Patents Examined by Kharye Pope
  • Patent number: 11974173
    Abstract: Systems and methods for a radio communications device supporting LTE cellular communications. A device includes a data interface configured to exchange modem control commands and audio data with an LTE cellular modem and a telephone interface configured to provide a two-wire analog telephone interface for connection to a telephone device. A controller control signals provided via the telephone interface to manage voice call operations with the telephone device; exchange digital voice data corresponding to voice signals exchanged with the telephone device via the telephone interface; exchange control information via the data interface to establish and manage a voice over LTE cellular call; and exchange the digital voice data via the voice over LTE cellular call via the LTE cellular modem.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Brightsk, LLC
    Inventors: Mark David Hedstrom, Taylor Jonathan Stroobosscher, Matthew Terry Miller, John Nicholas Shevillo
  • Patent number: 11947867
    Abstract: A single audio interface signal switching circuit and a single audio interface switching device are provided by the embodiments of the present disclosure, which sets only one single audio interface and uses a working mode switching module to control a driver chip to generate different drive signals, in order to control working states of an audio signal output module, a time code input module, and a time code output module electrically connected with the driver chip. Since there is only one audio interface, and a working mode of the single audio interface switching device is controlled by the working mode switching module, so that a volume of the single audio interface switching device is reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Inventor: Qiankun Liu
  • Patent number: 11924369
    Abstract: Provided is a voice communication system that notifies a terminal device of transmission restriction information when the number of received voice signals reaches a predetermined number. A server device continuously counts the number of simultaneously received voice signals. A first terminal device transmits, to the server device, a voice signal with identification information of a second terminal device. The server device transfers, to the second terminal device, the voice signal transmitted from the first terminal device. However, when the number of simultaneous receptions of the voice signals reaches a predetermined restriction value, the server device transfers, to the second terminal device, the received voice signal with transmission restriction information attached thereto. The second terminal device does not transmit a voice signal, even if a user performs a transmission operation, during reception of the voice signal with the attached transmission restriction information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: ICOM INCORPORATED
    Inventor: Hisaaki Matsushima
  • Patent number: 11916980
    Abstract: Various embodiments include systems and methods for providing an immersive three-dimensional group session. Various embodiments include methods and devices for signaling a description of a scene with media components potentially coming from different parties. In various aspects, a scene graph may be signaled through a session description protocol (SDP) during a session initiation protocol (SIP) session setup. In various embodiments, the scene graph may include respective graphical output nodes assigned to be controlled by each of the plurality of participant computing devices in an immersive three-dimensional group session.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Imed Bouazizi, Nikolai Konrad Leung, Thomas Stockhammer
  • Patent number: 11909555
    Abstract: A system for establishing an intervehicle communication for at least first and second commercial vehicles includes at least one wireless, wired, and/or physical communication line, wherein the communication line is bidirectional. At one point of the communication line, a first authentication code generation module is provided, which is dedicated to the first vehicle. At another point of the communication line, a second code processing module is provided, which is dedicated to the second vehicle. The first authentication code generation module is configured to send identification information, authentication information, and/or encryption keys. The second code processing module is configured to process and send back identification information, authentication information, and/or encryption keys, especially processed and/or modified identification information, authentication information, encryption keys.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: KNORR-BREMSE Systeme fuer Nutzfahrzeuge GmbH
    Inventors: Bence Szemes, Huba Nemeth, Tamas Konya, Kristof Hillier
  • Patent number: 11889024
    Abstract: Embodiments described herein provide for passive caller verification and/or passive fraud risk assessments for calls to customer call centers. Systems and methods may be used in real time as a call is coming into a call center. An analytics server of an analytics service looks at the purported Caller ID of the call, as well as the unaltered carrier metadata, which the analytics server then uses to generate or retrieve one or more probability scores using one or more lookup tables and/or a machine-learning model. A probability score indicates the likelihood that information derived using the Caller ID information has occurred or should occur given the carrier metadata received with the inbound call. The one or more probability scores be used to generate a risk score for the current call that indicates the probability of the call being valid (e.g., originated from a verified caller or calling device, non-fraudulent).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: Pindrop Security, Inc.
    Inventors: John Cornwell, Terry Nelms, II
  • Patent number: 11882018
    Abstract: An apparatus for analyzing a network according to an embodiment includes a receiving module configured to receive, from a cloud service, information on one or more resources included in the cloud service and information on a network environment of the one or more resources, a topology generation module configured to derive a network topology of the cloud service by using the information on the resources and the information on the network environment, and an analysis module configured to derive, from the network topology, a communication possible path of each of the one or more resources and one or more communication allow policies in the communication possible path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG SDS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jung Do Cha, Jung Hyun Ahn, Hyeong Jin Lee
  • Patent number: 11876928
    Abstract: A fraud detection system receives incoming calls and determines a fraud score indicating the likelihood that the incoming call is from a fraudulent or malicious caller. The system is able to determine the age of a telephone number of an incoming call and from it determine a fraud score for the call.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: Resilient PLC
    Inventor: Abhinav Anand
  • Patent number: 11876927
    Abstract: A fraud detection system receives incoming calls and determines a fraud score indicating the likelihood that the incoming call is from a fraudulent or malicious caller. The system is able to learn patterns of fraudulent activity from historical call records and feedback provided by a subscriber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: Resilient PLC
    Inventor: Abhinav Anand
  • Patent number: 11876926
    Abstract: The present disclosure describes receiving a trigger operation indication that content has been selected by a user device, and determining whether the content offers a recurring audio content data. The operation may also include retrieving a first audio content and transmitting the first audio content to the user device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: FIRST ORION CORP.
    Inventors: Monica Rose Martino, Kevin V. Nguyen, M. Gregory Smith
  • Patent number: 11870942
    Abstract: Systems and methods are described to enable a device of a user to automatically join an ongoing conference, where the device is not currently joined to the conference. A first audio signature is generated based on voices of users already in the conference, and a second audio signature is generated based on an audio signal captured by a microphone of the device associated with the first user when the device associated with the first user was not joined to the conference. The first audio signature and the second audio signature are compared, and in response to determining that first audio signature matches the second audio signature, the device associated with the first user is joined to the conference.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Rovi Guides, Inc.
    Inventors: Srikanth Channapragada, Vikram Makam Gupta, Pooja Srivastava
  • Patent number: 11863706
    Abstract: A system and method for a cloud callback platform, comprising at least a profile manager, callback manager, interaction manager, media server, context analysis engine, and context aggregator mechanism, allowing users to call a business, agents in contact centers, or other users who are connected to cloud callback platform, and, failing to connect to the individual they called, or by request, allow for an automatic callback object to be created, whereby the two users may be automatically called and bridged together at a time when both users are available, and a context summary report is sent to one or more user. The system and method implement predictive logic to determine the most successful alternative communication channel to use to bridge the two parties.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: Virtual Hold Technology Solutions, LLC
    Inventors: Matthew DiMaria, Daniel Bohannon
  • Patent number: 11863709
    Abstract: This Application describes mechanisms to provide priority levels for call connection requests and/or messages from a sending device to a receiving device. The receiving device is configured to allow prioritized notification alerts for incoming call connection requests and/or for incoming messages from a sending device to override a silent or do not disturb mode for one or more contacts based on i) a priority level provided with the call connection request or message and ii) a priority setting for the sending device or a set of devices associated with a user of the sending device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Harsha Shirahatti, Sanjeevi Balasubramanian, Sriram Subramanian, Nischay Goel, Shiva Krishna Narra, Vijay Venkataraman, Stephen C. Schweizer, Krisztian Kiss
  • Patent number: 11856034
    Abstract: Examples include receiving, from a VoIP server, identification information of the virtual meeting and information of a plurality of client devices participating in the virtual meeting, associating each client device of the plurality of client devices to a network device in a set of network devices based on the identification information of the virtual meeting and capabilities of the set of network devices, and creating a proxy agent in each network device in the set. The proxy agent is configured to receive, from the VoIP server, VoIP streaming data of the virtual meeting. Additionally, examples include, configuring the proxy agent to replicate and transmit the VoIP streaming data to the plurality of client devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP
    Inventors: Sasindran Devaraj, Sindhura Madduri, Mahesh Venkateshwaran, Shravan Kumar Vuggrala
  • Patent number: 11847377
    Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure include methods, apparatuses, and non-transitory computer-readable storage mediums for processing media streams. An apparatus includes processing circuitry that sends a message to a media aware network element that is configured to process a plurality of audio streams of a conference call. The message indicates that the plurality of audio streams is to be down mixed by the media aware network element. The processing circuitry receives the down mixed plurality of audio streams from the media aware network element and decodes the down mixed plurality of audio streams to receive the conference call.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: TENCENT AMERICA LLC
    Inventors: Rohit Abhishek, Iraj Sodagar
  • Patent number: 11818292
    Abstract: Processing customer communications may include receiving a communication from a customer device via a first communication medium, designating the communication as an active communication, receiving a display selection to receive content during the active communication status and designating a current customer status, parsing the current customer status to identify a current condition, assigning an agent to the customer record based on the current condition, retrieving at least one pre-recorded content file associated with the assigned agent and the current customer condition, and forwarding the pre-recorded content file to the customer device via a second communication medium different from the first communication medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: INTRADO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Andrew Bird, Jil M. Fisher, David Stirk, Craig A. Webster
  • Patent number: 11818288
    Abstract: Described are a method, system, and computer program product for accessing data about a caller from multiple data sources in real time. The method includes communicatively connecting with call handling equipment and receiving caller data including a unique caller identifier. The method also includes communicating a request for initial information to a location information database and/or an additional data repository. The method further includes reconfiguring the initial information from an inbound format to a different outbound format such that the initial information is readable by the call handling equipment, a computer aided dispatch system, and/or a public safety information management system. The method further includes communicating a request for and receiving additional information from a cloud-based repository.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: Mission Critical Partners, LLC
    Inventors: Sean Petty, John Chiaramonte, Dave Sehnert
  • Patent number: 11818178
    Abstract: A control device includes a storage unit that stores an upper limit value of the number of calls that can be processed in a predetermined time using a session boarder controller (SBC) and an upper limit value of the number of signal conversion rules that can be processed using the SBC, and an arithmetic operation unit that allocates, to the SBC, an operator the number of calls of which is maximum from among a plurality of operators using the number of calls and the number of signal conversion rules for each operator and determines a combination of operators to be allocated to the SBC from among remaining operators such that an unused resource related to the number of calls and the number of signal conversion rules in the SBC becomes minimum, using the upper limit value of the number of calls and the upper limit value of the number of signal conversion rules read from the storage unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
    Inventor: Hiroyuki Kurita
  • Patent number: 11818298
    Abstract: Systems and methods simulate call centers networks and call loads to test load balancing and routing. The simulation can be used for generating, using a load balancer, a call score for the one or more calls based on the call information and selecting, using the load balancer, one of the simulated call centers as a selected call center based on the call score and the respective response entity profile.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: United Services Automobile Association (USAA)
    Inventors: Lambros Petropoulos, Bipin Chadha, Michael P. Gout
  • Patent number: 11792318
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer-readable media consistent with the present disclosure manage multiple telephone calls by managing a session record associated with the call, amending the session record according to a plurality of rules to reflect a plurality of instructed actions, evaluating an amended session record to derive at least one of the plurality of instructed actions, and implementing a derived instructed action on the call under the control of an automated apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: Allstate Insurance Company
    Inventors: Clay F. Roberts, Joseph D. Skala