Patents by Inventor Thomas W. Stroebel

Thomas W. Stroebel 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: 9473878
    Abstract: Some demonstrative embodiments include apparatuses, devices, systems and methods of managing a wearable device ensemble. For example, a wearable device may include a memory to store a plurality of device identifiers of a plurality of wearable devices belonging to a wearable device ensemble; a human body communication (HBC) transceiver to communicate over an HBC network via a body of a user, the HBC transceiver to receive via the HBC network one or more detected identifiers of one or more detected wearable devices on the body; and an ensemble manager to manage the wearable device ensemble, and to generate an alert based on a comparison between the one or more detected identifiers and the plurality of device identifiers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2016
    Assignee: INTEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jaroslaw J. Sydir, Thomas W. Stroebel
  • Publication number: 20160192112
    Abstract: Some demonstrative embodiments include apparatuses, devices, systems and methods of managing a wearable device ensemble. For example, a wearable device may include a memory to store a plurality of device identifiers of a plurality of wearable devices belonging to a wearable device ensemble; a human body communication (HBC) transceiver to communicate over an HBC network via a body of a user, the HBC transceiver to receive via the HBC network one or more detected identifiers of one or more detected wearable devices on the body; and an ensemble manager to manage the wearable device ensemble, and to generate an alert based on a comparison between the one or more detected identifiers and the plurality of device identifiers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 25, 2014
    Publication date: June 30, 2016
    Inventors: Jaroslaw J. Sydir, Thomas W. Stroebel
  • Publication number: 20120246065
    Abstract: An embodiment of the present invention provides a method of offering incentive based context to service providers, comprising capturing context information of a user and distributing said context information to said service provider, wherein said service provider provides an incentive to said user for said context information, and wherein said user may choose all or a subset of said context information for varying types of compensation selected from the group consisting of: No compensation; Direct monetary compensation; Indirect monetary compensation; Non-monetary compensation; or Points, credits, access to free content.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2009
    Publication date: September 27, 2012
    Inventors: Mark D. Yarvis, Matthew D. Wood, Bernard N. Keany, David A. Sandage, Thomas W. Stroebel
  • Publication number: 20110247030
    Abstract: An embodiment of the present invention provides a method, comprising creating a secure profile store to maintain a version of a user's profile on each of a plurality of platforms the user may be using, offering incentive based context to service providers by capturing context information of the user, wherein the platforms owned by the user will store a local version of the user's profile in the profile store.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2011
    Publication date: October 6, 2011
    Inventors: Mark D. Yarvis, Matthew D. Wood, Bernard N. Keany, David A. Sandage, Thomas W. Stroebel
  • Publication number: 20110246283
    Abstract: An embodiment of the present invention provides a method, comprising offering incentive based context to service providers by capturing context information of a user and integrating an approval service to verify authorization for access to the user context and distributing the context information to the service provider, wherein the service provider provides an incentive to the user for the context information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2011
    Publication date: October 6, 2011
    Inventors: Mark D. Yarvis, Matthew D. Wood, Bernard N. Keany, David A. Sandage, Thomas W. Stroebel
  • Publication number: 20110246213
    Abstract: An embodiment of the present invention provides a method of offering incentive based context to service providers, comprising capturing context information of a user and distributing the context information to the service provider, the user capable of using a plurality of context capturing devices that all coordinate with an online secure profile storage service to provide a highly-available entity with which all the plurality of context capturing devices share profile information, wherein the profile storage service enables access to a user's profile by online services when any or all of the user's devices are offline, and wherein the service provider provides an incentive to the user for the context information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2011
    Publication date: October 6, 2011
    Inventors: Mark D. Yarvis, Matthew D. Wood, Bernard N. Keany, David A. Sandage, Thomas W. Stroebel
  • Publication number: 20110247029
    Abstract: An embodiment of the present invention provides a method of offering incentive based context to service providers, comprising securely capturing private context information of a user and distributing the approved context information to the service provider, wherein the service provider provides an incentive to the user for the context information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2011
    Publication date: October 6, 2011
    Inventors: Mark D. Yarvis, Matthew D. Wood, Bernard N. Keany, David A. Sandage, Thomas W. Stroebel