Patents by Inventor Kenneth Edward Cecka

Kenneth Edward Cecka 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).

  • Management of local devices
    Patent number: 11495240
    Abstract: A device-management system performs processing, such as audio processing, in an instance of a virtual machine corresponding to a functionally limited (local) device. To register the local device, the device-management system receives a registration request that includes device information, encryption data, and an indication of an associated user account. The device-management system then sends this registration data to a service-provider system, which returns a shared encryption key. The device-management system and the local device may use this shared encryption key to securely communicate. The device-management system may de-allocate the instance upon detecting a period of inactivity of the local device and may re-allocate the instance when new activity is detected. The device-management system may further determine when and if audio data to be sent to the local device is encoded using a codec not implemented by the local device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Inventors: Sebastian Pierce-Durance, Kenneth Edward Cecka, Adam Stevens, Sanjay Devireddy, Po-Chen Paul Yang, Naveen Kumar Devaraj, Federico Dan Rozenberg, Pete Baldridge, Rajiv Jain, Pranov Rai, Todd Greenwalt, Yusuf Goren
  • Management of and resource allocation for local devices
    Patent number: 11392401
    Abstract: A device-management system performs processing, such as audio processing, in an instance of a virtual machine corresponding to a functionally limited (local) device. To register the user device, the device-management system receives a registration request that includes device information, encryption data, and an indication of an associated user account. The device-management system then sends this registration data to a service-provider system, which returns a shared encryption key. The device-management system and the user device may use this shared encryption key to securely communicate. The device-management system may de-allocate the instance upon detecting a period of inactivity of the user device and may re-allocate the instance when new activity is detected. The device-management system may further determine when and if audio data to be sent to the user device is encoded using a codec not implemented by the user device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Sebastian Pierce-Durance, Kenneth Edward Cecka, Adam Stevens, Sanjay Devireddy, Po-Chen Paul Yang, Naveen Kumar Devaraj, Federico Dan Rozenberg, Pete Baldridge, Rajiv Jain, Pranov Rai, Todd Greenwalt, Yusuf Goren
  • Processing audio data received from local devices
    Patent number: 10854186
    Abstract: A device-management system performs audio processing, such as acoustic echo cancellation or beamforming, in a computing-resource allocation corresponding to a functionally limited device. The device-management system may be a locally-connected network device that is in communication with one or more user devices; the device-management system may also or instead be a remote device that communicates with the user devices using the locally-connected network device. The device-management system may receive audio data from one or more microphones of one or more user devices. To perform acoustic echo cancellation, the device-management system may receive and process time data corresponding to a time of output of audio by the user device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2020
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Sanjay Devireddy, Kenneth Edward Cecka, Adam Stevens, Sebastian Pierce-Durance, Naveen Kumar Devaraj, Po-Chen Paul Yang, Federico Dan Rozenberg, Pete Baldridge, Pranov Rai, Todd Greenwalt, Yusuf Goren, Rajiv Jain