Patents Issued in February 20, 2024
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Patent number: 11910153Abstract: A dipole loudspeaker for producing sound at bass frequencies. The dipole loudspeaker includes: a diaphragm having a first radiating surface and a second radiating surface, wherein the first radiating surface and the second radiating surface are located on opposite faces of the diaphragm; a drive unit configured to move the diaphragm at bass frequencies such that the first and second radiating surfaces produce sound at bass frequencies, wherein the sound produced by the first radiating surface is in antiphase with sound produced by the second radiating surface; a frame, wherein the diaphragm is suspended from the frame via one or more suspension elements, wherein the frame is configured to allow sound produced by the first radiating surface to propagate out from a first side of the dipole loudspeaker and to allow sound produced by the second radiating surface to propagate out from a second side of the dipole loudspeaker.Type: GrantFiled: May 19, 2020Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: PSS BELGIUM NVInventors: David Corynen, Fabian Vuine
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Patent number: 11910154Abstract: A MEMS device includes a package for providing an inner volume, a MEMS microphone arranged in the inner volume, a sound port through the package to the inner volume, and a passive acoustic attenuation filter acoustically coupled to the sound port.Type: GrantFiled: April 8, 2022Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: INFINEON TECHNOLOGIES AGInventors: Daniel Neumaier, Niccoló De Milleri
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Patent number: 11910155Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a MEMS speaker including a housing with a receiving space; a MEMS speaker chip with an inner cavity, accommodated in the receiving space and connected with the housing, the MEMS speaker chip dividing the receiving space into a first cavity and a second cavity communicating with the inner cavity; a sound hole communicating with the first cavity or the second cavity; and a damping mesh connected to the housing and covering the sound hole; wherein sounds emitted by the MEMS speaker chip transmit outward through the sound hole and the damping mesh. Compared with the related art, MEMS speaker disclosed by the present disclosure has a better reliability.Type: GrantFiled: August 2, 2022Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: AAC Kaital Technologies (Wuhan) CO., LTDInventors: Qiang Dan, Yiwei Zhou, Yu Shen, Yang Li
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Patent number: 11910156Abstract: Implementations of the subject technology provide an acoustic module with fins integrated within the acoustic module to reduce acoustic noise. Airflow caused by pressure changes due to an oscillating diaphragm can be diverted by the fins within the acoustic module. The diverted airflow provide a more uniform airflow distribution within the acoustic module, which leads to a lower peak velocity and less unwanted noise. Fins may include a curved or crescent shape and may be spaced in a certain manner to divert the airflow.Type: GrantFiled: August 25, 2022Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Marco Baratelli, Claudio Notarangelo, Matthew A. Donarski, Mo C. Chan
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Patent number: 11910157Abstract: The present disclosure provides an electronic apparatus (1000, 2000, 4000), including a housing. One end of the housing is provided with an accommodating cavity (1200, 2100, 4100). A sound guide assembly is provided in the accommodating cavity. The sound guide assembly includes a sound box (1300, 2200, 4200) and a sound guide device (2300, 4300). The sound guide device includes a sound receiving portion (2310) and a sound guide body (2320). The sound receiving portion is connected with the sound box. The sound guide body is configured to lead out a sound. An end surface (2312) of the sound receiving portion includes a sound inlet (2311, 4311). A tail end of the sound guide body deviating from the sound receiving portion includes a sound outlet (2321, 4321). A vertical height of a tail end of the sound guide body is smaller than that of the sound receiving portion.Type: GrantFiled: March 16, 2022Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignees: GUANGZHOU SHIYUAN ELECTRONIC TECHNOLOGY COMPANY LIMITED, GUANGZHOU SHIRUI ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Yaobin Zheng, Yongyao Niu, Jiabin Yuan
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Patent number: 11910158Abstract: A vibration device can include a vibration portion; a first electrode portion disposed on a first surface of the vibration portion; and a second electrode portion disposed on a second surface of the vibration portion, in which each of the first and second electrode portions include at least one of a conductive metal particle and a carbon particle.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 2021Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.Inventors: YoungWook Ha, SeungRyull Park, Chiwan Kim, Sungwook Ko
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Patent number: 11910159Abstract: An object is to provide a laminated piezoelectric element capable of preventing a short circuit between adjacent piezoelectric films and an electroacoustic transducer using the laminated piezoelectric element. The object is solved by laminating a plurality of layers of piezoelectric films polarized in a thickness direction, in which a piezoelectric layer is interposed between two thin film electrodes, and causing polarization directions of the adjacent piezoelectric films to be opposite to each other.Type: GrantFiled: May 7, 2021Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: FUJIFILM CorporationInventor: Tetsu Miyoshi
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Patent number: 11910160Abstract: The present invention relates to a MEMS acoustic sensor for sensing variable capacitance between a flexible diaphragm and a back plate. The MEMS acoustic sensor is composed of a substrate comprising a cavity, a back plate supported on the substrate and comprising a plurality of through holes, an electrode formed on the inner surface of the back plate, at least one anchor protruding from the back plate toward the substrate, a diaphragm supported by the at least one anchor and deformed by a sound wave introduced from the outside through the cavity, and a stress release unit extending from the edge portion of the back plate and in contact with the substrate.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 2021Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: SHINSUNG SOUNDMOTION CO., LTD.Inventors: Sangwoo Lee, Kyudong Jung, Jinho Kim
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Patent number: 11910161Abstract: Embodiments herein relate to hearing assistance systems and methods for use with assistive listening device systems. In a first aspect, a hearing assistance system is included having an ear-worn device can include a control circuit, a sensor package in signal communication with the control circuit, a power supply circuit in electrical communication with the control circuit, and a spatial locator circuit in communication with the ear-worn device. The spatial locator circuit can detect a current spatial location. The system can compare the current spatial location against entries in a database of spatial locations that offer assistive listening device services. The system can send a notification to the ear-worn device and/or ear-worn device wearer if the current spatial location is found in the database of spatial locations that offer assistive listening device services. Other embodiments are also included herein.Type: GrantFiled: August 21, 2020Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: Starkey Laboratories, Inc.Inventors: Kevin D. Seitz-Paquette, Andrew Johnson
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Patent number: 11910162Abstract: A method for processing an input audio signal includes using a first analytical filter bank to divide the input audio signal in a first frequency splitting process into a plurality of first frequency bands. The first frequency bands of a first subgroup are divided in a further frequency splitting process by a further analytical filter bank into a plurality of frequency subbands. The divided input audio signal is frequency-selectively processed or amplified. The divided and processed input audio signal is then combined again into an output audio signal. A prediction is applied to the first frequency bands of the first subgroup and/or the frequency subbands derived therefrom, to compensate for latency differences between the first frequency bands and the frequency subbands as a result of the or each further frequency splitting process. A device or hearing aid for carrying out the method is also provided.Type: GrantFiled: May 19, 2022Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: Sivantos Pte. Ltd.Inventors: Tobias Daniel Rosenkranz, Henning Puder
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Patent number: 11910163Abstract: A signal processing device for processing audio signals is described. The signal processing device has an input interface for receiving an input signal and an output interface for outputting an output signal. Moreover, the signal processing device has at least one first neural network for conditioning the input signal and at least one second neural network for separating one or more audio signals from the input signal. The at least one first neural network and the at least one second neural network are arranged sequentially.Type: GrantFiled: January 24, 2020Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: Sonova AGInventors: Peter Udo Diehl, Elias Sprengel
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Patent number: 11910164Abstract: Presented herein are stand-alone hearing aid adapters configured to enable the use of the recipient's hearing aid to detect and process ambient sound signals and to convert output signals generated by the acoustic hearing aid into input signals useable by the implantable hearing prosthesis for generation and delivery of stimulation to a recipientType: GrantFiled: January 3, 2020Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: Cochlear LimitedInventors: Alexander Case, Michael Goorevich
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Patent number: 11910165Abstract: An external component including a vibratory portion configured to vibrate in response to a sound signal to evoke a hearing percept via bone conduction and including a coupling portion configured to removably attach the external component to an outer surface of skin of a recipient of the hearing prosthesis while imparting deformation to the skin of the recipient at a location of the attachment, in a one-gravity environment, of an amount that is about equal to or equal to that which results from the external component having mass.Type: GrantFiled: August 9, 2021Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: Cochlear LimitedInventors: Marcus Andersson, Kristian Asnes, Erik Martin Holgersson
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Patent number: 11910166Abstract: An external component of a bone conduction device, including a vibrator and a platform configured to transfer vibrations from the vibrator to skin of the recipient, wherein the vibrator and platform are configured to quick connect and quick disconnect to and from, respectively, one another.Type: GrantFiled: January 3, 2023Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: Cochlear LimitedInventors: David Nathan Morris, Marcus Andersson, Göran Björn, Kristian Gunnar Asnes, Carl Van Himbeeck
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Patent number: 11910167Abstract: A calibration device and method of manufacturing the same. The calibration device for a hearing earpiece configured to at least partially protrude into the ear canal of a user includes a calibration base. The calibration base a calibration insert. An air chamber is defined between the calibration base and the calibration insert. The calibration device also includes at least one earpiece receiving mechanism defined on the calibration insert. The at least one earpiece receiving mechanism is configured to create an sealed connection between given ear piece and the air chamber for calibration. The earpiece receiving mechanism is configured to at least partially receive the given earpiece. A corresponding method of manufacturing is also included.Type: GrantFiled: November 23, 2022Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: HONEYWELL SAFETY PRODUCTS USA, INC.Inventors: May Bridget Wilson, Claes Ingemar Haglund, Wei Sun, Lei Jiang, Huaqing Liao
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Patent number: 11910168Abstract: A method of grouping together pieces of equipment that are capable of emitting sound signals, the method comprising the steps of: causing each piece of equipment to emit a test sound signal; causing the test sound signal to be received by each piece of equipment that is capable of receiving sound signals, and causing each of these pieces of equipment to evaluate a recognition level for said test sound signal; or each pair of pieces of equipment Ei and Ej, evaluating a mutual recognition level representative both of a recognition level N(i, j) for the piece of equipment Ei receiving a test sound signal emitted by the piece of equipment Ej, and also of a recognition level N(j, i); on the basis of the mutual recognition level, determining whether or not the pieces of equipment Ei and Ej belong to a common sound space.Type: GrantFiled: October 15, 2020Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: SAGEMCOM BROADBAND SASInventors: Frédéric Sodi, Vincent Schott
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Patent number: 11910169Abstract: Methods, systems, and media for ambient background noise modification are provided. In some implementations, the method comprises: identifying at least one noise present in an environment of a user having a user device, an activity the user is currently engaged in, and a physical or emotional state of the user; determining a target ambient noise to be produced in the environment based at least in part on the identified noise, the activity the user is currently engaged in, and the physical or emotional state of the user; identifying at least one device associated with the user device to be used to produce the target ambient noise; determining sound outputs corresponding to each of the one or more identified devices, wherein a combination of the sound outputs produces an approximation of one or more characteristics of the target ambient noise; and causing the one or more identified devices to produce the determined sound outputs.Type: GrantFiled: November 28, 2022Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: GOOGLE LLCInventors: Charles Goran, Eric H C Liu, Kevin Brune, Duane Richard Valz
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Patent number: 11910170Abstract: A microphone device comprising, for example, a mid microphone cartridge and two side microphone cartridges. The mid microphone cartridge may be, for example, a cardioid microphone cartridge, and the side microphone cartridges may each be, for example, a bidirectional microphone cartridge. Each of the mid microphone cartridge and of the two side microphone cartridges may be orthogonal to the other two microphone cartridges. The microphone device, which may be referred to herein as a mid dual-side microphone, may provide a combined pickup pattern, such as a beam and/or a toroid, that may be steerable.Type: GrantFiled: February 18, 2022Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: Shure Acquisition Holdings, Inc.Inventor: Brent Robert Shumard
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Patent number: 11910171Abstract: A smart speaker power controller may be configured to receive power conforming to one of a plurality of power modes from an input power source. The power controller may be further configured to communicate the power mode to at least one component of a processing system or at least one component of an audio system for operating the smart speaker according to the received power mode, including determining a current limit of a power converter; determining a shutdown voltage threshold and safely shutting down the smart speaker if the input voltage falls below the threshold, and/or modifying audio operation of the smart speaker in response to the power mode. The smart speaker can further include an audio power supply controller configured to monitor energy required to reproduce an audio signal and to servo a power supply voltage provided to an audio amplifier in response to this energy level.Type: GrantFiled: December 4, 2020Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Zhigang Dang, Daniel Naito, Evan Thompson, Peter Poon, Manasi Lagare, Michael Nussbaum, David Sumberg
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Patent number: 11910172Abstract: A system for generating low and low to middle-frequency vibration waves to emulate low and low to middle audio frequencies includes an exciter device including a solenoid device located adjacent to a vibration micro motor; wherein the solenoid device includes an impact member contacted to a returning spring and configured to generate low frequency vibration waves; wherein the vibration micro motor includes a motor coupled to at least one rotatable metal member and configured to generate low-middle frequency vibration waves.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2023Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Inventor: Luis Stohr
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Patent number: 11910173Abstract: An audio system including a wearable audio device having a sensor to determine a first motion of the first wearable device from a first orientation to a second orientation, a first peripheral device, a first input arranged on, in, or in communication with the wearable audio device or the first peripheral device, and circuitry connected to the wearable audio device or the first peripheral device. The circuitry is arranged to: receive the first input while the first wearable audio device is in the first orientation; receive the first input while the first wearable audio device is moved via the first motion to the second orientation; determine that the first input has been released during or after the first motion; and, adjust a setting of the wearable audio device or the first peripheral device based at least in part on the first motion from the first orientation to the second orientation.Type: GrantFiled: August 9, 2022Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: Bose CorporationInventors: Todd Richard Reily, Daniel Winchell Tellier, Daniel Buckley
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Patent number: 11910174Abstract: An unistructurally formed acoustic speaker cone unit includes (a) a suspension ring with at least one continuous loop rib; (b) a central dome-shaped cone with thin, arcuate pie-shaped segments which radiate outwardly, and with a plurality of arc ribs; and (c) a main diaphragm having a plurality of segments radiating outwardly and extending to the suspension ring. Each main diaphragm segment has an arcuate cross-section, thereby creating a concave side and a convex side. The central cone segments are preferably equal in number to the diaphragm segments and are in alignment therewith.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2023Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Inventor: Alexander Faraone
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Patent number: 11910175Abstract: The present invention provides a speaker, including a frame with a containment space, a magnetic circuit system and a vibration system. The vibration system includes a vibration diaphragm. The diaphragm includes a dome and a suspension. The suspension includes a first fixed part, a suspension part, and a second fixed part extending away from the first fixed part from the outer edge of suspension part. The suspension part includes two short axle parts, two long axle parts, and a corner part connecting adjacent short axle parts and long axle parts. The vibration diaphragm includes a reinforcement assembly connected to the corner part and connected to the first fixed part and the second fixed part at both ends. By virtue of reinforcement assembly at the corner part of the suspension, the speaker can obtain better acoustic performance.Type: GrantFiled: August 4, 2022Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: AAC Microtech (Changzhou) Co., Ltd.Inventors: Xingchi Chen, Weimin Chen, Yao Hui
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Patent number: 11910176Abstract: An apparatus for generating one or more audio channels. The apparatus comprises a metadata decoder for generating one or more reconstructed metadata signals from one or more processed metadata signals depending on a control signal, wherein each of the one or more reconstructed metadata signals indicates information associated with an audio signal of one or more audio signals, wherein the metadata decoder is configured to generate the one or more reconstructed metadata signals by determining a plurality of reconstructed metadata samples for each of the one or more reconstructed metadata signals. Moreover, the apparatus comprises an audio channel generator for generating the one or more audio channels depending on the one or more audio signals and depending on the one or more reconstructed metadata signals.Type: GrantFiled: April 25, 2022Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.Inventors: Christian Borss, Christian Ertel, Johannes Hilpert
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Patent number: 11910177Abstract: An audio system that is configured to convert a plurality of audio input channels to object-based audio, and a related computer program product. Correlation between input channels and energy balance between the input channels are determined. The determined correlation and energy balance are mapped to output three-dimensional spatial locations.Type: GrantFiled: January 13, 2022Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: BOSE CORPORATIONInventor: James Tracey
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Patent number: 11910178Abstract: A directional display method and device of audio equipment, and audio equipment are disclosed. The audio equipment comprises a camera module and a display screen that is circumferentially located on sides of the audio equipment. The display screen is rotatable relative to the audio equipment. The method comprises activating the camera module for panoramic shooting to detect a user position in response to an activation signal acquired; determining whether the display screen is in half screen display mode according to a relationship between the user position and a center position of the audio equipment; and when it is determined that the display screen is in half screen display mode, determining a compensation angle of a display direction of a half screen display area relative to the user position, and adjusting the display direction of the half screen display area so that the compensation angle is zero.Type: GrantFiled: December 29, 2018Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: GOERTEK, INC.Inventor: Jifu Zhao
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Patent number: 11910179Abstract: Examples described herein provide a computer-implemented method that includes receiving virtual object data about a virtual object in a virtual reality environment. The method further includes determining a shape of the virtual object. The method further includes determining a pose of the virtual object in the virtual reality environment. The method further includes creating, based at least in part on the shape of the virtual object and the pose of the virtual object, an acoustic representation of the virtual object within a real-world environment using at least one electroacoustic transducer to generate acoustic signals.Type: GrantFiled: September 21, 2021Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventor: Mark Sobierajski
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Patent number: 11910180Abstract: An audio processing method includes processing, by M first virtual speakers, a to-be-processed audio signal to obtain M first audio signals; processing, by N second virtual speakers, the to-be-processed audio signal to obtain N second audio signals; obtain M first head-related transfer functions (HRTFs) centered at a left ear position and N second HRTFs centered at a right ear position; obtain a first target audio signal based on the M first audio signals and the M first HRTFs; and obtain a second target audio signal based on the N second audio signals and the N second HRTFs.Type: GrantFiled: February 23, 2023Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.Inventors: Cal Armstrong, Gavin Kearney, Bin Wang, Zexin Liu
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Patent number: 11910181Abstract: Example techniques relate to playback based on acoustic signals in a system including a first network device and a second network device. A first network device may detect a presence of a user using a camera and/or infrared sensors. The first network device sends, in response to detecting the presence of the user, a particular signal via the first network interface. The second network device receives data corresponding to the particular signal and plays back an audio output corresponding to the particular signal.Type: GrantFiled: March 24, 2023Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: Sonos, IncInventors: Jonathon Reilly, Niels Van Erven
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Patent number: 11910182Abstract: A method for processing an audio signal in accordance with a room impulse response is described. The audio signal is processed with an early part of the room impulse response separate from a late reverberation of the room impulse response, wherein the processing of the late reverberation has generating a scaled reverberated signal, the scaling being dependent on the audio signal. The processed early part of the audio signal and the scaled reverberated signal are combined.Type: GrantFiled: August 5, 2022Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.Inventors: Simone Neukam, Jan Plogsties
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Patent number: 11910183Abstract: Disclosed herein are systems and methods for efficiently rendering audio. A method may include receiving a request to present a first audio track, wherein the first audio track is based on a first audio model comprising a shared model component and a first model component; receiving a request to present a second audio track, wherein the second audio track is based on a second audio model comprising the shared model component and a second model component; rendering a sound based on the first audio track, the second audio track, the shared model component, the first model component, and the second model component; and presenting, via one or more speakers, the an audio signal comprising the rendered sound.Type: GrantFiled: February 11, 2021Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: Magic Leap, Inc.Inventors: Remi Samuel Audfray, Mark Brandon Hertensteiner, Samuel Charles Dicker, Blaine Ivin Wood, Michael Z. Land
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Patent number: 11910184Abstract: The present disclosure provides a User Equipment (UE) comprising a transceiver circuit; and a controller configured to control the transceiver circuit to send, to an Access and mobility Management Function (AMF) of a communication node, an identifier, wherein upon successful authentication of a network access function of the UE in the communication node, the controller is configured to maintain a secure connection with the communication node.Type: GrantFiled: January 10, 2020Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: NEC CORPORATIONInventors: Sheeba Backia Mary Baskaran, Sander De Kievit, Sivabalan Arumugam, Anand Raghawa Prasad
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Patent number: 11910185Abstract: Systems, methods and apparatus for location-based services with data privacy protection. A privacy agent in network communication with a global privacy policy registry is installed on a mobile device. The privacy agent is operable to enforce rules based on privacy agreements when the mobile device is within and/or within a predetermined proximity of one or more geofences.Type: GrantFiled: September 9, 2021Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Inventor: Bennett Hill Branscomb
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Patent number: 11910187Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer program products for an application to securely record and propagate an invocation context for invoking other applications are described. The applications being invoked not only receive a user's authentication token, but also authentication tokens of an entire invocation chain. Accordingly, the applications being invoked can verify a chain of custody through verification of nested, cryptographically signed payloads of a chain of authentication tokens. An application can thus verify identities of each application in the chain of custody, as well as the invocation contexts (e. g. the HTTP request method and path) in which each application in the chain invoked the next application.Type: GrantFiled: August 3, 2020Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: Pivotal Software, Inc.Inventor: William Tran
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Patent number: 11910188Abstract: A multimedia content provisioning device, system and method.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2020Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Inventor: Robin Dua
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Patent number: 11910189Abstract: An electronic apparatus for displaying an image by using visual afterimage of a light source, the apparatus comprises a communication unit performing data communication to a light source; a control unit controlling light emission of the light source; a body storing the communication unit and the control unit; and a fixing unit for attaching the body on a body of a user, wherein the light source provides an image based on changes in spatial position of the light source.Type: GrantFiled: January 21, 2022Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: KONO CORPORATION LTDInventor: Geon Ho Kim
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Patent number: 11910190Abstract: Subscriber identity modules can be bound to devices and utilized for authentication. An initial or additional subscriber identity module can be bound to a user device, for instance after successful user authentication by way of an alternate mechanism. A subscriber identity module of a device can be identified, and carrier data associated with the subscriber identity module can be requested and received. A determination can be made regarding whether the subscriber identity module is linked to the device, for instance by an original linkage. A user profile can be automatically updated with the carrier data to bind the user to the user device based on the subscriber identity module when the subscriber identity module is verified to be linked to the user device. Subsequently, the subscriber identity module can be utilized as a basis for authentication.Type: GrantFiled: June 23, 2022Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.Inventors: Elenchezhean Selvaraj, Darrell L. Suen, Melody Su-Shin Kao, Sridhar Kotamraju
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Patent number: 11910191Abstract: One aspect relates to initiating, by a device, a connection with an application server associated with one or more application services. A gateway derives an uplink network token and/or a downlink network token. The tokens are provisioned to the device and/or an application server over the user-plane. The tokens are included with uplink and/or downlink packets, respectively. Another aspect relates to receiving a data packet at a gateway. The gateway determines a requirement for a network token from the packet. The gateway derives the network token based on a device subscription profile maintained by a network. The network token may be sent with the packet to a destination address associated with the packet. A packet including a network token may be received at a gateway. The gateway may verify the network token and send the data packet to an application server or a device if the verifying is successful.Type: GrantFiled: November 22, 2022Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Soo Bum Lee, Gavin Bernard Horn, John Wallace Nasielski, Stefano Faccin
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Patent number: 11910192Abstract: A device identifier access method and in the field of communications technologies. The method, implemented by a terminal, includes receiving request information for accessing a first device identifier by a target application; determining first access permission used when the target application accesses the first device identifier, where the first access permission includes one of the following: prohibiting access to the first device identifier, allowing access to a real value of the first device identifier, and allowing access to a dummy value of the first device identifier; and when the first access permission is allowing access to the dummy value of the first device identifier, returning the dummy value of the first device identifier to the target application.Type: GrantFiled: October 22, 2021Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kao Zhao, Zhen Chen
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Patent number: 11910193Abstract: Methods and systems of segmenting computing devices in a wireless network having an access point broadcasting in a single domain are described. In an exemplary method, a request to join the wireless network is received from a computing device. The request is associated with an identifier. When the identifier is not associated with a virtual network within the wireless network, a virtual network is configured within the wireless network and the identifier is associated thereto and the computing device is assigned thereto. When the identifier is associated with an existing virtual network within the wireless network, the computing device is assigned to the existing virtual network.Type: GrantFiled: August 16, 2022Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: BlackBerry LimitedInventors: James Randolph Winter Lepp, Stephen McCann, Michael Peter Montemurro
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Patent number: 11910194Abstract: A method of authenticating a secondary communication device based on authentication of a primary mobile communication device is disclosed. Trust is established with the primary mobile communication device by a device authentication server (DAS). The DAS receives an authorization code request from a secondary application operating on the secondary communication device, and transmits an authorization code to the secondary communication device. The DAS receives the authorization code from a primary application operating on the primary mobile communication device. The DAS authorizes the secondary application based on the trust with the primary mobile communication device and the authorization code from the primary application. The DAS transmits a secondary token to the secondary application at the secondary communication device to allow initialization of a communication session from the secondary application on behalf of the primary mobile communication device.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2022Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: T-Mobile Innovations LLCInventors: Ricky A. Hohler, Robin D. Katzer, Deepthi Kota, Brian D. Mauer
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Patent number: 11910195Abstract: A method of integrity check, a terminal, and network-side equipment are provided. The method includes: receiving, by the terminal, user plane data transmitted by the network-side equipment; performing, by the terminal, integrity check on the user plane data based on user-plane-data integrity check configuration information.Type: GrantFiled: April 27, 2018Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: Vivo Mobile Communication Co., Ltd.Inventor: Xiaodong Yang
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Patent number: 11910196Abstract: A method of authenticating a passcode entered by a user on an unstable electronic computing device. The method includes receiving an indication that an input is unstable, impacting the ability of a user to provide the input; generating a dynamic keyboard including at least one alphanumeric key, the dynamic keyboard being configured to address the unstable input; presenting the dynamic keyboard to the user; receiving the input from the user, the input comprising a selection of at least one alphanumeric character of a passcode on the dynamic keyboard; and authenticating the input received from the user by comparing the at least one alphanumeric character and a stored passcode.Type: GrantFiled: November 12, 2020Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.Inventors: Graham Linn, Marjorie Summit Anzalone, Andriy Fedorchuk, Robert Glenn Hamchuk, Jason Huang, Dennis E. Montenegro, Matthew Pearce, Ramanathan Ramanathan, Rajiv Ranjan, Debarchana Roy, Adam Benjamin Smith-Kipnis
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Patent number: 11910197Abstract: A service processing method includes receiving, by a mobile phone, a first identifier from a head device of a vehicle after the head device receives a trigger request to perform a vehicle door opening service, determining, by the mobile phone based on the first identifier, to perform authentication, indicating, by the mobile phone, the head device to perform the vehicle door opening service when the authentication succeeds, or determining, by the mobile phone based on the first identifier, not to perform the authentication, and sending, by the mobile phone, location information of the mobile phone, and an indication that indicating a location of the mobile phone and a location of the head device are normal to the head device.Type: GrantFiled: September 7, 2018Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.Inventor: Zhuofei Li
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Patent number: 11910198Abstract: A system and method includes mobile device, a SIM associated with mobile device, an MNO computer, a computer associated with an owner of the mobile device, a first set of keys stored in the SIM for securely communicating with the MNO computer, and a second set of keys for securely communicating with the computer associated with the owner of the mobile device, to exchange application information. The SIM can be configured to determine when updated information related to the second set of keys is required, securely send a request to the MNO computer for updated information related to the second set of keys using the first set of keys, and responsively receive the updated information related to the second set of keys from the MNO computer, the updated information being provisioned by the computer associated with the owner of the mobile device.Type: GrantFiled: November 28, 2022Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: Tata Communications (America) Inc.Inventors: Ron Grippo, Luke Kiernan, William Buchanan, Brian Peebles
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System, method, and apparatus for providing dynamic, prioritized spectrum management and utilization
Patent number: 11910199Abstract: Systems, methods, and apparatuses for providing dynamic, prioritized spectrum utilization management. The system includes at least one monitoring sensor, at least one data analysis engine, at least one application, a semantic engine, a programmable rules and policy editor, a tip and cue server, and/or a control panel. The tip and cue server is operable utilize the environmental awareness from the data processed by the at least one data analysis engine in combination with additional information to create actionable data.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2023Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: DIGITAL GLOBAL SYSTEMS, INC.Inventors: Armando Montalvo, Jeremy Levin, Dwight Inman, Edward Hummel -
Patent number: 11910200Abstract: A broadcast/broadband convergence system that delivers content from content sources to user equipment devices. The system provides: significantly enhanced mobile capability to the broadcast industry; an additional revenue source for the broadcast industry by dynamically selling available spectral resources for use by wireless broadband networks and/or broadcast content off-loaded from wireless broadband networks; additional spectrum for the broadband industry through the dynamic purchase of available spectrum; and an enriched user experience. A spectrum server may facilitate the dynamic allocation of radio spectrum made available by the broadcast networks. The broadcast networks may broadcast with enhanced waveform parameters to support mobile devices as well as fixed devices.Type: GrantFiled: May 12, 2021Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: Coherent Logix, IncorporatedInventors: Tommy K. Eng, Kevin A. Shelby
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Patent number: 11910201Abstract: A customer location is identified that can be served by a base-station in a fixed wireless communication system. Embodiments of the invention generate a viewshed for an antenna of the base-station, compute an area of a rooftop at the customer location that is included in the generated viewshed, and identify the customer location as able to be served, or not, by the base-station, based on the area of the rooftop at the customer location that is included in the generated viewshed. Further, a parcel of land on which to install a fixed wireless communication base-station can be identified. Each candidate base-station parcel of land in a list (“candidate base-station locations”) is evaluated and ranked. An evaluated candidate base-station location having a particular ranking is selected as the location on which to install the base-station.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2019Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: Sail Internet, Inc.Inventors: Georgios Ginis, Amitkumar Mahadevan, Xia (Sharon) Wan, Kevin D. Fisher
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Patent number: 11910202Abstract: Provided are a transmission control method, sounding reference signal transmission method, terminal, base station and medium. The transmission control method includes: receiving the configuration information sent by the network side, the configuration information including an association relationship between a group index and first information, where the first information has an association relationship with a channel or a reference signal; and determining a receiving mode or a sending mode of the channel or reference signal associated with the first information according to the group index.Type: GrantFiled: August 6, 2019Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: ZTE CORPORATIONInventors: Bo Gao, Yu Ngok Li, Zhaohua Lu, Ke Yao, Shujuan Zhang
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Patent number: 11910203Abstract: A communications device inputs channel state information to an artificial neural network. The communications device predicts weather conditions with the artificial neural network based on the channel state information. The communications device further adjusts communications based on the predicted weather conditions.Type: GrantFiled: September 24, 2020Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Shay Landis, Assaf Touboul, Guy Wolf, Peer Berger, David Yunusov, Ran Berliner, Michael Levitsky, Sharon Levy, Noam Zach