Patents Issued in March 12, 2024
  • Patent number: 11928350
    Abstract: A method, a computing device, and a non-transitory machine-readable medium for managing modes of operation for volumes in a node. A first portion of a plurality of volumes in a node is selected to operate in an active mode. A second portion of the plurality of volumes in the node is selected to operate in a passive mode. The second portion of the volumes that operates in the passive mode consumes fewer resources than the first portion of the volumes that operates in the active mode. The first portion of the plurality of volumes and the second portion of the plurality of volumes are adjusted over time based on activity of each volume of the plurality of volumes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: NETAPP, INC.
    Inventors: Sushrut Bhowmik, Amit Panara, Sumith Makam, Vinay Kumar, Varun Simhadri, Sriram Venketaraman
  • Patent number: 11928351
    Abstract: A system comprises a communications module; a processor coupled to the communications module; and a memory coupled to the processor, the memory storing processor-executable instructions which, when executed by the processor, configure the processor to receive, via the communications module, a transfer instruction for transfer of data from a first data record associated with a transferor to a second data record associated with a recipient, the transfer instruction including a transfer amount and a condition associated with the transfer; send, via the communications module, a notification of the transfer instruction to a computing device associated with the recipient and request permission to obtain contextual data therefrom; when permission is granted, obtain, via the communications module, contextual data from the computing device; determine, based on the contextual data, that the condition associated with the transfer has been satisfied; and in response to determining that the condition associated with the t
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: The Toronto-Dominion Bank
    Inventors: Milos Dunjic, David Samuel Tax, Vipul Kishore Lalka
  • Patent number: 11928352
    Abstract: Systems and methods are described for performing persistent inflight tracking of operations (Ops) within a cross-site storage solution. According to one embodiment, a method comprises maintaining state information regarding a data synchronous replication status for a first storage object of a primary storage cluster and a second storage object of a secondary storage cluster. The state information facilitates automatic triggering of resynchronization for data replication between the first storage object and the second storage object. The method includes performing persistent inflight tracking of I/O operations with a first Op log of the primary storage cluster and a second Op log of the secondary storage cluster, establishing and comparing Op ranges for the first and second Op logs, and determining a relation between the Op range of the first Op log and the Op range of the second Op log to prevent divergence of Ops in the first and second Op logs and to support parallel split of the Ops.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: NetApp, Inc.
    Inventors: Krishna Murthy Chandraiah Setty Narasingarayanapeta, Preetham Shenoy, Divya Kathiresan, Rakesh Bhargava
  • Patent number: 11928353
    Abstract: A processing device, operatively coupled with a memory device, is configured to perform a write operation on a page of a plurality of pages of a data unit of a memory device. The processing device further generates a parity page for data stored in the page of the data unit and associates the parity page with parity data associated with the data unit. Responsive to determining that a first size of the parity data is larger than a first threshold size, the processing device compresses the parity data. Responsive to determining that a second size of the compressed parity data is larger than a second threshold size, the processing device releases at least a subset of the parity data corresponding to a subset of the data that is free from defects.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Harish R Singidi, Ashutosh Malshe, Vamsi Pavan Rayaprolu, Kishore Kumar Muchherla
  • Patent number: 11928354
    Abstract: A read-disturb-based read temperature determination system includes a storage device that is coupled to a read temperature adjustment subsystem. The storage device receives data from the read temperature adjustment subsystem, stores the data in a block in the storage device, identifies read disturb information for a row in the block at a plurality of different times, processes the read disturb information to generate a read temperature for the row, provides the read temperature in a local logical storage element read temperature map and, based on instructions from the read temperature adjustment subsystem, adjusts the read temperature provided in the local logical storage element read temperature map.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Ali Aiouaz, Walter A. O'Brien, III, Leland W. Thompson
  • Patent number: 11928355
    Abstract: Disclosed are a method and apparatus for determining mismatch of a sense amplifier, a storage medium, and an electronic equipment, relating to the field of integrated circuit technology. The method for determining mismatch of a sense amplifier includes: determining a first signal threshold on a first bit line when a first memory cell executes write and read operations; determining a second signal threshold on a second bit line when a second memory cell executes write and read operations; and determining, according to the first signal threshold and the second signal threshold, whether the sense amplifier is mismatched. A method for determining whether the sense amplifier is mismatched is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Changxin Memory Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Jian Chen, Chi-Shian Wu
  • Patent number: 11928356
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatuses related to source address memory management are described. For example, a controller can be coupled to a memory device to select a source block, a destination block, and a metadata block. The controller can store metadata indicative of an address of the source block in the metadata block. The controller can perform a memory management operation to transfer data from the source block to the destination block.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Xiangang Luo, Jianmin Huang, Xiaolai Zhu
  • Patent number: 11928357
    Abstract: Embodiments of this application provide a method and system for adjusting a memory, and a semiconductor device. The method for adjusting a memory includes: acquiring a mapping relationship among a temperature of a transistor, a substrate bias voltage of a sense amplification transistor in a sense amplifier, and an actual data writing time of the memory; acquiring a current temperature of the transistor; and adjusting the substrate bias voltage on the basis of the current temperature and the mapping relationship, such that an actual data writing time corresponding to an adjusted substrate bias voltage is within a preset writing time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: CHANGXIN MEMORY TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Shu-Liang Ning, Jun He, Zhan Ying, Jie Liu
  • Patent number: 11928358
    Abstract: A command management method, a memory storage device, and a memory control circuit unit are disclosed. The method includes: obtaining a plurality of commands from a memory of a host system; storing the commands in a first buffer region of the memory storage device; in response to a first command and a second command meeting a pairing condition in the first buffer region, putting the first command and the second command in the first buffer region in a first command queue of the memory storage device; and continuously executing the first command and the second command in the first command queue.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: PHISON ELECTRONICS CORP.
    Inventor: Ming-Hui Tseng
  • Patent number: 11928359
    Abstract: A memory swapping method and apparatus are provided. The method includes: selecting n to-be-swapped-out pages; compressing the n to-be-swapped-out pages into n compressed blocks, and buffering the n compressed blocks in a compressed data buffer area; organizing at least one of the n compressed blocks into m to-be-written units; and writing the m to-be-written units into a swap area of a non-volatile storage device in a maximum of m batches, where at least one of the m to-be-written units is stored in a segment of continuous space in the swap area. The method reduces a quantity of write times during memory swapping, thereby prolonging a service life of the non-volatile storage device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chengke Wang, Yongjun Wei, Xie Miao, Wei Fang
  • Patent number: 11928360
    Abstract: A data storage device including a non-volatile memory device including one or more non-volatile memory sets and one or more endurance groups. Each of the endurance groups includes at least one of the non-volatile memory sets. The data storage device includes a controller coupled to the non-volatile memory device. The controller is configured to receive a pending command message from a host interface, where the received pending command message includes a command configured to be executed by a first endurance group of the number of endurance groups. The controller is further configured to determine an assigned command slot for storing the command, where the assigned command slot is selected form one of a private command slot pool associated with the first endurance group or a shared command slot pool, fetch the command from the host device, and store the fetched command in the assigned command slot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Shay Benisty, Karin Inbar
  • Patent number: 11928361
    Abstract: In a memory system, a controller writes data of a plurality of clusters into a first memory area via a plurality of channels according to a write command regarding sequential data from a host. The controller specifies the order in which the data of the plurality of clusters is written according to log information and generates order information according to the specified order. The order information is information in which identification information of the cluster and information indicating a writing order are correlated with each other. The controller reads the data of the plurality of clusters from the first memory area according to a read instruction regarding an internal process and rearranges the read data of the plurality of clusters according to the order information. The controller writes the rearranged data of the plurality of clusters into the second memory area via the plurality of channels according to a write instruction regarding the internal process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: KIOXIA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Taiki Wada
  • Patent number: 11928362
    Abstract: A fuse latch of a semiconductor device including PMOS transistors and NMOS transistors includes a data transmission circuit configured to transmit data to a first node and a second node in response to a first control signal, a latch circuit configured to latch the data received from the data transmission circuit through the first node and the second node, and a data output circuit configured to output the data latched by the latch circuit in response to a second control signal. NMOS transistors contained in the data transmission circuit, the latch circuit, and the data output circuit may be formed in first, fourth, and fifth active regions, PMOS transistors are formed in second and third active regions, and the first to fifth active regions are sequentially arranged in a first direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: SK hynix inc.
    Inventors: Jae Hwan Seo, Chul Moon Jung
  • Patent number: 11928363
    Abstract: A method of operating a host device to control a storage device which includes a register is provided. The method includes: providing the storage device with a partial array refresh setting indicating a non-masking segment among a masking segment and the non-masking segment; providing a refresh command to the storage device; and providing a write command for the masking segment to the storage device to control the storage device to store data while a partial array refresh is performed in the storage device based on the refresh command.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jun Ha Hwang, Chul-Hwan Choo, Gye Sik Oh, Young Bin Lee, Sung Won Jo
  • Patent number: 11928364
    Abstract: A memory system includes a non-volatile memory and a memory controller. The memory controller is configured to queue write commands received from a host. The commands may include a first write command to write first write data associated with a first stream and a second write command to write second write data associated with a second stream. When the first and second write commands are queued, the memory controller repeatedly performs a sequence of a first operation of acquiring a predetermined amount of the first write data from the host and then transmitting to the non-volatile memory, and a second operation of acquiring the predetermined amount of the second write data from the host and then transmitting to the non-volatile memory. The second operation in the sequence is started after completion of the first operation in the sequence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Kioxia Corporation
    Inventor: Hotaka Ueki
  • Patent number: 11928365
    Abstract: An apparatus comprises at least one processing device comprising a processor coupled to a memory. The at least one processing device is configured to receive in a storage system, from a host device, mapping information associating a key identifier of a datastore-level key with a corresponding datastore comprising multiple logical storage devices of the storage system, to store the mapping information in a datastore-level key data structure of the storage system, to utilize the key identifier to obtain in the storage system the datastore-level key from a key management server external to the storage system, and responsive to receipt of at least one IO operation from the host device relating to at least one of reading or writing encrypted data of at least one of the logical storage devices of the datastore, to utilize the obtained datastore-level key to access the encrypted data in unencrypted form in the storage system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: EMC IP Holding Company LLC
    Inventors: Amit Pundalik Anchi, Vinay G. Rao, Srinivas Kangyampeta, Madhu Tarikere
  • Patent number: 11928366
    Abstract: A cloud-based storage system within a cloud computing environment, the cloud-based storage system including: monitoring, for the cloud-based storage system, one or more storage system operations, wherein the cloud-based storage system includes a virtual instance storage layer and a cloud-based storage layer; determining, based at least upon the one or more storage system operations, one or more access patterns for the cloud-based storage system; and modifying, based at least upon the one or more access patterns for the cloud-based storage system, one or more cloud configurations for the cloud-based storage system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: PURE STORAGE, INC.
    Inventors: Aswin Karumbunathan, John Colgrove, Constantine Sapuntzakis, Joshua Freilich, Naveen Neelakantam, Sergey Zhuravlev
  • Patent number: 11928367
    Abstract: Some embodiments provide a method for, at a network interface controller (NIC) of a computer, accessing data in a network. From the computer, the method receives a request to access data stored at a logical memory address. The method translates the logical memory address into a memory address of a particular network device storing the requested data. The method sends a data message to the particular network device to retrieve the requested data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: VMware LLC
    Inventors: Alex Markuze, Shay Vargaftik, Igor Golikov, Yaniv Ben-Itzhak, Avishay Yanai
  • Patent number: 11928368
    Abstract: A control method for controlling a second server apparatus configured to communicate with a first server apparatus and store a program is provided. The first server apparatus is configured to provide a file sharing service. The program provides a function for printing a file having been uploaded to the first server apparatus. The control method includes: acquiring network information of an information processing apparatus accessing the first server apparatus; selecting, based on the acquired network information, a piece of printer information from among pieces of printer information; and performing control for causing the information processing apparatus to display an object displaying the selected piece of printer information and configured for receiving a selection of printer information from among the pieces of printer information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Hiroaki Hanai
  • Patent number: 11928369
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus having a plurality of functions includes: an accepting unit configured to accept selection of one environment from among a plurality of different environments as a use environment of the information processing apparatus; a first notification unit configured to provide a notification of a function which is at least one of the plurality of functions and for which a change in use occurs when a group of set values corresponding to the selected one environment is set in the information processing apparatus; a second notification unit configured to extract a set value related to the change in use from the group of set values and provide a notification of the set value; and a setting unit configured to perform batch setting for the information processing apparatus on the basis of the group of set values in response to an instruction for setting the group of set values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Takumi Maeda
  • Patent number: 11928370
    Abstract: A USB host portion is supplied with power in a normal mode, and the power supply is stopped in a power saving mode. The USB host portion can acquire print request data from a communication device while outputting a first control signal. Power is supplied to a signal input portion and a signal output portion in both modes. The signal input portion can receive a signal from the communication device. A control portion shifts to the normal mode when a notification signal is input to the signal input portion while operating in the power saving mode. The signal output portion outputs a second control signal in both the normal mode and the power saving mode. The voltage output portion outputs a rated voltage to the communication device when at least one of the first control signal and the second control signal is output.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventor: Hitoshi Matsumoto
  • Patent number: 11928371
    Abstract: Systems and methods for 3D printer management can verify the printing of a 3D object based on instructions inserted into the 3D object file that cause the 3D printer to perform extra actions, thus emitting certain sounds while printing. In one example, a print server can receive a request to print a 3D object. The print server can insert snippets of instructions at random into the 3D object file. A recording device can record audio of the 3D printer printing the 3D object. The recording device can send the audio to the print server. The print server can verify that the audio emitted by the 3D printer while printing the 3D object match up with the snippets inserted into the 3D object file.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: VMware, Inc.
    Inventor: Rohit Pradeep Shetty
  • Patent number: 11928372
    Abstract: A method for page management for use with an image forming apparatus includes receiving a request from a user for processing one or more pages of one or more documents. Further, the method includes displaying on a display (a) a thumbnail image generated for each page and (b) a plurality of options for processing the one or more pages. Furthermore, the method includes receiving a selection by the user of at least one option of the plurality of options. Thereafter, the method includes processing the one or more pages, according to the at least one option of the selection received from the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: TOSHIBA TEC KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Anusha Mairpady Ananda
  • Patent number: 11928373
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a processor configured to obtain setting information regarding print settings for first printing employing a plate and output information based on the setting information with respect to whether second printing that does not employ a plate and that is based on the print settings for the first printing is possible.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventor: Taku Matsuo
  • Patent number: 11928374
    Abstract: Example methods, systems, and apparatuses for verifying a printed indicium are provided. An example method may include receiving a captured image of a print media comprising the printed indicium; extracting a quiet zone grade portion from the captured image, where the quiet zone grade portion includes a printed indicium area of the printed indicium and at least one quiet zone area adjacent to the printed indicium area; in response to receiving a user input providing an overwrite quiet zone requirement indication and determining that the at least one quiet zone area does not satisfy at least one quiet zone requirement, causing at least one of adjusting the at least one quiet zone requirement to at least one reduced quiet zone requirement or adding at least one additional quiet zone area to the at least one quiet zone area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Hand Held Products, Inc.
    Inventors: Kar Boon Oung, WenWei Zhang, Thomas Axel Jonas Celinder, Christian Knut Schulz-Janisch, Kin Song Chan
  • Patent number: 11928375
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes: a job acquirer that acquires a job; a function executor that executes a function requested for the acquired job; and a completion notification selector that selects a timing for transmitting, to an information processing apparatus, a process completion notification indicating normal termination of execution of the function after the function is executed. The timing for transmitting the process completion notification to the information processing apparatus includes a job execution completion time that is a time when the execution of the function normally terminates and a job acquisition completion time that is a time before the execution of the function starts. In a status where there is a function currently being executed and no new job is acquirable, the completion notification selector selects the job acquisition completion time as the timing for transmitting the process completion notification to the information processing apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Hiroaki Nakamura
  • Patent number: 11928376
    Abstract: According to examples, an apparatus may include a processor and a memory on which are stored machine-readable instructions that when executed by the processor, may cause the processor to maintain client presence information that is received from a client and maintain printer presence information that is received from a printer. The client presence information may include a client network property and the printer presence information may include a printer network property. In some examples, the processor may receive print job information for a print job from the client and may determine a recommended print job delivery path for the print job based on the print job information, the client presence information, and the printer presence information. The processor may cause the print job to be routed to the printer based on the recommended print job delivery path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Michael St. Laurent, Rajivkumar Vinodchandra Mistry
  • Patent number: 11928377
    Abstract: An information processing system, an information processing method, and a non-transitory recording medium. The information processing system receives from a communication terminal that requests a device to output information related to the output by the device, and stores in one or more memories, a determination result indicating whether the output of the information by the device is subject to processing in association with the information related to the output by the device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventor: Yuuya Ohtake
  • Patent number: 11928378
    Abstract: A system includes a server computer, an application unit of the server computer, a user device communicatively connected to the server computer, a synchronizing frame rate generator of the user device, and a synchronizing frame rate generator of the server computer. The user device sends the server computer an event signal at a precise time, the server computer processes the application unit with the event signal as input, and the server computer returns processed data to the user device. The processed data arrives at the user device at a correct time to be immediately displayed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Inventor: Steve Bakke
  • Patent number: 11928379
    Abstract: Methods and systems for causing display of notes in an extended reality (XR) environment are described herein. A computing device may provide, to a user and via an XR device, an XR environment. The computing device may receive an indication that the user is presenting content. The computing device may capture one or more images of a physical environment around the XR device, then process the images to identify a location of a camera. The computing device may retrieve text corresponding to the content being presented and cause display, in the XR environment and based on the location, of the text. In this manner, the computing device may orient the eyes of the user towards a camera during presentation of content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Citrix Systems, Inc.
    Inventor: Manbinder Pal Singh
  • Patent number: 11928380
    Abstract: Display assemblies, systems, and methods are provided for reporting customer-specific information. A controller is in electronic communication with an electronic display and is configured to associate portions of data regarding operations of at least the electronic display with client identifiers such that at least two portions of the data are associated with different client identifiers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Manufacturing Resources International, Inc.
    Inventors: Elliot Newnham, Brock Bearchell
  • Patent number: 11928381
    Abstract: Provided is a display device including a display configured to display first content; a memory storing instructions; and a processor configured to execute the instructions to: obtain first content information by analyzing the first content, obtain user tracking information by tracking a user viewing the first content displayed by the display, determine whether a trigger condition is satisfied, based on at least one of the first content information or the user tracking information, and based on the trigger condition being satisfied, control a communication unit to transmit second content to a projector connected to the display device, wherein the second content is generated based on the first content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Anant Baijal, Cheulhee Hahm, Jayoon Koo, Seungwon Cha, Namuk Kim, Wookhyung Kim, Minki Lee
  • Patent number: 11928382
    Abstract: Embodiments of systems and methods for providing contextual intelligence for virtual workspaces produced across Information Handling Systems (IHSs) are described. A first IHS may include a processor and a memory coupled to the processor, the memory having program instructions stored thereon that, upon execution, cause the first IHS to: establish a virtual workspace across a first display of the first IHS and a second display of a second IHS, at least in part, through a backend IHS, and provide a contextual menu for rendering by a given one of the first or second displays, where the given display is selected, at least in part, based upon a relative position of the first display with respect to the second display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Dell Products, L.P.
    Inventors: Spencer G. Bull, Michiel Sebastiaan Emanuel Petrus Knoppert
  • Patent number: 11928383
    Abstract: A screen projection control method, storage medium and communication apparatus are provided. The screen projection control method includes: a screen projection receiving end receiving screen projection request information from a first screen projection sending end; determining, according to the screen projection request information, whether a third screen projection sending end that has triggered an interference-free mode of screen projection exists in at least one second screen projection sending end that is performing screen projection, wherein enabling the interference-free mode comprises stopping accepting a screen projection request; and if the third screen projection sending end that has enabled the screen projection interference-free mode exists, the screen projection receiving end sending response information for refusing the screen projection request to the first screen projection sending end.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignees: GUANGZHOU SHIYUAN ELECTRONIC TECHNOLOGY COMPANY LIMITED, GUANGZHOU SHIRUI ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Fan Zhang
  • Patent number: 11928384
    Abstract: A computer implemented method of facilitating communication between first and second users includes displaying, by a first head-worn device, a first virtual object to the first user first user wearing the first head-worn device. The method also includes displaying, by a second head-worn device, a second virtual object to the second user wearing the second head-worn device. The method further includes facilitating, by the first and second head-worn devices, communications between the first and second users using the first and second virtual objects to simulate the first and second users being present in a common environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Magic Leap, Inc.
    Inventors: Rodolpho C. Cardenuto, David Charles Lundmark
  • Patent number: 11928385
    Abstract: In an example implementation according to aspects of the present disclosure, a method of a computing device may include determining whether a first mode or a second mode is selected. If the first mode is selected, the computing device connects a microphone to a sound processing logic. If the second mode is selected, the computing device disconnects the microphone from the sound processing logic and connecting an audio source to the sound processing logic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: HEWLETT-PACKARD DEVELOPMENT COMPANY, L.P.
    Inventor: Richard Bramley
  • Patent number: 11928386
    Abstract: An example computing device includes a plurality of interfaces to connect to a plurality of audio peripheral devices, a communications interface to establish a network connection, and a processor interconnected with the plurality of interfaces and the communications interface. The processor is to determine a location of the computing device based on the network connection. The processor sets an audio peripheral device from the plurality of the audio peripheral devices as a default audio peripheral device based on the location. The processor communicates an audio signal through the default audio peripheral device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: HEWLETT-PACKARD DEVELOPMENT COMPANY, L.P.
    Inventors: Srinath Balaraman, Ling Wei Chung, Pradosh Tulsidas Verlekar, Charles J. Stancil
  • Patent number: 11928387
    Abstract: A method for controlling target sound playback. A display screen of a control device is configured to display a target sound user setting for controlling target sound playback, wherein the target sound user setting controls a stored target sound level parameter that is stored within memory of the control device. A target sound sequence is generated in accordance with the user setting. A speaker is driven with the target sound sequence. Other aspects are also described and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Cecilia Casarini, Ian M. Fisch, Jakub Mazur, Mitchell R. Lerner, Pablo David Brazell Ruiz, Stephen W. Ryner, Jr., Tyrone T. Chen
  • Patent number: 11928388
    Abstract: A vehicle sound service system and a method thereof are provided. The vehicle sound service system includes a service server including a communication device that may be configured to transmit and receive data with a mobile terminal loaded with a camera and a processing device electrically connected with the communication device. The processing device may be configured to receive an image transmitted from the mobile terminal using the communication device, when the mobile terminal captures the image around a vehicle using the camera and transmits the image, to analyze the received image to estimate a driving place, and to select a sound that matches the estimated driving place and transmits the selected sound to the mobile terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Corporation
    Inventor: Kyoung Jin Chang
  • Patent number: 11928389
    Abstract: An example computing device is configured to transmit playback preference tracking information to a media service registered with a media playback system and, after transmitting the playback preference information, (a) determine a first time boundary corresponding to a beginning of a zone scene that causes a first playback device in a first zone of the media playback system to be configured for synchronous playback of media with a second playback device in a second zone of the media playback system, (b) determine a second time boundary corresponding to an end of the zone scene, and (c) transmit, to the media service registered with the media playback system, a request to remove playback preference tracking information received between the first time boundary and the second time boundary.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Sonos, Inc.
    Inventor: Jonathan Lang
  • Patent number: 11928390
    Abstract: Embodiments are disclosed for providing an interface with a personalized virtual personal assistant (VPA) via a computing system. The example method comprises assigning a plurality of virtual personal assistant (VPA) instances to a plurality of users, each VPA instance of the plurality of VPA instances operating concurrently. For example, assigning the plurality of VPA instances to the plurality of users may include retrieving a personalized VPA configuration for each user of the plurality of users based on a plurality of audio samples, each of the plurality of audio samples corresponding to a user of the plurality of users.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: HARMAN INTERNATIONAL INDUSTRIES, INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Jigar Mistry, Aditya Diwakar Ilkal, Ankur Jha, Ankur Tibrewal, Nitya Tandon
  • Patent number: 11928391
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including medium-encoded computer program products, for computer aided design of structures include, in one aspect, a method for hybrid surface modelling with subdivision surfaces and NURBS surfaces, the method including: modifying a control mesh (in accordance with received input) of a subdivision surface model including a topological control that tracks mesh to NURBS relationships for a limit surface of the subdivision surface, and stored NURBS surfaces representing the limit surface; obtaining an updated limit surface from the modified control mesh; finding at least one modified NURBS surface in the stored NURBS surfaces in accordance with relationship(s) tracked in the topological control; and for each modified NURBS surface, updating the modified NURBS surface with its corresponding replacement NURBS surface, and applying at least one geometric modification (associated with a modified NURBS surface in a history procedures system) to the associated modified NURBS surface a
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Autodesk, Inc.
    Inventor: Dan Mircea Lupas
  • Patent number: 11928392
    Abstract: Examples can include a system for generating a spool sheet. A user can select multiple components on a graphical user interface (“GUI”). Then they can select an option to create a spool sheet. The system can determine a list of components in the selection for use in a bill of materials. This can be included in a spool page that includes a printable spool sheet region. Within the spool sheet region, the GUI can display a view of the selected components at a location indicated by an anchor node of the template.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: EVOLVE MEP. LLC
    Inventors: Jason Faulkner, Xiao Chun Yao, David Ronson
  • Patent number: 11928393
    Abstract: A platform for design of a lighting installation generally includes an automated search engine for retrieving and storing a plurality of lighting objects in a lighting object library and a lighting design environment providing a visual representation of a lighting space containing lighting space objects and lighting objects. The visual representation is based on properties of the lighting space objects and lighting objects obtained from the lighting object library. A plurality of aesthetic filters is configured to permit a designer in a design environment to adjust parameters of the plurality of lighting objects handled in the design environment to provide a desired collective lighting effect using the plurality of lighting objects.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Korrus, Inc.
    Inventors: Benjamin James Harrison, Shruti Koparkar, Mark Reynoso, Paul Pickard, Raghuram L. V. Petluri, Gary Vick, Andrew Villegas
  • Patent number: 11928394
    Abstract: Systems and methods of the present disclosure enable automated roof planning using a processor. The processor receives a digital image of a roof of a structure and models each roof plane of the roof to generate a roof model. The processor determines dimensions of each roof plane based on the roof model. The processor retrieves roofing accessory data from a database, the roofing accessory data solar roofing accessory part identifiers and solar roofing accessory part performance characteristics for solar roofing accessories. The processor simulates multiple candidate roof layouts based on the dimensions of each roof plan and the solar roofing accessory parts and determines a utilization prediction for each candidate layout. Based on each utilization prediction, the processor determines a particular roof layout having selected solar roofing accessory parts, and generates a solar roof design, including a list of materials, for the particular roof layout.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: BMIC LLC
    Inventors: Zachary Richard Campau, Rich Robinson
  • Patent number: 11928395
    Abstract: The data representing the floor plan is processed to classify the different elements in the floor plan. This step may be carried out by processing, using at least one image classification model, different images representing different layers of the floor plan data to identify the type of elements belonging to each layer. A group of elements belonging to a subset of the classifications are then selected and used to segment the floor plan into different spaces. For example, certain boundary elements (e.g. the walls and doors) between different spaces (i.e. rooms) in the floor plan may be identified and selected. Once identified, the boundary elements may be used to segment the floor plan into different spaces, which can then be analysed to determine the characteristics of those spaces, in particular the classification of the space into a type (e.g. an intended use for the space or a type of space, such as an, office, meeting room, kitchen, etc).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Hubstar International Limited
    Inventors: Stefanos Vatidis, Denis Mequinion
  • Patent number: 11928396
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method for evaluating computational fluid dynamic simulation results. The method includes: performing at least two baseline runs of a simulated area or volume containing a first vehicle body shape using a set of initial conditions, performing a change run using a second vehicle body using the set of initial conditions, creating a noise map based on differences between the second baseline run and the first baseline run, creating a change map based on differences between the change run and a selected baseline run, and comparing the change map to the noise map.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA MOTOR ENGINEERING & MANUFACTURING NORTH AMERICA, INC.
    Inventors: Brian T. Thurgate, Daniel B. Gidcumb
  • Patent number: 11928397
    Abstract: A reliability-based topology optimization design method for a part structure considering bounded hybrid uncertainties, includes the following steps: considering the uncertainties in the manufacture and service of the part structure, describing an external load with insufficient samples and a material property with sufficient samples as an interval variable and a bounded probabilistic variable respectively; discretizing a design domain of the part structure, setting the physical and geometric constraints, and establishing a reliability-based topology optimization design model; solving by a moving asymptote algorithm: decoupling the probabilistic and interval uncertainties, and determining the worst working condition by using gradients of constraint performance functions; defining a performance fluctuation under the worst working condition and calculating reliability of constraint performance; and finally, calculating the gradients of objective and constraint functions with respect to the design variables for i
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Jin Cheng, Deshang Peng, Zhenyu Liu, Daxin Liu, Jianrong Tan
  • Patent number: 11928398
    Abstract: The disclosed method reconstructs a topology of an electrical distribution network. An ohmic matrix model is generated as a function of consumption measurements provided by smart meters in the network. A tree table of nodes to which the smart meters are connected is defined. A branch in exploration is defined in the table and the nodes of the branch meeting preestablished relations are entered in the table as a function of connection values derived from resistive quantities in the matrix model. One of the relations determines a junction of the branch in exploration with a branch already explored connectable to a root to which a distribution transformer of the distribution network is connected. The topology is reconstructed by iteratively proceeding with sequences of decreasing values derived from the resistive quantities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: HYDRO-QUÉBEC
    Inventor: François Léonard
  • Patent number: 11928399
    Abstract: Simulating output of a perception system may comprise receiving scenario data indicating a position associated with a simulated sensor and a position and/or identifier of an object, and instantiating a three-dimensional representation of an environment and the object (i.e., a simulated environment). The system may generate depth data indicating distances and/or positions of surfaces in the simulated environment relative to the simulated sensor position and determine a three-dimensional region of interest based at least in part on the depth data associated with at least a portion of the object. In some examples, the three-dimensional region of interest may be smaller than a size of the object, due to an occlusion by topology of the simulated environment and/or another object in the simulated environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Zoox, Inc.
    Inventor: James Graham Dolan