Patents by Inventor Michael Chen

Michael Chen 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: 20250144527
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus are described herein for monitoring a gaming environment and adjusting one or more adaptive controls to aid or impair one or more players in the gaming environment so as to achieve a desired result, such as parity among the players.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2023
    Publication date: May 8, 2025
    Inventors: Michael Chen, Arpit Mathur
  • Publication number: 20250148666
    Abstract: A technique for generating and displaying treemaps representing tree hierarchies, including receiving, via a treemap user interface, a user selection to view a treemap of a tree hierarchy, determining, for a first parent node included in a plurality of nodes of the tree hierarchy, a total number of descendent nodes of the first parent node within the tree hierarchy, computing, for the first parent node, a first size of a first box based on the total number of descendent nodes of the first parent node, and displaying to the user, via the treemap user interface, the treemap that represents the tree hierarchy and includes the first box, wherein the first box represents the first parent node and has the first size.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2024
    Publication date: May 8, 2025
    Inventors: Justin Frank MATEJKA, Michael CHEN, George William FITZMAURICE
  • Publication number: 20250139206
    Abstract: Methods are described for awarding non-fungible tokens (NFTs) and shared NFTs to members of a group participating and interacting with content provided on one or more devices. The NFTs may be generated, awarded, and assigned based on the engagement of the individual members of the group and the collective engagement of the group with the content.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2023
    Publication date: May 1, 2025
    Inventors: Arpit Mathur, Michael Chen
  • Publication number: 20250141200
    Abstract: A mounting assembly for securing a cable to an edge. The assembly comprises a first clamping jaw including an integral elongate locking element, and first guides laterally disposed on opposing sides of the locking element. A second clamping jaw includes a locking channel and second guides. At least one mounting aperture is arranged relative to a mounting surface such that a fastening strap may be passed through the aperture and looped over the surface to secure a cable thereto. The guides engage to align, and to guide, the jaws towards each other in a clamping direction. The locking element is insertable through the locking channel in the clamping direction. The locking element and locking channel are configured to interlock to prevent removal of the locking element from the locking channel in a direction opposite to the clamping direction, such that the jaws are held in a clamping configuration.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2024
    Publication date: May 1, 2025
    Applicant: HellermannTyton Limited
    Inventors: Graeme Morley, Michael Chen, Steve Blanks, Adam Butt
  • Patent number: 12289314
    Abstract: Methods and systems are described for providing conditional access to a service. One or more tasks may be associated with a user profile. The one or more tasks may be indicated as required to be completed to access the service. The one or more tasks may have associated deadlines. If a task is not completed by the deadline, then any device associated with the user profile may be blocked from access to the service.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2025
    Assignee: Comcast Cable Communications, LLC
    Inventors: Jeffrey Ziembicki, Bin Wen, Michael Chen
  • Publication number: 20250130927
    Abstract: Techniques are provided for automated generation of software application test cases for evaluation of software application issues. One method comprises obtaining a first mapping of log event templates, related to log events in a software application log, to respective log event template vectors; obtaining a second mapping of test step vectors, generated using the log event template vectors, to respective test step functions, wherein a given test step vector comprises one or more of the log event template vectors; in response to obtaining information characterizing a software application issue: generating test step vector representations of the information characterizing the software application issue, using the first mapping; mapping the test step vector representations of the information to respective test step functions using the second mapping; and generating a test case logic flow to evaluate the software application issue using the mapped test step functions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 3, 2023
    Publication date: April 24, 2025
    Inventors: Kiko Nan Wang, Michael Chen, Jessica Jing Ye
  • Publication number: 20250127894
    Abstract: Method for preparing armed immune cells, comprising: isolating a population of CD3+ immune cells from a human blood sample; and contacting the population of immune cells with a bi-specific antibody specific to CD3 and a tumor associated antigen (TAA) to produce armed immune cells, which display the bi-specific antibody on the cell surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 10, 2022
    Publication date: April 24, 2025
    Inventors: Michael Chen, Kuo-Hsiang Chuang, Yi-Jou Chen
  • Patent number: 12277292
    Abstract: A multi-virtual button finger-touch input system includes a cover layer, force-measuring and touch-sensing integrated circuits (FMTSICs), each coupled to the inner surface of the cover layer corresponding to one of the virtual buttons, an elongate flexible circuit, and a host controller. The FMTSICs are mounted to the elongate flexible circuit. The host controller is in communication with each of the FMTSICs via digital bus wiring. The host controller is configured to: (1) obtain force-localization features and ultrasound-localization features of the FMTSICs and (2) determine whether an event is a finger-touch event or a false-trigger event and if the event is determined to be finger-touch event, identify one of the virtual buttons as a touched virtual button, using at least in part a model that has the force-localization features and the ultrasound-localization features as inputs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2025
    Assignee: UltraSense Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Chen, Zhongxuan Tu, Sina Akhbari, Hao-Yen Tang
  • Publication number: 20250119774
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and apparatuses are described for verification of wireless network connection. A wireless local area network may comprise a client device and a gateway. A data connection, within the wireless local area network, between the client device and the gateway may be verified based on gateway identifiers provided to the client device via data communication channels internal and external the wireless local area network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2024
    Publication date: April 10, 2025
    Inventors: Weston SCHMIDT, Michael CHEN, Sreekant KOTAY
  • Patent number: 12267761
    Abstract: Systems, apparatuses, and methods are described for identifying and managing event notifications. An event notification manager may determine whether the received data corresponds to an occurring or a false event. The event notification manager may cause one or more user devices to output an event notification by at least partially interrupting output of other content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: Comcast Cable Communications, LLC
    Inventors: Michael Chen, Jeff Ziembicki
  • Publication number: 20250103560
    Abstract: Hierarchical storage of files is described. An example method includes determining an input/output (IO) mode, a file size, and a file access frequency of a target file, and determining IO mode performances of the IO mode at different tiers of a storage system. The method further includes determining, based on the file size of the target file, respective storage costs when the target file is stored at the different tiers of the storage system. In addition, the method further includes determining a target tier at which the target file is stored based on the IO mode performances, the respective storage costs, the file size, and the file access frequency. In this way, it is possible to make full use of less expensive storage tiers and save the cost of the storage system, as well as to reduce the response time and improve the performance of the storage system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2023
    Publication date: March 27, 2025
    Inventors: Helen Dong, Michael Chen, Huijuan Fan
  • Patent number: 12250415
    Abstract: Disclosed are systems and methods for improving interactions with and between computers in content generating, searching, hosting and/or providing systems supported by or configured with personal computing devices, servers and/or platforms. The systems interact to identify and retrieve data within or across platforms, which can be used to improve the quality of data used in processing interactions between or among processors in such systems. The disclosed systems and methods automatically analyze a live streaming media file, and identify portions of the media that are highlights. The content classified as a highlight can be shared across social media platforms, and indexed for searching respective to attributes of the video content. The streaming and highlight media content is renderable in a novel, modified video player that enables variable playback speeds for how content is classified, and enables on-demand selections of specific content portions and adjustable rendering displays during streaming.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: YAHOO ASSETS LLC
    Inventors: Bin Ni, Kirk Lieb, Rick Hawes, Yale Song, Benoit Schillings, Vahe Oughourlian, Jordi Vallmitjana, Jennelle Nystrom, Hardik Ruparel, Michael Chen, Adam Mathes, Arunkumar Balasubramanian, Jian Zhou, Matt Edelman
  • Patent number: 12243189
    Abstract: A viewer may zoom in on an image to see a portion of the image. The image may be analyzed to determine if zoom enhancement is necessary. The zoomed region may be matched to a replacement texture. The replacement texture may be used to enhance the image by replacing some or all of the image data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: Comcast Cable Communications, LLC
    Inventor: Michael Chen
  • Patent number: 12244888
    Abstract: An enhanced viewing device may move with a user as the user moves around the room. An amount of movement associated with the enhanced viewing device may be determined. Based on the amount of movement, an enhanced viewing experience may be determined and displayed to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: Comcast Cable Communications, LLC
    Inventor: Michael Chen
  • Publication number: 20250069599
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatuses are described for context-based speech processing. A current context may be determined. A subset of trigger words or phrases may be selected, from a plurality of trigger words, as trigger words that a computing device is configured to recognize in the determined current context. The computing device may be controlled to listen for only the subset of trigger words during speech recognition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2024
    Publication date: February 27, 2025
    Inventor: Michael Chen
  • Publication number: 20250018429
    Abstract: A static classifier including a vessel having an inlet and an outlet and having a vessel interior area. A classifier chamber is positioned in the vessel interior area. The classifier chamber has a plurality of openings extending through a side wall of the classifier chamber and into a classifier interior area of the classifier chamber. The plurality of openings are configured for passing particles entrained in a gas from the vessel interior area into the classifier interior area. One or more flow restrictors are arranged with the classifier chamber. The flow restrictors are configured to establish an optimal flow velocity and direction of the particles entrained in the gas, through the static classifier.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 22, 2024
    Publication date: January 16, 2025
    Applicant: Coperion Process Solutions LLC
    Inventor: Michael Chen
  • Patent number: 12200515
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and apparatuses are described for verification of wireless network connection. A wireless local area network may comprise a client device and a gateway. A data connection, within the wireless local area network, between the client device and the gateway may be verified based on gateway identifiers provided to the client device via data communication channels internal and external the wireless local area network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: Comcast Cable Communications, LLC
    Inventors: Weston Schmidt, Michael Chen, Sreekant Kotay
  • Patent number: 12190453
    Abstract: Systems and methods are described to enable the creation and use of one or more interest meshes that may comprise interest values associated with points of interest in a virtual environment. A mesh may adapt to different environments and may be automatically created based on predefined criteria used to assign interest values to digital assets or points (e.g., coordinates) in the virtual environment. The virtual environment may use a mesh to guide a user toward points of interest by determining desired positions and viewpoint orientations for the user and guiding the user from point to point. Further, events may be triggered in the virtual environment that may change one or more meshes and/or create a new point of interest for a user. The user may then be guided using the changed mesh(es) to points of interest, including new points of interest.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: Comcast Cable Communications, LLC
    Inventors: Arpit Mathur, Michael Chen, Mark Francisco
  • Patent number: 12185179
    Abstract: Methods and systems are disclosed relating to proximity detection of devices and targeted information services, such as information campaigns. Disclosed methods provide targeted campaigns to a user, such as targeted campaigns to presentation devices based on proximity of user devices near the information devices. Other methods provide targeted campaigns across various applications, while other methods provide for scheduling campaigns to premises device identifiers based on an event schedule, and other methods provide a hierarchal system for monitoring different sets of premises device identifiers when a user device can monitor for a limited number of premises device identifiers at a time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: Comcast Cable Communications, LLC
    Inventors: Michael Connelly, Franklyn Athias, Corey Farrell, Erami Botchway, John Hart, Michael Chen
  • Patent number: 12183337
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatuses are described for context-based speech processing. A current context may be determined. A subset of trigger words or phrases may be selected, from a plurality of trigger words, as trigger words that a computing device is configured to recognize in the determined current context. The computing device may be controlled to listen for only the subset of trigger words during speech recognition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: Comcast Cable Communications, LLC
    Inventor: Michael Chen