Patents Examined by Ahmad F. Matar
  • Patent number: 12207033
    Abstract: A headphone comprising: two headphone earcups each comprising: an earcup housing defining an active chamber that acoustically couples a sound output side of a speaker to an ear of a user, and an inactive chamber that surrounds the active chamber; and a passive valve assembly configured to open in response to a positive pressure and a negative pressure within the active chamber to fluidly couple the active chamber to the inactive chamber and equalize a pressure between the active chamber and the inactive chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Jacob A. Pfitsch, Onur I. Ilkorur, Esge B. Andersen, Miikka O. Tikander
  • Patent number: 12200021
    Abstract: Various embodiments describe methods, systems, and devices for establishing a packet cable multi-media (PCMM) session. Exemplary implementations may receiving, a call initiation request message; determine whether a negative PCMM response associated with the call initiation request message is received; determine whether to ignore the negative PCMM response based on a call preferences parameter associated with the first UE in response to determining that the negative PCMM response is received; and establish a call associated with the call initiation request message in response to determining to ignore the negative PCMM response based on the call preferences parameter associated with the first UE.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: Charter Communications Operating, LLC
    Inventor: Ashutosh K. Sinha
  • Patent number: 12200570
    Abstract: Provided is an information processing apparatus including: a calculation unit that calculates a terminal coordinate system magnetic vector on the basis of a spatial coordinate system magnetic vector and a posture of a communication terminal; and a notification unit that notifies the communication terminal of the terminal coordinate system magnetic vector by non-contact communication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takashi Suzuki
  • Patent number: 12192699
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses electronic terminal including housing, sound producing device and switching structure, and first sound cavity channel and second sound cavity channel formed in the housing. The sound producing device defines sound producing cavity jointly with housing. The electronic terminal further includes mounting groove formed in housing. The switching structure includes baffle slidably arranged in mounting groove and driving portion driving baffle to slide in mounting groove. The driving portion drives baffle to slide into first sound cavity channel or the second sound cavity channel, to close first sound cavity channel or the second sound cavity channel. The baffle can be driven to slide in mounting groove to selectively close first sound cavity channel or second sound cavity channel, to prevent the problem that the terminal, when using one of the first sound cavity channel and the second sound cavity channel, is affected by the other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: AAC Microtech (Changzhou) Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Mushu Xiao, Shuwen Wu
  • Patent number: 12192949
    Abstract: There is disclosed devices and methods of operating a first device to determine a distance, between it and a further device, the methods comprising: transmitting a first broadcast frame comprising an identifier and a transmission timestamp; receiving a further broadcast frame, the further broadcast frame comprising an identifier of the further device, and a transmission timestamp of the further device, and at least one data pair comprising a transmitting device identifier and a reception timestamp, wherein the reception timestamp is indicative of the arrival time, at the further device, of a prior broadcast frame broadcast from the transmitting device; determining a reception timestamp of the further broadcast frame; comparing each transmitting device identifier with the identifier of the first device; and determining the distance between the first device and the further device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: NXP B.V.
    Inventors: Sunil Dilipkumar Jogi, Giten Kulkarni
  • Patent number: 12192406
    Abstract: Embodiments of the disclosure provide a method of processing messages received in an asynchronous communication system. In some embodiments, the method includes analyzing interactions on a digital communication channel, determining that the interactions have paused for an amount of time, analyzing content of the interactions to determine an estimate of the amount of time, updating a state of the agent to release the agent for the estimated amount of time, and setting a timer that will automatically change the state of the agent back to an occupied state for the interactions at a future time that aligns with an expiration of the timer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: Avaya Management L.P.
    Inventors: George Erhart, Reinhard Klemm, Wen-Hua Ju, Michael Sisselman, Atsushi Hirano
  • Patent number: 12192706
    Abstract: In embodiments of the invention, the present invention is directed to a contact hearing system including: a transmit circuit including a transmit coil positioned in an ear tip, THE transmit circuit having a first bandpass characteristic, wherein the transmit circuit is tuned such that a center of the first bandpass characteristic is set at a first frequency; and a receive circuit including a receive coil positioned on a contact hearing device, the receive circuit having a second bandpass characteristic, wherein the receive circuit is tuned such that a center of the second bandpass characteristic differs from the center of the first bandpass characteristic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: Earlens Corporation
    Inventors: Stuart W. Wenzel, Lawrence W. Arne
  • Patent number: 12185042
    Abstract: A dual-axis swivel speaker mount assembly includes a base section for attachment to a supporting object, a central section, a speaker section for direct/indirect attachment to a speaker, a first pivot assembly pivotably connecting the base section and the central section, a second pivot assembly pivotably connecting the central section to the speaker section, and two to four securing assemblies for selectively securing the pivot assemblies against rotation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: MUSIC EXPRESS LLC
    Inventors: Ryan Kallas, J. Herschel Blankenship
  • 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: 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: 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: 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