Patents Examined by Quoc D. Tran
  • Patent number: 10701314
    Abstract: A computer-implemented video vistation system of a correctional facility includes at least one inmate computer device in the correctional facility for use by an incarcerated inmate and being pre-programmed to communicate exclusively with a visitation services computer system. The at least one inmate computer device is configured, via an inmate interface presented on the inmate computer device, to accept a selection from a pre-registered authorized inmate user to initiate a visitation session with a remotely located non-incarcerated visitor without requiring endpoint control to schedule or initiate the visitation session by administrative personnel of the correctional facility.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2020
    Assignee: HomeWAV, LLC
    Inventor: Gary James Humphries
  • Patent number: 10701310
    Abstract: Systems and methods are described herein for maintaining and/or facilitating video call continuity between devices. For example, the systems and methods support video calls or other communications between multiple devices (e.g., a mobile device providing a video call stream of content and a drone or other moving device capturing and streaming content via a camera) providing video content to a target device, such as another mobile device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2020
    Assignee: T-Mobile USA, Inc.
    Inventors: Sudhanshu Pandey, Praveen Magham
  • Patent number: 10694033
    Abstract: A method for identifying communicators as wanted or unwanted based on messages from such communicators comprising receiving, by the data processing system, an inbound message from a communicator, comparing, by the data processing system, the inbound message to fingerprints stored in a database accessible to the data processing system, determining, by the data processing system, at least one match to the fingerprints, determining, by the data processing system, an identity of the communicator by determining whether and how likely the communicator is wanted or unwanted based on the at least one match to the fingerprints, and configuring, by the data processing system, handling of calls from the communicator based on the identity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2020
    Assignee: YouMail, Inc.
    Inventors: Alexander E Quilici, Michael J. Rudolph, Justin Malvin, Jeffrey Verdegan, Dylan Gise
  • Patent number: 10694034
    Abstract: Provided are systems, methods, and media for verifying a commission-based relationship in a communication system. An example method includes generating authorization information by an authorizer that is to be transmitted to a caller and forwarded by the caller to a callee upon a call being initiated between the caller and the callee, in which the authorization information includes at least authorizer identity information, callee identity information, and a caller public key. The method includes signing the authorization information with a private key of the authorizer and transmitting the signed authorization information to the caller. The caller is configured to generate a digital signature via a private key of the caller and transmit the digital signature and the signed authorization information to the callee. The callee is configured to verify the identity of authorizer, caller and callee and event information based on the authorization information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2020
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Xiao Yan Tang, Tao Liu, Jing Lu, Ming Ran Liu, Xiao Ling Chen
  • Patent number: 10694031
    Abstract: A method of providing a recent call list of calls recently received or initiated by a telecommunications device where information on recent services which are services recently handled by or using the telecommunications device other than calls are incorporated as entries in a recent call list of the telecommunications device. Each entry can be formed by a data structure being composed of a plurality of data fields. Each data field can include a data value. An entry representing a recent service other than a call in the recent call list can include a service code identifying a recent service as a data value. A device, system, and apparatus can be configured to utilize or execute the method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2020
    Assignee: Unify Patent GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Vasileios Giatilis
  • Patent number: 10686935
    Abstract: Methods and systems provide a controlled-environment facility communication system that provides regulated communication sessions between residents and non-residents. Via a supervisory system, a bypass may be authorized for exempting the communication session from various regulated aspects of sessions regulated by the communication system. For instance, a communication may be exempt from monitoring based on assertions that the communication is privileged. The communications system receives a request for a communication session with a non-resident at a first telephone number. If a communication session is authorized by a bypass authorization, the communication session is hosted, while exempt from the regulations specified by the bypass authorization. A monitoring system tracks the hosted bypass communication session by determining whether telephone numbers other than the first telephone number have been joined to the communication session.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2020
    Assignee: Securus Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Isaac Parampottil, Dennis Eugene Rose, David McTee, Dean Ramsey
  • Patent number: 10681206
    Abstract: A system can be operable to receive a call from a communication device and identify whether the call is a spoofed based on, for example, whether a caller party user equipment associated with a caller identification number (caller ID number) is in an “idle” status, whether there are inconsistencies in the geographic location associated with a calling party's network and the geographic location determined to be associated with the caller ID number presented, and whether the phone number presented as the caller ID number is registered with a calling party's network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Barrett Kreiner, Ryan Schaub
  • Patent number: 10666899
    Abstract: A visitor computer device and user interface for a computer-implemented video visitation system of a correctional facility includes a processor, a display and an input element for use by a non-incarcerated visitor at a remote location from the correctional facility. The visitor computer device is configured, via a visitor interface presented on the visitor computer device, to accept a selection from a uniquely identified and confirmed authorized non-incarcerated visitor to initiate a visitation session with a uniquely identified one of the incarcerated inmates in the correctional facility.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2020
    Assignee: HOMEWAV, LLC
    Inventor: Gary James Humphries
  • Patent number: 10666791
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for evaluating the quality of a communication session. One of the methods includes identifying, by a communication system, a communication session between one or more users of the communication system, wherein, during the communication session, session data is routed between a first communications device of a first user of the communication system and one or more other communications devices along a communication path; obtaining, from each of a plurality of communication nodes along the communication path, quality data relating to a quality of the communication session at the communication node; generating, using the quality data, a model input to a quality score machine learning model; and providing the model input as input to the quality score machine learning model to generate the estimated quality score for at least the portion of the communication session.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2020
    Assignee: RingCentral, Inc.
    Inventors: Kira Makagon, Helen Prask, Yuri Ardulov, Igor Rusinov, Ivan Gennadevich Anisimov
  • Patent number: 10659729
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed toward systems and methods for optimizing video conferences. For instance, systems and methods described herein optimize both the transmission and display of one or more video conference data streams. Systems and methods described herein optimize the transmission and display of one or more video conference data streams by identifying a context associated with the one or more video conference data streams and optimizing the one or more video conference data streams based on the identified context.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignee: FACEBOOK, INC.
    Inventor: Oliver Pell
  • Patent number: 10659730
    Abstract: Systems and methods for providing video subtitling and text communications (e.g., real time text (RTT) and conventional text messaging) during video calls. The system can include video calling with voice recognition based subtitles. The system can also include a call log to provide a textual record of the audio portion of the video call. The system can utilize embedded or online (e.g., cloud-based) voice recognition systems to provide the subtitles and call log. The system can enable users to send RTT, standard text, or other messages to multiple users participating in a video call via a public text interface. The system can also enable users to send private RTT, standard text, or other messages to specified participants during video calls using parallel interfaces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignee: T-Mobile USA, Inc.
    Inventor: Hsin-Fu Henry Chiang
  • Patent number: 10652378
    Abstract: The intercommunication system according to the invention is an intercommunication system used in an apartment complex comprising plural residential buildings. Each of the plural residential buildings is equipped with room parent devices installed in respective rooms; a collective entrance device which enables a call manipulation for calling one of the room parent devices; and a building control unit which connects, by an intercom line, the collective entrance device and the room parent devices of the respective rooms of the residential building. The collective entrance device has a storage unit which is stored with terminal information of the collective entrance device. The building control units of the plural respective residential buildings are connected to each other by a network in which a communication is performed according to a general-purpose protocol and can communicate, over the network, with an external apparatus that is connected to an external network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: AIPHONE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Seiya Yamakawa, Akira Kai, Yuta Shimomura
  • Patent number: 10652643
    Abstract: Generic adjustable in-ear monitors (IEMs) may suffer from a limited range of resilient ear plugs that may not adequately fit each user, and the user may prefer different ear plugs for different purposes (e.g., the user's interest in secure fitment may be higher when exercising, while the user's interest in comfort may be higher when the user is relaxing). The presently disclosed technology is directed to IEMs that permit a user to adjust without removing and replacing an associated ear plug. Instead, the ear plug is adjustable by the user to achieve a desired fit and may be adjusted repeatedly for different desired fits and/or different users.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Jason Lin, Kaitlyn M. Schoeck, Randal Joseph Kinser, Young S. Kim, Olli-Pekka Ahokas
  • Patent number: 10652395
    Abstract: Provided are methods, apparatuses and a system for synchronizing call media and content. In a process of playing call media to a user and displaying content associated with the call media, a terminal acquires new call media from a call media server and acquires, after querying a synchronization server for content information corresponding to the new call media, content associated with the new call media from a content server, respectively, in response to a user operation. The terminal plays the new call media to the user, and displays the content associated with the new call media simultaneously.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: XI'AN ZHONGXING NEW SOFTWARE CO., LTD
    Inventors: Hao Dong, Ping Lu
  • Patent number: 10639475
    Abstract: An exemplary behavioral audiogram generation system 1) determines a noise floor within the cochlea of a patient, 2) presents, by way of a loudspeaker, acoustic stimulation having a predetermined frequency and a predetermined amplitude to the patient, 3) detects an evoked response that occurs in response to the acoustic stimulation, 4) determines an amplitude of the evoked response that occurs in response to the acoustic stimulation, and 5) determines, based on the amplitude of the evoked response, on the predetermined amplitude of the acoustic stimulation, and on the noise floor, a behavioral audiogram value for the patient that corresponds to the predetermined frequency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2020
    Assignee: Advanced Bionics AG
    Inventors: Kanthaiah Koka, Leonid M. Litvak
  • Patent number: 10637980
    Abstract: An adjustable mobile device hanger with three slidable sections and two secure gripping bodies that can accommodate small cell phones as well as large tablets, with an attached top single hook that can hang on any protruding object, narrow edge or rod and has full vertical rotational capacity along with easily adjustable horizontal pivotal capability to provide varying viewing angles and directions while suspended on a variety of objects, structures and surfaces, indoors or outdoors, to accommodate a variety of situations and tasks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2020
    Inventor: Edmond Nawas
  • Patent number: 10637908
    Abstract: Systems and methods are described herein for performing automated testing of online charging systems associated with telecommunications networks. In some embodiments, the systems and methods utilize various components associated with an online charging system, such as an event mediator, to convert data associated with test cases to be simulated by the online charging system (e.g., data from spreadsheets) into various test requests actionable during the online charging system under when simulating the test cases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2020
    Assignee: T-Mobile USA, Inc.
    Inventor: Julius Dacutanan
  • Patent number: 10623575
    Abstract: Techniques and examples pertaining to identifying a participant of a teleconference using a telephone number or an Internet protocol (IP) address are described. A method for teleconferencing participant identification may involve receiving an IP-based telephone call that includes a telephone number or an IP address. The method may also involve querying databases with the telephone number or the IP address to obtain identifications associated with the telephone number or the IP address. The method may also involve determining a display name for the IP-based telephone call based on the identifications, as well as connecting the IP-based telephone call as a participant to a teleconference that includes other participants. The method may further involve transmitting the display name to a device associated with at least one of the other participants of the teleconference.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2020
    Assignee: T-Mobile USA, Inc.
    Inventor: Adrian Synal
  • Patent number: 10616673
    Abstract: A headband cushion cover for installation on a headphone assembly is provided. The headband cushion cover includes an elongated foam member, an elongated rear flap, an inner edge of the rear flap foldably attached along a first edge of the elongated foam member; and an elongated front flap, an inner edge of the front flap foldably attached along a second edge of the elongated foam member, wherein each of the front and rear flaps snaps between two opposite arched positions when folded along the respective inner edges of the front and rear flaps, and wherein the headband cushion cover is designed to cover an arched portion of the headband.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2020
    Assignee: BOSE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Darius Mobed, Joel H. Miller
  • Patent number: 10616531
    Abstract: Methods, computer program products, and systems are presented. The method computer program products, and systems can include, for instance: obtaining respective video feeds of respective participants of a group of video conference participants, wherein the group of video conference participants includes one or more presenter participant and one or more viewer participant; examining data of the respective video feeds to determine a current group aggregate sentiment output for the video conference, wherein the examining includes subjecting data of feeds of the respective video feeds to sentiment analysis that includes processing of facial feature representing video data of the feeds; and presenting a video conference view to one or more participant of the group of video conference participants based on the group aggregate sentiment output.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2020
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Liam S. Harpur, Mark Delaney, Robert H. Grant, Trudy L. Hewitt