Patents Examined by Laura A Gudorf
  • Patent number: 10402810
    Abstract: A method includes receiving, by a server via a network, transaction information descriptive of a money transfer transaction initiated at a point of entry device. The transaction information includes information that identifies a location of the point of entry device. The method includes determining, by the server, receipt information to be included in a receipt for the money transfer transaction. The receipt information may be determined based, at least in part, on the transaction information, and at least a portion of the receipt information included in the receipt satisfies regulatory requirements associated with the location of the point of entry device. The method includes generating, by the server, the receipt that includes the receipt information, and transmitting the receipt from the server to the point of entry device via the network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2019
    Assignee: Moneygram International, Inc.
    Inventors: John Patrick Kelly, III, Connie Darlene Jacobson, Dinesh Pattanashettaru, LaVonne Lynne Engman
  • Patent number: 10395082
    Abstract: Systems and methods for a data reader for retaining a component such as a cover or accessory to a data reader housing, including a first connector such as a connector socket disposed in the housing proximate a housing opening, the component being removably attached to the housing, connection snaps operable for retaining the component to the housing, a cable including a second connector adapted to be connected to the first connector, wherein retention force of the connection snaps for retaining the cover to the housing is augmented via insertion of the second connector between the connection snaps and into connection with the first connector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2019
    Assignee: DATALOGIC USA, INC.
    Inventors: Ryan Brandon Thompson, Kelvin Roland Dietz
  • Patent number: 10387407
    Abstract: The subject matter of this specification can be implemented in, among other things, a method that includes receiving, by a processing device, one or more first content items for one or more first user accounts of a content sharing system. The method further includes storing the first content items at the content sharing system. The method further includes receiving, by the processing device, a second content item for a second user account of the content sharing system. The method further includes comparing, by the processing device, the received second content item to the stored first content items to determine that the second content item is not exclusive to the second user account. The method further includes restricting a privilege of the second user account for the second content item in response to the determination that the second content item is not exclusive to the second user account.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2019
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Johan Georg Granström, Alexandru Tudor, Thomas Weich
  • Patent number: 10380394
    Abstract: Systems and methods for presenting an augmented reality within a custom graphic are provided. In example embodiments, one or more hardware processors may receive an image, identify candidate shape features in the image, identify a custom graphic by comparing the candidate shape features with a reference shape feature of the custom graphic, identify an optical barcode based on the identified custom graphic, identify an augmented reality based on the optical barcode, and transmit the augmented reality to the client device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventors: Nathan Kenneth Boyd, Christopher Jonathan Luc, Kirk Ouimet, Rahul Bhupendra Sheth
  • Patent number: 10380389
    Abstract: A payment object reader configured to delay reading data of an integrated circuit payment object in the payment object slot of the payment object reader until the rest of the payment object reader is ready to read data off of the integrated circuit payment object. The payment object reader can be configured to include a microcontroller configured to monitor and manage the payment object contact switch and the integrated circuit payment object interface of the payment object slot of the payment object reader.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Assignee: SQUARE, INC.
    Inventor: Jeremy Wade
  • Patent number: 10380390
    Abstract: Described in detail herein are systems and methods for interacting with an interactive display using a shopping cart. A user navigate a shopping cart to a computing system including an interactive display and can actuate or press one or more push buttons associated with RFID tags integrated with the handle portion on a shopping cart to interact with the interactive display. A unique identifier can be associated with each RFID tag. A RFID reader disposed with respect to the computing system can detect the unique identifiers associated with the one or more detected RFID tags. The RFID reader can transmit the unique identifiers to the computing system. The computing system can execute the retrieved actions on the interactive display, based on the one or more buttons actuated or pushed and the correlated RFID tags.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Assignee: Walmart Apollo, LLC
    Inventors: Matthew Allen Jones, Nicholaus Adam Jones, Aaron Vasgaard, Bruce W. Wilkinson
  • Patent number: 10375274
    Abstract: A disclosed managing apparatus and image forming apparatus management system ensure confidentiality of information in an image forming apparatus while usability is maintained. An image forming apparatus acquires IC card identifying information with an IC card reader. A management server acquires a user ID associated with the acquired IC card identifying information and use limit information concerning use of the image forming apparatus. A process is performed in the image forming apparatus in accordance with the use limit information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2019
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Atsushi Sakagami, Naoto Sakurai, Koji Sasaki, Daiya Miyasaka, Tomoko Nishizawa, Yasuhiko Tsugawa, Yohei Ono
  • Patent number: 10373137
    Abstract: An automated banking machine operates responsive to data read from data bearing records corresponding to authorized user or financial account data. The automated banking machine includes a card reader for reading data from user cards. The automated banking machine causes financial transfers related to financial accounts that correspond to data read from user cards. The automated banking machine also includes devices that control the supply of power to transaction function devices such as the card reader to avoid exceeding power supply capacity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2019
    Assignee: Diebold Nixdorf Incorporated
    Inventors: Songtao Ma, Eric Toepke, Randall W. Jenkins, Natarajan Ramachandran, Thomas D. Ertle, Tim Crews, Willis Miller, Nick Billett, Steven Shepley, Dave Krzic, Victor A. Cogan, Mike P. Ryan
  • Patent number: 10360417
    Abstract: A system for protecting personal data contained on an RFID-enabled device, suitable for use with an RFID system including an RFID reader configured to extract information from an RFID chip associated with the RFID-enabled device, includes a personal data protection system including a personal data protection device configured to prevent reading of the RFID chip associated with an RFID-enabled personal item.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2019
    Inventor: James Carey
  • Patent number: 10356876
    Abstract: According to the present disclosure, a lighting device provides: an elongate support element, a plurality of lighting units distributed along the length of said support element, each of said units including: a set of electrically powered light radiation sources, a driver supplying said set of light radiation sources with a supply current having an intensity which is a function of an impedance value sensed at a current control input of driver. At least one of said lighting units includes a mounting seat for a lighting adjustment impedance, said seat having an electrical connection to the current control input of at least one driver, so that the intensity of the current supplied by driver to a respective set of light radiation sources is a function of the impedance value of a lighting adjustment impedance arranged at said seat.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2019
    Assignee: OSRAM GmbH
    Inventors: Valerio Michielan, Matteo Caldon
  • Patent number: 10346497
    Abstract: A system and method for tagging, organizing and tracking evidence during an investigation has evidence kits and mobile communication devices that collect physical, photographic and interpretive evidence, such as materials from a crime scene, interviews with witnesses and an establishing shot of the crime scene or other areas or persons of interest for surveillance operations. The evidence kits can be used to collect physical evidence, and the mobile devices or other computers are used to upload information about the evidence. Users can enter descriptive information about the evidence into the mobile devices while other information pertaining to the evidence may be obtained from other sources and automatically provided to the users for their review and possible incorporation into the record. Each mobile device can store information in memory and communicate the information to the central server computer where it may then be made available to groups of mobile device users.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2019
    Assignee: Primary Marking Systems, Inc.
    Inventor: Timothy J. McIntyre
  • Patent number: 10330776
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method for evaluating the level of threat of at least one entity among a plurality of entities in a battlefield environment, the level of threat being evaluated with respect to a reference entity to be protected, the method including the steps of: segmenting the battlefield environment into a plurality of layers; obtaining data representative of a position of the entity with respect to the layers of the battlefield environment; and determining the level of threat of the entity using the obtained data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: THALES
    Inventors: Christophe Labreuche, Helia Pouyllau, Pierre Saveant, Yann Semet, Jan-Egbert Hamming, Maurice Houtsma
  • Patent number: 10331988
    Abstract: A method of determining an action associated with an apparatus, the apparatus having a disposable component, the method comprising: obtaining (100), by means of a camera (416), data representing a visual code (301, 303) and a visual symbol (302, 304); comparing (120), by means of a processor (414), the visual code represented by said data with a reference code, the reference code indicating an identity of a disposable component of the apparatus, and comparing (130), by means of said processor, the visual symbol represented by said data with a reference symbol, to obtain comparison results; and determining (140) the action in response to the comparison results.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.
    Inventor: Declan Patrick Kelly
  • Patent number: 10323801
    Abstract: A tube for a semiconductor tubular lamp is disclosed, which tube has at least one holding projection for holding at least one printed circuit board on the inside of the tube, wherein the tube is a glass tube, and the at least one holding projection is an inwardly bulging, reshaped burling region of the tube. A semiconductor tubular lamp has a tube and at least one printed circuit board fitted with a semiconductor light source, which is accommodated in the tube and is held transversely to a longitudinal direction of the tube by means of at least one burling region in a form-fitted manner. The invention is in particular applicable to LED retrofit lamps for fluorescent lamps, in particular for replacing conventional tube lamps or flashlights of type T5 or T8.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2019
    Assignee: LEDVANCE GMBH
    Inventors: Andreas Engel, Reinhold Schmidt, Joachim Wirth-Schoen
  • Patent number: 10318959
    Abstract: A contactless card reader comprises a contactless card reader front-end coupled to a processor. A communications module is coupled to the processor and a set of sensors is coupled to the processor. The set of sensors determines parameters related to the location, orientation and motion of the card reader. The processor receives the parameters from the set of sensors and utilizes the parameters and scenario configuration data to evaluate a rule. The result of the evaluation of the rule results in a limitation on the operation of the card reader. The communications module is configured to intermittently receive the scenario configuration data from external sources.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2019
    Assignee: BBPOS Limited
    Inventors: Hwai Sian Tsai, Chi Wah Lo
  • Patent number: 10304295
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and apparatuses for making a deposit by a customer are provided. The system includes a financial institution computing system. The financial institution computing system is communicable with an ATM over a network, and structured to receive deposit information from the ATM and to determine an amount of funds from the deposit that are available to the customer for immediate withdrawal at the ATM based on the deposit information. The deposit information includes an event indicator. The event indicator has a first value when the customer voluntarily enters a keyed-in deposit amount into the ATM, a second value when the customer is prompted to enter a keyed-in deposit amount into the ATM by the ATM, and a third value when the customer does not enter a keyed-in deposit amount into the ATM. The first value, the second value, and the third value are all distinct from one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2019
    Assignee: WELLS FARGO BANK, N.A.
    Inventors: Jerome Rhodes, Michael R. Thomas
  • Patent number: 10303913
    Abstract: A system and method for processing imaged machine readable indicia may include capturing an image of a machine readable indicia including multiple codewords. A determination of an actual scanline of a codeword of the captured indicia may be made. A virtual scanline of the codeword of the imaged indicia for a type of symbology may be generated. In response to the virtual and actual scanlines matching, data representative of the codeword may be stored. Otherwise, repeat generating virtual scanlines of the codewords and compare the generated virtual scanlines with the actual scanlines until a match is identified or possible virtual codewords are exhausted. In response to a match, data representative of the matched scanline may be stored. The process may further repeatedly determine, generate, and compare until each codeword is determined. Data represented by the indicia based on the stored data representative of the matched codewords may be generated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2019
    Assignee: Datalogic IP Tech S.R.L.
    Inventors: Stefano Santi, Francesco Deppieri, Rinaldo Zocca
  • Patent number: 10296767
    Abstract: A user terminal comprising: i) a display module comprising a display screen and an interface circuitry for receiving a user input; and ii) a magnetic stripe reader configured to detect a magnetic secure transmission (MST) signal received by the user terminal and, in response to the detection, to launch a real-time application in the user terminal. In one embodiment, the real-time application displays a message on the display module of the user terminal. In another embodiment, the real-time application transmits data to a third-party vendor associated with the MST signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: Tabletop Media LLC
    Inventors: Vernon Franklin, Viren R. Balar
  • Patent number: 10297093
    Abstract: Monitoring and authorizing collection of printed media. A print task is received. A unique electromagnetic (EM) signature is generated for the received print task. Files for the print task are printed including the EM signature. Communication information is received including information exchanged between a radio frequency identification (RFID) badge associated with a user requesting access to a common printing area and a RFID reader associated with the common printing area, and information by an electromagnetic detector of a computer from the EM signature. Based on the first and second set of received communication information, an attempted collection of the printed media by the print task owner is determined. If the attempted collection is not made by the print task owner, a notification is transmitted to a computer associated with the print task owner indicating an unauthorized attempted collection of the printed media.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Liam Harpur, Erik Katzen, Sumit Patel, John Rice
  • Patent number: 10290189
    Abstract: An automated banking machine operative to cause financial transfers responsive to data read from data bearing records. The automated banking machine includes a card reader that is operative to read card data from user cards corresponding to financial accounts. The automated banking machine is operative responsive to the card data to carry out transactions that transfer and/or allocate funds between accounts. The automated banking machine is further operative to provide users with a receipt for transactions conducted. The automated banking machine includes a cash dispenser operative to dispense cash to machine users and to cause the value of cash to be assessed to financial accounts corresponding to card data. The automated banking machine is further operative to receive currency bills or other sheets from a user and to process and store such sheets through operation of a currency accepting device. The account corresponding to card data may be credited for the value of bills or other sheets received.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2019
    Assignee: Diebold Nixdorf, Incorporated
    Inventors: Jeffrey M. Eastman, Brian Jones, Michael S. Johnson, Shawn Griggy, Jeff A. Brannan, Michael J. Harty, Robert W. Barnett, Eric S. VanKeulen, Mike P. Ryan, William D. Beskitt, Kenneth Turocy