Patents Examined by J. Miller
  • Patent number: 11665501
    Abstract: A user device includes and maintains a geolocation list (GLL) including sets of information corresponding to Citizens Broadband radio Services Devices (CBSDs). The GLL stored in the user device contains entries corresponding to the areas most recently visited by the UE, each entry including location information of a CBSD. User devices typically frequent a limited set of the same areas repetitively. Thus this maintained relatively small list provides the UE with a highly relevant set of information which can be quickly accessed without additional wireless signaling and the additional power loss associated with a typical search. When the UE desires to find and connect to a CBSD, the UE first searches its GLL for a CBSD providing coverage in its currently located area. However, if GLL search does not identify a CBSD, then the UE sends a request to a geolocation server for active CBSDs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: Charter Communications Operating, LLC
    Inventors: Loay Kreishan, Akram Hassanien, Hossam Hmimy, William K. Logan
  • Patent number: 11647548
    Abstract: A network access method includes receiving, by a first access point, a first network identifier and a first password of a second access point from a server, setting, by the first access point, a first network based on a first network identifier and a first password of the second access point, sending, by an intelligent device, a first network connection request, establishing, by the first access point, a first network connection between the first access point and the intelligent device in response to the first network connection request, sending, by the first access point, a second network identifier or a second password of the first access point to the intelligent device by the first network connection, and sending, by the intelligent device, a second network connection request to the first access point based on the second network identifier or the second password of the first access point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yafei Wang
  • Patent number: 11640486
    Abstract: Apparatus and methods of artificial intelligent based provision of digital content where and when the digital content is needed based upon where a user is located and a purpose for accessing the content as well as credentials of a user seeking to access the digital content. Persistent digital content is linked to location coordinates. More specifically, the present invention links a physical onsite location with digital content to enable a user interface with augmented reality that combines aspects of the physical area with location specific digital content. In addition, access to digital content may be limited to users in defined access areas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2023
    Assignee: Middle Chart, LLC
    Inventors: Michael S. Santarone, Michael Wodrich, Jason E. Duff, Joseph P. Kincart
  • Patent number: 11636236
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus for improving the provision of a procedure based upon automated determination of a location of agents and equipment during a procedure and quantifying conditions in an environment via automated sensors. The present invention provides apparatus and methods for wireless designation of a position of health care providers and equipment relative to each other based upon wireless communications amongst multiple wireless transceivers combined with ongoing monitoring of conditions present in a facility. The transceivers may be portions of nodes and nodes may form self-verifying arrays. A user interface may provide a augmented reality view of positions of all or some the providers and equipment and condition quantifying sensors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: Middle Chart, LLC
    Inventors: Kristen Santarone, Michael S. Santarone, Randall Pugh, Jason E. Duff, Michael Wodrich
  • Patent number: 11636283
    Abstract: A variational autoencoder (VAE) neural network system, comprising an encoder neural network to encode an input data item to define a posterior distribution for a set of latent variables, and a decoder neural network to generate an output data item representing values of a set of latent variables sampled from the posterior distribution. The system is configured for training with an objective function including a term dependent on a difference between the posterior distribution and a prior distribution. The prior and posterior distributions are arranged so that they cannot be matched to one another. The VAE system may be used for compressing and decompressing data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: DeepMind Technologies Limited
    Inventors: Benjamin Poole, Aaron Gerard Antonius van den Oord, Ali Razavi-Nematollahi, Oriol Vinyals
  • Patent number: 11625510
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus for interacting with a tag in a radio target area. More specifically, the present invention relates to methods and systems for monitoring temperature and other environmental conditions in a storage area and displaying environmental conditions as digital content in a user interactive interface based upon energy levels received from a radio target area and content from a sensor generating digital content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: Middle Chart, LLC
    Inventors: Michael Wodrich, Michael S. Santarone, Randall Pugh, Jason E. Duff, Frederick Flitsch
  • Patent number: 11622258
    Abstract: A method and a wireless communication device for providing communication service to devices connected to the wireless communication device. By establishing a starter wireless carrier connection using a starter SIM from a plurality of local SIMs, the wireless communication device establishes one or more logical data connections with one or more SIM banks. Remote-SIMs are selected from the one or more SIM banks and used to establish further wireless carrier connections to allow communication service to be provided to the devices over wireless carrier connections.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: Pismo Labs Technology Limited
    Inventors: Man Kit Kwan, Uzair Ahmed Chughtai, Ka Ho Ho
  • Patent number: 11616874
    Abstract: A computing device is described that receives input from a distressed user that indicates the user is in a state of distress. The computing device references a profiles database that stores attribute information that indicates preferred attributes of a potential responder. The communication is sent to a plurality of responding devices and includes an alert indication, at some of the preferred attributes, and a location of the first computing device. Incident to sending the alert, the computing device receives an acknowledgement that indicates that at least one responsive computing device received the alert, which is associated with a responsive user who has attributes matching the preferred attributes. Presenting a map on the computing device that is useable to help locate the first computing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Inventor: Dustin Adam Shay
  • Patent number: 11610318
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for anatomic structure segmentation in image analysis, using a computer system. One method includes: receiving an annotation and a plurality of keypoints for an anatomic structure in one or more images; computing distances from the plurality of keypoints to a boundary of the anatomic structure; training a model, using data in the one or more images and the computed distances, for predicting a boundary in the anatomic structure in an image of a patient's anatomy; receiving the image of the patient's anatomy including the anatomic structure; estimating a segmentation boundary in the anatomic structure in the image of the patient's anatomy; and predicting, using the trained model, a boundary location in the anatomic structure in the image of the patient's anatomy by generating a regression of distances from keypoints in the anatomic structure in the image of the patient's anatomy to the estimated boundary.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignee: HeartFlow, Inc.
    Inventors: Leo Grady, Peter Kersten Petersen, Michiel Schaap, David Lesage
  • Patent number: 11610033
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus for display of digital content associated with a location in a radio transmission area. A user interface is generated with a digital representation of energy levels received into an energy receiving sensor, such as a CCD or CMOS sensor. The user interface includes interactive portions based upon positions in the radio transmission area. The interactive portions may be activated to display the digital content in a user interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignee: Middle Chart, LLC
    Inventors: Michael Wodrich, Michael S. Santarone, Randall Pugh, Jason E. Duff, Frederick Flitsch
  • Patent number: 11604999
    Abstract: A learning device according to an embodiment includes one or more hardware processors configured to function as a generation unit, an inference unit, and a training unit. The generation unit generates input data with which an error between a value output from each of one or more target nodes and a preset aimed value is equal to or less than a preset value, the target nodes being in a target layer of a plurality of layers included in a first neural network. The inference unit causes the input data to propagate in a forward direction of the first neural network to generate output data. The training unit trains a second neural network differing from the first neural network by using training data including a set of the input data and the output data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Wataru Asano, Akiyuki Tanizawa, Atsushi Yaguchi, Shuhei Nitta, Yukinobu Sakata
  • Patent number: 11592518
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method for establishing and controlling a mobile perimeter and for determining a geographic location of an RF emitting source at or within the mobile perimeter includes receiving from RF sensors in a network, processed RF emissions from the source collected at RF sensors. The RF emissions follow a wireless protocol and include frames encoding RF emitting source identification information. The method further includes extracting RF emitting source identification information from the frames, processing the source identification information to identify the RF emitting source, and classifying the RF emitting source by one or more of UAS type, UAS capabilities, and UAS model. The method also includes receiving from the RF sensors, a geographic location of each RF sensor and a time of arrival (TOA) of the RF emissions at the RF sensor; and executing a multilateration process to estimate a geographic location of the RF emitting source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: Architecture Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Eric R. Chartier, Paul C. Davis, Douglas Sweet, Ryan L. Hagelstrom, Ian J. McLinden
  • Patent number: 11593536
    Abstract: Geolocated information is communicated to a user based upon a position of smart device in a building as determined by optical recognition of a first visual identifier, a second visual identifier and a third visual identifier. A distance determined from each of the visual identifiers, as well as a direction of interest indicated by a user. A user interface is generated for display on a Smart Device based upon the position of the Smart Device and direction of interest.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: Middle Chart, LLC
    Inventors: Michael Wodrich, Michael S. Santarone, Randall Pugh, Jason E. Duff
  • Patent number: 11589233
    Abstract: A method including receiving, by a first device from a second device in a mesh network, an access request from the second device to access a network service available to the first device, the request being received via a meshnet connection between the first device and the second device; and transmitting, by the first device to the second device, access information associated with accessing the network service based at least in part on receiving the access request, the access information being transmitted via the meshnet connection. Various other aspects are contemplated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: UAB 360 IT
    Inventors: Vykintas Maknickas, Emanuelis Norbutas
  • Patent number: 11580746
    Abstract: Some embodiments relate to a system for automated gaming recognition, the system comprising: at least one image sensor configured to capture image frames of a field of view including a table game; at least one depth sensor configured to capture depth of field images of the field of view; and a computing device configured to receive the image frames and the depth of field images, and configured to process the received image frames and depth of field images in order to produce an automated recognition of at least one gaming state appearing in the field of view. Embodiments also relate to methods and computer-readable media for automated gaming recognition. Further embodiments relate to methods and systems for monitoring game play and/or gaming events on a gaming table.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: SenSen Networks Group Pty Ltd
    Inventors: Nhat Dinh Minh Vo, Subhash Challa, Zhi Li
  • Patent number: 11582576
    Abstract: Embodiments are disclosed for a feature-based simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) system and method that generates radio maps for environments that are not accessible for surveying. More accurate radio maps are generated for an unsurveyed environment by determining a best estimate of a mobile device state from harvested traced data that maximizes a posterior probability of the mobile device state given measurements, landmarks and loop constraints.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Jahshan Bhatti, Brian Stephen Smith, Wei Kong
  • Patent number: 11564193
    Abstract: Authentication in a public land mobile network, PLMN, having tenant slices is performed by a network element that has: a memory comprising program code; a communication circuitry for communication with entities in the PLMN; and a processing circuitry configured to execute the program code and according to the program code to cause: detecting a registration request from a mobile communication device, MCDt; detecting whether the registration request requests access to a network slice with one-tier authentication with the network slice, and: if yes, causing beginning of authenticating the MCDt with the network slice independently of any authentication between the MCDt and the PLMN.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignee: NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY
    Inventors: Cinzia Sartori, Anja Jerichow, Peter Schneider
  • Patent number: 11557009
    Abstract: Systems and methods for generating assessments based on construction site images are provided. For example, image data captured from a construction site using at least one image sensor may be obtained. Further, at least one electronic record associated with the construction site may be obtained. The image data and the at least one electronic record may be analyzed to generate at least one assessment related to the construction site. For example, the image data may be analyzed to identify at least one discrepancy between the at least one electronic record and the construction site, and the identified at least one discrepancy may be used in the generation of the at least one assessment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: CONSTRU LTD
    Inventors: Michael Sasson, Ron Zass, Shalom Bellaish, Moshe Nachman
  • Patent number: 11558910
    Abstract: A method of selecting, by a control entity, a network slice is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hoyeon Lee, Sangsoo Jeong
  • Patent number: 11544634
    Abstract: Data drift or dataset shift is detected between training dataset and test dataset by training a scoring function using a pooled dataset, the pooled dataset including a union of the training dataset and the test dataset; obtaining an outlier score for each instance in the training dataset and the test dataset based at least in part on the scoring function; assigning a weight to each outlier score based at least in part on training contamination rates; determining a test statistic based at least in part on the outlier scores and the weights; determining a null distribution of no dataset shift for the test statistic; determining a threshold in the null distribution; and when the test statistic is greater than or equal to the threshold, identifying dataset shift between the training dataset and the test dataset.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: ROYAL BANK OF CANADA
    Inventor: Vathy M. Kamulete