Patents Assigned to LLC
  • Patent number: 10536403
    Abstract: The disclosed technology includes systems and methods for controlling enrollment and secure persistent SMS texting account servicing communications. A method is provided that includes receiving, at an enrollment web portal, enrollment data including: enrollment credentials identifying a user for authentication, a phone number of a mobile device associated with the user, and consent by the user to persistently interact with an account servicing system via SMS texting. The method includes: processing the received enrollment data, authenticating the user responsive to processing the received enrollment data, storing the phone number of the mobile device associated with the user in a phone number data storage, and generating, responsive to the authenticating, a revocable token for persistent access to a natural dialogue module via a SMS texting gateway for the mobile device identified by the phone number.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2020
    Assignee: CAPITAL ONE SERVICES, LLC
    Inventors: Scott Karp, Srinaath Thyagarajan
  • Patent number: 10535649
    Abstract: An enhanced layout for a multiple-finger ESD protection device has several embodiments. In these embodiments, the base contacts of the NPN (or PNP) transistors utilized as voltage clamps in the multiple-finger NPN-based (or PNP-based) multiple-finger ESD protection device are disposed at opposite edges of the multiple-finger ESD protection device and oriented perpendicularly to the orientation of the fingers in the multiple-finger ESD protection device. Similarly, the body contacts of the NMOS (or PMOS) transistors utilized as voltage clamps in the multiple-finger NMOS-based (or PMOS-based) multiple-finger ESD protection device are disposed at opposite edges of the multiple-finger ESD protection device and oriented perpendicularly to the orientation of the fingers in the multiple-finger ESD protection device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2020
    Assignee: Intersil Americas LLC
    Inventor: Abu T. Kabir
  • Patent number: 10535141
    Abstract: Systems and methods described herein may relate to training an artificial neural network (ANN) using a differentiable Jaccard Loss approximation. An example embodiment may involve obtaining a training image and a corresponding ground truth mask that represents a desired segmentation of the training image. The embodiment may further involve applying an ANN on the training image to generate an output segmentation of the training image that depends on a plurality of weights of the ANN and determining a differentiable Jaccard Loss approximation based on the output segmentation of the training image and the ground truth mask. The embodiment also involves modifying one or more weights of the ANN based on the differentiable Jaccard Loss approximation and providing a representation of the ANN as modified to a mobile computing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2020
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Yair Movshovitz-Attias, Elad Edwin Tzvi Eban
  • Patent number: 10535342
    Abstract: Techniques and systems are disclosed for context-dependent speech recognition. The techniques and systems described enable accurate recognition of speech by accessing sub-libraries associated with the context of the speech to be recognized. These techniques translate audible input into audio data at a smart device and determine context for the speech, such as location-based, temporal-based, recipient-based, and application based context. The smart device then accesses a context-dependent library to compare the audio data with phrase-associated translation data in one or more sub-libraries of the context-dependent library to determine a match. In this way, the techniques allow access to a large quantity of phrases while reducing incorrect matching of the audio data to translation data caused by organizing the phrases into context-dependent sub-libraries.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2020
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventor: Christian Liensberger
  • Patent number: 10536345
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for prioritizing network traffic. In one aspect, a method includes collecting, for local networks, traffic data representing communication traffic over the local network for a period of time; determining, for each of the network devices included in the networks, a device type of the network device and at least one device priority value for the network device; training a device prioritization model, using the traffic data and the device priority values of the devices, receiving, by the device prioritization model, for a local network, a list of network devices that are included in the local network; and generating, by the device prioritization model, a prioritization scheme for the local network that prioritizes device traffic among the network devices based on the device types and device priority values of the network devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2020
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Alex Daniel Jacobson, Laura Marie Eidem
  • Patent number: 10536358
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus for determining a unique audience exposed to media while reducing memory resources of a computing device are disclosed herein. Example instructions cause a machine to at least, based on impression requests from a plurality of client devices via a network, log a plurality of impressions corresponding to media accessed at the client devices; obtain a count of demographic impressions logged by a database proprietor; obtain a count of registered users of the database proprietor exposed to the media; and execute a process to determine a unique audience size by multiplying a count of the plurality of impressions by a square of the count of the registered users to generate a product; dividing the product by the count of the demographic impressions to generate a quotient; and determining the unique audience size based on a square root of the quotient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2020
    Assignee: THE NIELSEN COMPANY (US), LLC
    Inventors: Michael R. Sheppard, Jonathan Sullivan, Peter Lipa, Matthew B. Reid, Peter C. Doe, Peng Fei Yi
  • Patent number: 10536953
    Abstract: In a device including a processor and memory in communication with the processor, the memory includes executable instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the device to perform functions of determining that the device has available bandwidth to receive at least a portion of a first data stream sent from a first remote device to a second remote device on a wireless channel, wherein the data stream is addressed to a third remote device; receiving a part, or the entirety, of the first data stream; generating a second data stream from the received part or entirety of the first data stream, wherein the second data stream is shorter than the first data stream sent from the first remote device; and sending the second data stream to the third remote device. The second data stream is used at the third device to improve QoS related parameters such as a bit error rate (BER), a packet error rate (PER), and/or data rate for the first data stream sent from the first device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2020
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventor: Amer Hassan
  • Patent number: 10533718
    Abstract: An electronic lighting device and a method for manufacturing the same are disclosed. The electronic lighting device may comprise a core, which may comprises an enclosure, a light-emitting element, a flame sheet and a swing mechanism. The flame sheet is movably supported or suspended on the enclosure, and may comprise an upper sheet which is of a flame-like shape. The upper sheet is configured to expose above the top of the enclosure. The light-emitting element may be installed on the enclosure. A light outgoing direction of the light-emitting element may be intersected with the surface of the upper sheet so that the light of the light-emitting element is projected on the surface of the upper sheet. The swing mechanism is disposed beneath the flame sheet and can apply a force on the flame sheet to actuate the flame sheet to sway or swing. By the present application, a visual experience of true fire can be achieved and an interestedness and appreciation can be improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2020
    Assignee: L&L Candle Company, LLC
    Inventor: Xiaofeng Li
  • Patent number: 10535412
    Abstract: A memory device includes memory cells coupled to a word line. The memory device includes a controller coupled to the word line. The controller is configured to program the memory cells coupled to the word line. The controller is configured to verify a programmed status of a first subset of the memory cells coupled to the word line and a programmed status of a second subset of the memory cells coupled to the word line, based on the programmed status of the first subset of the memory cells.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2020
    Assignee: SANDISK TECHNOLOGIES LLC
    Inventors: Xiang Yang, Huai-Yuan Tseng, Deepanshu Dutta, Jianzhi Wu, Gerrit Jan Hemink
  • Patent number: 10534578
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for a circuit configured to perform computations using multiple inputs. The circuit includes multiple adder circuits and a selection circuit that includes multiple input selector. Each adder circuit performs an addition operation using sets of inputs derived from the multiple inputs. The input selectors are configured to select one or more inputs from a set of inputs derived from the multiple inputs based on a sign bit for an input in the set and pass the selected inputs to an adder circuit that generates a sum using the selected inputs. The circuit determines a routing of the sum to another adder circuit based in part on a sign bit for the input in the set of inputs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2020
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventor: Ravi Narayanaswami
  • Patent number: 10534566
    Abstract: A storage tiering system comprises a set of storage tiers, each of the storage tiers comprising a respective set of storage drives configured to store data based on an access frequency associated with the data. The set of storage tiers comprises one or more storage tiers forming at least one storage array configured to store block-based data in association with the respective sets of storage drives of the one or more storage tiers. The set of storage tiers further comprises a storage tier utilizing a cloud infrastructure configured to store object-based data in association with the set of storage drives of the storage tier. An application programming interface is configured to convert block-based data and object-based data for moving data between the one or more storage tiers associated with the storage array and the storage tier associated with the cloud infrastructure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2020
    Assignee: EMC IP Holding Company LLC
    Inventors: Suhas Bk, Krishna Gudipudi, Sudeep Mathew
  • Patent number: 10532007
    Abstract: A connector system is configured to fluidly connect a nasogastric tube assembly including a lumen and a tube to a medical device. The system includes a connector including: a fitting configured to provide a fluid-tight connection with the medical device; a neck coupled to the fitting, the neck configured to attach to the nasogastric tube assembly; and a body coupled to the neck, the body configured to provide a fluid-tight connection with the nasogastric tube assembly when at least partially inserted within the lumen; and a first tether including a first fastening region defining a first opening configured to receive the neck, a second fastening region defining a second opening configured to couple to the nasogastric tube assembly, and a link coupling the first fastening region to the second fastening region, the link configured to maintain a fixed distance separating the first fastening region from the second fastening region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2020
    Assignee: KPR U.S., LLC
    Inventor: Wayne Schuessler
  • Patent number: 10531946
    Abstract: Devices and methods for assisting valve function, replacing venous valves, and predicting valve treatment successes. In an exemplary embodiment of an endograft body configured for expansion within a luminal organ, the endograft body comprises (a) a first portion having a proximal end defining a proximal end aperture and a distal end defining a distal end aperture, the first portion configured to increase a velocity of fluid flowing therethrough, (b) a second portion having a second portion proximal end defining a second portion proximal end aperture and a second portion distal end defining a second portion distal end aperture, wherein the distal end of the first portion is adjacent to the second portion proximal end, and (c) a valve portion positioned at or near the second portion proximal end, the valve portion configured to receive the fluid flowing through the distal end aperture of the first portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2020
    Assignee: 3DT Holdings, LLC
    Inventor: Ghassan S. Kassab
  • Patent number: 10532266
    Abstract: Embodiments disclosed herein include methods and systems for communicating plays or other messages between a coach or other non-player user and a player user during a live sporting event or training session. The system includes a set of wearable devices that are worn by players during a sporting event and a computing node that can be used by the coach to select plays or actions. The plays or other actions selected by the coach can be disseminated to the set of wearable devices enabling one or more players to quickly and accurately determine the play or action to perform.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2020
    Assignee: Water Girl, LLC
    Inventor: Joe Anthony Genova
  • Patent number: 10534997
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for receiving a request from a client to process a computational graph; obtaining data representing the computational graph, the computational graph comprising a plurality of nodes and directed edges, wherein each node represents a respective operation, wherein each directed edge connects a respective first node to a respective second node that represents an operation that receives, as input, an output of an operation represented by the respective first node; identifying a plurality of available devices for performing the requested operation; partitioning the computational graph into a plurality of subgraphs, each subgraph comprising one or more nodes in the computational graph; and assigning, for each subgraph, the operations represented by the one or more nodes in the subgraph to a respective available device in the plurality of available devices for operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2020
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Paul A. Tucker, Jeffrey Adgate Dean, Sanjay Ghemawat, Yuan Yu
  • Patent number: 10535122
    Abstract: A composite image is generated by capturing a sequence of images of a scene over a time interval; pulsing a flash to illuminate the scene multiple times within the time interval; and constructing the composite image from the captured images such that the composite image includes at least a first region constructed from a first subset of the images and a second region constructed from a second subset of the images, the first subset of the images captured sequentially after the second subset of the images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2020
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventor: Tomi Sokeila
  • Patent number: 10536674
    Abstract: A low earth orbiting spacecraft (LEO spacecraft) operable in a first earth orbit includes a main body, a data collection payload, and a first directional antenna, each of the data collection payload and the first directional antenna being coupled with the main body. During a first period of time, the main body is oriented such that the data collection payload views a region of interest on the earth. During a second period of time, the main body and the first directional antenna are oriented such that the first directional antenna is directed toward a first ground station. During a third period of time, the main body and the first directional antenna are oriented such that the first directional antenna is directed toward a second spacecraft operating in a second orbit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2020
    Assignee: Space Systems/Loral, LLC
    Inventor: Andrew E. Turner
  • Patent number: 10531674
    Abstract: A composition having an oil-in-water dispersion with enhanced stability is provided. The oil-in-water dispersion has particles of a hydrophobic agent with an average particle size between about 100 to about 999 nm, where the distribution of particle sizes are a monodispersity about the average particle size, and the negative charge on the particles generates a force of repulsion that exceeds the force of coalescence among the particles of the hydrophobic agent in the oil-in-water dispersion. A method for applying the composition to a food and/or beverage is also provided. The submicron average particle size, dispersity, and force of repulsion of the particles in the dispersion increase the extent of penetration and accelerate diffusion of the particles of the hydrophobic agent throughout a water phase of a food or beverage, to enhance the physical, chemical, nutritional and/or sensory properties of the food or beverage, and to prevent freezer burn.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2020
    Assignee: Leading Edge Innovations, LLC
    Inventors: James Michael Wilmott, Michael Alan Ross
  • Patent number: D872806
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2020
    Assignee: RAZOR USA LLC
    Inventor: Ian Desberg
  • Patent number: D872939
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2020
    Assignee: Qyk Brands, LLC
    Inventor: Rakesh Tammabattula