Patents by Inventor Sara Parker Hillenmeyer

Sara Parker Hillenmeyer 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: 11870862
    Abstract: Systems and methods for state prediction of devices are disclosed. A group of reference devices may be identified and a subset of the reference devices may be identified and/or determined based at least in part on a degree of similarity between reference usage-patterns associated with the reference devices and a usage pattern of a target device. The current state of the subset of the reference devices may be determined and may be utilized to determine a probability that the target device should be in a given state. The state prediction information may be utilized for one or more actions, such as sending recommendations, target inference operations, and/or device configuration, for example.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Charles Edwin Ashton Brett, Sara Parker Hillenmeyer, Sven Eberhardt, William Evan Welbourne, Aniruddha Basak, Lizhen Peng
  • Patent number: 11784843
    Abstract: Systems and methods for usage-based device naming and grouping are disclosed. For example, trigger events that indicate when a device should be renamed, added to a device group, and/or added to a routine may be determined. Usage data representing usage of the device may be received and utilized to determine if a trigger event occurs. When a trigger event occurs, a recommendation for renaming, grouping, etc. may be determined and sent to a user device. Upon acceptance of the recommendation, the device may be renamed, grouped, and/or added to a routine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Aniruddha Basak, Yu Liu, George Strajan, Hersh Sridhar Iyer, Sara Parker Hillenmeyer, William Evan Welbourne
  • Patent number: 11374780
    Abstract: Systems and methods for usage-based device naming and grouping are disclosed. For example, trigger events that indicate when a device should be renamed, added to a device group, and/or added to a routine may be determined. Usage data representing usage of the device may be received and utilized to determine if a trigger event occurs. When a trigger event occurs, a recommendation for renaming, grouping, etc. may be determined and sent to a user device. Upon acceptance of the recommendation, the device may be renamed, grouped, and/or added to a routine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Aniruddha Basak, Yu Liu, George Strajan, Hersh Sridhar Iyer, Sara Parker Hillenmeyer, William Evan Welbourne
  • Patent number: 11067718
    Abstract: Described are systems, methods, and apparatus that gathers environment condition data from different sensors at various locations within an area, aggregates the environment condition data to produce aggregated environment condition scores for the area and provides the aggregated environment condition scores to different locations within the area. While sensor data from a single sensor/device, such as a camera may provide low quality environment information, by collecting and aggregating information from multiple sensors and/or locations in the area, highly accurate aggregated environment condition scores for environment conditions may be realized. The aggregated environment condition scores may be provided to various locations within the area as representative of the environment condition at that point in time within the area, regardless of whether those locations have sensors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Charles Edwin Ashton Brett, Aniruddha Basak, Zeya Chen, Sara Parker Hillenmeyer, Lizhen Peng, Yunfeng Jiang, William Evan Welbourne, Jay Patel, Sven Eberhardt
  • Patent number: 10909983
    Abstract: Systems and methods for target-device resolution are disclosed. A user may speak a user utterance requesting an action to be performed with respect to an accessory device, such as a smart-home device. The user utterance may include an identifier for the accessory device, but that identifier may not correspond to a naming indicator of an accessory device and/or may correspond to multiple naming indicators. In these examples, one or more models are utilized to identify which accessory device is most likely to correspond to the accessory device targeted by the user utterance for operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Lizhen Peng, Sven Eberhardt, Akshay Kumar, Charles Edwin Ashton Brett, Sara Parker Hillenmeyer, William Evan Welbourne
  • Patent number: 10904027
    Abstract: Systems and methods for usage-based device naming and grouping are disclosed. For example, trigger events that indicate when a device should be renamed, added to a device group, and/or added to a routine may be determined. Usage data representing usage of the device may be received and utilized to determine if a trigger event occurs. When a trigger event occurs, a recommendation for renaming, grouping, etc. may be determined and sent to a user device. Upon acceptance of the recommendation, the device may be renamed, grouped, and/or added to a routine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2021
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Aniruddha Basak, Yu Liu, George Strajan, Hersh Sridhar Iyer, Sara Parker Hillenmeyer, William Evan Welbourne
  • Publication number: 20200090068
    Abstract: Systems and methods for state prediction of devices are disclosed. A group of reference devices may be identified and a subset of the reference devices may be identified and/or determined based at least in part on a degree of similarity between reference usage-patterns associated with the reference devices and a usage pattern of a target device. The current state of the subset of the reference devices may be determined and may be utilized to determine a probability that the target device should be in a given state. The state prediction information may be utilized for one or more actions, such as sending recommendations, target inference operations, and/or device configuration, for example.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2018
    Publication date: March 19, 2020
    Inventors: Charles Edwin Ashton Brett, Sara Parker Hillenmeyer, Sven Eberhardt, William Evan Welbourne, Aniruddha Basak, Lizhen Peng