Remote Operation Of Computing Device Patents (Class 715/740)
  • Patent number: 12265680
    Abstract: A virtual trackpad engine is configured to perform a technique for accessing and manipulating distant virtual objects in an XR environment. The technique includes generating, in an extended reality (XR) environment, a virtual model corresponding to a hand of a user. The technique also includes generating a virtual trackpad in the XR environment, where a surface of the virtual trackpad is mapped to a surface of a distant virtual object in the XR environment. Further, the technique includes determining if the virtual trackpad is activated and responsive to a determination that the virtual trackpad is activated, tracking a movement of the virtual hand. The technique further includes determining an action to be performed in relation to the distant virtual object that corresponds to the movement and, subsequently, performing the action.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Samuel Matthew Levatich, Etienne Pinchon
  • Patent number: 12242866
    Abstract: An electronic device includes a first graphics processing subsystem, a second graphics processing subsystem, and a screen. The first graphics processing subsystem includes a first application processor, a first graphics processing unit, and a first memory. The second graphics processing subsystem includes a second application processor, a second graphics processing unit, and a second memory. The first graphics processing unit renders a first GUI. The screen displays the first GUI. The second graphics processing unit renders a second GUI, and the second GUI and the first GUI belong to different interface types. The screen displays the second GUI. A display processing method applied to the electronic device is also provided, wherein the first graphics processing subsystem can be switched to the second graphics processing subsystem based on complexity of a to-be-displayed GUI.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Zhengyuan Hu, Bing Li, Wen Liu, Shuqiang Gong, Zichen Xie
  • Patent number: 12235975
    Abstract: A quick management action system includes a computing device having a management subsystem that is coupled to a management device. The management subsystem provides a management subsystem Graphical User Interface (GUI) launch page for display on the management device, receives credentials and an identification of a management action associated with the computing device from the management device via the management subsystem GUI launch page. The management subsystem then, automatically while the management subsystem GUI launch page is provided for display on the management device, authenticates the credentials, authorizes the management action based on the credentials and, in response, performs the management action, and provides information associated with a result of the performance of the management action for display on the management subsystem GUI launch page.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Vivek S, Shine Karingattil Achuthan, Sasikumar Subramani
  • Patent number: 12218798
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and media for generating a virtual gaming environment. Specifically, an instance of a virtual gaming environment is generated and hosted on a server. Responsive to communicatively connecting a first and second user computing devices, a virtual gaming environment is populated with at least a first virtual avatar, a virtual desktop, a second virtual avatar, and a second virtual desktop. It is determined that the first virtual avatar is within a first predetermined distance of the second desktop, and based on this, a resolution at which to render a visual representation of activities being executed by a second user computing device associated with the second desktop is determined. A bandwidth at which the visual representation is renderable in real time at the determined resolution is calculated. The visual representation is transmitted, utilizing the calculated bandwidth, to the first user computing device at the determined resolution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2024
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: LAN PARTY TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Daniel Ryan Hesse, II, Michael Allen Lester
  • Patent number: 12189736
    Abstract: In one implementation, a method of authenticating a user is performed by a first device including a camera, an eye tracker, one or more processors, and non-transitory memory. The method includes obtaining, via the camera, an image of a physical environment. The method includes detecting, in the image of the physical environment, a second device. The method includes determining, using the eye tracker, a gaze of a user. The method includes determining that the gaze of the user is directed to the second device. The method includes, in response to determining that the gaze of the user is directed to the second device, transmitting authentication credentials to the second device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Thomas G. Salter, Rahul Nair
  • Patent number: 12177289
    Abstract: A remote assistance method includes: a first device as an assisted device obtains first information and starts a first remote assistance application in the first device, where the first information includes an application identifier of a second application for controlling a second device and an identifier for indicating that the second device supports a remote control; the first device sends a remote assistance request to a third device as an assisting device using the first remote assistance application, where the remote assistance request carries the application identifier; the third device receives the remote assistance request and starts a second remote assistance application, where a control interface of the second application is displayed in the second remote assistance application; and a control instruction is received on the control interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Zhihui Yang, Liwei Huang
  • Patent number: 12177274
    Abstract: Facilitating collaboration in a multiuser communication session includes detecting initiation of an interaction between a user of a first device and a virtual object in a multiuser communication session, where the first device and a second device are active in the multiuser communication session, and where state information is synchronized among the first device and second device in the multiuser communication session. In accordance with detecting the initiation of an interaction between the user and the virtual object, synchronization of state information is suspended by the first device, where the state information is related to the interaction between the user and the virtual object. A representation of the multiuser communication session at the first device and a representation of the multiuser communication session at the second device are inconsistent in accordance with the suspended synchronization of the state information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2024
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Luis R. Deliz Centeno, Joseph P. Cerra
  • Patent number: 12169846
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes accessing a website of a known merchant and creating an active shopping cart on the website of the known merchant. The method further includes applying a discount code at a UI element of the website for inputting discount codes, collecting a network trace of the applied discount code, and translating the network trace of the applied discount code to an ECMA class format.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignee: Checkmate Savings Inc.
    Inventors: Cody George, Rory Garton-Smith, Elliot Rampono
  • Patent number: 12159711
    Abstract: A method includes receiving a selection of an examination template including a hierarchical examination workflow and baseline configuration parameters corresponding to the examination template, wherein the examination template is associated with an anatomical area; automatically configuring an imaging system with the baseline configuration parameters from the examination template; capturing image data of a patient using the imaging system according to the hierarchical examination workflow; storing the image data on a storage system, such that the image data is associated with the anatomical area; displaying an anatomical model of a plurality of anatomical areas of the patient; and displaying thumbnails of the image data on respective areas of the anatomical model corresponding to anatomical areas of the patient where the image data was captured by the imaging system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2024
    Assignee: Shenzhen Mindray Bio-Medical Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Glen W. McLaughlin, Ludwig Steffgen, Anne Shelchuk
  • Patent number: 12156170
    Abstract: A plurality of smart city devices are configured using an application running on a mobile device. The method includes installing a particular smart city device and automatically identifying a geo-location of the particular smart city device by identifying a current geo-location of the mobile device using a location service of the mobile device. Configuration information for the particular smart city device is entered using a user interface of the mobile device. The geo-location and the configuration information of the particular smart city device are saved in the mobile device. The installing, entering, recognizing and storing steps are repeated for each of a number of the plurality of smart city devices. The saved geo-location and the configuration information for each of the number of smart city devices are uploaded from the mobile device to a remote server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Assignee: HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INC.
    Inventors: Deepak Sundar Meganathan, Muthu Mariyappan G, Nellaivadivu Paphanasum
  • Patent number: 12148110
    Abstract: Interaction-based ecosystems are presented. Interaction analysis engine analyze media content to derive a set of media features. The engine can then identify one or more interaction objects (e.g., transactions, searches, game play, etc.) based on the set of media features. Relevant interaction objects can then be instantiated as persistent available or active points of interaction readily accessed by a consumer. The consumer need only capture a digital representation of the content via a user device, a smart phone for example. A second set of media features can be derived from the digital representation and the second set of media features can then be used to find the instantiated interactions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Assignee: NANT HOLDINGS IP, LLC
    Inventor: Patrick Soon-Shiong
  • Patent number: 12137095
    Abstract: A limited input device, such as a camera, is authenticated based on a request received from an authenticated application. The camera provides an authorization code to the authenticated application and receives an access token. The access token is associated with a user account. The access token is received based on a verification of the authorization code. The camera transmits one or more images associated with the user account to the first device based on the verification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2024
    Assignee: GoPro, Inc.
    Inventor: Christopher Hein
  • Patent number: 12137393
    Abstract: A wireless communication system has an access point managing a first wireless local area network. To transmit the frame, the access point: obtains data to be transmitted in multicast mode; obtains data to be transmitted in unicast mode; and constructs a physical-layer header including: in a common signalling field, an identification of each channel resource intended to be used for making the frame transmission, whether this be for the data to be transmitted in unicast mode or in multicast mode; and, in each field in a series of specific signalling fields, information representing an association between a channel resource identifier used and a unique identifier of the destination concerned or group of destinations concerned. Thus each destination can determine each channel resource to listen to in order to receive the data that are addressed to it, whether this be in unicast mode or in multicast mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2024
    Assignee: SAGEMCOM BROADBAND SAS
    Inventors: Pierre Sabatier, Romain Dejardin, Massinissa Lalam
  • Patent number: 12112671
    Abstract: An electronic device includes a communication module configured to communicate with an external device having a battery capacity greater than a battery capacity of the electronic device, a display, and at least one processor. The processor is configured to control the communication module to transmit a communication start request to the external device, and in a case where the electronic device receives notification information from the external device, change an operation mode of the electronic device from a first mode to a second mode. The display performs displaying a normal operation of the electronic device in the first mode, and the display performs displaying based on the notification information in the second mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Noriyuki Kitta, Hiroyoshi Ogawa, Masatoshi Watanuki
  • Patent number: 12080421
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to aggregating and sharing wellness data. The wellness data can be received by a user device from any number of sensors external or internal to the user device, from a user manually entering the wellness data, or from other users or entities. The user device can securely store the wellness data on the user device and transmit the wellness data to be stored on a remote database. A user of the device can share some or all of the wellness data with friends, relatives, caregivers, healthcare providers, or the like. The user device can further display a user's wellness data in an aggregated view of different types of wellness data. Wellness data of other users can also be viewed if authorizations from those users have been received.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Aroon Pahwa, Adam L. Beberg, Anton M. Davydov, Dylan R. Edwards, Christine M. Eun, Stephanie M. Greer, Daniel S. Keen, Zachery W. Kennedy, Stephen O. Lemay, Kevin M. Lynch, Natalia C. Maric, Zachury B. Minjack, Afshad M. Mistri, Divya Nag, Gregory B. Novick, Michael O'Reilly, Dennis S. Park, Donald W. Pitschel, Christopher D. Soli, Rebecca L. Weber, Lawrence Y. Yang, Jay K. Blahnik
  • Patent number: 12079153
    Abstract: Generally, this disclosure provides systems, devices, methods and computer readable media for dynamic configuration and enforcement of access lanes to I/O controllers. The System may include a plurality of Input/Output (I/O) controllers and a plurality of lanes. The system may also include a lane mapping module configured to multiplex at least one of the I/O controllers to at least one of the lanes based on a configuration. The system may further include a first processor configured to detect a change request, the change request to modify the configuration from an existing configuration to a new configuration; and a second processor configured to: verify that the new configuration is valid based on a stock keeping unit (SKU) associated with the system; and, if the verification is successful, store the new configuration in non-volatile memory and reset the system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Balaji Parthasarathy, Ramamurthy Krithivas, Bradley Burres, Pawel Szymanski, Yi-Feng Liu
  • Patent number: 12073141
    Abstract: A driving system and a driving method for driving a display wall are disclosed. The driving system includes signal transforming units, interface transforming units, sub-display screen driving circuits and sub-displays. The driving system is simple. It means that a small number of circuit boards are required to achieving the driving of the display wall and thus the cost is reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2024
    Assignee: TCL China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Kai Wang
  • Patent number: 12073523
    Abstract: Interaction-based ecosystems are presented. Interaction analysis engine analyze media content to derive a set of media features. The engine can then identify one or more interaction objects (e.g., transactions, searches, game play, etc.) based on the set of media features. Relevant interaction objects can then be instantiated as persistent available or active points of interaction readily accessed by a consumer. The consumer need only capture a digital representation of the content via a user device, a smart phone for example. A second set of media features can be derived from the digital representation and the second set of media features can then be used to find the instantiated interactions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2024
    Assignee: NANT HOLDINGS IP, LLC
    Inventor: Patrick Soon-Shiong
  • Patent number: 12067389
    Abstract: A method of using a dongle connects the dongle to a USB port of a building equipment system. Once connected, remote communication with the building equipment system may be achieved via the dongle, and firmware may be downloaded to a processor of the building equipment from the dongle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: CARRIER CORPORATION
    Inventor: Gaurav Pramod Holey
  • Patent number: 12067174
    Abstract: In some embodiments, a method includes: receiving, by a first computing device, text composed using a composition window of a second computing device; entering, by the first computing device, the composed text into a text input of an application executing on the first computing device; determining, by the first computing device, one or more attributes of a cursor of the text input, the one or more attributes of the cursor including at least a position of the cursor; and sending, by the first computing device, the one or more attributes of the cursor to the second computing device, the second computing device configured to display the application and to position the composition window relative to the displayed application based on the position of the cursor determined by the first computing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: Citrix Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Wang Yiming, Tao Yin, Cungang Lin, Hao Wu, Sujie Li
  • Patent number: 12067188
    Abstract: Sensing circuitry of a first electronic device can be configured to sense a signal transmitted by the second, external electronic device contacting and coupling through the body of the user. The first electronic device can be configured to detect the contact while receiving data from the second device, and determine whether the signal transmitted by the external device corresponds an “intentional touch,” or corresponds to a signal coupling between a different body part and the external device or through a different signal pathway (e.g., electromagnetically, through the air, etc.).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Jared L. Zerbe, Brian H. Tsang, Timothy M. Johnson, Bryan D. Raines, Zaid M. Nadeem, Andy J. Zhou, Xinhao Wang
  • Patent number: 12051413
    Abstract: Systems and processes for intelligent device identification are provided. In one example process, audio input may be sampled with a microphone at each of two or more of the plurality of electronic devices. A first electronic device of the plurality of electronic devices for determining a task associated with sampled audio input may be identified. The process may determine the task based on the sampled audio input with the first electronic device and identify identifying a second electronic device of the plurality of electronic devices for performing the task. The task be performed with the second electronic device. The second electronic device is not the first electronic device in some examples.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Brandon J. Newendorp, Lia T. Napolitano
  • Patent number: 12026434
    Abstract: A method for providing an updated digital building model is provided. The method includes the following steps: a) providing a digital building model for a physical building, b) ascertaining a virtually accessible area within the digital building model, c) capturing real data obtained by a number N of data sources, where N?1, wherein the real data include data from a real accessible area within the physical building that corresponds to the virtually accessible area, and d) updating the virtually accessible area within the digital building model by the captured real data of the real accessible area to provide the updated digital building model. This means that when there is a need to evacuate a physical building, there are updated virtually accessible areas present, and hence these can be taken as a basis for providing an updated evacuation plan for evacuating people.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2024
    Assignee: Siemens Schweiz AG
    Inventors: Wolfram Klein, Christian Frey, Hermann Georg Mayer
  • Patent number: 12014193
    Abstract: A system and a method are described. The method comprises: establishing a remote desktop session between a first system and a second remotely located system having access to the remote application; the establishing including setting up a virtual channel for communication of data relating to graphical user interface interactions at the first system to the second system; preparing a command for execution by the remote application, the command including a command identifier and being configured to require a response; transmitting the command for the remote application from the first system to the second system via the virtual channel; receiving the command at the second system and providing the command to the remote application seeking to execute the command; generating a response to the provision of the command to the remote application, the response including the command identifier; and sending the response to the first system via the virtual channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Assignee: Ultima Business Solutions Limited
    Inventors: Simon Bond, Amyn Jaffer
  • Patent number: 12008388
    Abstract: Systems and methods of transferring data from memory to manage graphical output latency are provided. A device having a display receives an acoustic signal that carries a query. The device determines that a wireless controller is in a first state. The device establishes, based on receipt of the acoustic signal and the determination that the wireless controller device is in the first state, a first interaction mode for a graphical user interface rendered by the computing device for display via the display device. The device sets a prefetch parameter to a first value and prefetches the corresponding amount of electronic content items. The device establishes a second interaction mode and overrides the first value of the prefetch parameter to a second value, and prefetches a second amount of electronic content items corresponding to the second value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2024
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Jian Wei Leong, Leo Baghdassarian, Lucas Hiroshi De Carvalho Hirata
  • Patent number: 12010276
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a storage unit that stores a first and a second setting item group in association with a first and a second use environment, respectively, included in a plurality of use environments, a reception unit that receives a selection regarding the plurality of use environments from a user, a setting unit that sets the image processing apparatus using a plurality of setting values corresponding to a use environment identified by the selection, and an output unit that outputs the first setting item group in a case where the use environment is the first use environment, and outputs the second setting item group in a case where the use environment is the second use environment, wherein a plurality of setting items corresponding to the plurality of setting values used by the setting unit is not included in the first and second setting item groups.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2024
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Takafumi Mizuno
  • Patent number: 11989476
    Abstract: Systems and methods for remotely monitoring display assemblies are provided. Each of the electronic display assemblies includes sensors in electronic communication with a controller, which is in electronic communication with a network communication device. At a monitoring center, different customer identifiers are associated with different portions of data, a particular customer identifier is received from a customer device, the portions of the data associated with the particular customer identifier are identified for transmission to the customer device, and one or more user displays are generated with the identified data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: Manufacturing Resources International, Inc.
    Inventors: Elliot Newnham, Brock Bearchell, William Dunn
  • Patent number: 11983555
    Abstract: Systems and methods for storage snapshots for nested virtual machines. An example method may comprise running, by a host computer system, a hypervisor managing a first virtual machine associated with a first virtual device. Responsive to creating a second virtual machine by the hypervisor, requesting, by the first virtual machine, a first snapshot of the first virtual device. The hypervisor generates the first snapshot of the first virtual device and forwards the first snapshot of the first virtual device to the second virtual machine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: Red Hat, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Tsirkin, Amnon Ilan
  • Patent number: 11973735
    Abstract: Technologies are described related to communication interfaces for wearable devices. User experience with wearable devices may be enhanced through tailored views for communications, calendar items, actions associated with those, where the views and presentations may be dynamically selected and adjusted based on context, user, location, and device capabilities. Smart notifications and user-friendly note taking functionality may be enabled also based on context, user, location, and device capabilities. Other scenarios may be unlocked based on proximity and/or sensor data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Vignesh Sachidanandam, Gary Caldwell, Gautam Kedia, Hiroshi Tsukahara, Ned Bearer Friend, Zachary Kahn
  • Patent number: 11956395
    Abstract: An image-forming apparatus includes a detachable consumable; a printer that prints an image using the consumable; and a controller that determines whether control information that is set for the consumable and that is for control of the printer exists. The controller extracts, when it is determined that the control information corresponding to the consumable does not exist, image information from an image of a predetermined test pattern printed by the printer, and acquires the control information generated based on the extracted image information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takashi Usui, Tomoki Minamikawa
  • Patent number: 11949564
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and media for generating a virtual gaming environment. Specifically, an instance of a virtual gaming environment is generated and hosted on a server. Responsive to communicatively connecting a first and second user computing devices, a virtual gaming environment is populated with at least a first virtual avatar, a virtual desktop, a second virtual avatar, and a second virtual desktop. It is determined that the first virtual avatar is within a first predetermined distance of the second desktop, and based on this, a resolution at which to render a visual representation of activities being executed by a second user computing device associated with the second desktop is determined. A bandwidth at which the visual representation is renderable in real time at the determined resolution is calculated. The visual representation is transmitted, utilizing the calculated bandwidth, to the first user computing device at the determined resolution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: LAN PARTY TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventor: Daniel Ryan Hesse, II
  • Patent number: 11944906
    Abstract: Modified video is distributed to a viewer of a computer-implemented game by causing a processor to distribute, toward a terminal device of a viewer, a first video including an animation of a first avatar of a distributor generated based on motion data; distribute, toward the terminal device, a second video related to a computer-implemented game generated with operation data using a received web page; receive, from the terminal device, token data indicative of a token sent to the distributor from the viewer during execution of one unit section of the game; and distribute, toward the terminal device, the second video including, during one time section occurring after the one unit section of the game ends and before a next unit section of the game begins, a rendering of a token object selected based on the token data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: GREE, Inc.
    Inventors: Naoki Takahashi, Kai Sato, Yosuke Kanaya
  • Patent number: 11928380
    Abstract: Display assemblies, systems, and methods are provided for reporting customer-specific information. A controller is in electronic communication with an electronic display and is configured to associate portions of data regarding operations of at least the electronic display with client identifiers such that at least two portions of the data are associated with different client identifiers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Manufacturing Resources International, Inc.
    Inventors: Elliot Newnham, Brock Bearchell
  • Patent number: 11907612
    Abstract: Volume limiting systems and methods are operable to limit volume output from media presentation devices. An exemplary embodiment detects a sound using a microphone, wherein the sound corresponds to an audio output of at least one controlled media presentation device, and wherein the microphone is remotely located from the at least one controlled media presentation device; compares a level of the detected sound with a predefined maximum volume limit; generates a volume output limit command in response to the detected sound exceeding the predefined maximum volume limit; and communicates the volume output limit command to the media presentation device. The media presentation device then reduces a volume level of its audio output. In some instances, volume may be limited during user specified periods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: DISH Technologies L.L.C.
    Inventor: Bernard A. McCarthy
  • Patent number: 11909732
    Abstract: A server computer hosting an extended reality world receives a first transmission over a communication network from a computing device associated with a user, the first transmission including a request for the user to access the extended reality world. The server computer transmits a presentation of the extended reality world to the communication device over the communications network based at least in part on the request, and displays the presentation of the extended reality world on the computing device, where the presentation includes at least an avatar associated with the user. The server computer receives a command for the avatar to store a phrase selected by the user in a location associated with a virtual object within the extended reality world. The server computer displays, within the presentation of the extended reality world on the computing device, the avatar storing the phrase at the location in the extended reality world.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Intuit Inc.
    Inventor: Michael William Mitchell
  • Patent number: 11907013
    Abstract: At an electronic device, detecting a compatible external device, where the external device is executing or has executed a first application. The detection may be made wirelessly. The electronic device also receives usage information regarding the first application from the external device. Display an affordance for user selection based on the received information. When the affordance is selected, launch a second application on the electronic device, the second application corresponding to the first application. In some examples, the second application is a different version of the first application. Launching the second application may additionally include bringing the second application to the same state as the first application. For example, if e-mail is being drafted on the external device, the electronic device may launch an e-mail editor showing the draft. In this way, a user can seamlessly transition from the use of one electronic device to another electronic device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Lawrence Y. Yang, Patrick L Coffman, Craig M. Federighi
  • Patent number: 11900299
    Abstract: A collaboration platform for implicitly determining user collaborations in real time or near real time is disclosed. The collaboration platform monitors event records generated based on user interactions with various team-based tools/collaborative applications to generate collaboration scores that provide a real time picture of a user's interactions with other users, and a user's interactions with content/objects/projects in the tools/collaborative applications. The collaboration platform also monitors user interactions with specific sub-projects to determine at any given time the users actively involved in any given project or sub-project.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignees: ATLASSIAN PTY LTD., ATLASSIAN US, INC.
    Inventors: Shihab Hassan Hamid, Addo Wondo, Geoff Sims, Hao Ye, Gaurav Awadhwal, Penyo Atanasov, Ahmed Saad, Simon Hugo Robilliard, Alexander McCarthy, Sreeraj Arakkal
  • Patent number: 11900423
    Abstract: An image retrieval apparatus acquires an image to be processed, the image to be processed including at least one article. The image retrieval apparatus specifies, as an association image, a product image of a product having an evaluation value that has a predetermined relationship with an evaluation value of the article included in the image to be processed, from among product images of a plurality of products each belonging to a particular category, the particular category being different from a category to which the article included in the image to be processed belongs. The image to be processed and the specified association image may be output in association with each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Akihiro Kakinuma, Tomoyasu Aizaki, Naohiro Kamijo
  • Patent number: 11880481
    Abstract: A system includes a memory and a processor. The memory is in communication with the processor and configured to initialize a secure interface configured to provide access to a virtual machine (VM) from a device, where the VM is associated with a level of security. A buffer is allocated and associated with the secure interface, where the level of security of the VM indicates whether the device has access to guest memory of the VM via the buffer. The buffer is then provided to the device. Inputs/outputs (I/Os) are sent between the device and the VM using the secure interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: Red Hat, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Tsirkin, Sergio Lopez Pascual
  • Patent number: 11861040
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including an apparatus for managing user data according to user consent settings are described. In some aspects, a method includes determining that a request for transmission by a client device to a recipient will include user data of a user of the client device. In response determining that the request will include the user data, the method includes requesting, from a consent management module of the client device, current user consent settings specified by the user which define at least one of (i) user data that can be transmitted from the client device, (ii) how user data transmitted from the client device can be used or (iii) which recipients can receive and retain user data from the client device. The method further includes receiving, from the consent management module, the current user consent settings and generating request data according the current user consent settings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Gang Wang, Yian Gao
  • Patent number: 11825149
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product embodiments for designing a channel's interface. An embodiment operates by a client device—(i) receiving an input for designing the channel's interface; (ii) determining an input event based on the input; (iii) creating a command based on the input event; and (iv) routing the command to a host device so that the host device determines a feature of the channel therefrom. Another embodiment operates by a host device—(i) receiving a command for a design for the channel's interface from a client device, the command may comprise a unique identifier and based on user input provided on the client device; (ii) identifying the command based on the command's unique identifier; (iii) determining a response based on the command; (iv) determining a feature of the channel based on the response; and (v) incorporating the feature into the interface of the channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: Roku, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert Burdick, Roman Parashchyn, Yurii Shkrobut, Olena Mykula, Yurii Polishchuk
  • Patent number: 11803344
    Abstract: Display assemblies, systems, and methods for remote monitoring of display assemblies are provided. The display assemblies each include a network connection device in electronic communication with a controller in electronic communication with one or more electronic displays and components for operation. A monitoring center receives data from the display assemblies regarding operation, associates different customer identifiers with different portions of the received data, receives a particular customer identifier from a customer device, and electronically identifies the portions of the data associated with the particular customer identifier for transmission to the customer device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: Manufacturing Resources International, Inc.
    Inventors: Elliott Newnham, Brock Bearchell, William Dunn
  • Patent number: 11802951
    Abstract: Disclosed is an electronic device that includes a display, a communication module, at least one microphone, at least one speaker, a processor operatively coupled to the display, the communication module, the microphone, and the speaker, and a memory operatively coupled to the processor. The memory may store instructions, when executed, causing the processor to transmit, through the speaker, a first audio sound including first information, receive, through the microphone, a second audio sound including second information responding to the first information from a first external electronic device, transmit, through the speaker, a third audio sound including third information for acquiring a distance to the first external electronic device after receiving the second audio sound, and receive, through the microphone, a fourth audio sound including fourth information responding to the third information from the first external electronic device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Inventors: Walyong Cho, Kyungmin Park
  • Patent number: 11805030
    Abstract: Configuring network packet event related execution is disclosed, including: receiving a set of virtual service configuration information associated with a specified virtual service; using the set of virtual service configuration information to generate a set of event context information corresponding to the virtual service; and storing the set of event context information in a shared memory. Executing scripts related to a network packet event is disclosed, including: determining, using a service engine data path (SEDP) executing at the core, an event associated with a received network packet directed to a virtual service; determining a set of scripts to be executed corresponding to the event; generating a child interpreter context corresponding to the parent interpreter context corresponding to the virtual service; and using the child interpreter context to execute the set of scripts in the core specific memory corresponding to the core.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: VMWARE, INC.
    Inventor: Suraj Jaiswal
  • Patent number: 11756294
    Abstract: An exemplary process for identifying a type of a physical environment amongst a plurality of types of physical environments is provided. The process includes obtaining, using the one or more cameras, image data corresponding to a physical environment. The process further includes identifying at least one portion of an entity in the physical environment based on the image data; determining, based on the identified at least one portion of the entity, whether the entity is an entity of a first type; determining a type of the physical environment if the entity is an entity of the first type; and presenting one or more virtual objects and a representation of the entity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Peter Meier, Michael J. Rockwell
  • Patent number: 11755346
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for modifying a user interface. The method comprises receiving user interface data at a client from a first server, receiving modification computer program code at said client, and executing said modification computer program code at said client to modify said user interface data to generate modified user interface data. The modification computer program code can be received from said first server or from a further server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: Versata FZ-LLC
    Inventor: Plamen Ivanov Valtchev
  • Patent number: 11748709
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to systems, methods and computer readable media for managing, analyzing and displaying project portfolios and their various interdependencies. More specifically, the disclosure relates to systems, methods and computer readable media for analyzing critical workstream data which connection with other workstreams in the same or other projects affect coordination and other milestones, and displaying project portfolios and their various interdependencies, in a three-layer configuration providing higher degree of data granularity at each layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: PROJECT MAP LTD.
    Inventor: Yaniv Shor
  • Patent number: 11743561
    Abstract: An image display device, a lip-sync correction method thereof, and an image display system thereof are proposed. The lip-sync correction method of the image display device includes: receiving an audio delay measurement command from a user; transmitting an audio detection command to a remote control device and outputting a pre-stored test signal to an external speaker; calculating an audio delay value by comparing an audio signal received from the remote control device with the test signal; and correcting a decoding time stamp of an image signal on the basis of the audio delay value. Accordingly, it is possible to match lip-synching of video and audio in response to various external audio outputs or external audio devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: In Sun Song, Young Do Kwon
  • Patent number: 11722550
    Abstract: An input device is shared between a first remote desktop having a first display image, which is displayed on a first display of a first client device, and a second remote desktop having a second display image, which is displayed on a second display of a second client device. Upon detecting that an input pointer of the input device currently displayed within the first display image on the first display, is moved across an edge of the first remote desktop that corresponds to a virtual boundary between the first remote desktop and the second remote desktop, instructions are issued to a first remote computing device that is hosting the first remote desktop to discontinue receiving inputs made with the input device and a second remote computing device that is hosting the second remote desktop to begin receiving inputs made with the input device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: VMware, Inc.
    Inventors: Lin Lv, Yunfei San, Yunxia Cheng, Jack Liu, Ning Ke, Yang Liu, Jian Ken Song
  • Patent number: 11714179
    Abstract: Disclosed is an electronic device that includes a display, a communication module, at least one microphone, at least one speaker, a processor operatively coupled to the display, the communication module, the microphone, and the speaker, and a memory operatively coupled to the processor. The memory may store instructions, when executed, causing the processor to transmit, through the speaker, a first audio sound including first information, receive, through the microphone, a second audio sound including second information responding to the first information from a first external electronic device, transmit, through the speaker, a third audio sound including third information for acquiring a distance to the first external electronic device after receiving the second audio sound, and receive, through the microphone, a fourth audio sound including fourth information responding to the third information from the first external electronic device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Inventors: Walyong Cho, Kyungmin Park