Patents Assigned to MAPS, INC.
  • Patent number: 12219439
    Abstract: A system and method for providing service information on a social network, that can include: receiving, from a first client device, a social media post including a request for a service, where the request for the service includes a set of objectives, service location information, and an identification of a requesting account requesting a service on the social network; applying grouping criteria to a first set of user accounts to generate a group, where: the group is a subset of the first set of user accounts; providing, to one or more user accounts in the group, the social media post for display by the client devices of the one or more user accounts; and receiving, from a servicing user account in the group, an acceptance of the request for service of the social media post.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: You Map Inc.
    Inventor: Stephen Constantinides
  • Publication number: 20250036642
    Abstract: A system and method for location-based social networking, including: a social mapping module executing on a computer processor and configured to enable the computer processor to receive, from a client device, a request for social media posts, wherein the request comprises location information and a set of screen attribute information associated with a display of the client device; identify a candidate set of social media posts based at least on the location information; generate an aggregated group comprising a subset of the candidate set of social media posts, by filtering, ranking, and selecting content; and provide the aggregated group to the client device in response to the request, wherein the client device is configured to display an aggregated graphical symbol as a representation of the aggregated group, and wherein the aggregated graphical symbol is selected based at least on an attribute of social media posts in the aggregated group.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 10, 2024
    Publication date: January 30, 2025
    Applicant: You Map Inc.
    Inventor: Stephen Constantinides
  • Publication number: 20250037396
    Abstract: A system and method for displaying a virtual three-dimensional environment, including: displaying at least a portion of the virtual three-dimensional environment in a head-mounted display, where the head-mounted display includes a retinal tracking device; enabling a user to interact with the virtual three-dimensional environment; displaying a virtual representation of a written work within the virtual three-dimensional environment in the head-mounted display; enabling the user to interact with the virtual representation of the written work; determining the content of the representation of the written book at the user's reading position; and modifying the virtual three-dimensional environment based at least in part on the content at the user's reading position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2024
    Publication date: January 30, 2025
    Applicant: You Map Inc.
    Inventor: Stephen Constantinides
  • Patent number: 12147443
    Abstract: Systems and methods for receiving information associated with posts to a social network are described. Posts may be associated with a location. Symbols, portions or posts, or multiple symbols may be shown on a client device in an area of a map indicating a location associated with a post. Posts may be represented by symbols, which may include shapes, and such shapes may include emojis. An amount of symbols, posts, or portions of posts displayed on a client device may be determined at least in part by an area of a map displayed on a client device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Assignee: You Map Inc.
    Inventor: Stephen Constantinides
  • Publication number: 20240373199
    Abstract: A system and method for providing location information on a social network, including: sending, to a social mapping system, a request for one or more social media posts, wherein the request includes screen attribute information about a display of a client device, geographic location information, and an identification of a requesting account of the social network; receiving, in response to the request, a suggested group for display by the client device; and displaying, by the client device, the suggested group.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 10, 2024
    Publication date: November 7, 2024
    Applicant: You Map Inc.
    Inventor: Stephen Constantinides
  • Patent number: 11991602
    Abstract: A system and method for providing location information on a social network, including: sending, to a social mapping system, a request for one or more social media posts, wherein the request includes screen attribute information about a display of a client device, geographic location information, and an identification of a requesting account of the social network; receiving, in response to the request, a suggested group for display by the client device; and displaying, by the client device, the suggested group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: You Map Inc.
    Inventor: Stephen Constantinides
  • Publication number: 20230385294
    Abstract: Systems and methods for receiving information associated with posts to a social network are described. Posts may be associated with a location. Symbols, portions or posts, or multiple symbols may be shown on a client device in an area of a map indicating a location associated with a post. Posts may be represented by symbols, which may include shapes, and such shapes may include emojis. An amount of symbols, posts, or portions of posts displayed on a client device may be determined at least in part by an area of a map displayed on a client device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2023
    Publication date: November 30, 2023
    Applicant: You Map Inc.
    Inventor: Stephen Constantinides
  • Publication number: 20230370818
    Abstract: A system and method for providing location information on a social network, including: sending, to a social mapping system, a request for one or more social media posts, wherein the request includes screen attribute information about a display of a client device, geographic location information, and an identification of a requesting account of the social network; receiving, in response to the request, a suggested group for display by the client device; and displaying, by the client device, the suggested group.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 16, 2023
    Publication date: November 16, 2023
    Applicant: You Map Inc.
    Inventor: Stephen Constantinides
  • Publication number: 20230316676
    Abstract: A system and method for displaying a virtual three-dimensional environment, including: displaying at least a portion of the virtual three-dimensional environment in a head-mounted display, where the head-mounted display includes a retinal tracking device; enabling a user to interact with the virtual three-dimensional environment; displaying a virtual representation of a written work within the virtual three-dimensional environment in the head-mounted display; enabling the user to interact with the virtual representation of the written work; tracking the user's reading position in the representation of the written work via the retinal tracking device; determining the content of the representation of the written book at the user's reading position; and modifying the virtual three-dimensional environment based at least in part on the content at the user's reading position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 5, 2023
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Applicant: You Map Inc.
    Inventor: Stephen Constantinides
  • Patent number: 11704329
    Abstract: Systems and methods for receiving information associated with posts to a social network are described. Posts may be associated with a location. Symbols, portions or posts, or multiple symbols may be shown on a client device in an area of a map indicating a location associated with a post. Posts may be represented by symbols, which may include shapes, and such shapes may include emojis. An amount of symbols, posts, or portions of posts displayed on a client device may be determined at least in part by an area of a map displayed on a client device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: You Map Inc.
    Inventor: Stephen Constantinides
  • Patent number: 11696097
    Abstract: A system and method for providing location information on a social network, including: sending, to a social mapping system, a request for one or more social media posts, wherein the request includes screen attribute information about a display of a client device, geographic location information, and an identification of a requesting account of the social network; receiving, in response to the request, a suggested group for display by the client device; and displaying, by the client device, the suggested group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: You Map Inc.
    Inventor: Stephen Constantinides
  • Patent number: 11651575
    Abstract: A system and method for displaying a virtual three-dimensional environment, including: displaying at least a portion of the virtual three-dimensional environment in a head-mounted display, where the head-mounted display includes a retinal tracking device; enabling a user to interact with the virtual three-dimensional environment; displaying a virtual representation of a written work within the virtual three-dimensional environment in the head-mounted display; enabling the user to interact with the virtual representation of the written work; tracking the user's reading position in the representation of the written work via the retinal tracking device; determining the content of the representation of the written book at the user's reading position; and modifying the virtual three-dimensional environment based at least in part on the content at the user's reading position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: You Map Inc.
    Inventor: Stephen Constantinides
  • Patent number: 11589193
    Abstract: A system and method for providing service information on a social network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: YOU MAP INC.
    Inventor: Stephen Constantinides
  • Publication number: 20220374476
    Abstract: A real-time social and emotional mapping system enabling the visualization of state data in a geo-locational context, including goals, intentions, feelings, observations, and physical states, among others, in a-location based context visualized as a digital map. A structured framework may enables users to share state data by selection or guided entry of data or alternatively through some classification of submitted data. In embodiments, an integrated request-response framework is provided through a marketplace centered on geo-locational context.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2022
    Publication date: November 24, 2022
    Applicant: You Map Inc.
    Inventor: Stephen Constantinides
  • Patent number: 11436619
    Abstract: A real-time social and emotional mapping system enabling the visualization of state data in a geo-locational context, including goals, intentions, feelings, observations, and physical states, among others, in a-location based context visualized as a digital map. A structured framework may enables users to share state data by selection or guided entry of data or alternatively through some classification of submitted data. In embodiments, an integrated request-response framework is provided through a marketplace centered on geo-locational context.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: You Map Inc.
    Inventor: Stephen Constantinides
  • Patent number: 11367090
    Abstract: A real-time social and emotional mapping system enabling the visualization of state data in a geo-locational context, including goals, intentions, feelings, observations, and physical states, among others, in a-location based context visualized as a digital map. A structured framework may enables users to share state data by selection or guided entry of data or alternatively through some classification of submitted data. In embodiments, an integrated request-response framework is provided through a marketplace centered on geo-locational context.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: You Map Inc.
    Inventor: Stephen Constantinides
  • Patent number: 11011934
    Abstract: Provided is a wireless power transmitting unit capable of auto-tuning according to impedance change. The wireless power transmitting unit according to an embodiment can stabilize the operation of the amplifier by changing the resonance frequency of the resonator without measuring the phase information about the resonator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: MAPS, INC.
    Inventors: Jong Tae Hwang, Ik Soo Jeon, Dong Su Lee, Hyun Ick Shin, Joon Rhee
  • Publication number: 20200274395
    Abstract: Provided is a wireless power receiving unit with a self-regulation rectifier. In one embodiment, the wireless power receiving unit includes a resonator configured to receive wireless power; and a self-regulation rectifier unit including a rectifier configured to apply a rectifier output voltage to a load by converting alternating-current (AC) power received from the resonator into direct-current (DC) power, and a switching device located at a rear end of the rectifier and configured to self-regulate the rectifier output voltage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 7, 2017
    Publication date: August 27, 2020
    Applicant: Maps, Inc.
    Inventors: Jong Tae HWANG, Hyun Ick SHIN, Sung Min PARK, Min Jung KO, Dong Su LEE, Jong Hoon LEE, Ki Woong JIN, Joon RHEE
  • Publication number: 20200274394
    Abstract: Provided are a communication device and an electronic device each having a protective function. In one embodiment, the communication device includes a transceiving device configured to transmit or receive a signal, a communication circuit configured to be selectively connected to the transceiving device, and a wireless power input detector configured to protect the communication circuit from a wireless power signal by detecting whether the signal is the wireless power signal which is input for charging and generating a control signal for selectively disconnecting the communication circuit from the transceiving device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2017
    Publication date: August 27, 2020
    Applicant: Maps, Inc.
    Inventors: Joon RHEE, Jong Tae HWANG, Hyun Ick SHIN, Ki Woong JIN
  • Publication number: 20200274402
    Abstract: Disclosed is a wireless power receiver that controls a level of a communication signal. A wireless power receiver according to an embodiment includes a resonator for receiving wireless power, a rectifier for converting an alternating current power received from the resonator to a direct current power and outputting a rectifier output voltage, a switch for receiving a communication signal and controlling a rectifier output voltage through switching, and a regulator for adjusting a voltage change of a rectifier output voltage by modulating a communication signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2017
    Publication date: August 27, 2020
    Applicant: MAPS, INC.
    Inventors: Jong Tae HWANG, Ki-Woong JIN, Sung Min PARK, Gi Won KANG, Hyun Ick SHIN, Joon RHEE