Patents by Inventor Karl Osterlund

Karl Osterlund 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: 11330100
    Abstract: Systems and methods for augmenting an appliance device with an intelligent personal assistant. Exemplary methods include: receiving, by the appliance device, an identifier for a called party; initiating a voice call using the received identifier; monitoring audio of the voice call; determining the monitored audio includes a predetermined wake word; beginning communications with the intelligent personal assistant, the communications including at least a portion of the monitored audio, the portion of the monitored audio comprising a request for the intelligent personal assistant; receiving a result from the intelligent personal assistant, the result being responsive to the request; receiving indicia that the voice call is over from at least one of the called party and a calling party; and terminating the voice call using the indicia.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: Ooma, Inc.
    Inventors: Thaddeus White, Karl Osterlund, Tobin E. Farrand, Arvind Vasudev, Douglas Hart, David A. Bryan, William M. Gillon
  • Patent number: 11316974
    Abstract: Cloud-based assistive services for use in telecommunications and on premise devices are disclosed herein. An example method includes: operating in a monitoring state to actively monitor for a first predetermined action, receiving an audio stream based on communications between a first party and a second party, identifying the first predetermined action, establishing one- or two-way communications with any of the first party or the second party in response to the first predetermined action, determining a request for the intelligent personal assistant service in the one- or two-way communications, generating a result by the intelligent personal assistant service, the result being responsive to the request, providing the result to any of the first party and the second party, receiving a second predetermined action from any of the first party and the second party, and returning the intelligent personal assistant service to the monitoring state based on the second predetermined action.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: Ooma, Inc.
    Inventors: Thaddeus White, Karl Osterlund, Tobin E. Farrand, Arvind Vasudev, Douglas E. Hart, David A. Bryan, William M. Gillon
  • Patent number: 11171875
    Abstract: Systems and methods for communications network failure detection and remediation utilizing link probes are disclosed. Exemplary methods include: receiving first communications from a first client; authenticating the first user of the first client; creating a registration for the first client in a registration database; establishing a connection to the first client; detecting the connection to the first client has failed, the detecting comprising using a link probe to test connectivity of the first client and utilizing a voting scheme, based on the plurality of connectivity test results, to determine that the connection to the first client has failed; receiving second communications from the second client; authenticating the first user of the second client using the telephone number and the security credential; removing the registration for the first client from the registration database; creating a registration for the second client; and establishing a connection to the second client.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignee: Ooma, Inc.
    Inventors: Karl Osterlund, Tobin E. Farrand, William M. Gillon, David A. Bryan, Arvind Vasudev, Douglas E. Hart
  • Publication number: 20200322283
    Abstract: Systems and methods for communications network failure detection and remediation utilizing link probes are disclosed. Exemplary methods include: receiving first communications from a first client; authenticating the first user of the first client; creating a registration for the first client in a registration database; establishing a connection to the first client; detecting the connection to the first client has failed, the detecting comprising using a link probe to test connectivity of the first client and utilizing a voting scheme, based on the plurality of connectivity test results, to determine that the connection to the first client has failed; receiving second communications from the second client; authenticating the first user of the second client using the telephone number and the security credential; removing the registration for the first client from the registration database; creating a registration for the second client; and establishing a connection to the second client.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2020
    Publication date: October 8, 2020
    Inventors: Karl Osterlund, Tobin E. Farrand, William M. Gillon, David A. Bryan, Arvind Vasudev, Douglas E. Hart
  • Patent number: 10771396
    Abstract: Systems and methods for communications network failure detection and remediation. Exemplary methods include: receiving first communications using a network from a first client, the first communications including an identifier for a user of the first client and a security credential of the user; authenticating the first user using the identifier and the security credential; creating, responsive to the authenticating, a registration for the first client in a registration database, the registration including an address for the first client, the registration being used to route second communications from a second client to the first client; establishing, responsive to the authenticating, a connection to the first client; detecting the connection has failed; and removing, responsive to the detecting, the registration from the registration database.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Assignee: Ooma, Inc.
    Inventors: Karl Osterlund, Tobin E. Farrand, William M. Gillon, David A. Bryan, Arvind Vasudev, Douglas E. Hart
  • Publication number: 20200186644
    Abstract: Cloud-based assistive services for use in telecommunications and on premise devices are disclosed herein. An example method includes: operating in a monitoring state to actively monitor for a first predetermined action, receiving an audio stream based on communications between a first party and a second party, identifying the first predetermined action, establishing one- or two-way communications with any of the first party or the second party in response to the first predetermined action, determining a request for the intelligent personal assistant service in the one- or two-way communications, generating a result by the intelligent personal assistant service, the result being responsive to the request, providing the result to any of the first party and the second party, receiving a second predetermined action from any of the first party and the second party, and returning the intelligent personal assistant service to the monitoring state based on the second predetermined action.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2020
    Publication date: June 11, 2020
    Inventors: Thaddeus White, Karl Osterlund, Tobin E. Farrand, Arvind Vasudev, Douglas E. Hart, David A. Bryan, William M. Gillon
  • Publication number: 20180302334
    Abstract: Systems and methods for communications network failure detection and remediation. Exemplary methods include: receiving first communications using a network from a first client, the first communications including an identifier for a user of the first client and a security credential of the user; authenticating the first user using the identifier and the security credential; creating, responsive to the authenticating, a registration for the first client in a registration database, the registration including an address for the first client, the registration being used to route second communications from a second client to the first client; establishing, responsive to the authenticating, a connection to the first client; detecting the connection has failed; and removing, responsive to the detecting, the registration from the registration database.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 18, 2018
    Publication date: October 18, 2018
    Inventors: Karl Osterlund, Tobin E. Farrand, William M. Gillon, David A. Bryan, Arvind Vasudev, Douglas E. Hart
  • Publication number: 20180152557
    Abstract: Systems and methods for augmenting an appliance device with an intelligent personal assistant. Exemplary methods include: receiving, by the appliance device, an identifier for a called party; initiating a voice call using the received identifier; monitoring audio of the voice call; determining the monitored audio includes a predetermined wake word; beginning communications with the intelligent personal assistant, the communications including at least a portion of the monitored audio, the portion of the monitored audio comprising a request for the intelligent personal assistant; receiving a result from the intelligent personal assistant, the result being responsive to the request; receiving indicia that the voice call is over from at least one of the called party and a calling party; and terminating the voice call using the indicia.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2018
    Publication date: May 31, 2018
    Inventors: Thaddeus White, Karl Osterlund, Tobin E. Farrand, Arvind Vasudev, Douglas Hart, David A. Bryan, William M. Gillon
  • Patent number: 5249270
    Abstract: The present invention works in combination with an integrated set of hardware and software tools that support rapid design, programming, debugging, implementation, and testing of local operation network local operation network nodes and applications. These hardware and software tools speed development by enabling developers to use object-oriented concepts, such as network variables and input/output objects, rather than low-level constructs. The development environment operates with an IBM PC/AT or compatible computer and can grow from a single emulated application node to a completely distributed system of up to 24 emulated nodes and hundreds of remote nodes. The invention is mainly directed to a repeater circuit which is part of a control processor board, and is used to send and receive the serial signals between the PC and connected development stations, and the serial data protocol which enables the development stations to be automatically configured at system start-up.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 1991
    Date of Patent: September 28, 1993
    Assignee: Echelon Corporation
    Inventors: J. Marcus Stewart, Karl Osterlund