Patents by Inventor Vishwajeet Chatterji

Vishwajeet Chatterji 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).

  • Publication number: 20110028093
    Abstract: Some embodiments teach an apparatus for determining a proximity of one or more first Bluetooth devices. The apparatus can include: (a) at least one Bluetooth base station with (1) a Bluetooth transmitter configured to transmit one or more service discovery requests to the one or more first Bluetooth devices; and (2) a Bluetooth receiver configured to receive one or more responses from the one or more first Bluetooth devices to the one or more service discovery requests; and (b) a computational module configured to run on one or more processors and further configured to determine one or more approximate distances between the at least one Bluetooth base station and the one or more first Bluetooth devices based on the one or more responses from the one or more first Bluetooth devices. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2010
    Publication date: February 3, 2011
    Inventors: Shwetak N. Patel, Gregory D. Abowd, Ohad Zeira, Ryan Yong Kim, Matthew S. Reynolds, Joshua Seal, Vishwajeet Chatterji