Patents by Inventor Josh Alexander
Josh Alexander 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).
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Publication number: 20200307496Abstract: An occupant protection system for a vehicle may include an expandable curtain and/or an expandable bladder configured to be expanded from a stowed state to a deployed state. The system may also include a transverse ceiling trim panel and one or more side ceiling trim panels configured to be coupled to a ceiling of the vehicle, with the transverse ceiling trim panel extending substantially transversely with respect to the one or more side ceiling trim panels. Portions of the ceiling trim panels may be configured to deflect and allow expansion of the expandable curtain and/or the expandable bladder to the deployed state. The system may also include a deployment controller and one or more inflators configured to cause deployment of the expandable curtain at a first time and deployment of the expandable bladder at a second time after the first time.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 28, 2019Publication date: October 1, 2020Inventors: Josh Alexander Jimenez, Markus Jost, Andrew John Piper, Andrew Frank Raczkowski
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Publication number: 20200307495Abstract: An occupant protection system for a vehicle may include an expandable curtain and/or an expandable bladder configured to be expanded from a stowed state to a deployed state. The system may also include a transverse ceiling trim panel and one or more side ceiling trim panels configured to be coupled to a ceiling of the vehicle, with the transverse ceiling trim panel extending substantially transversely with respect to the one or more side ceiling trim panels. Portions of the ceiling trim panels may be configured to deflect and allow expansion of the expandable curtain and/or the expandable bladder to the deployed state. The system may also include a deployment controller and one or more inflators configured to cause deployment of the expandable curtain at a first time and deployment of the expandable bladder at a second time after the first time.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 28, 2019Publication date: October 1, 2020Inventors: Josh Alexander Jimenez, Markus Jost, Andrew John Piper, Andrew Frank Raczkowski, Goutham Shanmuga Sundaram
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Publication number: 20200280552Abstract: Techniques are disclosed relating to contextual authentication across different applications based on user communications. In some embodiments, a user is preauthenticated to certain actions on a second application based on the user's communication via a first application. The user's communication via a first application provides contextual information that may be used to preauthenticate a request to perform an action on the second application. Contextual information may include the user's communication itself, communications characteristics that are determined from the user's communications, or both.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 15, 2020Publication date: September 3, 2020Inventors: Josh Alexander, Seth Holloway, Evan Tyler Grim, Ian Glazer, William Charles Mortimore, JR.
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Patent number: 10737652Abstract: A safety system in a vehicle may be activated by receiving information indicating a physical change, such as a pressure, of an interval cavity associated with a tire or tire guard. The safety system may be activated based at least in part on the physical change (e.g. an increase in a pressure by at least a threshold amount, an increase of a pressure to a threshold pressure, or a rate of change of a pressure), in addition to other, external, information.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2017Date of Patent: August 11, 2020Assignee: Zoox, Inc.Inventors: Andrew John Piper, Josh Alexander Jimenez
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Patent number: 10703323Abstract: An occupant protection system for a vehicle may include an expandable curtain and/or an expandable bladder configured to be expanded from a stowed state to a deployed state. In the deployed state, the expandable curtain may include first and second sides configured to extend along respective portions of first and second interior sides of the vehicle. The expandable curtain may also include a transverse portion extending between the first and second sides, and the first and second sides, and the transverse portion of the expandable curtain may form a contiguous barrier. The expandable bladder when deployed may be supported by the expandable curtain during contact by an occupant. The occupant protection system may also include a deployment control system configured to cause the expandable curtain and/or the expandable bladder to expand to the deployed state. The occupant protection system may be used in vehicles having a carriage-style seating arrangement.Type: GrantFiled: September 1, 2017Date of Patent: July 7, 2020Assignee: Zoox, Inc.Inventors: Markus Jost, Timothy David Kentley-Klay, Josh Alexander Jimenez, Andrew John Piper
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Patent number: 10701081Abstract: Techniques are disclosed relating to automating permission requests, e.g., in the context of multi-factor authentication. A mobile device may allow a user to automate responses to future permission requests for multi-factor authentication procedures. The mobile device may automatically respond to subsequent permission requests based on one or more automation criteria. Authorized actions may include login, transaction approval, physical access, vehicle ignition, account recovery, etc. The automation criteria may include location, acceleration, velocity, wireless connectivity, proximity to another device, temperature, lighting, noise, time, biometrics, altitude, pressure, image characteristics, etc. Disclosed techniques may increase authorization security while reducing user interaction for multi-factor authentication, in some embodiments.Type: GrantFiled: March 1, 2019Date of Patent: June 30, 2020Assignee: salesforce.com, inc.Inventors: Evan Tyler Grim, Josh Alexander
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Patent number: 10659446Abstract: Techniques are disclosed relating to contextual authentication across different applications based on user communications. In some embodiments, a user is preauthenticated to certain actions on a second application based on the user's communication via a first application. The user's communication via a first application provides contextual information that may be used to preauthenticate a request to perform an action on the second application. Contextual information may include the user's communication itself and/or communications characteristics that are determined from the user's communications.Type: GrantFiled: June 13, 2017Date of Patent: May 19, 2020Assignee: salesforce.com, inc.Inventors: Josh Alexander, Seth Holloway, Evan Tyler Grim, Ian Glazer, William Charles Mortimore, Jr.
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Publication number: 20190359128Abstract: Techniques for using beam-formed acoustic notifications for pedestrian notification are described. Computing device(s) can receive sensor data associated with an object in an environment of a vehicle. The computing device(s) can determine first data for emitting a first beam of acoustic energy via speaker(s) of an acoustic array associated with the vehicle, and second data for emitting a second beam of acoustic energy via speakers of the acoustic array. The computing device(s) can cause the speaker(s) to emit the first beam in a direction of the object at a first time and the second beam in the direction of the object at a second time. Directions of propagation of the first beam and the second beam are offset so that the object can localize the source the acoustic notification, thereby localizing the vehicle in the environment.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 10, 2019Publication date: November 28, 2019Inventors: Jacob Avi Harper, Jeremy Yi-Xiong Yang, Forrest Leighton Merrill, Michael Moshe Kohen, George Dalman Nelson, III, Subasingha Shaminda Subasingha, Josh Alexander Jimenez
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Patent number: 10471923Abstract: An occupant protection system for a vehicle may include an expandable curtain and/or an expandable bladder configured to be expanded from a stowed state to a deployed state. In the deployed state, the expandable curtain may include first and second sides configured to extend along respective portions of first and second interior sides of the vehicle. The expandable curtain may also include a transverse portion extending between the first and second sides, and the first and second sides, and the transverse portion of the expandable curtain may form a contiguous barrier. The expandable bladder when deployed may be supported by the expandable curtain during contact by an occupant. The occupant protection system may also include a deployment control system configured to cause the expandable curtain and/or the expandable bladder to expand to the deployed state. The occupant protection system may be used in vehicles having a carriage-style seating arrangement.Type: GrantFiled: September 1, 2017Date of Patent: November 12, 2019Assignee: Zoox, Inc.Inventors: Josh Alexander Jimenez, Timothy David Kentley-Klay, Andrew John Piper
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Patent number: 10414336Abstract: Techniques for using acoustic notifications output via a multi-channel speaker configuration for pedestrian notification are described. Computing device(s) can determine a plurality of signals for dynamically emitting a plurality of sounds via a plurality of speakers associated with an acoustic array disposed on a vehicle. Each signal of the plurality of signals can be emitted from speaker(s) of the plurality of speakers that is/are associated with a particular channel of a plurality of channels. Furthermore, the computing device(s) can cause a portion of the plurality of speakers to dynamically emit the plurality of sounds so that the plurality of sounds are spatialized across the at least one surface of the vehicle. As a result, a pedestrian proximate the vehicle can localize the vehicle as a source of the acoustic notification and perceive a size, or other geometric characteristic, of the vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: May 22, 2018Date of Patent: September 17, 2019Assignee: Zoox, Inc.Inventors: Jacob Avi Harper, Jeremy Yi-Xiong Yang, George Dalman Nelson, III, Forrest Leighton Merrill, Michael Moshe Kohen, Subasingha Shaminda Subasingha, Josh Alexander Jimenez
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Publication number: 20190193665Abstract: An occupant protection system for a vehicle may include an expandable curtain and/or an expandable bladder configured to be expanded from a stowed state to a deployed state. In the deployed state, the expandable curtain may include first and second sides configured to extend along respective portions of first and second interior sides of the vehicle. The expandable curtain may also include a transverse portion extending between the first and second sides, and the first and second sides, and the transverse portion of the expandable curtain may form a contiguous barrier. The expandable bladder when deployed may be supported by the expandable curtain during contact by an occupant. The occupant protection system may also include a deployment control system configured to cause the expandable curtain and/or the expandable bladder to expand to the deployed state. The occupant protection system may be used in vehicles having a carriage-style seating arrangement.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 1, 2017Publication date: June 27, 2019Inventors: Josh Alexander Jimenez, Timothy David Kentley-Klay, Andrew John Piper
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Publication number: 20190199734Abstract: Techniques are disclosed relating to automating permission requests, e.g., in the context of multi-factor authentication. A mobile device may allow a user to automate responses to future permission requests for multi-factor authentication procedures. The mobile device may automatically respond to subsequent permission requests based on one or more automation criteria. Authorized actions may include login, transaction approval, physical access, vehicle ignition, account recovery, etc. The automation criteria may include location, acceleration, velocity, wireless connectivity, proximity to another device, temperature, lighting, noise, time, biometrics, altitude, pressure, image characteristics, etc. Disclosed techniques may increase authorization security while reducing user interaction for multi-factor authentication, in some embodiments.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 1, 2019Publication date: June 27, 2019Inventors: Evan Tyler Grim, Josh Alexander
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Publication number: 20190193666Abstract: An occupant protection system for a vehicle may include an expandable curtain and/or an expandable bladder configured to be expanded from a stowed state to a deployed state. In the deployed state, the expandable curtain may include first and second sides configured to extend along respective portions of first and second interior sides of the vehicle. The expandable curtain may also include a transverse portion extending between the first and second sides, and the first and second sides, and the transverse portion of the expandable curtain may form a contiguous barrier. The expandable bladder when deployed may be supported by the expandable curtain during contact by an occupant. The occupant protection system may also include a deployment control system configured to cause the expandable curtain and/or the expandable bladder to expand to the deployed state. The occupant protection system may be used in vehicles having a carriage-style seating arrangement.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 1, 2017Publication date: June 27, 2019Inventors: Markus Jost, Timothy David Kentley-Klay, Josh Alexander Jimenez, Andrew John Piper
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Patent number: 10315563Abstract: Techniques for using beam-formed acoustic notifications for pedestrian notification are described. Computing device(s) can receive sensor data associated with an object in an environment of a vehicle. The computing device(s) can determine first data for emitting a first beam of acoustic energy via speaker(s) of an acoustic array associated with the vehicle, and second data for emitting a second beam of acoustic energy via speakers of the acoustic array. The computing device(s) can cause the speaker(s) to emit the first beam in a direction of the object at a first time and the second beam in the direction of the object at a second time. Directions of propagation of the first beam and the second beam are offset so that the object can localize the source the acoustic notification, thereby localizing the vehicle in the environment.Type: GrantFiled: May 22, 2018Date of Patent: June 11, 2019Assignee: Zoox, Inc.Inventors: Jacob Avi Harper, Jeremy Yi-Xiong Yang, Forrest Leighton Merrill, Michael Moshe Kohen, George Dalman Nelson, III, Subasingha Shaminda Subasingha, Josh Alexander Jimenez
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Patent number: 10225242Abstract: Techniques are disclosed relating to automating permission requests, e.g., in the context of multi-factor authentication. In some embodiments a mobile device receives permission requests that specify sets of one or more automation criteria. In some embodiments, the mobile device prompts a user for a response to permission requests when the criteria are not met and automatically responds to permission requests (e.g., without requiring user input) when the criteria are met. Disclosed techniques may increase authorization security while reducing user interaction for multi-factor authentication, in some embodiments.Type: GrantFiled: September 9, 2015Date of Patent: March 5, 2019Assignee: salesforce.com, inc.Inventors: Evan Tyler Grim, Josh Alexander
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Patent number: 10225264Abstract: Techniques are disclosed relating to automating permission requests, e.g., in the context of multi-factor authentication. A mobile device may display an option to allow a user to automate responses to future permission requests to perform an action. The mobile device may automatically respond to subsequent permission requests based on at least one automation criterion. The action may include login, transaction approval, physical access, vehicle ignition, account recovery, etc. The automation criteria may include location, acceleration, velocity, wireless connectivity, proximity to another device, temperature, lighting, noise, time, biometrics, altitude, pressure, image characteristics, etc. Disclosed techniques may increase authorization security while reducing user interaction for multi-factor authentication, in some embodiments.Type: GrantFiled: September 9, 2015Date of Patent: March 5, 2019Assignee: salesforce.com, inc.Inventors: Evan Tyler Grim, Josh Alexander
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Patent number: 10212588Abstract: Techniques are disclosed relating to automating permission requests, e.g., in the context of multi-factor authentication. In some embodiments, based on a change in one or more automation criteria (e.g., based on a mobile device entering a particular geographic region) a mobile device is configured to preemptively indicate to an authorization system to automatically authorize a subsequent attempt to perform an action, without transmitting the permission request to the mobile device. The mobile device may later revoke the preemptive permission request, e.g., based on another change in automation criteria. Disclosed techniques may increase authorization security while reducing user interaction for multi-factor authentication, in some embodiments.Type: GrantFiled: September 9, 2015Date of Patent: February 19, 2019Assignee: salesforce.com, inc.Inventors: Evan Tyler Grim, Josh Alexander
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Publication number: 20180359233Abstract: Techniques are disclosed relating to contextual authentication across different applications based on user communications. In some embodiments, a user is preauthenticated to certain actions on a second application based on the user's communication via a first application. The user's communication via a first application provides contextual information that may be used to preauthenticate a request to perform an action on the second application. Contextual information may include the user's communication itself and/or communications characteristics that are determined from the user's communications.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 13, 2017Publication date: December 13, 2018Inventors: Josh Alexander, Seth Holloway, Evan Tyler Grim, Ian Glazer, William Charles Mortimore, JR.
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Patent number: 9531702Abstract: Systems and methods for authenticating defined user actions over a computer network. An authentication service receives an authentication request from an authenticating service to perform an action on behalf of a user. The authentication service then sends a permission request to a mobile device associated with the user, asking the user whether or not the action should be allowed. The user sends a permission response via the mobile device to the authentication service, granting or denying the action. The user may automate future similar responses so long as at least one automation criterion is met (e.g., the physical location of the mobile device), eliminating the need to manually provide a response to future permission requests. Information necessary to determine whether the automation criterion is met is stored locally on the mobile device.Type: GrantFiled: November 13, 2015Date of Patent: December 27, 2016Assignee: salesforce.com, inc.Inventors: Evan Tyler Grim, Josh Alexander
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Publication number: 20160080348Abstract: Systems and methods for authenticating defined user actions over a computer network. An authentication service receives an authentication request from an authenticating service to perform an action on behalf of a user. The authentication service then sends a permission request to a mobile device associated with the user, asking the user whether or not the action should be allowed. The user sends a permission response via the mobile device to the authentication service, granting or denying the action. The user may automate future similar responses so long as at least one automation criterion is met (e.g., the physical location of the mobile device), eliminating the need to manually provide a response to future permission requests. Information necessary to determine whether the automation criterion is met is stored locally on the mobile device.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 13, 2015Publication date: March 17, 2016Inventors: Evan Tyler Grim, Josh Alexander