Patents by Inventor Randy L. Ekl

Randy L. Ekl 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: 11164119
    Abstract: Systems and methods are described for automatically assigning roles for an incident to user profiles using machine learning techniques to optimize the overall suitability of the automatic role assignments and to adapt to manual role reassignments. One or more roles of a plurality of roles for an incident are automatically assigned to each user profile of a plurality of user profiles by the computer-based system applying a combinatorial optimization routine. An indication is displayed on a screen of a determined relative suitability of a first user profile for each role of the plurality of roles. The computer-based system is configured to receive a manual reassignment selection of a different role of the plurality of roles to be assigned to the first user profile and the combinatorial optimization routine is updated based on the manual reassignment selection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: MOTOROLA SOLUTIONS, INC.
    Inventors: Nathan Babcock, Randy L. Ekl
  • Patent number: 10931597
    Abstract: A method for docking an unmanned aerial vehicle (“UAV”) equipped with a wireless communications system. The method includes coupling the UAV to a docking device that is configured to provide power and data communication to the UAV via a physical interface. The method further includes receiving, at a docking device controller, an identity of the UAV, and determining, based on the received identity of the UAV, an organization associated with the UAV. The method also includes accessing, via the docking device controller, a collaborative operating profile associated with the determined organization and the identity of the UAV. The method further includes providing access to one or more resources associated with the docking station based on the collaborative operating profile.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Assignee: MOTOROLA SOLUTIONS, INC.
    Inventors: Eric Johnson, Sanida Bratt, Randy L. Ekl, Youngeun Kang, Yanling Xu
  • Patent number: 10824615
    Abstract: One example method includes receiving, at an electronic computing device, a user query and identifying a time window in the past associated with the user query. The method further includes determining that the user query relates to a public safety incident. The method further includes generating a response to the user query. The response is generated as a function of the time window and information relating to the public safety incident. The method further includes storing the response such that information included in the response is added to one of (i) timeline information associated with a user of a communication device at a time commensurate with the time window and (ii) timeline information associated with the public safety incident at a time commensurate with the time window.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2020
    Assignee: MOTOROLA SOLUTIONS, INC.
    Inventors: Lee M. Proctor, Randy L. Ekl
  • Patent number: 10810280
    Abstract: A device, system and method for deploying communication devices based on historic incidents is provided. Predicted incident risks for a given time are determined for regions, based on distance and time differences of historic incidents, relative to the given time and a region over a first time period and a distance from a region, and incident prediction parameters for weighting the differences. From the predicted incident risks, a subset of the regions having highest predicted incident risks is determined, and a prediction efficiency is determined based on a number of the incidents in the subset relative to a total number of the incidents for the regions. The first time period, the distance, and the incident prediction parameters are varied when determining the predicted incident risks and the subset, to maximize the prediction efficiency for the second time period. Commands are generated for deploying communication devices to the subset.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignee: MOTOROLA SOLUTIONS, INC.
    Inventors: Mariya Bondareva, Randy L. Ekl, David Kaleko
  • Patent number: 10719900
    Abstract: A method and apparatus to perform actions in public safety incidents based on actions performed in prior incidents are disclosed. An example method includes receiving a first set of incident information associated with the public safety incident, receiving a second set of responder information associated with at least one public safety personnel, correlating, by using a public safety recommendation engine, the first set of incident information and the second set of responder information with one or more other sets of public safety incident information and responder information associated with prior incidents, identifying, by the public safety recommendation engine, at least one correlated mobile device action from mobile device actions associated with a subset of prior public safety incidents, and causing the correlated mobile device action to be at least one of presented as a recommendation on the corresponding mobile device and performed by the corresponding mobile device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2020
    Assignee: MOTOROLA SOLUTIONS, INC.
    Inventors: Daniel S Griesmann, Randy L Ekl, Karen Suttmann
  • Patent number: 10715662
    Abstract: Systems and methods of on hold handling of calls are provided. A call may be received, from a caller, at a public safety access point. An Artificial Intelligence (AI) bot may monitor a context associated with the call. The call may be placed on hold. The AI bot may determine, based on the context associated with the call, that the call should be taken off hold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignee: MOTOROLA SOLUTIONS, INC.
    Inventors: Mariya Bondareva, Randy L. Ekl, David Kaleko
  • Patent number: 10661799
    Abstract: A device, system and method for autonomous tactical vehicle control is provided. Data associated with a second vehicle pursued by the first vehicle is received at a computing device associated with the first vehicle. A plurality of tactical intercept maneuvers and associated risk factors are determined using the data. A tactical intercept maneuver is selected based on the respective risk factors. The first vehicle is controlled to autonomously perform the tactical intercept maneuver and/or a notification device is controlled to provide, at the first vehicle, guidance for an operator of the first vehicle to perform the tactical intercept maneuver using the first vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2020
    Assignee: MOTOROLA SOLUTIONS, INC.
    Inventors: Randy L. Ekl, Zheng Fang, Eric Johnson
  • Publication number: 20200153755
    Abstract: A method for docking an unmanned aerial vehicle (“UAV”) equipped with a wireless communications system. The method includes coupling the UAV to a docking device that is configured to provide power and data communication to the UAV via a physical interface. The method further includes receiving, at a docking device controller, an identity of the UAV, and determining, based on the received identity of the UAV, an organization associated with the UAV. The method also includes accessing, via the docking device controller, a collaborative operating profile associated with the determined organization and the identity of the UAV. The method further includes providing access to one or more resources associated with the docking station based on the collaborative operating profile.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2018
    Publication date: May 14, 2020
    Inventors: Eric Johnson, Sanida Bratt, Randy L. Ekl, Youngeun Kang, Yanling Xu
  • Patent number: 10522147
    Abstract: A device and method for generating text representative of lip movement is provided. One or more portions of video data are determined that include: audio with an intelligibility rating below a threshold intelligibility rating; and lips of a human face. A lip-reading algorithm is applied to the one or more portions of the video data to determine text representative of detected lip movement in the one or more portions of the video data. The text representative of the detected lip movement is stored in a memory. A transcript that includes the text representative of the detected lip movement may be generated. Captioned video data may be generated from the video data and the text representative of detected lip movement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2019
    Assignee: MOTOROLA SOLUTIONS, INC.
    Inventors: Stephen Varner, Wei Lin, Randy L. Ekl, Daniel A. Law
  • Patent number: 10489982
    Abstract: A device, system and method for controlling a display screen using a knowledge graph is provided. A knowledge graph defines relationships between a plurality of persons-objects-entities (POEs) of interest. A controller selects one or more field-of-view POEs of interest that are related to the work assignment and are located in a field-of-view of a display screen. The controller extracts, from the knowledge graph: associated relationships between the one or more field-of-view POEs of interest and/or one or more field-of-view POEs of interest located out of the field-of-view of the display screen. The controller generates a graphical representation including indications of: the one or more field-of-view POEs of interest and the one or more out-of-field-of-view POEs of interest, and relationships therebetween. The controller renders the graphical representation within the field-of-view of the display screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2019
    Assignee: MOTOROLA SOLUTIONS, INC.
    Inventors: Eric Johnson, Randy L. Ekl
  • Publication number: 20190304190
    Abstract: A device, system and method for controlling a display screen using a knowledge graph is provided. A knowledge graph defines relationships between a plurality of persons-objects-entities (POEs) of interest. A controller selects one or more field-of-view POEs of interest that are related to the work assignment and are located in a field-of-view of a display screen. The controller extracts, from the knowledge graph: associated relationships between the one or more field-of-view POEs of interest and/or one or more field-of-view POEs of interest located out of the field-of-view of the display screen. The controller generates a graphical representation including indications of: the one or more field-of-view POEs of interest and the one or more out-of-field-of-view POEs of interest, and relationships therebetween. The controller renders the graphical representation within the field-of-view of the display screen.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2018
    Publication date: October 3, 2019
    Inventors: Eric JOHNSON, Randy L. EKL
  • Publication number: 20190197080
    Abstract: A device, system and method for deploying communication devices based on historic incidents is provided. Predicted incident risks for a given time are determined for regions, based on distance and time differences of historic incidents, relative to the given time and a region over a first time period and a distance from a region, and incident prediction parameters for weighting the differences. From the predicted incident risks, a subset of the regions having highest predicted incident risks is determined, and a prediction efficiency is determined based on a number of the incidents in the subset relative to a total number of the incidents for the regions. The first time period, the distance, and the incident prediction parameters are varied when determining the predicted incident risks and the subset, to maximize the prediction efficiency for the second time period. Commands are generated for deploying communication devices to the subset.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2017
    Publication date: June 27, 2019
    Inventors: Mariya BONDAREVA, Randy L. EKL, David KALEKO
  • Publication number: 20190198022
    Abstract: A device and method for generating text representative of lip movement is provided. One or more portions of video data are determined that include: audio with an intelligibility rating below a threshold intelligibility rating; and lips of a human face. A lip-reading algorithm is applied to the one or more portions of the video data to determine text representative of detected lip movement in the one or more portions of the video data. The text representative of the detected lip movement is stored in a memory. A transcript that includes the text representative of the detected lip movement may be generated. Captioned video data may be generated from the video data and the text representative of detected lip movement.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2017
    Publication date: June 27, 2019
    Inventors: Stephen VARNER, Wei LIN, Randy L. EKL, Daniel A. LAW
  • Publication number: 20190193734
    Abstract: A device, system and method for autonomous tactical vehicle control is provided. Data associated with a second vehicle pursued by the first vehicle is received at a computing device associated with the first vehicle. A plurality of tactical intercept maneuvers and associated risk factors are determined using the data. A tactical intercept maneuver is selected based on the respective risk factors. The first vehicle is controlled to autonomously perform the tactical intercept maneuver and/or a notification device is controlled to provide, at the first vehicle, guidance for an operator of the first vehicle to perform the tactical intercept maneuver using the first vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2017
    Publication date: June 27, 2019
    Inventors: Randy L. EKL, Zheng FANG, Eric JOHNSON
  • Patent number: 10306059
    Abstract: Systems and methods of on hold handling of calls are provided. A call may be received, from a caller, at a public safety access point. An Artificial Intelligence (AI) bot may monitor a context associated with the call. The call may be placed on hold. The AI bot may determine, based on the context associated with the call, that the call should be taken off hold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2019
    Assignee: MOTOROLA SOLUTIONS, INC.
    Inventors: Mariya Bondareva, Randy L. Ekl, David Kaleko
  • Publication number: 20190130039
    Abstract: A method and query server are provided that provide historical query recommendations and group creation based on previous queries. Digital query requests are received from a plurality of electronic devices at a query server. The digital query requests each include a search string. The query server digitally stores the digital query requests in a digital storage medium. The query server determines a relevancy factor between query requests, the relevancy factor relates to the similarity between the two search strings.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2017
    Publication date: May 2, 2019
    Inventors: Zheng Fang, Randy L. Ekl, Eric Johnson
  • Publication number: 20190012341
    Abstract: Methods and systems for updating information in a timeline of a public safety incident. One method includes receiving, at an electronic computing device, a user query and identifying a time window in the past associated with the user query. The method further includes determining that the user query relates to a public safety incident. The method further includes generating a response to the user query. The response is generated as a function of the time window and information relating to the public safety incident. The method further includes storing the response such that information included in the response is added to one of (i) timeline information associated with a user of a communication device at a time commensurate with the time window and (ii) timeline information associated with the public safety incident at a time commensurate with the time window.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 5, 2017
    Publication date: January 10, 2019
    Inventors: Lee M. Proctor, Randy L. Ekl
  • Patent number: 10063782
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for displaying video is provided herein. During operation, video is displayed on one of many displays in a geographically correct fashion. For example, in an embodiment involving two displays (e.g., on a firefighter's two wrists), each of which display a video feed, the video is displayed such that the video feed of the most appropriate scene (not necessarily the video feed of the closest camera) is shown on that display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2018
    Assignee: MOTOROLA SOLUTIONS, INC.
    Inventors: Aparna Pandey, Harish Bhandiwad, Randy L Ekl
  • Publication number: 20180181901
    Abstract: Systems and methods are described for automatically assigning roles for an incident to user profiles using machine learning techniques to optimize the overall suitability of the automatic role assignments and to adapt to manual role reassignments. One or more roles of a plurality of roles for an incident are automatically assigned to each user profile of a plurality of user profiles by the computer-based system applying a combinatorial optimization routine. An indication is displayed on a screen of a determined relative suitability of a first user profile for each role of the plurality of roles. The computer-based system is configured to receive a manual reassignment selection of a different role of the plurality of roles to be assigned to the first user profile and the combinatorial optimization routine is updated based on the manual reassignment selection.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2016
    Publication date: June 28, 2018
    Inventors: Nathan Babcock, Randy L. Ekl
  • Patent number: 9944391
    Abstract: A system and method for a providing a dynamic backhaul. In one example, the system includes a self-positionable wireless device (for example, a drone) including a dual-band radio configured to establish a wireless connection between the self-positionable wireless device and a wireless system. The dual-band radio initiates a narrowband wireless link with the wireless system via a first narrowband antenna of the self-positionable wireless device and a second narrowband antenna of the wireless system. A navigation system generates location, velocity and error estimate of the self-positionable wireless device. The location is transmitted to the wireless system using the narrowband wireless link. The self-positionable wireless device receives via the narrowband wireless link location, velocity and error estimate of the wireless system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2018
    Assignee: MOTOROLA SOLUTIONS, INC.
    Inventors: Charles E. Spengler, Randy L. Ekl, Daniel S. Griesmann, Lee M. Proctor