Computer Conferencing Patents (Class 709/204)
  • Patent number: 11553012
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method for sharing conference content is provided. The method comprises receiving a share input from a first device corresponding to a participant of a conference session, determining content for sharing using communication information associated with the participant, determining that the content is available through a second device and sharing the content using the second device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: RingCentral, Inc.
    Inventor: Vlad Vendrow
  • Patent number: 11551149
    Abstract: In some examples, sensor data comprising a first set and second set of sensor data can be received. The first set of sensor data can be provided to a rule-based classifier to identify a first normalized data tag. The second set of sensor data can be provided to a trained classifier to identify a second normalized data tag. The trained classifier can include a machine-learning model that has been trained based on tag sensor training data for classifying the second set of sensor data into a respective class associated with the second normalized data tag. The first and second sets of sensor data can be updated with respective first and second normalized data tags to normalize the first and second sets of sensor data to provide a standardized data label for each of the first and second sets of sensor data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: INVENTUS HOLDINGS, LLC
    Inventors: Hector K. Lopez, Brian F. Heredia, Jeroen Leverman
  • Patent number: 11553071
    Abstract: A communication apparatus searches for a device using a first wireless communication, instructs, using the first wireless communication, a device selected from a list based the result of the search to operate in an access point mode, obtains, using the first wireless communication, connection information from the device operating in the access point mode, establishes a second wireless connection with the device based on the obtained connection information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Mayumi Shibao
  • Patent number: 11552813
    Abstract: Modifying direct message (DM) communication membership is described. A communication platform can receive, in association with a DM communication associated with a first group of users and from a user computing device of a user of the first group of users, a first request to modify the first group of users. The communication platform can send, to the user computing device, a second request to designate whether to include context data associated with the DM communication in a new channel. Based at least partly on receiving an indication to include at least a portion of the context data associated with the DM communication in the new channel, the communication platform can generate the new channel, wherein the new channel is associated with a second group of users different than the first group of users, and at least the portion of the context data is associated with the new channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: Salesforce, Inc.
    Inventors: Ittai Sean Barzilay, Elizabeth Clemenson, Pedro Carmo, Andrew S. Morrison
  • Patent number: 11553314
    Abstract: A method and system for providing interoperability for Rich Communications Suite/Systems (RCS) messaging. If a target network device cannot directly receive RCS messages, electronic messages are modified on an RCS message application to include different types of electronic links to remote or local RCS interoperability applications. The local or remote RCS interoperability applications independently provides seamless, rich multi-media RCS functionality to the target network device including e-commerce and data collection when the electronic link is activated in the modified electronic message. The local or remote RCS interoperability applications provide two-way RCS message communications between target network devices without RCS functionality and target network devices with RCS functionality.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: nativeMsg, Inc.
    Inventors: Brian R. Stafford, Michael C. Lamb
  • Patent number: 11550462
    Abstract: A method for providing a cross-application content player is disclosed. The method includes receiving, during playback of a content item in a first content player within a first user interface of a first mobile application, an indication of a user request pertaining to a second mobile application, wherein the first mobile application is associated with a first platform, and the second mobile application is associated with a second platform. The method further includes identifying a play state of the content item corresponding to the user request, and causing playback of the content item in a second content player within a second user interface of the second mobile application based on the play state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Justin Lewis, Ruxandra Georgiana Davies
  • Patent number: 11553011
    Abstract: The present disclosure describes techniques for facilitating a collaborative work environment. The techniques comprise receiving a request from a first client computing device associated with a first user in the plurality of users to establish a communication with a second user in the plurality of users, the request specifying information associated with the communication; generating and transmitting data to a second client computing device associated with the second user for display of a user interface on the second client computing device, wherein the user interface indicates an invite of communication from the first user, and the user interface comprises information about the first user, the information associated with the communication, and selectable interface elements for accepting or declining the invite; and in response to receiving an indication of acceptance by the second user, establishing a communication channel between the first user and the second user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: LEMON INC.
    Inventor: Yuhui Zhang
  • Patent number: 11550798
    Abstract: A processing device identifies a set of content items to be included in a feed displayed to a user of a social network platform in a user interface of the social network platform, wherein the set of content items are identified as candidates for inclusion in the feed based on a ranking score of each content item from the set of content items, and wherein the ranking score of each content item is generated in addition to identifying one or more bucketing tokens for a respective content item from the set of content items. For each content item from the set of content items, the processing device identifies one or more bucketing tokens, wherein each bucketing token comprises an identifier that identifies a plurality of content items as being associated with a group of users that have similar interests.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Justin Lewis, Ruxandra Georgiana Paun
  • Patent number: 11544727
    Abstract: Described herein is a system for generating financing structures. A learning engine may extract data sets associated with sellers of various products. The learning engine may be trained using the data sets. The learning engine may identify a subset of dimensions that cause a change in a determination of a final price for a given product. The learning engine may compute a value for each of the sellers with respect to each dimension. The learning engine may group the sellers into different clusters. The learning engine may generate using a model, including the subset of dimensions. The learning engine may receive a request to generate a financing structure for a specified product sold by a specified seller. The learning engine may generate financing structures for the specified product sold by the specified seller based on the generated model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: Capital One Services, LLC
    Inventors: Saman Baghestani, Rohan Shah, Nicholas E. Dolle
  • Patent number: 11546394
    Abstract: Normalized resolutions are determined for first and second regions of interest of an initial video stream captured by a video capture device located within a physical space. The first region of interest is associated with a first conference participant within the physical space and the second region of interest is associated with a second conference participant within the physical space. Instructions are transmitted to the video capture device to cause the video capture device to capture, at the normalized resolutions, a first video stream associated with the first region of interest and a second video stream associated with the second region of interest. The first and second video streams conform sizes and quality levels of the first and second conference participants within separate user interface tiles of a conferencing software user interface to which the first and second video streams are output.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: Zoom Video Communications, Inc.
    Inventor: Chi-chian Yu
  • Patent number: 11544644
    Abstract: A system and method for aggregating and tracking content is described. In one aspect, a computer-implemented method includes forming a consolidated graphical user interface that tracks activities related to a project identifier. The project identifier identifies aggregated content. A project search query is received on the consolidated graphical user interface. The system identifies the project identifier based on the project search query, and presents at least one of a content item, a file, a folder, a user identifier, a user message, a meeting identifier, and a website identifier associated with the project identifier. The system registers selected items with the project identifier with a user of the consolidated graphical user interface, and forms the aggregated content assigned to the project identifier and to the user based on the registered selection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Benjamin Gustav Wilde, Daniel John Niezgocki Chattan, Manoj Sharma, Richard Malcolm Banks, Eva Britta Karolina Burlin, Aleksandr Polyakov, Lyndsy Marie Stopa, Anthony Arnold Wieser
  • Patent number: 11544344
    Abstract: A computing system may perform a method that involves generating a document object model (DOM) at a host web browser representing contents of a web page, providing data to a first endpoint device enabling replication of the DOM to display the contents of the web page in a web browser of the first endpoint device, detecting a request to access the web page via a second endpoint device, and providing data to the second endpoint device to replicate the DOM to enable access to the web page in the same fashion as the first endpoint device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: Citrix Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Xiaolu Chu, Yuran Ou
  • Patent number: 11544735
    Abstract: A monitoring project is defined interactively through an interface. Resources needed for the project are obtained, configured, arranged, and verified within a target area. Video and audio feeds are captured and analyzed during a project period within the target area and customer interactions and intentions are derived from detected customer behaviors within the feeds. The intentions and behaviors are indexed with aggregated metrics within a data store. The interface provides custom queries, reports, interactive graphics, and real-time notifications from the data store that depict the custom aggregated metrics for the intentions and behaviors of the monitoring project.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: NCR Corporation
    Inventors: Matthew Robert Burris, Jodessiah Sumpter
  • Patent number: 11546170
    Abstract: The systems and methods of enabling a collaborative application on a private network, comprising: establishing a secure and encrypted private network with a whitelist of two or more profiles using alias and digital keys; hosting an application on a computing device associated with a first profile on the whitelist; enabling the application to accept content using an application program interface, broadcasting the application with digital signature of the first profile to the profiles on the whitelist of the private network; receiving a request to send content to the application with digital signature from a second profile on the whitelist; automatically updating the content of the application after validation of the request; broadcasting the update notification to all the profiles on the whitelist of the private network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: Whitestar Communications, Inc.
    Inventor: Billy Gayle Moon
  • Patent number: 11544883
    Abstract: A system and method for presentation of computer vision (e.g., augmented reality, virtual reality) using user data and a user code is disclosed. A client device can detect an image feature (e.g., scannable code) in one or more images. The image feature is determined to be linked to a user account. User data from the user account can then be used to generate one or more augmented reality display elements that can be anchored to the image feature in the one or more images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventors: Ebony James Charlton, Omer Cansizoglu, Kirk Ouimet, Nathan Kenneth Boyd
  • Patent number: 11544224
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are systems and methods for attachable-and-detachable database sessions. In an embodiment, a database platform receives an attachment request from a client during a connection-specific database session that is set as a current database session for the client at the database platform, requesting that the client attach to an attachable-and-detachable database session that is maintained in data storage by the database platform. The database platform sets, in response to receiving the attachment request, the attachable-and-detachable database session as the current database session for the client at the database platform. The database platform determines that the client has detached from the attachable-and-detachable database session, and continues to maintain the attachable-and-detachable database session in the data storage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: Snowflake Inc.
    Inventors: Tyler Jones, Peter Povinec
  • Patent number: 11537564
    Abstract: A group-based communication interface with subsidiary file communications is described. A request to share a file in a feed of a group-based communication platform can be received, wherein the feed comprises a channel, a thread, or a direct message associated with a group of the group-based communication platform. A representation of the file can be rendered in a user interface presented via client device(s) of user(s) associated with the group, wherein the representation of the file is associated with an engageable link for accessing the file, and wherein a thread summary indicator, representing a thread of message(s) associated with the file, is presented proximate the representation of the file. Based at least in part on receiving an indication of an interaction with the thread summary indicator, the message(s) associated with the thread can be rendered in the user interface proximate the representation of the file.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: Salesforce, Inc.
    Inventors: Milo Watanabe, Ayesha Bose, Bernadette Le, Faisal Yaqub, Fayaz Ashraf, Marcel Weekes, Wayne Fan, Adam Cole, Jordan Williams, Patrick Kane, Oluwatosin Afolabi
  • Patent number: 11539764
    Abstract: A communication management system manages a session in which a plurality of terminal apparatuses shares a stroke image. The communication management system includes circuitry configured to: manage stroke information including a plurality of pieces of stroke data representing the stroke image; receive, from a first terminal apparatus, group operation information for designating one or more pieces of stroke data, which are operation targets, from among the plurality of pieces of stroke data; and restrict, based on the group operation information, an operation regarding the one or more pieces of stroke data by a second terminal apparatus, which is different from the first terminal apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Hinohara, Shigeru Nakamura, Takeshi Homma, Yuichi Kawasaki, Masashi Ogasawara, Atsushi Miyamoto, Hideki Shiro, Kenichiro Morita
  • Patent number: 11539540
    Abstract: A method, a computer program product, and a system for enacting ameliorative resource action during an e-conference. Exemplary embodiments of the present inventive concept may include a method for enacting ameliorative resource action during an e-conference. The method may include collecting data from a user's computer device during the e-conference. Features may be extracted from the collected e-conference data. A user's participation within the e-conference and a resource consumption thereof may be forecasted by applying a user activity model to the extracted features. The ameliorative resource action may be enacted based upon the forecasted user's participation and the resource consumption thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Clement Decrop, Martin G. Keen, John M. Ganci, Jr., Zachary A. Silverstein
  • Patent number: 11539762
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure sets forth a computer-implemented method comprising obtaining sensor data associated with a driver of a vehicle, determining a state associated with the driver based on the sensor data, and transmitting the state associated with the driver to a teleconference session, wherein the driver is at least one of a participant or an invitee to the teleconference session.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: Harman International Industries, Incorporated
    Inventors: Joseph Verbeke, Evgeny Burmistrov, Stefan Marti, Priya Seshadri
  • Patent number: 11539543
    Abstract: A method is provided. The method includes based on an online meeting ending, receiving, by a user terminal, a link for creating a meeting note for the online meeting from an external device; based on a first user input of selecting the link for creating the meeting note, displaying a user interface for creating the meeting note on a display of the user terminal; receiving at least one second user input within the user interface for creating the meeting note; and transmitting information associated with the at least one second user input to the external device to control the external device to share the meeting note created based on the at least one second user input with at least one participant of the online meeting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: LINE Plus Cornoration
    Inventor: Hoyoung Cho
  • Patent number: 11537357
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and/or devices for media context switching among electronic devices are described herein. In one aspect, a method is performed at a first electronic device. A first media item is played. While playing the first media item, a near-field-communication (NFC) channel is established with a second electronic device while the second electronic device is playing a second media item. First contextual data of the first electronic device is transferred via the NFC channel to the second electronic device, wherein the first contextual data corresponds to the first media item. A playback command for the second media item is received. In response to receiving the playback command for the second media item, the first electronic device plays the second media item.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: Spotify AB
    Inventor: Jose Falcon
  • Patent number: 11539915
    Abstract: Confirming transmission of information in a web conference by determining a presenter of a web conference is providing speech to a second computing device based at least in part on a video data, converting the speech of the presenter to textual data, transmitting information of the second computing device to a third computing device of a participant, wherein the information of the second computing device includes the speech, the textual data, and images of a display of the second computing device, and determining a match level of the information of the second computing device and output information of the third computing device of the participant, wherein the output information of the third computing device correlates with the information of the second computing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Takeshi Watanabe, Akira Saito, Hayato Uenohara
  • Patent number: 11539918
    Abstract: Manipulating an image in an immersive video conference space includes associating an anchor to a background of the immersive video conference space, static interior objects in the immersive video conference space, and/or dynamic interior objects in the immersive video conference space or an area within a display pane of the immersive video conference space and actuating an anchor activation control that causes the image to move to a position of the anchor. The image may be an image of the presenter. The presenter may provide a gesture that actuates the anchor activation. The gesture may be a keyboard shortcut or a touch gesture. The touch gesture may be a tap, a swipe, or a tap and hold. The image may move to the position of the anchor along a transitional route. The image may change appearance as the image moves to the position of the anchor along the transitional route.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: mmhmm inc.
    Inventor: Phil Libin
  • Patent number: 11538332
    Abstract: An emergency system can access a variety of situational data items, such as video streams, facility information, and present and past incident data. The emergency system identifies data items that may be relevant to a particular incident and provides the relevant data items in one or more user interfaces. For example, the emergency system identifies relevant data items based on the reported location of the incident and the type of incident. As additional incident information is received or entered by telecommunicators, the emergency system can further filter and surface data items likely to be useful in responding to the incident. Certain data items may only be permitted to be viewed by certain types of users, or under certain conditions. The emergency system may ensure that data items are provided to authorized users and in permitted use cases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: RapidDeploy, Inc.
    Inventors: Steven Raucher, Brett Meyerowitz, Brooks Thomas Shannon
  • Patent number: 11539807
    Abstract: The present application is directed to systems and methods for associating cookies of a linking system to a device identifier of the computing device. A server of a linking system can receive, from a browser of a computing device, a first request to access content via an encoded uniform resource locator (URL) link generated by the server and linked to a web page of the linking system. The server can redirect the browser of the computing device to the web page of the linking system. The server can receive a request to associate a cookie passed to a mobile application installed on the computing device with a device identifier of the computing device. The server can then associate the cookie with the device identifier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: Bitly, Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher Comstock, Robert Platzer
  • Patent number: 11539687
    Abstract: A message right management method, and a device and storage medium for implementing the method, are provided. The message right management method includes obtaining a message created by a source user, and sending a message notification to a target user in a social platform. The method further includes verifying the target user when receiving a request for logging onto a message page from the target user, and controlling logon of the target user to the message page on the basis of a verification result. The method further includes, when receiving a service request of the target user with respect to the message, determining, based on a message right control policy, whether the target user has a right corresponding to a service requested by the service request, and controlling a response to the service request according to a determining result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Yao Guang Chen, Bo Dong Liu
  • Patent number: 11531574
    Abstract: A method of creating an interactive application network includes displaying, by a processor, a workspace and a toolbox on a display screen, instantiating, by the processor, a first interaction container to display a first output in response to a first user input, instantiating, by the processor, a second interaction container to display a second output based on the first output, in response to a second user input, the second user input being a user interaction with the first interactive container, and linking, by the processor, the first interactive container with the second interactive container via an interactive link to form the interactive application network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: CIMPLRX CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Sung Jin Cho
  • Patent number: 11531916
    Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure involve systems, methods, devices, and the like for presenting a recommendation. In one embodiment, a system is introduced that includes a plurality of models for obtaining a recommendation score. The recommendation score may be obtained using one or more models which can include supervised and unsupervised learning as well as a combination of user information and transactions. In another embodiment, the system is introduced that can provide a total recommendation score and recommendation generated by an ensemble model whose input can include the one or more recommendation scores previously obtained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: PayPal, Inc.
    Inventors: Dinesh Kumar, Yuanyuan Pan, Prashant Gaurav, Fransisco Kurniadi, Kevin Ward, Yue Xin, Krishnakumar Govindarajalu, Kimberly Kidney, Tao Sun
  • Patent number: 11533281
    Abstract: The disclosed systems and methods join a user to a primary communication channel that is associated with an automated human interface module. The automated human interface module includes a plurality of nodes. A message including a text communication is posted by the user and sent to a decision module associated with a plurality of classifiers. The decision module is configured to identify a node that best matches the text communication in accordance with the plurality of classifiers. Each respective classifier produces a respective classifier result thereby producing a plurality of classifier results. Each respective classifier result identifies a respective node of the plurality of nodes best matching the text communication. The plurality of classifier results is collectively considered, and the node best matching the text communication is identified and the text communication is sent to the identified node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: Pypestream Inc.
    Inventors: Soren Larson, Richard Smullen, Joerg Habermeier
  • Patent number: 11529555
    Abstract: Example game systems and methods are described. In one implementation, a sensing device determines an identity of a game piece in a physical space and detects a movement action associated with the game piece. A computing device calculates a distance and direction associated with the movement action and determines a result of the movement action based on the distance, the direction, and the identity of the game piece.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Inventor: Steven Thomas Holmes
  • Patent number: 11526263
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a processor configured to make a transition from a provided screen, which is provided by a second service that cooperates with a first service that is being executed, to a first screen in a case where a first screen constituent element for receiving an instruction to display the first screen is selected on the provided screen, and not to display a second screen in a case where a second screen constituent element for receiving an instruction to display the second screen is selected on the provided screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventor: Ryoko Hashimoto
  • Patent number: 11520927
    Abstract: Systems, devices or methods provide for control of sensitive data in a computer system that includes at least one central server communicatively-coupled to a plurality of client computers. A particular method relates to the execution of software code on the at least one central server to monitor data communications of the plurality of client computers for sensitive data. A subset of the data communications is restricted when sensitive data is detected. Configuration data is provided to each of the plurality of client computers. Software code is executed on each of the plurality of client computers to detect accesses to sensitive data by one or more applications running on a client computer. Actions of the one or more applications running on a client computer are monitored to determine whether or not a trigger event has occurred. In response to determining that the trigger event has occurred, a notification is sent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: 8x8, Inc.
    Inventor: Mehdi Salour
  • Patent number: 11522933
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus and an information processing method that enable uplink streaming to be performed adaptively. In an information processing system, a communication module that performs protocol negotiation for content uplink stream transmits to a different communication device a Service object that includes information regarding stream of a content for use in the protocol negotiation, receives from the different communication device information for negotiation transmitted on the basis of the Service object, and performs control protocol negotiation for the content uplink stream with the different communication device. The present technology can be applied to a communication system that performs uplink streaming, for example.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yasuaki Yamagishi, Kazuhiko Takabayashi
  • Patent number: 11516317
    Abstract: A method of processing data in a network is disclosed. The method comprises transmitting, from a first server to a second server, first information characterising a first predefined format according to which first data is stored at a first data store; obtaining, at the second server, mapping information characterising a mapping of the first predefined format onto a second predefined format different to the first predefined format; generating, at the second server, based on the first information and the mapping information, second information for converting data in the first predefined format into data in the second predefined format; transmitting, from the second server to the first server, the second information; and parsing, at the first server, using the second information, the first data stored at the first data store, to generate data in the second predefined format. Apparatuses are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: Novatiq Technologies Limited
    Inventors: Andrew Rowlands, Krishna Sarma
  • Patent number: 11516156
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus related to determining reply content for a reply to an electronic communication. Some implementations are directed generally toward analyzing a corpus of electronic communications to determine relationships between one or more original message features of “original” messages of electronic communications and reply content that is included in “reply” messages of those electronic communications. Some implementations are directed generally toward providing reply text to include in a reply to a communication based on determined relationships between one or more message features of the communication and the reply text.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Phillip Neal Sharp, Prabhakar Raghavan, Thompson Alexander Ivor Gawley, Balint Miklos, Karol Kurach, Tobias Kaufmann, Gregory Sean Corrado, László Lukács
  • Patent number: 11516251
    Abstract: Managing file distribution in an online file sharing system implemented by at least one server includes inviting a first entity to access a shared file hosted by the online file sharing system, and allowing the first entity to reshare the shared the through the online file sharing system with at least a second entity only to an extent permitted by a resharing policy stored by the online file sharing system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Mary Ellen Zurko, David J. Toth, Satwiksai Seshasai, Charles P. de Saint-Aignan, Christopher J. Paul
  • Patent number: 11510633
    Abstract: A method, system, and/or apparatus for automatically monitoring for possible infection or other physical health concerns, such as from Covid-19. The method or implementing software application uses or relies upon location information available on the mobile device from any source, such as cell phone usage and/or other device applications. The method and system automatically uses and/or learns user location and activity patterns and determines and infection risk that can be communicated as a warning to community members.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: AURA HOME, INC.
    Inventors: Ophir Frieder, Abdur Chowdhury, Eric Jensen
  • Patent number: 11514115
    Abstract: In an example, a plurality of potential feed objects are obtained. An identification of a user performing a navigation command in a user interface is also obtained, the navigation command causing a feed to be displayed or updated. The identification of the user and the plurality of potential feed objects are fed to a machine learned feed object ranking model, the feed object ranking model having been trained via a machine learning algorithm to calculate a score for each of the potential feed objects, the score being based on a combination of a likelihood that the user will perform an interaction, via the user interface, on the potential feed object, likelihoods that the user's interaction will cause one or more downstream events by other users, and a value of the one or more downstream events to a social networking service. The plurality of feed objects are ranked by their scores.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Souvik Ghosh, Timothy Paul Jurka, Sergei Tolmanov, Yijie Wang
  • Patent number: 11516175
    Abstract: A method and system for facilitating managing digital content is provided. Further, the method comprises receiving digital content, a supplemental content identifier, and a plurality of target identifiers corresponding to a plurality of target consumer devices from the one source user device, identifying a plurality of destination servers associated with the plurality of target identifiers, identifying a supplemental content based on the supplemental content identifier, processing the digital content based on a plurality of platform characteristics corresponding to the plurality of destination servers embedding the supplemental content in the digital content, generating the supplemental content in the digital content, generating a plurality of digital content based on the processing, transmitting, the plurality of digital content to the plurality of destination servers, and authenticating a consumer with the of destination servers based on a credentials.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: HALO INNOVATIVE SOLUTIONS LLC
    Inventors: Kirk Brown, Casey Teddell Kelly
  • Patent number: 11513768
    Abstract: An information processing device including a specifying unit configured to, based on a speech of a user, specify a selected spot that is intended by the user from visual information that is displayed, wherein the specifying unit is configured to specify the selected spot based on a non-verbal action and a verbal action of the user, is provided. Furthermore, an information processing method including, by a processor, based on a speech of a user, specifying a selected spot that is intended by the user from visual information that is displayed, wherein the specifying includes specifying the selected spot based on a non-verbal action and a verbal action of the user, is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shinichi Kawano, Ryouhei Yasuda
  • Patent number: 11511196
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer readable media for predictive preloading of game data are described. In some implementations, a method can include using a machine learning model of player data to predict which games (or game-related data assets) to begin preloading prior to a user making a game selection. Once the user makes a selection, any preloading not related to the selection can be terminated. Thus, during the time period when the user is viewing available game selections, a given number of selections can begin to be preloaded based on predictions from the machine learning model. The preloading can help reduce latency from game selection by the user to game start time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: Roblox Corporation
    Inventor: John Kerr
  • Patent number: 11516432
    Abstract: A system controls a teleconferencing device by detecting a current operating state of the teleconferencing device and detecting a contact with a touch-screen device associated with a selection of an audio and a visual input, a selection of an option from a list of options that performs an action in the teleconferencing device, or a transferring of a virtual object between a plurality of devices. The system continuously senses a gesture across the touch-screen device by identifying a first contact with the touch-screen, a distance of a continuous contact with the touch screen, and a last contact with the touch-screen. The process executes a command associated with the selection of an audio and a visual input, the selection of an option from a list of options that performs an action in the teleconferencing device, or the transferring of a virtual object between a plurality of devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: DTEN, Inc.
    Inventors: Wei Liu, Jin Guo, Sally Tung
  • Patent number: 11509697
    Abstract: Some embodiments relate to a method implemented by a first terminal for setting up a session with a second terminal. An identifier of a session server is obtained at least from a subscriber device in the first terminal which comprises a subscriber identifier and an operator identifier. A session request and an identifier of the second terminal are sent to the server. At least one instruction is received from the server and a message comprising a first set, relative to the first terminal, of at least one characteristic parameter of the requested session is generated in accordance with at least one instruction received and sent to the server. A message is received from the server comprising a second set of at least one characteristic parameter of the requested session, the second set relating to the second terminal and having a non-zero overlap with the first set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: ORANGE
    Inventor: Bruno Chatras
  • Patent number: 11509624
    Abstract: A local area network tracking system and method of use is described herein. An exemplary embodiment of the system comprises a central tracker server that registers and tracks third-party vendor kiosks when the kiosks connect to a retail store local area network. The unique tracker server system is configured to efficiently route web application traffic on the same retail store local area network. The tracker server stores a local IP address and a unique identifier for each vendor kiosk connected to a particular retail store network. Customers connected to the network are routed to the tracker server to obtain the IP address for a suitable vendor kiosk, with which the customer can establish a direct wireless connection to that kiosk over the retail store network. The system described herein can be implemented without modifying any aspect of the retail store LAN infrastructure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: KODAK ALARIS INC.
    Inventor: Mark R. Repka
  • Patent number: 11507617
    Abstract: Disclosed are some implementations of systems, apparatus, methods and computer program products for extracting topics from a corpus of exchanges. The system generates vector representations of utterances of an entity common to the exchanges and uses the vector representations to cluster the utterances. The system labels the clusters and uses the labeled clusters to generate an exchange label sequence for each of the exchanges, where each exchange label sequence corresponds to a sequence of utterances generated by the entity. The system processes the exchange label sequences to generate one or more subsets of the utterances, where each of the subsets corresponds to a particular topic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: Salesforce, Inc.
    Inventors: Zachary Alexander, Na Cheng
  • Patent number: 11509483
    Abstract: According to a first aspect of the present invention, there is provide a method of electronically signing content. Content to be signed and an attribute sharing item are presented at a signing device associated with a signer. It is detected that the signer has accessed the attribute sharing item to provide one or more identity attributes which uniquely identify the signer. It is also detected that the signer has initiated a signing action at the signing device. The signing action and the identity attributes are transmitted to a signing service which is configured to create an electronic signature including encrypting the content to be signed and the one or more identity attribute.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: Yoti Holding Limited
    Inventor: Alttaf Hussain
  • Patent number: 11507585
    Abstract: An event processing system for distributing a continuous query, and processing events in an event stream, is disclosed. The system can synchronize timestamps across all partitions by adding a heartbeat propagator component propagating a heartbeat signal for silent partitions. The system can further include a timestamp tracker component that tracks the maximum observed timestamp across all partitions for each batch, and sends this to each partition. The system can distribute partitions of the events to the worker nodes, and instruct a heartbeat propagator component to generate a heartbeat for a first worker node corresponding to an event in a different partition. The system receives outputs from the worker nodes and combines these into a single result corresponding to a continuous query. The system can further implement a timestamp tracker to select a highest timestamp value of a previous batch, and send the value to the worker nodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: ORACLE INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Sandeep Bishnoi, Hoyong Park, Subhrajyoti Choudhury, Yathish Gatty, Devendra Jain, Santosh Kumar, Prabhu Thukkaram
  • Patent number: 11507342
    Abstract: An electronic device, computer program product, and method prioritizes communication between participants in a communication session. A controller configures the electronic device to identifying participants, each respectively using a second electronic device to participate in the communication session. The controller associates a priority rank for each of the participants. The controller monitors for an indication from each of the second electronic devices that a corresponding participant among the participants is attempting to speak to the other participants during the communication session. In response to receiving two or more indications, the controller compares the respective priority ranks of the participants corresponding to the two or more indications. The controller selects the audio stream received from the second electronic device of the particular participant having a highest priority. The controller presents the audio stream to the other participants.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: Motorola Mobility LLC
    Inventors: Amit Kumar Agrawal, Olivier D Meirhaeghe, Rahul B. Desai
  • Patent number: 11507733
    Abstract: Systems and methods of virtual world interaction, operation, implementation, instantiation, creation, and other functions related to virtual worlds (note that where the term “virtual world” is used herein, it is to be understood as referring to virtual world systems, virtual environments reflecting real, simulated, fantasy, or other structures, and includes information systems that utilize interaction within a 3D environment). Various embodiments facilitate interoperation between and within virtual worlds, and may provide consistent structures for operating virtual worlds. The disclosed embodiments may further enable individuals to build new virtual worlds within a framework, and allow third party users to better interact with those worlds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Inventors: Brian Shuster, Aaron Burch, Friso Kristiansen, Ian Neufeld, Dirk Herling, Patrick Tyroler, Gary Shuster