Systems Controlled By Data Bearing Records Patents (Class 235/375)
  • Patent number: 10657511
    Abstract: Various embodiments herein each include at least one of systems, methods, software, and devices for proximity-based transaction device selection. One embodiment in the form of a method performed on a mobile device includes receiving a positioning signal and identifying a terminal associated with the positioning signal. An instruction may then be transmitted to the identified terminal via a wireless data communication device of the mobile device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignee: NCR Corporation
    Inventors: Greg Scott Egan, Gregory James Sirmans, Matthew Phillip Kamp
  • Patent number: 10657669
    Abstract: A method, a device and a computer program product for determining a geographical location of a user are disclosed. The method comprises: extracting characters or icons in an image taken at a place where the user is located; analyzing the extracted characters or icons to determine a meaning of the characters or the icons; and determining the geographical location of the user based on the meaning of the characters or the icons. With the method, the device and the computer program product, the geographical location of the user may be accurately determined in various scenarios.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignees: BEIJING KUANGSHI TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., PINHOLE (BEIJING) TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shuchang Zhou, Xinyu Zhou, Yuxin Wu, Jianan Wu
  • Patent number: 10657536
    Abstract: An access management system includes a database configured to store access data including account identifiers and accessor identifiers, wherein the access data indicates particular accounts that have been accessed by particular accessors. The access management system also includes a computer system that receives a reservation request comprising an account identifier and an accessor identifier and determines whether the account identifier is included in the database. The computer system also determines, in response to the account identifier being present in the database, whether the access data correlates the account identifier to the accessor and authorizes the reservation of the one or more resources in the account by the accessor in response to the access data correlating the account identifier to the accessor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignee: Goldman Sachs Bank USA
    Inventors: Aaron Frank, Matthew Rothstein, Andrew Dietrich, Alexander Cramer, Andrew Briggs
  • Patent number: 10659439
    Abstract: Device identification scoring systems and methods may be provided that can increase the reliability and security of communications between devices and service providers. Users may select and configure additional identification factors that are unique and convenient for them. These factors, along with additional environmental variables, feed into a trust score computation that weights the trustworthiness of the device context requesting communication with a service provider. Service providers rely on the trust score rather than enforce a specific identification routine themselves. A combination of identification factors selected by the user can be aggregated together to produce a trust score high enough to gain access to a given online service provider. A threshold of identification risk may be required to access a service or account provided by the online service provider.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignee: ESW Holdings, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Sprague, Steven Sprague, Robert Thibadeau
  • Patent number: 10657740
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes: an information management unit that registers boarding information on a user regarding boarding acquired by a check-in procedure of the user and biometrics information on the user acquired in the check-in procedure in association with each other; and a display management unit that causes a display terminal to display display information in accordance with remaining time to boarding time based on the boarding information on the user identified by a comparison between target biometrics information, which is biometrics information acquired by the display terminal for the user, and registered biometrics information, which is the biometrics information registered by the information management unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Osamu Sakaguchi, Tomohiro Hatae, Cheng Zhang
  • Patent number: 10650345
    Abstract: A system is disclosed for providing retailer controllable access to consolidated inventory management services through a retail worker's personal smartphone. The system—operable largely within and through the retailer's private computing network—comprises data nodes, an enterprise service bus, and a device application. Inventory-related data is kept in the data nodes, with access thereto from suitably provisioned personal mobile devices moderated by the enterprise service bus pursuant to policies and parameters defined by the retailer. Provisioning the personal mobile device involves installation thereon of the device application. The device application launches a user interface for accessing the data nodes through the enterprise service bus, thus enabling the use on the worker's personal mobile device of retailer-specific, job-related inventory management tools.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: Walmart Apollo, LLC
    Inventors: Zulfiqar Ali Paracha, Aaron Santavicca, Josh Osmon, Doyle Reece, Kishore Kumar Konate, Vidanage Prabuddha Mangala Chandrasiri, Mahesh Sundar Thangaraj, Jie Ouyang, Kevin E. Hill, Michael Shawn McGuire
  • Patent number: 10650363
    Abstract: The present disclosure deals with an apparatus and method associated with a self-depositing of items. In exemplary embodiments, an item may be self-deposited using a self-deposit apparatus. In exemplary embodiments, self-deposit apparatus may include an optical reader, first scale, image capturing device, a bin and a second scale. The first scale may be coupled with the optical reader and image capturing device. The item may be placed on self-deposit apparatus and the weight and image may be captured. The self-deposit apparatus may extract the dimensions of the item from the captured image. The self-deposit apparatus may verify the item intended for the self-deposit is associated with the item identified by the identifier by matching the weight, dimension and image of the item to a stored item weight, dimensions and image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Inventors: Jimmie Russell Clark, Jeffrey Stone, Michael Lawerance Payne
  • Patent number: 10642282
    Abstract: Apparatus and methods related to routing robots are provided. A roadmap of an environment that includes first and second robots can be received. The roadmap can be annotated with unidirectional lanes connecting conflict regions, where each lane ends so to avoid blocking a conflict region. First and second routes for the respective uses of the first and second robots can be determined, where both the first and second routes include a first lane connected to a first conflict region. A first, higher priority and a second, lower priority can be assigned to the respective first and second robots. It can be determined that the second robot following the second route will block the first robot on the first lane. Based on the first priority being higher than the second priority, the computing device can alter the second route to prevent the second robot from blocking the first robot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2020
    Assignee: X Development LLC
    Inventor: Tatiana Kichkaylo
  • Patent number: 10645234
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes an event acquisition unit that acquires a pen event based on an operation on a screen; a drawing-click determining unit that determines whether the pen event is an event concerning a stroke of a dot image or concerning a click operation; and a countdown timer that starts clocking when the drawing-click determining unit receives a determination-target pen event to determine, wherein the drawing-click determining unit determines that the determination-target pen event is an event concerning a stroke of a dot image when the clocking has ended and the event acquisition unit has acquired a pen event concerning another stroke, or when an elapsed time from an end of a pen event concerning another stroke acquired prior to the determination-target pen event is within a certain period of time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2020
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Eiji Kemmochi, Kiyoshi Kasatani
  • Patent number: 10639914
    Abstract: A media processing device includes: a housing having an opening providing access to a cassette removably supported within the housing; a media unit holder configured to receive a rejected media unit driven between the opening and a body of the cassette along a media reject path; the media unit holder including: a deck having a support surface between a body of the cassette and the opening, the support surface facing the opening; the deck configured to receive the rejected media unit on the support surface for removal of the rejected media unit via the opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2020
    Assignee: ZIH Corp.
    Inventors: Joseph D. Moreira, Angel B. Rosales, Steve Ting Kei Chow, Myung S. Jun
  • Patent number: 10643878
    Abstract: The present invention discloses apparatuses and method for configuring a compartmentable equipment to accommodate emergency responses. An exemplary equipment comprises a plurality of removable compartments for storing workpieces so that in emergency events, such as power failure or equipment failure, the workpieces can be removed from the equipment for continuing processing without disrupting the flow of the fabrication facility. The compartmentable equipment can comprise emergency access ports, including mating interface to a portable workpiece removal equipment to allow accessing the individual compartments without compromising the quality, defects and yield of the workpieces stored in the stocker.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2020
    Assignee: BROOKS AUTOMATION (GERMANY) GMBH
    Inventor: Lutz Rebstock
  • Patent number: 10643191
    Abstract: Systems and methods disclosed herein include a mobile solution to enable users to perform financial transaction over a network using a mobile device. These techniques allow users to maintain a single personal account identifier or number (“PAN”) on the user's mobile device and to utilize it to access a plurality of linked financial accounts and sub-accounts. Any one of the accounts can be selected by a user on the mobile device to remotely deposit funds to that account based on an image of a financial payment instrument. The image can be obtained using image capture technology on the user's mobile device. Users can perform a financial transaction using the verified images over a network in order to conduct a remote financial transaction such as applying a deposit, a payment, or cash load to a designated account which is linked to the user's mobile account in real-time or near real-time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2020
    Assignee: Visa International Service Association
    Inventor: Penny Diane Jurss
  • Patent number: 10643744
    Abstract: A method of detecting and/or tracking use of a drug delivery device is disclosed. The drug delivery device includes a machine readable code and a visual indicator, and has pre-use and used states, such that use of the drug delivery device triggers a transition from the pre-use to the used state. The visual indicator has a first state when the drug delivery device is in the pre-use state and a different second state when the drug delivery device is in the used state. The method includes enabling a user device having an image sensor to capture an image of the drug delivery device, determining, by the user device processor from the captured image, whether the visual indicator of the drug delivery device is in the second state, and obtaining, by the processor, information from the machine readable code when the visual indicator is determined to be in the second state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2020
    Assignee: West Pharmaceutical Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Kevin Hopper, Stacy Faught, Christopher Evans, Brian Costello, Raymond Protasiewicz
  • Patent number: 10635870
    Abstract: A system and method are provided for presenting self-diagnostic test instructions in the form of audiovisual messages. The system and method include collecting by a user of a testing device a biologic sample for use with a testing device, assigning correlative values as test results, and receiving the test results at a server disposed on a network. Some aspects of the system and method present test instructions to the user in the form of audiovisual messages. The audiovisual messages are provided to the user as a response to an interaction with a retail diagnostic product. In some aspects, the complete audiovisual message is presented before the user may complete a self-diagnostic test.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2020
    Assignee: Reliant Immune Diagnostics, Inc.
    Inventors: Jovan Hutton Pulitzer, Henry Joseph Legere, III
  • Patent number: 10635957
    Abstract: The present invention provides systems and methods capable of collecting and analyzing a multi-fields two-dimensional code. A system in accordance with one embodiment of the present invention comprises at least one mobile terminal, a communication network and at least one server, wherein the at least one mobile terminal and the at least one server are both coupled to the communication network. The mobile terminal comprises a collecting module for collecting the multi-fields two dimensional code in an optical manner; a decoding module for decoding the collected multi-fields two dimensional code; and an identifying module for identifying the multiple fields by applying a predetermined rule. The server comprises a memory and an analyzing module for analyzing the multi-fields two-dimensional code. Other embodiments are also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2020
    Assignee: Gmedia Corporation
    Inventors: Wei Shen, Kaijun Cao, Hongqiang Zhang
  • Patent number: 10637851
    Abstract: A method for introducing an identity into a secure element includes an operating system loaded into the secure element, which comprises a master key which is identical for a plurality of secure elements. A secure-element key datum is generated employing the master key. The secure-element key datum is configured as a temporary secure-element key datum, which, upon an initial authentication of the secure element vis-à-vis the background system, is replaced by a final secure-element key datum which is independent of the master key by employing the temporary secure-element key datum and is itself rendered invalid for further authentications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2020
    Assignee: GIESECKE & DEVRIENT GMBH
    Inventors: Ulrich Wimböck, Jens Rudolph
  • Patent number: 10637387
    Abstract: A method and system to convert a constant speed motor drive (40) into a variable speed motor drive (80) are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2020
    Assignee: Franklin Electric Co., Inc.
    Inventors: Terry A. Smith, Andrew C. Grubbs, Robert L. Wetekamp
  • Patent number: 10636062
    Abstract: Disclosed systems and methods provide an augmented environment that facilitates a donation to a charity. A system may receive organization data including data associated with a plurality of charitable organizations. The system may also receive (i) environmental data including an image of an object, and (ii) location data indicating the image location. Further, the system may identify the object and determine one or more qualifying charities associated with the object. The system may augment the environmental data by adding enhanced content such as an identification of the qualifying charity, transmit the enhanced content to a mobile device for display, and initiate a transfer of funds from a user account to a charity financial account associated with the qualifying charity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2020
    Assignee: CAPITAL ONE SERVICES, LLC
    Inventors: Michael Mossoba, Salik Shah, Joshua Edwards
  • Patent number: 10635956
    Abstract: A system for foreign material accountability includes a kiosk, which further includes a touch enabled display screen that is back-lit and automatically adjusts brightness based on ambient environment. A user input device, wherein the user input device includes a pin pad, one or more sensors selected from a group consisting of temperature sensors, RFID sensors, IR sensors, optical sensors, iris sensors and one or more cameras, a processor, a data bus coupled to the processor and a computer-usable medium embodying computer code operating on the kiosk. The computer code includes programmed instructions executable by the processor to control accessibility of items into a restricted area based on data received from at least one of the display screen operated by a user, the user input device, and the one or more sensors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2020
    Assignee: Access Solutions, LLC
    Inventors: Kelvin D. Mann, Eric Bergstrom, David Hansen, Nikolas Tripp, Nathan Smith, Stephen Lauser, Matthew Montgomery
  • Patent number: 10633959
    Abstract: A method, system, and associated apparatus are described for installing, inventorying, actuating, and/or accessing down-hole equipment in a wellbore. This comprises tagging a casing by inserting permanent components of material compositions within sections along the length of a casing. Inserted components and/or portions of an original section function as unique readable active and/or passive markers. The piping system is at least one pipe having a plurality of markers placed in radial sections strategically arranged with independently identical or different material compositions or embedded in a length of the wellbore casing. The sections function as markers forming a readable pattern readable by the reader(s). The reader is one of or a combination of any of the group consisting of a plug, a probe, a sensor, and/or a computer for reading markers. The reader travels in either a forward or backward direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2020
    Assignee: AOI (Advanced Oilfield Innovations)
    Inventors: Andre Orban, Daniel Maurice Lerner, Barry Kent Holder
  • Patent number: 10628607
    Abstract: The disclosure provides a method for protecting PIN code on Android platform, including: introducing, by Java layer, start event to C layer after invoked by upper layer; invoking, by C layer, Java layer via JNI to generate a password-storage-class-instance after receiving start event, and invoking Java layer after receiving a handle returned by Java layer to monitor input from user; storing, by Java layer, PIN code data into a instance memory when Java layer monitors PIN code data from user, updating storage location identification, and introducing encrypting event to C layer; introducing, by Java layer, confirming event to C layer when Java layer monitors confirmation information from user; accessing, by C layer, the instance via handle to encrypt the PIN code data when receiving encrypting event; and accessing, by C layer, the instance via handle to decrypt the encrypted data in instance memory to obtain PIN code.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2020
    Assignee: FEITIAN TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Zhou Lu, Huazhang Yu
  • Patent number: 10627324
    Abstract: A system for tracking one or more subjects for collecting airborne contaminants. The system includes one or more subjects configured to collect air contaminants. Each of the one or more subjects includes an identification tag encoded with identification information identifying the each subject. The system further includes an identification reader configured to decode the identification information encoded within the identification tag of a scanned one of the one or more identification tags. A computer receives and stores the decoded identification information in a record in a database. The computer may also receive and stored an identification code for a user who scanned the scanned identification tag in the record in the database. Additional records in the database are created each time the identification tag of one of the one or more subjects is scanned. The one or more subjects are thereby tracked as they collect airborne contaminants and are incubated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2020
    Assignee: Veltek Associates, Inc.
    Inventors: Rosario S. Calio, Mark A. Phillips, John Joyce
  • Patent number: 10628131
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a program development support device capable of easily developing a program for using a handy terminal despite the fact that a user has no knowledge of programming, a program development support method, and a computer program executable in the program development support device. A communication route of data transmission reception between an information reading device and a host computer which are capable of performing a data communication to each other is stored. A selection of master data is received. A selection of the first field as a retrieval processing object from the plurality of fields in the master data is received. A selection of the second field, in which retrieval result data to be displayed is stored, from a plurality of fields corresponding with the records which correspond with a comparison condition based on the retrieval information is received.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2020
    Assignee: Keyence Corporation
    Inventor: Tokihiko Mizota
  • Patent number: 10628808
    Abstract: A computer implemented method of processing a financial transaction executed by first person includes determining an automatic savings amount from the financial transaction by rounding up the amount of the financial transaction to the nearest dollar. The method further includes debiting the calculated savings amount from an account of the first person and crediting the savings amount to an account of a second person.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2020
    Assignee: Bank of America Corporation
    Inventors: Daniel A. Carretta, Thomas M. Hancock, Karen K. Lewy, Charles R. Liu, Jack Meyers, Sheryl W. Strott, Faith A. Tucker, Carrie A. Hanson
  • Patent number: 10631033
    Abstract: A system and method is disclosed herein that provides a multi-device, multi-screen experience where original content, other content, and associated data can interact and flow between a primary display device and one or more secondary devices. More particularly, the system and method disclosed herein provides for the delivery and management of digital media content to an end user by providing the multi-device, multi-screen experience where original content, other content, and associated data can interact and flow between devices. The system and method enables an individual to create a virtually universal home commerce and monitoring ecosystem by integrating a device into their home Wi-Fi and content consumption systems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2020
    Assignee: HSNi, LLC
    Inventor: John McDevitt
  • Patent number: 10628720
    Abstract: An Internet of Things (IoT) based system for remotely monitoring and controlling various physical parameters for chemical/biological material under transportation in a container is disclosed herein. Due to various circumstances, wither hazardous or infectious, taking proper measures becomes a necessary condition while transporting chemical or biological materials. The sensors attached to the container measure the associated physical parameters and send the data to a remote control system. The dynamic barcode responds to the change in any of the parameters and changes its patterns accordingly. The remote server, based on the received data, instructs a controlling system to control the parameters, thus maintaining the health of the material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2020
    Assignee: COUNCIL OF SCIENTIFIC & INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH
    Inventors: Muthukumarasamy Karthikeyan, Renu Vyas
  • Patent number: 10621661
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to systems and methods for automatically re-routing unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). In one implementation, a system for automatically re-routing a UAV includes at least one processor configured to: retrieve a plurality of requests to deposit currency using the UAV, generate a first route including at least two of the requests such that an associated expected total amount of currency is less than a depository threshold; transmit the first route to the UAV; receive, from the UAV, an indication that an amount of currency collected at a location is greater than an amount of currency included in the request associated with the location; revise the expected total amount accordingly; when the revised expected total amount exceeds the depository threshold, generate a second route having an associated expected total amount below the depository threshold; and transmit the second route to the UAV to override the first route.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2020
    Assignee: Capital One Services, LLC
    Inventor: Kevin Park
  • Patent number: 10621571
    Abstract: An account is managed using information read from a dual frequency transponder. Information stored on the dual frequency transponder can be read by a NFC-enabled device and by a UHF RFID reader. The information links, corresponds, or otherwise provides access to account information stored at a remote server. For example, a NFC-enabled device can read the information from the dual frequency transponder and use that information to enable instant and on-the-spot recharging of a toll account. In addition, a UHF RFID toll reader can scan information from the dual frequency transponder and use that information to debit toll charges from the correct toll account. The dual frequency transponder can be embedded in a license plate and read using a reader placed in the road. Additionally, the transponder can be configured to function at the correct frequency only when a valid vehicle registration sticker is applied to the license plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2020
    Assignee: NEOLOGY, INC.
    Inventors: Francisco Martinez de Velasco Cortina, Joe Mullis, Manfred Rietzler, Sheshi Nyalamadugu, Rodolfo Monsalvo
  • Patent number: 10621631
    Abstract: A method, system and computer program product for adjusting prices for goods and services offered using a computer network. In one embodiment, data relating to goods and services offered over the computer network by a number of entities using the computer network are stored in a database, communications are monitored, using the computer network, to identify an interest of a user, and this interest of the user and the data in the database are used to identify one of the entities to offer a specified product or service to the user. Information is obtained relating to a price for the specified product or service, and this information and the data in the database are used to determine an adjusted price for the specified product or service. In one embodiment, the information the user has about a price for the specified product or service is used to determine the adjusted price.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2020
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Jamin Naghmouchi, Hubertus Franke
  • Patent number: 10621591
    Abstract: Various embodiments of the present disclosure provide systems, methods, and apparatus systems, methods, and apparatus that provide computerized optimization of a customer service queue based on customer device detection technologies. In an exemplary embodiment, a system that provides computerized optimization of a customer service queue may include device detection technology communicatively connected to a customer assistance server, a customer assistance client device (e.g., a customer representative device), and a customer device. Device detection technology may detect a device and transmit data associated with the detected device to a customer assistance subsystem. A customer assistance subsystem may generate an optimal representative and position within a customer service queue for the customer device. A notification about the optimal match may be transmitted to a customer and/or customer representative.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2020
    Assignee: CAPITAL ONE SERVICES, LLC
    Inventors: Sharad Ballepu, Jagmeet Singh, Gerald Serviss, Polerio Babao, Keerthana Aravamudhan, Durga Mohan, Sunilkumar Kothi Reddy, Steve Schroeder
  • Patent number: 10614374
    Abstract: An online system classifies users based on their propensity to adopt one or more innovations in a subject area. To classify the users, the online system maintains information associated with one or more actions performed by the user and content provided by the user, with actions and the content associated with adopting one or more innovations in the subject area. The online system determines a score for a pairing of the user and the subject area based on the maintained one or more actions and/or the content associated with adopting the one or more innovations in the subject area. Based on the determined score, the online system determines an innovation adoption label for the user that represents a propensity of the user to adopt one or more innovations in the subject area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2020
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventor: Barak Reuven Naveh
  • Patent number: 10614068
    Abstract: A transaction slip search method includes identifying, by a computer and according to storage site, a transaction slip satisfying a search condition. The computer identifies the transaction slip when receiving the search condition and by referring to a recording device configured to record associated therein information of transaction slips and information indicating storage sites of the transaction slips. The transaction slip search method further includes associating and outputting, by the computer, information identifying the identified transaction slip and the information indicating a storage site of the identified transaction slip.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2020
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventor: Kazunori Kashima
  • Patent number: 10611919
    Abstract: Disclosed is a substrate which has thereon a marking or layer comprising a salt-free cured chiral liquid crystal precursor composition which comprises one or more nematic compounds A and one or more chiral dopant compounds B which are capable of giving rise to a cholesteric state of the chiral liquid crystal precursor composition and are of formula (I) as set forth herein. A modifying resin made from one or more polymerizable monomers comprising an average of at least one ether functionality per polymerizable group is disposed between the substrate and the marking or layer and in contact with the marking or layer in one or more areas thereof. The modifying resin changes the position of a selective reflection band exhibited by the cured chiral liquid crystal precursor composition on the substrate in the one or more areas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2020
    Assignee: SICPA HOLDING SA
    Inventors: Tristan Jauzein, Sabine Mayade
  • Patent number: 10616653
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method (1100) and apparatus (702) for inhibiting the interruption of the content being consumed by a user that is provided by an entertainment system. The method (1100) and apparatus (702) of the present disclosure may detect an interruption event and determine, based on the current state of a user, whether the interruption event matches the current state of the user. If the method (1100) and apparatus (702) of the present disclosure determine that the interruption event does not match the current state of the user, the method (1100) and apparatus (702) of the present disclosure may inhibit the interruption of the content being consumed by the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2020
    Assignee: InterDigital CE Patent Holdings
    Inventors: Marc Joye, Azin Ashkan, Jaideep Chandrashekar, Alvita Tran, Akshay Pushparaja, Swayambhoo Jain, Shi Zhi, Junyang Qian
  • Patent number: 10614277
    Abstract: “Publishers” generate individual QR codes which may be either displayed on a smartphone or printed on a physical label, and “consumers” scan and decode those codes for secure and private communication with the publishers, without either party knowing the phone number or email address of the other party. At least one profile associated with the publisher may be an anonymous profile that permits the disclosure of only a specified subset of the otherwise available information about that publisher, and that information is not directly embodied in the displayed code, but rather is stored on a secure remote server which is selectively accessible by the consumer. If both parties have not authorized the release of their respective names and phone numbers (or other public contact information) to the other party by exchanging respective public profiles within a predetermined time period, any associated temporary contact numbers may be disabled and any anonymous contact information may be deleted from the remote server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2020
    Assignee: ShareTech, LLC
    Inventor: Vatche Papazian
  • Patent number: 10607431
    Abstract: A method and system that allows authorized individuals access into controlled access locations and the ability to grant temporary and limited access to guests into these locations. The method and system allows for navigational services to be provided to members and guests, and real-time tracking and confirmation to members and administrators that guests have arrived at their destination and did not enter any unauthorized areas. The method preferably can work through a system of wireless radio, sound and/or light-based beacons communicating with member and guest's electronic devices. Members and administrators can send one or more temporary electronic access keys to a guest's smartphone or other electronic device. Wireless radio, sound and/or light-based beacons provide an access control and location tracking system with real-time data about the member and guest whereabouts, allowing for the confirmation and tracking.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2020
    Assignee: COLLATERAL OPPORTUNITIES, LLC
    Inventors: Bruce Howard Kusens, Michael Kusens
  • Patent number: 10608816
    Abstract: A network-based biometric authentication system includes a client computer (10), a third party server (24), and a biometric authentication server (26). A user requests access to a web site hosted by the third party server via the client computer, wherein the third party server communicates a deployable object to the client computer. The client computer executes the deployable object, wherein the object enables the client computer to receive a user name, password, and biometric data from the user and to communicate the user name, password, and biometric data to the biometric authentication server in a secure fashion. The biometric authentication server authenticates the user name, password, and biometric data, and communicates the user name and password to the third party server, which attempts to verify the user name and password in a conventional manner and grants access to the user if the user name and password are verified.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2020
    Assignee: Ceelox Patents, LLC
    Inventors: Erix Pizano, Kass Aiken
  • Patent number: 10605666
    Abstract: A ceiling mount intrusion detector is provided that includes a sensor, a mirror for directing collected energy towards the sensor, and a mechanism for adjusting the mirror to account for a plurality of different mount heights. In some embodiments, the mechanism can adjust the mirror by moving the mirror up or down without rotating the mirror.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2020
    Assignee: ADEMCO INC.
    Inventors: Haidong Xu, Dongliang Zhu
  • Patent number: 10607244
    Abstract: In one aspect, a computing apparatus includes: a transaction handler to process transactions, a data warehouse to store transaction data recording the transactions processed by the transaction handler, a portal coupled with the data warehouse to receive one or more parameters as an input and to provide spending activity information for presentation as a response to the input, and an analytics engine coupled with the portal and the data warehouse to analyze spending activities of a user based on the transaction data and the one or more parameters to generate the spending activity information regarding transactions in a plurality of accounts of the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2020
    Assignee: Visa U.S.A. Inc.
    Inventors: Edward W. Fordyce, Michelle Eng Winters, Leigh Amaro
  • Patent number: 10604173
    Abstract: A board of a controller of a load drive device includes: wiring layers provided on front and rear surfaces and inside thereof and ground layers provided inside thereof. Each wiring layer is divided into: a first region in which a drive circuit is provided; and a second region in which a control circuit is provided. A first ground layer including a first ground pattern for a circuit which is electrically connected to a wiring pattern of each wiring layer is divided into: a third region which overlaps with the first region in a thickness direction, and in which the first ground pattern for a power system electrically connected to the drive circuit is provided, and a fourth region which overlaps with the second region in the thickness direction, and in which the first ground pattern for a control system electrically connected to the control circuit is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2020
    Assignee: OMRON AUTOMOTIVE ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Akio Okamura, Shinichi Togawa
  • Patent number: 10603418
    Abstract: An apparatus for use in a milk management system comprising a first device, wherein the first device includes a non-transitory storage medium; and a processor communicatively coupled to the non-transitory storage medium. The processor is configured to: receive first data from a second device, the first data describing milk disposed in a first container, the first container having a first identifier associated therewith; and associate the first data with a first feeding order in a data structure store in a database, the first feeding order describing a first nutrition regimen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2020
    Assignee: KERITON, INC.
    Inventor: Vidur S. Bhatnagar
  • Patent number: 10599888
    Abstract: Methods and systems for using unique identifiers to retrieve configuration data for tag devices are described herein. An example method may involve obtaining a unique identifier associated with a tag device. The tag device may include an antenna and a sensor configured to obtain sensor readings that can be wirelessly transmitted to a reader device via the antenna. The method may also involve determining configuration parameters associated with the tag device based on the unique identifier. The method may further involve storing, in at least one memory, at least a portion of the configuration parameters in association with the unique identifier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2020
    Assignee: VERILY LIFE SCIENCES LLC
    Inventors: Alice Lin, Andrew Nelson, Daniel Yeager, Brian Otis
  • Patent number: 10600127
    Abstract: A mobile computerized apparatus or method configured to coordinate towing facilities and roadside assistance providers and their available capacity to tow and provide roadside assistance and match users with those towing facilities and roadside assistance providers is disclosed. The apparatus or method may be configured to consider the following factors in matching the towing facilities/roadside assistance providers and users: (a) availability of nearby towing facilities; (b) telematics information from the vehicle to assist with the diagnosis/repairs; (c) preset preferences of the user; (d) insurance information (such as the type of the vehicle the user has and the user's home address); and (e) the capabilities of the towing facility.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2020
    Assignee: Allstate Insurance Company
    Inventors: Robert Wasserman, Tara Cavallaro Kozlowski, Ryan M. Briggs, Imran Iqbal
  • Patent number: 10599894
    Abstract: A cartridge, an analysis system, and a method for testing a sample, such as, environmental, food or biological sample, wherein the cartridge has two memory elements that are different and/or can be read out by different methods and which correspond to the cartridge or to the batch thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2020
    Assignee: BOEHRINGER INGELHEIM VETMEDICA GMBH
    Inventors: Heinz Schoeder, Axel Niemeyer, Kai Wuerz
  • Patent number: 10592698
    Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a plurality of transistors on a substrate, each transistor of the plurality of transistors including a doped nanowire channel region, where the plurality of transistors are grouped into a plurality of transistor groups each including two transistors of the plurality of transistors, and where each transistor group is assigned a state based on an electrical characteristic of each transistor in each transistor group. The semiconductor device also includes a security code for the plurality of transistors generated by grouping together the states corresponding to each transistor group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Kangguo Cheng, Xin Miao, Wenyu Xu, Chen Zhang
  • Patent number: 10592706
    Abstract: An improved speech-based/natural language point-of-sale customer order system which is useful for any business that interacts with customers through speech or sound. Despite the advances in speech recognition, currently available voice ordering interfaces have proven to be unintuitive and lack reliability. Voice recognition has so far proven to be inefficient in retail contexts, and therefore voice recognition has so far achieved a low level of usage penetration in the retail sector. The present invention facilitates the automated operation of the ordering function of a drive-through restaurant, fast food restaurant or other business establishment by replacing an employee or other means of capturing order data with an ordering system employing a highly accurate speech recognition component that is able to be trained to recognize a wide vocabulary of words, and associate tones and other metadata in a manner not previously achieved in speech-to-text systems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: Valyant AI, Inc.
    Inventors: Robley Carpenter, II, Jacob Poore, Benjamin Thielker
  • Patent number: 10592845
    Abstract: Improved movement-based technical solutions for transmitting a corrective pickup notification for a shipped item are described. For example, a first master node at a first location receives shipping information about the item. That master node identifies an intended pickup master node from the shipping information and identifies the location of an ID node associated with the item over a time period, which may indicate the item is moving away from the first location. After identifying a courier master node accompanying the departing ID node, the first master node automatically senses an adverse pickup condition when the identified courier master node does not correspond to the intended pickup master node and the ID node's detected location over time indicates the item is moving away from the first location. The first master node then transmits the corrective pickup notification to a second logistics devices based on the adverse pickup condition sensed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: FEDEX CORPORATE SERVICES, INC.
    Inventor: Ole-Petter Skaaksrud
  • Patent number: 10592896
    Abstract: An example smart transaction card may include one or more processors to obtain transaction information associated with a transaction at a transaction terminal; provide the transaction information to an electronic wallet device storing a plurality of transaction cards, the electronic wallet device being separate from the smart transaction card; obtain a transaction token from the electronic wallet device based on providing the transaction information to the electronic wallet, the transaction token being associated with one of the transaction cards of the plurality of transaction cards; and provide the transaction token to the transaction terminal associated with the transaction to facilitate processing the transaction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: Capital One Services, LLC
    Inventors: Adam Koeppel, James Zarakas
  • Patent number: 10592848
    Abstract: Systems and methods are directed to supply chain management. In particular, the tracking, tracing, authenticating, and reporting of supply chain events for products, is disclosed. Various embodiments can store, analyze, and track supply chain events and help to coordinate and maintain trading partner connections. Various embodiments also help to enhance patient safety, secure the supply chains for pharmaceuticals, medical devices, and other healthcare products, and help users to follow regulatory requirements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: GLOBAL HEALTHCARE EXCHANGE, LLC
    Inventors: David Bolene, Eric Bolinger, Margot Drees, Janine Fornarola
  • Patent number: 10592713
    Abstract: An automated package-handling support solution receives video observation of a target area in a package-handling facility that includes packages. A display device is configured to produce video images visible from the target area. An operator support system processes the motion-video observation to detect the packages in the target area and retrieve a package-specific routing-related attribute and a package-specific property for each of the packages. The system generates the video output to include a first portion representing the video observation of the packages, and a second portion that includes a package-specific dynamic informational overlay corresponding to each of the packages.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: Datalogic USA, Inc.
    Inventors: Alan Shearin, WenLiang Gao