Systems Controlled By Data Bearing Records Patents (Class 235/375)
  • Patent number: 11295098
    Abstract: A smart driver card device and data management system that includes a card and reader that facilitates both people and traffic officials to accumulate, fetch driver and vehicle details, such as driver license, vehicle registration, and insurance documents, through a wireless medium; allows authorized persons, such as users, to store additional information about their medical insurance and benefits, health issue history, their recent check-up details, and related or similar information; verifies data sets by an authorized administration personnel and stored in a centralized database; and provides users with complete authorization details to update their vehicle and medical data in a timely manner but are limited to certain documents.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Inventor: Dev Kumar Thappla
  • Patent number: 11295126
    Abstract: An authentication method includes receiving, at a processor, a signal representing an image of a serialization code and multiple flecks of a label, the flecks having a random distribution. The processor detects the serialization code and applies a modification to the image to produce a modified image. A subset of flecks of the modified image is detected, and metrics associated with each fleck from the subset of flecks are identified. The identified metrics are compared with metrics associated with a unique signature, and a message is displayed, via a user interface, indicating an authenticity of the label based on the comparison.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: Covectra, Inc.
    Inventors: Richard Smith, Ronald Ducharme, Abhijeet Bhandari, Stephen M. Wood, Gary Miloscia
  • Patent number: 11295581
    Abstract: An information processing device structured to process information of an information recording medium having been inserted inside may include a communication part which receives a radio wave of a specific frequency band, and a foreign matter detection part structured to detect that a foreign matter has been attached in response to an intensity of the radio wave received by the communication part being greater than or equal to a threshold value for a predetermined time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: NIDEC SANKYO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masaya Fujimoto, Junro Takeuchi, Kohei Okui
  • Patent number: 11295326
    Abstract: A system, method, and computer readable medium (collectively, the “system”) is disclosed for generating real-time insights from a big data storage platform. The system may process transaction data stored in a big data management system (BDMS) to generate characteristic data associated with a plurality of demographics. The system may also model an account associated with a corporate ID to identify a demographic from the plurality of demographics associated with the corporate ID. The system may further compare the user data associated with the corporate ID to the characteristic data of the demographic associated with the corporate ID to generate a view responsive to a request. The system may also transmit the view in response to the request, for example, to an interface for use by a program administrator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: American Express Travel Related Services Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Jane Cook, Michelle Geller, Yogaraj Jayaprakasam, Abhishek Kachhara, Sanjay Madaan
  • Patent number: 11295318
    Abstract: Presented are cryptographic digital assets for retail products, methods for making/using such cryptographic digital assets, and computing systems for generating, intermingling, and exchanging blockchain-protected products. A method for provisioning cryptographic digital assets associated with retail product transfers includes broadcasting notifications of a future transaction of a retail product, and receiving, over a distributed computing network from the computing devices of multiple users, requests to participate in the transaction. A select number of users is added to a virtual line associated with the retail product transaction; from the virtual line, a first user is selected to receive the retail product and a second user is selected to receive a cryptographic digital asset containing a digital retail product and a unique digital asset code.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: NIKE, Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher Andon, Hien Tommy Pham
  • Patent number: 11288658
    Abstract: Contactless payment data can be received from a mobile device via a contactless payment terminal. Responsive to receiving the contactless payment data from the mobile device, a token can be communicated to the mobile device via the contactless payment terminal, the token configured to be processed by the mobile device to initiate a particular communication functionality by the mobile device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Gary Bettesworth, Andreas Martens, Sam Rogers, Paul S. M. Thorpe
  • Patent number: 11281954
    Abstract: A security device and a method for verifying such a security device are disclosed. The security device has at least two security features. At least one of the security features is a tamper-evident security feature, which is configured to alter irreversibly upon mechanical tampering with the security device. At least one other of the security features is a robust security feature, which is robust against tampering with the security device. The at least two security features can be extracted from at least one image of the security device with a programmable device having a camera at least in an intact state of the security device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: Authentic Vision GmbH
    Inventors: Thomas Bergmüller, Thomas Weiss
  • Patent number: 11282351
    Abstract: Devices and methods for locating accessories of an electronic device are provided. In one example, a method may include detecting parameters associated with disconnecting an accessory from the electronic device. The electronic device, or an associated device, may store the detected parameters so that the detected parameters are accessible if the accessory becomes lost. The electronic device may receive a request from a user of the electronic device for assistance in locating the accessory. In response to the request for assistance in locating the accessory, the electronic device may provide the stored parameters to the user of the electronic device to aid them in searching for their lost accessory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Ignazio Ingrassia, Jr., Nathaniel P. Hramits
  • Patent number: 11282117
    Abstract: A fundraising coordination system which includes communication capacities with several different components or subsystems, including mobile devices and tracking devices, allows for fundraising activities to be carried out in an efficient and effective manner. The coordination system is configured with several cooperating modules including tracking module (in communication with a tracking device), a communication and promotion module, an event coordination module, a donations/pledges module, and a collections module. The various modules allow for fundraising activities, such as peer-to-peer and/or institutional fundraising, to be carried out in combination with tracking devices, thus providing efficiency and effectiveness. The use of tracking devices (e.g. gps tracking devices) makes the system more efficient by automatically tracking participant activities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: Venture
    Inventors: Ryan Skoog, Aaron Smith, Paul Hurckman
  • Patent number: 11281957
    Abstract: Backscatter tags, comprising: antennas; single pole, multiple throw switches each switch (S) having pole terminal connected to one of the antennas, and each having first throw terminal (TT) connected to first side (FS) of inductor (I) for S, second TT connected to FS of capacitor (C) for S, third TT connected to fixed voltage level (FVL), fourth TT that is floating, wherein second side (SS) of I and SS of C are connected to the FVL; power combiner (PC) having inputs connected to fifth TT of each of two of the switches; power detector (PD) having an input connected to output of PC; analog to digital converter (ADC) having input connected to output of PD; hardware processor coupled to output of the ADC and coupled to control terminal of each of the switches.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York
    Inventors: Vivek Mangal, Peter R. Kinget
  • Patent number: 11281984
    Abstract: A set of internal information technology (IT) architecture is received and the internal IT architecture is controlled by a service provider. A set of exogenous IT architecture is received and the exogenous IT architecture is not controlled by the service provider. A set of service level agreement (SLA) requirements, agreed upon by the service provider and a service user, are received. A set of sensor data, from sensors monitoring environmental conditions which may affect at least one of the internal IT architecture or the exogenous IT architecture, is received. A set of heuristic data relating to the internal IT architecture and the exogenous IT architecture is received. A risk metric based on the set of internal IT architecture, the set of exogenous IT architecture, the set of SLA requirements, the set of sensor data, and the set of heuristic data is determined.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: Kyndryl, Inc.
    Inventors: Richard M. Cocchiara, John V. Delaney, Anthony M. Hunt, Maeve M. O'Reilly, Clea A. Zolotow
  • Patent number: 11282335
    Abstract: A management system for a table game includes a function in which the type and the number of bet game tokens are determined independently in bet areas including at least a player bet area and a banker bet area based on an image analysis result by an image analyzer and it is determined whether the total amount of money or the total number of game tokens every sitting number or in each of the read areas based on the image analysis result by the image analyzer is matched with the total amount of money or the total number of game tokens every sitting number or in each of the read areas based on the read result by a chip reader.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: ANGEL GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yasushi Shigeta
  • Patent number: 11276326
    Abstract: The present invention includes a determiner configured to determine whether to photograph a packing style image of an article as a work target in a first warehouse work or not, as an image used in a second warehouse work performed after the first warehouse work.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: NS SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Eiichi Yoshida
  • Patent number: 11270183
    Abstract: An electronic module preparation layer (A) and a manufacturing method therefor. The electronic module preparation layer (A) comprises a substrate (10), multiple electronic modules (20) and two release layers (30, 40). The multiple electronic modules (20) are coated in the substrate (10) by means of the two release layers (30, 40) so as to provide a protective effect. When a user needs to input a program code to various electronic modules (20), since one of the release layers, i.e.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Inventor: Wu-Hsu Lin
  • Patent number: 11270236
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a computer implemented method for generating a security route to be operated by a user, specifically created based on security tasks generated by a security system. The present disclosure also relates to a corresponding security system and a computer program product.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: Irisity AB
    Inventors: Marcus Bäcklund, Victor Hagelbäck
  • Patent number: 11270288
    Abstract: Contactless payment data can be received from a mobile device via a contactless payment terminal. Responsive to receiving the contactless payment data from the mobile device, a token can be communicated to the mobile device via the contactless payment terminal, the token configured to be processed by the mobile device to initiate a particular communication functionality by the mobile device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Gary Bettesworth, Andreas Martens, Sam Rogers, Paul S. M. Thorpe
  • Patent number: 11267649
    Abstract: Mounting hardware is installed to a cryogenic storage device to accommodate an automation system for automated storage and retrieval. A guideplate at an upper surface of a cover of the cryogenic storage device is positioned such that the guideplate is aligned in a predefined relation to an access port at the upper surface. One or more mounting posts are affixed at a location as indicated by the guideplate. A vacuum is then pulled within the cover, and the mounting hardware is affixed to the at least one mounting post.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignees: Brooks Automation, Inc., MVE Biological Solutions US
    Inventors: Robert T. Caveney, Frank Hunt, Lingchen Sun, Julian D. Warhurst, Bruce S. Zandi, Jeffrey S. Brooks
  • Patent number: 11263673
    Abstract: A purchase information utilization system according to the present invention includes a system provided with a reception unit that receives purchase information including identification information capable of identifying a product and support information which supports that the product is purchased from a terminal device of a consumer, a purchase information storage unit that stores the purchase information received by the reception unit, and a determination unit that determines whether or not the consumer has purchased the product using the support information included in the purchase information received by the reception unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: RESEARCH AND INNOVATION CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kuninobu Nakaoka
  • Patent number: 11263415
    Abstract: Software on an image-capturing device iteratively captures a visual code in a series of visual codes displayed in a repeating progression on a screen of a mobile device. The visual code was generated from a display block that resulted from a partition of an original data file into a series of display blocks of at least a specified size. The software converts the visual code back into a display block and reads a header for the display block, discarding the display block if it has already been captured, as determined by the ordered identifying block number in a header. The software stops the iterative capturing when all of the display blocks in the series have been captured, as determined by the count in the header and coalesces the captured display blocks into the original data file, using an order determined by the ordered identifying block numbers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: Ping Identity Corporation
    Inventors: Armin Ebrahimi, Gaurav Khot
  • Patent number: 11265042
    Abstract: A method of communicating between a first electronic communication device of a plurality of electronic communication devices and a wireless communication initiating device for reading the first electronic communication device. The method comprises receiving, at the first electronic communication device, a communication signal from the wireless communication initiating device and determining a first characteristic value relating to the communication signal. The method further comprises receiving at least a second characteristic value relating to a communication signal received by at least a second electronic communication device that is connected to the first electronic communication device and initiating communication with a reading device based on the first and second value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: WORLDPAY LIMITED
    Inventors: Daren Pickering, Nicholas Telford-Reed
  • Patent number: 11263882
    Abstract: In an aspect, the present disclosure includes a method, apparatus, and system for operating a security tag, comprising activating a piezo-electric component of the security tag to generate an electrical charge in response to an applied mechanical force on the security tag; determining whether a verification signal has been received by the security tag upon activating the piezo-electric component; and disengaging a mechanical component of the security tag based on a determination that the verification signal has been received.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: SENSORMATIC ELECTRONICS, LLC
    Inventor: Edward Paul Ellers
  • Patent number: 11257033
    Abstract: An inventory verification device (“IVD”) provides automatic inventory verification and detection of inventory discrepancies. The IVD automatically verifies the quantity of items in a container based on weight and/or height measurements obtained for the items in the container using two or more sensors of the IVD. The IVD may also automatically updated tracked inventory of an item based on detected changes to the weight and/or height of the items in the container as a result of a worker adding items to the container or removing items from the container without the working providing confirmation for each addition and/or removal. The IVD autoatmically verifies whether correct items are stored in a container by performing feature matching of various characteristics for items imaged in the container against expected characteristics for items that should be stored in the container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: inVia Robotics, Inc.
    Inventors: Lior Elazary, Randolph Charles Voorhies, Daniel Frank Parks, II
  • Patent number: 11256890
    Abstract: The present application provides a data sharing solution. In the solution, a first application running on a first user equipment uploads shared data, and a shared device generates a two-dimensional code for the shared data and returns the two-dimensional code to the first application. The first application can provide the two-dimensional code to a second application running on a second user equipment. After scanning the two-dimensional code, the second application can send a data obtaining request to the shared device based on the scanned information, so the shared device sends the shared data corresponding to the two-dimensional code to the second application based on the request, thereby completing cross-application data sharing. The process offers convenient data transfer for the user and also breaks through limitations of data compatibility between the different APPs and alleviates a problem that information between the different APPs cannot be mutually identified.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: Advanced New Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Xingjiang Hu, Xiaoyu Wang
  • Patent number: 11257315
    Abstract: A system including a device operable to intercept a PMS request from the PMS to the encoder to obtain card data from the encoder, then send the card data to a credential service to provision a mobile phone with a virtual key. A method of provisioning credentials for a mobile device, the method including generating a request from a Property Management Systems (PMS); sending the request to an encoder through a device; determining if the request is for a virtual card at the device; and using an encoder 0 feature to check-in a guest from the encoder in response to a request for a virtual card.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: Carrier Corporation
    Inventor: Adam Kuenzi
  • Patent number: 11247038
    Abstract: A status monitoring function that simplifies the process of collecting status information for medical devices in a medical device system. Matrix codes are used to associate a medical device with a location. A maintenance application transmits the association information to a centralized tracking system. Status information about the medical device is also transmitted to the centralized tracking system from the maintenance application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: Physio-Control, Inc.
    Inventors: Jennifer Elaine Hoss, Kevin C. Drew, Mitchell A. Smith
  • Patent number: 11250431
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method for enhancing fraud detection based on transactions at potentially compromised locations is provided. The method includes determining a list of potentially compromised transaction locations, storing the list of potentially compromised transaction locations, and receiving from a first transaction location a first authorization request message for a first transaction. The first authorization request message is associated with a first payment account.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: MASTERCARD INTERNATIONAL INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Jean-Pierre Gerard, Po Hu, Qian Wang
  • Patent number: 11250890
    Abstract: Memory devices and systems with configurable die powerup delay, and associated methods, are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, a memory system includes two or more memory dies. At least one memory die has a powerup group terminal and powerup group detect circuitry. The powerup group detect circuitry is configured to detect a powerup group assigned to the at least one memory die. The at least one memory die is configured to delay its powerup operation by a time delay corresponding to the powerup group to which it is assigned. In this manner, powerup operations of the two or more memory dies can be staggered to reduce peak current demand of the memory system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Dale H. Hiscock, Michael Kaminski, Joshua E. Alzheimer, John H. Gentry
  • Patent number: 11250535
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to advanced signal processing technology including signal encoding and digital watermarking. Image areas are selected in an encoded digital design, and corresponding areas from a printed version of the encoded digital design are evaluated to determined signal robustness after printing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: Digimarc Corporation
    Inventors: Yang Bai, Vojtech Holub, Vahid Sedighianaraki
  • Patent number: 11244183
    Abstract: Technology for constructing a symbol template for use by a 1D barcode decoder. One method includes obtaining a first symbol pattern representing a first symbol, the first symbol pattern comprising a plurality of elements, with each element corresponding to a 1D barcode space or bar, in which the first symbol represents one unique 1D bar (b) and space (s) pattern corresponding to a symbol or digit: 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 or 9; obtaining prefix elements, the prefix elements comprising a subset of second symbol elements from a second symbol pattern which precedes the first symbol from within a scanline of image data, the subset being less than a total number of elements within the second symbol elements; extending the first symbol pattern with the prefix elements to yield an overlapping symbol template for use in correlation-based barcode decoding. Other technology provided as well.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Assignee: Digimarc Corporation
    Inventors: Brett A. Bradley, Tomas Filler, Vojtech Holub
  • Patent number: 11244125
    Abstract: Apparatus and methods are provided for automatically interrogating a tagged object using radio frequency identification (RFID) when the object is moved. In one embodiment, a worker is outfitted with a wearable RFID system including an RF antenna, an RFID reader, and a holder to hold the antenna and reader during operation. The system is worn by the worker while the worker moves objects from one place to another. When the worker moves an object with an attached RFID tag, the antenna automatically begins scanning for signals from the object's RFID tag. When a RF signal is received by the antenna, the RFID reader collects the signal and transmits it to a host system which processes the signal to obtain information related to the object to which the RFID tag is attached.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Assignee: METRC LLC
    Inventors: Dilek Dagdelen Uysal, Ahmet Erdem Altunbas, Jeffrey Lane Wells
  • Patent number: 11244389
    Abstract: A system for communicating property data includes one or more interfaces operable to receive lien data including an identification of a lien on a property, an identification of the holder of the lien, a balance of debt associated with the lien, and a repayment schedule for the amount of debt associated with the lien; and lien authentication data including one or more from the set comprising: a copy of an agreement memorializing the lien, a property title memorializing the lien, and a government record memorializing the lien; one or more memories operable to store the received lien data and the received lien authentication data; and one or more processors operable to: determine, based on the received lien authentication data, that the received lien data is valid, and determine, based on the received lien data, that the received balance of debt associated with the lien needs to be updated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Assignee: Bank of America Corporation
    Inventors: Joseph B. Castinado, Bonnie L. Dolan
  • Patent number: 11238323
    Abstract: A quality management system for products including a multiplicity of barcoded quality indicators, a barcode indicator reader and a product type responsive indication interpreter, each of the barcoded quality indicators including a first barcode including at least one first colorable area, the first barcode being machine-readable before exceedance of the at least one time and temperature threshold, at least a second barcode including at least one second colorable area, the second barcode not being machine-readable before exceedance of the at least one time and temperature threshold, a coloring agent located at a first location on the indicator and a coloring agent pathway operative to allow the coloring agent to move, from the first location to the first and second colorable areas simultaneously thereby causing the first barcode to become unreadable and at the same time causing the second barcode to become machine-readable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: Varcode Ltd.
    Inventors: Yaron Nemet, Ephraim Brand, Ahmed M. Tafesh
  • Patent number: 11238436
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a transaction processing system and a method for sharing expenses among multiple peers using a dual-chip payment card. The method includes receiving a request for creating a temporary pool session for a plurality of users from one of the plurality of users having a dual-chip payment card. In response to the request, the method includes creating the temporary pool session, holding a proportional credit amount of each of the plurality of users. Subsequently, the method includes associating the temporary pool session with a secondary chip of the dual-chip payment card of at least one of the plurality of users. Finally, the method includes processing one or more transaction requests received through the secondary chip of the dual-chip payment card of at least one of the plurality of users, using the temporary pool session.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: Visa International Service Association
    Inventors: Alkondan Chockalinga Mooppanar, Sudhir Krishna V L, Rakesh Ramamurthy, Rajeev Gangapura Cho Iyer, Sriram Sethumadhavan
  • Patent number: 11238254
    Abstract: A code scanning system is disclosed. The system may include a computing device, a web server, and a scanning device. The scanning device may scan a code, such as a quick response (QR) code, and in response, the scanning device executes a scanning action, such as directing a web browser to a website hosted by the web server. The website may include various user actions. The computing device provides a software platform that allows for the configuration of scanning actions and user actions. For example, each code may be associated with a client of the software platform, where the software platform allows the client to select and/or configure scanning actions that are executed by the scanning device when a code is scanned, such as being directed to the website. The software platform may also allow for the configuration of user actions that are provided on the website.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: LAUNCH CODE, LLC
    Inventor: Adam I. Sandow
  • Patent number: 11238714
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure generally relate to systems and methods for providing privacy to downstream owners of electronically tagged goods. In one implementation, the system may include at least one processor that may be configured to store IDs for a plurality of tags including at least a first owner ID and a second owner ID for a particular tag; associate first information of the particular tag with the first owner ID at a time when the first owner of the particular tag is recorded as owning the tag; record a transaction transferring ownership of the particular tag from the first owner to a second owner; and after the transfer of ownership, associate second information of the particular tag with the second owner ID, and prevent the second owner from accessing the first information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: NEXITE LTD.
    Inventors: Anat Shakedd, Lior Shakedd
  • Patent number: 11238471
    Abstract: A method of dynamically creating and modifying an electronic survey includes providing a website having a database storing previously collected survey results; each of the surveys having survey questions and selectable answers; receiving respondent input, via a GUI, requesting a survey within the database, presenting, a survey matching the respondent input including the survey questions, the selectable survey questions having selectable answer options including question modification, answer provision and answer modification options; receiving a respondent response to the survey questions including one or more of: selecting the question modification option and providing a new or modified question, selecting the answer provision option and providing a selected answer, and selecting the answer modification option and providing a modified answer; uploading the respondent response to the database, and dynamically and automatically modifying the survey by appending the respondent response, and the dynamically alter
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Inventor: Patrick Montoya
  • Patent number: 11233757
    Abstract: Provided is a system and computer readable medium for electronic group exchange of digital business cards, that includes a computing system comprising a server configured to store data of business cards associated with client devices, one or more processors; and a memory storing instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, causes the one or more processors to perform a group exchange of digital business cards among all devices in the group. The digital business cards may be automatically exchanged among different devices in response to detecting, from the different devices, scans of a group QR code or a scannable code, detecting inputs of a group numeric or alphanumeric code, detecting a selection of nearby devices with which to exchange digital business cards, or detecting devices that are participating in a conference setting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: TraDove, Inc.
    Inventor: Jun Yan
  • Patent number: 11232298
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method of generating electronic documents is described. The method comprises receiving a plurality of scanned documents for a plurality of vehicles; providing the plurality of scanned documents to a neural network model that outputs respective class identifiers of the plurality of scanned documents; for each scanned document of the plurality of scanned documents, extracting data from the scanned document according to a corresponding class identifier, and associating the scanned document and the extracted data with an identified vehicle of the plurality of vehicles, wherein the identified vehicle is identified by the extracted data; and generating an electronic document for the identified vehicle using the extracted data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: IAA, Inc.
    Inventors: Maju Abraham, Subbu Viswanathan, Ryan Fagan, Ashish Kashyap, Anurag Sharma, Mark Oost, Michael T. Cornelison
  • Patent number: 11227025
    Abstract: Methods and systems for augmenting communications using input data from mobile devices are described herein. A computing device may establish a connection with a mobile device having one or more input devices. The computing device may display a barcode that, when scanned by a mobile device, causes the mobile device to access a web page. The web page may be configured to cause the mobile device to transmit, e.g., via a web browser executing on the mobile device and to the computing device, input data from the input devices. The input data may be used by the computing device to replicate a physical input device connected to the computing device. The computing device may transmit the input data to a different computing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2022
    Assignee: Citrix Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Santhosh Kumar Bejjanki, Sergii Shkrabak, Thomas John Sampieri, Dmytro Bozhko
  • Patent number: 11222492
    Abstract: A luggage storage system includes a tag attached to a luggage, a plurality of storage spot terminals respectively installed in a plurality of storage spots each including a movable spot, a luggage database, and a circuitry configured to: acquire identification information of the tag and a user from a mobile terminal that has read the identification information of the tag at the time of deposit of the luggage and register the identification information in the luggage database, acquire the identification information of the tag and storage spot from the storage spot terminal that has read the identification information of the tag and register the identification information in the luggage database, and acquire the identification information of the tag and the user from the mobile terminal that has read the tag at the time of receipt of the luggage and determine whether or not to return the luggage based on whether or not the identification information of the tag and the identification information of the user are
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Inventor: Hachirou Seno
  • Patent number: 11222482
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an integrated parking management system for automated parking identification, parking fee payment and parking status monitoring comprising: an in-vehicle unit configured to determine a geographic position of a vehicle; a parking management server configured to determine an available parking space and corresponding parking fee based on the geographic position data received from the in-vehicle unit. The system further comprises a handheld unit configured to determine validity of a parking status of the vehicle, and report to the parking management server. The functions of the In Vehicle Unit can also be realized in a software only implementation for integration and execution on alternative platforms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Inventors: Enzo Stancato, Anthony Godfrey Nedd
  • Patent number: 11222326
    Abstract: A method may include generating, by a computing device, a first dynamic QR code comprising a plurality of QR code frames, each QR code frame transmitted at a first frequency, the plurality of QR code frames comprising non-viable QR code frame(s) and at least one viable QR code frame. The method may include displaying, by the computing device, the first dynamic QR code, the at least one viable QR code frame displayed at a first time. The method may include transmitting, by the computing device, a first pulse to a user device. The method may include capturing, by the user device at the first time and in response to receiving the first pulse, the at least one viable QR code frame. The method may include generating and displaying, by the user device, a second dynamic QR code, causing the computing device to complete a requested transaction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: CAPITAL ONE SERVICES, LLC
    Inventor: David Kelly Wurmfeld
  • Patent number: 11217058
    Abstract: A system and method for control of prescription drug packaging and dispensing machines located in an in-patient health care facility including centralized control and enhanced communication between system components. Delay and errors in processing item data in the prescription dispensing system are reduced by using concise ID data incorporated into each canister memory chip and storing canister contents data elsewhere. Canisters are configured in a pharmacy using interchangeable parts. Data being processed is synchronized by a combination of user tokens (who), data identifiers (what), and unique Ids for the entities in the system (where). The foregoing combination enables substantial efficiency improvements and error reduction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: BTP Fund, LP
    Inventor: Stewart W. Stephens
  • Patent number: 11216623
    Abstract: An authenticated data sharing system may include a contactless card comprising a processor and a memory including one or more applets and an application comprising instructions for execution on a device. The application is configured to determine a capability associated with the contactless card after a first entry into a communication field. The application is configured to request additional information based on the determination. The one or more applets are configured to transmit, to the application, a generated tokenized link after a second entry into the communication field based on the requested additional information. The application is configured to transmit the link to obtain the requested additional information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: CAPITAL ONE SERVICES, LLC
    Inventors: Colin Hart, Jeffrey Rule, Kaitlin Newman, Lea Cody
  • Patent number: 11216713
    Abstract: A method for correlating a product identifier of a product and an RF tag identification code after the step of printing visual representation of a product identifier onto a product label, and reading the visual representation of the product identifier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Inventor: Lundy Smith
  • Patent number: 11216796
    Abstract: A method, system and/or device for validating encoded information, the validation device including a memory having computer readable instructions stored thereon and a database including a plurality of validation rules, and at least one processor configured to execute the computer readable instructions to receive formatted data from at least one formatting device, extract attributes associated with encoded information from the formatted data, the extracted attributes including at least one of a formatting device identifier, a store identifier, value information from the encoded information, and time information, validate the formatted data based on the extracted attributes and the plurality of validation rules, store the results of the validation and at least a subset of the extracted attributes in the database, generate modified formatted data compatible with a POS terminal based on the results of the validation, and transmit the modified formatted data to the at least one of formatting device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: Altria Client Services LLC
    Inventors: Michael Fitzsimmons, William M. Houston
  • Patent number: 11210679
    Abstract: Methods are provided for producing an authenticated packaged product. A digital signature, dependent on unique message data for the product, is generated via a digital signature scheme using a secret signing key. The message data is provided on at least one of the product and packaging. The digital signature is provided on the other of the product and packaging, and the product is packed in the packaging. The digital signature can be generated via a fuzzy-message digital signature scheme having a verification algorithm for verifying the digital signature in relation to fuzzy data within a predetermined difference measure of the message data. Methods and systems for authenticating such packaged products are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Jan L. Camenisch, Emmanuel Delamarche, Eduarda Freire-Stögbuchner, Onur Goekce
  • Patent number: 11211700
    Abstract: Technologies for dynamic noise cancelation using noise patterns are described. One device includes a moveable assembly having first and second degrees of freedom. A component within the base assembly radiates electromagnetic energy in a radiation pattern as a noise source when operating and an antenna, coupled to a receiver, is disposed on the support member. The processing device, using noise profile data about the radiation pattern of the noise source, determines that the component is operating and a current angle between the component and the antenna. The processing device determines a difference value between the current angle and the first angle and causes the moveable assembly to move at least one of the antenna or the base assembly according to the difference value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Akshay Mohan, Yue Zheng, Deepak Pai Hosadurga, Jagan Vaidyanathan Rajagopalan
  • Patent number: 11210908
    Abstract: Administrating a package of shuffled playing cards to prevent fraudulent card exchanges. The administrating system is configured to calculate places and a number of packages of shuffled playing cards at places of the backyard, the places of playing tables, places of carriers and the disposition place using information obtained by the loading step and unloading step and the administrating system calculates by every ID codes bases 1) places of packages registered by the registering step for registering to a data base of administrating system and a number of packages place by place from information obtained from the loading step and the unloading step. The administrating system is configured to recognize whether there is a lost package by comparing the information of all ID codes registered in registering steps with the ID codes at places of packages obtained at the calculating step from the loading step and the unloading step.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: ANGEL GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yasushi Shigeta
  • Patent number: 11206615
    Abstract: Systems, methods, devices, computer readable media, and other various embodiments are described for location management processes in wearable electronic devices. Performance of such devices is improved with reduced time to first fix of location operations in conjunction with low-power operations. In one embodiment, low-power circuitry manages high-speed circuitry and location circuitry to provide location assistance data from the high-speed circuitry to the low-power circuitry automatically on initiation of location fix operations as the high-speed circuitry and location circuitry are booted from low-power states. In some embodiments, the high-speed circuitry is returned to a low-power state prior to completion of a location fix and after capture of content associated with initiation of the location fix. In some embodiments, high-speed circuitry is booted after completion of a location fix to update location data associated with content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2021
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventors: Yu Jiang Tham, John James Robertson, Gerald Nilles, Jason Heger, Praveen Babu Vadivelu