Having Message Notification Patents (Class 455/412.2)
  • Patent number: 11924375
    Abstract: Various embodiments relate generally to data science and data analysis, computer software and systems, and control systems to provide a platform to implement automated responses to data representing electronic messages, among other things, and, more specifically, to a computing and data platform that implements logic to facilitate implementation of an automated predictive response computing system independent of electronic communication channel or payload of an electronic message payload, the automated predictive response computing system being configured to implement, for example, an automated voice-text response engine configured to build and adaptively implement conversational data flows based on, for example, classification of an electronic message and a predictive response. In some examples, a method may include detecting an electronic message includes inbound voice data, analyzing inbound voice data, invoking an automated response application, and selecting a response, among other things.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Khoros, LLC
    Inventors: Christopher Tranquill, Justin August Fellers, Ryan Studer
  • Patent number: 11902936
    Abstract: Techniques for notification handling based on identity and physical presence are described and may be implemented to determine whether to route a notification from a first device (e.g., a mobile device) to a second device (e.g., a display device) for output at the second device. Generally, the described implementations utilize sensor data captured at a physical location to detect and/or identify persons present at the physical location and to determine whether to route notifications between devices based on the detected persons/identities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: Motorola Mobility LLC
    Inventors: Rahul Bharat Desai, Amit Kumar Agrawal
  • Patent number: 11888791
    Abstract: Systems and processes for providing response suggestions are provided. In one example process, a textual representation of a message is received. Based on the textual representation of the message, one or more response categories and a predetermined number of suggested inputs corresponding to each of the one of more response categories are obtained. Based on the predetermined number of suggested inputs corresponding to each of the one of more response categories, one or more suggested inputs for each of the one or more response categories are determined. The one or more suggested inputs are provided as response suggestions to the message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Vojtech Jina, Seth J. Hildick-Smith, Peter M. Kirby, Vivek Kumar Rangarajan Sridhar
  • Patent number: 11886393
    Abstract: An information processing device includes a processor configured to acquire: when an electronic document is posted to a message exchange service, information on a person who has posted the electronic document and information on update history of the electronic document; specify, based on the acquired information on the person who has posted the electronic document and the acquired information on the update history, a notification destination to whom a notification indicating that the electronic document has been posted is to be provided; and perform control for providing notification information containing at least information indicating the specified notification destination to the notification destination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Takuma Yamamoto, Kohei Kaibara, Toru Takahashi, Masakazu Ketsuka, Mitsuru Sato
  • Patent number: 11871304
    Abstract: A communication method and system for converging a 5th-Generation (5G) communication system for supporting higher data rates beyond a 4th-Generation (4G) system with a technology for Internet of Things (IoT) are provided. The embodiments herein disclose a method performed by a service enabler architecture layer (SEAL) server in a wireless communication system, the method comprising receiving, from a SEAL client, a group creation request; performing group creation based on the group creation request, creating group information during the group creation, transmitting, to a vertical application layer (VAL) server, group creation notification, and in response to receiving the group creation request, transmitting, to the SEAL client, a group creation response. The group creation notification comprises an identity list.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Basavaraj Jayawant Pattan, Sapan Pramodkumar Shah, Narendranath Durga Tangudu
  • Patent number: 11864116
    Abstract: A system and method for saving mobile battery and empowering user equipment for controlling incoming communication and paging are provided. Also provided are a system and method for determining whether a mobile a device is in an idle mode, and in response to receiving an incoming communication from a service, determining whether the service associated with the incoming communication is on a reject list of services or a preferred list of services. The system performs a first action specified by a determination that the service is on the reject list of services or the service is not on the preferred list of services, and performs a second action specified by a determination that the service is on the preferred list of services. The first action differs from the second action.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY
    Inventors: Saurabh Khare, Devaki Chandramouli
  • Patent number: 11856060
    Abstract: Aspects of the present invention disclose a method for delivering a notification to an IoT enabled device that ensures successful user notification while avoiding duplicate notifications. The method includes one or more processors capturing a respective activity pattern of each of a plurality of internet of things (IoT) enabled devices of a user. The method further includes determining an active device of the user from the plurality of IoT enabled devices based at least in part on an activity pattern of the active device. The method further includes identifying a notification for distribution to the user, utilizing the plurality of IoT enabled devices. The method further includes intercepting delivery of the notification to non-active devices of the plurality of IoT enabled devices. The method further includes transmitting the notification to the active device of the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Zachary A. Silverstein, Jacob Ryan Jepperson, Craig M. Trim, Jeremy R. Fox
  • Patent number: 11855774
    Abstract: The invention relates to a communication apparatus comprising a processor part, and a data transfer part. The apparatus is configured to receive, by the data transfer part, a packet comprising a network identification code (NIC) of a communication apparatus that transmitted the packet. A header field of the packet comprises a first part of the NIC and a second part of the NIC is included in another field of the packet. The apparatus is further configured to define, by the processor part, that the received packet is from a network to which the communication apparatus belongs, if the first part of the NIC of the received packet corresponds to the first part of the NIC of said communication apparatus. The invention relates also to method for a communication apparatus, a communication system, a computer program, and a computer readable medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: WIREPAS OY
    Inventor: Juho Pirskanen
  • Patent number: 11849067
    Abstract: One example method for playing a multimedia customized ringing signal and customized alerting tone includes receiving, by an application server, an initial call request from a calling terminal, sending the initial call request to a called terminal, receiving a provisional response in response to the initial call request from the called terminal, determining customized ring signal media resource information based on the provisional response, sending a first media session update message that carries the customized ring signal media resource information to the called terminal; and receiving a first response from the called terminal, where the initial call request includes SDP information of the calling terminal, and the first response includes a result of a customized ringing signal media resource negotiation between the application server and the called terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Zhilei Deng
  • Patent number: 11824941
    Abstract: A Representational State Transfer (REST)-Simple Message Transfer Protocol (SMTP) protocol gateway (RSPG) is disclosed that includes capabilities for accessing and processing REST Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) using SMTP. The RSPG receives a first email message, extracts information from the received first email message and constructs a REST API call based on the extracted information. The RSPG invokes the REST API call against a REST endpoint and receives a response generated from execution of the REST API call. The RSPG generates a second email message based on the response and causes the second email message to be communicated to an intended recipient of the response of the REST API call.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: ORACLE INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION
    Inventor: Bryan James Phillippe
  • Patent number: 11790739
    Abstract: An electronic device, in response to detecting occurrence of a first condition at the device, generates a first alert that corresponds to a respective application in a first class of applications, the first alert including: a first haptic component and a first audio component composed from an audio waveform that is designated for use by the respective application in the first class of applications. In response to detecting occurrence of a second condition at the device, the device generates a second alert that corresponds to a respective application in a second class of applications different from the first class of applications, the second alert including: a second haptic component and a second audio component composed from an audio waveform that is designated for use by applications in the second class of applications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Camille Moussette, Gary I. Butcher, Hugo D. Verweij, Jonathan Ive
  • Patent number: 11790785
    Abstract: A method on an aircraft for producing active voice tags on a flight path displayed on a graphical display unit is provided. The method comprises: identifying a specific instruction from a received message from ATC; determining, for the specific instruction a location relative to a planned flight path of the aircraft at which the specific instruction should be provided to flight crew; generating, for the specific instruction, a voice message configured to recite the specific instruction; associating with the voice message an actuatable graphical element that is actuatable to cause the voice message to be provided to flight crew; rendering the actuatable graphical element at or near the determined location on a depiction of the planned flight path that is displayed on the graphical display unit; and providing the voice message associated with the actuatable graphical element as an aural message responsive to actuation of the actuatable graphical element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INC.
    Inventor: Raghu Shamasundar
  • Patent number: 11758833
    Abstract: A work vehicle is presented with which it is possible to prevent an operator from being mislead in cases where the positioning status frequently changes. This work vehicle is provided with: a positioning unit that receives a positioning signal from a satellite positioning system, and measures the work vehicle position on the basis of the positioning signal; a control unit that determines the positioning accuracy on the basis of the positioning status of the positioning unit, and permits autonomous travel when the positioning accuracy is at least a prescribed accuracy; and a notification unit that executes, in accordance with a control performed by the control unit, a first notification indicating that the positioning accuracy is a first accuracy that is at least a prescribed accuracy and a second notification indicating that the positioning accuracy is a second accuracy that is at least a prescribed accuracy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: Yanmar Power Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ryohei Ueda, Tomoyuki Kuroda, Shinsuke Ozaki, Kenichi Miyai, Kenta Onishi
  • Patent number: 11750880
    Abstract: A mobile device includes a processor and a memory. The memory stores instructions executable by the processor such that the processor is programmed to identify, based on user data a reference time. The processor is further programmed to send, via a human-machine interface included in the mobile device, a message to a user to input a user request to download a media content item prior to the reference time. The processor is further programmed to receive the user request to download the media content item and download the media content item from a media device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: DISH Network L.L.C.
    Inventor: Sanjiv Topiwalla
  • Patent number: 11722731
    Abstract: While an assistant-enabled device is playing back media content, a method includes receiving a contextual signal from an environment of the assistant-enabled device and executing an event recognition routine to determine whether the received contextual signal is indicative of an event that conflicts with the playback of the media content from the assistant-enabled device. When the event recognition routine determines that the received contextual signal is indicative of the event that conflicts with the playback of the media content, the method also includes adjusting content playback settings of the assistant-enabled device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Victor Carbune, Matthew Sharifi
  • Patent number: 11715444
    Abstract: Disclosed in some examples are display systems, methods, devices, and machine-readable mediums which provide for a gesture-based method for specifying a region of a display in which to show shared content. Also disclosed are pairing methods for associating the region of the display with a content source device, methods for sharing content within the region, and methods for providing input from the region back to the content source device. Also disclosed in some examples are display systems, methods, devices, and machine-readable mediums which provide for notification handling for user interfaces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Amer Aref Hassan, Wei-Chen Chen
  • Patent number: 11706524
    Abstract: An intermediary terminal for mediating a communication between a data generation device that generates target data, and a server that controls service content usable with the data generation device, includes circuitry configured to acquire, from the data generation device, device identification information identifying the data generation device; transmit the acquired device identification information to the server via a communication network; receive, from the server, service content information indicating a service content associated with the device identification information; and execute processing on the target data input from the data generation device in accordance with the service content indicated by the service content information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventor: Mitsuo Ando
  • Patent number: 11689854
    Abstract: A method includes receiving sound by a first audio unit installed in an electrical outlet, routing audio data corresponding to the received sound from the first audio unit to a second audio unit installed in a second electrical outlet, and sending the audio data to a mobile device using a wireless link between the mobile device and the second audio unit. Routing the audio data may include receiving the audio data from the first audio unit by a third audio unit and routing the audio data to the second audio unit by the third audio unit serving as a router. The data may be routed using table driven routing, on-demand routing or some other appropriate routing protocol. The method may also include performing voice recognition on the audio data and detecting a command word and routing command word data to the second audio unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: GOOGLE TECHNOLOGY HOLDINGS LLC
    Inventors: Michael J. Lombardi, Mitul R. Patel, Amber M. Pierce
  • Patent number: 11671800
    Abstract: A system information transmission method and device. The system information transmission method comprises: generating, by a first communication node, first system information indicative of indication information corresponding to second system information, wherein the second system information is used to assist a second communication node to access a system; transmitting to the second communication node the first system information; receiving, by the second communication node, the first system information transmitted from the first communication node; receiving, according to the indication information in the first system information, the second system information; and accessing, according to the second system information, the system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: ZTE Corporation
    Inventors: Zhaohua Lu, Kun Liu, Guanghui Yu, Yijian Chen, Feng Xie
  • Patent number: 11652902
    Abstract: Mobile devices often receive mobile notifications via a wireless communication network. The mobile notifications may relate to apps operating on the mobile devices. Techniques described herein allow users to manage such mobile notifications by defining, at a mobile device, preferences for managing mobile notifications related to apps operating on the mobile device. The mobile device receives, via a wireless communication network, the mobile notifications. Based at least in part on the preferences, the mobile notifications received at the mobile device are managed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: T-Mobile USA, Inc.
    Inventor: Kalyan C. Yalamanchili
  • Patent number: 11653177
    Abstract: One or more patterns associated with a mobile device are determined. The one or more patterns are determined at least in part by identifying within a set of time information and location information associated with the mobile device a subset comprising successive locations and times associated with a temporary pattern, converting the temporary pattern to be a pattern of the one or more patterns, adding the pattern to a list of detected patterns, generating a reduced set of time information and location information at least in part by removing from the set of time information and location information the subset comprising the successive locations and times, analyzing the reduced set of time information and location information to determine one or more additional patterns. The mobile device can be configured to exhibit a mobile device behavior associated with the determined one or more patterns.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: Rowles Holdings, LLC
    Inventor: Noah Tilman Rowles
  • Patent number: 11622355
    Abstract: A method includes instructing, by a WiFi access node, a first device to communicate using an uplink frequency band with a first uplink power. The method also includes instructing, by the WiFi access node, a second device to communicate using the uplink frequency band with a second uplink power different from the first uplink power.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Ardalan Alizadeh, Gautam D. Bhanage, Khashayar Mirfakhraei, Matthew A. Silverman, Sivadeep R. Kalavakuru
  • Patent number: 11610460
    Abstract: An apparatus is provided comprising: a determination unit configured to determine a possibility of an abnormality of a subject based on images captured by a surveillance camera with an audio output function; an instruction unit configured to instruct the surveillance camera to produce audio toward the subject in response to the determination of the possibility of an abnormality; an acquisition unit configured to acquire a reaction of the subject to the audio from the surveillance camera; and a detection unit configured to detect whether the subject has an abnormality or not based on the reaction of the subject to the audio.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignee: Yokogawa Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Osamu Kojima, Atsushi Wada
  • Patent number: 11606457
    Abstract: Various embodiments of the present invention relate to a method for controlling a network access right for an application in an electronic device, and an electronic device for operating same. A control method for an electronic device comprises the steps of: receiving an input of a command for switching a mode of an electronic device to a blocking mode; and when a command for switching to the blocking mode is input, blocking a network access right of at least one application which has been preselected by a user from among a plurality of applications in the electronic device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Jisoon Park
  • Patent number: 11605007
    Abstract: One embodiment provides an apparatus. The apparatus includes a wearable device. The wearable device includes a knowledge base, a user interface and automatic response logic. The knowledge base includes at least one data structure. Each data structure includes a plurality of ranked possible user responses. The automatic response logic is to select one data structure of the at least one data structure in response to a received communication. The selecting is based, at least in part, on an event type and based, at least in part, on a contact identifier. The communication is received from a communication partner device via a companion device. The automatic response logic is further to provide at least one ranked possible user response from the selected data structure to a user via the user interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Sunil Tiptur Nataraj, Fai Yeung
  • Patent number: 11601914
    Abstract: A method may include receiving an indication that an electronic alert is to be transmitted to a user; obtaining contextual information associated with the user; determining a first time for presenting the electronic alert to the user based in part on the contextual information; transmitting the electronic alert to a computing device associated with the user at the first time; storing the electronic alert in a message feed data structure; receiving a request to view the electronic alert at a second time, the second time occurring after the first time; in response to the request, retrieving the electronic alert from the message feed data structure; and transmitting the electronic alert at the second time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.
    Inventors: Gene C. Baker, Jr., John A. Craft, Sai Ganesh, John Phillip Marquiss, Sr., Thomas A. Obreiter, John Lee Thompson, Reynaldo B. Timonera, Kenneth Bryan von Hagel, Jingjiu Wang, David W. Loomis, Irina Seabolt, Umamaheswari Veeraswami
  • Patent number: 11586416
    Abstract: Embodiments are provided for communicating notifications and other textual data associated with applications installed on an electronic device. According to certain aspects, a user can interface with an input device to send (218) a wake up trigger to the electronic device. The electronic device retrieves (222) application notifications and converts (288) the application notifications to audio data. The electronic device also sends (230) the audio data to an audio output device for annunciation (232). The user may also use the input device to send (242) a request to the electronic device to activate the display screen. The electronic device identifies (248) an application corresponding to an annunciated notification, and activates (254) the display screen and initiates the application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Long Peng, Hui Dai, Xin Guan
  • Patent number: 11589190
    Abstract: A mobile communication device including a wireless transceiver and a controller is provided. The wireless transceiver performs wireless transmission and reception to and from a mobile communication network. The controller receives a Protocol Data Unit (PDU) associated with a Multimedia Broadcast Multicast Service (MBMS) from the mobile communication network via the wireless transceiver, and converts the PDU to a format which allows a dialer application to play the MBMS in response to the MBMS belonging to an emergency service type.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: WISTRON CORP.
    Inventors: Cheng-Ying Hsieh, Yu-Ming Tseng
  • Patent number: 11582352
    Abstract: A system and method in an intelligent network are provided for analyzing an event external to the intelligent network. A set of intelligent network subscribers is selected in a selected geographic area. Next, signal message data is obtained from a signaling network in the intelligent network, wherein the signal message data indicates status of subscribers in the set of intelligent network subscribers. External data related to the selected geographic area is obtained, wherein the external data is external to the intelligent network. The signal message data and the external data are then fused to produce synthetic data. In response to the synthetic data, an alert of an external event is produced. The alert can be graphically represented on a display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Inventor: Leo Anthony Wrobel, Jr.
  • Patent number: 11575723
    Abstract: A system receives smart speaker skill/application generation information generates a first smart speaker skill or application using the smart speaker skill/application generation information, receives at least one scheduled post to schedule at least one briefing at a scheduled time to be broadcast to a first plurality of smart speaker devices having the first smart speaker skill or application, receives tracking and analytics information from each smart speaker in the first plurality of smart speaker devices having the first smart speaker skill or application, and determines an audience for the at least one briefing comprising the first plurality of smart speaker devices having the first smart speaker skill or application and a second plurality of smart speaker devices having a second smart speaker skill or application different from the first smart speaker skill or application based on the tracking and analytics information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Assignee: Woofy, Inc.
    Inventor: Arjun Rai
  • Patent number: 11563706
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a media content for delivery to a first user, wherein the media content is associated with a priority level, accessing context information associated with the first user, wherein the context information is determined based on one or more multimodal signals from a client device associated with the first user, determining a delivery level for the media content based on the priority level of the media content and the context information, and instructing the client device to present a notification associated with the media content to the first user, wherein the notification is rendered in one or more modalities determined based on the delivery level for the media content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignee: Meta Platforms, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Greenberg, Christopher E. Balmes, Leif Haven Martinson, Francislav P. Penov, Swati Goel, Yiming Pu
  • Patent number: 11554921
    Abstract: A method for operating a transport device in a laboratory sample distribution system, comprising: providing a transport device in a laboratory sample distribution system, the transport device having an arrangement of transport modules, wherein each transport module is provided with a transport surface; a drive device configured to move sample vessel carriers on the transport surface; a module control device configured to control operation of the drive device; and a module network interface connected to the module control device and configured for data communication in a control network; a transport plane; and a controller device connected to the control network through a controller network interface; and assigning a network address to each of the transport modules in the control network; for each transport module, in the module control device storing its own network address and the network address of neighboring transport modules located adjacent to the transport module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: Roche Diagnostics Operations, Inc.
    Inventor: Pankaj Tanotra
  • Patent number: 11558713
    Abstract: This disclosure is directed to generating one or more presence-event notifications at one or more user devices associated with a user, and transmitting those presence-event notifications to one or more presence server(s). At the presence server(s) a stream of presence-event notifications may be filtered according to any number of predefined criteria, and then the presence-event notifications that have filtered through may be applied to presence plug-ins to generate presence information associated with user(s) for whom presence-event notifications were received. The presence-event notifications may be provided as a stream of presence information to one or more consumers of presence information and/or stored in a presence datastore. A consumer of presence information, such as a service provider, may request presence information associated with one or more users.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Eric Meissner, Alexander Say Go, Chinmay Milind Dani, Samuel Scott Gigliotti, Benjamin Markwardt, Tejas Patel
  • Patent number: 11553050
    Abstract: An event notification method, an apparatus, a server device, and a computer storage medium are disclosed. An event notification method includes receiving an event subscription request from a subscriber, the event subscription request including one or more notified parties; dividing the one or more notified parties into one or more groups, each group of the one or more groups including one or more notified parties; and sending an event notification to notified parties in at least one group of the one or more groups.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignees: BEIJING BOE TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Junjie Zhao, Jing Su, Qian Zhang
  • Patent number: 11527251
    Abstract: Systems, apparatuses, and methods for capturing voice messages are provided. In one embodiment, a method can include receiving, by one or more processors of a mobile user device, a user input indicative of a voice message at a first time. The method can further include identifying contextual data indicative of one or more computing devices within proximity of the mobile user device. The method can include providing a set of data for storage in one or more memory devices of the mobile user device. The set of data can indicate the voice message and the contextual data indicative of the computing devices. The method can further include providing an output indicative of the voice message and the contextual data to one or more secure computing devices at a second time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Jonathan Brandt Moeller, Jeremy Drew Payne
  • Patent number: 11503363
    Abstract: A server may communicatively couple to a user device and an instructor device. The server may receive location information from the user device. The location information may define visual content captured by the user device. The server may transmit the location information to the instructor device. The instructor device may present the visual content based on the received location information and receive input defining an instruction from an instructor. The server may receive instruction information defining the instruction from the instructor device. The server may transmit the instruction information to the user device. The user device may present the instruction overlaid on top of the visual content based on the received instruction information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: TITAN HEALTH & SECURITY TECHNOLOGIES. INC.
    Inventors: Vic A. Merjanian, Eduardo Juarez, Ryan Khalili, Daniel Wallengren, Serene Nasser, Ed Merjanian
  • Patent number: 11481458
    Abstract: An information processing system includes an acquirer that acquires, from a user, information related to invitation of persons who share a specific purpose, a receiver that receives a response for acceptance of the invitation, and an outputter that outputs information on a candidate place to be used by the user and an accepter who accepts the invitation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Kana Miyazaki, Kimiko Sakurai, Kengo Tokuchi
  • Patent number: 11409489
    Abstract: The present technology provides a system that enables a user to communicate with one of multiple devices in a network based on context information from another device in the network. The system includes a context manager configured to (1) receive context information from the multiple devices; (2) identify a subject-of-interest based on a user input; (3) determine a set of relevant context information based on the subject-of-interest and the received context information; and (4) transmitting the set of relevant context information to a target device to perform a task associated with the subject-of-interest. The context information managed by the present technology enables a user to conveniently interact with the multiple devices in the network without requiring the user to provide details of his/her instructions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: UNITED SERVICES AUTOMOBILE ASSOCIATION (USAA)
    Inventors: Adrian Borunda, Brandon Scott Kotara, Richard Tanner, Ben Hawkins, Quincy Nanaasare Obeng, Cale Riley Spratt
  • Patent number: 11403594
    Abstract: A system for utilizing a remote server to transmit a message includes a user device including a controller, a memory coupled to the controller, and a database in communication with the remote server. The user device is in communication with the remote server. The controller is configured to generate a message based on data from the database, receive input from the user to send the message and a data file to a receiver, provide, through a user interface, a first option and a second option for sending the message and the data file to the receiver, and receive a selection from the user between the first option and the second option. If the user selects the first option, send the message and a data file using an email service provider. If the user selects the second option, send the message to the server through a network connection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: Nooreq Inc.
    Inventor: Andrzej Morydz
  • Patent number: 11356477
    Abstract: Disclosed are systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media for verifying an incoming communication. A recipient client device receives an incoming communication including an identifier identifying a second client device as having initiated the incoming communication. A verification service installed on the recipient client device queries a call placement service directory based on the first identifier. The call placement service directory maintains a listing of identifiers for client devices and corresponding communication providers that manage the identifiers. The call placement service directory returns information identifying the communication provider that manages the identifier. In turn, the verification service transmitting a request to the communication provider to confirm whether the second client device initiated the incoming communication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: Twilio Inc.
    Inventors: Santiago Kantorowicz, Lucas Martín Vidal, Serge Kruppa
  • Patent number: 11288309
    Abstract: A melody information processing method is described. A piece of Musical Instrument Digital Interface (MIDI) data corresponding to a song is received, a song identifier of the song is obtained, first melody information is generated according to the MIDI data, and the first melody information is stored in association with the song identifier in a melody database. Moreover, a user unaccompanied-singing audio data set that is uploaded from a user terminal is received, second melody information corresponding to the song identifier is extracted according to the user unaccompanied-singing audio data set, and the second melody information is stored in association with the song identifier in the melody database.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Bilei Zhu, Fangmai Zheng, Xingming Jin, Ke Li, Yongjian Wu, Feiyue Huang
  • Patent number: 11265686
    Abstract: A device may receive, from an application function device (AF), a message intended for a destination user device, wherein the message conforms to a first format. The device may obtain, from a unified data management device (UDM), information indicating that the destination user device is capable of receiving messages that conform to a second format. The device may convert, based on the information indicating that the destination user device is capable of receiving messages that conform to the second format, the message from the first format to the second format. The device may send, after converting the message from the first format to the second format, the message to a short message service function device (SMSF) via a direct connection between the device and the SMSF, wherein the SMSF sends the message to the destination user device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Ye Huang, Miguel A. Carames, Kalyani Bogineni, Timothy M. Dwight, Kevin Lim, Sudhakar Reddy Patil
  • Patent number: 11257037
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer-storage media are provided for generating graphical representations of audit events. A party-of-interest is represented by a central node, and one or more peripheral nodes surrounding the central node represent parties having electronic records accessed by the party-of-interest during a selected time frame. The size of the peripheral nodes represents a frequency of access of the node's respective electronic record. Each of the peripheral nodes is actionable enabling a user to view information related to the audit event.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: Cerner Innovation, Inc.
    Inventor: David Lee Edwards
  • Patent number: 11252633
    Abstract: Methods and systems and mobile device interfaces for creating, joining, organizing and managing via mobile devices affinity groups in a cloud computing environment for social and business purposes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Inventor: Gerald Douglas Hosier, Jr.
  • Patent number: 11233759
    Abstract: Users of personalized messaging systems can encounter message fatigue, thereby reducing the efficacy of a message on its intended recipient. Message fatigue can result in wasted computational resources and bandwidth as messages transmitted over a network to the user's client device are not acted upon at the client device. For applications involving desired user interactions and responses, personalized messaging can be a tool to achieve user engagement targets. The systems and methods presented herein may address several of the technical challenges with personalized messaging.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: Click Therapeutics, Inc.
    Inventors: Adam Gao, Michael Brandon Ng, Christopher Mark Jordan, Victor Gao, Adam Berger
  • Patent number: 11226724
    Abstract: This application relates to performing organizational tasks using a variety of physical operations in a message application. The physical operations can include swiping actions performed by the user of the message application. By performing certain types of swipes on a user interface of the message application, the user can more readily organize messages stored by the message application. The types of swipes can include full swipes, which can execute one or more functions on a message, and partial swipes, which can open up a menu that includes multiple buttons for executing various operations on the message being swiped. Additionally, the direction of the swipe can also determine the functions and operations to be performed on the message being swiped.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2022
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Mohammed N. Jisrawi, Cristobal Baray, Stephen O. Lemay, Tiffany S. Jon, Chanaka G. Karunamuni, Lawrence Y. Yang
  • Patent number: 11227457
    Abstract: An example operation may include one or more of receiving a request to open a storage system, the request comprising an identification of a user that submitted the request, transmitting a notification to one or more stakeholder devices of the storage system indicating the user requests access to the storage system, receiving responses from the one or more stakeholder devices, determining, via a smart contract executing on a blockchain node associated with the storage system, whether to open the storage system based on the received responses and consensus information included in the smart contract, and storing the determination made by the smart contract as a transaction in a blockchain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2022
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventor: Neelakant R. Patel
  • Patent number: 11190368
    Abstract: Updates to data associated with a communication channel of which a user is not a current member are described herein. In an example, server(s) associated with a group-based communication platform can cause at least one communication channel to be presented via a user interface output via a display of a user computing device operable by a user. The user may not be a current member of the communication channel. The server(s) can receive a request to preview the communication channel and, based at least in part on receiving the request, can cause a preview of the communication channel to be presented via the user interface. The preview can present data associated with the communication channel via the user interface. The server(s) can send, to the user computing device, updated data associated with the communication channel while the preview is being presented via the user interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: Slack Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Lynsey Haynes, Serguei Mourachov, James Scheinblum, Vahakn Papazian, Christopher David Montrois
  • Patent number: 11184317
    Abstract: Functionality is disclosed for providing status updates for email threads. A personal information management (PIM) server application receive a first message and a second message. The PIM server application can extract a first status value from the first message and a second status value from the second message, and can generate a status notification message that includes one or both of the first status value or the second status value. The PIM server application can also receive a third message subsequent to the first and second messages, and extract a third status value from the third message. Subsequently, the status notification message can be updated by replacing the first status value or the second status value with the third status value in the status notification message. In this manner, the status notification message can provide a consolidated view of the latest status of multiple email threads.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Ivo van Doorn, Matthijs Frans Wessels, Enrico Huijbers, Steven Alexander Hardy, Robert Vos, Markus Petrus Giuseppe Sartor
  • Patent number: 11178251
    Abstract: Managing organization disconnections from a shared resource of a communication platform is described. In a sharing approval repository of a communication platform, a shared resource can be associated with a host organization identifier and a non-host organization identifier. In an example, in response to receiving, from a user computing device associated with the host organization identifier or the non-host organization identifier, a resource disconnection request comprising a disconnecting organization identifier and a resource identifier associated with the shared resource, the sharing approval repository can be updated to add a disconnection indication for the resource identifier in association with the disconnecting organization identifier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: Slack Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher Sullivan, Myles Grant, Michael Demmer, Shanan Delp, Sri Vasamsetti