Patents by Inventor Mikko Vaananen

Mikko Vaananen 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: 11349975
    Abstract: The invention provides a method, system, and a software program product for assisting a user and/or managing tasks of the user, by a mobile secretary cloud application configured to operate in a mobile client device and cloud server network. The mobile secretary cloud application reads data from another software application and operates at least one of another application and a third application based on the read data. Further, Artificial intelligence is utilized by the mobile secretary cloud application for operating another application and the third application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Inventor: Mikko Vaananen
  • Patent number: 11315082
    Abstract: A cloud based intelligent secretary application, a method and a system for scheduling a meeting is disclosed. The invention includes a cloud based intelligent secretary application, running on a mobile device (200, 500, 800, 1100) and a cloud server (222, 522, 822, 1122). The cloud based intelligent secretary application enables multiple users to form a group. The members of the group allow their mobile devices to be accessed by the cloud based intelligent secretary application. The cloud based intelligent secretary application receives a request for arranging a meeting (312) with at least two members of the group. The cloud based intelligent secretary application calculates the meeting means, place and time that allow the minimum total disruption and cost, and/or, maximum efficiency for the meeting. The cloud based intelligent secretary application suggests (340) the meeting means, place and time that allows the minimum total disruption and cost.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Inventor: Mikko Vaananen
  • Patent number: 11315091
    Abstract: The invention relates to the field of making online payments by integrating social networks and payment networks to a seamless network. In particular, the invention leverages the information in the social network to conduct financial transactions. The best mode of the invention is considered to be a social payment network app that incorporates all or most of the functions of credit cards, internet banking and money order companies by using the data and functions already available in the social network. The invention provides better counterparty recognition, reduces the chance of fraud, or fraud, and provides a cheaper payment platform to consumers (110, 410) or small businesses while also reducing the administrative burden in making and paying purchases or reporting payments and/or expenses to third parties, such as the employer or tax administration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Inventor: Mikko Vaananen
  • Publication number: 20220038569
    Abstract: The invention provides a method, system, and a software program product for assisting a user and/or managing tasks of the user, by a mobile secretary cloud application configured to operate in a mobile client device and cloud server network. The mobile secretary cloud application reads data from another software application and operates at least one of another application and a third application based on the read data. Further, Artificial intelligence is utilized by the mobile secretary cloud application for operating another application and the third application.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2021
    Publication date: February 3, 2022
    Inventor: Mikko VAANANEN
  • Publication number: 20210384973
    Abstract: The invention relates to base stations in communication networks. In more particular the invention relates to cellular base stations such as 3G/4G and WLAN base stations. Some or all of the aforementioned advantages of the invention are accrued with a fully photonic base station (200) that powers itself with solar photons, provides radio network access and relays an optical photonic beam (220, 221, 230, 231) through air encoded with the data from radio signals of computer users and mobile phone users to the Internet and the global telecommunication network. A system engineer can build a network with the inventive base stations in a matter of days. He simply walks to the roof of houses and points the optical beams to other base stations in adjacent houses.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 21, 2021
    Publication date: December 9, 2021
    Inventor: Mikko Vaananen
  • Publication number: 20210366013
    Abstract: Mobile search may be provided by acquiring a current location; transmitting, in parallel at a query time, first and second queries (including the current location) to a search service; receiving first and second sets of search results responsive, respectively, to the first and second queries, wherein the first set of search results identify a first set of facilities that are within a given proximity range from the current location and the second set of search results identify a second set of facilities that are within the given proximity range from the current location; displaying a first predefined number of the first set of search results according to a first ranking; and displaying, simultaneously with the first predefined number of the first set of search results, a second predefined number of the second set of search results according to a second ranking.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 6, 2021
    Publication date: November 25, 2021
    Inventor: Mikko VÄÄNÄNEN
  • Patent number: 11184471
    Abstract: The invention provides a method, system, and a software program product for assisting a user and/or managing tasks of the user, by a mobile secretary cloud application configured to operate in a mobile client device and cloud server network. The mobile secretary cloud application reads data from another software application and operates at least one of another application and a third application based on the read data. Further, Artificial intelligence is utilized by the mobile secretary cloud application for operating another application and the third application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Inventor: Mikko Vaananen
  • Publication number: 20210343890
    Abstract: In methods and apparatus for improving the power generated, and thus efficiency of solar cells, a double or triple junction tandem solar cell that has one or two photon filters of the invention in between the solar cell layers, respectively. The photon filter is arranged to reflect photons with wavelength shorter than ?x and arranged to be transparent to photons of wavelength longer than ?x by focussing the lower energy photons out of small area apertures on the other side of the photon filter and arranging the other side of the photon filter to reflect at least some of the photons of wavelength longer than ?x. By using the photon filters of the invention in between the solar cell layers, photons can be trapped between filters to solar cell layers at an energy at which the quantum efficiency of the solar cell layer is the best.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 7, 2021
    Publication date: November 4, 2021
    Inventor: Mikko VAANANEN
  • Patent number: 11151626
    Abstract: A mobile station is arranged to determine its location, which is searched against street addresses from a database, and at least one matching street address is retrieved. The street address is searched on the mobile station and/or over the network. The search engine conducts a search in the mobile station file system and/or the Internet and/or a file system over the network with the at least one query term, —at least one search result is arranged to be displayed to user on the screen of the mobile station. This facilitates on-demand effortless Mobile Internet Search that allows the users to access opportunities that they did not know about, or would not have had time to find out about with minimum effort as the software of the mobile phone is scanning the Internet and information pages for these opportunities and displaying the results dynamically on the mobile phone screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: Suinno Oy
    Inventor: Mikko Väänänen
  • Patent number: 11132738
    Abstract: The invention provides a refrigerator system, a method and a software program product for controlling and/or advising a diet for a user. The refrigerator system has a refrigerator including a light and a camera that captures an image of contents of the refrigerator. The image is processed by a graphics processing unit (GPU) integrated with the refrigerator and/or a cloud server. The GPU analyses the image to recognise a quantity, a quality, and/or a kind of food articles and/or food packages such as, vegetables, fruits, beverages, etc. A central processing unit (CPU)/GPU of the refrigerator provides diet plans, recipe recommendations, identifies grocery replenishment requirements, updates and shares shopping lists with food delivery agents, etc., based on the analysis of the refrigerator contents. The invention helps in minimizing food wastage, expanding meal options considering expiry dates, and maximizing benefits of a healthy diet by recommending and controlling the user's diet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2021
    Inventor: Mikko Vaananen
  • Patent number: 11128374
    Abstract: The invention relates to base stations in communication networks. In more particular the invention relates to cellular base stations such as 3G/4G and WLAN base stations. Some or all of the aforementioned advantages of the invention are accrued with a fully photonic base station (200) that powers itself with solar photons, provides radio network access and relays an optical photonic beam (220, 221, 230, 231) through air encoded with the data from radio signals of computer users and mobile phone users to the Internet and the global telecommunication network. A system engineer can build a network with the inventive base stations in a matter of days. He simply walks to the roof of houses and points the optical beams to other base stations in adjacent houses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2021
    Inventor: Mikko Vaananen
  • Publication number: 20210184767
    Abstract: The invention relates to base stations in communication networks. In more particular the invention relates to cellular base stations such as 3G/4G and WLAN base stations. Some or all of the aforementioned advantages of the invention are accrued with a fully photonic base station (200) that powers itself with solar photons, provides radio network access and relays an optical photonic beam (220, 221, 230, 231) through air encoded with the data from radio signals of computer users and mobile phone users to the Internet and the global telecommunication network. A system engineer can build a network with the inventive base stations in a matter of days. He simply walks to the roof of houses and points the optical beams to other base stations in adjacent houses.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2019
    Publication date: June 17, 2021
    Inventor: Mikko Vaananen
  • Publication number: 20210151620
    Abstract: In methods and apparatus for improving the power generated, and thus efficiency of solar cells, a double or triple junction tandem solar cell that has one or two photon filters of the invention in between the solar cell layers, respectively. The photon filter is arranged to reflect photons with wavelength shorter than ?x and arranged to be transparent to photons of wavelength longer than ?x by focussing the lower energy photons out of small area apertures on the other side of the photon filter and arranging the other side of the photon filter to reflect at least some of the photons of wavelength longer than ?x. By using the photon filters of the invention in between the solar cell layers, photons can be trapped between filters to solar cell layers at an energy at which the quantum efficiency of the solar cell layer is the best.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 4, 2021
    Publication date: May 20, 2021
    Inventor: Mikko VAANANEN
  • Patent number: 10936989
    Abstract: The invention discloses a waitressing drone that brings drinks to people at the restaurant, and the orders are identified from the Facebook photo of the user, that the drone displays when making the delivery. The invention facilitates the interaction with humans and drones via the social network. With the invention, the order input time is greatly reduced for the consumer, and the consumer may move about while waiting for the order as the drone finds the consumer. Also importantly, the social nature of the drone allows for the sharing of drones among multiple human users. Further, the interfacing of the social human profile with non-human drone profiles allows for the continuous retraining and reprogramming of drones to meet more specific and individualistic user tasks, thereby liberating people from mundane manual labour.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Inventor: Mikko Vaananen
  • Patent number: 10885140
    Abstract: A search engine (200, 500, 800), method and a system for performing a search is provided. The search engine (200, 500, 800) is connected to at least one mobile device (210, 510, 810) and at least one web crawler (222, 522, 822). The web crawler (222, 522, 822) is configured to index documents and classify said documents. The search engine (200, 500, 800) receives a query from the mobile device (210, 510, 810) which is determined to be best answered by a crowd-sourced answer. The search engine (200, 500, 800) searches the documents and delivers at least one crowd-sourced answer (318, 618, 918). The search engine (200, 500, 800) displays the crowd-sourced answer (318, 618, 918) to a user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2021
    Inventor: Mikko Vaananen
  • Publication number: 20200402189
    Abstract: The invention relates to field of filing legal documents via the cloud (100, 130). The best mode of this invention is considered to be cloud based internet filing and storage system of legal documents that allows the user to compose and file documents, based on computer generated attorney instructions, forms and letter templates, without actually hiring an attorney. The invention has the advantage of providing legally correct advice at an affordable price to the end customer in multiple jurisdictions and substantive fields at once.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 1, 2020
    Publication date: December 24, 2020
    Inventor: Mikko VAANANEN
  • Publication number: 20200334642
    Abstract: A cloud based intelligent secretary application, a method and a system for scheduling a meeting is disclosed. The invention includes a cloud based intelligent secretary application, running on a mobile device (200, 500, 800, 1100) and a cloud server (222, 522, 822, 1122). The cloud based intelligent secretary application enables multiple users to form a group. The members of the group allow their mobile devices to be accessed by the cloud based intelligent secretary application. The cloud based intelligent secretary application receives a request for arranging a meeting (312) with at least two members of the group. The cloud based intelligent secretary application calculates the meeting means, place and time that allow the minimum total disruption and cost, and/or, maximum efficiency for the meeting. The cloud based intelligent secretary application suggests (340) the meeting means, place and time that allows the minimum total disruption and cost.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2020
    Publication date: October 22, 2020
    Inventor: Mikko VAANANEN
  • Publication number: 20200327178
    Abstract: A search engine (200, 500, 800), method and a system for performing a search is provided. The search engine (200, 500, 800) is connected to at least one mobile device (210, 510, 810) and at least one web crawler (222, 522, 822). The web crawler (222, 522, 822) is configured to index documents and classify said documents. The search engine (200, 500, 800) receives a query from the mobile device (210, 510, 810) which is determined to be best answered by a crowd-sourced answer. The search engine (200, 500, 800) searches the documents and delivers at least one crowd-sourced answer (318, 618, 918). The search engine (200, 500, 800) displays the crowd-sourced answer (318, 618, 918) to a user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 8, 2020
    Publication date: October 15, 2020
    Inventor: Mikko VAANANEN
  • Patent number: 10796389
    Abstract: The invention relates to field of filing legal documents via the cloud (100, 130). The best mode of this invention is considered to be cloud based internet filing and storage system of legal documents that allows the user to compose and file documents, based on computer generated attorney instructions, forms and letter templates, without actually hiring an attorney. The invention has the advantage of providing legally correct advice at an affordable price to the end customer in multiple jurisdictions and substantive fields at once.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Inventor: Mikko Vaananen
  • Publication number: 20200279228
    Abstract: The invention provides a method, system, and a software program product for assisting a user and/or managing tasks of the user, by a mobile secretary cloud application configured to operate in a mobile client device and cloud server network. The mobile secretary cloud application reads data from another software application and operates at least one of another application and a third application based on the read data. Further, Artificial intelligence is utilized by the mobile secretary cloud application for operating another application and the third application.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2018
    Publication date: September 3, 2020
    Inventor: Mikko VAANANEN