Patents Assigned to LLC
  • Patent number: 10997767
    Abstract: A method for managing a multi-user animation platform is disclosed. A three-dimensional space within a computer memory is modeled. An avatar of a client is located within the three-dimensional space, the avatar being graphically represented by a three-dimensional figure within the three-dimensional space. The avatar is responsive to client input commands, and the three-dimensional figure includes a graphical representation of client activity. The client input commands are monitored to determine client activity. The graphical representation of client activity is then altered according to an inactivity scheme when client input commands are not detected. Following a predetermined period of client inactivity, the inactivity scheme varies non-repetitively with time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Assignee: PFAQUTRUMA RESEARCH LLC
    Inventor: Brian Mark Shuster
  • Patent number: 10999337
    Abstract: Co-browsing may offer support and other features to consumers of various websites and other online tools and applications. One example embodiment may include receiving a browsing session notification from a user device, identifying a request message destined for another user device, intercepting the request message, identifying the request message as requesting a multi-user session, forwarding the request message to the another user device, identifying a group to assign to the user device and the another user device based on activity performed by the user device, and assigning the user device and the another user device to the group and creating the multi-user session.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Assignee: OPEN INVENTION NETWORK LLC
    Inventor: David Gerard Ledet
  • Patent number: 10999584
    Abstract: A sampling filter process is provided for scalable video coding. The process provides for re-sampling using video data obtained from an encoder or decoder process of a base layer (BL) in a multi-layer system using adaptive phase shifting to improve quality in Scalable High efficiency Video Coding (SHVC). In order to compensate for phase offsets introduced by downsampling an appropriate phase offset adjustment is made for upsampling in SHVC with an appropriate offset included for proper luma/chroma color space positions. In one approach the luma/chroma phase offset is specified and a filter is selected to apply the appropriate phase change.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Assignee: ARRIS Enterprises LLC
    Inventors: Koohyar Minoo, David M. Baylon, Ajay K. Luthra
  • Patent number: 10995885
    Abstract: An assembly including a first elongated rail having a male snap member extending along its length, the male snap member having a groove extending along its length, and a second elongated rail having a female snap member extending along its length. The female snap member has a first leg and a second leg, the first leg including a foot. The male snap member is receivable between the first and second legs of the female snap member such that the foot of the female snap member is received in the groove of the male snap member to exert a force that retains the male and female snap members together such that the first and second rails are assembled to form a hollow tube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Assignee: DECEUNINCK NORTH AMERICA, LLC
    Inventor: Philip G. Morton
  • Patent number: 10994892
    Abstract: A versatile food container that uses a sealing layer to cover movable/reconfigurable/removable internal dividing compartments that maintains a leak-proof seal along the perimeter as well as in between the internal compartments. The container has a variety of features and accessories that can be applied, making it effective for storing, cooking and transporting food.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Assignee: One Equals Three, LLC
    Inventors: Edward Bell, Jessica Bell
  • Patent number: 10996947
    Abstract: A debugging and diagnostics system allow for dynamic code generation that inserts code into a production application to identify snappoints that cause snapshots to be taken if predefined conditionals are satisfied. The snappoints are associated with locations in source code for the production application and include conditional statements that must be met to create a snapshot of the production application. The snappoints are used to generate a collection plan that is provided to the server running the production application. The server rewrites the code of the production application based upon the collection plan to insert instructions that create snapshots when the conditional statements are met.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventor: Jackson Davis
  • Patent number: 10997729
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method, apparatus, and system may predict behavior of environmental objects using machine learning at an autonomous driving vehicle (ADV). A data processing architecture comprising at least a first neural network and a second neural network is generated, the first and the second neural networks having been trained with a training data set. Behavior of one or more objects in the ADV's environment is predicted using the data processing architecture comprising the trained neural networks. Driving signals are generated based at least in part on the predicted behavior of the one or more objects in the ADV's environment to control operations of the ADV.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Assignee: BAIDU USA LLC
    Inventors: Liangliang Zhang, Hongyi Sun, Dong Li, Jiangtao Hu, Jinghao Miao
  • Patent number: 10995847
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for a cooling device connected to components of a motor vehicle. The cooling device influencing a fluid flow moving past the vehicle components. In one example, a system may include a cooling device positioned below an oil sump. The cooling device may feature an apparatus such that a fluid flows between the apparatus and oil sump. The cooling device may also be positioned below a transmission housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventor: Bernhard Gralka
  • Patent number: 10997026
    Abstract: A method is disclosed for destaging data to a storage device set that is arranged to maintain M replicas of the data, the storage device set having M primary storage devices and N secondary storage devices, the method comprising: detecting a destage event; and in response to the destage event, destaging the data item that is stored in a journal, the destaging including: issuing M primary write requests for storing the data item, each of the M primary write requests being directed to a different one of the M primary storage devices; in response to detecting that L of the primary write requests have failed, issuing L secondary write requests for storing the data item, each of the L secondary write requests being directed to a different secondary storage device; updating a bitmap to identify all primary and secondary storage devices where the data item has been stored.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Assignee: EMC IP Holding Company LLC
    Inventors: Lior Kamran, Alex Soukhman, Hillel Costeff
  • Patent number: 10997572
    Abstract: A system and method for performing a financial transaction by determining a master account number associated with one or more accounts that a user may access, providing data to generate a user interface displaying a list of the accounts and an indicator associated with a financial transaction, receiving indicator information associating the indicator with one or more of the accounts, receiving terms for the financial transaction, and performing the financial transaction. The list of accounts may be expanded to view account information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Assignee: CAPITAL ONE SERVICES, LLC
    Inventors: Elizabeth E. Cole, Julio Farach, Jill Sorg, Donald Jeffrey Smith, Hector Crespo, Lynn Jackson
  • Patent number: 10996169
    Abstract: A camera system includes one or more spectral illuminators, a tunable optical filter, and a sensor array. Active spectral light emitted from the one or more spectral illuminators towards a scene is dynamically tuned to an illumination sub-band selected from a plurality of different illumination sub-bands. Sequentially for each of a plurality of fluorescing light sub-bands different than the selected illumination sub-band, the tunable optical filter is adjusted to block light from being transmitted from the scene to the sensor array in all but a tested fluorescing light sub-band from the plurality of different fluorescing light sub-bands, and the sensor array is addressed to acquire one or more image of the scene in the tested fluorescing light sub-band.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Sergio Ortiz Egea, Maria Esther Pace, Onur Can Akkaya, Michael Scott Fenton
  • Patent number: 10997221
    Abstract: Representative embodiments disclose mechanisms to provide direct answers to a query submitted by a user. The mechanisms are tailored so that the answers presented have a high confidence of being correct. A plurality of document segments that are relevant to the query are selected. The selected segments are submitted to a trained machine reading comprehension model along with the query. The result is an extracted answer for one or more of the submitted segments. A subset of the extracted answers are clustered and an answer for each cluster having at least a threshold number of answers are selected as direct answers. The direct answers are presented in a format suitable to the number of selected direct answers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Doran Chakraborty, Manish Malik
  • Patent number: 10999203
    Abstract: A method of reducing network traffic includes blocking, at a mobile device, a first channel to reduce network signaling in a network and to reduce battery consumption. The first channel includes a non-common channel. The method includes offloading application traffic of an application onto a second channel. The second channel may include a common channel. The method may include monitoring the application traffic of the application over the second channel, unblocking the first channel based on the monitored application traffic so that the application can perform an action, and re-blocking the first channel after the action has been completed. The method may include unblocking the first channel when user activity is detected, wherein the user activity includes whether the mobile device is being interacted with.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Assignee: Seven Networks, LLC
    Inventors: Rami Alisawi, Ari Backholm, Huajie Hu, Alexandr Seleznyov, Jie Wei, Sungwook Yoon
  • Patent number: 10996057
    Abstract: A computing system is described that obtains, based at least in part on information included in at least one previous communication associated with a user of a computing device, an indication of a future location and a future time and event information associated with the future location and the future time. The computing system obtains a duration of time for the user to travel from a current location of the computing device to the future location, and, based at least in part on the duration of time, obtains a departure time at which the user is predicted to need to depart from the current location in order to arrive at the future location by an arrival time based on the event. The computing system outputs, for transmission to the computing device, an indication associated with the event and including information indicative of the departure time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Tom Carl Stamm, Dale Kris Hawkins, James A. Guggemos, Tushar Udeshi, Pablo Bellver, Emil Praun, Guang Yang, Andrew Kirmse, Gokay Baris Gultekin, Bill Connor, Keir Banks Mierle
  • Patent number: 10993519
    Abstract: A method and a hand-held device for dermaplaning is disclosed that includes a blade assembly which includes a blade, a blade holder and a safety cage. In accordance with an important aspect of the invention, the safety cage limits the amount of penetration of the blade into the facial skin to enable the device to be safely used by non-professionals. The dermaplaning device includes a vibration generator that causes the blade to vibrate at a predetermined frequency. Various embodiments of the hand-held dermaplaning device are disclosed for vibrating the blade.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Assignee: DD Karma LLC
    Inventor: Dara Levy
  • Patent number: 10994216
    Abstract: Methods and systems for simulating motion in a virtual reality system without external motors or similar machinery are described herein. A mechanical seat may be mounted to a base such that the seat is moveable in at least two dimensions (e.g., roll and pitch). A human occupant of the seat may use a control yoke fixed in relation to the base to cause the chair to move in a direction opposite of the force exerted on the control yoke. An extended reality (XR) motion controller may be mounted in a fixed relationship to the seat. Motion may then be simulated in an XR environment by depicting acceleration that would yield a similar experience on the user's vestibular senses as gravity exerts on the user's vestibular senses based on motion of the seat.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Assignee: Board Media Group LLC
    Inventor: David Board
  • Patent number: 10997337
    Abstract: Efficient synthesis of arbitrary quantum states and unitaries from a universal fault tolerant gate-set (e.g., Clifford+T) is a goal in quantum computation. As physical quantum computers are fixed in size, all available qubits should be used if it minimizes overall gate counts, especially that of the expensive T-gates. In this application, a quantum algorithm is described for preparing any dimension-N quantum state specified by a list of N classical numbers, that realizes a trade-off between space and T-gates. Example embodiments exploit (?) ancilla qubits, to reduce the T-gate cost to ???? ? ( N ? + ?log 2 ? N ? ) . Notably, this it proven to be optimal up to logarithmic factors for any ?=o(?{square root over (N)}) through an unconditional gate counting argument. Though (N) Clifford gates are always required, only (?{square root over (N)}) T-gates are needed in the best case, which is a quadratic improvement over prior art.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Guang Hao Low, Vadym Kliuchnikov
  • Patent number: D918033
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Assignee: Kraft Foods Group Brands LLC
    Inventors: Margaret N. Stewart, Maxine J. Roman, Michael D. Putnam
  • Patent number: D918388
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Assignee: Wiesman Holdings, LLC
    Inventor: Jon Wiesman
  • Patent number: D918477
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Assignee: Pat McGrath Cosmetics LLC
    Inventor: Patricia McGrath