Patents by Inventor Felipe A. Garcia

Felipe A. Garcia 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).

  • Publication number: 20240276359
    Abstract: A method performed by a radio network node for handling services in a wireless communications network. The radio network node receives, from a user equipment (UE), an indication indicating selection of a service associated with a service indication out of at least one service indication; and based on the received indication, selects a network node that supports the service indicated by the indication.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2022
    Publication date: August 15, 2024
    Applicant: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Christofer LINDHEIMER, Mai-Anh PHAN, Oscar OHLSSON, Hernán Felipe ARRAÑO SCHARAGER, Miguel Angel GARCIA MARTIN, Peter HEDMAN
  • Publication number: 20240188784
    Abstract: The invention relates to a floor cleaning system comprising a self-propelled and self-steering floor cleaning apparatus, at least one controllable display unit, and at least one storage unit, wherein the floor cleaning apparatus comprises a running gear for traveling on a floor surface, a control unit, a sensor unit, at least one cleaning unit, and an operating unit, wherein an environment is detectable by means of the sensor unit in order to locate and/or navigate the floor cleaning apparatus, in particular during movement, wherein cleaning paths for the floor cleaning apparatus are stored in the at least one storage unit with respective information about a route and preferably the use of at least one cleaning unit, wherein a cleaning task is specifiable by a user on the operating unit by linking two or more cleaning paths to be processed successively, and the cleaning task is automatically processable by the floor cleaning apparatus, wherein at least one characteristic landmark that is detectable by means o
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 16, 2024
    Publication date: June 13, 2024
    Inventors: Heiko HÖNNIGE, Felipe GARCIA LOPEZ, Manuel DRUST, Thilo EHRENTREICH, Fedor VLASOV, Christian HOFNER, Gereon HINZ
  • Publication number: 20240172914
    Abstract: The invention relates to a floor cleaning system comprising: a self-propelled and self-steering floor cleaning apparatus for cleaning a floor surface; at least one controllable display unit; and at least one storage unit, wherein the floor cleaning apparatus comprises a running gear for traveling on a floor surface, a control unit, a sensor unit, at least one cleaning unit and an operating unit, wherein surroundings can be detected by means of the sensor unit in order to locate and/or navigate the floor cleaning apparatus, in particular during movement, wherein at least one cleaning path on the floor surface can be stored or is stored in the at least one storage unit, wherein the floor cleaning apparatus is designed and configured to create a cleaning path, which can be stored in the storage unit, in a teaching mode of operation while being guided by an operator at the operating unit, and wherein at least one cleaning event relating in particular to the at least one cleaning unit, and/or at least one interact
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2024
    Publication date: May 30, 2024
    Inventors: Heiko HÖNNIGE, Thilo EHRENTREICH, Patrick PRASSER, Manuel DRUST, Felipe GARCIA LOPEZ, Fabian SCHURIG, Gereon HINZ
  • Publication number: 20240164611
    Abstract: The invention relates to a self-propelled and self-steering floor cleaning apparatus comprising at least one functional unit and a control unit for controlling at least one functional unit, wherein the at least one functional unit comprises a running gear for traveling on a floor surface, at least one cleaning tool for cleaning the floor surface and a sensor unit for detecting the surroundings of the floor cleaning apparatus, in particular during movement, and wherein the control unit determines that an obstacle is located on or at the floor surface depending on at least one signal of the sensor unit. In order to provide a floor cleaning apparatus of the type in question which has a higher operational reliability, in accordance with the invention: the control unit classifies the obstacles with respect to persons and objects; and the control unit controls at least one functional unit depending on the classification of a detected obstacle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2024
    Publication date: May 23, 2024
    Inventors: Fedor VLASOV, Manuel DRUST, Heiko HÖNNIGE, Christian WURM, Felipe GARCIA LOPEZ, Fabian SCHURIG, Gereon HINZ
  • Publication number: 20230061804
    Abstract: The present invention provides phase separation sensors capable of targeting or associating with one or more biomolecular condensate or membraneless compartment in cells. The phase separation sensors comprise at least two domains wherein a first domain comprises one or more accessory protein or molecule and a second domain comprises an artificial client protein or intrinsically disordered sequence. The artificial client protein possesses intrinsic disorder and is capable of engaging in ultra-weak phase separation-specific interactions with one or more component protein or molecule in a biomolecular condensate. Methods and applications utilizing the sensors are provided including targeting, detecting, visualizing, manipulating, monitoring a biomolecular condensate and delivering one or more functional protein, label, drug or agent to a biomolecular condensate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2021
    Publication date: March 2, 2023
    Inventors: Felipe GARCIA QUIROZ, Elaine FUCHS
  • Patent number: 11268127
    Abstract: The presently disclosed subject matter relates to modular peptide-substrate protease assays, in particular low cost and reliable methodology for measurement of protease and other enzyme activity that may be detected by optical turbidimetry or visual observation. The presently disclosed subject matter also relates to methods of using the disclosed assays within methods of detecting and monitoring diseases, methods of drug discovery, as well as in detection devices and systems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: Duke University
    Inventors: Gabriel P. Lopez, Ashutosh Chilkoti, Ali Ghoorchian, Felipe Garcia Quiroz
  • Publication number: 20210156492
    Abstract: A flow regulation device for liquid having a body with an inlet opening, an outlet opening, and a cavity between the two openings. An actuating means is disposed in the cavity for stopping and starting the flow of liquid through said device. The actuating means is configured to be moved in a first direction to start the flow of liquid through said device and in the first direction to stop the flow of liquid through said device. The actuating may comprise an upper button and a lower cam.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 23, 2020
    Publication date: May 27, 2021
    Inventors: Daniel R. Levitt, Jonathan Meehan, Peter Ogilvie, Felipe Garcia
  • Publication number: 20200284004
    Abstract: A water flow regulation device having a body with an inlet opening and at least one outlet opening. Each outlet opening is associated with an actuating device that controls the flow of water out of the associated outlet opening. A pedal or cap may be depressed by a user in order to selectively control the water flow to one of the outlets.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2020
    Publication date: September 10, 2020
    Inventors: Daniel R. Levitt, Peter ` Ogilvie, Jonathan Meehan, Felipe Garcia
  • Patent number: 10628858
    Abstract: An online system provides advertisers with opportunities to bid on presentation of advertisements to a user. Advertisers may bid in real-time on advertisement presentation if the online system determines the expected revenue to the online system from real-time bids is above a threshold value. The expected revenue may be determined based on a probability distribution bids previously placed by advertisers for presenting advertisements to the user or to users with similar characteristics as the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2020
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Antonio Felipe Garcia-Martinez, Mark Rabkin
  • Patent number: 10607302
    Abstract: An entity having a brand page maintained by a social networking system defines a sequence of content items associated with a brand page is determined. Different content items in the sequence include different information that is dependent on interaction between a user and the sequence. For example, content items in the sequence provide increasingly more detailed or complex information when progressing from the first content item to the last content item in the sequence. When a viewing user of a social networking system interacts with the brand page, prior interactions with the sequence by the viewing user are used to classify the viewing user and to select a content item from the sequence that is communicated to the viewing user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2020
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Antonio Felipe Garcia-Martinez, Nipun Mathur
  • Patent number: 10559013
    Abstract: An online system facilitates auctions for advertising presentation opportunities by identifying users associated with the presentation opportunities. The online system stores mappings between user identifiers and a plurality of partner identifiers used by advertisers to identify browsers. Partner identifiers are received from an advertising exchange and used to identify a user identifier corresponding to the received partner identifier. Using the identified user identifier, the online system identifies an alternative partner identifier associated with the user identifier and sends the alternative user identifier to an advertiser for use in selecting and bidding on advertisements. The online system returns the advertisers' bids to the advertising exchange with the partner identifier received from the advertising exchange. Converting a partner identifier to another allows advertisers to target a particular user while the online system protects the user's identify.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2020
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventor: Antonio Felipe Garcia-Martinez
  • Patent number: 10489825
    Abstract: A seed cluster comprising a group of users who share a particular attribute and/or affiliation is determined by a social networking system. For each user of the seed cluster, other users and/or entities connected to the user in the social networking system are retrieved. For each retrieved other user or entity, the social networking system may determine whether the other user or entity exhibits the attribute or affiliation based on a random walk algorithm. A resulting targeting cluster of users and/or entities may be used for targeting advertisements targeting to members. A social networking system may also infer an affiliation for a user based on the user's interaction with a page, application, or entity where other users who interacted with the same page, application, or entity have the same affiliation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2019
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Rong Yan, Ankush Singla, Antonio Felipe Garcia-Martinez, Philip Zigoris
  • Patent number: 10380606
    Abstract: Users of a social networking system perform actions on various objects maintained by the social networking system. Some of these actions may indicate that the user has a negative sentiment for an object. To make use of this negative sentiment when providing content to the user, when the social networking system determines a user performs an action on an object, the social networking system identifies topics associated with the object and associates the negative sentiment with one or more of the topics. This association between one or more topics and negative sentiment may be used to decrease the likelihood that the social networking system presents content associated with a topic that is associated with a negative sentiment of the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventor: Antonio Felipe Garcia-Martinez
  • Patent number: 10325305
    Abstract: A social networking system user's interaction with a brand page may be tailored to match the user's interests. Content providers or page administrators of a brand page associate keywords with content posted to the brand page. A keyword may define a characteristic of a social networking system user to receive the content or may describe a characteristic of the content. The keywords are compared to a user profile of a user requesting the brand page and content posted to the brand page is selected for presentation to the user based on the user profile and the keywords. For example, content is presented to a user having a characteristic defined by criteria keyword. The selected content posted to the brand page is presented to the user requesting the brand page.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2019
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Antonio Felipe Garcia-Martinez, Nipun Mathur
  • Patent number: 10248975
    Abstract: An advertisement (ad) proxy server acts as a proxy for serving content of third-party ads to users of an online system, reducing data leakage from users to advertisers. The ad proxy server acts as an intermediate storage and access point for content included in advertisement, such as images and videos. When an advertisement from an advertiser is selected for presentation by the online system, an ad tag identifying the location of the content for the selected ad is retrieved and used to retrieve a copy of the advertisement content. The ad proxy server stores the copy of the advertisement content and generates a modified ad tag identifying the ad proxy server. The modified ad tag is sent to a client device, which retrieves the copy of the advertisement content from the ad proxy server rather than directly from the advertiser.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2019
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Antonio Felipe Garcia-Martinez, Gang Wu, Shreehari Manikarnika
  • Patent number: 10217172
    Abstract: An entity having a brand page maintained by a social networking system defines a sequence of content items associated with a brand page is determined. Different content items in the sequence include different information that is dependent on interaction between a user and the sequence. For example, content items in the sequence provide increasingly more detailed or complex information when progressing from the first content item to the last content item in the sequence. When a viewing user of a social networking system interacts with the brand page, prior interactions with the sequence by the viewing user are used to classify the viewing user and to select a content item from the sequence that is communicated to the viewing user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2019
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Antonio Felipe Garcia-Martinez, Nipun Mathur
  • Patent number: 10163136
    Abstract: A story describing an activity performed by an interacting user is distributed to viewing users according to the influencer scores for the viewing users. Each influencer score can be calculated based at least in part on the influence of a viewing user on those users connected to the viewing user, and on the influencer scores for the users connected to the viewing user. Based on the determined influencer scores, at least one of the viewing users can be provided with the story describing the activity performed by the interacting user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2018
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Antonio Felipe Garcia-Martinez, Rong Yan
  • Publication number: 20180347736
    Abstract: A spring clamp retainer includes a first end configured for retaining a spring clamp in an unclamped state until removed, a second end configured for grasping with at least one finger. An intermediate portion extends between the first and second end that includes a top and bottom surface wherein the top surface is configured for resting a thumb and holding in the palm of a hand, and the bottom surface is configured for grasping with at least one other finger.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 1, 2017
    Publication date: December 6, 2018
    Inventors: Benjamin Felipe Garcia Lopez, Jonathan D'Andonaegui Pacheco
  • Patent number: 9930078
    Abstract: Based on information used by the external system to identify a target user, the external system generates a target user hash identifier that is communicated to the social networking system along with a message. Using information from user profiles maintained by the social networking system, the social networking system generates hash identifiers for its users and compares the target user hash identifier to the generated hash identifiers hash identifiers for social networking system users are generated. The social networking system sends the message to a user associated with a hash identifier generated from user profile information that matches the target user hash identifier. Hence, an external application may communicate with social networking system users without accessing access information about the users maintained by the social networking system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2018
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Gokul Rajaram, Antonio Felipe Garcia-Martinez, Brian Thomas Boland, Nipun Mathur
  • Patent number: 9890555
    Abstract: A structure, which can be used as a portable shelter or tent, has a cover and structural elements disposed therein to permit the cover to lay flat or stand erect. The cover has two layers, one layer being thermally reflective and another layer being thermally absorptive. Similarly constructed removable panels can be attached to standoffs incorporated into the cover. The structure is reversible, so that the structure can either reject or absorb ambient heat. The standoffs are provided on each side of the cover and connections for attaching the removable panels to the standoffs are provided on each side of the removable panels. In this way, the removable panels can be attached to the interior or exterior of the structure with either side of a removable panel facing towards the cover.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2018
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy
    Inventors: Robert Woodall, Felipe Garcia