Patents Assigned to LLC
  • Patent number: 11412072
    Abstract: An apparatus, system and method are disclosed for resolving bandwidth constriction using multiple bandwidths and/or multiple content delivery paths. The apparatus, system and method may include recording requested video content and/or delivering the recorded video content to resolve bandwidth constriction using alternate bandwidths or delivery paths.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: Comcast Cable Communications, LLC
    Inventors: Amit Garg, Tom Brown
  • Patent number: 11411891
    Abstract: A method for a time sensitive network (TSN) having a network topology is disclosed. The method includes determining a set of flow permutations corresponding to the network topology, computing a respective full schedule corresponding to each flow permutation of the set of flow permutations, determining a respective time to compute the full schedule for each flow permutation of the set of flow permutations, and computing a respective partial schedule for each data flow permutation of the set of flow permutations. The method further includes selecting a data flow permutation of the set of data flow permutations based at least in part on the respective time to compute the full schedule for the selected flow permutation, and saving the selected data flow permutation to a memory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: GE Aviation Systems LLC
    Inventor: Stephen Francis Bush
  • Patent number: 11410185
    Abstract: A system for digitally verifying credential sets and its method of use are provided. A credentials set is made up of a number of credentials, each linked to a particular Entity. If all of the credentials are validated and verified, then the credentials' status identifier will be set to a value. If the various status identifiers meet a predetermined value, the set will be verified and digitally signed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: Accreditrust Technologies, LLC
    Inventor: Eric R. Korb
  • Patent number: 11411724
    Abstract: Continuous variable quantum secret sharing (CV-QSS) technologies are described that use laser sources and homodyne detectors. Here, a Gaussian-modulated coherent state (GMCS) prepared by one device passes through secure stations of other devices sequentially on its way to a trusted device, and each of the other devices coherently adds a locally prepared, independent GMCS to the group of propagating GMCSs. Finally, the trusted device measures both the amplitude and the phase quadratures of the received group of coherent GMCSs using double homodyne detectors. The trusted device suitably uses the measurement results to establish a secure key for encoding secret messages to be broadcast to the other devices. The devices cooperatively estimate, based on signals corresponding to their respective Gaussian modulations, the trusted device's secure key, so that the cooperative devices can decode the broadcast secret messages with the secure key.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: UT-Battelle, LLC
    Inventors: Warren P. Grice, Bing Qi
  • Patent number: 11409604
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and processes to optimize the storage of pre-allocated units of storage during a backup operation. Null units of storage are identified in pre-allocated units of storage prior to the backup operation. Upon being identified, the null units of storage are inhibited from being written to a backup image during the backup operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: VERITAS TECHNOLOGIES LLC
    Inventors: Sudhakar Paulzagade, Chirag Dalal
  • Patent number: 11410199
    Abstract: An apparatus and a method by which a content such as an advertisement corresponding to a user at the reception apparatus side can be selectively outputted to the reception apparatus are provided. A transmission apparatus transmits signaling data (MPD) having a user information setting region, a control information file capable of being accessed or generated applying user information-set data generated by a process for the MPD, and a user information-corresponding advertisement capable of being acquired and reproduced on the basis of description data of the control information file. The reception apparatus sets user information to the user information setting region of the MPD, applies the generated user information-set data to acquire a control information file of a user information-corresponding advertisement, applies the description data of the acquired control information file to acquire the user information-corresponding advertisement, and outputs the user information-corresponding advertisement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: Saturn Licensing LLC
    Inventor: Yasuaki Yamagishi
  • Patent number: 11412272
    Abstract: A system for converting an adaptive media stream to downloadable media includes at least one network interface, at least one memory, and at least one processor. The at least one processor is configured to receive, from a requesting device, a request for converting at least a portion of a media stream into a downloadable multimedia container, initialize a plurality of worker threads, retrieve, via one of the plurality of worker threads, a segment of the media stream from a storage location, concatenate, via the one of the plurality of worker threads, the retrieved segment into a multimedia container, determine that each segment of the media stream associated with the at least a portion of the media stream is included in the multimedia container, and transmit, via the at least one network interface, the multimedia container to the requesting device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: RESI MEDIA LLC
    Inventors: Bradley Reitmeyer, Paul Martel, Christopher Joel Ribble
  • Patent number: 11406960
    Abstract: An adsorptive material for adsorption of a noble gas can include a mesoporous support material having a plurality of pores and a pattern of metal atoms deposited onto the mesoporous support material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: UCHICAGO ARGONNE, LLC
    Inventors: Abdellatif M. Yacout, Sumit Bhattacharya, Yinbin Miao
  • Patent number: 11412592
    Abstract: A power supply system includes a rectifier configured to rectify an input signal to generate a rectified signal having a single polarity, a converter configured to generate a drive signal for powering a light source, and a ripple control system including a voltage-controlled resistor (VCR) coupled to a secondary-side of the converter and configured to dynamically adjust a resistance of the VCR to compensate for ripples in the drive signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: ERP POWER, LLC
    Inventors: Michael Archer, Louis Chen, James H. Mohan
  • Patent number: 11407164
    Abstract: A pipe deployment system that includes a vehicle or trailer. A coil of pipe couples to the vehicle or trailer. A rerounder system is supported by and couples to the vehicle or trailer. The rerounder system changes a cross-sectional shape of the pipe. The rerounder system rotates relative to the vehicle or trailer to facilitate loading of the coil, and un-loading of the product on the coil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: Trinity Bay Equipment Holdings, LLC
    Inventors: Matthew Allen Hegler, Beau A. Schexnaydre, Alexander Lee Winn, Alexander Ryan Barnett
  • Patent number: 11411380
    Abstract: Various components and subcomponents of a pluggable modular system for electrical junction boxes are described herein. In various embodiments, a jbox interface chassis is configured to be wired and fastened within an electrical junction box to provide a hot-swappable pluggable interface between the wires in the electrical junction box and each of a plurality of hot-swappable pluggable modular devices. The jbox interface chassis may include a front pluggable interface configured to electrically mate with a corresponding rear pluggable interface on a casing of each pluggable modular device. As an example, the jbox interface chassis may include a plurality of slots or holes to receive a corresponding plurality of blades or pins on the casing of each pluggable modular device. Additionally, device adapters are described herein to convert a wide variety of legacy electrical devices into pluggable modular devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: JPoint Innovation LLC
    Inventors: Anthony James Booyse, Samuel Esteban Albornoz, Robert Thomas Berry, Andrea Diane Booyse
  • Patent number: 11409704
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method, a device and a computer program product for managing a storage system. A method of managing a storage system comprises: determining whether a response time of a file system operation occurring in the storage system exceeds a first predetermined threshold, wherein the storage system comprises at least a memory and a plurality of storage devices and wherein the file system operation synchronizes data stored in the memory to at least one storage device from the plurality of storage devices. The method comprises: in response to the response time exceeding the first predetermined threshold, obtaining trace information related to the file system operation. In addition, the method further comprises determining, by analyzing the trace information, one or more factors that cause timeout of the file system operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: EMC IP HOLDING COMPANY LLC
    Inventors: Bing Liu, Wei Lin
  • Patent number: 11406858
    Abstract: A system for providing resistance in an exercise machine. The system includes a motor, at least one loop drive attached to the motor. A carriage is coupled to the loop drive. The carriage moves in a first direction when the motor is turned in a first direction and a second direction when the motor is turned in a second direction. At least one sensor is attached to the carriage, wherein the at least one sensor is configured to detect external force on the carriage. Information from the sensor indicates external force on the carriage. The information is used to determine a movement of the carriage in response to the external force. The motor is instructed to turn the loop drive to apply the movement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: VR Optics, LLC
    Inventors: Eric Villency, Matthew Brand
  • Patent number: 11406891
    Abstract: Among other things, a game includes individual game pieces and an airborne vehicle (having a motor, a battery connected to the motor, a propulsion device connected to the motor, and a game piece support). A controller is configured to activate the motor when a first period of time has passed after one of the individual game pieces has been received at the game piece support and to deactivate the motor when a second period of time has passed after the motor has been activated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: PlayMonster LLC
    Inventors: Jose Leal, Donald Ullman
  • Patent number: 11410667
    Abstract: A speech conversion system is described that includes a hierarchical encoder and a decoder. The system may comprise a processor and memory storing instructions executable by the processor. The instructions may comprise to: using a second recurrent neural network (RNN) (GRU1) and a first set of encoder vectors derived from a spectrogram as input to the second RNN, determine a second concatenated sequence; determine a second set of encoder vectors by doubling a stack height and halving a length of the second concatenated sequence; using the second set of encoder vectors, determine a third set of encoder vectors; and decode the third set of encoder vectors using an attention block.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Punarjay Chakravarty, Lisa Scaria, Ryan Burke, Francois Charette, Praveen Narayanan
  • Patent number: 11407687
    Abstract: A complex ceramic particle and ceramic composite material may be made of a pretreated coal dust and a polymer derived ceramic that is mixed together and pyrolyzed in a nonoxidizing atmosphere. Constituent portions of the particle mixture chemically react causing particles to increase in density and reduce in size during pyrolyzation, yielding a particle suitable for a plurality of uses including composite articles and proppants.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: Dynamic Material Systems LLC
    Inventors: Arnold Hill, William Easter
  • Patent number: 11407566
    Abstract: A container cover assembly with a stopper member having an outer sidewall of an elastically deformable material and a flange member extending radially outward from the outer sidewall, an inner cap member with the upper surface having the flange member of the stopper member seated thereon, the inner cap member operably configured to selectively and removably couple with a complementary threaded configuration on a conventional liquid container, wherein the stopper member is configured to seal with the upper end of the container. A collar member is coupled to the inner cap member and designed to retain a flexible straw member, wherein a protective cap member is configured to rotate with respect to the collar member to cover and retain the flexible straw member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: ZIPPYPLANET, LLC
    Inventors: Allison Szap, Bryan Vanderputten
  • Patent number: 11410102
    Abstract: A dynamic resource allocation engine which can assist in automating activities and processes within an organization. More specifically, the concepts disclosed herein can reduce operational costs by eliminating unnecessary devices, processes, and/or personnel, while also providing an efficient mechanism for testing the effects of new resources on the entire system. This is done by first combining data associated with devices, processes, and personnel, in a common (normalized) data format. This combination represents a simulation of the business or enterprise associated with the data, and can be referred to as a “resource allocation engine.” The resource allocation engine provides information about how resources are being used within the organization.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: Walmart Apollo, LLC
    Inventors: John J. O'Brien, Brian McHale, Donald R. High, Muhenned Abdulsahib
  • Patent number: 11412575
    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: October 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: TESLA LABORATORIES, LLC
    Inventor: Jovan Hutton Pulitzer
  • Patent number: 11412550
    Abstract: A wireless device transmits a message. The wireless device receives a DCI indicating a first slot offset and a first start symbol number in an allocation table. The wireless device receives, via a first slot, a first response. The wireless device determines the first slot based on the first slot offset and the first start symbol number. The first response indicates a second slot offset and a second start symbol number in the allocation table. The wireless device determines a second slot, for receiving a second response of the message, based on the second slot offset and a time offset. The second slot offset starts with respect to the first slot. The time offset is used for the second response. The wireless device receives the second response from a start symbol of the second slot. The wireless device determines the start symbol based on the second start symbol number.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: Ofinno, LLC
    Inventors: Hyoungsuk Jeon, Esmael Dinan, Yunjung Yi