Patents Assigned to Technologies To Be, Inc.
  • Patent number: 10853061
    Abstract: Systems, apparatuses, methods, and computer program products are disclosed for electronically retrieving documentation in a group-based communication platform interface. An example method includes receiving a documentation request command indicative of a request for group-based communication platform documentation, wherein the documentation request command comprises electronic information indicative of a requested API method name. The example method further includes retrieving a group-based communication platform API specification comprising a set of group-based communication platform documentation information associated with a set of group-based communication platform documentation API method names.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2020
    Assignee: Slack Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Colm Stephen Doyle, Ankur Oberoi, Matthew John Johnston
  • Patent number: 10855795
    Abstract: In one embodiment, an apparatus comprises a transmitter for communicating with a client, a receiver, and a controller coupled with the transmitter and receiver, wherein the controller is operable to receive a proxy from the client for traffic from a source and transmit a join to the source on behalf of the client.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2020
    Assignee: CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC.
    Inventor: Tak Ming Francis Pang
  • Patent number: 10851278
    Abstract: A composition for use in a wellbore activity, the composition comprising a stabilized monovalent iodide brine, the stabilized monovalent iodide brine comprises a monovalent salt system, the monovalent salt system comprises a monovalent iodide; a primary iodide stabilizer, the primary iodide stabilizer operable to remove free iodine, prevent the formation of free iodine, and suppress TCT; and an aqueous fluid, where the stabilized monovalent iodide brine has a density greater than 10 lb/gal, where the stabilized monovalent iodide brine has a TCT of less than or equal to 70 deg F.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2020
    Assignee: Tetra Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Arthur G. Mack, Drew A. Fowler
  • Patent number: 10849721
    Abstract: A digital dental tray system is described including a dental tray shaped to at least partially surround a plurality of teeth and a plurality of three-dimensional (3D) optical imaging elements attached to the dental tray. Each of the 3D optical imaging elements comprises a structured light projector to project a light pattern onto one or more teeth of the plurality of teeth and a camera to capture an image of the one or more teeth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2020
    Assignee: Align Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Yossef Atiya, Avi Kopelman, Erez Lampert
  • Patent number: 10854192
    Abstract: An automatic speech recognition (ASR) system detects an endpoint of an utterance based on a domain of the utterance. The ASR system processes a first portion of the utterance to determine the domain and then determines an endpoint of the remainder of the utterance depending on the domain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2020
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Roland Maas, Ariya Rastrow, Rohit Prasad
  • Patent number: 10854813
    Abstract: Methods and devices based on the use of dopant-modulated etching are described. During fabrication, a memory storage element of a memory cell may be non-uniformly doped with a dopant that affects a subsequent etching rate of the memory storage element. After etching, the memory storage element may have an asymmetric geometry or taper profile corresponding to the non-uniform doping concentration. A multi-deck memory device may also be formed using dopant-modulated etching. Memory storage elements on different memory decks may have different taper profiles and different doping gradients.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2020
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Innocenzo Tortorelli, Mattia Robustelli
  • Patent number: 10853031
    Abstract: Systems and methods for audio output control are disclosed. Audio may be output via a speaker of a communal device associated with a first portion of an environment. A user may provide a user utterance indicating an intent to add another device in a second portion of the environment to the audio-output session, and/or an intent to move the audio-output session from the first device to the second device, and/or an intent to remove a device from an audio-output session. Based on this determined intent, audio-session queues may be associated and dissociated from devices and device states may be altered to effectuate the intent of the user utterance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2020
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Gautham Kumar Jayakumar, Nishant Kumar, Steven Michael Saxon, Frederic Johan Georges Deramat
  • Patent number: 10855542
    Abstract: Presented herein is an exemplified system and method that facilitate network-aware consolidation, by orchestration, of similar sets of virtualized multicast-traffic receivers and/or sources (e.g., Virtual Machines) under a common network fabric element (e.g., same leaf switch and/or spine switch in a data center network fabric), e.g., to reduce network switch work load and/or number of network fabric elements involved with transmission of multicast traffic. The orchestration of scattered- and like-sets of multicast-traffic receivers and/or sources under a common network fabric element (e.g., a single and same leaf switch and/or spine switch) facilitates improvements of the operation of orchestration management technologies and virtualization overlay technologies by, e.g., improving network efficiency for multicast packet switching, reducing control plane traffic (e.g., IGMP queries), and reducing delay- and packet-transfer errors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2020
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Arul Murugan Manickam, Ramesh Kumar Chinnasamy, Aditi Srivastava
  • Patent number: 10854926
    Abstract: The present invention provides one with a Ni—Fe battery exhibiting enhanced power characteristics. The battery uses a particular electrolyte. The resulting characteristics of specific power and power density are much improved over conventional Ni—Fe batteries. The electrolyte comprises sodium hydroxide, with lithium hydroxide and sodium sulfide. The iron anode comprises an iron active material and a polyvinyl alcohol binder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2020
    Assignee: ENCELL TECHNOLOGY, INC.
    Inventor: Randy Ogg
  • Patent number: 10854039
    Abstract: A gaming machine includes a base, a columnar pedestal extending vertically from the base, and a button deck adjustably coupled to the pedestal. The button deck includes an upper surface including a transparent touchscreen element, a lower surface opposite the upper surface, and a button deck body extending therebetween. At least one of the lower surface and the body include one or more transparent display elements, the one or more transparent display elements are configured to generate images of gaming machine control actuators viewable on the upper surface. The transparent touchscreen element is configured to receive touches and gestures indicating control inputs. The gaming machine also includes a player tracking card reader positioned within the button deck and accessible through a slot in a front edge of the button deck, the player tracking card reader communicatively coupled to a player tracking display area of the gaming machine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2020
    Assignee: Video Gaming Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: William Douglas Lamb, Daniel William Rice, Victor Brent McClearen, Charles Stanley Curbbun, Arvin Grande Abadilla, Matthew Kranz, Julian Groeli, Blake Chuanlun Wang, Jin Chen, William John Leach
  • Patent number: 10853282
    Abstract: Arbitrating among portions of multiple transactions and transmitting a winning portion over one of a multiplicity of virtual channels associated with an interconnect on a clock cycle-by-clock cycle basis. By repeatedly performing the above each clock cycle, winning portions are interleaved and transmitted over the multiplicity of virtual channels over multiple clock cycles respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2020
    Assignee: PROVINO TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Shailendra Desai, Mark Pearce, Amit Jain, Rutul Bhatt
  • Patent number: 10854272
    Abstract: Apparatuses and methods for controlling the discharge of subword lines are described. The rate of discharge and/or the voltage level discharged to may be controlled. In some embodiments, a main word line may be driven to multiple low potentials to control a discharge of a subword line. In some embodiments, a first word driver line signal and/or a second word driver line signal may be reset to control a discharge of a subword line. In some embodiments, a combination of driving the main word line and the first word driver line signal and/or the second word driver line signal resetting may be used to control a discharge of the subword line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2020
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Toshiyuki Sato, Shinichi Miyatake
  • Patent number: 10853931
    Abstract: An automated image capturing and processing system and method may allow a field user to operate a UAV via a mobile computing device to capture images of a structure area of interest (AOI). The mobile computing device receives user and/or third party data and creates UAV control data and a flight plan. The mobile computing device executes a flight plan by issuing commands to the UAV's flight and camera controller that allows for complete coverage of the structure AOI. After data acquisition, the mobile computing device then transmits the UAV output data to a server for further processing. At the server, the UAV output data can be used for a three-dimensional reconstruction process. The server then generates a vector model from the images that precisely represents the dimensions of the structure. The server can then generate a report for inspection and construction estimation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2020
    Assignee: EZ3D TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Martin Marra, James F. Smyth
  • Patent number: 10855314
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method for using invertible, shortened codewords is described. The method includes receiving a request to store user data bits in a set of memory devices; expanding the user data bits and an inversion bit to bit locations of a codeword template, wherein the expanding forms expanded inversion and user data bits that collectively include additional bits to represent the user data bits and the inversion bit; generating parity bits for the expanded inversion and user data bits to form a shortened codeword, wherein the shortened codeword comprises the expanded inversion and user data bits, and the parity bits; compressing the shortened codeword to form a compressed shortened codeword; and storing the compressed shortened codeword in the set of memory devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2020
    Assignee: MICRON TECHNOLOGY, INC.
    Inventor: Sivagnanam Parthasarathy
  • Patent number: 10852964
    Abstract: Devices and techniques are disclosed herein for verifying host generated physical addresses at a memory device during a host-resident FTL mode of operation to ameliorate erroneous or potentially malicious access to the memory device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2020
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventor: Nadav Grosz
  • Patent number: 10853780
    Abstract: Techniques are described for facilitating use of invocable services by applications in a configurable manner. In at least some situations, the invocable services are Web services or other network-accessible services that are made available by providers of the services for use by others in exchange for fees defined by the service providers. The described techniques facilitate use of such invocable services by applications in a manner configured by the developers of the applications, including to allow the application developers to configure pricing terms that will be used to determine fees that end users of the applications will be charged for use of the invocable services via the applications. In some situations, the configured pricing terms for a service specify fees for end users that differ in one or more ways from the defined fees charged by the provider of that service.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2020
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Peter Sirota, Don Johnson, Tushar Jain, Gaurav D. Ghare
  • Patent number: 10855723
    Abstract: In one example embodiment, a proxy server obtains, from a client, a query regarding a server with which the client is attempting to establish a communication session. Based on the query, the proxy server evaluates dynamically updated stored data to determine whether the dynamically updated stored data indicates that the server supports a secure transport protocol. Based on determining that the dynamically updated stored data indicates that the server supports the secure transport protocol, the proxy server provides a response to the client. The response causes the client to provide, to the server, an initial secure transport protocol message in the communication session.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2020
    Assignee: CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC.
    Inventor: Piotr Jerzy Kupisiewicz
  • Patent number: 10854304
    Abstract: Methods of operating a memory, and memory configured to perform similar methods, might include performing a sense operation on a particular memory cell of a first string of series-connected memory cells selectively connected to a first data line, applying a first voltage level to the access line for a second memory cell of the first string, applying a second voltage level higher than the first voltage level to the access line for the particular memory cell, applying a third voltage level to the first data line concurrently with applying the first voltage level and concurrently with applying the second voltage level, and applying a fourth voltage level higher than the third voltage level to a second data line selectively connected to a second string of series-connected memory cells concurrently with applying the third voltage level to the first data line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2020
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Jun Xu, Yingda Dong
  • Patent number: 10854114
    Abstract: By introducing inequality to the information dispersal/sharing storage method, a ciphertext management method or the like is provided to support novel ciphertext data management. After the ciphertext and key data are each divided, pairs of the divided ciphertext and key data are generated. Specifically, they are one-to-one paired as with conventional techniques. Furthermore, additional one-to-many pairs are generated. The generated one-to-one pairs provide equality as with conventional techniques. When the number of the one-to-one pairs of the divided ciphertext and key data that can be used is equal to or greater than a threshold number, both the ciphertext data and the key data can be reconstructed, and accordingly, the secret data can be decoded. In contrast, even when the one-to-many pairs that can be used is equal to or greater than a threshold number, the ciphertext data and/or the key data cannot be reconstructed. This provides inequality.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2020
    Assignees: REAL TECHNOLOGY INC., HIROYUKI OZAKI
    Inventor: Hiroyuki Ozaki
  • Patent number: 10853735
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are disclosed for maximizing quantifiable user interaction via modification of adjustable parameters. In one embodiment, an example method may include determining a first output to maximize, where the first output is a function of a first adjustable parameter and a second adjustable parameter, determining first data comprising a first actual value of the first output when the first adjustable parameter is set to a first value and the second adjustable parameter is set to a second value, and determining a first predictive model that generates a first predicted value of the first output. Example methods may include determining, using the first predictive model, a third value for the first adjustable parameter and a fourth value for the second adjustable parameter to maximize the first predicted value, and sending the third value and the fourth value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2020
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Yu Gan, Cédric Philippe Archambeau, Rodolphe Jenatton, Jim Huang, Fabian Lutz-Frank Wauthier