Patents by Inventor Aaron Zachary Borden
Aaron Zachary Borden has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Patent number: 12069211Abstract: A system for tracking the location of an electronic device includes an electronic device and a wireless location tag. The wireless location tag includes a microcontroller unit, and a modular connector interface configured to be communicatively coupled to a port of the electronic device. The wireless location tag is configured to establish an Internet connection to one or more backend electronic devices in response to detecting that the wireless location tag has been communicatively coupled to the port of the electronic device, obtain identifying information that is associated with the electronic device, and identify tag identifying information associated with the wireless location tag. The wireless location tag is also configured to send one or more instructions to the one or more backend electronic devices via the Internet connection, and send one or more ping messages to the one or more backend electronic devices.Type: GrantFiled: May 30, 2023Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignee: Xerox CorporationInventors: Fritz Francis Ebner, Matthew Dylan Coene, Aaron Zachary Borden, Matthew David Levesque
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Publication number: 20230325488Abstract: The disclosure relates to an authentication approach to grant access to a secure service on an electronic device. The authentication approach includes receiving, via an electronic device, a request to access the secure service. The authentication approach includes determining whether the electronic device is positioned at a location that corresponds to a virtual authentication lock. The authentication approach includes displaying, in response to determining the device is positioned at the location that corresponds to the virtual authentication lock, the virtual authentication lock on a display of the electronic device. The authentication approach includes receiving one or more interactions with the virtual authentication lock.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 30, 2023Publication date: October 12, 2023Inventors: Fritz Francis Ebner, Matthew Leigh Puccini, Aaron Zachary Borden, Matthew David Levesque
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Publication number: 20230308557Abstract: A system for tracking the location of an electronic device includes an electronic device and a wireless location tag. The wireless location tag includes a microcontroller unit, and a modular connector interface configured to be communicatively coupled to a port of the electronic device. The wireless location tag is configured to establish an Internet connection to one or more backend electronic devices in response to detecting that the wireless location tag has been communicatively coupled to the port of the electronic device, obtain identifying information that is associated with the electronic device, and identify tag identifying information associated with the wireless location tag. The wireless location tag is also configured to send one or more instructions to the one or more backend electronic devices via the Internet connection, and send one or more ping messages to the one or more backend electronic devices.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 30, 2023Publication date: September 28, 2023Inventors: Fritz Francis Ebner, Matthew Dylan Coene, Aaron Zachary Borden, Matthew David Levesque
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Patent number: 11750752Abstract: A system for tracking the location of an electronic device includes an electronic device and a wireless location tag. The wireless location tag includes a microcontroller unit, and a modular connector interface configured to be communicatively coupled to a port of the electronic device. The wireless location tag is configured to establish an Internet connection to one or more backend electronic devices in response to detecting that the wireless location tag has been communicatively coupled to the port of the electronic device, obtain identifying information that is associated with the electronic device, and identify tag identifying information associated with the wireless location tag. The wireless location tag is also configured to send one or more instructions to the one or more backend electronic devices via the Internet connection, and send one or more ping messages to the one or more backend electronic devices.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2021Date of Patent: September 5, 2023Assignee: Xerox CorporationInventors: Fritz Francis Ebner, Matthew Dylan Coene, Aaron Zachary Borden, Matthew David Levesque
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Patent number: 11704401Abstract: The disclosure relates to an authentication approach to grant access to a secure service on an electronic device. The authentication approach includes receiving, via an electronic device, a request to access the secure service. The authentication approach includes determining whether the electronic device is positioned at a location that corresponds to a virtual authentication lock. The authentication approach includes displaying, in response to determining the device is positioned at the location that corresponds to the virtual authentication lock, the virtual authentication lock on a display of the electronic device. The authentication approach includes receiving one or more interactions with the virtual authentication lock.Type: GrantFiled: February 1, 2022Date of Patent: July 18, 2023Assignee: Xerox CorporationInventors: Fritz Francis Ebner, Matthew Leigh Puccini, Aaron Zachary Borden, Matthew David Levesque
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Publication number: 20220156358Abstract: The disclosure relates to an authentication approach to grant access to a secure service on an electronic device. The authentication approach includes receiving, via an electronic device, a request to access the secure service. The authentication approach includes determining whether the electronic device is positioned at a location that corresponds to a virtual authentication lock. The authentication approach includes displaying, in response to determining the device is positioned at the location that corresponds to the virtual authentication lock, the virtual authentication lock on a display of the electronic device. The authentication approach includes receiving one or more interactions with the virtual authentication lock.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 1, 2022Publication date: May 19, 2022Inventors: Fritz Francis Ebner, Matthew Leigh Puccini, Aaron Zachary Borden, Matthew David Levesque
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Publication number: 20220136836Abstract: This document discloses methods by which an electronic device may determine a navigable path to a destination in an indoor environment without requiring data from any location-based tracking system that is external to the electronic device. The device will receive a graph representation of a map of the indoor environment, with instances of objects represented as nodes of the graph, and with open area paths represented as edges of the graph. The device will determine multiple candidate paths from a starting location to the destination location. Each of the candidate paths will include a set of node-edge combinations that extend from the starting location to the destination location. The processor will identify which of the candidate paths is a shortest path, and it will use that path to identify a navigable path to the destination.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 4, 2020Publication date: May 5, 2022Inventors: Fritz Francis Ebner, Matthew David Levesque, Aaron Zachary Borden, Matthew Dylan Coene
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Patent number: 11321441Abstract: The disclosure relates to an authentication approach to grant access to a secure service on an electronic device. The authentication approach includes receiving, via an electronic device, a request to access the secure service. The authentication approach includes determining whether the electronic device is positioned at a location that corresponds to a virtual authentication lock. The authentication approach includes displaying, in response to determining the device is positioned at the location that corresponds to the virtual authentication lock, the virtual authentication lock on a display of the electronic device. The authentication approach includes receiving one or more interactions with the virtual authentication lock. The authentication approach includes determining whether the one or more interactions correspond to one or more authentication interactions related to the virtual authentication lock.Type: GrantFiled: October 23, 2019Date of Patent: May 3, 2022Assignee: Xerox CorporationInventors: Fritz Francis Ebner, Matthew Leigh Puccini, Aaron Zachary Borden, Matthew David Levesque
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Publication number: 20220086288Abstract: A system for tracking the location of an electronic device includes an electronic device and a wireless location tag. The wireless location tag includes a microcontroller unit, and a modular connector interface configured to be communicatively coupled to a port of the electronic device. The wireless location tag is configured to establish an Internet connection to one or more backend electronic devices in response to detecting that the wireless location tag has been communicatively coupled to the port of the electronic device, obtain identifying information that is associated with the electronic device, and identify tag identifying information associated with the wireless location tag. The wireless location tag is also configured to send one or more instructions to the one or more backend electronic devices via the Internet connection, and send one or more ping messages to the one or more backend electronic devices.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 30, 2021Publication date: March 17, 2022Inventors: Fritz Francis Ebner, Matthew Dylan Coene, Aaron Zachary Borden, Matthew David Levesque
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Patent number: 11245799Abstract: A system for tracking the location of an electronic device includes an electronic device and a wireless location tag. The wireless location tag includes a microcontroller unit, and a modular connector interface configured to be communicatively coupled to a port of the electronic device. The wireless location tag is configured to establish an Internet connection to one or more backend electronic devices in response to detecting that the wireless location tag has been communicatively coupled to the port of the electronic device, obtain identifying information that is associated with the electronic device, and identify tag identifying information associated with the wireless location tag. The wireless location tag is also configured to send one or more instructions to the one or more backend electronic devices via the Internet connection, and send one or more ping messages to the one or more backend electronic devices.Type: GrantFiled: May 20, 2020Date of Patent: February 8, 2022Assignee: Xerox CorporationInventors: Fritz Francis Ebner, Matthew Dylan Coene, Aaron Zachary Borden, Matthew David Levesque
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Publication number: 20210281977Abstract: Systems and methods for navigating an environment are provided. A method includes determining a starting location and a destination location in an environment, receiving a graph representation of a map of the environment, determining a plurality of candidate paths from the starting location to the destination location, identifying which of the plurality of candidate paths is a shortest path from the starting point location to the destination object location, selecting the shortest path as a path to navigate from the starting location to the destination location, generating a token comprising one or more instructions for navigating the shortest path, and causing the token to be displayed on a display device of an interactive kiosk, wherein the one or more instructions comprise one or more instructions that cause a mobile electronic device to display a navigation guide for directing a user from the starting location to the destination location.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 21, 2021Publication date: September 9, 2021Inventors: Fritz Francis Ebner, Abhisek Dey, Karthik Subramanian, Matthew David Levesque, Aaron Zachary Borden, Matthew Dylan Coene
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Publication number: 20210124816Abstract: The disclosure relates to an authentication approach to grant access to a secure service on an electronic device. The authentication approach includes receiving, via an electronic device, a request to access the secure service. The authentication approach includes determining whether the electronic device is positioned at a location that corresponds to a virtual authentication lock. The authentication approach includes displaying, in response to determining the device is positioned at the location that corresponds to the virtual authentication lock, the virtual authentication lock on a display of the electronic device. The authentication approach includes receiving one or more interactions with the virtual authentication lock. The authentication approach includes determining whether the one or more interactions correspond to one or more authentication interactions related to the virtual authentication lock.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 23, 2019Publication date: April 29, 2021Inventors: Fritz Francis Ebner, Matthew Leigh Puccini, Aaron Zachary Borden, Matthew David Levesque
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Publication number: 20200288025Abstract: A system for tracking the location of an electronic device includes an electronic device and a wireless location tag. The wireless location tag includes a microcontroller unit, and a modular connector interface configured to be communicatively coupled to a port of the electronic device. The wireless location tag is configured to establish an Internet connection to one or more backend electronic devices in response to detecting that the wireless location tag has been communicatively coupled to the port of the electronic device, obtain identifying information that is associated with the electronic device, and identify tag identifying information associated with the wireless location tag. The wireless location tag is also configured to send one or more instructions to the one or more backend electronic devices via the Internet connection, and send one or more ping messages to the one or more backend electronic devices.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 20, 2020Publication date: September 10, 2020Inventors: Fritz Francis Ebner, Matthew Dylan Coene, Aaron Zachary Borden, Matthew David Levesque
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Patent number: 10694053Abstract: A system for tracking the location of an electronic device includes an electronic device and a wireless location tag. The wireless location tag includes a microcontroller unit, and a modular connector interface configured to be communicatively coupled to a port of the electronic device. The wireless location tag is configured to establish an Internet connection to one or more backend electronic devices in response to detecting that the wireless location tag has been communicatively coupled to the port of the electronic device, obtain identifying information that is associated with the electronic device, and identify tag identifying information associated with the wireless location tag. The wireless location tag is also configured to send one or more instructions to the one or more backend electronic devices via the Internet connection, and send one or more ping messages to the one or more backend electronic devices.Type: GrantFiled: January 22, 2019Date of Patent: June 23, 2020Assignee: Xerox CorporationInventors: Fritz Francis Ebner, Matthew Dylan Coene, Aaron Zachary Borden, Matthew David Levesque