Patents by Inventor Jessica N. JONES

Jessica N. JONES 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: 20240134492
    Abstract: An example process includes while displaying, on a display, an extended reality (XR) environment: receiving a user input; sampling, with a microphone, a user speech input; in accordance with a determination that the user input satisfies a criterion for initiating a digital assistant, initiating the digital assistant, including: displaying, within the XR environment, a digital assistant indicator at a first location of the XR environment; and while displaying the digital assistant indicator at the first location, providing, by the digital assistant, a response to the user speech input; after providing the response, ceasing to display the digital assistant indicator at the first location; and in accordance with ceasing to display the digital assistant indicator at the first location, displaying the digital assistant indicator at a second location of the XR environment, the second location corresponding to a physical location of an external electronic device implementing a second digital assistant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2022
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Inventors: Jessica J. PECK, James N. JONES, Ieyuki KAWASHIMA, Lynn I. STREJA
  • Patent number: 11257364
    Abstract: Apparatuses, methods, and systems disclosed herein that improve the safety and enhance the quality of interactions between law enforcement officers and drivers. In one example embodiment, a method is provided in which, during a traffic stop, a first device associated with an officer's vehicle obtains information about a driver's vehicle, queries a database for network address information associated with a driver device associated with the driver's vehicle, and receives the network address information from the database. The first device may then transmit a connection request to the second device using the received network address information; and a connection may be established between the two devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: University of Florida Research Foundation, Incorporated
    Inventors: Juan Eugene Gilbert, Jessica N. Jones, Isabel Laurenceau, Michelle Emamdie, DeKita Moon
  • Publication number: 20190318618
    Abstract: Apparatuses, methods, and systems disclosed herein that improve the safety and enhance the quality of interactions between law enforcement officers and drivers. In one example embodiment, a method is provided in which, during a traffic stop, a first device associated with an officer's vehicle obtains information about a driver's vehicle, queries a database for network address information associated with a driver device associated with the driver's vehicle, and receives the network address information from the database. The first device may then transmit a connection request to the second device using the received network address information; and a connection may be established between the two devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2017
    Publication date: October 17, 2019
    Inventors: Juan Eugene GILBERT, Jessica N. JONES, Isabel LAURENCEAU, Michelle EMAMDIE, DeKita MOON