Patents by Inventor Nir Shapira
Nir Shapira 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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Patent number: 11977653Abstract: A computer implemented method for securing at least one of files and records related to a specific process, the method comprising obtaining interaction data comprising one or more persons and one or more files and/or records, said interaction data comprises a process interaction score between at least one user and the specific process; identifying, from the interaction data, one or more persons and one or more files and/or records related to the specific process; comparing a process threshold with a process interaction score between a target user and the specific process; and in response to the comparison satisfying a rule, performing a security operation on the one or more files and/or records related to the specific process.Type: GrantFiled: March 7, 2022Date of Patent: May 7, 2024Assignee: RECOLABS LTD.Inventors: Tal Shapira, Eyal Asulin, Dorin Shmaryahu, Gilad Wisney, Gal Bezalel, Nir Weingarten
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Patent number: 11567561Abstract: An energy-aware system is provided. The system includes an energy harvester adapted to supply harvested energy as an output for storage at an energy storage; and a scheduler, the scheduler being made up of, at least in part, hardware of the energy-aware system, the scheduler operable to schedule execution of operations performed by the energy-aware system, wherein the scheduler is configured to: determine if a current voltage level at the energy storage is higher than a start voltage level; and cause initiation of execution of at least a portion one of the operations when the start voltage of the one of the operations levels is lower than or equal to the current voltage level.Type: GrantFiled: September 1, 2020Date of Patent: January 31, 2023Assignee: Wiliot, Ltd.Inventors: Yaron Elboim, Dotan Ziv, Yuval Amran, Nir Shapira
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Patent number: 11342924Abstract: A battery-less Internet of things (IoT) tag integrated with a proximity sensor is disclosed. The battery-less IoT tag includes: a transmit antenna designed to have an inductive element; an integrated circuit having a capacitive element; and an energy harvester coupled to a capacitor, wherein the capacitor is an on-die capacitor and the energy harvester is configured to harvest energy from ambient signals, wherein the inductive element and the capacitive element form the proximity sensor oscillating at a local oscillator (LO) frequency, and wherein a frequency offset from the LO frequency is indicative of a detection of a nearby object.Type: GrantFiled: April 5, 2021Date of Patent: May 24, 2022Assignee: Wiliot Ltd.Inventors: Alon Yehezkely, Nir Shapira
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Publication number: 20220116212Abstract: A method for generating an encryption key is provided to encrypt data exchanged between a first user and a second user, wherein the key is determined from measurements of the transmission channel.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 2, 2021Publication date: April 14, 2022Inventors: Renaud MOLIÈRE, Christiane KAMENI NGASSA, François DELAVEAU, Claude LEMÉNAGER, Alain SIBILLE, Taghrid MAZLOUM, Nir SHAPIRA
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Patent number: 11176435Abstract: A system and method for method for testing an energy harvesting tag, comprising: transmitting a harvesting signal to an energy harvesting tag at time T1; receiving a response signal from the energy harvesting tag at time T2; determining a capacitor charging time of the energy harvesting tag as a difference between T2 and T1; and assigning a pass value to the energy harvesting tag when the capacitor charging time is less than a predetermined threshold amount.Type: GrantFiled: February 5, 2020Date of Patent: November 16, 2021Assignee: Wiliot Ltd.Inventors: Yaron Elboim, Nir Shapira
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Publication number: 20210226640Abstract: A battery-less Interest of things (IoT) tag integrated with a proximity sensor is disclosed. The battery-less IoT tag includes: a transmit antenna designed to have an inductive element; an integrated circuit having a capacitive element; and an energy harvester coupled to a capacitor, wherein the capacitor is an on-die capacitor and the harvester is configured to harvest energy from ambient signals, wherein the inductive element and the capacitive element form the proximity sensor oscillating at a local oscillator (LO) frequency, and wherein a frequency offset from the LO frequency is indicative of a detection of a nearby object.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 5, 2021Publication date: July 22, 2021Applicant: Wiliot, Ltd.Inventors: Alon YEHEZKELY, Nir SHAPIRA
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Patent number: 10972110Abstract: A local oscillator frequency-based proximity sensor is disclosed. The proximity sensor includes: an integrated circuit having at least a capacitive element; and an antenna designed with an inductive element; wherein the capacitive element and the inductive element form a proximity sensor oscillating at a local oscillator (LO) frequency, wherein the integrated circuit is configured to measure a frequency offset from the LO frequency, wherein the frequency offset is indicative of a detection of a nearby object.Type: GrantFiled: January 16, 2020Date of Patent: April 6, 2021Assignee: Wiliot, LTD.Inventors: Alon Yehezkely, Nir Shapira
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Publication number: 20200401203Abstract: An energy-aware system is provided. The system includes an energy harvester adapted to supply harvested energy as an output for storage at an energy storage; and a scheduler, the scheduler being made up of, at least in part, hardware of the energy-aware system, the scheduler operable to schedule execution of operations performed by the energy-aware system, wherein the scheduler is configured to: determine if a current voltage level at the energy storage is higher than a start voltage level; and cause initiation of execution of at least a portion one of the operations when the start voltage of the one of the operations levels is lower than or equal to the current voltage level.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 1, 2020Publication date: December 24, 2020Applicant: Wiliot, LTD.Inventors: Yaron ELBOIM, Dotan ZIV, Yuval AMRAN, Nir SHAPIRA
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Patent number: 10833855Abstract: A wireless device (24) includes a modem (56) and processing circuitry (50, 52). The modem is configured to modulate signals for transmission over wireless channels, and demodulate signals received over the wireless channels. The processing circuitry is configured to receive a first frame from a second wireless device over a wireless channel via the modem, and transmit a second frame to the second wireless device via the modem over the wireless channel, to calculate a first Channel State Information (CSI) based on the first frame, to calculate a first normalized CSI by applying to the first CSI a normalization procedure, and generate, based on the first normalized CSI, a first key that due to the normalization procedure has an increased likelihood to match a second key generated in the second wireless device based on the second frame, and to communicate securely with the second wireless device over the wireless channel using the first key.Type: GrantFiled: March 19, 2017Date of Patent: November 10, 2020Assignee: CELENO COMMUNICATIONS (ISRAEL) LTD.Inventors: Nir Shapira, Shachar Hauzner
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Patent number: 10782772Abstract: An energy-aware system, and method thereof are provided. The energy-aware system includes a microcontroller; an energy storage; a plurality of execution functions integrated in a system on chip (SoC); and a scheduler configured to schedule execution of operations based on available energy at the energy storage and energy requires to complete each of the operations.Type: GrantFiled: July 11, 2018Date of Patent: September 22, 2020Assignee: WILIOT, LTD.Inventors: Yaron Elboim, Dotan Ziv, Yuval Amran, Nir Shapira
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Publication number: 20200251228Abstract: A system and method for method for testing an energy harvesting tag, comprising: transmitting a harvesting signal to an energy harvesting tag at time T1; receiving a response signal from the energy harvesting tag at time T2; determining a capacitor charging time of the energy harvesting tag as a difference between T2 and T1; and assigning a pass value to the energy harvesting tag when the capacitor charging time is less than a predetermined threshold amount.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 5, 2020Publication date: August 6, 2020Applicant: Wiliot, LTD.Inventors: Yaron ELBOIM, Nir SHAPIRA
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Publication number: 20200228124Abstract: A local oscillator frequency-based proximity sensor is disclosed. The proximity sensor includes: an integrated circuit having at least a capacitive element; and an antenna designed with an inductive element; wherein the capacitive element and the inductive element form a proximity sensor oscillating at a local oscillator (LO) frequency, wherein the integrated circuit is configured to measure a frequency offset from the LO frequency, wherein the frequency offset is indicative of a detection of a nearby object.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 16, 2020Publication date: July 16, 2020Applicant: Wiliot, LTD.Inventors: Alon YEHEZKELY, Nir SHAPIRA
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Patent number: 10700718Abstract: An oscillator calibration circuit is provided. The oscillator calibration circuit includes a signal frequency detector for producing a reference signal from a received over-the-air signal detecting a frequency of the over-the-air signal; and a first frequency locking circuit (FLC) coupled to the signal frequency detector and to a first oscillator, wherein the first FLC calibrates the frequency of the first oscillator using the reference signal to a radio frequency (RF) carrier frequency, wherein the reference signal is utilized for calibrating the first oscillator based on the frequency of the detected over-the-air signal.Type: GrantFiled: July 18, 2019Date of Patent: June 30, 2020Assignee: WILIOT, LTD.Inventors: Nir Shapira, Shay Koren
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Patent number: 10608999Abstract: An apparatus includes a Base Station (BS) that includes an antenna array and circuitry. The antenna array is configured to transmit downlink transmissions and to receive uplink transmissions. The circuitry is configured to generate secret bits to be used for securing uplink transmissions from legitimate user devices, and to distribute the secret bits over one or more data streams destined to the legitimate user devices, to further generate one or more jamming streams, and to apply to the jamming streams beamforming that directs the jamming streams away from the legitimate user devices, to transmit the data streams and the jamming streams using the antenna array, to receive, via the antenna array, data that was encrypted by a legitimate user device based on the secret bits, and to recover the data by decoding the encrypted data using the secret bits.Type: GrantFiled: November 27, 2017Date of Patent: March 31, 2020Assignee: CELENO COMMUNICATIONS (ISRAEL) LTD.Inventor: Nir Shapira
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Publication number: 20200028530Abstract: An oscillator calibration circuit is provided. The oscillator calibration circuit includes a signal frequency detector for producing a reference signal from a received over-the-air signal detecting a frequency of the over-the-air signal; and a first frequency locking circuit (FLC) coupled to the signal frequency detector and to a first oscillator, wherein the first FLC calibrates the frequency of the first oscillator using the reference signal to a radio frequency (RF) carrier frequency, wherein the reference signal is utilized for calibrating the first oscillator based on the frequency of the detected over-the-air signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 18, 2019Publication date: January 23, 2020Applicant: Wiliot, Ltd.Inventors: Nir SHAPIRA, Shay KOREN
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Patent number: 10270566Abstract: A wireless access point (AP) includes multiple transmit antennas and circuitry. The circuitry is configured to transmit multiple sounding frames to a receiver that includes one or more receive antennas, the sounding frames are transmitted via respective different partial subgroups of the transmit antennas, to receive from the receiver feedback information that specifies for each of the sounding frames a respective channel between the transmit antennas in the respective partial subgroup and the receive antennas, and, to determine a steering matrix based on the feedback information, and transmit to at least the receiver via at least some of the transmit antennas using the steering matrix.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2016Date of Patent: April 23, 2019Assignee: Celeno Communications (Israel) Ltd.Inventors: Nir Shapira, Gregory Lerner
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Publication number: 20190098497Abstract: A wireless device (24) includes a modem (56) and processing circuitry (50, 52). The modem is configured to modulate signals for transmission over wireless channels, and demodulate signals received over the wireless channels. The processing circuitry is configured to receive a first frame from a second wireless device over a wireless channel via the modem, and transmit a second frame to the second wireless device via the modem over the wireless channel, to calculate a first Channel State Information (CSI) based on the first frame, to calculate a first normalized CSI by applying to the first CSI a normalization procedure, and generate, based on the first normalized CSI, a first key that due to the normalization procedure has an increased likelihood to match a second key generated in the second wireless device based on the second frame, and to communicate securely with the second wireless device over the wireless channel using the first key.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 19, 2017Publication date: March 28, 2019Inventors: Nir Shapira, Shachar Hauzner
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Publication number: 20190018472Abstract: An energy-aware system, and method thereof are provided. The energy-aware system includes a microcontroller; an energy storage; a plurality of execution functions integrated in a system on chip (SoC); and a scheduler configured to schedule execution of operations based on available energy at the energy storage and energy requires to complete each of the operations.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 11, 2018Publication date: January 17, 2019Applicant: Wiliot, LTD.Inventors: Yaron ELBOIM, Dotan ZIV, Yuval AMRAN, Nir SHAPIRA
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Publication number: 20190020473Abstract: A method for generating an encryption key is provided to encrypt data exchanged between a first user and a second user, wherein the key is determined from measurements of the transmission channel.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 29, 2016Publication date: January 17, 2019Inventors: Renaud MOLIÈRE, Christiane KAMENI NGASSA, François DELAVEAU, Claude LEMÉNAGER, Alain SIBILLE, Taghrid MAZLOUM, Nir SHAPIRA
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Patent number: 10154502Abstract: System and method for managing the spectrum of a multi-channel wireless communication system. Information related to other channels and bands is exchanged between a client associated to a first channel of the multi-channel wireless communication system and a multi-channel access point. The information includes, inter alia, capabilities of the access point and the client, working channel information of the access point, link quality metrics of the client in the other bands etc.Type: GrantFiled: July 9, 2012Date of Patent: December 11, 2018Assignee: Celeno Communications Ltd.Inventor: Nir Shapira