Patents Examined by Tuan H. Nguyen
  • Patent number: 11846624
    Abstract: In an embodiment, an integrated sensor system with modular sensors and wireless connectivity components for monitoring properties of field soil is described. In an embodiment, an integrated sensor system comprises one or more sensors that are configured to determine one or more measures of at least one property of soil. The integrated sensor system also includes one or more processing units that are configured to receive, from the sensors, the measures of at least one property of soil and calculate soil property data based on the measures. The system further includes a transmitter that is configured to receive the soil property data from the processing units, establish a communications connection with at least one computer device, and automatically transmit the soil property data to the at least one computer device via the communications connection. In an embodiment, the communications connection is a wireless connection established between the transmitter and a smart hub or a LoRA-enabled device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: CLIMATE LLC
    Inventors: Justin Koch, Michael H. Malone, Phil David Baurer, Nalini Gupta, Calden Nathaniel Carroll Stimpson, Andreas Markus Wenzel, Jordan Kusiek, Michael Gall, Jeffrey Lawrence Kohne, Eric L. Borrowman
  • Patent number: 11849376
    Abstract: This application discloses a Bluetooth method, and the method is applied to an electronic device. The electronic device includes a Bluetooth chip and a Bluetooth agent module, and the Bluetooth chip is connected to the Bluetooth agent module. The method includes: The Bluetooth agent module indicates the Bluetooth chip to scan for a device identifier. If a first device identifier in the device identifiers is obtained through scanning, the Bluetooth chip notifies the Bluetooth agent module. Based on the first device identifier, the Bluetooth agent module establishes a channel to a first device, or notifies an application corresponding to the first device identifier. The embodiments of this application are implemented, to improve service execution convenience, and reduce power consumption and memory usage of the electronic device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Zhuofei Li, Liang Wang, Lei Shi
  • Patent number: 11844119
    Abstract: This application relates to the field of short-range wireless communication technologies, and discloses a Bluetooth pairing method. The method includes: when a terminal receives a first operation of a user, the terminal sends an inquiry request to a Bluetooth device, where the inquiry request is used to obtain a Bluetooth address of the Bluetooth device. When receiving the inquiry request, the Bluetooth device sends an inquiry response to the terminal, where the inquiry response includes the Bluetooth address of the Bluetooth device. The Bluetooth device sends an extended inquiry response to the terminal, where the extended inquiry response includes a device name of the Bluetooth device. After receiving the extended inquiry response, the terminal displays the device name of the Bluetooth device. In this way, the terminal can reduce a time consumed by the terminal in a process from discovering the Bluetooth device to pairing with the Bluetooth device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuhong Zhu, Jingjing Zhang, Yamei Du, Guanjun Ni
  • Patent number: 11844000
    Abstract: An information processing system includes a number of field devices provided in a plant and a mobile device that acquires data from the field devices. The mobile device includes a data management unit that manages the field devices that are grouped for each plant area and a processing unit that acquires data using wireless communication from, out of the field devices managed by the data management unit, the field devices provided in the plant area selected by user operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: YOKOGAWA ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Jason Kurniawan
  • Patent number: 11838843
    Abstract: A system for communicating vehicle-specific features to one or more personal electronic devices includes one or more controllers in wireless communication with a centralized computer system including one or more database for storing the vehicle-specific features. The one or more controllers execute instructions to undergo a passive wireless interaction with the one or more personal electronic devices. The passive wireless interaction involves determining the one or more personal electronic devices are located within a predefined proximity around a vehicle without human interaction. In response to undergoing the passive wireless interaction, the one or more controllers transmit one or more vehicle-specific features to the one or more personal electronic devices, where the one or more vehicle-specific features are unique to the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Jacob Alan Bond, Joseph F. Szczerba
  • Patent number: 11831800
    Abstract: An accessory-recognizing electronic device according to an embodiment of the present invention comprises: a housing; at least one metal plate disposed within the housing; at least one magnetic force detection sensor disposed on the bottom of the at least one metal plate; a memory; and a processor operatively connected to the at least one magnetic force detection sensor and the memory, wherein the processor recognizes attachment of the at least one accessory to the designated area of the housing on the basis of the strength and polarity of a magnetic force detected by the at least one magnetic force detection sensor, the at least one accessory including at least one magnet inside the at least one accessory, and determines properties of the attached at least one accessory corresponding to the detected strength and polarity of the magnetic force, by using information stored in the memory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Junghan Kim, Bonseok Ku, Youngpil Kim, Kunhak Lee, Baeseok Lim, Hyoseok Na, Changryong Heo
  • Patent number: 11825531
    Abstract: Systems and methods are described herein for pairing wireless peripherals with networked devices. Knowledge of the location of the networked devices can be used to properly route or transmit audio to paired wireless peripherals, regardless of whether the wireless peripherals are paired with the correct networked devices provided they are networked with other potential devices. This can be accomplished by prompting users to select an input based on an audio challenge to determine which of the wireless peripherals should be mapped to which of the networked hosts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: Safran Passenger Innovations, LLC
    Inventors: Steven Mikulak, Randall Bird, Tinku Rasheed, Jeffrey David White
  • Patent number: 11818638
    Abstract: A system and method are provided for signal range awareness and reliability for audio communication. The system includes one or more control devices (CDs). The system also includes a plurality of hearing devices (HDs) wirelessly connected to the CDs. Each of the plurality of HDs is within a signal range of the one or more CD. When one or more of the plurality of HDs is determined to be outside the signal range of the CDs, the system is configured to identify another control device for the one or more plurality of HDs to connect. The other control device is connected to the original one or more CDs via a partial mesh network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Nithyananthan Poosamani
  • Patent number: 11816183
    Abstract: Methods and systems for mining minority-class data samples are described. A minority-class mining service receives activations generated by an inner-layer of a client neural network that has been trained to perform a prediction task that involves classification. The minority-class mining service generates a recalibrated activation using a recalibration neural network, and generates an anomaly detector output using an anomaly detector. From the anomaly detector output, a minority-class score is computed for the data sample represented by a received activation. The computed minority-class score is compared against a minority-class threshold to identify a candidate minority-class data sample. The candidate minority-class data sample can then be labeled and added to the training dataset for the client neural network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: HUAWEI CLOUD COMPUTING TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Gursimran Singh, Lingyang Chu, Lanjun Wang, Yong Zhang
  • Patent number: 11816430
    Abstract: A document extraction system executed by a processor, may process documents using manual and automated systems. The document extraction system may efficiently route tasks to the manual and automated systems based on a predicted probability that the results generated by the automated system meet some baseline level of accuracy. To increase document processing speed, documents having a high likelihood of accurate automated processing may be routed to an automated system. To ensure a baseline level of accuracy, documents having a smaller likelihood of accurate automated processing may be routed to a manual system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: INTUIT INC.
    Inventors: Terrence J. Torres, Venkatesh Coimbatore Ravichandran, Karen Kraemer Lowe
  • Patent number: 11803616
    Abstract: Methods and systems for performing function testing for moveable objects. One system includes an electronic processor configured to access a driving scene including a moveable object. The electronic processor is also configured to perform spatial representation learning on the driving scene. The electronic processor is also configured to generate an adversarial example based on the learned spatial representation. The electronic processor is also configured to retrain the deep learning model using the adversarial example and the driving scene.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Wenbin He, Liang Gou, Lincan Zou, Liu Ren
  • Patent number: 11797949
    Abstract: An example operation may include one or more of identifying, via a transport, at least one person in proximity to the transport, determining the at least one person matches one or more profile attributes of a profile of at least one transport occupant, sending a notification to a communication device in the transport to prompt the at least one transport occupant about the identified at least one person and the matched one or more profile attributes, and responsive to receiving a communication request from the communication device, transmitting a communication invite to a mobile device of the at least one person.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA, INC.
    Inventors: Sachin J. Ahire, Manoj Kalamkar, Christopher J. Risberg
  • Patent number: 11799506
    Abstract: This disclosure discloses a receiver apparatus and a mobile device. The receiver apparatus includes a two-way receiver and an acoustic chamber support. The two-way receiver has a first sound output region and a second sound output region. The acoustic chamber support has an acoustic chamber, and the two-way receiver is provided in the acoustic chamber. The acoustic chamber support has a first sound outlet and a second sound outlet that both communicate with the acoustic chamber, where the first sound outlet and the second sound outlet are opposite each other, the first sound outlet communicates with the first sound output region, and the second sound outlet communicates with the second sound output region. The mobile device uses the receiver apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: VIVO MOBILE COMMUNICATION CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jie Chen, Haile Long, Hailiang Wang
  • Patent number: 11800337
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus for establishing a Bluetooth data channel are provided. In the method, before starting a service in a first mode, a first communications apparatus negotiates with a second communications apparatus to determine a first parameter. The first parameter may be used for establishing a data channel between the first communications apparatus and the second communications apparatus. After starting the service in the first mode, the first communications apparatus sends a first message to the second communications apparatus. The first message is used to request the second communications apparatus to establish the data channel based on the first parameter. According to the foregoing method, before starting the service in the first mode, the first communications apparatus negotiates with the second communications apparatus to determine the first parameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Cong Cao
  • Patent number: 11800340
    Abstract: A method for receiving audio data using Bluetooth Low Energy technology comprises: receiving, from a server device, a first advertisement message including information for providing an audio streaming service and a second advertisement message including synchronization information for synchronization between the client device and the server device; receiving, from the server device, a third advertisement message including transmission timing information of the audio data related to the audio streaming service, wherein audio data information for providing information on the audio data is included in at least one of the second advertisement message and the third advertisement message; receiving, from the server device, the audio data through isochronous channel; obtaining, from an user, specific information related to whether to permit a provision of the audio streaming service based on the audio data information; and decoding the audio data based on the specific information representing permission to provide t
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Hyeonjae Lee, Jinkwon Lim, Taeyoung Song
  • Patent number: 11792310
    Abstract: A data communications backpack apparatus is disclosed having a backpack carrier. A power supply can be positioned in the backpack carrier. A router device can be positioned in the backpack carrier, the router device in electrical communication with the power supply. An antenna array can be positioned in the backpack carrier, the antenna array in electrical communication with the router device, the antenna array including one or more cellular antennas and one or more wireless networking antennas. The backpack carrier can include an upper opening extending into a central storage area, a first side pocket, a second side pocket, and a lower compartment positioned below the central storage area. The power supply can be positioned in the first side pocket, the router device can be positioned in the second side pocket, and the antenna array can be positioned in the lower compartment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: Plum Laboratories, Inc.
    Inventor: Dawson Lee Williams
  • Patent number: 11790638
    Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure relate to monitoring devices at enterprise locations using machine-learning models to protect enterprise-managed information and resources. In some embodiments, a computing platform may receive, from one or more data source computer systems, passive monitoring data. Based on applying a machine-learning classification model to the passive monitoring data received from the one or more data source computer systems, the computing platform may determine to trigger a data capture process at an enterprise center. In response to determining to trigger the data capture process, the computing platform may initiate an active monitoring process to capture event data at the enterprise center. Thereafter, the computing platform may generate one or more alert messages based on the event data captured at the enterprise center. Then, the computing platform may send the one or more alert messages to one or more enterprise computer systems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: Bank of America Corporation
    Inventors: Stephen T. Shannon, James Alexander, Brian J. Smith
  • Patent number: 11783518
    Abstract: A system for generating 2D slices of a 3D image of a target volume is provided. The system receives a target sinogram collected during a computed tomography scan of the target volume. The system inputs the target sinogram to a convolutional neural network (CNN) to generate predicted 2D slices of the 3D image. The CNN is trained using training 2D slices of training 3D images. The system initializes 2D slices to the predicted 2D slices. The system reconstructs 2D slices of the 3D image from the target sinogram and the initialized 2D slices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL SECURITY, LLC
    Inventors: Hyojin Kim, Rushil Anirudh, Kyle Champley
  • Patent number: 11782120
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for low power wide area network localization. A location of a mobile device communicating with one or more gateways of a long-range low-power wide-area network (LoRaWAN), having known locations, may be determined, using a model configured for accepting input values relating to a signal strength measure (RSS) of electromagnetic signals transmitted, continuously or intermittently, between the mobile device and the one or gateways of the LoRaWAN having known locations. The signals may be collected and evaluated as the mobile device is moving across a reception area of the LoRaWAN, to derive values representative of the signal strength measure (RSS), to feed as input signal(s) to the model. The model is used to generate values representative of the location of the mobile device and a location dependent measure of uncertainty in each location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: Swisscom AG
    Inventor: Ahmed Saadallah
  • Patent number: RE49714
    Abstract: An organic light emitting display capable of substantially preventing IR drop of a power source wiring line and coupling of data lines is disclosed. In one aspect, the organic light emitting display includes pairs of data lines between adjacent sub-pixels. The data lines are arranged to run parallel with a coupling blocking wiring line provided between each pair.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ki-Nyeng Kang, Na-Young Kim