Patents by Inventor Jonathan D. Hurwitz

Jonathan D. Hurwitz 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).

  • Patent number: 11898324
    Abstract: Systems and techniques are described for an adaptive control system of powered earth-moving construction and/or mining vehicles. In some situations, the systems/techniques may receive signals from various controls of the powered earth-moving construction and/or mining vehicles that provide signals at various high-level voltages and low-level voltages and provide commands to the various controls by modifying command signals to various high-level voltages and low-level voltages. The systems/techniques may employ various modular input/output daughtercards to modify the various signals and commands.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: AIM Intelligent Machines, Inc.
    Inventors: Jonathan D. Hurwitz, Robert Kotlaba
  • Patent number: 11716414
    Abstract: An example method includes, responsive to receiving user input to activate an airplane mode of a mobile computing device: disabling a first wireless protocol; determining, based on activity of a media session, whether to maintain an enabled state of a second wireless protocol of the mobile computing device, wherein the mobile computing device is configured to stream audio data associated with the media session to an audio sink device via a second wireless protocol; and selectively maintaining the enabled state of the second wireless protocol based on the determination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Jonathan D. Hurwitz, Justin Lee
  • Patent number: 11711689
    Abstract: A connectionless system for handing off data, content or information includes a proximity detection component that allows devices to detect other local devices within range. Devices within range may use advertisement and scanning to exchange communications so that one device can handoff data, content, or information to another device without having to connect, e.g., pair, with the other device(s).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Jonathan D. Hurwitz, Diane Wang
  • Publication number: 20230077596
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus are described for self-alignment for wireless charging. In some implementations a method includes detecting a device to be charged by a wireless charger. The wireless charger includes a housing and a wireless power transmission coil that is movable within the housing. The method includes determining, by the wireless charger, a direction to move the wireless power transmission coil within the housing to improve alignment of the wireless power transmission coil with a wireless power receiving coil of the device to be charged. The method includes moving, by the wireless charger, the wireless power transmission coil within the housing in the determined direction to align the wireless power transmission coil improve alignment of the wireless power transmission coil with the wireless power receiving coil of the device to be charged.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2022
    Publication date: March 16, 2023
    Inventors: Jonathan D. Hurwitz, Christina L. Gilbert
  • Publication number: 20230055165
    Abstract: A trained model running on a wearable device can be used to analyze PPG inputs and error/confidence levels, internal and/or external temperature inputs, and motion sensor data to determine whether the wearable device can be more tightly secured to the body of a user to improve PPG or other health sensor signals. A clustering model can be used to analyze data in real time or close to real time, and provide a notification to the user. The notifications can indicate steps to be taken to improve the signal quality from the wearable device, such as tightening the device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 18, 2021
    Publication date: February 23, 2023
    Inventor: Jonathan D. Hurwitz
  • Patent number: 11589175
    Abstract: A method of identifying errors related to a computing device comprising detecting an input to the computing device, comparing the detected input with a threshold, wherein the threshold corresponds to a level of input indicating frustration by a user, determining whether the input meets or exceeds the threshold, and when the input meets or exceeds the threshold, identifying, by the one or more processors, an error related to the computing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventor: Jonathan D. Hurwitz
  • Publication number: 20230046333
    Abstract: A smartwatch is configured to be usable to control a peripheral device. The smartwatch can be toggled between a typical or usual operating mode for a smartwatch and a mode for controlling the peripheral device. The toggling function is bound to a virtual button. Force applied to the virtual button is measured so that multiple functions, including the toggling function, can be accessed by applying different amounts of force to the button for a predetermined amount of time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 11, 2021
    Publication date: February 16, 2023
    Inventor: Jonathan D. Hurwitz
  • Publication number: 20220386112
    Abstract: A connectionless system for handing off data, content or information includes a proximity detection component that allows devices to detect other local devices within range. Devices within range may use advertisement and scanning to exchange communications so that one device can handoff data, content, or information to another device without having to connect, e.g., pair, with the other device(s).
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 26, 2021
    Publication date: December 1, 2022
    Inventors: Jonathan D. Hurwitz, Diane Wang
  • Publication number: 20220384034
    Abstract: A local and private model can be used to analyze textual, visual, and auditory content on a user's local device to provide notifications about events which are stressful beyond a predetermined threshold. The model can be trained by a combination of health sensor data and an analysis of the content. Multiple models or techniques can be used to analyze the content and vectorize the content. A vector based approach can be used to classify future content as stressful when meeting the predetermined threshold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 26, 2021
    Publication date: December 1, 2022
    Inventors: Jonathan D. Hurwitz, Diane Wang
  • Publication number: 20220263939
    Abstract: An example method includes, responsive to receiving user input to activate an airplane mode of a mobile computing device: disabling a first wireless protocol; determining, based on activity of a media session, whether to maintain an enabled state of a second wireless protocol of the mobile computing device, wherein the mobile computing device is configured to stream audio data associated with the media session to an audio sink device via a second wireless protocol; and selectively maintaining the enabled state of the second wireless protocol based on the determination.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 4, 2022
    Publication date: August 18, 2022
    Inventors: Jonathan D. Hurwitz, Justin Lee
  • Patent number: 11363130
    Abstract: An example method includes, responsive to receiving user input to activate an airplane mode of a mobile computing device: disabling a first wireless protocol; determining, based on activity of a media session, whether to maintain an enabled state of a second wireless protocol of the mobile computing device, wherein the mobile computing device is configured to stream audio data associated with the media session to an audio sink device via a second wireless protocol; and selectively maintaining the enabled state of the second wireless protocol based on the determination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Jonathan D. Hurwitz, Justin Lee
  • Publication number: 20220146248
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to methods for monitoring the health of a battery cell. Specifically, the method includes receiving, by a controller communicatively coupled a pressure sensor positioned proximate to a battery housing having an initial volume and an initial shape and containing a battery cell, a pressure value indicative of a current volume or a current shape of the battery' housing. The pressure sensor is configured to measure the pressure value indicative of the current volume or the current shape of the battery' housing. The method also involves comparing, by the controller, the pressure value to a predetermined threshold pressure value. The method further involves adjusting, by the controller and based on the comparison, at least one parameter associated with operations of the battery cell.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2019
    Publication date: May 12, 2022
    Inventor: Jonathan D. Hurwitz
  • Publication number: 20220053195
    Abstract: Embodiments described herein relate to methods, devices, and computer-readable media to determine a compression setting. An input image may be obtained where the input image is associated with a user account. One or more features of the input image may be determined using a feature-detection machine-learning model. A compression setting for the input image may be determined using a user-specific machine-learning model personalized to the user account based on the one or more features in the input image. The input image may be compressed based on the compression setting.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2020
    Publication date: February 17, 2022
    Applicant: Google LLC
    Inventors: Jonathan D. HURWITZ, Punyabrata RAY
  • Publication number: 20220030103
    Abstract: An example method includes, responsive to receiving user input to activate an airplane mode of a mobile computing device: disabling a first wireless protocol; determining, based on activity of a media session, whether to maintain an enabled state of a second wireless protocol of the mobile computing device, wherein the mobile computing device is configured to stream audio data associated with the media session to an audio sink device via a second wireless protocol; and selectively maintaining the enabled state of the second wireless protocol based on the determination.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 16, 2019
    Publication date: January 27, 2022
    Inventors: Jonathan D. Hurwitz, Justin Lee
  • Publication number: 20220020370
    Abstract: A method includes outputting, by a computing device, to a remote computing device, test audio data; determining, by the computing device, whether audio data detected by an audio input device includes the test audio data; and responsive to determining that the test audio data was not detected by the audio input device, temporarily refraining, by the computing device, from outputting advisory audio data indicating the audio input device is ready to receive a spoken audio command.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2019
    Publication date: January 20, 2022
    Inventor: Jonathan D. Hurwitz
  • Publication number: 20220014302
    Abstract: An example method includes receiving, by a communication controller of a source device and from an audio source of the source device, audio data to be wirelessly transmitted to a sink device, wherein the audio data is received from the audio source at a rate; storing, by the communication controller and in a buffer, the audio data as a sequence of audio blocks, wherein each audio block includes audio data for a respective output time; transmitting, by the source device and to the sink device, audio blocks of the sequence of audio blocks using a wireless link between the source device and the sink device; determining a current condition of the wireless link; and automatically adjusting, by the communication controller and based on the current condition of the wireless link, the rate at which audio data is received from the audio source.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 23, 2019
    Publication date: January 13, 2022
    Inventor: Jonathan D. Hurwitz
  • Publication number: 20210345052
    Abstract: A method of identifying errors related to a computing device comprising detecting an input to the computing device, comparing the detected input with a threshold, wherein the threshold corresponds to a level of input indicating frustration by a user, determining whether the input meets or exceeds the threshold, and when the input meets or exceeds the threshold, identifying, by the one or more processors, an error related to the computing device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2020
    Publication date: November 4, 2021
    Inventor: Jonathan D. Hurwitz