Patents Examined by Ahmad F. Matar
  • Patent number: 12167190
    Abstract: Presented herein are acoustic port covers for attachment to electronic devices. An electronic device includes a housing having at least one acoustic port extending through the housing. An acoustic port cover in accordance with embodiments presented herein is configured to be detachably coupled to the housing so as to cover the at least one acoustic port and function as a barrier to the accumulation of foreign materials/contaminants at a protective membrane associated with the at least one acoustic port.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignee: Cochlear Limited
    Inventors: Tadeusz Jurkiewicz, Nathan Isaacson
  • Patent number: 12160721
    Abstract: Disclosed is a coaxial speaker, including a magnetic circuit system, a first sounding unit, a second sounding unit around the first sounding unit, a flexible printed circuit board electrically connected to the first sounding unit, an insert inserted in the magnetic circuit system for supporting the flexible printed circuit board, and a conductive terminal embedded in the insert for electrically connecting the flexible printed circuit board to an external circuit. The flexible printed circuit board has a first fixing part connected to the insert, a second fixing part connected to the first sounding unit, and a resilient arm connected between the two fixing parts and including two arms respectively extending in two different directions. The coaxial speaker has a high sound quality and a receiver function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2024
    Assignee: AAC Microtech (Changzhou) Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Zhang Ren, Zhiwei Zhong
  • Patent number: 12159633
    Abstract: Embodiments described herein provide for a voice biometrics system execute machine-learning architectures capable of passive, active, continuous, or static operations, or a combination thereof. Systems passively and/or continuously, in some cases in addition to actively and/or statically, enrolling speakers. The system may dynamically generate and update profiles corresponding to end-users who contact a call center. The system may determine a level of enrollment for the enrollee profiles that limits the types of functions that the user may access. The system may update the profiles as new contact events are received or based on certain temporal triggering conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2024
    Assignee: Pindrop Security, Inc.
    Inventors: Payas Gupta, Terry Nelms, II
  • Patent number: 12156287
    Abstract: An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a memory and at least one processor operatively connected to the memory, and the at least one processor is configured to, based on a subscriber identity module (SIM) change event, in which at least one SIM is inserted, occurring, identify whether SIM-related information related to the at least one SIM exists in a database which is stored in the memory and includes SIM setting information for services provided by the electronic device, and in case of being identified that the SIM-related information exists in the database, select a SIM for each of the services based on the SIM setting information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Nguyen Van Khanh, Vu Duc Cuong, Do Thi Thuy Van, Nguyen Van Thinh
  • Patent number: 12155782
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a call method and terminal, and a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium. The call method includes: receiving or initiating, by a first terminal, a call request to establish a call with a second terminal; detecting, by the first terminal, at least one of the following: a current task being executed by the first terminal, whether there is one or more third terminals capable of assisting in the call, and a current task being executed by a third terminal; and selecting whether a display interface of the first terminal displays a call assisting option according to the current task being executed by the first terminal and/or the current task being executed by the third terminal; wherein the call assisting option is used to prompt a user to select to answer the call with the second terminal through the assistance of the third terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Assignees: Beijing BOE Technology Development Co., Ltd., BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Mingyuan Ma, Yongda Ma, Ken Wen, Honglei Zhang
  • 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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