Location Display Patents (Class 455/457)
  • Patent number: 12225419
    Abstract: A network device may determine a geographical distance between an earth station and the network device. The network device may determine a location for an exclusion zone, associated with the earth station, based on the geographical distance. The network device may generate an exclusion zone system information block that identifies the location for the exclusion zone. The network device may provide, to the user equipment, the exclusion zone system information block.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventor: Jignesh S. Panchal
  • Patent number: 12216894
    Abstract: Systems and processes for user configurable task triggers are provided. In one example, at least one user input, including a selection of at least one condition of a plurality of conditions and a selection of at least one task of a plurality of tasks, is received. Stored context data corresponding to an electronic device is received. A determination is whether the stored context data indicates an occurrence of the at least one selected condition. In response to determining that the stored context data indicates an occurrence of the at least one selected condition, the at least one selected task associated with the at least one selected condition is performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Joseph E. Meyer, Kelan Champagne, Joao Pedro De Almeida Forjaz De Lacerda, Aleksandr Gusev, Conrad B. Kramer, Yuan Li, Ari Weinstein
  • Patent number: 12216519
    Abstract: Methods and systems are disclosed for detecting whether a wearable device is being worn by a user. The system transmits a radio signal from a first communication device of a wearable device to a second communication device of the wearable device and measures a signal strength associated with the radio signal received by the second communication device. The system compares the signal strength to a threshold value and generates an indication of a wear status associated with the wearable device based on comparing the signal strength to the threshold value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventors: Jason Heger, Dunxu Hu, Eric Nachtigall, Gerald Nilles, Ugur Olgun, Praveen Babu Vadivelu
  • Patent number: 12219434
    Abstract: A system and method for determining the presence of an individual at a particular spot within a location preferably based on the strength of signals received from beacons assigned to the particular spot by a software application (“App”) running on an electronic device of the individual. In one embodiment, certain presence calculations are performed by the App. In another embodiment, the App forwards information regarding the received beacon signals to an electronic identification and location tracking system and the presence calculations are performed by the system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: COLLATERAL OPPORTUNITIES OF NEVAD
    Inventor: Michael Kusens
  • Patent number: 12216702
    Abstract: In other embodiments, a method to perform image-based searching may include receiving a group of images from a content owner; creating an index using the group of images; receiving a further image from a mobile computing device of a user; determining a correlation between the further image and the index; and/or directing the mobile computing device of the user to content of the content owner, responsive to the determining of the correlation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventors: Kirk Ouimet, Rong Yan, Yantao Zheng, Timothy Michael Sehn, Evan Spiegel
  • Patent number: 12218997
    Abstract: In a method for managing and distributing content in a plurality of observation platforms, a message is generated at a cloud based component of a content distribution manager in response to user interaction via an interface of the content distribution manager. Responsive to the user interactions and to interactions of third party software via an application program interface with the cloud based component, delivery of the message is scheduled and a plurality of specified devices belonging to a specified class of employees are specified for delivery in a plurality of observation platforms at a designated time and location via the cloud based component. The plurality of observation platforms are located in a plurality of different enterprise locations. The message is delivered to the plurality of observation platforms which relay the message to the plurality of specified devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: Theatro Labs, Inc.
    Inventors: Guy R. VanBuskirk, Ravi Shankar Kumar, Shiva Cheedella, Steve Lucy
  • Patent number: 12210729
    Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure involve a system for filtering conversations. The system generates for display, by a messaging application, a plurality of shortcut options, each of the plurality of shortcut options comprising a respective filtering criterion. In response to receiving input that selects a given shortcut option of the plurality of shortcut options, the system retrieves the filtering criterion associated with the given shortcut option. The system searches a plurality of conversations to identify a subset of conversations that match the filtering criterion. The system generates for display together with the plurality of shortcut options, a plurality of representations of the identified subset of conversations in which one or more messages have been exchanged between a user and one or more friends of the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventors: Nathan Kenneth Boyd, Daniel Moreno, David Phillip Taitz, Jeremy Baker Voss, Yu Wang
  • Patent number: 12211063
    Abstract: Customers receive an incentive with use of an installed cellphone app to image an AR-bearing ad. Matches between data from the customer's accounts for each merchant are compared to the data in association with the customer's logical identifier for their cellphone, and particularly with each incidence of a rendering on their display screen of an AR view of a product advertisement containing the AR-triggering symbol to initiate the corresponding AR enhanced view of the ad. In conjunction with chronological time stamping of occurrences, a likelihood is derived that the customer's viewing of the AR enhanced product advertisement influenced the potential customer's subsequent purchase of the corresponding advertised product as evidenced within the potential customer's rich transactional data from the customer's debit and/or credit accounts. The certainty of each match is determined to further initiate the merchant's incentive to the customer which may be the merchant's donation to a community program.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: EDATANETWORKS INC.
    Inventors: Terrance Patrick Tietzen, Matthew Arnold Macpherson Bates, Michael J. Kimball
  • Patent number: 12213043
    Abstract: Mobility-as-a-Service (MaaS) provides technical solutions for technical problems facing this shift toward public and private vehicles for hire, including providing a platform for users to identify and select public transportation and private vehicles for hire. Users may plan and book transportation services through a MaaS platform, such as a smartphone application. Technical solutions described herein include improved identification and selection of a vehicle based on wireless communication, such as using Near-Field Communication (NFC), Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, and other wireless communication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Fabian Oboril, Frederik Pasch, Cornelius Buerkle, Bernd Gassmann, Kay-Ulrich Scholl
  • Patent number: 12207199
    Abstract: Systems, methods, devices, computer readable media, and other various embodiments are described for location management processes in wearable electronic devices. Performance of such devices is improved with reduced time to first fix of location operations in conjunction with low-power operations. In one embodiment, low-power circuitry manages high-speed circuitry and location circuitry to provide location assistance data from the high-speed circuitry to the low-power circuitry automatically on initiation of location fix operations as the high-speed circuitry and location circuitry are booted from low-power states. In some embodiments, the high-speed circuitry is returned to a low-power state prior to completion of a location fix and after capture of content associated with initiation of the location fix. In some embodiments, high-speed circuitry is booted after completion of a location fix to update location data associated with content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventors: Yu Jiang Tham, John James Robertson, Gerald Nilles, Jason Heger, Praveen Babu Vadivelu
  • Patent number: 12205456
    Abstract: Methods and systems described herein are directed to automatedly generating entity-specific notifications of a vehicle accident occurrence for entities. In response to a notification system receiving accident data, the system can determine characteristics for the accident occurrence. Using these characteristics, the system can then determine parameters for the notifications defining types of entities which ought to be recipients in accordance with the characteristics. The system can use these parameters to locate specific entities that match the parameters. Having determined the entities, the system can issue notifications to the entities, using templates specific to the entities and with accident characteristics added.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: United Services Automobile Association (USAA)
    Inventors: Angelica Nichole White, Sean Carl Mitchem, Sean Michael Wayne Craig, Subhalakshmi Selvam, Christopher Russell, Brian Howard Katz, Roberto Virgillio Jolliffe
  • Patent number: 12207163
    Abstract: Disclosed are techniques for wireless communication. In an aspect, a user equipment (UE) receives assistance data for enabling the UE to estimate a location of the UE, the assistance data including a relative location of each of a plurality of transmission points, wherein the relative location is represented as a hierarchy of two or more levels of description, wherein a highest level of description is relative to a fixed reference point, receives, from each of at least a subset of the plurality of transmission points, at least one positioning reference signal, and estimates the location of the UE based on characteristics of reception of the at least one positioning reference signal from each of the subset of the plurality of transmission points and the two or more levels of description and the fixed reference point for each of the subset of the plurality of transmission points.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2024
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Alexandros Manolakos, Guttorm Ringstad Opshaug, Sony Akkarakaran, Sven Fischer, Tao Luo
  • Patent number: 12192792
    Abstract: A self-optimizing operating system for next-generation cellular networks is provided. The system provides telecommunications operators with an efficient and flexible network control platform that hides low-level network details through a virtual network abstraction and allows them to define centralized and high-level control objectives with no need for in-depth and detailed knowledge of cross-layer optimization theory or the underlying wireless protocol stack implementation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: Northeastern University
    Inventors: Tommaso Melodia, Leonardo Bonati, Salvatore D'Oro
  • Patent number: 12189048
    Abstract: A location system is disclosed for commercial wireless telecommunication infrastructures. The system is an end-to-end solution having one or more location centers for outputting requested locations of commercially available handsets or mobile stations (MS) based on, e.g., CDMA, AMPS, NAMPS or TDMA communication standards, for processing both local MS location requests and more global MS location requests via, e.g., Internet communication between a distributed network of location centers. The system uses a plurality of MS locating technologies including those based on: (1) two-way TOA and TDOA; (2) pattern recognition; (3) distributed antenna provisioning; (5) GPS signals, (6) angle of arrival, (7) super resolution enhancements, and (8) supplemental information from various types of very low cost non-infrastructure base stations for communicating via a typical commercial wireless base station infrastructure or a public telephone switching network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Inventors: Dennis J. Dupray, Sheldon F. Goldberg
  • Patent number: 12185214
    Abstract: The technologies described herein are generally directed to using portable situational awareness equipment with communication resources deployed to facilitate communications at a remote incident area, in a fifth generation (5G) network or other next generation networks. For example, a method described herein can include identifying a remote incident area associated with an incident. The method can further include, based on the incident, estimating a deployment location for portable network equipment within the remote incident area, resulting in an estimated deployment location. Further, the method can include, based on the estimated deployment location and estimated signal propagation at locations within the remote incident area, selecting a placement location for communication equipment to facilitate communication with the portable network equipment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Inventors: Brad Runco, Jeff Bartlett, Christopher San Gaspar
  • Patent number: 12175195
    Abstract: Provided is a process, including: obtaining, with a computer system, a next geolocation to be visited by a user or at which the user has arrived; obtaining, with the computer system, a geolocation-pathogen-risk score of the next geolocation; determining, with the computer system, a topic of message based on the geolocation-pathogen-risk score; determining, with the computer system, by a natural-language-text generation model, natural language text within the topic of the message; and causing, with the computer system, the natural language text of the message to be presented to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: Pandemic Insights, Inc.
    Inventor: Eric Klasson
  • Patent number: 12175553
    Abstract: Various systems and methods for providing assistance at the end of an autonomous system journey are provided. A system can include an autonomous system configured to transport the user, a first sensor coupled to the autonomous system and configured to provide a sensor stream of an environment between the autonomous system and a terminus, and a terminus assistance processor mechanically coupled to the autonomous system. In an example, the terminus assistance processor can receive and process the sensor stream, detect and can track the user in the environment in response to the sensor stream, and can provide status information to a first mobile device based on the sensor stream.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Cornelius Buerkle, Kay-Ulrich Scholl, Fabian Oboril, Frederik Pasch
  • Patent number: 12170818
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus to calibrate media ratings based on return path data are disclosed. An apparatus includes programmable circuitry to execute machine readable instructions to: determine a subscriber calibration factor for media based on first panel tuning information obtained from first metering devices in first panelist households that subscribe to a content provider that provides media through return path data (RPD) devices; determine a nonsubscriber calibration factor for the media based on second panel tuning information obtained from second metering devices in second panelist households that do not subscribe to the content provider; and determine a final rating for the media based on an initial rating and at least one of the subscriber calibration factor or the nonsubscriber calibration factor, the initial rating based on RPD tuning information obtained from RPD devices in subscriber households that subscribe to the content provider.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignee: The Nielsen Company (US), LLC
    Inventors: Anthony P. Venetucci, David J. Kurzynski, Molly Poppie, Jonathan Sullivan, Bruce Hoynoski, Christine Pierce
  • Patent number: 12170932
    Abstract: Systems, apparatuses, and methods are described for presence detection of a wireless device in a sensing region. Communication parameters determined by a computing device over one or more periods may be used to generate criteria for determining the occurrence of enter events or leave events. The criteria may comprise, for values of one or more communication parameters, rates of change associated with movement into or out of the sensing region. The criteria may be compared against subsequent data associated with the communication parameters to determine if an enter event or a leave event has occurred.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignee: Comcast Cable Communications, LLC
    Inventors: Tianwen Chen, Hongcheng Wang, Hong Li
  • Patent number: 12159228
    Abstract: An apparatus, method and computer program is described comprising: initialising parameters of a transmission system, wherein the transmission system comprises a transmitter, a channel and a receiver, wherein the transmitter includes a transmitter algorithm having at least some trainable weights and the receiver includes a receiver algorithm having at least some trainable weights; updating trainable parameters of the transmission system based on a loss function, wherein the trainable parameters include the trainable weights of the transmitter and the trainable weights of the receiver and wherein the loss function includes a penalty term; quantizing said trainable parameters, such that said weights can only take values within a codebook having a finite number of entries that is a subset of the possible values available during updating; and repeating the updating and quantizing until a first condition is reached.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2024
    Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy
    Inventors: Faycal Ait Aoudia, Jakob Hoydis, Abderrahmane Tchikou
  • Patent number: 12145623
    Abstract: Example embodiments relate to techniques for providing incremental remote assistance to a vehicle. A computing device initially receives location information from a vehicle that is autonomously navigating to a destination. Based on the location information, the computing device displays a representation of an environment of the vehicle and receives a first input specifying a first waypoint and a second input specifying a second waypoint positioned on the representation of the environment. The computing device is configured to limit a location of the first waypoint based on a first location of the vehicle, and a location of the second waypoint based on a second location of the vehicle or the location of the first waypoint. The computing device can then provide route instructions to the vehicle based on at least the first waypoint or the second waypoint.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Assignee: Waymo LLC
    Inventors: Collin Winter, Vishay Nihalani
  • Patent number: 12143890
    Abstract: Methods and devices useful in performing precise indoor localization and tracking are provided. By way of example, a method includes locating and tracking, via a first wireless electronic device, a plurality of other wireless electronic devices within an indoor environment. Location ambiguity mitigation is performed using characteristics of signals received by a reference node used to generate a radio frequency map of electronic devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Amit S. Sant, Alejandro J. Marquez, Indranil S. Sen, Mohit Narang, Shang-Te Yang
  • Patent number: 12143895
    Abstract: Embodiments that relate to pairing and finding a group of accessory devices are described. In an embodiment, a pairing status is received from a first accessory device, a request is sent to the first accessory device for information on a number of accessory devices in a device group and a number of accessory devices that are proximate to the first accessory device in the device group, information on a second accessory device in the device group is received, a continue pairing message is sent to the second accessory device if the second accessory device is proximate, and a device group profile is created with information on the number of parts and received information on the second accessory device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Siva Ganesh Movva, Tunc Ertan, Ariane Cotte, Kerry Nguyen, Anita Desai, Steven Douglas Laver, Brent Ledvina, Kenneth U. Victa, Ping-Ko Chiu, Michał Adam Kałużny
  • Patent number: 12142136
    Abstract: Systems and methods for monitoring physiological monitoring systems are described herein. A communication interface module can be configured to receive from a physiological monitoring system first data based on a snapshot taken of a status of the physiological monitoring system at a first time. A memory module can be configured to store the first data and a baseline associated with the physiological monitoring system. A processor module can be configured to compare the first data with the baseline and to generate a notification if the first data deviates from the baseline by a predetermined amount. A display module can be configured to display a physical location of a plurality of physiological monitoring systems and display the notification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: Masimo Corporation
    Inventors: Yaser Ammar Al-Ali, Jad Adel Wafeeq
  • Patent number: 12143655
    Abstract: In overview, the disclosed methods, devices, and systems enable the location of the first device to be verified. In particular, second location verification data is generated using a current location of the second device is provided to a first device by a second device which can be matched with first location verification data received by the first device from a server, the first location verification data is generated using a stored location of the first device. If the first and second location verification data match, the location of the first device is considered to have been verified.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: NAGRAVISION S.A.
    Inventor: Thiru balaji Somasundaram
  • Patent number: 12133194
    Abstract: A system and a method are disclosed for enabling accurate estimation of a location of a water vessel. In an embodiment, a rescue system transmits a Short Message Service (SMS) message to a user device on the water vessel, the SMS message comprising a selectable option that, when selected, causes a location of the user device to be shared. Based on a selection by a user of the user device of the selectable option, the system receives a plurality of location coordinates from the user device at a plurality of respective times, each respective location coordinate describing a respective location of the user device at its respective time. The system computes an estimated location of the water vessel based on the plurality of location coordinates and an elapsed time between a current time and a time at which a last-received location coordinate was received. The system transmits the estimated location to a responder device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: i911 International, Inc.
    Inventor: Christopher Ryan Bennett
  • Patent number: 12133137
    Abstract: Systems and methods of providing a user interface in which map features associated with places are selectively highlighted are disclosed herein. In some example embodiments, a computer system receives a request for a transportation service associated with a place, retrieves an entrance geographic location for the place from a database, with the entrance geographic location being stored in association with the place in the database and representing an entrance for accessing the place, generating route information based on the retrieved entrance geographic location, with the route information indicating a route from an origin geographic location of a computing device of a user to the entrance geographic location of the place, and causing the generated route information to be displayed within a user interface on a computing device of the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: Uber Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Satyendra Kumar Nainwal, Daniel Wolf, Kaivalya Bachubhai Parikh, Ankit Tandon
  • Patent number: 12127068
    Abstract: A method comprising receiving, from a sending device, a location-based message. A location input is received, from the sending device, the location input being associated with the location-based message and defining a delivery area. A map interface is presented on a receiving device, together with an icon representative of the location-based message, the icon being presented responsive to the receiving device being located in the delivery area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: INVESTMENT ASSET HOLDINGS LLC
    Inventors: Eric Noeth, Zachary DeWitt, Matthew Diepenbrock
  • Patent number: 12125078
    Abstract: A subscription-based system for providing commerce information for one or more mobile devices for one or more merchants. Some techniques employed feature a subscription-based method for presenting commercial resources to a mobile device. The method involves receiving mobile device user information relating to a geographic location to locate one or more merchants within a subscription-based shopping network, and receiving mobile device user information relating to a merchant type within the subscription-based shopping network. The method also involves receiving, from a database over a communication network, information for one or more merchants associated with the mobile device user information for the geographic location and the merchant type, and presenting the associated merchant information on the mobile device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Inventor: Randy Jaramillo
  • Patent number: 12118027
    Abstract: The present invention is in the technical field of geolocation. More particularly, the present invention is in the technical field of making content in the form of electronic data available for retrieval when a device has satisfied the Retrieval Range and other Rules which govern the ability to retrieve the content. Retrieval of Content by user devices may be based on Rules communicated by an App, Admin or third party interface and shall be contained and processed by an application interface engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Inventor: Roopit Patel
  • Patent number: 12117833
    Abstract: Systems and methods systems provide for client control over an Autonomous Vehicle (AV). The AV can determine sets of mechanical operations that it can take at a future time. The AV can determine a ranking for each of the sets of mechanical operations, including a first ranked set and at least one second ranked set. Client or user selection can be given a certain score, weight, or other value. The AV can apply the value to the second ranked set to determine an adjusted ranking. If the adjusted ranking outranks a ranking of the first ranked set, then the AV can expose the first ranked set and the second ranked set to a client interface. If the AV receives a selection of the second ranked set, the AV can perform that set of mechanical operations. Otherwise, the AV can perform the first ranked set of mechanical operations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: GM Cruise Holdings LLC
    Inventor: Divya Thakur
  • Patent number: 12114183
    Abstract: Methods and systems for determining an outage of the wireless communication services in an area are discussed herein. The area may indicate a geographic area defined by at least one of a city boundary, a census tract, a county boundary, or a state boundary. A method includes monitoring signals from a plurality of nodes that provide services to an area; determining, based at least in part on the signals, that at least one of the plurality of nodes is out of service; determining, based at least in part on census data of the area, a coverage level of the area, the coverage level indicating the coverage of services provided by the plurality of nodes in service; determining that the coverage level is less than a coverage threshold; and transmitting an outage notification to an emergency service provider.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Assignee: T-Mobile USA, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert Frangooles, Christopher Chorney
  • Patent number: 12100091
    Abstract: An animated image publishing method, applied to a client device, is provided. The animated image publishing method includes: analyzing animated image data; configuring the animated image data based on a predetermined rule to generate script data; transforming the script data into a script file; packaging the script file and at least one source image corresponding to the script file into a packaging file and uploading the packaging file to a network server; and providing a transformation program to a client device, where the transformation program is configured to parse the packaging file to obtain the script data and render the script data into an animated image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: ASUSTEK COMPUTER INC.
    Inventor: Yi-Xuan He
  • Patent number: 12101687
    Abstract: A system and method of locating “friends” having mobile devices connected to a network and associated with a user account is disclosed. The method includes sending a request to a mobile device, the mobile device determining its present geographic location and responding to the requestor with this information. This information may be in the form of a coordinate location such as a GPS location or it may be in the form of a name that the mobile device owner assigned to a particular area (e.g., “home”). Having this location information, a user is able to view the location of the friend that is associated with the mobile device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Raghu Pai, Timothy S. Hurley, Patrice Olivier Gautier, Karthik Narayanan, Murthy Parthasarathi, Maxime Veron
  • Patent number: 12096235
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided herein to dynamically and efficiently optimize network expansion of a network carrier based on UE data collected from a plurality of user equipment (UEs). The UE data is processed based on different computerized algorithms to locate optimal locations for adding a new access point to expand the network. Aspects herein are also directed to systems and methods for generating and displaying dynamic maps on graphical user interfaces (GUI) in accordance with aspects herein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: T-Mobile Onnovations LLC
    Inventors: Dennis Jarret Guill, Jr., Allan Orbigo, Jong Sung Yoon
  • Patent number: 12089121
    Abstract: Systems and methods for sharing location information during a message conversation are provided. An electronic device displays a message region for displaying a message transcript of messages sent between a first participant and a second participant in a message conversation. The electronic device displays a location-sharing affordance. The electronic device detects a selection of the location-sharing affordance, where detecting a selection of the location-sharing affordance by the first participant comprises detecting a single contact by the first participant. In response to detecting a selection of the location-sharing affordance, the electronic device enables the second participant to obtain the first participant location information and displays a modified location-sharing affordance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Jae Woo Chang, Megan M. Frost, Joshua B. Dickens, Stephen O. Lemay, Marcel Van Os, Richard R. Dellinger, Lawrence Y. Yang
  • Patent number: 12078509
    Abstract: A computer system obtains information describing a geographical area segmented into multiple first clusters serviced by a telecommunications network. Multiple test locations are identified within the first clusters. Each test location is located within a grid of the geographical area. Each first cluster is recursively segmented into multiple second clusters until a difference between a number of test locations within each second cluster and a target number of test locations is less than a threshold number of test locations. A route is generated connecting test locations within each second cluster, using a routing application programming interface for performing drive testing of the telecommunications network. The computer system sends the route to one or more computer devices for performing the drive testing at the test locations in a sequence corresponding to the route.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: T-Mobile USA, Inc.
    Inventor: Nirmal Chandrasekaran
  • Patent number: 12078485
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a control unit configured to restrict, on the basis of movement amount information obtained from a motion sensor, output of the movement amount information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventor: Masato Kimishima
  • Patent number: 12063458
    Abstract: The application is directed to techniques and processes for integrating multiple security systems. For instance, a system may receive first data from a first security system, where the first data indicates that the first security system detected a security event. The system may then analyze the first data to determine a type of the security event, a time frame of the security event, and/or a threat level of the security event. Based at least in part on the analyzing, the system may determine a security procedure for a second security system. The second security system may be located proximate to the first security system and/or may be included in a same security system network as the first security system. The security procedure may include changing a mode of the second security system and/or causing an electronic device of the second security system to generate image data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2024
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: James Siminoff
  • Patent number: 12058291
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus configured to perform character recognition processing to recognize characters included in image data and acquire character information, display characters indicated by the character information acquired, accept a selection of characters displayed by a user, generate a folder path based on the selected characters, and transmit the image data to a folder indicated by the folder path. In a case where the selection of characters is accepted multiple times, generate a folder path based on a combination of selected characters and transmit the image data to a folder indicated by the folder path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2024
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Shu Kumahashi
  • Patent number: 12055651
    Abstract: A method for geolocating a terminal of a wireless communication system from measurements of a parameter representative of a radio signal exchanged between the terminal and base stations of the communication system. The method uses fixed base stations and a mobile base station which is displaced in a determined search area. During a predefined search period, the terminal emits several radio signals to the fixed base stations and the mobile base station. A precise geographical position can then be determined, on the one hand, from the measurements carried out during the search period for the different base stations, and on the other hand, from the geographical positions of the fixed base stations and from the geographical positions of the mobile base station at the different times of emission of the radio signals by the terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2024
    Assignee: SIGFOX
    Inventors: Guillaume Larignon, Renaud Marty, Perrine Gissot, Olivier Isson
  • Patent number: 12041999
    Abstract: A smart rescue helmet for use by a rescuer at an action site is described. It includes a number of features enclosed in an outer shell which includes a shock-absorbing canopy and a visor. The features include a control module comprising a microcomputer contained inside the smart rescue helmet, a near-field display, a visible band camera, a thermal imaging camera, a sensor module monitoring physiological parameters along with a position of the rescuer; and a communication system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: Brandbull International S.A. Oddzial w Polsce
    Inventor: Kamil Górecki
  • Patent number: 12025688
    Abstract: A method for managing the transmission of geographical locations from a geolocation beacon during the movement thereof. The method includes: defining a first reference communication network associated with a first value and with a reference frequency used for the transmission of the locations over the first network; locating the beacon in a second network during the movement thereof; obtaining a second value associated with the second network; comparing the first and the second value, and when the values differ, the method includes modifying the reference frequency for the transmission of the locations over the second network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2024
    Assignee: Orange
    Inventors: Renaud Cazoulat, Pierre Cussac, Claudia Meza Balanta
  • Patent number: 12026766
    Abstract: A product analyzing system and method may include receiving a scan of a product, retrieving a plurality of individual data of one or more individuals, determining how the product will affect the plurality of individual data of the one or more individuals and whether the product complies with the individual data of the one or more individuals, generating an alert corresponding to the product based on the determining, and sending the alert to a user device before purchase of the product.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2024
    Assignee: Kyndryl, Inc.
    Inventors: Todd Russell Whitman, John P. Perrino, Robert Eugene Coon, Robert Ryan Gavin, Gary L. Osburn
  • Patent number: 12015452
    Abstract: A method and apparatus are provided for estimating characteristic differences between wireless signals transmitted from the same location in spaced apart frequency ranges. Also provided are a method and apparatus for estimating a combined time of arrival of the wireless signals, using the characteristic differences. A further method is provided, for identifying that two signals have been transmitted from the same location. Also disclosed is a method of maintaining a database of characteristic difference information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Assignee: u-blox AG
    Inventors: Christopher Marshall, Alessandro Biason, Marco Driusso, Matteo Noschese, Fulvio Babich, Alessandro Pin, Roberto Rinaldo
  • Patent number: 12014621
    Abstract: A system and a method are disclosed for on-device storage at a mobile bug of data of a one-way communications session where quality deteriorates. In an embodiment, a mobile bug receives a request to establish a one-way communications session, and responsively transmits data to a database for storage while refraining from storing the transmitted data subsequent to the transmission of the data. The mobile bug detects a deterioration in the one-way communications session that prevents, at least in part, the transmission of the data. Responsive to detecting the deterioration, while the deterioration is detected, the mobile bug stores the data in an encrypted format. The mobile bug detects a request for the data stored at the mobile bug, and responsively transmits the data to the database and deletes the data from the mobile bug.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Assignee: CALLYO 2009 CORP
    Inventors: Christopher Ryan Bennett, Derek Anthony Seroky, Robert Beauchamp Menke
  • Patent number: 12004042
    Abstract: Mobile device users navigate to each other by their mobile devices sharing location information, and then one or more of the mobile devices receiving or generating geographical directions for presentation to the mobile device's user to navigate to another of the mobile devices. Two mobile devices can provide geographical directions to enable their respective users to navigate toward each other, and a group of mobile devices can receive and provide or display geographical directions to variously enable their respective users to navigate to different mobile devices in the group. In one scenario, first and second mobile devices provide geographical directions to their respective locations and a third mobile device provides geographical directions to the first or second mobile device, and directions are dynamically updated as the mobile devices move.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2024
    Assignee: T-Mobile USA, Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher Painter, Maikel Faltaous, Caesar Winebrenner, Andre Sacaguti
  • Patent number: 11997572
    Abstract: A system for providing dynamic roadside assistance coordination may include a customer mobile device or vehicle in direct, or indirect, wireless communication with an insurance provider and/or service provider remote server. The customer's device may transmit a request for roadside assistance (e.g., towing services), and a current GPS location. In response, a closest, trusted service provider vehicle may be determined, and then directed to the customer's location. For instance, a software application may receive the customer location and compare it with availability information to match the customer with a close and trusted service provider. The customer's device may receive an acknowledgement that help is on the way, and be able to track the current location of the service provider vehicle while en route. Payment for the roadside assistance may be automatically and electronically paid by the insurance provider. As a result, prompt and safe roadside assistance may be provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: STATE FARM MUTUAL AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE COMPANY
    Inventors: George T. Dulee, Natalie R. Smith, Matthew Clarenson, Michelle Ann Curtis, Justin Davis, Jacob Alt
  • Patent number: 11997756
    Abstract: The disclosed technology is directed towards detecting improbable speeds of a mobile device, which can indicate fraudulent activity with respect to the mobile device. Radio access network events and call detail records are processed to determine when a mobile device “travel jumps” between locations at improbable speeds. Events corresponding to handovers between adjacent cells are filtered out. For events corresponding to changed cell towers that are non-adjacent, further processing is performed to determine the speed of the mobile device travel between the cells. A first speed threshold is selected based on possible air travel (a cell near an airport) or a second non-air travel speed threshold is selected. If the speed of the mobile device exceeds the selected speed threshold, a travel jump is determined. Exceptions can be made for gaps in connectivity due to topography (known inconsistent reception areas) and for a mobile device shutting down and restarting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Yaron Koral, Lauro Lins
  • Patent number: 11991586
    Abstract: Certain embodiments are directed to techniques (e.g., a device, a method, a memory or non-transitory computer readable medium storing code or instructions executable by one or more processors) for communication techniques between an electronic device (e.g., a smart speaker, a smart TV, a smart appliance, etc.) and one or more mobile devices (e.g., a smartphone, a tablet, a wearable device etc.). Techniques can vary the rate the mobile device responds to ranging messages from the smart speaker based on one or more factors. These factors can include a state of the mobile device (e.g., awake or asleep), mobile device orientation (e.g., face down), application state (e.g., music App active), motion of the mobile device (e.g., at rest for period of time), and a range (distance/angle) between the mobile device and the speaker to conserve battery life. The range to the electronic device can activate one or more smart speaker features on the mobile device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Robert W. Brumley, Peter C. Tsoi, Yagil Burowski