIBA TEC KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tadashi Nakayama, Kazuyuki Matsumura, Ryohei Miyoshi
  • Patent number: 10702076
    Abstract: A product display merchandiser comprising a track, a pusher configured to move along the track, a biasing mechanism configured to apply a force on the pusher in one direction along the track, and a distance sensor configured to detect the distance between the pusher and a fixed point. The distance sensor determines the number of products contained in the product display merchandiser based on the distance measured.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2020
    Assignee: Atlas Bolt & Screw Company LLC
    Inventors: Michael William Mercier, Daniel Davenport
  • Patent number: 10685335
    Abstract: An integrated asset integrity management system includes a plurality of asset information identifiers associated with a corresponding plurality of assets, a mobile communication device comprising a reading device for reading the identifiers, and a server in electronic communication with the mobile communication device. The server includes a database structure having a tracking system database that includes tracking system data corresponding to the asset information identifiers, and a performance database that includes data relating to performance of the assets. The mobile communication device transmits read asset information to the server. An electronic processor identifies assets corresponding to the read asset information identifiers and determines asset integrity issues for any of the assets. An output device outputs an indicator associated with the determined integrity issue.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2020
    Assignee: Parker-Hannifin Corporation
    Inventors: Peter Vincent Buca, William E. Sayavich
  • Patent number: 10679456
    Abstract: A fuel dispenser comprises fuel flow piping defining a flow path from a source of fuel toward a fueling nozzle. A plurality of fuel handling components are disposed along the fuel flow piping. Control electronics, in operative communication with the fluid handling components, include a multi-core processor having at least two processor cores located on a common integrated circuit chip, the at least two processor cores utilizing different operating systems in an asynchronous manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: Gilbarco, Inc.
    Inventors: Edward Asbell Payne, Rodger K. Williams
  • Patent number: 10679298
    Abstract: In an illustrative embodiment, an automated system provides for automatic negotiation, benchmarking, compliance, and auditing. The system may include computing systems and devices for receiving a request for transmitting a message to a remote party, and in response, providing a customization user interface including a message template with editable and non-editable input fields as well as a document selection interface for linking documents to the message. Message recipients associated with the remote party may be identified as having security access permissions corresponding to access parameters for the linked documents. In response to receiving inputs for the editable input fields, the message template may be converted to a message transmission format for transmitting the message with the one or more linked documents and transmitted to the remote party. The message and linked documents may be stored in at least one portion of a data repository.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: AON SINGAPORE CENTRE FOR INNOVATION STRATEGY AND MANAGEMENT PTE., LTD.
    Inventors: Bryon Gerard Ehrhart, Nichole Benson