Patents by Inventor John Thomas Hinton, IV

John Thomas Hinton, IV 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: 10820181
    Abstract: Described herein are systems, servers, devices, methods, and media for validating, improving, and predicting emergency locations. In some embodiments, disclosed herein is a method for validating a reported location associated with an emergency request comprises: detecting an emergency request from a first device; identifying a reported location associated with the emergency request; identifying one or more attributes associated with the emergency request; determining a location accuracy metric for the emergency request using the one or more attributes; comparing the location accuracy metric to a first accuracy threshold, wherein the reported location is converted to a validated location when the location accuracy metric meets the first accuracy threshold; and, in response to the location accuracy metric meeting the first accuracy threshold, providing the validated location to one or more recipients comprising a public safety answering point (PSAP).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Assignee: RAPIDSOS, INC.
    Inventors: Nicholas Edward Horelik, Henry Katz, Gabriel Charles Mahoney, IV, John Thomas Hinton, IV, Michael John Martin
  • Publication number: 20190253861
    Abstract: Described herein are systems, servers, devices, methods, and media for validating, improving, and predicting emergency locations. In some embodiments, disclosed herein is a method for validating a reported location associated with an emergency request comprises: detecting an emergency request from a first device; identifying a reported location associated with the emergency request; identifying one or more attributes associated with the emergency request; determining a location accuracy metric for the emergency request using the one or more attributes; comparing the location accuracy metric to a first accuracy threshold, wherein the reported location is converted to a validated location when the location accuracy metric meets the first accuracy threshold; and, in response to the location accuracy metric meeting the first accuracy threshold, providing the validated location to one or more recipients comprising a public safety answering point (PSAP).
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2019
    Publication date: August 15, 2019
    Inventors: Nicholas Edward Horelik, Henry Katz, Gabriel Charles Mahoney, IV, John Thomas Hinton, IV, Michael John Martin