Patents Examined by Stella L. Woo
  • Patent number: 11974063
    Abstract: Transcribed text and physiological data of a remote video conference participant are transmitted to a local device separately from the video data, which depicts the remote party during a time interval. An image of the video data is captured at a time instant within the time interval. A value of a remote party feature is determined remotely using the video data. The remote party feature can be the remote party's heart rate at the time instant. The value of the feature is received onto the local device. Audio data captures sounds spoken by the remote party and is converted by the remote device into words of text. The audio data converted into a particular word was captured at the time instant. The particular word is received onto the local device. The particular word and the value of the feature are displayed in association with one another on the local device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: KOA HEALTH DIGITAL SOLUTIONS S.L.U.
    Inventors: Albert Garcia i Tormo, Nicola Hemmings, Aleksandar Matic, Johan Lantz
  • Patent number: 11941363
    Abstract: Embodiments of the disclosure provide an information processing method, an information processing apparatus, and a storage medium. The method includes: obtaining source data; encoding sub-data in the source data based on a target word feature vector to obtain hidden feature vectors corresponding to the sub-data, the target word feature vector representing a sentiment feature standard; obtaining a word feature vector corresponding to the source data based on the hidden feature vectors corresponding to the sub-data; and inputting the word feature vector into a preset sentiment classification network to obtain a result of sentiment polarity prediction of the source data. According to the embodiments of the disclosure, the accuracy of sentiment polarity prediction may be improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) COMPANY LTD
    Inventors: Fan Dong Meng, Yun Long Liang, Jin Chao Zhang, Jie Zhou, Jin An Xu
  • Patent number: 11941149
    Abstract: Methods, systems, apparatuses, and computer-readable media are provided for managing extended reality video conferences. In one implementation, the computer-readable medium may include instructions to cause a processor to: receive a request to initiate a video conference between a plurality of participants; receive image data captured by at least one image sensor associated with a wearable extended reality appliance, the image data reflecting a layout of a physical environment in which the wearable extended reality appliance is located; analyze the image data to identify at least one interference region in the physical environment; receive visual representations of the plurality of participants; and cause the wearable extended reality appliance to display the visual representations of the plurality of participants at multiple distinct locations other than in the at least one interference region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: SIGHTFUL COMPUTERS LTD
    Inventors: Orit Dolev, Tamir Berliner, Tomer Kahan
  • Patent number: 11909510
    Abstract: Example embodiments describe means (200) for performing i) pre-compensating (210, N sets of K1 tone data values (220) for crosstalk between N communication lines; the N sets of K1 tone data values pertaining to respective N terminal nodes of a digital communication system; ii) calculating (215) from the pre-compensated N sets of K1 tone data values (221) N sets of first time domain symbols (225); iii) calculating (283) a second time domain symbol (284) from a set of K2 tones values (280); the K2 tone data values pertaining to a selected one of the N terminal nodes; and iv) adding (212) the second time domain symbol in a weighted manner to the first time domain symbols such that the second time domain symbol is added to the first time domain symbol for the selected terminal node and to at least one other of the first time domain symbols for the respective other terminal nodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Nokia Solutions and Networks Oy
    Inventors: Wouter Lanneer, Paschalis Tsiaflakis
  • Patent number: 11900353
    Abstract: Methods and systems are disclosed for enabling the generation of a token corresponding to a tone generated by a telephony system, comprising receiving one or more dual tone multi-frequency (DTMF) tones generated by a telephony system, generating a token based on the one or more DTMF tones; and transmitting the generated token to a merchant system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: Worldpay, LLC
    Inventor: Brant Peterson
  • Patent number: 11891077
    Abstract: Implementations relate to enabling of authorization of certain automated assistant functions via one or more modalities available within a vehicle. Implementations can eliminate wasting of computational and communication resources by at least allowing other users to authorize execution of certain input commands from a user, without requesting the user to re-submit the commands. The vehicle can include a computing device that provides access to restricted data, which can be accessed in order for an action to be performed by the automated assistant. However, when a restricted user requests that the automated assistant perform an action involving accessing the restricted data, the automated assistant can be authorized or unauthorized to proceed with fulfilling the request via a modality controlled by an unrestricted user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Vikram Aggarwal, Moises Morgenstern Gali
  • Patent number: 11889229
    Abstract: The subject technology provides a video conferencing application in which a live incoming or outgoing video stream can be supplemented with supplemental content, such as stickers, animations, etc., from within the video conferencing application. In this manner, a user participating in a video conferencing session with a remote user can add stickers, animations, and/or adaptive content to an outgoing video stream being captured by the device of the user, or to an incoming video stream from the device of the remote user, without having to locally cache/store a video clip before editing, and without having to leave the video conferencing session (or the video conferencing application) to access a video editing application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher M. Garrido, Eric L. Chien, Austin W. Shyu, Ming Jin, Yan Yang, Ian J. Baird, Joe S. Abuan
  • Patent number: 11875896
    Abstract: Systems and methods for providing a universal platform for at-home health testing and diagnostics are provided herein. In particular, a health testing and diagnostic platform is provided to connect medical providers with patients and to generate a unique, private testing environment. In some embodiments, the testing environment may facilitate administration of a medical test to a patient with the guidance of a proctor. In some embodiments, the patient may be provided with step-by-step instructions for test administration by the proctor within a testing environment. The platform may display unique, dynamic testing interfaces to the patient and proctor to ensure proper testing protocols and accurate test result verification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: EMED LABS, LLC
    Inventors: Michael W. Ferro, Jr., Sam Miller, Marco Magistri, Colman Thomas Bryant, Adam Charles Carlson, Zachary Carl Nienstedt, Chris Ensey
  • Patent number: 11869501
    Abstract: Embodiments relate to systems and methods that retrieve dialogue data associated with a plurality of utterances. The plurality of utterances include a first utterance. The systems and methods further determine that a target concept, of the dialogue data, is in a first dialogue segment associated with the first utterance. Additionally, the target concept is determined based on the first utterance in the first dialogue segment having a highest weight for relevancy to a knowledge domain. Further, the methods and systems determine a dialogue goal comprising the target concept. Due to the dialogue goal comprising the target concept, a structured link associating the target concept to the dialogue goal is generated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: CERNER INNOVATION, INC.
    Inventor: Jodi Kodish-Wachs
  • Patent number: 11871152
    Abstract: A virtual space management unit 60 generates a virtual space information and manages the virtual space information. An icon position acquisition unit 61 acquires icon position information of each of the users U. A transmission-side voice acquisition unit 62 acquires a transmission-side voice information. A distance calculation unit 63 calculates a distance between each of the icons based on a position within the virtual space of the icons corresponding to each of the users U. A correction factor determination unit 64 determines a correction factor of an output information based on the distance between the icons calculated by the distance calculation unit 63. A reception-side voice transmission control unit 65 transmits the acquired transmission-side voice information and the determined correction factor to each of the second user terminals 3.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: OVICE, INC.
    Inventors: Sae Hyung Jung, Hirokazu Hasegawa
  • Patent number: 11871153
    Abstract: A system and method is used to manage GUI for group video calls. The method ensures effective communication and control over shared video content during group video calls. The method enables to combine feed videos from a plurality of attendee accounts and other shared video content to be displayed in one single slide. Further, the method allows control over slide presentations and positioning of participant videos by cursor movement of the host account holder or the presenter. This allows the participants to follow the presenter, while viewing the presentation slides and other feed videos. Furthermore, the method allows users to switch mouse cursor control between the presenter and the participants by clicking on the video on a primary slot. Additionally, the presenter as well as the participants may individually select background views as well as arrangement patterns for videos of attendees of the video conference, from a selection of patterns.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Inventor: Juergen Koehler
  • Patent number: 11863705
    Abstract: A software platform includes emergency event processing functionality for detecting and mapping emergency event occurrences. The emergency event processing includes call path processing for concurrently routing an emergency call from a device registered with the software platform for a customer thereof to a public safety access point and to a monitoring device of the customer. The concurrent routing enables an operator of the monitoring device to join the emergency call, for example, by monitoring the call to determine how to notify other operators of the customer of the subject emergency event or by participating in the call to assist in the emergency event response. The concurrent routing may further automate, and therefore expedite, the signaling of an emergency event to others at the location of the emergency event, such as to prevent further risk of harm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: Zoom Video Communications, Inc.
    Inventors: Walter F. C. Anderson, Vi Dinh Chau
  • Patent number: 11863872
    Abstract: A method, system, device for improving a user's visual presentation on screen during a communication session including a video portion. The method includes an image capturing device (e.g., a camera) that acquires an image of a local participant during a video communication session, a processing unit that determines a position of the local participant on the screen/within the camera frame, and a control unit that alerts the local participant if an adjustment is necessary to obtain an optimal position, lighting, etc., wherein the optimal position comprises the user's head and shoulders being displayed predominantly on the screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: Avaya Management L.P.
    Inventors: Vinit Rewatkar, Amit Singh, Apurva Vartak
  • Patent number: 11861886
    Abstract: The embodiments of the disclosure provide a video description information generation method, a video processing method, and video description information generation apparatus, and a video processing apparatus. The video description information generation method includes: obtaining a frame-level video feature sequence corresponding to a video; generating a global part-of-speech sequence feature of the video according to the video feature sequence, the global part-of-speech sequence feature being a feature of a sequence of a combination of parts of speech in the video; and generating natural language description information of the video according to the global part-of-speech sequence feature and the video feature sequence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Bai Rui Wang, Lin Ma, Wen Hao Jiang, Wei Liu
  • Patent number: 11847411
    Abstract: Systems, devices, and methods discussed herein provide improved decision trees (e.g., supported decision trees). A supported decision tree can be generated by generating discourse trees from various documents associated with a subject. One or more decision chains can be generated from each discourse tree, each decision chain being a sequence of elements comprising a premise and a decision connected by rhetorical relationships. A supported decision tree can be generated from the various decision chains, where the nodes of the decision tree are identified from the elements of the plurality of decision chains and ordered based on a set of predefined priority rules. Subsequent input data can be received and the supported decision tree can be traversed to classify the input data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: ORACLE INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION
    Inventor: Boris Galitsky
  • Patent number: 11843974
    Abstract: A method of processing an emergency incident reported to a PSAP by a plurality of callers can include checking, at the PSAP, if video calls have been received from the same specified location within a predetermined time period, and if it is determined that there are such further video calls, feeding at least a part of the video call and the further video calls to a ML classifier unit. The ML Classifier unit can identify if there are similarities between the video call and the further video calls. If there exists similarity between the video call and at least one further video call, a determination about which one of the video calls t uses less resources (e.g. less bandwidth). That video call can then be utilized and other similar calls can be adjusted to reduce the bandwidth further (e.g. converted to audio calls, etc.).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: ATOS PUBLIC SAFETY LLC
    Inventors: Zisis Tsiatsikas, Sofia Anagnostou
  • Patent number: 11842156
    Abstract: A method of providing sentiment analysis includes aggregating, by a processor, a plurality of text-based comments, classifying, by the processor, the plurality of text-based comments as being associated with a polarity of sentiment, and generating, by the processor, a plurality of phrases from the plurality of text-based comments. The method also includes identifying, by the processor, a predetermined number of most common phrases for a particular polarity of sentiment from the plurality of phrases and outputting, by the processor, a graphic that includes the predetermined number of most common phrases for the particular polarity of sentiment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: Early Warning Services, LLC
    Inventors: Edwin F Campos Ortega, Eric D. First, Deepakshi Aswal, Jie He, Scott Leighton
  • Patent number: 11838478
    Abstract: Embodiments of a fax system with adaptive protocol selection, and methods for such a system, are disclosed herein. Embodiments of a fax system may be adapted to selectively configure the protocol (both the type of protocol or aspects of a particular protocol) used in association with the transmission or reception of a specific fax. The configuration of the protocol utilized can be based on one or more attributes associated with a sender or a destination. The fax can then be transmitted or received according to those configuration parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: OPEN TEXT HOLDINGS, INC.
    Inventors: Michael Alexander Preobrazhensky, Philippe C. Haussy, David M. Hayden
  • Patent number: 11803984
    Abstract: A method (1000) for operating cameras (202) in a cascaded network (100), comprising: capturing a first view (1200) with a first lens (326) having a first focal point (328) and a first centroid (352), the first view (1200) depicting a subject (1106); capturing a second view (1202) with a second lens (326) having a second focal point (328) and a second centroid (352); detecting a first location of the subject (1106), relative the first lens (326), wherein detecting the first location of the subject (1106), relative the first lens (326), is based on audio captured by a plurality of microphones (204); estimating a second location of the subject (1106), relative the second lens (326), based on the first location of the subject (1106) relative the first lens (326); selecting a portion (1206) of the second view (1202) as depicting the subject (1106) based on the estimate of the second location of the subject (1106) relative the second lens (326).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: PLANTRONICS, INC.
    Inventors: Yongkang Fan, Hai Xu, Wenxue He, Hailin Song, Tianran Wang, Xi Lu
  • Patent number: 11804299
    Abstract: Systems and methods for providing a universal platform for at-home health testing and diagnostics are provided herein. In particular, a health testing and diagnostic platform is provided to connect medical providers with patients and to generate a unique, private testing environment. In some embodiments, the testing environment may facilitate administration of a medical test to a patient with the guidance of a proctor. In some embodiments, the patient may be provided with step-by-step instructions for test administration by the proctor within a testing environment. The platform may display unique, dynamic testing interfaces to the patient and proctor to ensure proper testing protocols and accurate test result verification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: EMED LABS, LLC
    Inventors: Michael W. Ferro, Jr., Sam Miller, Marco Magistri, Colman Thomas Bryant, Adam Charles Carlson, Zachary Carl Nienstedt, Chris Ensey