Patents Examined by Ahmad F. Matar
  • Patent number: 12149572
    Abstract: Novel tools and techniques are provided for implementing programmatical public switched telephone network (“PSTN”) trunking for cloud hosted applications. In various embodiments, a computing system may determine one or more first network interconnection characteristics associated with a first entity service provider within a call service network operated by a call network service provider. Based on the determined one or more first network interconnection characteristics associated with the first entity service provider, the computing system may cause a network provisioning application layer to establish one or more network interconnections between a first network associated with the first entity service provider and the call service network, in some cases, by establishing shared peering connections between the first network and the call service network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Assignee: Level 3 Communications, LLC
    Inventors: Kimberly Adams, Anne Kempen, Joseph A. Scivicque, Adam Uzelac
  • Patent number: 12149906
    Abstract: A phase plug for an electrodynamic compression driver, including a compression chamber formed by an oscillating diaphragm and a boundary face of a phase plug assembly adjacent to the diaphragm, a singular acoustic exit defined by a termination of the phase plug assembly, one or more passageways which traverse through the phase plug assembly from the compression chamber to terminate at the acoustic exit, and an axis of rotation, defined within an interior of the phase plug assembly, that extends from the boundary face of the phase plug assembly at the compression chamber to the acoustic exit, where at least one of the passageways expands in cross sectional area between the respective entrance at the boundary face of the phase plug assembly, and the termination at the acoustic exit, while traversing through the phase plug, and where at least one of the internal passageways with the expanding cross section is rotated about the axis of rotation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Assignee: B&C SPEAKERS NA (USA), LLC
    Inventors: Andrea Casadei, Valentina Cardinali, Phillip Graham
  • Patent number: 12143779
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject technology relate to electronic devices having speakers and airflow sensors for the speakers. In one or more implementations, the airflow sensor may be formed, in part, by a mesh structure that spans a port in a housing of the electronic device. In one or more implementations, the airflow sensor may be formed, in part, by an exposed portion of a conductive trace of the speaker.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel W. Maier, Justin D. Crosby, Thomas Møller Jensen
  • Patent number: 12137128
    Abstract: One example method may include identifying a call notification of a call intended for a mobile device, retrieving call data having a code object identifier with the call notification, forwarding the call data with a code object to the mobile device based on the code object identifier prior to forwarding the call, and forwarding the call to the mobile device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2024
    Assignee: FIRST ORION CORP.
    Inventors: Brandon Wayne Murphy, Jay Todd Callaway
  • Patent number: 12132866
    Abstract: A call flow manager includes a graph of connected nodes implementing a call center routing flow, and corresponding views for examining and modifying the nodes and graph. The call flow manager implements a set of fundamental node types, with complexity and behavior encapsulated within the nodes. The nodes process calls and add tags to the calls that may be utilized in downstream nodes of the call flow.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: Gridspace Inc.
    Inventors: Anthony Scodary, Nicolas Benitez, Adam Miller
  • Patent number: 12126952
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method for controlling volume of a true wireless stereo bluetooth earphone including a pair of left and right touch switches, the method including recognizing a user's touch during media playback or a phone call; determining whether the touch is a shorter touch or a longer touch than a configuration time; increasing the volume by one increment while entering a volume-up mode when the touch is a short touch, according to the determining; determining whether there is an additional short touch within the configuration time; returning to the increasing of the volume by one increment each time there is an additional short touch, according to the determining; returning to checking whether a first volume control mode is entered by existing the volume-up mode when there is no touch for the configuration time; and several additional determining.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: MOBIFREN CO., LTD
    Inventor: Ju Won Heo
  • Patent number: 12126764
    Abstract: One example may include receiving a message with call data for a future call between a calling party and a called party, identifying a profile identifier from the call data identifying an enhanced call information profile associated with the calling party, and creating a call message header with a code object having the enhanced call information to include with a call message when placing the future call.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: FIRST ORION CORP.
    Inventors: Brandon Wayne Murphy, Jay Todd Callaway
  • Patent number: 12113931
    Abstract: A system and method of determining pre-verification information for use by a certification authority to verify and attest phone numbers associated with healthcare facilities is provided. The method includes receiving an unverified phone number and determining, using one or more matching operations, whether the unverified phone number is associated with a healthcare facility. In response to such determination, the unverified phone number and a facility name associated with the healthcare facility is sent to a certification authority server to be used to verify the unverified phone number. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Assignee: Doximity, Inc.
    Inventors: Zachary Gongaware, Christopher Frame, Jude Capachietti
  • Patent number: 12114127
    Abstract: A portable electronic device comprising: an enclosure having an enclosure wall that forms an interior chamber and a sound output port to an ambient environment; a transducer positioned within the interior chamber and dividing the interior chamber into a front volume chamber coupling a first side of the transducer to the sound output port and a back volume chamber coupled to a second side of the transducer; and an electromechanical valve comprising a number of flaps operable to open and close a vent to the interior chamber, the front volume chamber or the back volume chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Gokhan Hatipoglu, Peter C. Hrudey, Scott C. Grinker, Ankur Jain, Patrick B. Wright
  • Patent number: 12108204
    Abstract: An acoustic sensor assembly includes a housing having an external-device interface and a sound port to an interior of the housing. An electro-acoustic transducer and an electrical circuit are disposed within the housing. The electro-acoustic transducer separates the interior into a front volume and a back volume, where the sound port acoustically couples the front volume to an exterior of the housing. The back volume includes a first portion and a second portion. The electrical circuit is electrically coupled to the electro-acoustic transducer and to the external-device interface. One or more apertures acoustically couple the first and second portions of the back volume and are structured to shape a frequency response of the acoustic sensor assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: KNOWLES ELECTRONICS, LLC
    Inventors: Alexander Grossman, Janice LoPresti, Usha Murthy
  • Patent number: 12107902
    Abstract: A server system including a plurality of servers achieves redundancy on a per process basis. A first server and a second server execute a plurality of processes in parallel. Processes (B1-1, B2-1, and Br-1) in the first server are active processes, and processes (B1-2, B2-2, and Br-2) in the second server are standby processes. The active process periodically transmits an operation notification notifying normal operation, to the standby process. When no longer receiving an operation notification from the active process, the standby process switches an operation mode of the standby process from a standby mode to an active mode and starts provision of service of the process. The process switching is performed on a per process basis instead of on a per server basis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: ICOM INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Akira Nakano, Yoshiaki Miyakoshi
  • Patent number: 12095945
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for indicating callers for incoming voice calls. The methods, systems, and apparatus include actions receiving an incoming voice call, determining a calling number and a called number from the incoming voice call, identifying a user account that corresponds to the called number, determining a contact name for the calling number based on contact entries for the user account, and providing the contact name for output.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Ahmet Onur Tekdas, Raunaq Shah, Deniz Binay, Tianyu Wang, Okan Kolak
  • Patent number: 12088997
    Abstract: Disclosed by the present invention is an acoustic device, comprising a sound generating unit. A first sealed cavity is formed at the rear side of a vibrating diaphragm of the sound generating unit, a mounting hole is provided on a cavity wall of the first sealed cavity, and a flexible deformation part is provided on the mounting hole. A second sealed cavity is formed at the outer side of the first sealed cavity, and the second sealed cavity encloses the sound wave generated during deformation of the flexible deformation part therein. The mounting hole is located on the first wall, and a groove is provided on the first wall at the periphery of the mounting hole towards the first sealed cavity. The flexible deformation part is fixed on the bottom of the groove, and a through groove is further provided on the first wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: GOERTEK INC.
    Inventors: Tongyan Xu, Xiang Guo
  • Patent number: 12082297
    Abstract: Methods and devices are arranged for managing reset and re-downloaded profiles Over-the-Air on an eUICC. An operator system imports a profiles list from a server, each entry in the list comprising a flag indicating whether the corresponding profile has been downloaded onto the eUICC. Upon receiving, from a mobile network operator, MNO, a request to update a profile on the eUICC, the request comprising a profile identifier and an OTA campaign, the operator system performs a backlog of the OTA campaign for the profile indicated by the profile identifier under consideration of the flag in the corresponding profile entry.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: GIESECKE-DEVRIENT MOBILE SECURITY GERMANY GMBH
    Inventor: Thomas Larsson
  • Patent number: 12075226
    Abstract: Some disclosed systems and methods include assigning channel streams to satellite playback devices, delaying initial transmission of surround sound content to satellite playback devices to accumulate audio samples for transmission in individual frames of surround sound content, and taking advantage of configured playback delays for different channels of surround sound content to prioritize transmission of channels of surround sound content having shorter configured playback delays over transmission of channels of surround sound content having longer configured playback delays.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2024
    Assignee: Sonos, Inc.
    Inventor: Steven Beckhardt
  • Patent number: 12075383
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a new and improved technology capable of improving the accuracy of processing in accordance with distance measurement results between each of at least two communication devices and a terminal. Provided is a control device including: an information acquisition unit configured to acquire first information associating a first distance measurement result between a terminal and a first communication device and first identification information of the first communication device, from the first communication device, and to acquire second information associating a second distance measurement result between the terminal and a second communication device and second identification information of the second communication device, from the second communication device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2024
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOKAI RIKA DENKI SEISAKUSHO
    Inventors: Yosuke Hasegawa, Masateru Furuta, Yosuke Ohashi
  • Patent number: 12075208
    Abstract: A loudspeaker system (700 or 800) and method for tuning ported loudspeakers and reducing unwanted acoustic resonances provides reduced port noise, eliminates undesired port resonances and improves the accuracy and fidelity of reproduced sound in a loudspeaker system of relatively high efficiency with an enclosure including an Eigen Tone Filter structure (“ETF”) comprising a pipe or set of pipes 720, 820 placed inside a loudspeaker vent to absorb the “open pipe” acoustic resonance of the vent. The open-pipe resonance is unwanted and interferes with the midrange performance of the loudspeaker, when in use, if not corrected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2024
    Assignee: Polk Audio, LLC
    Inventors: Scott Orth, Jens-Peter B Axelsson
  • Patent number: 12069426
    Abstract: An audio system includes a speaker having a transducer, where the speaker is positioned within an enclosure that forms a front volume and a rear volume on opposite sides of the transducer. The rear part of the enclosure defining the rear volume is formed of an acoustic metamaterial that defines a plurality of channels within the rear volume, where the number and dimensions of the channels is configured to virtual increase the rear volume to amplify a bass portion of sound produced by the speaker. In addition, the channels may be configured to match an impedance of the front volume to serve as an absorber for high frequency audio.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: META PLATFORMS TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventors: Chuming Zhao, Morteza Khaleghimeybodi, Nils Thomas Fritiof Lunner, Calvin Bernard Shaw, Yun Zhou, Xiaochu Yao
  • Patent number: 12051431
    Abstract: An audio similarity evaluator obtains envelope signals for a plurality of frequency ranges on the basis of an input audio signal. The audio similarity evaluator is configured to obtain a modulation information associated with the envelope signals for a plurality of modulation frequency ranges, wherein the modulation information describes the modulation of the envelope signals. The audio similarity evaluator is configured to compare the obtained modulation information with a reference modulation information associated with a reference audio signal, in order to obtain an information about a similarity between the input audio signal and the reference audio signal. An audio encoder uses such an audio similarity evaluator. Another audio similarity evaluator uses a neural net trained using the audio similarity evaluator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2024
    Assignee: FRAUNHOFER-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FÖRDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG E.V.
    Inventors: Sascha Disch, Steven Van De Par, Andreas Niedermeier, Elena Burdiel Pérez, Bernd Edler
  • Patent number: 12047533
    Abstract: The described technology is generally directed towards spammer location detection, and in particular, to locating a spammer that makes multiple calls from a given location via a cellular communications network. In some examples, network equipment can obtain call trace records associated with the multiple calls, identify a group of call trace records based on a shared call trace feature, aggregate data from call trace records within the group, and determine an estimated location based on the aggregated data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.
    Inventors: Jie Chen, Ye Ge, Wenjie Zhao