Patents Examined by Alan S. Chou
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Patent number: 12261924Abstract: A system can receive user data from a computing device of a user. Based on the user data, the system can determine that the user will utilize a transport service to arrive at a destination location at a specified time. Prior to the specified time, the system can monitor transport service conditions within a region that includes a current location of the user, and determine a service request time for the user based at least in part on the transport service conditions. The system then automatically generates the service request for the user at the service request time to match the user to a transport provider.Type: GrantFiled: January 24, 2024Date of Patent: March 25, 2025Assignee: Uber Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Gang Cheng, Jason Chionh, Jonathan Kantrowitz, Oren Freiberg, Juncao Li, Jie Zhang
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Patent number: 12255966Abstract: A network system can receive a request data corresponding to a group request for service for multiple users. The request data can indicate a common destination or start location for the multiple users. The system transmits a first set of data to a first user device of the first user to cause the first user device to prompt the first user to input a start or destination location for the first user. The system then identifies a set of service providers to fulfill the group request for service for the multiple users.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2023Date of Patent: March 18, 2025Assignee: Uber Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Matthew Sweeney, Logan Rockmore, Lisa Weitekamp
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Patent number: 12250278Abstract: A system for location and degree of separation based networking is presented. A geographic location of a first user device is accessed. One or more contacts on the first user device are accessed. A predetermined radius around the geographic location for one or more second user devices is scanned. It is determined that the one or more second user devices within the predetermined radius include a contact that is on the user device. The system displays, on a GUI, a representation of the geographic location and the one or more second user devices. The system receives a touch gesture indicating a selection of a selected user device. Information is displayed relating to the selected user device. The system transmits to the selected user device a notification indicating an introduction of the user and causes the selected user device to display the introduction.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2024Date of Patent: March 11, 2025Inventors: Brian Eddelson, Jake Cameron
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Patent number: 12250265Abstract: A computerized method configures and uses ad hoc servers to serve content. A content server configured to serve a content dataset periodically provides a current server load notification to a domain name server (DNS). Upon detecting that a current load of the content server exceeds a server load threshold, the DNS sends a new server setup notification to the content server. The content server then identifies an ad hoc server and performs a content service handover to the identified ad hoc server. Upon completion of the content service handover, the content server provides a new server notification to the DNS indicating that the identified ad hoc server is ready to serve the content dataset. The DNS is thereby enabled to divert client requests for the content dataset to the ad hoc server during the period that the current load of the content server exceeds the server load threshold.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2023Date of Patent: March 11, 2025Assignee: T-Mobile USA, Inc.Inventors: Zheng Cai, Zheng Fang
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Patent number: 12242263Abstract: Provided is an information processing apparatus including: a communication unit, wherein transmission data whose destination is designated by an IP address is transmitted to the IP address as the destination; a proxy processing unit for converting a destination of transmission data whose destination is designated by a URL into an IP address, and causing the communication unit to perform transmission; a communication volume control unit for acquiring, based on a corresponding relationship between the URL that has been converted by the proxy processing unit and the IP address, a communication volume obtained by aggregating an communication volume of each of the IP addresses for each URL, for a data communication with the corresponding relationship, and controlling a throughput of a data communication for each service, using the communication volume of each service.Type: GrantFiled: February 8, 2022Date of Patent: March 4, 2025Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventor: Kosei Tsushima
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Patent number: 12231523Abstract: A method for location attestation for a device connected to a network. The method includes: ascertaining at least one initial fingerprint, wherein the at least one initial fingerprint is specific to an initial network environment of the device in the network; storing the at least one ascertained initial fingerprint as a reference; ascertaining at least one current fingerprint, wherein the at least one current fingerprint is specific to a current network environment of the device on the network; comparing the at least one ascertained current fingerprint with the reference; verifying a geographic location of the device at least partially based on the comparison.Type: GrantFiled: September 18, 2023Date of Patent: February 18, 2025Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBHInventors: Niclas Ilg, Paulius Duplys
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Patent number: 12231391Abstract: The provided is a method for constructing a geospatial grid region name interoperability protocol system. The method constructs the geospatial grid region name interoperability protocol system from four layers: a subdivision layer, a management layer, an association layer, and an application layer, specifically including a grid subdivision sub-protocol, a grid coding sub-protocol, a geospatial grid region name organization sub-protocol, a geospatial grid region name mapping sub-protocol, a geospatial grid region naming authorization sub-protocol, a geospatial grid region name-based code conversion sub-protocol, a geospatial grid region name interoperability sub-protocol, a geospatial grid region name registration sub-protocol, a geospatial grid region name resolution sub-protocol, etc., thereby achieving registration and resolution of a geospatial grid region name and mutual association and spatial interoperability of ubiquitous location information based on the geospatial grid region name.Type: GrantFiled: July 30, 2024Date of Patent: February 18, 2025Assignee: FUZHOU UNIVERSITYInventor: Daoye Zhu
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Patent number: 12219028Abstract: Systems and methods for location-based assignment of client device data are disclosed. A system can maintain data records associated with a player profile. The system can receive a request to access the player profile from a client device and determine location data of the client device. If the location data satisfies a first category, the system can filter the data records based on a data record type to generate a subset of data records and generate a first aggregate data record value based on a data record value of the subset of data records. If the location data satisfies a second location category, the system can generate a second aggregate data record value based on the data record value of each the data records. The system can provide, for display at the client device, an interface indicating the first aggregate data record value or the second aggregate data record value.Type: GrantFiled: November 27, 2023Date of Patent: February 4, 2025Assignee: DK Crown Holdings Inc.Inventors: Joel Miller, Vidyasagar Bhakthavatsalam
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Patent number: 12207126Abstract: The communication apparatus (2) comprises a setting unit (32) configured to set slice information for identifying a type of a network slice in a Flow Label field in a header of a packet compliant with the IPv6 protocol, and a transmitting unit (33) configured to transmit the packet with the header set by the setting unit.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 2021Date of Patent: January 21, 2025Assignee: RAKUTEN MOBILE, INC.Inventor: Yoshimi Okada
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Patent number: 12206721Abstract: Methods, apparatus, and computer readable storage medium for processing a media stream. The media stream may follow a DASH or CMAF standard. The method may include processing an Addressable Resource Index (ARI) event associated with the 5G media stream, wherein the ARI event comprises at least one of: an inband event transmitted along with a first media slice in a content set, the content set comprising one or more media slices; or a Media Presentation description (MPD) event; and the ARI event carries configuration information of the one or more media slices in the content set.Type: GrantFiled: March 27, 2023Date of Patent: January 21, 2025Assignee: TENCENT AMERICA LLCInventor: Iraj Sodagar
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Patent number: 12204433Abstract: Systems and methods include identifying fields associated with a log event of telemetry data and, for each field, selecting a key from multiple keys and generating a field-key mapping that includes a mapping from the fields to the selected key. The systems and methods generate an event log parser extension that includes the field-key mappings and validate the parser extension by testing its performance on sample log events. The systems and methods then execute a base parser and the validated event log parser extension on event logs to convert the event logs into a standardized format and perform data analytics on the standardized event logs to identify trends in the event logs and identify possible threats.Type: GrantFiled: October 30, 2023Date of Patent: January 21, 2025Assignee: Google LLCInventors: James Paul Black, Adityashankar Kini, Dwaipayan Dutta, Adam Licata, Ashish Garg
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Patent number: 12200022Abstract: Described is a method to provide feedback and status updates during virtual collaborative sessions by monitoring, via a primary device associated with a user, a user status for the user participating in a collaborative session with one or more other users. In response to determining a user status change for the user is detected, the method can determine a response for the user to provide to the one or more other users based on a user profile and a context for the user status change, wherein the status change indicates an unavailability of the user. In response to determining the response is required for the user to provide the one or more other users, the method can send the response to a user device associated with each of the one or more other users.Type: GrantFiled: August 23, 2023Date of Patent: January 14, 2025Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Jacob Ryan Jepperson, Logan Bailey, Melanie Dauber, Zachary A. Silverstein, Jeremy R. Fox
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Patent number: 12190072Abstract: In some embodiments, text for user consumption may be generated based on an intended user action category and a user profile. In some embodiments, an action category, a plurality of text seeds, and a profile comprising feature values may be obtained. Context values may be generated based on the feature values, and text generation models may be obtained based on the text seeds. In some embodiments, messages may be generated using the text generation models based on the action category and the context values. Weights associated with the messages may be determined, and a first text message of the messages may be sent to an address associated with the profile based on the weights. Based on a reaction value obtained in response to the first message, a first expected allocation value may be updated based on the reaction value.Type: GrantFiled: June 22, 2023Date of Patent: January 7, 2025Assignee: Capital One Services, LLCInventors: Huong Nguyen, Isha Chaturvedi, Kalanand Mishra
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Patent number: 12190398Abstract: A computer implemented method for administration of admission offers from educational institutions including receiving student information from students, generating a unique student identifier for each of the students, generating a universal student profile for each of the students on the database, the universal student profile including the unique student identifier, student identification information, and student qualification information for each of the students, identifying matching students from a plurality of universal student profiles stored on the database whose qualification information satisfies the entrance requirement information of any of the plurality of educational institution profiles stored on the database, generating on the database an anonymized version of the universal student profile of each of the matching students, and transmitting over the data network the anonymized version of the universal student profile of each of the matching students to educational institutions whose entrance reqType: GrantFiled: November 21, 2022Date of Patent: January 7, 2025Assignee: EAB Global, Inc.Inventors: Joseph Derek Morrison, Richard Harvey Winslow, Jr.
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Patent number: 12177309Abstract: An image processing method includes displaying an object following page in a first session page in response to an object following operation performed on a first image, the object following page including a setting control corresponding to at least one display object in the first image. The first session page is a page corresponding to a local user account. The method also includes creating an object following relationship between a selected display object and the local user account in response to a trigger operation performed on the setting control in the object following page. The object following relationship provides an image update prompt to the local user account, the image update prompt prompting to view an image associated with the selected display object. Apparatus and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium counterpart embodiments are also contemplated.Type: GrantFiled: September 1, 2022Date of Patent: December 24, 2024Assignee: Tencent Technology (Shenzhen) Company LimitedInventors: Wei Yan, Xuefen Yuan, Feng Lin
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Patent number: 12167480Abstract: In some implementations, a computing device can be configured for users (e.g., user devices) that are detected nearby the computing device. For example, the computing device may be a communal device configured for a single user but generally used by multiple users. The communal device can discover when a known (e.g., authorized, trusted, etc.) user device is near the communal device and obtain personalization data from the nearby user device. The communal device can configure the communal device based on the personalization data to personalize an activity hosted by the communal device for the user of the nearby user device. To protect the user's personalization data, the communal device can delete the user's personalization data when the activity hosted by the communal device is terminated.Type: GrantFiled: April 28, 2021Date of Patent: December 10, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Jeremy Jie You Foo, Niharika M. Bedekar, Joel J. Angelone, David S. Clark, Parry Panesar
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Patent number: 12166847Abstract: A method of cloud based messaging includes receiving a message and a message topic from a message sender, storing the message topic and the message on a message queue, retrieving the message from the message queue, translating the message from a message bus protocol to a recipient protocol and transmitting the translated message to a message recipient.Type: GrantFiled: April 13, 2023Date of Patent: December 10, 2024Assignee: Worldpay, LLCInventors: Walter Banks, Christopher Guthrie
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Patent number: 12160462Abstract: The disclosed embodiments relate generally to the downloading of media items. The media items may include, for example, audio, video, image, or podcast data. In accordance with one embodiment, two or more media items may be concurrently downloaded. In accordance with another embodiment, a user may control the downloading of each of the media items, as desired. More particularly, the user may choose to download, pause, or resume downloading one or more media items identified in the list of media items. In other words, the user may alter the download status of any of the items in the list of media items. In addition, the user may re-prioritize the order in which the media items in the list or a subset thereof are to be downloaded.Type: GrantFiled: April 13, 2023Date of Patent: December 3, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventor: Anne Jones
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Patent number: 12155707Abstract: A method performed by a UE, comprising: receiving a request to split a client media function; determining, after reception of the request to split of the client media function, one or more client media capabilities; transmitting, to a network edge device, a request to split the client media function; negotiating, with the network edge device, the split of the client media function based on the one or more client media capabilities and one or more capabilities of a 5GMS AS; receiving, from the network edge device, an acknowledgment that a split-rendering process for the client media function has started on the 5GMS AS; and transmitting an acknowledgement that the split-rendering process for the client media function has started on the 5GMS AS.Type: GrantFiled: October 30, 2023Date of Patent: November 26, 2024Assignee: TENCENT AMERICA LLCInventor: Iraj Sodagar
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Patent number: 12149594Abstract: This disclosure relates to a privacy preserving machine learning platform. In one aspect, a method includes receiving, from a client device and by a computing system of multiple multi-party computation (MPC) systems, a first request for user group identifiers that identify user groups to which to add a user. The first request includes a model identifier for a centroid model, first user profile data for a user profile of the user, and a threshold distance. For each user group in a set of user groups corresponding to the model identifier, a centroid for the user group that is determined using a centroid model corresponding to the model identifier is identified. The computing system determines a user group result based at least on the first user profile data, the centroids, and the threshold distance. The user group result is indicative of user group(s) to which to add the user.Type: GrantFiled: October 30, 2023Date of Patent: November 19, 2024Assignee: Google LLCInventors: Gang Wang, Marcel M. Moti Yung