Presentation Format Conversion Patents (Class 379/88.14)
  • Patent number: 11924364
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for connecting an interactive wearable device with a network. In one aspect, a method includes loading content from a playlist; recognizing contextual information relating to the content; determining the location of the user; requesting supplemental content via a network based on the contextual information and the location; displaying supplemental information to a user; interacting with the supplemental information at least in part via an interactive apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Muzik Inc.
    Inventor: Jason Hardi
  • Patent number: 11887586
    Abstract: A method includes retrieving a plurality of transcripts from a database. Each transcript in the plurality of transcripts corresponds to audio from a media content item of a plurality of media content items that are provided by a media providing service. The method also includes applying each transcript of the plurality of transcripts to a trained computational model, and receiving a user request for information regarding a topic. The method further includes, in response to the user request, identifying a transcript from the database that is relevant to the topic, and a position within the transcript that is relevant to the topic. The method also includes providing, by the media providing service, at least a portion of a media content item corresponding to the identified transcript, beginning at a starting position that is based on the position within the identified transcript that is relevant to the topic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: Spotify AB
    Inventors: Vidhya Murali, Aaron Paul Harmon
  • Patent number: 11709579
    Abstract: Systems and methods for generating personalized navigation menus are disclosed. For example, the system may include one or more memory units storing instructions and one or more processors configured to execute the instructions to perform operations. The operations may include receiving account data associated with a plurality of accounts and receiving navigation menu data associated with the accounts. The operations may include training a model based on the account data and the navigation menu data. The operations may include receiving a request associated with a user and receiving user account data associated with the user. The operations may include generating, using the model, a navigation menu based on the request and the user account data. The operations may include providing the navigation menu.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: CAPITAL ONE SERVICES, LLC
    Inventors: Alexandra Colevas, Michael Mossoba, Joshua Edwards, Abdelkader Benkreira
  • Patent number: 11564067
    Abstract: A voicemail service node of a carrier network may configure a voicemail profile for a subscriber to provide voicemail transcription delivery. For example, a voicemail service node may receive, from a voicemail client on a user device, a request to activate delivery of voicemail transcription for the user device via the voicemail client. The voicemail service node may determine device configuration information for delivery of voicemail transcription, determine, based on the device configuration information and the activation request, a delivery configuration for delivery of voicemail transcription via the voicemail client using a set of one or more modes of delivery of voicemail transcription, and configure the voicemail profile associated with the user device to cause delivery of voicemail transcription to the user device using the set of one or more modes of delivery of voicemail transcription.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignee: T-Mobile USA, Inc.
    Inventor: Dhurjati Brahma
  • Patent number: 11349989
    Abstract: Systems and methods for sensing emotion in voice signals and dynamically changing suggestions in a call center are disclosed. According to one embodiment, a computer-implemented method comprises receiving a call from a customer at a call center. A sample of the call is recorded and the Mel-Frequency Cepstral coefficient is extracted from the sample. A machine learning model predicts an emotion of the customer and generates a confidence score for the emotion. A script of a call center agent is modified based on the emotion and the confidence score.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: Genpact Luxembourg S.à r.l. II
    Inventors: Kashyap Coimbatore Murali, Kaushik Bhaskar
  • Patent number: 11258895
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a system, apparatus, and method that obtains audio and metadata information from voice calls, generates textual transcripts from those calls, and makes the resulting data searchable via a user interface. The system converts audio data from one or more sources (such as a telecommunications provider) into searchable usable text transcripts. One use of which is law enforcement and intelligence work. Another use relates to call centers to improve quality and track customer service history. Searches can be performed for callers, callees, keywords, and/or other information in calls across the system. The system can also generate automatic alerts based on callers, callees, keywords, phone numbers, and/or other information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: LEO Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Elliott Broidy, James Sexton, Christian Wensel, Brennan Karrer
  • Patent number: 11258750
    Abstract: A communication system for automatically choosing a communication modality from a plurality of communication modalities for use for communication between distant communication entities is provided. The communication system includes a controller configured to: receive a message in the form of one of a first plurality of modalities from a message originator for transmission to a message recipient and select at least one modality for sending the message to the message recipient. To select the controller is configured to: determine the existence of any predetermined vehicle context requirements, predetermined static requirements, predetermined communication service provider requirements, communication context requirements, message recipient preferences, and message originator preferences; and make the selection based on those requirements and preferences. The controller is further configured to convert the received message to the selected modality and cause the message to be transmitted to the message recipient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INC.
    Inventors: Stephane Marche, Martin Mlaskac
  • Patent number: 11190497
    Abstract: Systems and methods for application identification in accordance with embodiments of the invention are disclosed. In one embodiment, a user device includes a processor and memory configured to store an application, a session manager, an application identifier, and at least one shared library, and the processor is configured by the session manager to communicate the application identifier and the application identifier data to an authentication server and permit the execution of the application in response to authentication of the application by the authentication server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: DIVX, LLC
    Inventors: Eric William Grab, Kourosh Soroushian, Tung Lin, Francis Yee-Dug Chan, Evan Wallin, William David Amidei
  • Patent number: 11134218
    Abstract: A secure teleconference with a patient treatment room may be initiated by receiving, at a central facility, a request for a conference from a clinician application, and then identifying a virtual meeting room and sending an identifier for a conference to the treatment room. The conference is then be established by receiving a call at the central facility from the treatment room, where the call identifies the conference. The central facility then joins the treatment room and the clinician application to the virtual meeting room. Teleconferences may thus be established without reference to sensitive patient information. For security, no incoming conferencing calls may be made to the treatment room directly, and virtual meeting rooms may be eliminated after single use. A call may further be initiated by receiving a request from the treatment room, e.g., which is processed by the central facility to alert one or more clinicians.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2021
    Assignee: CAREGILITY CORPORATION
    Inventors: John Mitchell Vitale, David Walter Galas, Jennifer R. Schell, Philip Brock Purpura, Luke Brown
  • Patent number: 11128752
    Abstract: A communication session with a communication endpoint is established. The communication session is placed on hold. For example, the communication session is placed on hold by being sent to a contact center queue. In response to placing the communication session on hold, a message is sent to the communication endpoint that indicates the communication session has been placed on hold. In response to the message, the communication endpoint may initiate a second media stream, such as to play personal media while the communication session is on hold. The second media stream may be a local media file or a remote media file, such as an internet radio station. In response to determining that the communication session is taken off hold, a second message is sent to the communication endpoint to stop playing the personalized media. This process allows the user to play personalized media while being placed on hold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2021
    Assignee: Avaya Inc.
    Inventors: Pushkar Yashavant Deole, Joel M. Ezell
  • Patent number: 11049085
    Abstract: A point of sale client integration platform is provided. The point of sale client integration platform includes a point of sale client application and a commerce client module that, in combination, provide a device agnostic payment transaction operation. The commerce client module includes communication interfaces, each of which corresponds to a particular communication protocol. The commerce client module receives a payment request from the point of sale client application and directly communicates, via one of the communication protocols, an authorization and capture request with respect to the payment request to a payment gateway. Through the same communication protocol, the commerce client module receives an authorization and capture response from the payment gateway. The commerce client module also drives a POS device to execute the device agnostic payment transaction operation in accordance with the payment request and the authorization and capture response.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2021
    Assignee: FREEDOMPAY, INC.
    Inventors: Stephen M. Oberholtzer, David O. Knowlton, Christopher R. Kronenthal, John T. Styslinger
  • Patent number: 11036469
    Abstract: Some implementations can include a computer-implemented method and/or system for parsing an electronic conversation for presentation at least partially in an alternative interface (e.g., a non-display interface) such as a voice interface or other non-display interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2021
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventor: Stephen Mailey
  • Patent number: 11014742
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a method and a device for collecting garbage. The method includes acquiring a garbage type of garbage to be collected; determining a garbage collector for recycling garbage of the garbage type; and controlling the garbage collector to output a first prompt message to prompt a user to put the garbage to be collected into the garbage collector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
    Assignee: Beijing Xiaomi Mobile Software Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ximing Zhang, Han Wang, Jin Han
  • Patent number: 10969954
    Abstract: An electronic device includes a housing, a touch screen display located inside the housing and exposed through a first portion of the housing, a microphone located inside the housing and exposed through a second portion of the housing, at least one speaker located inside the housing and exposed through a third portion of the housing, a communication circuit located inside the housing, a processor located inside the housing and electrically connected with the touch screen display, the microphone, the speaker, and the communication circuit, and a memory located inside the housing and electrically connected with the processor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ho Jun Jaygarl, Kyoung Gu Woo, Ga Jin Song, Seong Min Je
  • Patent number: 10950242
    Abstract: Systems and methods of diarization using linguistic labeling include receiving a set of diarized textual transcripts. A least one heuristic is automatedly applied to the diarized textual transcripts to select transcripts likely to be associated with an identified group of speakers. The selected transcripts are analyzed to create at least one linguistic model. The linguistic model is applied to transcripted audio data to label a portion of the transcripted audio data as having been spoken by the identified group of speakers. Still further embodiments of diarization using linguistic labeling may serve to label agent speech and customer speech in a recorded and transcripted customer service interaction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Assignee: Verint Systems Ltd.
    Inventors: Omer Ziv, Ran Achituv, Ido Shapira, Jeremie Dreyfuss
  • Patent number: 10950241
    Abstract: Systems and methods of diarization using linguistic labeling include receiving a set of diarized textual transcripts. A least one heuristic is automatedly applied to the diarized textual transcripts to select transcripts likely to be associated with an identified group of speakers. The selected transcripts are analyzed to create at least one linguistic model. The linguistic model is applied to transcripted audio data to label a portion of the transcripted audio data as having been spoken by the identified group of speakers. Still further embodiments of diarization using linguistic labeling may serve to label agent speech and customer speech in a recorded and transcripted customer service interaction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Assignee: Verint Systems Ltd.
    Inventors: Omer Ziv, Ran Achituv, Ido Shapira, Jeremie Dreyfuss
  • Patent number: 10938978
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a call control method and an apparatus that implement, in a terminal that is in call state, an operation function that corresponds to the call content. The operation function is designed to prevent a user from missing the call content when the user is engaged in a different task. The method includes the following steps: during a call between two terminals: detecting, by one of the terminals, the content of the call between the two terminals; and when the call content matches preset target information, performing by this terminal, an operation that corresponds to the detected call content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Jie Liu
  • Patent number: 10902856
    Abstract: Systems and methods of diarization using linguistic labeling include receiving a set of diarized textual transcripts. A least one heuristic is automatedly applied to the diarized textual transcripts to select transcripts likely to be associated with an identified group of speakers. The selected transcripts are analyzed to create at least one linguistic model. The linguistic model is applied to transcripted audio data to label a portion of the transcripted audio data as having been spoken by the identified group of speakers. Still further embodiments of diarization using linguistic labeling may serve to label agent speech and customer speech in a recorded and transcripted customer service interaction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2021
    Assignee: Verint Systems Ltd.
    Inventors: Omer Ziv, Ran Achituv, Ido Shapira, Jeremie Dreyfuss
  • Patent number: 10896593
    Abstract: A system and method are provided for brokering mission critical communication between a sender and a receiver, where the sender provides a message in a first communication medium and the receiver requires or prefers a second communication medium. An interpretation portion reduces the message to essential knowledge data and generates a content descriptive representation, and a routing portion determines a communication media compatibility of the receiver and selectively sets the second communication medium for the message. A mediation portion then adaptively generates a transformed message in the second communication medium so that it is ascertainable to the receiver, and actuates delivery to the receiver. The interpretation portion is trained to identify image objects in an image which are then represented in the content descriptive representation, thereby enabling the mediation portion to generate text or audio content in the transformed message indicating mission critical features within the image content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2021
    Assignee: Frequentis AG
    Inventors: Robert Nitsch, Charlotte Roesener, Wolfgang Kampichler
  • Patent number: 10869253
    Abstract: Systems and methods for dynamic communication routing based on consistency weighting and routing rules are disclosed. A computing device can receive a communication including content data. The communication can be stored in a queue position of a primary queue. For example, the primary queue can include a plurality of queue positions for storing communications. The communication can be retrieved from the queue position of the primary queue and analyzed. In some instances, analyzing can include parsing the content data for a keyword. A keyword can correspond to a secondary queue. When the keyword is identified in the communication, the communication can be stored in the secondary queue that corresponds to the keyword. A terminal device associated with the secondary queue can be identified. A retrieval request to access the communication from the secondary queue can be received, and the communication can be routed to the terminal device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: LIVEPERSON, INC.
    Inventors: Matan Barak, Efim Dimenstein, Shlomo Lahav
  • Patent number: 10855492
    Abstract: A system and method for an intelligent translation gateway for various networked combat environment is disclosed. The gateway is configured to aggregate messages, apply domain-specific intent translation, and thus control data flow based on situational awareness.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2020
    Assignee: TACTICAL COMMUNICATIONS GROUP, LLC
    Inventors: Steven D. Horsburgh, Peter Ellis
  • Patent number: 10825327
    Abstract: A system and method are provided for brokering mission critical communication between a sender and a receiver, where the sender provides a message in a first communication medium and the receiver requires or prefers a second communication medium. An interpretation portion reduces the message to essential knowledge data and generates a content descriptive representation, and a routing portion determines a communication media compatibility of the receiver and selectively sets the second communication medium for the message. A mediation portion then adaptively generates a transformed message in the second communication medium so that it is ascertainable to the receiver, and actuates delivery to the receiver. The interpretation portion is trained to identify image objects in an image which are then represented in the content descriptive representation, thereby enabling the mediation portion to generate text or audio content in the transformed message indicating mission critical features within the image content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2020
    Assignee: Frequentis AG
    Inventors: Robert Nitsch, Charlotte Roesener, Wolfgang Kampichler
  • Patent number: 10796295
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to systems, methods, and devices for processing payment transactions between a user and a merchant using a messaging bot. In particular, a commerce system allows the user to initiate a communications session with a messaging bot associated with the merchant using natural language. One or more embodiments use natural language processing to analyze messages from the user to the messaging bot, and from the messaging bot to the user, to identify a product and a request to purchase the identified product. Based on the identified product and the request to purchase the product, one or more embodiments initiate a payment transaction on behalf of the user based on a natural language conversation and without redirecting the user away from the communications session. Additionally, one or more implementations provide a payment initiation message from the messaging bot to the user indicating that the payment transaction was initiated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Anand Subbarayan, Yegnashankar Parasuram, Shuo Song, Akshay Mittal, Xishuo Liu
  • Patent number: 10783901
    Abstract: Techniques for performing conversation recovery of a system/user exchange are described. In response to determining that an action responsive to a user input cannot be performed, a system may determine a topic to recommend to a user. The topic may be unrelated to the original substance of the user input. The system may have access to various data representing a context in which a user provides an input to the system. The system may use these inputs and various data at runtime to make a determination regarding whether a user should be recommended a topic, as well as what that topic should be. The system may cause a question be output to the user, with the question asking the user about the topic, for example whether the user would like a song played, whether the user would like to hear information about a particular individual (e.g., artist), whether the user would like to know about a particular skill (e.g.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2020
    Assignee: AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Gregory Newell, Eliav Kahan, Ravi Chandra Reddy Yasa, David Suarez, Joel Toledano
  • Patent number: 10771629
    Abstract: A system and method for transforming a voicemail message into a chat session between a first party and a second party. The method comprises receiving, at a remote server, a voice message from the first party which is destined for the second party. The server transcribes the voice message, which involves transforming the voice message into a text. The server then initiates the chat session between the first party and the second party, by sending the text and audio as a multi-media instant message (IM) to the first party and to the second party. The IM appears as an outgoing message on a first computing device associated with the first party, and as an incoming message on a second computing device associated with the second party.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Assignee: babyTel Inc.
    Inventors: Stephen Dorsey, Pierre St-Germain, Mohamed Kahla, Khaled Tewfik
  • Patent number: 10708206
    Abstract: Techniques for protecting mailboxes in computer-implemented conferencing systems are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, a method includes caching availability data representing availability information of meeting participants in a mailbox corresponding to a meeting organizer. The method also includes monitoring a mailbox size of the mailbox corresponding to the meeting organizer and determining whether the monitored mailbox size exceeds a preset threshold. The method further includes in response to determining that the monitored mailbox size exceeds the preset threshold, ceasing to cache additional availability data representing new availability information of the meeting participants received at the mailbox in order to prevent performance degradation of accessing the mailbox by the meeting organizer via the computer network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2020
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Jaskaran Singh, Jaya Matthew, Hemant Sharma
  • Patent number: 10686932
    Abstract: Apparatus and methods are disclosed for allowing smart phone users to “capture the moment” by allowing easy access to a camera application when a mobile device is in an above-lock (or locked) mode, while also preventing unauthorized access to other smart phone functionality. According to one embodiment of the disclosed technology, a method of operating a mobile device having an above-lock state and a below-lock state comprises receiving input data requesting invocation of an camera application when the mobile device is in the above-lock state and invoking the requested camera application on the device, where one or more functions of the requested application are unavailable as a result of the mobile device being in the above-lock state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2020
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Shamik Bandyopadhyay, Donald A. Barnett, Vikram Kapoor, Veronica Y. Law, Kathryn C. Lemson, Tirthankar Sengupta, Divya Tyamagundlu, Ahmad Bilal
  • Patent number: 10601993
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for sending a forked media stream of an electronic communication between a customer and an agent to an analysis system for a duration. Receiving analysis results obtained from one or more analytics performed on the forked media stream. Then, determining whether to perform one or more operations in response to the analysis results.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2020
    Assignee: United Services Automobile Association (USAA)
    Inventors: Vijay Jayapalan, Greg Yarbrough, Eric J. Smith
  • Patent number: 10530731
    Abstract: Methods, devices, systems, and computer-readable media with instructions for text communications with imbedded audio or audiovisual elements are described. One embodiment involves displaying a user interface for chat communication with a time-ordered display space for communications. Text communications and audiovisual communications are each presented in associated rows within the user interface. Various embodiments enable audio or video notes as well as audio or video streaming or multi-user calls within the user interface with individual communications or connections presented within the time-ordered display. In some embodiments, communications within the display are deleted based on ephemeral message triggers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2020
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventors: William Wu, Nathan Kenneth Boyd, Newar Husam Al Majid, Erik Wagner
  • Patent number: 10522152
    Abstract: Systems and methods of diarization using linguistic labeling include receiving a set of diarized textual transcripts. A least one heuristic is automatedly applied to the diarized textual transcripts to select transcripts likely to be associated with an identified group of speakers. The selected transcripts are analyzed to create at least one linguistic model. The linguistic model is applied to transcripted audio data to label a portion of the transcripted audio data as having been spoken by the identified group of speakers. Still further embodiments of diarization using linguistic labeling may serve to label agent speech and customer speech in a recorded and transcripted customer service interaction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2019
    Assignee: Verint Systems Ltd.
    Inventors: Omer Ziv, Ran Achituv, Ido Shapira, Jeremie Dreyfuss
  • Patent number: 10468014
    Abstract: A device causes a communication session to be established between the device and a user device to allow the device and the user device to communicate speech, and receives user speech from the user device. The device processes the user speech using a natural language processing technique to determine a plurality of characteristics of the user speech, and updates a speech generation setting of a plurality of speech generation settings based on the plurality of characteristics of the user speech. The device generates, after updating the speech generation setting, device speech using a text-to-speech technique based on the speech generation setting, and sends the device speech to the user device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Assignee: Capital One Services, LLC
    Inventors: Joshua Edwards, Michael Mossoba, Abdelkadar M'Hamed Benkreira, Alexandra Colevas
  • Patent number: 10455293
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus to provide messages to consumer electronics devices are disclosed. An example method includes determining an identifier associated with a consumer electronics device from which a request has been received. The method also includes querying a database to determine first and second account identifiers associated with the identifier of the consumer electronics device. When the request is for messaging information stored with a first message provider, a first command is sent to cause the first message provider to forward the messaging information. When the request is for messaging information stored with a second message provider, a second command is sent to cause the second message provider to forward the messaging information. The messaging information received from at least one of the first message provider and the second message provider is sent to the consumer electronics device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2019
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Chaoxin Charles Qiu, Jeffrey Lee Scruggs, John E. Lemay, Jessie Tsae-Jiuan Lee, Diana Maria Cantu
  • Patent number: 10382605
    Abstract: Provided is a system in which a vehicle-mounted device and a mobile device are connected using a communication protocol. The vehicle-mounted device includes: a storage unit that stores information indicating whether or not an e-mail transmitting function specified in the communication protocol is incorporated; a control unit that determines, according to an instruction for transmitting an e-mail to the mobile device, whether or not the mobile device is equipped with the e-mail transmitting function, on the basis of the information in the storage unit; and a processing unit that transmits text, for e-mail, generated by the vehicle-mounted device, to the mobile device, and instructs the mobile device to generate an electronic mail according to the text for e-mail and transmit the electronic mail to an external network when the e-mail transmitting function is incorporated, and that instructs the mobile device to generate text for e-mail when the e-mail transmitting function is not incorporated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Akira Sasaki
  • Patent number: 10277746
    Abstract: Systems and methods provide a resident of a controlled-environment facility with voice messaging. The facility provides the resident with voice communication services. In response to a request by a resident for a voice communication with a non-resident, a call request to the non-resident may be initiated. In certain scenarios, the non-resident is unable to accept the call request. If a voice message is authorized, the resident is allowed to record a voice message for the non-resident. Certain restrictions may limit the resident to selecting from automated voice messages. A notification of the recorded voice message is dispatched to the non-resident. The notification identifies a unique link that directs the non-resident to a voice message retrieval system that allows the resident to retrieve and listen to the voice message recorded by the resident. The voice message recording remains under the control of the controlled-environment facility based on applicable security policies and procedures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2019
    Assignee: Securus Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Matthew Smith, Alexander Noland
  • Patent number: 10193842
    Abstract: Customer orders and other service related events require multiple operations to fulfill and process. One example may include receiving a request message from a user device, identifying the request message as being a particular message type, pre-processing the request message to identify message content, and forwarding the identified message content to an active user interface. The request may be identified as a service request and processed by multiple entities prior to fulfilling the request(s).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2019
    Assignee: West Corporation
    Inventors: Raju Iyer, Mark Edwards
  • Patent number: 10169792
    Abstract: A network commerce system comprises a product sale listing searchable by a consumer and comprising one or more products provided by a third-party vendor in a pay-per-lead format. A lead module is operable to obtain a consumer lead for a third-party vendor and determine whether the obtained consumer lead meets one or more quality standards, the consumer lead comprising a lead for sale of an item, the item provided by the third-party vendor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2019
    Assignee: eBay Inc.
    Inventors: Valerie K. Shirk, Jason M. Heidema
  • Patent number: 10135883
    Abstract: A method, a device, and a non-transitory storage medium are provided to receive, from an end device, a registration message pertaining to a voice service that restricts the end device to place a voice call to and receive a voice call from a designated call center; obtain subscription data pertaining to the end device and including an enterprise identifier; determine whether the end device is authorized to use the voice service based on the enterprise identifier; transmit to the end device, an acceptance message indicating a registration of the end device when the end device is authorized; receive from the end device, a session establishment message; replace a uniform resource identifier of the designated call center included in the session establishment message, with the enterprise identifier; select, based on the enterprise identifier, another network device to transmit the session establishment message; and transmit the session establishment message based on the selection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2018
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Rezwanul Azim, Priscilla Lau, Emerando M. Delos Reyes, Suzann Hua, Wing-Cheong V. Yeung
  • Patent number: 10129701
    Abstract: A location context managing method applied to an electronic device having at least one sensor, including: receiving positioning information from a plurality of positioning sources; receiving a value from the sensor; choosing a scenario from a scenario table based on the value received from the sensor and the positioning information received from the plurality of positioning sources, and calculating a location of the electronic device according to the scenario, wherein the scenario table lists a plurality of scenarios, each decides which positioning information from the plurality positioning sources to be adopted for the location calculation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2018
    Assignee: MediaTek Inc.
    Inventors: Chin-Lung Li, Chin-Tang Weng, Feng-Jian Chou
  • Patent number: 10051085
    Abstract: Methods and systems are disclosed for processing data and command requests. In one aspect, a method for processing a data and command request is disclosed that includes receiving, at a server, a first electronic mail message from a requesting electronic mail address, the first electronic mail message including information that identifies an application. The method may also include transmitting, by the server, a query to an application data source associated with the application, the application data source being selected from a plurality of data sources associated with a plurality of applications and receiving, at the server, application data from the application data source. In addition, the method may also include transmitting, by the server, a second electronic mail message that includes at least some of the application data as a reply to the first electronic mail message. Systems and computer-readable media are also disclosed for implementing the above-described method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventor: Z. Shameel Ahmed
  • Patent number: 10009569
    Abstract: Disclosed are a closed caption-support content receiving apparatus and display apparatus, a system having the same, and a closed caption-providing method thereof, which can provide closed-caption data (CCD) suitable for a display apparatus such as a mobile device, a digital television (TV), etc. based on characteristic information of the display apparatus even though the display apparatus is not able to display the received closed-caption data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2018
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Moon Joon Ko
  • Patent number: 9922079
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus including a device state detection unit configured to detect a device state of an electronic device, and a search condition setting unit configured to reference a database that stores information regarding the device state in association with a search condition used for a search for operation related information for the electronic device, and to extract the search condition corresponding to the device state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2018
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Satoshi Ono, Kentaro Hori, Mariko Nagae
  • Patent number: 9912636
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatuses are provided for VoIP communication with VoIP-enabled devices via a network address translator (NAT). A set of proxy servers is configured to relay communications through mapped paths of the NAT during operations including VoIP sessions through or with the plurality of VoIP-enabled devices and during other operations not involving VoIP sessions through or with the plurality of VoIP-enabled devices. The mapped paths are susceptible to being unmapped by the NAT if the mapped path is unused for a threshold duration of time. The proxy servers maintain the mapped paths through the NAT by prompting the VoIP-enabled devices to communicate data to the set of proxy servers. More specifically, a VoIP-enabled device is prompted to communicate data to the set of proxy servers, in response to the VoIP-enabled device not communicating with the set of proxy servers for a duration of time exceeding the threshold duration of time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2018
    Assignee: 8x8, Inc.
    Inventor: Zhishen Liu
  • Patent number: 9876908
    Abstract: A messaging platform includes a text messaging subsystem that includes a suite of enhancements that facilitate implementation of a multi-channel communications strategy with high level and fine-grained control over outbound message creation or inbound message handling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2018
    Assignee: GENESYS TELECOMMUNICATIONS LABORATORIES, INC.
    Inventors: Timothy R. Segall, Boris Greenberg
  • Patent number: 9860364
    Abstract: Various aspects disclosed herein are directed to different types of personal assistant techniques for facilitating call event notation, tagging, calendaring, and etc., particularly those implemented on mobile communication devices. Users of mobile devices are provided with a relatively easy way to record and organize personal notes relating to one or more selected telephone conversations conducted by the user. Users can also manage notes, tasks, and schedule items related to the user's contacts and social network(s). In at least one embodiment, a Mobile Application running on a user's mobile device may be configured or designed to automatically detect an end of phone call event at the mobile device, and to automatically display a “pop-up” dialog GUI prompting the user to record a personalized note or other content (if desired), to be associated with the phone call which just ended.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2018
    Assignee: Zeno Holdings LLC
    Inventor: Timothy D. T. Woloshyn
  • Patent number: 9838909
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a traffic offload method, a core network device, and a traffic offload system. The method includes: sending, user information that is of a user equipment within coverage of a first traffic offload function entity to the first traffic offload function entity; sending a traffic offload policy to the first traffic offload function entity, so that the first traffic offload function entity matches the user information with the traffic offload policy and offloads traffic corresponding to the user equipment according to the user information that successfully matches the traffic offload policy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2017
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Weisheng Jin, Xiaoying Xu, Min Xu, Haining Wang
  • Patent number: 9787631
    Abstract: A unified communication framework in which multiple users communicate using multiple modes. Conversations are kept consistent across users' devices. A backend maintains the true and authoritative version of the conversation within the communication framework.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2017
    Assignee: Wire Swiss GmbH
    Inventors: Priidu Zilmer, Angel Sergio Palomo Pascual, Oliver Reitalu, Alan Duric, Bjørn Nordbø, Robert Kortenoeven, Håkon Bø, Tyson Chihaya, Michael Bevin, Tymofii Zadorozhny of Serhii, Panayiotis Lipiridis, Dusan Stevanovic, Tiago Manuel Ventura Loureiro, Jonathan Christensen
  • Patent number: 9699626
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to a system for displaying, organizing, and prioritizing the incoming information on a wireless device. Using the present invention the wireless device can display the number of voice mails, e-mails, pages, and Internet information alerts that have been received by the wireless device during a specified time period. The invention also allows the incoming information to be separated by any number of user-specified criteria such as the originating sender, or divided by work related and personal messages. The present invention allows the wireless device user to see at a glance what kind of information has been received and is being stored on the wireless device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2017
    Assignee: AT&T Mobility II LLC
    Inventors: Kent A. Hellebust, Thomas J. Trinneer
  • Patent number: 9654625
    Abstract: A computerized system comprising: (a) a compliance server adapted to receive an audio feed of a telephone conversation; (b) an identification module adapted to compare said audio feed to a database of voice prints and identify participants in said telephone conversation; and (c) an analysis module adapted to ascertain a subject of said telephone conversation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2017
    Assignee: TECH-FRIENDS LTD.
    Inventor: Levi Yitzchak Orbach
  • Patent number: 9639405
    Abstract: A method for providing settlement information in which a device provides settlement information to an application which is installed on the device includes executing a first application which is installed on the device, receiving settlement information from an external device via the executed first application, converting at least a part of the received settlement information, and providing the converted settlement information to a second application which is installed on the device in order to allow the second application to use the received settlement information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jae-woo Ko, Tae-hwan Wi
  • Patent number: 9613032
    Abstract: A technique and associated mechanism is described for registering event metadata at a first site, transferring the event metadata to a second site using a portable module, and processing the event metadata at the second site. A user can register the event metadata at the first site in the course of consuming broadcast content. Namely, when the user encounters an interesting portion of the broadcast content, the user activates an input mechanism, resulting in the storage of event metadata associated with the interesting portion on the portable module. The second site can upload the event metadata from the portable module and, in response, provide content associated with the event metadata, including recommended content associated with the event metadata.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2017
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: Vladimir Sadovsky, Mysore Y. Jaisimha, Oren Rosenbloom