Patents by Inventor Charles KRING

Charles KRING 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: 12627657
    Abstract: Disclosed are systems and methods that provide a novel cross-session authentication framework that enables secure local and/or network sessions to be effectuated via biometric tracking via a wearable device (e.g., smart ring). In some implementations, when a user wearing a smart ring is authenticated with a first secure resource (e.g., a computer system such as a smart phone application associated with the smart ring), such authentication can be maintained and leveraged to access other resources that are separately being securely held. The smart ring, when properly worn, can monitor biometrics (e.g., vital signs) of a user, and based therefrom, determine if and/or when the smart ring is removed/manipulated from the user's finder. Until the smart ring is removed, the smart ring's confirmation of being worn by the user can be leveraged as an identification token that can enable the user access to other securely held information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2026
    Assignee: PLUME DESIGN, INC.
    Inventors: Charles Kring, Austen Martin
  • Publication number: 20250344131
    Abstract: Disclosed are systems and methods that provide a decision-intelligence (DI)-based, computerized framework for advanced device naming and localization of Wi-Fi connected devices at a location. The disclosed framework operates to manage, control and/or manipulate devices on a Wi-Fi network, which provides intuitive mechanisms to select devices to name, group and/or locate in a WiFi app with WiFi motion and/or detected gesture(s) by leveraging voting and ranking mechanisms via a compiled cross-correlation matrix of channel frequency response (CFR) motion signatures and/or channel state information (CSI) motion signatures. Accordingly, motion signature information can be leveraged to control, enable and/or permit Wi-Fi connections among and/or between devices at a location.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 3, 2024
    Publication date: November 6, 2025
    Inventors: Ha DO, Jeffrey ChiFai LIEW, Richard CHANG, Sean LI, Charles KRING, Timothy NGUYEN
  • Publication number: 20250081259
    Abstract: An access point of a wireless communication network may be configured to receive a solicited wireless communication from an electronic device in response to a request, the solicited wireless communication being transmitted by the electronic device over a channel of the wireless communication network. The access point may extract channel characteristics from the solicited wireless communication, the channel characteristics being timing-dependent effects on the channel associated with the solicited wireless communication. The access point may generate a device fingerprint based at least in part on the channel characteristics, the device fingerprint being specific to hardware of the electronic device. Using the device fingerprint, the access point or another device may determine an identification, indicative of at least one of an identity or a device type, of the electronic device based on a stored device profile representative of at least one authenticated electronic device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 3, 2024
    Publication date: March 6, 2025
    Inventors: Gašper ŠTUKELJ, Ha DO, Tingyi ZHU, Richard CHANG, Sean LI, Charles KRING, Miroslav SAMARDZIJA, Kiran EDARA
  • Publication number: 20250061720
    Abstract: In some implementations, the techniques described herein relate to a method including: classifying motion data and network device usage data in a networked environment; integrating the classified motion data and the network device usage data to create a combined dataset; processing the combined dataset to identify correlations between the motion data and the network device usage data; and using the identified correlations to predict an occupancy state of the environment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 16, 2024
    Publication date: February 20, 2025
    Inventors: Tingyi ZHU, Ha DO, Richard CHANG, Charles KRING, Sean LI, Timothy NGUYEN
  • Publication number: 20250063537
    Abstract: In some implementations, the techniques described herein relate to a method including: collecting, by a processor, Wi-Fi sense data (WSD) associated with a client device in a network, wherein the WSD includes wireless characteristics indicative of one of a movement or position of the client device; generating, by the processor, a movement signature for the client device based on the WSD; classifying, by the processor, a fine-grained type of the client device utilizing the movement signature; and storing, by the processor, the fine-grained type in a storage device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 14, 2024
    Publication date: February 20, 2025
    Inventors: Tingyi ZHU, Ha DO, Richard CHANG, Charles KRING, Sean LI, Timothy NGUYEN
  • Publication number: 20250039171
    Abstract: Disclosed are systems and methods that provide a novel cross-session authentication framework that enables secure local and/or network sessions to be effectuated via biometric tracking via a wearable device (e.g., smart ring). In some implementations, when a user wearing a smart ring is authenticated with a first secure resource (e.g., a computer system such as a smart phone application associated with the smart ring), such authentication can be maintained and leveraged to access other resources that are separately being securely held. The smart ring, when properly worn, can monitor biometrics (e.g., vital signs) of a user, and based therefrom, determine if and/or when the smart ring is removed/manipulated from the user's finder. Until the smart ring is removed, the smart ring's confirmation of being worn by the user can be leveraged as an identification token that can enable the user access to other securely held information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2023
    Publication date: January 30, 2025
    Inventors: Charles KRING, Austen MARTIN