Patents Examined by Maria El-Zoobi
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Patent number: 11533355Abstract: A method for content moderation in real-time communication includes receiving a first portion of a media stream from a sending user; scaling the first portion of the media stream to obtain a scaled first portion of the media stream; transmitting, to a centralized content moderation device, the scaled first portion of the media stream; receiving, from the centralized content moderation device, a centralized determination of whether the first portion is appropriate; and, in response to the centralized determination indicating that the first portion of the media stream is inappropriate: blurring the first portion to obtain a blurred first portion; and transmitting, to a receiving user, the blurred first portion.Type: GrantFiled: February 2, 2021Date of Patent: December 20, 2022Assignee: Agora Lab, Inc.Inventor: Sheng Zhong
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Patent number: 11528588Abstract: Local weather information such as a nationwide emergency network for first responders can enable first responders to communicate nationally with a single network, linking to suppliers, utilities, and weather information. The system disclosed herein can provide data to first responders and data from first responders can provide insights into local conditions that can be utilized by edge data centers. Adding first responder data can improve the processing speed of moving of edge-based applications out of threatened data centers. Because this movement can also have an impact on low latency applications, identifying the closest edge sites without an impact can keep the applications operating.Type: GrantFiled: April 5, 2021Date of Patent: December 13, 2022Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.Inventors: Stephen Griesmer, Nathan Grube
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Patent number: 11528589Abstract: A device, system and method for modifying actions associated with an emergency call is provided. A mobile device operates a virtual assistant application, which connects to an emergency call that includes a dispatcher and a caller communicating on the emergency call. The mobile device monitors, using the virtual assistant application, the emergency call to determine context information of the emergency call. The mobile device receives, at the virtual assistant application, sensor data from sensors associated with the mobile device. The mobile device correlates, using the virtual assistant application, the context information with the sensor data. The mobile device causes, using the virtual assistant application, a modification of an action associated with the emergency call based on a correlation between the context information with the sensor data.Type: GrantFiled: October 26, 2018Date of Patent: December 13, 2022Assignee: MOTOROLA SOLUTIONS, INC.Inventors: Maciej Stawiszynski, Pawel Jurzak
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Patent number: 11523087Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for establishing a video connection between a client device and a notary support terminal while enabling the client device and notary support terminal to notarize a digital document. In particular, the client device can display multiple panes simultaneously, the multiple panes including a first pane that displays the video chat and a second pane that displays at least one notarization interface for notarizing the digital document. While the client device displays the multiple panes and during the video chat, the disclosed systems can notarize the digital document by authenticating the user of the client device, collecting signatures from the user of the client device and the notary associated with the notary support terminal, and applying an electronic notary seal to the digital document.Type: GrantFiled: May 7, 2021Date of Patent: December 6, 2022Assignee: POPio Mobile Video Cloud, LLCInventors: Jed W. Taylor, Timothy Eugene Pranger, Kurt Forsberg, Ryanne Mayers, Robert Eric Roy, Austin Barnes
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Patent number: 11523003Abstract: A system and method for adjusting power consumption of a power consumer (e.g., an intercom device) may include a power supply, the power consumer connected to the power supply through a transmitting device, and at least one processor. The at least one processor may be configured to obtain a first voltage associated with the power supply and a second voltage associated with the power consumer, and adjust an operation status of the power consumer at least based on the first voltage and the second voltage. The first voltage may be an output voltage of the power supply, and the second voltage may be an input voltage of the power consumer.Type: GrantFiled: February 5, 2021Date of Patent: December 6, 2022Assignee: ZHEJIANG DAHUA TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventors: Jiahuan He, Kang Du
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Patent number: 11514948Abstract: Model-based dubbing techniques are implemented to generate a translated version of a source video. Spoken audio portions of a source video may be extracted and semantic graphs generated that represent the spoken audio portions. The semantic graphs may be used to produce translations of the spoken portions. A machine learning model may be implemented to generate replacement audio for the spoken portions using the translation of the spoken portion. A machine learning model may be implemented to generate modifications to facial image data for a speaker of the replacement audio.Type: GrantFiled: January 9, 2020Date of Patent: November 29, 2022Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Naveen Sudhakaran Nair, Pragyana K. Mishra
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Patent number: 11509838Abstract: A method to generate a contact list may include receiving an identifier of a first communication device at a captioning system. The first communication device may be configured to provide first audio data to a second communication device. The second communication device may be configured to receive first text data of the first audio data from the captioning system. The method may further include receiving and storing contact data from each of multiple communication devices at the captioning system. The method may further include selecting the contact data from the multiple communication devices that include the identifier of the first communication device as selected contact data and generating a contact list based on the selected contact data. The method may also include sending the contact list to the first communication device to provide the contact list as contacts for presentation on an electronic display of the first communication device.Type: GrantFiled: March 19, 2021Date of Patent: November 22, 2022Assignee: Sorenson IP Holdings, LLCInventors: Shane Roylance, Kenneth Boehme, Pat Nola, Merle L. Walker, III
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Patent number: 11509863Abstract: A video conferencing system includes a multi-user interaction slate for the execution of applications having a state that is responsive to inputs from multiple attendees of a video conference. The video conferencing system includes a graphical user interface having video slates provided for video streams and multi-user interaction slates for the execution of code that is responsive to inputs provided at multiple client devices. The video conferencing system can determine a current state of a multi-user interaction slate in response to inputs provided by users of the client devices in association with the multi-user interaction slate. The video conferencing system can provide data for rendering the graphical user interface, including video data associated with the video slates and data indicative of the current state of the multi-user interaction slate.Type: GrantFiled: March 22, 2021Date of Patent: November 22, 2022Assignee: GOOGLE LLCInventors: Kevin Jonathan Jeyakumar, Carrie Christina Merry Barkema
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Patent number: 11503182Abstract: Methods and system are described for special processing of fax transmissions. In one embodiment, an electronic device receives a first searchable electronic document and a fax telephone number. The device determines that the document is to be transmitted as an electronic message based on the number. The device generates a second searchable electronic document from the first document. The device adds an electronic signature to the second document that includes at least one of a timestamp of when the first document was received, a number of pages of the second document, and source device information. The device transmits the electronic message that includes the second document to a destination address according to the number. Other embodiments are also described and claimed.Type: GrantFiled: March 1, 2021Date of Patent: November 15, 2022Assignee: J2 CLOUD SERVICES, LLCInventor: Francis Toscano
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Patent number: 11496711Abstract: Disclosed is a collaboration system that synchronizes what is seen and heard by all participants to a conference such that participant input provided during the conference are seen and heard with respect to the same state of a presented asset. Additionally, the collaboration system may monitor the conference, may extract a first participant contribution prior to presentation of a first asset in the conference and a second participant contribution that is made during a particular interval of the conference when the first asset is presented. The collaboration system may link the second participant contribution to the first asset, may receive a request for the first asset after the conference has concluded, and may provide the first asset with the second participant contribution in response to the request.Type: GrantFiled: May 18, 2021Date of Patent: November 8, 2022Assignee: 5th Kind, Inc.Inventor: Stephen Cronan
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Patent number: 11477393Abstract: A method of view selection in a teleconferencing environment includes receiving a frame of image data from an optical sensor such as a camera, detecting one or more conference participants within the frame of image data, and identifying an interest region for each of the conference participants. Identifying the interest region comprises estimating head poses of participants to determine where a majority of the participants are looking and determining if there is an object in that area. If a suitable object is in the area at which the participants are looking, such as a whiteboard or another person, the image data corresponding to the object will be displayed on a display device or sent to a remote teleconference endpoint.Type: GrantFiled: March 17, 2021Date of Patent: October 18, 2022Assignee: PLANTRONICS, INC.Inventors: David A. Bryan, Wei-Cheng Su, Stephen Paul Schaefer, Alain Elon Nimri, Casey King
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Patent number: 11470300Abstract: There is included a method and apparatus comprising computer code configured to cause a processor or processors to perform controlling a delivery of a video conference call to a viewport, setting an event-based threshold with respect to the video conference call, determining whether the event-based threshold has been triggered based on an event and whether an amount of time having elapsed from another event is less than a predetermined amount of time, and further controlling the delivery of the video conference call to the viewport based on determining whether the event-based threshold has been triggered and whether the amount of time having elapsed from the other event is less than the predetermined amount of time.Type: GrantFiled: November 11, 2020Date of Patent: October 11, 2022Assignee: TENCENT AMERICA LLCInventors: Rohit Abhishek, Iraj Sodagar
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Patent number: 11445352Abstract: An embodiment of the present invention is directed to intelligently routing softphone emergency calls. The innovative system and method comprises: receiving, via an interface, an emergency interaction from the user, wherein the user is located at a remote region that is different from the registered home region and wherein the interface that communicates with a user via a device that executes a softphone application registered at a home region; validating, a computer processor, the emergency interaction against a network switch identifier; performing a database dip to identify caller information including current location data; communicating, via the interface, a confirmation message to the user; routing, via a cloud communication platform, a call to a regional session border controller based at least in part on the current location data; and executing, via the computer processor, an emergency call with a local calling number associated with the remote region.Type: GrantFiled: February 5, 2021Date of Patent: September 13, 2022Assignee: JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A.Inventors: Jigar Ajay Kothari, Russell Austin, Suresh Thankappan, Hernán P. Seoane
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Patent number: 11443612Abstract: A rescue system includes a receiver, an emergency medical staff arrival time estimation unit, an acquisition unit, a user arrival time estimation unit, and a transmitter. The receiver receives a request for rescue of a rescued person and rescued person location information. The emergency medical staff arrival time estimation unit estimates an emergency medical staff arrival time at which an emergency medical staff arrives at the rescued person based on the rescued person location information. The acquisition unit acquires user location information of a registered user that is a candidate for a rescuer. The user arrival time estimation unit estimates the user arrival time when the registered user arrives at the rescued person based on the user location information. The transmitter transmits the request for rescue to the registered user that is able to arrive earlier than the emergency medical staff.Type: GrantFiled: February 23, 2021Date of Patent: September 13, 2022Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Masahiro Nishiyama, Kenji Tsukagishi, Takahisa Kaneko, Erina Kigoshi, Aiko Miyamoto
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Patent number: 11443613Abstract: A cloud-based real-time crime center with dispatch directed digital media payloads configured to support both emergency dispatchers and emergency responders responding to an incident requiring assistance. The new dispatch system is “cloud-based” in that it provides a central hub or repository for gathering live video streams and data streams that are processed to fuse them together to provide a map-based interface for the dispatcher to access via a desktop or other computing station at a central agency location and for the responders in the field to access via vehicle-mounted or portable client devices. The dispatch system processes the video and data streams to generate a dispatch directed payload that includes data and video relevant to the identified incident and that can be readily communicated (due to its reduced or controlled size) to field responders to make their response more effective and to increase both the safety of the responders and those involved in the incident.Type: GrantFiled: March 26, 2021Date of Patent: September 13, 2022Assignee: Fusus, Inc.Inventors: Christopher R. Lindenau, Anthony C. Baldoni, David A. Robinson, Sahil N. Merchant
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Patent number: 11444990Abstract: Methods and apparatus are provided for simultaneously displaying a session view of a videoconferencing session and a participant-initiated breakout session view. The session view displays a video feed of the videoconferencing session to meeting participants of the videoconferencing session on their respective participant computers. The breakout session participants are a subset of the meeting participants. The simultaneous display may be generated by a videoconferencing system to be displayed on a single online meeting user interface, or the simultaneous display may be created from two different videoconferencing systems, one for creating the session view, and another one for creating the participant-initiated breakout session view. The session view of the videoconferencing session is a breakout session, and the non-host participant-initiated breakout session is a further breakout session created from this breakout session.Type: GrantFiled: May 20, 2022Date of Patent: September 13, 2022Inventor: Benjamin Slotznick
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Patent number: 11438449Abstract: A community safety system (CSS) including a notification management entity (NME) comprising servers, the NME communicatively coupled to multiple user devices and one or more administrator devices (collectively, registered user devices). The CSS includes a plurality of registered users, wherein each registered user is associated with an organization, and a user category of a set of user categories. The NME may maintain a list of the registered users and associated information. The registered users may have user devices including a CSS application operating thereon. In some embodiments the CSS enables inter-organizational communication, allowing for members of a first organization to provide alerts that the NME can pass to a second organization when the registered user is physically located within a security zone associated with a second organization but not a member of the second organization.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2020Date of Patent: September 6, 2022Assignee: TITAN HEALTH & SECURITY TECHNOLOGIES, INC.Inventors: Vic A. Merjanian, Paul E. Samra, Ryan Khalili, Eduardo Juarez
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Patent number: 11431844Abstract: A communication server detects a first communication request from a first caller device to a second caller device. The communication server detects a second communication request from the second caller device to the first caller device. The first communication request and the second communication request both occur within a threshold time period. The communication server establishes, without additional input from the first caller device and the second caller device, an active session in response to the first communication request. The active session is established between the first caller device and the second caller device. The communication server dismisses the second communication request.Type: GrantFiled: October 29, 2021Date of Patent: August 30, 2022Assignee: Zoom Video Communications, Inc.Inventor: Vi Dinh Chau
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Patent number: 11425333Abstract: Embodiments include a system, method, and computer program product that enable video management of a plurality of video feeds with Push to Talk (PTT) communications. Some embodiments monitor a plurality of video feeds using a VMS graphics user interface (GUI) where a plurality of video feeds are video feed components of an interactive multimedia media object (IMMO) displayed in the VMS GUI. Some embodiments include receiving a selection of a first talk group that is associated with the IMMO, where members of the first talk group may view the video feed components and communicate via PTT. Subsequently, some embodiments include receiving a second selection of a second talk group, associating the second talk group with the IMMO, and enabling PTT communications among members of the second talk group and an operator of the VMS.Type: GrantFiled: December 28, 2020Date of Patent: August 23, 2022Assignee: Mutualink, Inc.Inventors: Joseph R. Mazzarella, Michael S. Wengrovitz, Mark Hatten
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Patent number: 11418760Abstract: The present disclosure provides systems that display visual indicators that provide user awareness of independent activity of participants in a communication session. The visual indicators are displayed within a Together Mode user interface that gives participants of a communication session a feeling that they are in the same room. The visual indicators further the technical benefits of the Together Mode user interface by providing additional context to particular non-verbal social cues. A system can generate a visual indicator that notifies meeting participants that a particular user is engaged with a computing device. The visual indicator can be generated in response to detecting that the user is interacting with an input device, such as a keyboard or touchscreen. The visual indicator mitigates confusion of non-verbal social cues, e.g., when a person appears to be looking at another participant of a meeting but is actually looking at, and interacting with, a computer.Type: GrantFiled: January 29, 2021Date of Patent: August 16, 2022Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLCInventor: Jaron Lanier