Patents by Inventor Ryan Hofmann

Ryan Hofmann 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).

  • Publication number: 20240114475
    Abstract: Geo-fenced bandwidth switching for Reduced Capability NR devices is provided. An apparatus may include at least one processor, and at least one memory storing instructions. The stored instructions, when executed by the processor, cause the terminal device at least to receive, from a network element, information comprising a plurality of characteristics of one or more precision zones configured for the terminal device. The apparatus is further caused at least to apply a precision zone selected from the one or more precision zones in accordance with a current location of the terminal device in communication of a reference signal for positioning of the terminal device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2023
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Inventors: Ryan KEATING, Diomidis MICHALOPOULOS, Stepan KUCERA, Jürgen HOFMANN, Berthold PANZNER
  • Patent number: 8676632
    Abstract: The pricing of a product is programmatically defined as a solution to a price optimization equation that includes an in-date constraint and an out-date constraint. The in-date constraint may require that the price established by the price optimization equation be predicted not to exhaust an inventory of the product during a first time interval. The out-date constraint may require that the same price established by the price optimization equation be predicted to exhaust an inventory of the product by the end of a second time interval.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2014
    Assignee: Overstock.com, Inc.
    Inventors: Angela Watson, Rebecca Richardson, Anshu Jalora, Wendy Liu, Ryan Hofmann