Combined With Diverse Art Device (e.g., Audio/sound Or Entertainment System) Patents (Class 455/3.06)
  • Patent number: 11936718
    Abstract: The present technology relates to an information processing device and an information processing method that enable output of information using a more optimal output modal. Provided is an information processing device including a processing unit configured to perform processes of: acquiring apparatus information regarding an output modal for each electronic apparatus; selecting an electronic apparatus having an output modal that outputs information from among a plurality of electronic apparatuses on the basis of the acquired apparatus information; and outputting the information from an output modal of the selected electronic apparatus. The present technology can be applied to, for example, electronic apparatuses such as information apparatuses, video apparatuses, audio apparatuses, or household electrical appliances.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Noriko Totsuka, Hiroaki Ogawa, Yuki Takeda, Kan Kuroda, Yoshinori Maeda, Yuichiro Koyama, Akira Takahashi, Kazuya Tateishi, Chie Kamada, Emiru Tsunoo, Akira Fukui, Hideaki Watanabe
  • Patent number: 11926212
    Abstract: A vehicle includes a Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) antenna, a broadcast receiving antenna, a speaker, and an Audio/Video/Navigation (AVN) device electrically connected to the GNSS antenna, the broadcast receiving antenna, and the speaker, and the AVN device is configured to obtain a broadcast signal from the broadcast receiving antenna, receive a GNSS signal from the GNSS antenna, demodulate the broadcast signal into an acoustic signal, and remove a noise mixed in the acoustic signal based on an intensity of the GNSS signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignees: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA MOTORS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Sang Heun Lee, Dongjin Kim
  • Patent number: 11916736
    Abstract: The disclosure includes embodiments for reorganizing autonomous entities to meet a resource demand of a vehicular micro cloud. In some embodiments, a method for a connected vehicle that is a member of the vehicular micro cloud includes modifying an operation of a communication unit of the connected vehicle to receive, via a Vehicle-to-Everything (V2X) network, a reorganization message that includes a reorganization instruction to fulfill the resource demand of the vehicular micro cloud. The method includes executing the reorganization instruction to incorporate one or more resources of an autonomous entity into a resource pool of the vehicular micro cloud so that the resource demand of the vehicular micro cloud is met.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Inventors: Seyhan Ucar, Takamasa Higuchi, Onur Altintas, Kentaro Oguchi
  • Patent number: 11915250
    Abstract: An authenticity detection method and system is provided for detecting an authenticity of a ride in a ride hailing environment. A set of geohashes is determined based on historical location data and a set of cell tower hashes is determined based on historical telecom data. A cellular network data corpus is generated based on the set of geohashes and the set of cell tower hashes. First location data and first telecom data are received from a driver device of a driver. A first geohash is determined based on the first location data and a first cell tower hash is determined based on the first telecom data. The authenticity of the ride is detected based on at least the cellular network data corpus, the first geohash, and the first cell tower hash.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: ANI TECHNOLOGIES PRIVATE LIMITED
    Inventor: Moiaz Jiwani
  • Patent number: 11909700
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product embodiments for an enterprise micro-forum network receiving a request message to subscribe to an originating node of a first enterprise micro-forum operative within an organization's enterprise micro-forum network configured with a first topic, wherein the first enterprise micro-forum is configured with one or more rules to at least process the request message to subscribe. The embodiment further operates by receiving a topic message to be transmitted to a subscriber recipient node within a second enterprise micro-forum operative within the enterprise micro-forum network. The topic message comprises modified content from the first topic and is transmitted based on transmission parameters for the originating node to transmit the topic message to the recipient node and acceptance parameters of the subscriber recipient node. The topic message is retained in the second topic of the subscriber recipient node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: INNER-MACHINATIONS, L.L.C.
    Inventor: Arpana Thakur Mansfield
  • Patent number: 11882628
    Abstract: A method is provided for interacting with audience members in an event, each of the potential attendees having available thereto a unique identifier. The method comprises creating, for an attendee, a unique ID (UID) on a mobile wireless device (MWD) by the steps of inputting to the MWD one of the unique identifiers, combining the obtained unique identifier with a UID time stamp at the time of creation of the UID; receiving with a server on a first wireless channel communications from the MWD; registering the UID at the physical location of the event; generating a visual query; displaying on the MWD response indicators; receiving at the server from the registered attendee a response, to the query over the first wireless channel; and storing in a database on the server the received response in association with the displayed query.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: Tesla Laboratories, LLC
    Inventor: Jovan Hutton Pulitzer
  • Patent number: 11882624
    Abstract: The present disclosure describes method and system for notifying resource capability of user equipment. In accordance with the embodiments, the method includes determining an event related to one or more multimedia multicast-broadcast service (MBMS) service of interest to the UE in receive only mode (ROM) session when a system information related to MBMS is not broadcasted by a serving cell after transmission of an interest indication for MBMS service to the serving cell wherein the event indicates one of: (a) the UE is not interested in the one or more MBMS service through the ROM session; and (b) the UE is not in reception of the one or more MBMS service through the ROM session; and transmitting a ROM service interest indication for the one or more MBMS service through the ROM session corresponding to the determined event to the serving cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Vinay Kumar Shrivastava, Ankit Srivastav, Sarvesha Anegundi Ganapathi
  • Patent number: 11876847
    Abstract: A second media rendering device in a network is synchronized with a first media rendering device in the network. At a first time s1, the second media rendering device sends a request for a current audio sample index from the first media rendering device. The first media rendering device receives the request for the current audio sample index from the second media rendering device. The first media rendering device sends a message including a first current audio sample index equal to a value for a first media rendering device internal sample index. At a second time s2 the second media rendering device receives the first current sample index value from the first media rendering device. The second media rendering device determines a transmission latency, and estimates an updated first media rendering device internal sample index value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: D&M Holding
    Inventor: Douglas McKenzie
  • Patent number: 11871292
    Abstract: A method and a system of maintaining data connectivity between a mobile device during traversal of a pedestrian facility and a server computing device via a set of intermediary communication devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: MAPSTED CORP.
    Inventors: Sean Huberman, Majid Bavand
  • Patent number: 11865649
    Abstract: Welding systems and methods utilizing cloud computing and data storage are disclosed. An example method includes receiving, via communication circuitry of a cloud-based resource, welding data relating to a welding operation from a first customer; storing the welding data in computer-readable storage media associated with the cloud-based resource; offering the welding data for sale, via the cloud based resource; receiving, via the communication circuitry, an offer for the welding data from a second customer, different from the first customer, wherein the first and second customers are individual welders, factories, distributed manufacturing operations, or a combination thereof; performing a financial transaction with the second customer; and transmitting, via the communication circuitry, the welding data to the second customer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Illinois Tool Works Inc.
    Inventors: Bruce P. Albrecht, Quinn William Schartner, Edward J. Panelli
  • Patent number: 11870475
    Abstract: Examples described herein relate to management of concurrent audio streams from different sources. Portable playback devices, such as wearable wireless headphones and earbuds, as well as portable battery-powered speakers, may include multiple network interfaces for connection to different types of networks, such as an 802.11-compatible network interface for connection to wireless local area networks (e.g., Wi-Fi® networks) and an 802.15-compatible network interface for connection to a mobile device via a personal area network (Bluetooth®). Via such connections, the playback devices may receive two or more concurrent streams. By managing these streams according to playback policies, the portable playback devices may play the user's intended audio without necessarily requiring user input to explicitly select among the concurrent streams.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Sonos, Inc.
    Inventors: Jodi Vautrin, Matt Pandina, Elizabeth Dolman, Ken Hu, Jason Yore, Matthew Moore, Ted Lin, Richard Bannon, Chris Babroski, Robert Bermani
  • Patent number: 11860624
    Abstract: A vehicle control system includes: a vehicle control unit that remotely controls a PW, which is a control object, based on a signal from a mobile device; a mobile-side stop processing unit that performs stop process for stopping the PW upon transition to a predetermined operation state in which user operations are restricted while the PW is in operation by the remote control.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Shigenori Hiruta
  • Patent number: 11854047
    Abstract: A system and method for digital marketing over a IP digital data steam system allows content to be provided to a user. The system may used an app (that may be a PWA) to permit the user to indicate an interest in a piece of content or an advertisement and receive supplemental content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Inventor: Peter Gerard Lancaster
  • Patent number: 11822853
    Abstract: Example techniques relate to playback queue subscriptions. An example implementation involves a computing system receiving, from a first computing device associated with a first user account, an instruction to enable subscription to a first playback queue associated with a first media playback system. In response to the instruction, the computing system enables second user accounts to subscribe to the first playback queue. The second user accounts are registered with respective second media playback systems in respective second household. The computing system receives, from a particular second media playback system, a request to subscribe to the first playback queue; and in response, sends one or more messages that update a control interface of the first control device to display a subscriber indication and (ii) sends one or more messages that populate a second playback queue of the particular second media playback system with audio tracks of the first playback queue.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: Sonos, Inc.
    Inventors: Chris Bierbower, Philippe Vossel
  • Patent number: 11818781
    Abstract: An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes an audio reception circuit, an audio output circuit, a communication circuit configured to support Bluetooth communication, a processor, and a memory. The processor may be configured to connect to a first external electronic device by a first communication link, connect a second external electronic device with a second communication link, transmit connection information including information about the first communication link to the second external electronic device via the second communication link, receive first data from the second external electronic device via the first communication link on a first time slot for data transmission from the first external electronic device of the first communication link, and transmit second data to the second external electronic device via the first communication link on a second time slot for data transmission to the first external electronic device of the first communication link.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Juyeon Jin, Gupil Cheong, Sanghyeok Sim, Doosuk Kang, Bokun Choi
  • Patent number: 11778007
    Abstract: A content providing server provides virtual reality content. The content providing server includes a requesting unit configured to receive a request for virtual reality content from a user device; a dynamic object image processing unit configured to render an image of a dynamic object contained in the virtual reality content; a static object image processing unit configured to render an image of a static object contained in the virtual reality content; and a streaming unit configured to separately stream the image of the dynamic object and the image of the static object to the user device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: KT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kang Tae Kim, Ki Hyuk Kim, I Gil Kim
  • Patent number: 11770784
    Abstract: A multi-member Bluetooth device for communicating data with a source Bluetooth device acting as a master in a first piconet. The multi-member Bluetooth device includes a main Bluetooth circuit acting as a slave in the first piconet and as a master in a second piconet, and an auxiliary Bluetooth circuit acting as a slave in the second piconet. The main Bluetooth circuit generates a first slave clock and a second main clock according to a first main clock generated by the source Bluetooth device, with which both the first slave clock and the second main clock are synchronized. The auxiliary Bluetooth circuit generates a second slave clock and a third slave clock according to the second main clock, with which both the second slave clock and the third slave clock are synchronized. The auxiliary Bluetooth circuit sniffs Bluetooth packets transmitted through the first piconet from the source Bluetooth device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignee: Realtek Semiconductor Corp.
    Inventors: Yi-Cheng Chen, Kuan-Chung Huang, Hung-Chuan Chang, Chin-Wen Wang
  • Patent number: 11765420
    Abstract: A television and system and method for providing a remote control device are disclosed. In one embodiment of the television, the television includes a processor, a memory, a tuner, a panel, and an audio driver therein in an interconnected architecture. The television may establish a pairing with a proximate wireless-enabled interactive programmable device, such as a proximate wireless-enabled interactive handheld device having a touch screen display, whereby formatted parallel audiovisual experience instructions, including virtual buttons, may be transmitted to the proximate wireless-enabled interactive programmable device for display on the touch screen display to create an experience parallel to the experience on the television. The television receives and processes virtual remote control functionality input instructions from the proximate wireless-enabled interactive programmable device to control amenities associated with the television.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: Enseo, LLC
    Inventors: Vanessa Ogle, William C. Fang
  • Patent number: 11755274
    Abstract: A hybrid input networked subwoofer includes a traditional line-in analog audio input for receiving analog audio content from non-networked audio source devices together with wired and/or wireless network interfaces for receiving digital audio content from one or more networked audio devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: Lenbrook Industries Limited
    Inventor: Matthew Simmonds
  • Patent number: 11748435
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method of recommending information sources is provided. The method comprising collecting raw user log data of a browser user and transforming the raw user log data to remove data that is specific to the user, wherein the transformed user log data comprises only general pages visited. A number of key page mappings are appended to the transformed user log data. A machine learning model determines a user interaction function according to the transformed user log data and generates a number of web page recommendations, wherein each web page recommendation has a respective probability of engagement based on the user interaction function. The web page recommendations are then displayed to the user on an interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: S&P Global Inc.
    Inventors: Alka Dagar, Ratheen Chaturvedi
  • Patent number: 11722584
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for determining a subset of user devices from among a complete set of user devices based on a set of received information, i.e., attributes associated with a photograph or user device that transmitted the photograph and attributes, where the disposition of the information may be used to determine the subset and then perform facial recognition on the subset of user associated photographs in order to accurately identify each user or users present in the photograph.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Inventors: Elliot Berookhim, Pejman Yedidsion
  • Patent number: 11700353
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for validating and publishing workflows from remote environments. In some implementations, a link that includes at least one of audio data and video data is established between a wireless device of a remote participant and a computational mixer. A profile for the remote participant is referenced. A venue signal related to the at least one audio data and video data is generated based on the profile for the remote participant and using the computational mixer. The venue signal is transmitted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2023
    Assignee: eIngot LLC
    Inventor: William J. Raduchel
  • Patent number: 11698769
    Abstract: Example techniques relate to playback queue subscriptions. An example implementation involves a computing system receiving, from a first computing device associated with a first user account, an instruction to enable subscription to a first playback queue associated with a first media playback system. In response to the instruction, the computing system enables second user accounts to subscribe to the first playback queue. The second user accounts are registered with respective second media playback systems in respective second household. The computing system receives, from a particular second media playback system, a request to subscribe to the first playback queue; and in response, sends one or more messages that update a control interface of the first control device to display a subscriber indication and (ii) sends one or more messages that populate a second playback queue of the particular second media playback system with audio tracks of the first playback queue.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2023
    Assignee: Sonos, Inc.
    Inventors: Chris Bierbower, Philippe Vossel
  • Patent number: 11690128
    Abstract: Systems and methods including identifying a physical intelligent moving object (IMO), the physical IMO associated with a current location and a service request; creating, from a digital representation template that is based on the service request, a digital representation instance of the physical IMO in a particular edge cloud of a distributed cloud computing environment that is closest to the current location of the physical IMO; in response to creating the digital representation instance, establishing a network connection between the digital representation and the physical IMO using the particular edge cloud; detecting a movement of the physical IMO from coverage of the particular edge cloud; in response to detecting the movement of the physical IMO: identifying a target edge cloud of the distributed cloud computing environment for coverage of the physical IMO; and establishing a network connection between the digital representation and the physical IMO using the target edge cloud.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Xi Wang, Jian Kong, Nannan Wang, Paparao Palacharla, Tadashi Ikeuchi
  • Patent number: 11687976
    Abstract: Targeted Content solutions can be provided using a variety of techniques. Targeted Content can be provided in place of generic advertisements on a first device or on personal computing devices. Targeted Content can be presented during, or in place of, generic advertisements in Content (e.g., television content, streaming content, etc.). Targeted Content can include customized video content to improve a user's viewing experience and thereby provide increased revenue opportunities for advertisers and content providers. The video content and/or customized content that is provided to a user can be paused or substituted to permit customized content to be delivered to the user. The video content and/or customized content can be of sporting events, and can facilitate and improve participation in a Fantasy Sports league.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Inventors: Mark W. Publicover, William Knight Foster
  • Patent number: 11670271
    Abstract: Some embodiments of the present disclosure provide a server system associated with a media-providing service. The server system receives, from a first client device, video content created by the first client device. The server system receives, from the first client device, an indication that the video content is to be associated with a song provided by the media-providing service. The server system provides, to a second client device, the video content in combination with the song. The server system provides, to the second client device, concurrently with the video content and the song, visual display of metadata about the song, including a name of the song.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: Spotify AB
    Inventors: Brendan O'Driscoll, Aidan Sliney, Craig Watson
  • Patent number: 11671192
    Abstract: A method of constructing and handling a request for a desired data file relating to a broadcast segment of a broadcast signal is described. The method comprises receiving an information signal at a receiving device. The information signal comprises at least a data element, and the data element relates to a segment of the broadcast signal. The method also comprises presenting the data element to a user interface of the receiving device, obtaining a user selection of the data element from the user interface, and constructing and transmitting a request for the desired data file relating to the selected data element, the request including an identifier relating to the desired data file.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: UBC Media Group PLC
    Inventors: Simon Andrew Cole, Iain Duncumb
  • Patent number: 11659229
    Abstract: A system and method for the automatic management of the presentation of information from two or more media sources. This automatic management includes the selective viewing of video information on a prescribed screen, screen window or screen configuration, as well as the selective provision of audio information to a particular port or appliance. This management is performed in response to and a s a function of consumer preferences, as well as the source, type and content of the video and audio information. The management system may be entirely located within the consumer's residence, or reside in whole or in part in a connected network or cloud. The system can initiate video/audio management in an entirely autonomous manner, or initiate only in response to user input (keypad, graphical user interface, voice, etc.).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: ARRIS Enterprises LLC
    Inventors: Christopher S. Del Sordo, Albert Fitzgerald Elcock, Charles R. Hardt
  • Patent number: 11650789
    Abstract: An audio podcast distribution system includes a server configured to aggregate and store podcast audio files in a database, and a computing device in communication with the server. The computing device has a processor and a display coupled to the processor. The processor is configured to render an audio playback GUI on the display for playing a given podcast audio file from the database. The audio playback GUI includes a playback control user input, and an audio snippet creation user input. The processor is configured to when the audio snippet creation user input is activated, render an audio snippet creation GUI for generating an audio snippet of the given podcast audio file, and upload the audio snippet of the given podcast audio file to the database.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: PICKED CHERRIES INC.
    Inventors: Stuart M. Goffman, Rick Cikowski, Jason Inasi
  • Patent number: 11593843
    Abstract: A system and method facilitate digital marketing for sponsors of live television broadcasts. The system allows a user, using an application on a computing device while a piece of sponsored content is being broadcast, to express an interest in the broadcast piece of sponsored content and the interest of the user is communicated to a backend system that selects an endpoint destination associated with the broadcast piece of sponsored content wherein the endpoint destination is a pointer to further digital information about the broadcast piece of sponsored content. The system and method may periodically change the selected endpoint destination based on an event in the sponsored piece of content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Inventor: Peter Lancaster
  • Patent number: 11595177
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A shared channel may include a set of tones carrying multiple types of control information multiplexed together. A wireless device may perform a tone classification method to determine individual subsets of tones from the set of tones for each type of control information to extract each type of control information. The wireless device may determine multiple subsets of tones correspond to multiple types of control information simultaneously based on different extraction parameters. For example, the wireless device may determine a total number of tones in a set of tones, a distance between any given two tones in the set of tones, an offset value, or any combination thereof for the extraction parameters. The wireless device may then use these extraction parameters to determine or extract two or more subsets of tones for two or more corresponding types of control information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Ming Ta Lin, Afshin Haftbaradaran, Shravan Kumar Reddy Garlapati, Cunzhen Liu, Alessandro Risso, Li Zhang
  • Patent number: 11595780
    Abstract: In at least one embodiment, a system for providing an immersive audio experience at an entertainment venue is provided. The system includes at least one loudspeaker and a server. The at least one loudspeaker is attached to the entertainment venue. The server is associated with the entertainment venue and is programmed to communicate with a mobile device associated with a vehicle occupant and to enable access to the at least one loudspeaker to position the at least one loudspeaker in a vehicle in response to the mobile device being authenticated with the server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: Harman International Industries, Incorporated
    Inventors: Kyle David Kramer, Maxwell B. Willis, Christopher Michael Trestain, Chris Ludwig, Riley Winton
  • Patent number: 11580082
    Abstract: Example object storage systems, bookkeeping engines, and methods provide quota usage monitoring for control entities, such as accounts, users, and buckets. An object data store is configured to enable control entities to access data objects associated with each control entity. Data objects are mapped to the control entities and the data objects are processed to identify object usage values corresponding to each combination of data object and control entity. Total usage values are calculated for each control entity and used to determine a data object access response for a target data object and associated control entities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Tomy Ammuthan Cheru, Ameet Pyati, Vibhor Patale
  • Patent number: 11570015
    Abstract: Premises apparatus and methods for providing aggregated high-bandwidth, low-latency data service over a content delivery network including existing wireline infrastructure. In one embodiment, a network architecture having service delivery over at least portions of extant hybrid fiber coax (HFC) infrastructure is disclosed, which includes standards-compliant ultra-low latency and high data rate services (e.g., 3GPP and IEEE Std. 802.11 services) via a common service provider. In one variant, an expanded frequency band (e.g., 1.6 GHz in total bandwidth) is used over the coaxial portions of the HFC infrastructure, which is allocated to two or more sub-bands. Premises apparatus are used to support multi-service integration (e.g., aggregation of mobile wireless, premises, and other services), as well as incipient IoT applications and technologies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: CHARTER COMMUNICATIONS OPERATING, LLC
    Inventors: Pratik Das, Diwelawatte Jayawardene
  • Patent number: 11568194
    Abstract: Embodiments provide a method of facilitating a payment transaction with a payment card of a customer. The method includes receiving a payment transaction request initiated at a merchant terminal. The payment transaction request comprising at least a merchant transaction amount associated with a purchase entered at a merchant terminal, a PIN of the payment card provided by the customer via a keypad and a customer transaction amount provided by the customer via the keypad. The method includes facilitating verification of facilitating verification of the PIN with a stored PIN. The method further includes, upon successful verification, determining whether the merchant transaction amount conforms to the customer transaction amount. The method further includes facilitating a payment transaction associated with the payment transaction request if the merchant transaction amount conforms to the customer transaction amount.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: MASTERCARD INTERNATIONAL INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Rahul Agrawal, Sudhir Gupta, Harsh Piparsaniya
  • Patent number: 11556153
    Abstract: A hinge mechanism includes an electrostatic clutch for providing active control of a relative angle between two planar components. The hinge mechanism includes two conductive components on opposite sides of a dielectric layer; a relative angle detection mechanism usable to determine a relative angle between the two planar components; and a voltage controller that selectively applies voltage to at least one of the two conductive components when the detected angle between the two planar components satisfies a locking condition, the applied voltage creating an electrostatic force that restricts movement of the two conductive components and fixedly support the two planar components at the detected angle of separation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Jacquelin Leah Remaley, James David Holbery
  • Patent number: 11531515
    Abstract: A first example playback device includes one or more processors and a non-transitory computer-readable medium storing instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the first playback device to perform functions. The functions include generating a mixed audio signal comprising one or more components of a first audio stream and one or more components of a second audio stream; and playing the mixed audio signal, where the one or more components of the second audio stream of the mixed audio signal played by the first playback device are played in synchrony with a second playback device configured to play the second audio stream. An example non-transitory computer-readable medium and an example method, both related to the first example playback device, are also disclosed herein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: Sonos, Inc.
    Inventors: Ted M. Lin, Luis Vega
  • Patent number: 11501778
    Abstract: A method for operating an electronic assistance device includes: outputting, at a foreground volume, a first output audio stream provided by a voice-controlled first assistance application of the electronic assistance device, the first assistance application exclusively accepting a first wake-up word; continuously detecting an ambient sound and providing the detected ambient sound as an input audio stream; recognizing a second wake-up word as the only wake-up word in a user's voice input recognized in the provided input audio stream, wherein the second wake-up word is exclusively accepted by a voice-controlled second assistance application of the assistance device; and recognizing, in the voice input a command word following the second wake-up word, the command word being accepted by the first assistance application and by the second assistance application, and controlling the first output audio stream via the recognized voice input.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: DEUTSCHE TELEKOM AG
    Inventors: Dirk A. Boettger, Henning Ralf, Mirko Knoll, Bernhard Hochstaetter
  • Patent number: 11488569
    Abstract: Visual effects schedules are applied to audiovisual performances with differing visual effects applied in correspondence with differing elements of musical structure. Segmentation techniques applied to one or more audio tracks (e.g., vocal or backing tracks) are used to compute some of the components of the musical structure. In some cases, applied visual effects schedules are mood-denominated and may be selected by a performer as a component of his or her visual expression or determined from an audiovisual performance using machine learning techniques.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: Smule, Inc.
    Inventors: David Steinwedel, Perry R. Cook, Paul T. Chi, Wei Zhou, Jon Moldover, Anton Holmberg, Jingxi Li
  • Patent number: 11484782
    Abstract: A gaming headset receives a chat audio channel that conveys chat audio. The gaming headset includes a modem that modulates data for communication over the chat audio channel, and transmits the modulated data on the chat audio channel that conveys the chat audio. The modulated data may be communicated, via the chat audio channel, to one or more devices associated with one or more other gamers that are engaged in the play of the particular game. The modulated data includes one or more dual tone multi-frequency tones. The gaming headset may also receive data, via the chat audio channel, from one or more devices associated with one or more other gamers that are engaged in the play of the particular game.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: Voyetra Turtle Beach, Inc.
    Inventor: Richard Kulavik
  • Patent number: 11483085
    Abstract: Systems and methods for device time synchronization by networking devices are disclosed. For example, a networking device may be configured to perform one or more operations to synchronize time as between the networking device and one or more computing devices in an environment. The networking device may be selected from multiple networking devices to be the time master based on one or more factors and/or operations, such as the number of devices in communication with the networking devices, the device types of those devices, device-communication amounts, communication abilities of the devices, and/or which networking device has a wired connection to a modem, for example.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Alan Pogue, Maxim Spivak
  • Patent number: 11481723
    Abstract: Embodiments are directed towards managing personal inventory over a network. If item information associated with one or more items is provided to an inventory platform, such that the item information includes at least a location and a label identifier. If a request to transfer the one or more items to an off-premises storage station is provided, one or more scheduling options may be provided to an owner of the one or more items; collection instructions may be provided to a distribution organization, such that the collection instructions may be based on a scheduling option selected by the owner, the location of the one or more items, or the like; and if the one or more items may be transferred to the off-premises storage station, the location of the one or more items may be updated to indicate that they are stored at the off-premises storage station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: WayForth Inc.
    Inventors: John Terrence Drayton, Rodney Joe Hatfield, Robert Allen Jones, Jr., Michael Laverne Smith
  • Patent number: 11457421
    Abstract: An auxiliary Bluetooth circuit of a multi-member Bluetooth device for communicating data with a source Bluetooth device acting as a master in a first piconet. A main Bluetooth circuit of the multi-member Bluetooth device acts as a slave in the first piconet, acts as a master in a second piconet, and generates a first slave clock and a second main clock according to a first main clock generated by the source Bluetooth device, with which both the first slave clock and the second main clock are synchronized. The auxiliary Bluetooth circuit acts as a slave in the second piconet and generates a second slave clock and a third slave clock according to the second main clock, with which both the second slave clock and the third slave clock are synchronized. The auxiliary Bluetooth circuit sniffs Bluetooth packets transmitted through the first piconet from the source Bluetooth device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignee: REALTEK SEMICONDUCTOR CORP.
    Inventors: Yi-Cheng Chen, Kuan-Chung Huang, Hung-Chuan Chang, Chin-Wen Wang
  • Patent number: 11438328
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture to refresh a token for use in a virtualized computing environment are disclosed. An example method includes accessing a request to perform an automation task; extracting a first token from the request to perform the automation task; determining, by executing an instruction with a processor, whether the first token is expired or will expire in a threshold amount of time; in response to determining that the first token is expired or will expire in the threshold amount of time, requesting a refreshed token; replacing the first token with the refreshed token to create an updated request; and sending the updated request to an automation executor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: VMWARE, INC.
    Inventors: Martin Dachev, George P Dimitrov
  • Patent number: 11405880
    Abstract: A main Bluetooth circuit and an auxiliary Bluetooth circuit of a multi-member Bluetooth device are disclosed. The multi-member Bluetooth device is utilized for communicating data with a source Bluetooth device, and the source Bluetooth device acts as a master in a first piconet. The main Bluetooth circuit acts as a slave in the first piconet, and acts as a master in a second piconet. The auxiliary Bluetooth circuit acts as a slave in the second piconet. The main Bluetooth circuit generates a first slave clock and a second main clock synchronized with a first main clock generated by the source Bluetooth device, and samples a first audio data to be playback. The auxiliary Bluetooth circuit generates a second slave clock and a third slave clock synchronized with the second main clock, and samples a second audio data to be playback.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: REALTEK SEMICONDUCTOR CORP.
    Inventors: Hung-Chuan Chang, Yi-Cheng Chen, Kuan-Chung Huang, Chin-Wen Wang
  • Patent number: 11405687
    Abstract: A computer-implemented is disclosed. The method includes: receiving video data of a live media stream; obtaining, while the live media stream is being streamed, audience reaction data associated with the live media stream, the audience reaction data indicating, at least, an amount of audience engagement activity in connection with video content of the live media stream; identifying an event-of-interest in the live media stream based on a determination that a rate of change of the amount of audience engagement activity exceeds a threshold level; and in response to identifying the event-of-interest, automatically initiating one or more defined actions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: Shopify Inc.
    Inventors: Corey Pollock, John Jong-Suk Lee
  • Patent number: 11394479
    Abstract: A receiver (10) includes one or more tuners (12) and one or more controller-circuits (28). The one or more tuners (12) are operable to receive broadcast-signals (14) from transmitters. The broadcast-signals (14) include metadata (16) that includes the broadcast-station-name (18). The one or more controller-circuits (28) are in communication with the one or more tuners (12). The one or more controller-circuits (28) store the metadata (16) in a first-memory-location (32), detect metadata-sequences (38) based on the metadata (16) stored in the first-memory-location (32), count occurrences (40) of each metadata-sequence (38), determine whether the count of occurrences (40) of each metadata-sequence (38) is greater than a first-threshold (42), determine the broadcast-station-name or its sequences (18) and store the broadcast-station-name (18) in a second-memory-location (44). A method (100) of operating a receiver (10) is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: APTIV TECHNOLOGIES LIMITED
    Inventors: Jan Kowal, Piotr Stopa
  • Patent number: 11373214
    Abstract: A method and system for digital marketing and the provision of digital content allows a user to express, using an application executed on a computing device while a piece of content is being broadcast using an analog or digital signal by an analog or digital radio or television station system, an interest in the broadcast piece of content that is communicated to a backend system. The backend system selects an end point destination that is a pointer to further digital information associated with the broadcast piece of content and communicates the end point destination for the broadcast piece of content to the user who can access the digital information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Inventor: Peter Gerard Lancaster
  • Patent number: 11373039
    Abstract: In an approach for providing an enhancement to message check capabilities through an awareness of the message content, a processor processes a message that includes a non-textual part and a textual part. A processor identifies a content context of the non-textual part of the message. A processor identifies an intent and entity of the textual part of the message. A processor determines a potential mismatch between the content context of the non-textual part and the intent and entity of the textual part. A processor provides a suggested replacement for the potential mismatch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Ross Warren Judd, Sumit Patel, Thomas Edward Creamer
  • Patent number: 11350486
    Abstract: A wireless communication method for earphones includes: based on a standard communication protocol, extending a standard reception time for a communication between the master earphone and an audio source device to obtain an extended reception time, and extending a standard transmission time for the communication between the master earphone and the audio source device to obtain an extended transmission time; the master earphone wirelessly communicating with the slave earphone within the extended reception time; and the master earphone wirelessly communicating with the slave earphone within the extended transmission time. The master earphone establishes a wireless communication with the slave earphone within the extended reception time or the extended transmission time, so that the data reception reliability of the slave earphone and the communication efficiency between the master earphone and the slave earphone are improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: 1MORE INC.
    Inventor: Kuan-hong Hsieh