Patents Examined by Daryl Pope
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Patent number: 9881502Abstract: A method for assisting a driver of a motor vehicle during a driving maneuver, which includes the following: (a) detecting data regarding the surroundings of the motor vehicle, analyzing the captured data for detecting objects, and visually displaying the detected objects, (b) selecting at least one of the detected objects by the driver of the motor vehicle, (c) determining the smallest distance between the motor vehicle and the at least one selected object, (d) outputting information to the driver of the motor vehicle about the smallest distance between the at least one selected object and the motor vehicle. Further described is a device for carrying out the method.Type: GrantFiled: July 18, 2012Date of Patent: January 30, 2018Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBHInventors: Jorge Sans Sangorrin, Holger Mielenz
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Patent number: 9875643Abstract: System and methods are disclosed for emergency management during threatening events such as gunfire incidents. In some exemplary implementations, systems and methods may provide information to computer-based and mobile-device user interfaces, enabling various features and capabilities such as notifying site-based subscribers and public safety personnel that an emergency has occurred at a specific location. Implementations may also provide users with real-time information that can utilized by on-site personnel and responding public safety personnel to mitigate the emergency. Further, aspects may include configurations and/or capabilities that integrate with external technology platforms such as computer aided dispatch systems, surveillance camera systems, and security systems such as those having electronic lock control.Type: GrantFiled: November 11, 2014Date of Patent: January 23, 2018Assignee: SHOTSPOTTER, INC.Inventor: Peter C. Sarna, II
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Patent number: 9865157Abstract: A device interface and method for using the interface is provided. The device interface includes a packaging configured to be removably installed within a housing of a premises alarm device. An input component is housed within the packaging in which the input component is configured to detect an alarm annunciation from the alarm device and generate input data based on the detected alarm annunciation. A processor is housed within the packaging. The processor is configured to analyze the input data, generate event data indicative of an alarm event in which the event data is based on the analysis of the input data and cause transmission of at least a portion of the event data. A power component is also housed within the packaging in which the power component is configured to provide power to the device interface and to the alarm device.Type: GrantFiled: September 9, 2015Date of Patent: January 9, 2018Assignee: ADT US Holdings, Inc.Inventor: Charbel Hayek
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Patent number: 9861321Abstract: A system that monitors various conditions of a plurality of hospital beds located in different rooms of a healthcare facility is provided. Alternatively or additionally, other types of equipment may be monitored by the system. Various configurations of network interface units that are coupleable to or integrated into a hospital bed are also disclosed. The system receives data from the hospital beds and/or other equipment and initiates a communication to a wireless communication device of at least one designated caregiver in response to the received data being indicative of an alarm condition.Type: GrantFiled: October 24, 2016Date of Patent: January 9, 2018Assignee: Hill-Rom Services, Inc.Inventors: Williams F. Collins, Jr., James M. Allen, Keith A. Huster, Carl W. Riley, Patricia A. Glidewell, Irvin J. Vanderpohl, III, Richard J. Schuman, Christopher A. Mathura
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Patent number: 9852604Abstract: A security system that can be used in a home, office, or other building in order to generate alarms or take other actions depending on conditions within the building. The security system may rely on sensors within the building which sense various conditions and collect other data. The information learned from the sensors can be communicated to a location outside the building for processing, such as, but not limited to, processing associated with a need to instigate an alarm.Type: GrantFiled: November 16, 2016Date of Patent: December 26, 2017Assignee: Comcast Cable Communications, LLCInventor: James Poder
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Patent number: 9851699Abstract: Systems and methods for interfacing a hazard detection device with a control panel system via a dongle are provided. The dongle may be configured to alternate between drawing first and second amounts of power from the control panel system in response to the hazard detection device alternating between operating in a normal mode when no hazard is detected and an alarm mode when a hazard is detected. The hazard detection device may operate independently of any characteristics of the control panel system. For example, the hazard detection device may operate without drawing any power from the control panel system. Therefore, the dongle may allow for various types of hazard detection devices to interface with a common two-line power control system.Type: GrantFiled: July 17, 2014Date of Patent: December 26, 2017Assignee: GOOGLE LLCInventors: Anthony Michael Fadell, Scott Mullins, Brian Jonathan Conner, Ian C. Smith
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Patent number: 9852592Abstract: Augmented reality techniques are employed to improve emergency response and related tasks based upon data gathered from wireless monitoring of emergency equipment.Type: GrantFiled: January 9, 2017Date of Patent: December 26, 2017Assignee: en-Gauge, Inc.Inventor: Brendan T. McSheffrey
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Patent number: 9847008Abstract: A method for disseminating emergency notification content from an emergency originating source. The method comprising: delivering the emergency notification content from the emergency originating source to at least one transmitting party; selecting a subset of users from among a set of users for dissemination of the emergency notification content based on the subject matter of the emergency notification content; and delivering the emergency notification content from the at least one transmitting party to a device corresponding to each user from the selected subset of users.Type: GrantFiled: February 21, 2017Date of Patent: December 19, 2017Assignee: Google Inc.Inventors: Charles Eric Hunter, Bernard L. Ballou, John Hebrank, James Fallon, Robert Summer
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Patent number: 9848289Abstract: A method and system for detecting unsafe or suspect activities such as distracted driving associates distracted driving events to the road type, vehicle speed and vehicle acceleration (positive, negative and lateral) at the time of the distracted driving event, and identifies severe distracted driving events from a large population of minor events using a statistical distribution such as a Cauchy distribution equation. The system employs a smartphone application (App) coupled with a central server that computes driver safety scores which relate time of day, road type, vehicle speed, vehicle acceleration (positive, negative and lateral) and distracted driving using the Cauchy distribution equation. The server renders summary and detail reports of driving scores and distracted driving events to concerned parties including insurance companies, fleet managers, vehicle owners and the parents/guardians of teenaged drivers.Type: GrantFiled: October 20, 2016Date of Patent: December 19, 2017Assignee: Octo Advisory Inc.Inventors: Richard W. Fischer, Jonathan R. Fischer, William A. Ricaurte
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Patent number: 9836952Abstract: A processor accesses a plurality of time series of alarms of a plurality of alarm types that are produced by resources of a network function virtualization (NFV) system. The processor identifies clusters of the plurality of alarm types based on similarities between the plurality of time series and determine causal connections between alarm types in the clusters based on temporal proximity and ordering of the alarm types in the clusters. The processor then stores one or more causality templates representative of the causal connections in a memory.Type: GrantFiled: April 6, 2016Date of Patent: December 5, 2017Assignee: Alcatel-Lucent USA Inc.Inventor: Dan Kushnir
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Patent number: 9830818Abstract: A parking zone recognizing apparatus for recognizing a parking zone based on transmission/reception signals which are transmitted and received through an ultrasonic sensor installed in a vehicle, comprises an electronic control unit. The electronic control unit is configured to recognize a surrounding target of a parking zone as a high object and determine an available parking zone in the case of a double echo condition that a distance of a second echo signal is twice a distance of a first echo signal, the first echo signal and the second echo signal being determined among echo signals responding to the transmission signal transmitted through the ultrasonic sensor.Type: GrantFiled: May 28, 2015Date of Patent: November 28, 2017Assignee: MANDO CORPORATIONInventor: Soo Myung Jung
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Patent number: 9821613Abstract: Various examples of a transmitting device with an antenna are disclosed. In one example, a transmitting device comprises a planar circuit board; a sensor mounted on the planar circuit board; a transmitter mounted on the planar circuit board and in communication with the sensor, the transmitter configured to periodically transmit signals containing a plurality of packets; and an antenna mounted on the planar circuit board and in electrical communication with the transmitter for transmitting the signals containing the plurality of packets. The antenna comprises a first end connected to the planar circuit board and a first support section; a meander line section connected to the first support section and a second support section and lying in a plane parallel with the circuit board; a second end connected to the second support section and an electrical ground.Type: GrantFiled: July 20, 2015Date of Patent: November 21, 2017Assignee: Bendix Commercial Vehicle Systems LLCInventors: Robert G Patterson, Shawn D Lammers
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Patent number: 9821236Abstract: A method and device for controlling at least one force-feedback device associated with at least a part of the body of a user. As to control the user's experience of motion and movements induced by the displacement(s) of the force feedback device(s) following operations are performed: [a] determining a speed value of a movement of the at least a part of the body according to at least a parameter representative of the displacement of the at least one force-feedback device, the movement of the at least a part of the body being induced by the displacement of the at least one force-feedback device; [b] comparing the determined speed value with a threshold speed value as to determine whether the displacement of the at least one force-feedback device is perceived by the user; and [c] controlling the at least one parameter according to the comparison result.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2014Date of Patent: November 21, 2017Assignee: THOMSON LICENSINGInventors: Fabien Danieau, Julien Fleureau, Philippe Guillotel, Nicolas Mollet, Anatole Lecuyer, Marc Christie
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Patent number: 9805586Abstract: Techniques are described for handling duress input. For example, techniques are described for handling duress input provided to a mobile application that controls a monitoring system located at a fixed property.Type: GrantFiled: June 2, 2017Date of Patent: October 31, 2017Assignee: Alarm.com IncorporatedInventors: Rose Blais Alexander, Rebecca Elisabeth Davenport, Alison Jane Slavin
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Patent number: 9799177Abstract: Embodiments described herein relate generally to providing information through tactility. A computer system may receive an input from a user. The computer system may identify one or more locations associated with haptic elements disposed on a wearable haptic apparatus. The computer system may generate a message that includes an indication of the one or more locations. The computer system may transmit this message to the wearable haptic apparatus. The wearable haptic apparatus may actuate one or more haptic elements disposed thereon based on the indication of the one or more locations included in the message. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.Type: GrantFiled: September 23, 2014Date of Patent: October 24, 2017Assignee: Intel CorporationInventors: Charles Baron, Jim S. Baca, Kevin W. Williams, William J. Lewis, Michael T. Moran
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Patent number: 9799190Abstract: A mobile tracking unit includes a controller having a processor, a memory in electronic communication with the processor, and instructions stored in the memory. The instructions are executable by the processor to communicate with a control unit of an automation and security system, determine a position of the mobile tracking unit relative to a base station using a low power location module, and communicate the position of the mobile tracking unit to at least one of the base station and a control unit of the automation and security system. When the mobile tracking unit is outside a specified range from the mobile tracking unit, the controller continues tracking the position of the mobile tracking unit with the low power location module. When the mobile tracking unit is inside the specified range, the controller determines the position of the mobile tracking unit using a high power location module.Type: GrantFiled: August 3, 2016Date of Patent: October 24, 2017Assignee: Vivint, Inc.Inventors: Jeremy B. Warren, James E. Nye
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Patent number: 9792805Abstract: A system for monitoring parameters of load equipment is provided. A power connector is provided with intelligence, at least one sensor, and a wireless communication component. The power connector is capable of monitoring physical parameters measured by the at least one sensor, such as voltage, current, temperature, and moisture. The system can further provide an alarm if the sensed parameter falls out of a predetermined range.Type: GrantFiled: March 17, 2016Date of Patent: October 17, 2017Assignee: Hubbell IncorporatedInventors: Roy J. Itzler, Thomas L. Scanzillo, Shadi A. AbuGhazaleh, Michael K. Williams
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Patent number: 9792808Abstract: A system and method of monitoring zones for alarm conditions and automatically alerting individuals in a plurality of zones about the safety of a particular zone is provided. The method includes providing a site map of a predefined area, configuring a plurality of zones in the predefined area, receiving ambient condition data and location data from a plurality of wireless devices located in the predefined area, computing an alarm level for each zone in the plurality of zones based on the received ambient condition data and location data, and transmitting alert notifications to the plurality of wireless devices. The alert notification sent to each wireless device is based on the computed alarm level of the zone in which that wireless device is located relative to the computed alarm level of the other zones in the plurality of zones.Type: GrantFiled: November 19, 2009Date of Patent: October 17, 2017Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.Inventors: Senthilnathan Gnanasekaran, B Gnanasekaran, Arunkumar Kamalakannan, Nukala Sateesh Kumar
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Patent number: 9781982Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an information prompting bracelet and an information prompting system. The information prompting bracelet includes: a flexible substrate, a connecting portion, control portions, pressure levers and an elastic deformation portion. When the control portions receive promoting information, they will control the pressure levers to move towards the side facing the flexible substrate. With the movement of the pressure levers, the elastic deformation portion will be squeezed towards the middle region, so that the distance between the inner surface of the elastic deformation portion at the middle region and the inside of the flexible substrate after squeezing will be larger than the distance between the inner surfaces of the pressure levers and the inside of the flexible substrate when in an initial position. In this way, this will bring the wearer a sense of pressure to notify the wearer that there is a prompting signal needing to be received.Type: GrantFiled: June 19, 2015Date of Patent: October 10, 2017Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., BEIJING BOE DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventor: Song Song
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Patent number: 9783107Abstract: A vehicle approach alert device that outputs an approach report sound from a sounding body includes: a memory part in which data of the approach report sound is memorized; a signal generator that generates a voltage waveform signal of the approach report sound based on the data of the approach report sound; a calculator that calculates a temperature of the sounding body; and a correct part that corrects the approach report sound based on the temperature of the sounding body. The calculator acquires information about a temperature detected by a temperature sensor located at a position different from the sounding body in the vehicle, and estimates the temperature of the sounding body based on the temperature detected by the temperature sensor.Type: GrantFiled: October 20, 2016Date of Patent: October 10, 2017Assignees: Anden Co., Ltd., TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hitoshi Sakamoto, Hironari Tajimi, Chikara Yamamoto, Tomonori Suzuki, Tadashi Matsui