Patents Examined by James Edwards
  • Patent number: 11898381
    Abstract: A waterproof structure of a door latch device, in which one end part of a cable is connected to an input lever including one end part projecting toward outside of a case, includes a cover including: a cover main body having a box shape with a cover opening, the cover main body being configured to house the one end part of the input lever and the one end part of the cable via the cover opening when the cover main body abuts on the case; and a cover supporting body extending from the cover main body. The cover is attached to the case via the cover supporting body in a state in which the cover main body is movable between a closed position at which the cover main body abuts on the case and an opened position at which the cover main body is separated from the case.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: MITSUI KINZOKU ACT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yosuke Kitamura, Tatsuya Takayama
  • Patent number: 11893504
    Abstract: Disclosed are various approaches for determining an optimal communication channel for contacting a user. In one such embodiment, application usage data corresponding to user interactions on available communication channels within an enterprise environment is obtained and used to generate a knowledge graph representing an individual user communicating over two or more of the available communication channels with other users. Thus, based on the knowledge graph, at least one optimal communication channel can be provided for contacting the individual user, wherein the at least one optimal communication channel is represented in the knowledge graph.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: VMware, Inc.
    Inventors: Rohit Pradeep Shetty, Ramanandan Nambannor Kunnath
  • Patent number: 11882088
    Abstract: A computer system for facilitating communications between users is configured for: (A) receiving, from a first user, one or more user watch area attributes; (B) using the one or more user watch area attributes to define a watch area; (C) receiving, from a second user, a message associated with a geographical location; (D) determining whether the geographical location is located within the user watch area; (E) at least partially in response to determining that the geographical location is located within the user watch area, subscribing the first user to a thread of messages that includes the message; and (F) dynamically adjusting a shape of the user watch area based, at least in part, on a factor selected from a group consisting of: (1) a number of message postings within the user watch area; and (2) a population density of an area that is within the user watch area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: VNP Software, Inc.
    Inventors: Paul King, Neil Stephen Barry Martin
  • Patent number: 11873667
    Abstract: A door handle and locking system includes a base, a latching mechanism, a handle, a safety latch mechanism, and a biasing member having a biasing force. The latching mechanism is movable from a latched position to an unlatched position. The handle is connected to the base and is movable in response to a first force from a first position to a second position. Moving the handle from the first position to the second position moves the latching mechanism from the latched position to the unlatched position. The safety latch mechanism moves from a first position to a second position upon application of a force to the biasing member exceeding the biasing force. The safety latch mechanism remains in the first position upon movement of the handle from the first position to the second position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: Global Link Distribution, Corp.
    Inventor: Christopher J. Waites
  • Patent number: 11876644
    Abstract: The invention discloses a high-efficiency transmission Ethernet device comprising, a data transmitting module, wherein when receiving a data packet sent by an upper-layer device, and judging that other Ethernet devices in the same local area network for data transmission support a small packet aggregation function, the data transmitting module is configured to aggregately encapsulate all small packets contained in the data packet to form at least one aggregated Ethernet frame and to send it to other corresponding Ethernet devices; and a data receiving module, wherein when receiving data frames sent by other Ethernet devices in the same local area network supporting the small packet aggregation function, performing data parsing on the data frames when judging that the received data frames are routine Ethernet frames, and performing data parsing on the data frames when judging the data frames are aggregated Ethernet frames.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: Motorcomm Electronic Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Wenhui Lv
  • Patent number: 11873663
    Abstract: A door lock device and a door lock having the same, wherein the door lock device includes: a switch mechanism capable of being operatively switched from a first position to a second position or a third position; an oblique tongue mechanism, including an oblique tongue body and an oblique tongue drive assembly, the oblique tongue drive assembly being connected to the switch mechanism, wherein, when the switch mechanism is in the first position, the oblique tongue body is in an extended state, and when the switch mechanism is switched from the first position to the second position or the third position, the switch mechanism drives the oblique tongue drive assembly, to drive the oblique tongue body to be in a retracted state; a deadbolt mechanism, including a deadbolt body and a deadbolt drive assembly; and a linkage mechanism connecting the switch mechanism and the deadbolt drive assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Inventors: Li Zheng, Daihua Zhou
  • Patent number: 11866965
    Abstract: An electronic handle for a vehicle door including an electronic device, an activation lever, and a bracket. The electronic device electronically activates a latch of the vehicle door. The activation lever is configured to rotate around an activation lever axis between a rest position in which the activation lever is released, and a mechanical activation position in which the activation lever is actuated for mechanically activating the latch of the vehicle door in case of default of the electronic device. The bracket receives the activation lever. The activation lever comprises a driving element pivotally connected to the activation lever, and the bracket comprises a flexible blade with a stop element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: U-SHIN ITALIA S.P.A.
    Inventors: Massimo Frattini, Anthony Guerin, Antonio Rocci, Thomas Devernois
  • Patent number: 11863407
    Abstract: A system for efficiently parsing semi-structured deep packet inspection traffic data tied to a telecommunications entity. The system is capable of parsing such records at million-records-per-second scale through use of a numerical data model, leverage on proven fundamental algebraic techniques, and shortcuts to label streaming traffic on the fly. In some embodiments, the system may perform parallel accumulation of data traffic into business grade counters using elementary techniques and subsequently identify subscribers exhibiting specific data patterns in real time for contextual targeting of promotional offers. A method of efficiently parsing the traffic data via the system of the disclosure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Inventors: Arun Kumar Krishna, Pramod Konandur Prabhakar
  • Patent number: 11863441
    Abstract: This disclosure is directed to processes and systems for generating data packets in a smart network interface controller (“SNIC”) of a host server computer. A smart packet generator (“spktgen”) controller receives a user command that contains directions for how packets are generated in the SNIC. The command is sent to a spktgen daemon that runs in a control core of the multicore processor. The spktgen daemon extracts the type of packet generator and packet parameters recorded in the command and sends the type of packet generator and packet parameters to a spktgen engine that also runs in the control core. The spktgen engine creates threads in each of one or more data cores of the multicore processor. Each thread comprises instructions for generating data packets from the data generated by data generating sources of the host in accordance with the type of packet generator and the packet parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: VMware, Inc.
    Inventors: PeiPei Hu, Chengjian Wen, Shu Wu, Qin Li, Hao Huang
  • Patent number: 11863634
    Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure include systems and methods for profile switching by the computing device. In an example, a computing device may include a memory storing instructions and a processor communicatively coupled with the memory and configured to execute the instructions. The processor may receive a request to initiate a new instance of a website. The processor may also determine a domain name of the website in response to the request. The processor may also determine a first user profile from a plurality of user profiles that corresponds to the domain name based on profile information corresponding to one or more of profile history data, profile favorites data, or administrative settings data. The processor may also launch the new instance of the website in a browser according to the first user profile.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Mohamed Mall, Felix Gerard Torquil Ifor Andrew
  • Patent number: 11856062
    Abstract: A connection request is received for an account, the account associated with a set of devices, the connection request comprising a request to establish communication between a sending device and a device associated with the account. By analyzing device usage data for a first device in the set of devices, an availability score of the first device is determined. The first device is presented for connection based on the availability score of the first device. Responsive to the presenting, the sending device and the first device are connected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Su Liu, Demetrice Browder
  • Patent number: 11855942
    Abstract: An activation system for at least one receiving device that is redundantly activatable via a first communication network and via at least one second communication network that is independent of the first communication network. The activation system includes at least two transmitting modules, each of which is designed to generate messages for the receiving device and to transmit them to the receiving device via at least one of the communication networks. At least one transmitting module is connectable to both communication networks, and the transmitting modules are coordinated with one another and/or with the receiving device in such a way that messages from one transmitting module are to be transmitted via a communication network and/or processed by the receiving device with priority over messages from another transmitting module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventors: Frederik Morlok, Panagiotis Kosioris, Frank Traenkle, Jan Micha Borrmann
  • Patent number: 11851918
    Abstract: A latch for use in a vehicle including a catch, a pawl, a motor including a motor shaft, and drivetrain including, a first gear and a pawl lifter. The first gear is configured to rotate about a first axis as the motor shaft rotates when the drivetrain is in the operating state and defining an aperture configured to receive an opening tool and translate along the first axis from a first position to a second position to change the drivetrain from the operating state to the service state, when the opening tool is inserted into the aperture. When the first gear is in the second position, the first gear is configured to pivot the pawl lifter to move the pawl from the pawl closed position of the pawl open position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: Brose Schließsysteme Gmbh & Co. Kommanditgesellschaft, Wuppertal
    Inventors: David Scholz, Jiri Beinstein, Lee Kwanggi
  • Patent number: 11848850
    Abstract: A system described herein may provide for the tracking and/or calculating of performance metrics associated with a network by marking traffic and determining performance characteristics of the marked traffic. Such performance characteristics or metrics may include throughput, latency, jitter, and/or other metrics. The marking may be performed on “user” traffic, which may be traffic that is generated or sent via the network by an application or service (e.g., a voice call service, a content streaming service, etc.), as opposed to “synthetic” or “test” traffic, which is traffic that is generated or sent for the purposes of testing performance of the network (e.g., traffic related to a “speed test” or the like).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Donna L. Polehn, Arda Aksu, Vishwanath Ramamurthi, Lalit R. Kotecha, David Chiang, Jin Yang
  • Patent number: 11840868
    Abstract: A vehicle door lock device includes: a latch mechanism switching member which switches a latch mechanism to an unlatching state; a first lever member which moves to an operating position when a door handle is operated to open a door; a link member movable to an unlock position where the link member is engaged with the latch mechanism switching member and the latch mechanism is switched to the unlatching state, and a lock position where the latch mechanism is not switched to the unlatching state; a second lever member releasably engageable with the link member and causing the latch mechanism switching member to move to the operating position by moving from an initial position to an operating position; a biasing member which biases the link member toward the lock position; and a drive unit which drives the second lever member to move from the initial position to the operating position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: AISIN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takumi Hayashi, Yasuaki Tanino, Yasuhiko Sono
  • Patent number: 11843568
    Abstract: Technologies are disclosed for performing personalized communications management. Data can be identified, collected, and/or generated to manage communications between a communications management system and user devices. The data can include individualized data associated with devices and/or users of the devices. The communications management system can identify and/or select recipients of subsequent communications based on results collected from analysis of messages transmitted using the individualized data. Recipients for transmissions of subsequent communications can be continuously redefined.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Olgu Ozkul, Srikanth Sridharan
  • Patent number: 11832795
    Abstract: A fluid control device for endoscope includes a gas feeding conduit, an operation button and a deforming portion. The deforming portion is disposed on a downstream side with respect to the operation button, and has a closing portion which is brought into contact with an inner wall of the gas feeding conduit in a state where the operation button is not pushed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Norimasa Arai
  • Patent number: 11838215
    Abstract: A data stream classification method includes obtaining, based on a packet feature of a current data stream and a behavior classification model, at least one first confidence that is of the current data stream and that corresponds to at least one data stream class, where the behavior classification model is based on a plurality of data stream samples; obtaining, based on feature information of the current data stream and a content classification model, at least one second confidence that is of the current data stream and that corresponds to the at least one data stream class, where the content classification model is based on one or more historical data streams; and determining a data stream class of the current data stream based on the at least one first confidence and the at least one second confidence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jun Wu, Xinyu Hu, Yali Wang, Xiaoyun Si
  • Patent number: 11828087
    Abstract: A control structure of a door lock contains: a body, a partition, a motor, a slide cylinder, a rotatable sheet, a tongue, a locating bolt, a first resilient element, and a second resilient element. The body includes a first casing, a second casing, an open segment, a close segment, an operation space, a holder, and a groove. The partition includes a first slot, multiple actuation portions, two hooks, two seats, two connection orifices, and multiple extensions. The motor includes a guide gear, and the slide cylinder includes an accommodation chamber, a receiving trench, at least one second slot, and a post. The rotatable sheet includes a curved face, a chute, a drive section, and a toothed portion. The tongue includes a lock segment, a notch, an engagement segment, two fixing portions, and two retainers. The locating bolt includes a defining fringe and a connection protrusion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Inventor: Jeff Chen
  • Patent number: 11831731
    Abstract: Briefly, example methods, apparatuses, and/or articles of manufacture may be implemented, in whole or in part, to prove possession of a communications device, such as a mobile communications device. In a particular method, proving possession of a communications device may include receiving, from a client server, an indicator to indicate a communication services carrier servicing the communications device. The method may continue with generating a session identifier and a resource locator to direct the communications device to establish communications with an identity verifier at an address corresponding to the resource locator. The resource locator may be determined based, at least in part, on the indicator received from the client server. The method may additionally include the communications device transmitting one or more identifiers, determined, at least in part, from content stored within, or data derived from, memory of the communications device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: PROVE IDENTITY, INC.
    Inventor: Jeffrey Robert Naujok