Patents by Inventor Edward Tan

Edward Tan 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: 12260408
    Abstract: Techniques described herein enable wireless payment reader to transition between lower-power and higher-power states while still performing cryptographic operations for securing payment data without undue latency caused by the transition between sleep and awake power states. For instance, a wireless payment reader may store information associated with cryptographic operations performed by the wireless payment reader in persistent memory of the wireless payment reader so that this information may be retained when the wireless payment reader enters a low-power, sleep state. Thus, when the wireless payment reader awakens from the low-power state, the wireless payment reader may read the cryptographic information from the local persistent memory rather than needing to request this information from a payment service.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: Block, Inc.
    Inventors: Matthew Maibach, Abhishek Das, Yujia Zhang, Alice Wang, Eldon Rivers, Hayford Peprah, Edward Tan, Stefan Filipek, Oscar Reparaz
  • Patent number: 11501281
    Abstract: Techniques described herein are directed to, among other things, wireless payment readers configured to transition between multiple different power states. In some instances, these power states include one or more relatively low-power states such that an overall battery life of the wireless payment readers are lengthened. Further, in some instances, a point-of-sale (POS) application operating on a POS device that wirelessly couples to an example wireless payment reader may cause the wireless payment reader to transition from one state to another, such as from a first, lower-power state to a second, higher-power state in response to the POS application determining that a payment is to be processed using the wireless payment reader.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: Block, Inc.
    Inventors: Matthew Maibach, Abhishek Das, Yujia Zhang, Alice Wang, Eldon Rivers, Hayford Peprah, Edward Tan, Stefan Filipek, Oscar Reparaz
  • Patent number: 9961508
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure related to methods and systems of determining the floor and location of a device in an indoor space having multiple floors. A map importing module takes a floor map of an indoor space and processes it for further use. A calibration module creates a fingerprint map of the indoor space described by the floor map. A floor localization module searches the fingerprint map of each floor to determine the most likely location for each floor. A floor detection module determines the floor and location based on the most likely locations for each floor and any of map constraints data and device movement data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2018
    Assignee: MAPSTED CORP.
    Inventors: Paramvir Singh Nagpal, Sean Huberman, Edward Tan, Eros Gulo
  • Publication number: 20180087906
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to methods and systems of updating an orientation of a mobile device in a global reference frame. The method includes gathering mobile device gyroscope data, gathering mobile device accelerometer data, gathering mobile device magnetometer data, determining a first orientation of the mobile device based on the gyroscope data, determining a second orientation of the mobile device based on the device accelerometer data and the device magnetometer data, determining a trust factor associated with the second orientation, and updating the orientation of the mobile device based on the first orientation, the second orientation, and the trust factor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2017
    Publication date: March 29, 2018
    Applicant: MAPSTED CORP.
    Inventors: Alexander Kogan, Edward Tan, Sean Huberman, Paramvir Singh Nagpal
  • Patent number: 9838850
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure related to methods and systems of determining the floor and location of a device in an indoor space having multiple floors. A map importing module takes a floor map of an indoor space and processes it for further use. A calibration module creates a fingerprint map of the indoor space described by the floor map. A floor localization module searches the fingerprint map of each floor to determine the most likely location for each floor. A floor detection module determines the floor and location by comparing the most likely locations for each floor and utilizing device movement history data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2017
    Assignee: MAPSTED CORP.
    Inventors: Sean Huberman, Eros Gulo, Edward Tan, Paramvir Singh Nagpal
  • Publication number: 20170251338
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure related to methods and systems of determining the floor and location of a device in an indoor space having multiple floors. A map importing module takes a floor map of an indoor space and processes it for further use. A calibration module creates a fingerprint map of the indoor space described by the floor map. A floor localization module searches the fingerprint map of each floor to determine the most likely location for each floor. A floor detection module determines the floor and location by comparing the most likely locations for each floor and utilizing device movement history data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 12, 2017
    Publication date: August 31, 2017
    Applicant: MAPSTED CORP.
    Inventors: Sean Huberman, Eros Gulo, Edward Tan, Paramvir Singh Nagpal