Position Based Personal Service Patents (Class 455/456.3)
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Patent number: 10755314Abstract: The various embodiments herein disclose an intelligent system and method for user behavior, communication, connection and engagement management. The intelligent system is a digital platform for connecting and engaging users, their product or service brands or vendors and related stakeholders that enable all the participants to connect, communicate and engage with each other. Further, the platform provides a means to establish two way relationships between the users and brands or vendors.Type: GrantFiled: December 11, 2014Date of Patent: August 25, 2020Inventor: Pradeep Bhargava
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Patent number: 10750315Abstract: A method for using location-based services for service management is discussed. The method includes receiving, at a server, a user request from a user device at a geographical location. The method includes accessing a store search to determine a store reference based on the user request and a user location corresponding to the geographical location, the store reference indicating tenant(s) accessible to the user via a user interface (UI) of the user device. The method includes accessing location data for the user device based on the store reference and a user account associated with the user, the location data indicating a service accessible via the UI and associated with a certain tenant. The method includes providing, to the user device and based on the location data, an user experience for accessing the service via the UI.Type: GrantFiled: May 20, 2019Date of Patent: August 18, 2020Assignee: PAYPAL, INC.Inventors: Prashant Jamkhedkar, Anant Ganapathy, Jie Leng, Biju Balakrishnan Nair, Haoyu Xue, Justin Warmkessel
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Patent number: 10748119Abstract: Social network search techniques are described. In an implementation, one or more search criteria are stored that are usable to search for users of a social network service. Responsive to a new user joining the social network service, a search of data associated with the new user is performed using the stored one or more search criteria to determine whether the one or more search criteria are met by the new user.Type: GrantFiled: February 1, 2010Date of Patent: August 18, 2020Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLCInventor: Paul A. Elliott
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Patent number: 10749701Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatuses are described here that identify meeting content. A meeting content determiner in a shared computing device identifies a group including two or more participants in a meeting, where at least one participant of the group is logged into an account associated with a meeting content determiner. Further, the meeting content determiner identifies content associated with the two or more participants, and accessible by the at least one participant logged into the account and displays indications of the identified content to one or more participants of the group.Type: GrantFiled: September 22, 2017Date of Patent: August 18, 2020Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Paul C. Barr, Isaiah Ng, Alyssa A. Dunn, Kiran Kumar, Michael C. Hilsdale, Gordon George Free
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Patent number: 10743143Abstract: In a general aspect, a method is presented for determining a motion zone for a location of motion detected by wireless signals. In some aspects, the method includes obtaining a time series of statistical parameters derived from sets of channel response data. The method also includes identifying time intervals in the time series of statistical parameters, each time interval associated with a respective motion zone in the space. The method additionally includes determining, by analyzing multiple time windows within each of the time intervals, ranges of motion-zone parameters associated with each respective motion zone. The method further includes storing, in a database of a motion detection system, the ranges of motion-zone parameters for the respective motion zones. The ranges of motion-zone parameters are used to identify one of the motion zones based on a motion event detected by the motion detection system.Type: GrantFiled: May 15, 2019Date of Patent: August 11, 2020Assignee: Cognitive Systems Corp.Inventors: Stephen Arnold Devison, Mohammad Omer
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Patent number: 10735984Abstract: Systems and methods for identifying user density from network data are included herein. Embodiments include a communication tower that allocates communication bandwidth to devices in an area within range of the communication tower. The communication tower can calculate the user density in the area based on the allocation of bandwidth. Further, the types of data and messages exchanged with the devices can indicate the type of device, which can be used to group the devices based on type that are likely associated with a single user. For example, a single user may have a mobile phone, a tablet, and a smartwatch. Additionally, speed of devices can indicate which users are pedestrians. This information can be included in user density information and provided to devices or users to improve public safety, device response to high traffic areas, and so forth.Type: GrantFiled: April 25, 2018Date of Patent: August 4, 2020Assignee: DISH Network L.L.C.Inventor: Kate Megan Carney Landow
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Patent number: 10733679Abstract: An aloneness estimation device estimating whether a user acts alone includes an operation state information acquisition unit configured to acquire operation state information indicating the user's operation state of a terminal per position, a criteria setting unit configured to set criteria for use in estimation in accordance with a position related to the acquired operation state information, an estimation unit configured to estimate whether the user acts alone from the operation state information acquired by the operation state information acquisition unit based on the set criteria, and an output unit configured to output information in accordance with estimation.Type: GrantFiled: April 20, 2018Date of Patent: August 4, 2020Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.Inventors: Naoki Yamamoto, Keiichi Ochiai, Akiya Inagaki
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Patent number: 10735988Abstract: Provided is an extra-vehicular communication device, installed on a vehicle, including: a reception unit configured to receive data from an external device located outside the vehicle; a position acquisition unit configured to create, based on the data received by the reception unit, transmission source position information indicating a position of a transmission source of the data; a correspondence information acquisition unit configured to acquire correspondence information that indicates a correspondence relationship between peripheral position information indicating a position of a peripheral area around the vehicle, and a priority level; a setting unit configured to set a priority level for the data, on the basis of the transmission source position information created by the position acquisition unit and the correspondence information acquired by the correspondence information acquisition unit; and a processing unit configured to process the data in accordance with the priority level set by the setting uType: GrantFiled: February 15, 2018Date of Patent: August 4, 2020Assignee: Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.Inventor: Yoshihisa Nagamura
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Patent number: 10724869Abstract: Technologies for providing information to a user while traveling include a mobile computing device to determine network condition information associated with a route segment. The route segment may be one of a number of route segments defining at least one route from a starting location to a destination. The mobile computing device may determine a route from the starting location to the destination based on the network condition information. The mobile computing device may upload the network condition information to a crowdsourcing server. A mobile computing device may predict a future location of the device based on device context, determine a safety level for the predicted location, and notify the user if the safety level is below a threshold safety level. The device context may include location, time of day, and other data. The safety level may be determined based on predefined crime data.Type: GrantFiled: October 22, 2018Date of Patent: July 28, 2020Assignee: Intel CorporationInventors: Ren Wang, Zhonghong Ou, Arvind Kumar, Kristoffer Fleming, Tsung-Yuan C. Tai, Timothy J. Gresham, John C. Weast, Corey Kukis
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Patent number: 10728244Abstract: A security system comprises an access control node broadcasting a beacon including a time stamp and user devices generating replies to the beacon that are based on credential information for the user of the user device and the time stamp. The system relies on the users' wireless-capable mobile computing devices such as smartphones, tablets, or wireless fobs. A credential management system proves a system for the authentication of users and then issues security tokens as credential information to the users' mobile computing devices. These tokens are presented wirelessly by the devices to the security system's access control nodes, for example, where the access control nodes then decide whether to grant or deny access.Type: GrantFiled: February 17, 2016Date of Patent: July 28, 2020Assignee: Sensormatic Electronics, LLCInventors: James Trani, Walter A. Martin
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Patent number: 10725630Abstract: Apparatuses, systems, methods, and program products are disclosed for selecting a target application based on content. A content module receives a content element. A characteristic module determines one or more characteristics of the content element. A selection module selects an application to receive the content element based on the one or more characteristics of the content element.Type: GrantFiled: January 4, 2016Date of Patent: July 28, 2020Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) PTE LTDInventors: Russell Speight VanBlon, Robert James Kapinos, Scott Wentao Li, Joaquin F. Luna
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Patent number: 10724867Abstract: The present disclosure relates to system that includes a processor of a computing device. The processor is configured to determine an absolute position of the computing device within a building based on communications from navigation devices. The processor is configured to identify at least one of the building features located within a threshold distance of the absolute position of the computing device based on a query of a database associated with one or more building features of the building. Additionally, the processor is configured to generate an alert configured to cause the computing device to display information associated with the at least one of the building features or output an audible signal including the information associated with the at least one of the building features.Type: GrantFiled: August 7, 2018Date of Patent: July 28, 2020Assignee: United Services Automobile Association (USAA)Inventors: Christopher James Waful, Rachael Ann Humphreys, Xin Wang, Mateusz Peter Dyl, Matthew Blair, Andre Rene Buentello, Paul Garcia
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Patent number: 10721703Abstract: The present disclosure describes various techniques for enabling a Base Station System (BSS) to provide a Serving GPRS Support Node (SGSN) with an indication, e.g., in the form of a flag or a timer, within a BSS General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) Protocol (BSSGP) POSITION-COMMAND Protocol Data Unit (PDU) that a target wireless device is to perform a Multilateration Timing Advance (MTA) procedure. The SGSN upon receipt of the BSSGP POSITION-COMMAND PDU with the indication, e.g., in the form of a flag or a timer, can start a timer during which the SGSN will suspend downlink data delivery and paging to the target wireless device while the target wireless device is performing the MTA procedure.Type: GrantFiled: February 1, 2018Date of Patent: July 21, 2020Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)Inventors: Nicklas Johansson, John Walter Diachina
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Patent number: 10718871Abstract: A mobile terminal control method includes receiving N direction-finding signals that are respectively sent by a multiple-antenna node at N moments, where the multiple-antenna node is located in an indoor-outdoor critical area. The method includes obtaining N pieces of location relationship information between a mobile terminal and the multiple-antenna node at the N moments according to the N direction-finding signals, where the N moments and the N pieces of location relationship information are in a one-to-one correspondence. The method includes determining location relationship change information between the mobile terminal and the multiple-antenna node according to at least M of the N pieces of location relationship information, where 2?M?N. The method includes controlling the mobile terminal by matching the location relationship change information and according to the location relationship change information.Type: GrantFiled: May 26, 2015Date of Patent: July 21, 2020Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.Inventor: Henghui Lu
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Patent number: 10713386Abstract: A method and system which shows a user contacts that are nearby but protects those contacts' privacy by mixing indistinguishably into the list contacts that are not nearby thus creating an obfuscated list such that user is unable to identify which contacts are nearby and which are not nearby. The user selects contacts the user would want to see if they were nearby. If the user selects a contact who is actually nearby, the system then protects the user's privacy by presenting another obfuscated list to the selected contact. The system discloses proximity only after two users have each mutually selected each other. The system may more broadly be used by showing the user contacts that have any form of matching personal data while still protecting all users' privacy with obfuscated lists until two users have each mutually selected each other.Type: GrantFiled: August 5, 2019Date of Patent: July 14, 2020Assignee: Arrive Group, Inc.Inventor: Christian Bailey
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Patent number: 10708732Abstract: The present disclosure is directed systems, methods, and apparatus for light enabled indoor positioning and reporting. In some embodiments, a device of the present disclosure includes a housing that includes a processor and a wireless radio. The device includes a clip that secures the housing adjacent to and a predetermined distance from a portion of a light tube that produces light. The device includes a solar cell that is configured to be exposed to the light from the light tube upon the housing being securely attached via the one or more clips adjacent to the portion of the light tube. The device includes a circuit by which power is converted from the solar cell to the processor and the wireless radio via at least one switch. The wireless radio can broadcast a beacon provided by the processor.Type: GrantFiled: October 1, 2017Date of Patent: July 7, 2020Assignee: Beco, Inc.Inventor: Thomas Lawrence Zampini, II
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Patent number: 10698979Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for determining relationship between users. The systems and methods may include receiving, from a target user terminal and one or more other user terminals, one or more physical addresses associated with one or more wireless signal sources. The system may determine one or more relationships between a target user associated with the target user terminal and one or more other users associated with the one or more other user terminals based on the received one or more physical addresses. The one or more wireless signal sources are within search ranges of the target user terminal and the one or more other user terminals.Type: GrantFiled: September 1, 2015Date of Patent: June 30, 2020Assignee: ALIBABA GROUP HOLDING LIMITEDInventor: Lei Pang
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Patent number: 10701219Abstract: A portable terminal performs a printer search using Bluetooth®. In a case where communication different from Bluetooth® communication can be performed between the portable terminal and a particular printer, he portable terminal displays those printing apparatuses found by the search that are able to communicate via a different communication. Those printing apparatuses found by the search that just communicate via Bluetooth® are not displayed.Type: GrantFiled: January 17, 2018Date of Patent: June 30, 2020Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Mayumi Shibao
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Patent number: 10698650Abstract: Example techniques may involve temporary configuration of a media playback system in a place of accommodation, such as a hotel. In particular, the media playback system in a guest's room is configured with one or more settings of the guest's home media playback system. Example settings include user accounts of a various services, such as streaming audio services and/or voice assistant services. Other example settings include artists, albums, audio tracks, audio books, stations, and other audio content that the guest previously designated as a favorite using their home media playback system. When the guest leaves (e.g., checks-out of) of the place of accommodation, these settings are removed from the media playback system in the guest's room.Type: GrantFiled: April 6, 2018Date of Patent: June 30, 2020Assignee: Sonos, Inc.Inventor: Paul Andrew Bates
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Patent number: 10701045Abstract: Method and apparatus for monitoring the status and location of personnel using a remote timer. In some embodiments, a method includes execution of a subject application (app) on a network accessible device. A countdown timer of a remote server is initiated to monitor a time interval, the remote server communicating with the network accessible device over a network. Geo positions of the network accessible device are monitored during the monitored time interval. The remote server sends a notification to a monitoring device responsive to at least one of the following events: the monitored time interval ends without the remote server receiving an authorized personal identification (PID) value; or the remote server receives an unauthorized PID value prior to the conclusion of the monitored time interval. In further embodiments, a notification is sent based on an out-of-bounds geo position of the network accessible device during the time interval.Type: GrantFiled: July 30, 2019Date of Patent: June 30, 2020Assignee: Real Agent Guard-IP, LLCInventors: Justyn P. Hornor, Timothy S. Brasuell
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Patent number: 10698966Abstract: Aspects of the present invention disclose a method, computer program product, and system for prioritizing search engine results based on a current location of a user. The method includes one or more processors determining that a user enters a zone within a venue based on monitoring a computing device of the user moving through the venue. The method further includes one or more processors performing a search, while the user is within the zone, based on a search query input by the user into the computing device of the user while the computing device is within the zone. The method further includes one or more processors prioritizing results of the search to create a set of results that are based on the search query input by the user and the zone within the venue.Type: GrantFiled: May 18, 2017Date of Patent: June 30, 2020Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Lisa Seacat DeLuca, Steve McDuff
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Patent number: 10694323Abstract: A social media application that integrates with a map application which enables users to interact with both stationary and mobile geo-fences that are placed around locations or objects of interest. The geo-fences are populated with content or programmed to provide notifications, and social features. The social features include, among other things, categorization, peer review, interest suggestion, threshold alerts, private and public messaging, private and public content dissemination, and cloud repository.Type: GrantFiled: June 1, 2018Date of Patent: June 23, 2020Assignee: Hippware, Inc.Inventors: Steve Curry, Beng Leong Tan
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Patent number: 10694315Abstract: The present invention relates to a technique for allowing registered mobile users of the same or different social networks in the vicinity to use mobile devices of the same or different operation system to identify each other and exchange business information. Each registered mobile user discovers other registered mobile users in the proximity location through their mobile devices. A central server is configured to allow communication between a plurality of registered mobile users with connection through internet and to facilitate business information exchange between different mobile users. The central server manages introduction and connection of a plurality of registered mobile users by positive identification of registered mobile users, and associates unique identification of mobile user devices through Internet and returns identities of other mobile users in the vicinity or in proximity thereto, bringing an image of a human face along with names and business attributes to a device allocation.Type: GrantFiled: August 26, 2016Date of Patent: June 23, 2020Inventor: Raymond Shu Kwok Cheng
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Patent number: 10694321Abstract: A method of determining presence of mobile communication devices at points-of-interest. The method comprises analyzing location data of a mobile communication device by a clustering application executing on a computer system, determining clusters of the location data by the clustering application, determining cluster centroids by the clustering application, determining a plurality of routes traveled by the device by a routing application based on the centroids, analyzing the centroids and the routes by a patterning application, determining a pattern of association between the centroids and the routes by the patterning application, observing a previously determined pattern of centroids by the patterning application, and based on observing the previously determined pattern of centroids, determining a route traveled by the device by the patterning application, whereby an instance of determining the route traveled by the device by the routing application is avoided.Type: GrantFiled: April 9, 2019Date of Patent: June 23, 2020Assignee: Sprint Communications Company L.P.Inventors: Robert H. Burcham, Matthew Habiger, Adam C. Pickett
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Patent number: 10692361Abstract: Internet of thing (IoT) endpoints may be enabled to serve as a limited or wide-area public warning device.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2019Date of Patent: June 23, 2020Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.Inventors: Brian Daly, Peter Bedell White, Jeffrey Stewart
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Patent number: 10672062Abstract: A system or method is provided to monitor a consumer's shopping routes associated with shopping lists. A location and movements of the consumer in a merchant's store may be monitored using a network of Bluetooth beacons installed throughout the merchant's store. When the consumer picks up a product from a store shelve and crosses out an item from a digital shopping list, the system may mark the location where the merchandise is picked up. Thus, a shopping route of the consumer may be detected as the consumer picks ups and crosses out various products listed on the shopping list during the shopping trip in the store. The consumer may share the shopping route with another consumer. The shopping route may be shared in real time, such that another consumer may make suggestions or comments or approve various items picked up by the consumer in real time.Type: GrantFiled: August 25, 2014Date of Patent: June 2, 2020Assignee: PAYPAL, INC.Inventors: Krystal Rose Higgins, John Richard Tapley
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Patent number: 10665094Abstract: A method, a mobile device, and a system for message transmission of a vulnerable road user (VRU) are provided. The method is adapted to a first mobile device of a first VRU and includes the following steps. Whether there exists a target mobile device within a preset range of the first VRU is determined, where the target mobile device is a mobile device that has already broadcast a personal safety message (PSM). When the target mobile device exists within the preset range, whether to broadcast a first PSM is determined according to a relative distance between the target mobile device and an intersection as well as a relative distance between the target mobile device and the first mobile device. When the target mobile device doesn't exist within the preset range, the first PSM is broadcast.Type: GrantFiled: November 29, 2017Date of Patent: May 26, 2020Assignee: Industrial Technology Research InstituteInventors: Yi-Jing Lee, Po-Chun Kang, Tzu-Hsiang Su, Chia-Tai Tsai
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Patent number: 10667095Abstract: An apparatus and a method manage a telephone number in a terminal, which can separately manage telephone numbers, a call to each of which an attempt to originate has been made and to each of which the call has failed to be connected, and then enable a convenient attempt to re-originate a call to the telephone number. The apparatus includes: a memory including a temporary list which stores a non-connecting telephone number, to which a call has been originated and has failed to be connected; and a controller for performing a control operation so as to store a particular telephone number in the temporary list as the non-connecting telephone number, when an attempt to originate a call to the particular telephone number is made and the call fails to be connected to the particular telephone number.Type: GrantFiled: August 23, 2018Date of Patent: May 26, 2020Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kyung-Chun Moon, Dae-Hyun Kim
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Patent number: 10664541Abstract: Methods and apparatus for generating, in response to a search query of a user, a personal search result that identifies a physical location previously interacted with by the user, such as a physical location previously visited by the user. Some implementations are directed to methods and apparatus for determining whether a search query is a personal locational query indicating a desire for information related to one or more physical locations previously interacted with by the user. Some implementations are directed to methods and apparatus for determining search parameters for such a personal locational query. Some implementations are directed to methods and apparatus for searching private content of the user to determine physical locations previously interacted with by the user that are responsive to such a personal locational query.Type: GrantFiled: August 14, 2018Date of Patent: May 26, 2020Assignee: GOOGLE LLCInventors: Zoltan Gyongyi, Albert Segars, Qun Cao, Juthika Dabholkar, Darryl DeWeese, Anandsudhakar Kesari, Yiyuan Xia, Vincent Zammit
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Patent number: 10667234Abstract: A method for data transmission in which data is emitted and/or received by a communication device in a first radio network formed according to a first standard in a first operating mode and data is emitted and/or received in a second radio network formed according to a second standard in a second operating mode. The communication device detects whether it is inside or outside a receiving region of the first radio network. The communication device is operated in the first operating mode if it is inside the receiving region of the first radio network, and the communication device is operated in the second operating mode if it is outside the receiving region of the first radio network. The second standard is an IEEE 802.11p standard and the first standard is a standard of the IEEE 802.11 regulation that is different from the IEEE 802.11p standard. The communication device takes part in an ad-hoc communication in the second operating mode.Type: GrantFiled: May 18, 2017Date of Patent: May 26, 2020Assignee: DAIMLER AGInventor: Jakob Breu
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Patent number: 10663740Abstract: Aspects of the present invention relate to methods and devices for receiving and presenting content. In an example method, content is received, the content to be delivered to a plurality of recipients. Each recipient of the plurality of recipients has a preference for a respective first physical location at which the content is to be presented on a display of a wearable head device associated with the recipient. A sender of the content has a preference for a second physical location at which the content is to be presented to the respective recipient of the plurality of recipients. A respective final physical location for the presentation of the content for the respective recipient of the plurality of recipients is identified. The respective final physical location is based on the respective recipient's preference and the sender's preference. It is determined whether the respective recipient is proximate to a zone associated with the respective final physical location.Type: GrantFiled: October 11, 2018Date of Patent: May 26, 2020Assignee: Mentor Acquisition One, LLCInventors: Ralph F. Osterhout, John D. Haddick, Robert Michael Lohse, John N. Border, Nima L. Shams
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Patent number: 10660059Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure include an efficient method for identifying receiving devices with similar attributes and displaying their respective locations to each other using data packets receiving from transmission associated with beacons. The system can receive unique beacon identifiers from a first receiving device, determine its location, receive a request for a match comprising a set of attributes, query a database and identify a second user associated with a second receiving device based on the received set of attributes, determine a location for the second receiving device, and generate/transmit a graphical user interface to the first receiving device informing the first user about the location of the second user.Type: GrantFiled: February 11, 2019Date of Patent: May 19, 2020Assignee: Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance CompanyInventors: Michal Knas, Jiby John
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Patent number: 10659926Abstract: Systems and techniques for a sensor platform for a geometric physical area are described herein. The sensor platform combines sensors installed in the physical area with transient sensors on people and articles within the area. This collaborative sensor data may then be used to identify interactions between people and articles and react by using these interactions to locate documents based on the person, the article, and the interaction within the geometric physical area.Type: GrantFiled: October 16, 2019Date of Patent: May 19, 2020Assignee: Intel CorporationInventors: David Stanasolovich, Craig Owen, Catherine W. Spence, Eddie Balthasar
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Patent number: 10652311Abstract: Disclosed are systems and methods for improving interactions with and between computers in content searching, generating, hosting and/or providing systems supported by or configured with personal computing devices, servers and/or platforms. The systems interact to identify and retrieve data within or across platforms, which can be used to improve the quality of data used in processing interactions between or among processors in such systems. The disclosed systems and methods automatically determine media content to communicate to a user based on the user's location. The disclosed systems and methods enable novel media content distribution to a user based on 1) the location of the user (i.e., physical location or geo-location), 2) other users' classified relationships to the location; and 3) user generated media content by the classified other users.Type: GrantFiled: November 21, 2018Date of Patent: May 12, 2020Assignee: OATH INC.Inventors: Lyndon Kennedy, Vikas Kumar, Saeideh Bakhshi, David Ayman Shamma
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Patent number: 10652323Abstract: A computer system allows two devices operated by two users from a plurality of trusted users to establish a direct peer to peer limited range wireless connection based on a social network connection between the users. The first client device associated with a first user receives a list of the plurality of trusted users from the computer system. The first client device receives a limited range signal broadcast by a second client device. The first client device determines that the second client device is associated with a second user from the plurality of trusted users based on the list and the limited range signal. Responsive to determining that the second client device is associated with the second user from the plurality of trusted users, the first client device establishes a direct peer to peer wireless connection. The first client device transmits content to the second client device via the peer to peer wireless connection.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2017Date of Patent: May 12, 2020Assignee: Facebook, Inc.Inventors: Gaurav Lochan, William Shun Xiao, Bhavana Vattompadath Radhakrishnan
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Patent number: 10645371Abstract: Various embodiments of the present invention relate generally to systems and methods for analyzing and manipulating images and video. In particular, a multi-view interactive digital media representation can be generated from live images captured from a camera. The live images can include an object. An angular view of the object captured in the live images can be estimated using sensor data from an inertial measurement unit. The multi-view interactive digital media representation can include a plurality of images where each of the plurality of images includes the object from a different camera view. When the plurality of images is output to a display, the object can appear to undergo a 3-D rotation through the determined angular view where the 3-D rotation of the object is generated without a 3-D polygon model of the object.Type: GrantFiled: October 11, 2019Date of Patent: May 5, 2020Assignee: Fyusion, Inc.Inventors: Alexander Jay Bruen Trevor, Chris Beall, Stefan Johannes Josef Holzer, Radu Bogdan Rusu
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Patent number: 10642608Abstract: Visualizing user interfaces specified by source code includes executing, using a development application, source code including a segment of source code specifying a user interface and, responsive to executing the segment of source code, generating, using a processor, a first screenshot including the user interface. The first screenshot is correlated with the segment of source code. The first screenshot is stored in association with the segment of source code.Type: GrantFiled: October 15, 2018Date of Patent: May 5, 2020Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Cristina L. Grant, Patricia Leon, Adriana Valido
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Patent number: 10645655Abstract: Power can be preserved in a tracking device equipped with a GPS receiver and a transceiver by evaluating the proximity of the tracking device to a mobile device and enabling the GPS receiver and transceiver only in the event that the tracking device is out of the range of the mobile device. Once enabled, the location of the tracking device can be determined based on location information received from the GPS receiver. The determined location can be provided to a tracking system associated with the tracking device. The tracking system can then inform an owner of the tracking device of the determined location. Once the tracking device has been found, the GPS receiver and the transceiver can be disabled to save additional power.Type: GrantFiled: December 4, 2018Date of Patent: May 5, 2020Assignee: Tile, Inc.Inventor: Guilherme de Barros Chapiewski
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Patent number: 10638525Abstract: A generator generates a first combination including identification information associating area information indicating an area where data should be received and a timing when the area information should be transmitted, and the area information and that generates a second combination including the identification information in the first combination and data. A transmitter transmits one of the first combination and the second combination generated by the generator. The generator generates the second combination at a further timing subsequent to the timing associated with the identification information in the first combination. The transmitter transmits the first combination at the timing associated with the identification information in the first combination and transmits the second combination at the further timing.Type: GrantFiled: October 25, 2018Date of Patent: April 28, 2020Assignee: JVC KENWOOD CorporationInventor: Hiroyuki Kurashige
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Patent number: 10637983Abstract: An electronic device and user situation-adaptive location-based information service method therewith is provided. The location-based information service method of the present disclosure includes receiving, at the electronic device, an information service request; checking, upon receipt of the information service request, location information; retrieving first information associated with the location information; and determining a situation of a user of the electronic device in association with the location information based on the first information.Type: GrantFiled: January 11, 2018Date of Patent: April 28, 2020Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Sijun Lee, Taekwang Um, Dongju Lee, Gajin Song, Jaeyung Yeo, Dasom Lee
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Patent number: 10629057Abstract: Companion and accessory devices can be wirelessly leashed together in a manner that enables the devices to estimate their proximities to each other. One device can periodically attempt to detect a signal from the other device. For each attempt, the attempting device can store an indication of whether the signal was detected. If a number of times that the signal was undetected exceeds a threshold, then the attempting device can perform specified operations, such as alerting a user that the wireless leash was broken. As another example, one device can detect that a strength of a signal from the other device exceeds a threshold. In response, the detecting device can measure signal strengths more frequently. If the measuring device then detects that the signal strength exceeds another threshold, then the measuring device can cause specified operations to be performed, such as data synchronization between the devices or unlocking a device.Type: GrantFiled: December 13, 2018Date of Patent: April 21, 2020Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventor: Tyler D. Hawkins
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Patent number: 10623519Abstract: A system includes a device that is disposed within an environment and is adapted to communicate over a radio frequency communication link. The system also includes a wireless access point disposed within the environment, including a wireless transceiver in communication with the device over a radio frequency communication link using a plurality of channels, and recording a channel state information data set for the radio frequency communication link. The system also includes a monitoring device including a memory storing a plurality of activity profiles, each of which includes an activity and a channel state information profile corresponding to the activity, and a processor receiving, from the wireless access point, the channel state information data set and determining, based on a comparison of the channel state information data set to the channel state information profile of each of the plurality of activity profiles, the activity of the person in the environment.Type: GrantFiled: October 15, 2018Date of Patent: April 14, 2020Assignees: The Trustees of the Stevens Institute of Technology, Rutgers, The State University of New JerseyInventors: Yingying Chen, Jie Yang, Yan Wang, Jian Liu, Marco Gruteser
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Patent number: 10621798Abstract: Mobile device installed in a vehicle for communicating a current location and a current destination, to a coordination server, receives a set of tasks (statically assigned or dynamically assigned) for the user/driver, with automatic collaboration initiated with a second driver for task completion, and facilitating VR based user training, as required.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 2017Date of Patent: April 14, 2020Inventors: Madhavi Jayanthi, Bindu Rama Rao
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Patent number: 10614138Abstract: In non-limiting examples of the present disclosure, taste data is generated and usable within one or more applications. A taste is one or more elements that describe an entity. Information of an application may be processed to extract entity data that corresponds to a plurality of candidates to be designated as tastes (taste data). The candidates for the tastes are curated. In examples, the curating comprises filtering the candidates for tastes to remove extracted candidates. Extraction rules for managing structured taste data may be applied in the filtering. A status of a remaining candidate may be determined as approved or rejected based on processing of received user feedback. Taste data may be generated for an approved candidate. The generating of the taste data may comprise assigning parameters that include a descriptor type and a recommendation type. Taste data may be used within an application.Type: GrantFiled: July 29, 2015Date of Patent: April 7, 2020Assignee: Foursquare Labs, Inc.Inventors: Matthew J. Kamen, Denis Sosnovtsev, Samuel Wang
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Patent number: 10616782Abstract: In part, the invention relates to systems and methods suitable for operating a client side platform for deterministically correlating a unique mobile user across multiple marketing communication channels using a universal identifier to provide a deterministic mapping of individual channel user identifiers. In an embodiment, the invention relates to systems and methods suitable for operating a client side platform for probabilistically correlating a unique mobile user across multiple marketing communication channels to provide a mapping of individual channel user identifiers. The systems and methods can be used to identify user activity across different marketing communication channels accessed with a given mobile device.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2013Date of Patent: April 7, 2020Assignee: mGage, LLCInventors: Christos Manolarakis, Mark Sutterlin, Andrew Milkowski, Guowei Zhang, Stephanie Luxenberg, Rick Landsman, Maurice J. Carron
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Patent number: 10614706Abstract: An at least one processor determines whether behavior of a user of an electronic apparatus has a high probability of inducing a traffic accident based on an acceleration measured by an accelerometer. The at least one processor issues an alert notification to the user when the at least one processor determines that the behavior of the user has the high probability of inducing the traffic accident.Type: GrantFiled: November 15, 2018Date of Patent: April 7, 2020Assignee: KYOCERA CorporationInventors: Shigeki Tanabe, Hideki Morita, Isao Masuike, Shinya Saito, Tetsushi Wakasa
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Patent number: 10609557Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, determining a first address of user equipment from a mobile communication network connection request and identifying that the user equipment is stationary based on comparing the first address of the user equipment in the connection request to a second address of a stationary subscriber device. A non-tunneling link is initiated between the user equipment and a stationary packet core of the mobile communication network, based on identifying that the user equipment is stationary, and the connection request is converted from a non-access stratum protocol to an authentication protocol responsive to initiating the non-tunneling link. Other embodiments are disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: March 26, 2018Date of Patent: March 31, 2020Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.Inventors: Vinod Pandey, Zhi Cui, Liza Fung, Cheng Liu, Paul Edward Smith, Jr.
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Patent number: 10609202Abstract: A system and method for determining a safe return to a vehicle that include determining a travel plan that pertains to the safe return to the vehicle from a designated location. The system and method also include determining if a user departs from the designated location to return to the vehicle. The system and method additionally include determining if there is a deviation from the travel plan that pertains to the user safely returning to the vehicle from the designated location. The system and method further include sending at least one emergency alert to at least one emergency contact when it is determined that there is the deviation from the travel plan.Type: GrantFiled: February 19, 2018Date of Patent: March 31, 2020Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.Inventor: Katherine M. Graham
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Patent number: 10609513Abstract: A tracking system can provide intervention notifications to a user to notify the user that a tracking device is potentially lost or is in a predicted state. The tracking system may notify the user that a tracking device is potentially lost or in a predicted state based on a number of factors, including: a proximity of a tracking device to other tracking devices or a user's mobile device, a movement of a tracking device to more than a threshold distance away from a mobile device or other tracking devices, a location of a tracking device relative to a geographic location or to geographic boundaries, a usage or movement behavior of the tracking device, a usage or movement behavior of a user or owner of a tracking device, information received from an external source, or information received from sensors within the tracking device or a user's mobile.Type: GrantFiled: September 25, 2019Date of Patent: March 31, 2020Assignee: Tile, Inc.Inventors: Guilherme de Barros Chapiewski, Melody Quintana, Mayank Kumar, Tyler Lettau, Wayne Patterson
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Patent number: 10609548Abstract: User terminal, and method and device for providing mobile communication service are provided. The method includes: a first subscriber card providing service through a first network, and a second subscriber card providing service through a second network; detecting that the first network currently supports providing a first type of service for a plurality of subscriber cards at the same time; notifying other subscriber card except the first subscriber card to allow the other subscriber card to provide the first type of service through the first network; detecting that the second subscriber card needs to provide the first type of service; and if performance of the second subscriber card providing the first type of service through the first network is better than performance of providing the first type of service through the second network, controlling the second subscriber card to provide the first type of service through the first network.Type: GrantFiled: November 1, 2017Date of Patent: March 31, 2020Assignee: SPREADTRUM COMMUNICATIONS (SHANGHAI) CO., LTD.Inventors: Jinjin Ni, Xianliang Chen, Xichun Gao, Yi He