Patents Issued in August 14, 2018
  • Patent number: 10049209
    Abstract: Devices, systems, and methods of detecting user identity, differentiating between users of a computerized service, and detecting a cyber-attacker. An end-user device (a desktop computer, a laptop computer, a smartphone, a tablet, or the like) interacts and communicates with a server of a computerized server (a banking website, an electronic commerce website, or the like). The interactions are monitored, tracked and logged. Communication interferences are intentionally introduced to the communication session; and the server tracks the response or the reaction of the end-user device to such communication interferences. The system determines whether the user is a legitimate human user; or a cyber-attacker posing as a legitimate human user but actually utilizing a Virtual Machine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Assignee: BIOCATCH LTD.
    Inventors: Avi Turgeman, Yaron Lehmann
  • Patent number: 10049210
    Abstract: Methods, systems and media are shown for detecting omnientrant code segments to identify potential malicious code involving, for each offset of a code segment, disassembling the code segment from the offset, determining whether the disassembled code is executable, and incrementing an offset execution value. This approach also involves checking whether the offset execution value exceeds an alert threshold value and generating a malicious code alert for the code segment if the offset execution value exceeds the alert threshold value. Some examples further involve, for each executable offset, identifying a final execution address of the offset, comparing the final execution addresses of the offsets for the code segment, and generating the malicious code alert for the code segment if a proportion of the executable offsets have a common value for the final execution address exceeds a frequency threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Assignee: LEVIATHAN SECURITY GROUP, INC.
    Inventor: Falcon Momot
  • Patent number: 10049211
    Abstract: Described systems and methods allow protecting a host computer system from malicious software, such as return-oriented programming (ROP) and jump-oriented programming (JOP) exploits. In some embodiments, a processor of the host system is endowed with two counters storing a count of branch instructions and a count of inter-branch instructions, respectively, occurring within a sequence of instructions. Exemplary counted branch instructions include indirect JMP, indirect CALL, and RET on x86 platforms, while inter-branch instructions consist of instructions executed between two consecutive counted branch instructions. The processor may be further configured to generate a processor event, such as an exception, when a value stored in a counter exceeds a predetermined threshold, and/or when a branch instruction redirects execution to a critical OS function. Such events may be used as triggers for launching a malware analysis to determine whether the host system is subject to a code reuse attack.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Assignee: Bitdefender IPR Management Ltd.
    Inventors: Sandor Lukacs, Andrei V. Lutas, Dan H. Lutas
  • Patent number: 10049212
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a processor includes at least one execution unit. The processor also includes a Return Oriented Programming (ROP) logic coupled to the at least one execution unit. The ROP logic may validate a return pointer stored on a call stack based on a secret ROP value. The secret ROP value may only be accessible by the operating system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventor: Stephen A. Fischer
  • Patent number: 10049213
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a device in a network joins a fog-based malware defense cluster comprising one or more peer devices. The device and each peer device in the cluster are configured to execute a different set of local malware scanners. The device receives a file flagged as suspicious by a node in the network associated with the device. The device determines whether the local malware scanners of the device are able to scan the file. The device sends an assessment request to one or more of the peer devices in the malware defense cluster, in response to determining that the local malware scanners of the device are unable to scan the file.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Tao Zhang, Yi Zheng, Helder F. Antunes, Danyang Raymond Zheng, Jack C. Cham, Gonzalo Salgueiro, Joseph Michael Clarke
  • Patent number: 10049214
    Abstract: The disclosed computer-implemented method for detecting malicious processes on computing devices may include (i) identifying a portion of data on a computing device that is stored in an unrestricted section of memory and accessed by processes while running on the computing device, (ii) allocating a restricted section of memory within the computing device and indicating that the portion of data is located in the restricted section of memory, (iii) detecting an attempt by a process running on the computing device to access the portion of data within the restricted section of memory using an unexpected access method, (iv) determining, based at least in part on the process attempting to access the portion of data within the restricted section of memory using the unexpected access method, that the process is malicious, and (v) performing a security action on the computing device to prevent the malicious process from harming the computing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Assignee: Symantec Corporation
    Inventor: Peter Ferrie
  • Patent number: 10049215
    Abstract: A method for providing malware protection in connection with processing circuitry including hardware resources and software resources managed by a primary operating system may include providing a trusted operating system to control access to a portion of a local storage area of the hardware resources. In this context, only the trusted operating system is configured to enable writing to the portion of the local storage area. The method may further include storing backup files for the primary operating system in the portion of the local storage area responsive to the trusted operating system granting access to write to the portion of the local storage area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Assignee: The Johns Hopkins University
    Inventors: David C. Challener, Peter S. Kruus, Russell A. Fink, James F. Farlow
  • Patent number: 10049216
    Abstract: Technologies for media protection policy enforcement include a computing device having multiple operating systems and a data storage device partitioned into a number of regions. During execution of each of the operating systems, a policy enforcement module may intercept media access requests and determine whether to allow the media access requests based on platform media access policies. The media access policies may allow requests based on the identity of the executing operating system, the region of the data storage device, or the requested storage operation. Prior to loading a selected operating system, a firmware policy enforcement module may determine a region of the disk storage device to protect from the selected operating system. The firmware policy enforcement module may configure the data storage device to prevent access to that region. The media access policies may be stored in one or more firmware variables. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Michael A. Rothman, Vincent Zimmer, Mark S. Doran
  • Patent number: 10049217
    Abstract: An apparatus is provided for protecting a basic input/output system (BIOS) in a computing system. The apparatus includes a BIOS read only memory (ROM), an event detector, and a tamper detector. The BIOS ROM has BIOS contents that are stored as plaintext, and an encrypted message digest, where the encrypted message digest comprises an encrypted version of a first message digest that corresponds to the BIOS contents, and where and the encrypted version is generated via a symmetric key algorithm and a key. The event detector is configured to generate a BIOS check interrupt that interrupts normal operation of the computing system upon the occurrence of an event, where the event includes one or more occurrences of a fuse array access.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Assignee: VIA TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventor: G. Glenn Henry
  • Patent number: 10049218
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for rollback resistant security are disclosed. In one aspect, a method, during a boot process of a computing device, includes the actions of obtaining a secret key derived from device-specific information for the computing device. The method further includes verifying that a signature for a software module is valid. The method further includes obtaining information indicating a current version of the software module. The method further includes using the secret key to generate a first encryption key corresponding to the current version of the software module and a second encryption key corresponding to a prior version of the software module. The method further includes preventing future access to the secret key until the computing device is rebooted. The method further includes providing the software module access to the first encryption key and the second encryption key.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventor: Paul Dermot Crowley
  • Patent number: 10049219
    Abstract: In one implementation, a computer-implemented method includes receiving, at a process risk classifier running on a computer system, a request to determine a risk level for a particular process; accessing one or more signatures that provide one or more snapshots of characteristics of the particular process at one or more previous times; identifying one or more differences between the particular process in its current form and the one or more signatures; accessing information identifying previous usage of the computer system's resources by the particular process; determining a current risk score for the particular process based, at least in part, on (i) the one or more signatures for the particular process, (ii) the one or more differences between the particular process in its current form and the one or more signatures, and (iii) the previous usage of the resources; and providing the current risk score for the particular process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Assignee: Accenture Global Services Limited
    Inventor: Shaan Mulchandani
  • Patent number: 10049220
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method for transformation of security information and event management (SIEM) rules and deploying the SIEM rules in a network of event processors. A computer system or server converts the SIEM rules to formal representations. The computer system or server generates rule abstraction of the formal representations, by using an abstraction function. The computer system or server constructs a finite automaton based on the rule abstraction. The computer system or server eliminates irrelevant transitions in the finite automaton to generate an optimized finite automaton. The computer system or server generates optimized formal rules, based on the optimized finite automaton. The computer system or server converts the optimized formal rules to optimized SIEM rules. The computer or server deploys the optimized SIEM rules in the network of the event processors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Yoichi Hatsutori, Takuya Mishina, Naoto Sato, Fumiko Satoh
  • Patent number: 10049221
    Abstract: Concepts and technologies are disclosed herein for management of application access. A security management application can be configured to set access controls and/or other security settings relating to application programs. Additionally, or alternatively, particular functions and/or functionality associated with application programs may be individually configured. Settings reflecting the access controls and/or other security settings can be stored and can be applied at the user device. The security management application also can be configured to determine if security settings and/or access controls are to be overridden. Data can be collected from various sensors and/or other sources to use in determining if particular application programs and/or application program functionality is to be allowed. Thus, normally disallowed activities can be allowed in emergency conditions, when in a business location associated with a particular device, and/or at other times and/or under other circumstances.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Assignee: AT&T Mobility II LLC
    Inventor: Ginger Li Chien
  • Patent number: 10049222
    Abstract: An application of a mobile device may be granted access to sensitive or private information. The mobile device may be configured to monitor the application's use of any sensitive data obtained by the application. The mobile device may cloak the sensitive data before providing the data to the application in response to a request. Furthermore, the cloak sensitive data may include taint propagation data configured to enable the mobile device to detect that application's use of the cloaked sensitive data. As a result of detecting the application use of the cloaked sensitive data, a privacy database may be updated to include the applications use of the cloaked sensitive data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Nicholas Alexander Allen
  • Patent number: 10049223
    Abstract: Techniques for processing address book upload requests are provided. A user of a social network service uploads a list of email addresses. The social network service is configured to provide information about members of the social network service whose email addresses match one of the email addresses in the list of email addresses. Before providing that information, the social network service identifies attributes of the list of email addresses, the user, and/or the upload. The social network service analyzes the attributes to determine whether to provide the requested information. In one technique, the social network service creates and trains a model to learn the attributes or features (and their corresponding weights) that are associated with “bad” uploads. Example features include the number of email addresses in an upload and the number of uploads submitted by the user within the last hour.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventor: Jenelle Bray
  • Patent number: 10049224
    Abstract: Some aspects of the disclosure generally relate to providing single sign on features in mobile applications in a secure environment using a shared vault. An application may prompt a user to provide user entropy such as a passcode (e.g. a password and/or PIN). The application may use the user entropy to decrypt a user-entropy-encrypted vault key. Once the vault key is decrypted, the application may decrypt a vault database of the shared vault. The shared vault may store shared secrets, such as server credentials, and an unlock key. The application may store the unlock key, generate an unlock-key-encrypted vault key, and cause the shared vault to store the unlock-key-encrypted vault key, thereby “unlocking” the vault. The application may then use the unlock key to decrypt the vault database without prompting the user to provide user entropy again.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Assignee: Citrix Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Georgy Momchilov, Ola Nordstrom
  • Patent number: 10049225
    Abstract: Various hardware and software configurations are described herein which provide improved security and control over protected data. In some embodiments, a computer includes a main motherboard card coupled to all input/output devices connected to the computer, and a trusted operating system operates on the main motherboard which includes an access control module for controlling access to the protected data in accordance with rules. The trusted operating system stores the protected data in an unprotected form only on the memory devices on the main motherboard. The computer may also have a computer card coupled to the main motherboard via a PCI bus, on which is operating a guest operating system session for handling requests for data from software applications on the computer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Assignee: INTELLECTUAL VENTURES II LLC
    Inventors: Daniel Joseph Sturtevant, Christopher Lalancette, Michael Nathan Lack, Paul B. Schneck
  • Patent number: 10049226
    Abstract: Techniques are described for facilitating access of computing system users to restricted functionality, such as internal functionality of a business or other organization (e.g., internal systems and/or confidential information available to some or all business employees or other organization members). The restricted functionality access may in some situations be provided in conjunction with publicly available information from the organization, such as to use that publicly available information as part of a user interface that allows an authorized subset of users to access the restricted functionality. In some situations, the restricted functionality access may be facilitated by an access provider system that executes on a client computing system of an authorized user, such as a program operating in conjunction with another presentation program that presents publicly available information (e.g.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Patrick G. Franklin, Zheyin Li, James K. Keiger, Suresh Kumar
  • Patent number: 10049227
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method for controlling the expression of a block of data from a sensitive data storage device, the method including the steps of receiving from a software application a request to transfer the block of data from the source sensitive data storage device for expression at a destination device, determining a data mask indicator for the block of data, applying a limited expression format based upon the data mask indicator, and expressing the block of data at the destination device in the limited expression format, such as to facilitate protecting or masking sensitive data. The method may further include allowing a user to request revelation of a masked portion of the block of data, recording in a memory log user activity relating to such revelation request(s) of the user, and providing regular reports and/or administrative alerts relating to such logged user activity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Assignee: State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company
    Inventor: Kirk W. Sampson
  • Patent number: 10049228
    Abstract: Native file encryption support is integrated into an existing file system that does not provide such support, such as the FAT family of file systems, while maintaining backwards compatibility with previous implementations of these file systems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Darwin Ou-Yang, Peter Novotney, Ravinder Thind
  • Patent number: 10049229
    Abstract: Systems and methods for managing a list of huddle board participants are disclosed. The huddle collaboration system includes a huddle management system having an authentication module, a data processing module, a huddle board management module, and a module manager, among other suitable components. The system runs an automatic process to update a list of huddle boards and huddle board participants, which includes the process of adding or eliminating team members from the list of participants of one or more huddle boards and/or modifying a dotted line member's permissions within one or more huddle boards. The huddle board management module enables the automatic update of permissions assigned to a team member in one or more huddle boards, in a faster and more accurate manner; therefore enhancing the productivity of the huddle and leveraging the human and information technology resource of the company.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Assignee: Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company
    Inventor: John Westcott
  • Patent number: 10049230
    Abstract: A system and method for exchanging identity information and for correlating protected data across independent data systems connected through a network is disclosed. The system contains connectors in communication with protected data systems which house the protected data. Data is correlated between the protected data systems through coincident authentication of both systems by a user. Messages are exchanged which allow the identity exchange system to correlate data based on a session identifier from an authenticated session on one of the protected data systems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Assignee: Verato, Inc.
    Inventors: J. Brent Williams, Dennis Tackett, Dennis Rizzi
  • Patent number: 10049231
    Abstract: A method for obfuscating the properties of a web browser includes identifying an active web browser and generating random assortments of properties compatible with the web browser. The generated random properties are then integrated with the true properties of the web browser to provide an obfuscated property set that, on request by a web server, may be communicated to the web server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Assignee: TRACKOFF, INC.
    Inventors: Ryan A Flach, Chandler R Givens
  • Patent number: 10049232
    Abstract: A rewrite detection system, a rewrite detection device and an information processing device can detect unauthorized rewrite to a program or data stored in a storage unit of the information processing device. A rewrite detection device generates a random seed and transmits it to an ECU and a server device. The ECU calculates a hash value using a predetermined hash function on the basis of the received random seed and the storage content of the storage unit, and transmits the hash value to the rewrite detection device. The server device transmits an expectation in response to an inquiry from the rewrite detection device. The rewrite detection device determines whether unauthorized rewrite to a program or data in the ECU has been performed or not in accordance with whether the expectation received from the server device and the hash value received from the ECU coincide with each other or not.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Assignees: NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION NAGOYA UNIVERSITY, AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES LTD., SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroaki Takada, Hiroki Takakura, Yukihiro Miyashita, Satoshi Horihata, Hiroshi Okada, Naoki Adachi
  • Patent number: 10049233
    Abstract: When security software is activated, it is determined whether the mode is a safe mode or a normal mode. And the security software switches a monitor in accordance with the mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Assignee: Canon Denshi Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Azusa Sekiguchi
  • Patent number: 10049234
    Abstract: Systems and methods may provide implementing one or more device locking procedures to block access to a device. In one example, the method may include receiving an indication that a user is no longer present, initiating a timing mechanism to set a period to issue a first device lock instruction to lock a peripheral device, relaying timing information from the timing mechanism to a controller module associated with the peripheral device; and locking the peripheral device upon expiration of the period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Ned Smith, Purushottam Goel, Victoria Moore
  • Patent number: 10049235
    Abstract: A tool for creating mechanical stamps that produce machine-readable optical labels. The tool selects an initial element of a list of two-dimensional labels. The tool selects a pixel difference to apply to a two-dimensional label for the initial element. The tool selects a cardinality for bits in one or more bytes to encode. The tool determines whether a cardinality of a bit difference for each element compared to the initial element equals the selected bit difference cardinality. The tool determines whether a pixel difference between a two-dimensional label for each element and the two-dimensional label for the initial element equals the selected pixel difference. The tool selects one or more elements from the list of two-dimensional labels to create one or more mechanical stamps.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventor: Marc Fiammante
  • Patent number: 10049236
    Abstract: A food item container that contains a food item may include one or more sensors that collect sensor data indicating a characteristic (e.g., temperature, humidity, pressure, orientation, etc.) associated with the food item. A delivery container that transports the food items within the food item container may also include one or more sensors that collect the sensor data. Based on the sensor data, a component of the food item container and/or the delivery container may maintain or adjust the characteristic. The one or more sensors of the delivery container may also detect an identifier associated with the food item container, which may indicate which food item containers (and corresponding food items) are included within each delivery container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Ashraf Alkarmi, Yenchao Chua, Edward Hon, Praveen Krishnan, Gustavo Eduardo Lopez, Scott Pardy, Ruslan Anatolyevich Polyanskiy, Pawan Lata Uppuluri, Evan Weiss, Gregory Forrest Wright
  • Patent number: 10049237
    Abstract: Embodiments provide a method for sending a message from an RFID transponder to a reader during a transmission frame using active load modulation, the method comprising. An encoded bit signal has a first logic level during first time segments within the transmission frame and a second logic level during second time segments within the transmission frame. The first time segments include an initial time segment of the transmission frame. A transmission signal is generated based on the encoded bit signal. The transmission signal is generated having a first phase depending on the first logic level during the first time segments, a second phase depending on the second logic level during the second time segments, and the second phase during a time interval preceding the transmission frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Assignee: STMicroelectronics International N.V.
    Inventors: Kosta Kovacic, Albin Pevec, Maksimiljan Stiglic
  • Patent number: 10049238
    Abstract: An encoded information reading terminal can comprise a microprocessor, a memory communicatively coupled to the microprocessor, a communication interface, and an RFID reading device configured to output raw message data comprising an encoded message and/or output decoded message data corresponding to an encoded message. The EIR terminal can be configured, responsive to receiving one or more target item identifiers, to attempt to locate at least one RFID tag transmitting an encoded representation of a binary string, at least part of which is equal to at least part one of the specified one or more target item identifiers. The EIR terminal can be further configured, responsive to successfully locating at least one RFID tag, to notify a user via a visual message and/or an audible message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Assignee: METROLOGIC INSTRUMENTS, INC.
    Inventors: Taylor Smith, Huyu Qu
  • Patent number: 10049239
    Abstract: An article management system according to the present invention includes: a reader antenna (102) including an open-type transmission line terminated in an impedance matched state; an RF tag (104) that is placed at a location that is electromagnetically coupled to the reader antenna (102) and is visible from the reader antenna (102) in a state where a management target article (105) is placed in the vicinity of the RF tag; a management target article arrangement region in which the management target article (105) is placed, the management target article arrangement region being set in a location where the management target article (105) is electromagnetically coupled to a tag antenna of the RF tag (104); and an RFID reader (103) that sends a transmitted signal to the reader antenna (102) and receives a response signal output from the tag antenna via the reader antenna (102).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Wataru Hattori, Keishi Ohashi
  • Patent number: 10049240
    Abstract: A method of establishing a location beacon includes establishing a bi-directional wireless radiofrequency connection between a directed light beacon device and a networked device in communication with a central server; assigning a beacon identification code to the directed light beacon device at the central server; transmitting the beacon identification code to the directed light beacon device through the bi-directional wireless radiofrequency connection; and transmitting the beacon identification code in a directed light beacon signal from the directed light beacon device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Assignee: RF CODE, INC.
    Inventors: Michael R. Primm, David Duncavage, Ronald B. Graczyk, Ryan D. Joy
  • Patent number: 10049241
    Abstract: A radio frequency identification (RFID) reader identifies in which room among several rooms the RFID reader is more likely to be located. The RFID reader includes a transmitter for transmitting an interrogating radio frequency (RF) signal. It includes a receiver for receiving RF signals generated in corresponding pairs of RFID tags. The RFID tag pairs are attached to corresponding regions of each of the rooms. Each of said RFID tag pair including a first RFID tag and a second RFID tag that are spaced from each other by a distance that is larger or equal to ?/4 and smaller than or equal to ?/2 with respect to a frequency of a responding RF signal originated in the pair of RFID tags. A processor selects a larger RSSI of the RSSI's of the signal pair. The processor determines a corresponding sum of the RSSI's selected from each signal pair associated with each room. The processor evaluates in accordance with determined sums, the location in which said RFID reader is more likely to be located.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Assignee: THOMSON Licensing
    Inventors: Luis Montalvo, Ali Louzir, Guillaume Bichot, Philippe Gilberton
  • Patent number: 10049242
    Abstract: An information processing method causes a processor in a terminal to: display, on the display of the terminal, a first screen representing a pre-preparation process included in cooking processes, the first screen displaying information indicating an intermediate foodstuff made through the pre-preparation process; acquire first identification information indicating a food container storing the intermediate foodstuff from an electronic tag apparatus attached to the food container while the first screen is displayed on the display; store, in a memory, information indicating the intermediate foodstuff or pre-preparation process and the first identification information in correspondence with each other; display, on the display, a second screen representing a finish process included in the cooking processes, the intermediate foodstuff being prepared in the finish process; and when the second screen is displayed, transmit a command to the electronic tag apparatus according to the first identification information so
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Atsuko Oono, Mitsuhiro Aso, Yoshiyuki Mochizuki, Yasuhiro Yuki
  • Patent number: 10049243
    Abstract: A system and method for determining and tracking a location of a participant traveling along a route wherein the participant being tracked with an RFID tag using an RFID tag reader and a timing system, the system includes a location device associated with the RFID tag and has a location data receiver for receiving location information from a location providing source, and a wireless communication interface and time stamps each received location information, and transmits tag location data over the wireless interface, and a location detection device that is in wireless communication with the location device receives the transmitted tag location data, and transmits the received location data to the timing system, with the timing system associating the received location data with the RFID tag number as provided by the RFID tag reader provided tag reads of the RFID tag associated with the location device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Assignee: Innovative Timing Systems, LLC
    Inventor: Kurt S. Hansen
  • Patent number: 10049244
    Abstract: Multiple sensing network units are deployed overhead in a venue. Each unit supports a motion detecting system for detecting a level of motion in a zone of the venue, and an RFID locationing system for reading RFID tags in the venue, in response to the motion level detected by the motion detecting system. The performance of the RFID locationing system is adjusted and optimized in response to the detected motion level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Assignee: Symbol Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Charles Lauria, Richard J. Lavery, Russell E. Calvarese
  • Patent number: 10049245
    Abstract: Method of and system for reading bar code symbols using a hand-supportable laser scanning bar code symbol reading system supporting an improved level control over the length of laser scan lines projected onto scanned objects, at any instant in time, in a manner dependent the detected location, distance or range of the scanned object in the scanning field of the system during system operation. The length characteristics of the laser scan line are controlled by setting the laser scan sweep angle as a function of detected or estimated distance or range of the object from the system. In the illustrative embodiment, the laser scan sweep angle is controlled by supplying a drive current to the scanning mechanism, as a function of detected or estimated distance or range of the object from the scanning system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Assignee: Metrologic Instruments, Inc.
    Inventors: Zhipeng Teng, Haixi Wang
  • Patent number: 10049246
    Abstract: A miniature barcode reading module for an electronic device minimizes the size of the memory of the processor die allowing the module to be used in small form factor electronic devices. The module may include an image sensor package operative to scan a barcode and a processor die coupled to the image sensor package. The processor die may include a processor, a memory, a flash memory, a plurality of barcode scanning algorithms loaded into the flash memory, and an image capture port operatively connected to the image sensor package. Barcode scanning firmware can determine if a barcode decoding algorithm is loaded in the memory, determine if the loaded barcode decoding algorithm is a correct barcode decoding algorithm or an incorrect barcode decoding algorithm, unload an incorrect barcode decoding algorithm from the memory, and load a correct barcode decoding algorithm into the memory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Assignee: Hand Held Products, Inc.
    Inventor: Edward C. Bremer
  • Patent number: 10049247
    Abstract: Disclosed are techniques to enhance an in-counter sweep-style data reader, having frame buffer memory and an imager defining a read zone, so as to improve a likelihood of decoding an optical code appearing in initial image frames by managing utilization of the frame buffer memory according to a prioritization of different categories of image frames captured by the imager as an object bearing an optical code is passed through the read zone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Assignee: Datalogic USA, Inc.
    Inventor: WenLiang Gao
  • Patent number: 10049248
    Abstract: An enclosure for a mirror may include a first passage, a second passage, and a third passage. The mirror may be positioned within the enclosure at an angle that causes light received in through the second passage to be reflected out through the third passage. The first passage may be coupled with a gas flow system, e.g., for supplying gas flow out through at least the second passage. In operation, the enclosure may be located below a gap between conveyors and permit light from an item over the gap to be passed downwardly through the gap, passed through the second passage, reflected by the mirror, and passed through the third passage to an optical sensor, while gas flow is provided through the second and/or third passage to exclude dust that might otherwise reach the mirror and block reflection of light from the item to the sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Wayne Musselman
  • Patent number: 10049249
    Abstract: Indicia readers may be configured with two illumination light sources: a primary light source for illuminating primary indicia (e.g., a barcode) and a secondary ultraviolet (UV) light source for revealing secondary indicia (e.g., UV fluorescent watermarks) that are used to protect against counterfeit and fraud. Ultraviolet light can be harmful. The present invention embraces methods and a device for controlling the secondary UV light source to limit UV exposure. When an exposure risks is detected, the UV light source is deactivated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Assignee: Hand Held Products, Inc.
    Inventors: John A. Furlong, Sean Philip Kearney
  • Patent number: 10049250
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention comprise an indicia reading terminal including operatively configured to interact with a storage module to store data, including location data, of a decodable indicia found in a captured document image. In one embodiment, the indicia reading terminal can be provided with one or more pre-stored information about the decodable indicia and/or the document. In another embodiment the indicia reading terminal can be provided with instructions and similarly operatively configured components that can identify information about the decodable indicia, store such information in a table, and utilize the tabulated data to process captured image data of subsequent documents.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Assignee: Hand Held Products, Inc
    Inventors: Jingquan Li, Timothy P. Meier, Robert M. Hussey
  • Patent number: 10049251
    Abstract: An electronic device may include a device housing having a topside and an underside. The electronic device may also include a mounting frame movable above the topside of the device housing and a finger biometric sensor carried by the mounting frame. A flexure member may be coupled to the underside of the device housing and configured to upwardly bias the mounting frame relative to the device housing. A pushbutton switch may be operatively coupled between the finger biometric sensor and the topside of the device housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Robert Y. Cao, Ran Xu, Stephen K. Pomes, Brandon S. Smith, Dinesh C. Mathew
  • Patent number: 10049252
    Abstract: A chip package includes a substrate, a capacitive sensing layer and a computing chip. The substrate has a first surface and a second surface opposite to the first surface, and the capacitive sensing layer is disposed above the second surface and having a third surface opposite to the second surface, which the capacitive sensing layer includes a plurality of capacitive sensing electrodes and a plurality of metal wires. The capacitive sensing electrodes are on the second surface, and the metal wires are on the capacitive sensing electrodes. The computing chip is disposed above the third surface and electrically connected to the capacitive sensing electrodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Assignee: XINTEC INC.
    Inventors: Yen-Shih Ho, Shu-Ming Chang, Tsang-Yu Liu, Hsing-Lung Shen
  • Patent number: 10049253
    Abstract: In one aspect, a fingerprint sensor device for fingerprint detection includes an array of sensor pixels to capacitively couple with a touched portion of a finger to form an array of fingerprint associated capacitors having capacitive values indicative of a fingerprint. Each sensor pixel includes an output terminal configured to output an output signal that indicates a local capacitive coupling with the touched portion of the finger as part of fingerprint data for fingerprint detection; a capacitive sensing layer including an electrically conductive material that can be capacitively coupled to a local part of the touched portion of the finger, forming a fingerprint associated capacitor, the capacitive sensing layer operable to be coupled to the output terminal to cause the output signal; an integrated circuit layout layer that is electrically conductive; a fingerprint voltage generator; and a layout voltage generator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Assignee: SHENZHEN GOODIX TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Mengda Yang, Kuohao Chao, Chang Zhan
  • Patent number: 10049254
    Abstract: A biometric imager may comprise a plurality of sensor element traces formed in or on a sensor substrate which may comprise at least a portion of a display screen defining a biometric sensing area and forming in-active pixel locations; an auxiliary active circuit formed in or on the sensor substrate on the periphery of the biometric sensing area and in direct or indirect electrical contact with the sensor element traces; and providing a signal processing interface to a remotely located controller integrated circuit. The sensor element traces may form a portion of one dimensional linear sensor array or pixel locations in a two dimensional grid array capacitive gap biometric imaging sensor. The auxiliary circuit may provide pixel location selection or pixel signal amplification. The auxiliary circuit may be mounted on a surface of the display screen. The auxiliary circuit further comprising a separate pixel location selection controller circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Assignee: Synaptics Incorporated
    Inventors: Paul Wickboldt, Gregory Lewis Dean, Erik Jonathon Thompson, Jaswinder Jandu, Patrick Smith, Steven Molesa
  • Patent number: 10049255
    Abstract: A finger biometric sensing device may include drive circuitry for generating a drive signal and an array of finger biometric sensing pixel electrodes cooperating with the drive circuitry and generating a detected signal based upon placement of a finger adjacent the array. The detected signal may include a drive signal component and a sense signal component superimposed thereon. A gain stage may be coupled to the array and drive signal nulling circuitry may be coupled to the gain stage for reducing the drive signal component from the detected signal. The drive signal nulling circuitry may include a first digital-to-analog converter (DAC) generating an inverted scaled replica of the drive signal for the gain stage. Error compensation circuitry includes a memory storing error compensation data and a second DAC coupled in series with the first DAC compensating an error in the inverted scaled replica based upon the error compensation data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Pavel Mrazek, Giovanni Gozzini, Jean-Marie Bussat
  • Patent number: 10049256
    Abstract: A fingerprint sensing module adapted to sense fingerprint of user's finger is provided. The fingerprint sensing module includes a sensing device, an optical cover and an optical-collimating layer located between the sensing device and the optical cover. The sensing device includes a sensing surface, and the optical-collimating layer covers the sensing surface. The optical-collimating layer includes light-blocking areas and light-transmitting areas, and each of the light-transmitting area is surrounded by a part of the light-blocking areas. The optical cover is disposed on the optical-collimating layer, and the optical cover is adapted to contact the user's finger, and the optical cover is adapted to transmit a sensing light from the user's finger to the optical-collimating layer, and the light-blocking areas are adapted to block a portion of the sensing light, and another portion of the sensing light is transmitted to the sensing surface through the light-transmitting areas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Assignee: Gingy Technology Inc.
    Inventor: Jen-Chieh Wu
  • Patent number: 10049257
    Abstract: A fingerprint identification module includes a cover plate, a fingerprint identification sensor, at least one light source, a plurality of fibers, and a display device. The cover plate has an inner surface and an outer surface opposite to the inner surface. The fingerprint identification sensor and the at least one light source are located under the inner surface, and the at least one light source is located adjacent to the fingerprint identification sensor. The fibers are arranged in an array and are located between the cover plate and the fingerprint identification sensor. Each of the fibers has a light incident surface facing the inner surface and inclined relative to the inner surface. An optical axis of each of the fibers is perpendicular to the inner surface of the cover plate. The display device is located between the cover plate and the plurality of fibers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Assignee: Gingy Technology Inc.
    Inventors: Jen-Chieh Wu, Chuck Chung
  • Patent number: 10049258
    Abstract: A method of preprocessing an image including biological information is disclosed, in which an image preprocessor may set an edge line in an input image including biological information, calculate an energy value corresponding to the edge line, and adaptively crop the input image based on the energy value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kyuhong Kim, Wonjun Kim, Youngsung Kim, Sungjoo Suh