Patents by Inventor Stephen Bryant STATLER

Stephen Bryant STATLER 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).

  • Method and apparatus for optimized object searching
    Patent number: 9264500
    Abstract: Apparatus and methods are described herein for optimizing an object search. A communications device may be configured to initiate a request for a data set. The communications device may transmit its current location to a server, for example, which may return a data set including data representing each of one or more objects that may be located within a first search area proximate to the current location of the communications device. The communications device may then perform a search for an object of interest by comparing the data representing each of the one or more objects in the data set to data representing the object of interest.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2016
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Stephen Bryant Statler, Eric Robert Kraar
  • METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR OPTIMIZED OBJECT SEARCHING
    Publication number: 20130331071
    Abstract: Apparatus and methods are described herein for optimizing an object search. A communications device may be configured to initiate a request for a data set. The communications device may transmit its current location to a server, for example, which may return a data set including data representing each of one or more objects that may be located within a first search area proximate to the current location of the communications device. The communications device may then perform a search for an object of interest by comparing the data representing each of the one or more objects in the data set to data representing the object of interest.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2012
    Publication date: December 12, 2013
    Inventors: Stephen Bryant STATLER, Eric Robert KRAAR