Patents by Inventor ALPER S. GURDAL

ALPER S. GURDAL 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).

  • Patent number: 9648481
    Abstract: Calling a response provider based on detection of an emergency situation includes: receiving sensor data describing at least one characteristic of physical surroundings of a computing device; receiving biometric data for a user of the computing device; selecting, in dependence upon the biometric data and the sensor data, a profile of trigger data from among a plurality of profiles of trigger data; determining that the sensor data and the biometric data satisfy a threshold criterion of the profile of trigger data for activating a response trigger; and in response to the determination, activating the response trigger, including automatically and without the user's intervention: establishing a connection to an emergency response provider; and providing information describing the user to the emergency response provider.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2017
    Assignee: Lenovo Enterprise Solutions (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Jonathan K. Grice, Alper S. Gurdal, Emil P. Parker
  • Publication number: 20170094488
    Abstract: Calling a response provider based on detection of an emergency situation includes: receiving sensor data describing at least one characteristic of physical surroundings of a computing device; receiving biometric data for a user of the computing device; selecting, in dependence upon the biometric data and the sensor data, a profile of trigger data from among a plurality of profiles of trigger data; determining that the sensor data and the biometric data satisfy a threshold criterion of the profile of trigger data for activating a response trigger; and in response to the determination, activating the response trigger, including automatically and without the user's intervention: establishing a connection to an emergency response provider; and providing information describing the user to the emergency response provider.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2015
    Publication date: March 30, 2017
    Inventors: JONATHAN K. GRICE, ALPER S. GURDAL, EMIL P. PARKER