Patents Assigned to Empire Technology Development LLC
  • Patent number: 10462832
    Abstract: Embodiments of the disclosure set forth methods for sharing data in a wireless network. Some example methods include storing in a database a content related information associated with a first mobile device, receiving a request for the content related information from a second mobile device, searching the database for the content related information, and transmitting a search result to the second mobile device to enable the transfer of content between the first mobile device and the second mobile device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignee: Empire Technology Development LLC
    Inventor: Mung Chiang
  • Patent number: 10449507
    Abstract: Methods for converting carbon dioxide (CO2) into graphene are described. The methods include contacting a metal with gaseous carbon dioxide, and irradiating a surface of the metal with at least one laser beam to convert the gaseous carbon dioxide into graphene on the surface of the metal. Systems for converting carbon dioxide into graphene are also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2019
    Assignee: Empire Technology Development, LLC
    Inventors: Chongjun Zhao, Jianbo Dong, Youfu Huang, Xiuzhen Qian
  • Patent number: 10445131
    Abstract: A processor may comprise a plurality of cores operating at heterogeneous frequencies communicatively coupled by a network of routers also operating at heterogeneous frequencies. A core may be prioritized for thread execution based on operating frequencies of routers on a path from the core to a memory controller. Relatively higher priority may be assigned to cores having a path comprising only routers operating at a relatively higher frequency. A combined priority for thread execution may be based on core frequency, router frequency, and the frequency of routers on a path from the core to a memory controller. A core may be selected based primarily on core operating frequency when cache misses fall below a threshold value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: Empire Technology Development LLC
    Inventor: Yan Solihin
  • Patent number: 10445287
    Abstract: Techniques described herein generally include methods and systems related to circuit switching in a network-on-chip. According to embodiments of the disclosure, a network-on-chip may include routers configured to pre-reserve circuit-switched connections between a source node and a destination node before requested data are available for transmission from the source node to the destination node. Because the circuit-switched connection is already established between the source node and the destination node when the requested data are available for transmission from the source node, the data can be transmitted without the delay or with reduced delay caused by setup overhead of the circuit-switched connection. A connection setup message may be transmitted together with a memory request from the destination node to facilitate pre-reservation of the circuit-switched connection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: Empire Technology Development LLC
    Inventor: Yan Solihin
  • Patent number: 10448146
    Abstract: Techniques described herein generally relate to generating an audio signal with a speaker. In some examples, a speaker device is described that includes a membrane and a shutter. The membrane can be configured to oscillate along a first directional path and at a first frequency effective to generate an ultrasonic acoustic signal. The shutter can be positioned about the membrane and configured to modulate the ultrasonic acoustic signal such that an audio signal can be generated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: Empire Technology Development LLC
    Inventor: Mordehai Margalit
  • Patent number: 10437309
    Abstract: Technologies are generally described for employing proximity sensing mechanisms in augmented reality (AR) systems. Sensors strategically placed on AR eyeglasses in locations such as right and/or left arms, bridge, or flip-up feature of the eyeglasses may be used to detect AR eyeglass usage for power management and/or to provide user interface elements like volume control, display controls, user input, and comparable ones. According to some examples, the sensors may be mechanical sensors, capacitive sensors, optical sensors, inductive sensors, magnetic sensors, and/or similar components.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2019
    Assignee: Empire Technology Development LLC
    Inventor: Peter N. Milford
  • Patent number: 10424098
    Abstract: Technologies are generally described for methods and systems effective to generate a composite image. The methods may include receiving first image data that includes object data corresponding to an object and receiving second image data that includes obscuring data. The obscuring data, if displayed on a display, may obscure at least a portion of the. The methods may also include identifying a first region that may include the object data, in the first image data, The methods may also include identifying a second region, that may include the obscuring data, in the second image data. The methods may also include replacing at least part of the second region with at least part of the first region to generate the composite image data that may include at least some of the object data. The methods may also include displaying the composite image on a display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2019
    Assignee: Empire Technology Development LLC
    Inventors: Daqi Li, Jun Fang
  • Patent number: 10425929
    Abstract: Technologies and implementations for resource allocation for Voice over Internet Protocol are generally disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2019
    Assignee: Empire Technology Development LLC
    Inventor: Anpeng Huang
  • Patent number: 10422714
    Abstract: Technologies are generally described that relate to managing and/or generating sensor data. An example method may include receiving output data generated by a pressure sensor. The method may also include determining surface data, indicative of a surface type associated with a force applied to a surface of the pressure sensor, based on the output data. Furthermore, the method may include adjusting the output data based on the surface data to facilitate generating adjusted output data indicative of an adjusted pressure value generated by the pressure sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2019
    Assignee: EMPIRE TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT LLC
    Inventor: Yang-Won Jung
  • Patent number: 10418844
    Abstract: Systems and methods to wirelessly transmit power are provided. A power delivery system may include a central controller assembly and a transmit assembly. The central controller assembly can form transmit coils in the transmit assembly. The central controller assembly can also receive information from devices coupled to the transmit assembly and optimize the transmit coils based on the received information and on information about the transmit assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignee: Empire Technology Development LLC
    Inventor: Kevin S. Fine
  • Publication number: 20190279332
    Abstract: Technologies related to intermediary graphics rendition are generally described. In some examples, an intermediary computing device may store graphics models in a model store. A server computing device may generate and send a compositing flow to the intermediary computing device. The compositing flow may comprise model identifiers and model rendering information. The intermediary computing device may retrieve models identified in the compositing flow from the model store, and provide the identified models and model rendering information to a Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) for rendering. The GPU may render graphics for delivery via a network to a client device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2019
    Publication date: September 12, 2019
    Applicant: Empire Technology Development LLC
    Inventor: Ezekiel Kruglick
  • Publication number: 20190280967
    Abstract: A hierarchical wireless network is provided with a mesh backbone network portion and a switching tree network portion. The mesh backbone network portion includes first tier nodes each having at least one wireless link to another first tier node. The first tier nodes execute a link-state protocol for routing packets. The switching tree network portion includes second tier nodes each having a single wireless link to one first tier node and at least one wireless link to one third tier node, and third tier nodes each having a single wireless link to one second tier node. The second tier and the third tier nodes execute switching rules for switching packets.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2019
    Publication date: September 12, 2019
    Applicant: Empire Technology Development LLC
    Inventor: Mung Chiang
  • Patent number: 10412742
    Abstract: Technologies are generally described for providing a wireless local area network. In some examples, a method performed under control of a first device may include connecting to an access point that is configured to provide a wireless local area network, transmitting, to a second device, a request of connecting to the first device, receiving, from the second device, a response of connecting to the first device, configuring an ad-hoc network group including the first device and the second device based, at least in part, on a network load of the first device and a network load of the second device, and providing a wireless local area network to the second device included in the ad-hoc network group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2019
    Assignee: Empire Technology Development LLC
    Inventor: Haruto Hirose
  • Patent number: 10409350
    Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to instruction optimization (or otherwise improved execution of instructions) using voltage-based functional performance variation. In some examples, a method is described that includes instruction optimization (or otherwise improved execution of instructions) using voltage-based functional performance variation. In some examples, the method includes characterizing a workload for a multi-core processor to identify one or more subunits of individual cores of the multi-core processor for utilization by instructions included in the workload, selecting a voltage at which to operate cores of the multi-core processor, and assigning individual ones of the instructions of the workload to a core of the cores of the multi-core processor based on performance of the identified one or more subunits of the individual cores at the selected voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2019
    Assignee: Empire Technology Development LLC
    Inventor: Ezekiel Kruglick
  • Publication number: 20190273907
    Abstract: Technologies are generally described for coordination of structured light-based image detectors. In some examples, one or more structured light sources may be configured to project sets of points onto the scene. The sets of points may be arranged into disjoint sets of geometrical shapes such as lines, where each geometrical shape includes a subset of the points projected by an illumination source. A relative position and or a color of the points in each geometrical shape may encode an identification code with which each illumination source may be identified. Thus, even when the point clouds projected by each of the illumination sources overlap, the geometrical shapes may still be detected, and thereby a corresponding illumination source may be identified. A depth map may then be estimated based on stereovision principles or depth-from-focus principles by one or more image detectors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2019
    Publication date: September 5, 2019
    Applicant: Empire Technology Development LLC
    Inventor: Harm Stefan Cronie
  • Patent number: 10394318
    Abstract: Technologies related to scene analysis for improved eye tracking are generally described. In some examples, detected gaze targets may be derived from gaze direction information from an eye-facing sensor. Detected gaze target positions and/or motion may be improved by capturing and analyzing digital scene information from a scene visible by the eye. Digital scene information captured by a digital camera may be analyzed to identify potential gaze targets, such as stationary gaze targets, moving gaze targets, and/or accelerating gaze targets. Detected gaze targets may be modified to positions of selected gaze targets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2019
    Assignee: Empire Technology Development LLC
    Inventor: Ezekiel Kruglick
  • Patent number: 10387796
    Abstract: In some examples, a computing system may gathering, from a machine learning unit associated with the computing system, data as a training data, label the data to identify the labeled data as the training data, which may be then recirculated for each of one or more analytics modules of the machine learning unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2019
    Assignee: EMPIRE TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT LLC
    Inventor: Ezekiel Kruglick
  • Patent number: 10384402
    Abstract: Extrusion heads, methods of forming an extrusion head, and methods of forming an object are disclosed herein. An extrusion head may include a plurality of nozzles. Each nozzle may include a first opening configured to receive a solid material therein, a second opening configured to eject a molten material therefrom, a bore extending through the nozzle and connecting the first opening and the second opening, and an actuator positioned adjacent to the first opening and/or the second opening. The solid material may be heated to form the molten material. The additive manufacturing apparatus may further include a control device configured to signal each actuator to adjust an amount of the solid material received in the first opening and an amount of the molten material ejected from the second opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2019
    Assignee: EMPIRE TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT LLC
    Inventor: James Y. Wang
  • Patent number: 10380206
    Abstract: Techniques described herein generally relate to real time inference based systems. Example embodiments may set forth devices, methods, and computer programs related to search engine inference based virtual assistance. One example method may include a computing device adapted to receive text as input and a computer processor arranged to determine at least one inference regarding subject matter of the text based on one or more web searches of one or more terms within the text. The inference(s) may then be automatically displayed upon the inference(s) being determined. The text may be automatically received as input from a voice-to-text converter as voice-to-text conversion producing the text is occurring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Assignee: Empire Technology Development LLC
    Inventor: Ezekiel Kruglick
  • Patent number: 10376784
    Abstract: Technologies are generally described for reducing lag time via predictive caching in cloud-based gaming. In one example, a cloud-based gaming system may identify game paths that can be taken during real-time game play and may break down the game paths into subsets of path segments a player can select. The system may determine a probability of the player taking a subset of the path segments based on real-time actions by the player and a game history of the current player and past players. The system may assign probabilities of being selected to the subsets of path segments and may render the subsets of path segments based on their respective probabilities. The system may transmit the rendered game content data for the subsets of path segments to a game client for caching on the local cache so that the game content data may be available when needed during real-time game play.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Assignee: Empire Technology Development LLC
    Inventors: Nikhil Chhaochharia, Hariharan Ramasangu, George Paulose Koomullil