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Advertising Based On Determined Intent Along Conversion Path, Neil Hoyne
Advertising Based On Determined Intent Along Conversion Path, Neil Hoyne
Defensive Publications Series
An advertisement targeting system manages content and advertisements on a website. The system receives a request to place measurement units on a publisher website from a publisher. The system receives a request to purchase an inventory of measurement units from an advertiser to target content or advertisements on the advertiser’s destination website. Further, the system identifies an inventory of measurement units based on an association between the publisher websites with the measurement units and the destination website. Upon identifying the inventory of the measurement units, the system captures user behavior at the publisher websites with the inventory of the measurement …
Virtual Door Knock Notifications, Daniel Klein, Dean Jackson
Virtual Door Knock Notifications, Daniel Klein, Dean Jackson
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A virtual door knock notification system notifies a user when a visitor arrives at a user’s address or a person associated with a service arrives at the user’s address to deliver the service. The service may include, e.g., a meter reading service or a package delivery service. The virtual door knock notification system first determines a location of the visitor or the service person. The system then retrieves an address of the user. Accordingly, the system provides a notification to the user when the determined location of the visitor or the service person is in close proximity to the address …
Proximity Based Social Search, Justin Lewis, Gavin James
Proximity Based Social Search, Justin Lewis, Gavin James
Defensive Publications Series
The invention discloses a proximity search system. The system receives a search query from a first user to search for a second user. The system then identifies one or more candidate users in proximity to the first user. Further, the system transmits a proximity token to the respective client devices of the one or more candidate users. The system further causes the client devices to broadcast the proximity token. The system then determines that the first user’s client device detects the proximity token broadcasted by a second user’s client device. The system provides the first user with search results that …
Resolving Cooking Instructions From Food Packaging, Taylor Vleet, Matthew Valente
Resolving Cooking Instructions From Food Packaging, Taylor Vleet, Matthew Valente
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The invention discloses a smart appliance cooking system. The smart appliance cooking system can be used to retrieve cooking instructions from a packaged food item and then cause a smart appliance to cook the food item according to the cooking instructions. The smart appliance cooking system detects that a food item has been placed into a cooking appliance. The system resolves cooking instructions for the food item from the packaging of the food item. Subsequently, the system causes the cooking appliance to cook the food item according to the resolved cooking instructions.
Game Interface For Location Learning, Scott Dillard, Jeremy Pack, Ashwin Limaye
Game Interface For Location Learning, Scott Dillard, Jeremy Pack, Ashwin Limaye
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A location learning system can be used for learning layout of a geographic location like a neighborhood, city, district, state, etc. The system provides a user with a gaming application to facilitate user learning of routes from one location to another. When the user starts the game, the system displays panoramas of a starting and a target geographic location. The system provides a user interface projectile that the user can project, throw, shoot, or launch towards the target geographic location. The system receives a gesture to project the user interface projectile from the starting location towards the target geographic location. …
Testing For Correctness And Rebaselining Of Images, Ravi Mistry, Elliot Poger, Stephen White, Brian Salomon, Robert Phillips
Testing For Correctness And Rebaselining Of Images, Ravi Mistry, Elliot Poger, Stephen White, Brian Salomon, Robert Phillips
Defensive Publications Series
An image correctness testing system compares an expected image with an image generated at a device. The system transmits the expected image to the device. The system then analyzes the image that is generated at the device in order to determine a checksum of the image generated at the device. The system further compares the checksum of the image generated at the device with a checksum of the expected image and presents a difference to a user on a web interface. The system can then receive an input from the user to rebaseline the image generated at the device and/or …
Public Display Of Contextually Relevant And Useful Information For Co-Located Devices, Alexander Faaborg
Public Display Of Contextually Relevant And Useful Information For Co-Located Devices, Alexander Faaborg
Defensive Publications Series
A computing system is described that aggregates information collected from a group of mobile devices that happen to be co-located and in the presence of an output device, such as a display. The system identifies similarities shared across the users of the group and based on the shared interests, obtains contextually relevant and useful information that will likely be appreciated by each of the users in the group. The system then configures the output device to present the contextually relevant and useful information for consumption by the group at just the right time. The system described herein has many applications …
Providing Event Notifications, Ravi Mandala
Providing Event Notifications, Ravi Mandala
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An event notification system can be used to provide notifications to a user related to an event. The system can provide these notifications before, during, and after the event. The event notification system analyzes an upcoming event from a user’s calendar to determine a context information associated with the event. As an example, this context information can include location of the place where the event is scheduled, people attending the event, duration of the event, agenda associated with the event etc. Based on the determined context associated with the event, the system determines specific tasks associated with the event. For …
Proximity Based Contact Suggestion System, Nazif Tas
Proximity Based Contact Suggestion System, Nazif Tas
Defensive Publications Series
A proximity based suggestion system can be used to deliver suggestions to social network users, to add one or more users to their friend list, based on users’ proximity to each other. The system receives a first Internet Protocol (IP) address of a first user device connected to the Internet through a first access point. The system also receives IP address of a first client device connected to the Internet through the first access point. The system then receives a first MAC address of the first client device and a second MAC address of a second client device from the …
Shareable Notifications, Arneil Villena, Laura Paragano
Shareable Notifications, Arneil Villena, Laura Paragano
Defensive Publications Series
A shareable notification system allows a user to share a notification with other users. The shareable notification system provides a notification to a user on his electronic device. The notification can be about, for example, a user’s flight, restaurant reservation, map directions. The system receives a request from the user to share the notification with another user. After receiving the request, the system transmits the notification to the selected user.
Synchronizing Audio And Video Playback On Multiple Devices, Julien Marchand, Alexander Taboriskiy
Synchronizing Audio And Video Playback On Multiple Devices, Julien Marchand, Alexander Taboriskiy
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An audio and video playback synchronization system can be used to synchronize an audio and a video of a content playing on separate devices. The devices fetch the audio and/or video content independently. The playback synchronization can be implemented via two separate embodiments. In a first embodiment, the system synchronizes a video of a content playing on a first device with audio of the same content playing on a second device. The system detects, at the first device playing video of the content, the audio of the content from the second device. The system then compares the audio detected from …
Canonicalizing Phone Contacts, Justin Lewis, Ruxandra Davies
Canonicalizing Phone Contacts, Justin Lewis, Ruxandra Davies
Defensive Publications Series
A contact update system augments contact telephone numbers with an appropriate country code. The system may receive a contact telephone number that lacks a country code. The system can then determine the country code of the contact’s telephone number using various heuristics. The heuristics may include the contact’s association with other users (e.g., the contact’s comments on social networks, location of the contact, call/message history with the contact, or social graphs). The system can update a record of the contact telephone number by adding the determined country code to the received telephone number.
Categorical Muting Of Advertisements, Gil Shamir
Categorical Muting Of Advertisements, Gil Shamir
Defensive Publications Series
An online advertisement muting system gives a user an ability to mute certain ads shown to the user. The system can receive an input to mute an advertisement when the ad is being played on a screen associated with the system. The system presents a list of muting categories to the user. A few examples of these categories are format of the ad, language of the ad, topic of the ad, brand of the ad, ad geographical location of interest, etc. Based on the user selection, the system receives the selection of a muting category for the ad. Subsequently, the …
Management Of Versioned Map Data Tiles Stored On A Client Device, Keith Ito, Ronghui Zhu, Tommy Nourse
Management Of Versioned Map Data Tiles Stored On A Client Device, Keith Ito, Ronghui Zhu, Tommy Nourse
Defensive Publications Series
A pre-fetching map data system and method identifies a subset of map data to corresponding to one or more points of interest to be displayed on the map. The map data is stored on a remote map database and in the form of map data tiles bearing version numbers. The pre-fetching map data system identifying those map data tiles that correspond to the subset of map data corresponding to the one or more points of interest, where the identified pre-fetch map data tiles are sent from the remote database to a client device for storing the pre-fetch map data tiles. …
Voice And Touch Based Input, Michael Cardosa
Voice And Touch Based Input, Michael Cardosa
Defensive Publications Series
A word prediction system predicts a word based on a combination of user touch input and user voice input. The system can receive the touch input via, for example, a keyboard or other input device. In some implementations, the system can receive voice input corresponding to the touch input at substantially the same time as the touch input.
Associating Locations With Healthcare Events, Daniel Klein, Dean Jackson
Associating Locations With Healthcare Events, Daniel Klein, Dean Jackson
Defensive Publications Series
The disclosed subject matter relates to computer implemented methods for associating locations with healthcare events. In one aspect, a method includes receiving location data from a location-aware client device. The location data includes latitude and longitude information. The method further includes determining, based on the received location data, a routine travel pattern of a user associated with the location-aware client device. The method further includes detecting an anomaly in the routine travel pattern. The method further includes detecting a healthcare event. The healthcare event can be a visit to a healthcare facility and/or a healthcare transaction. The method further includes …
Assisted Browsing Via Dynamic Simulated Gravity For Page Elements, Kathleen Michel, Samuel Beder
Assisted Browsing Via Dynamic Simulated Gravity For Page Elements, Kathleen Michel, Samuel Beder
Defensive Publications Series
A gravity probabilistic system for assisted browsing is disclosed. The system proposes creating a probabilistic model analogous to gravity which attracts and guides the cursor towards clickable UI elements. A notion of mass is used to determine the strength of the attraction, where more important elements have greater mass and attraction. The system determines a relative mass of a UI element on a web page. When the system receives an input related to a cursor movement from a user of the web page, the system moves the cursor according to the relative mass of the UI element.
Detecting Audible Indicators Of Medical Symptoms, David Cassano
Detecting Audible Indicators Of Medical Symptoms, David Cassano
Defensive Publications Series
This disclosure relates to systems and methods for monitoring the health of individuals by measuring the audible intensity and frequency of biological noises and other audible emissions, such as coughing, sneezing, sniffles, flatulence, vomiting, burping, hiccups, labored breathing, other audible indicators of medical symptoms, or any combination thereof. In one example, pattern recognition techniques are used to diagnose possible illnesses (e.g., pollen allergy, pneumonia, etc.) by analyzing recorded audio data for indicators of illness.
Temporal/Spatial Calendar Events And Triggers, Daniel Klein, Dean Jackson
Temporal/Spatial Calendar Events And Triggers, Daniel Klein, Dean Jackson
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Spatial and/or temporal triggers may be established so that when actuated, one or more notifications such as reminders may be provided to one or more users. These triggers may be established manually, e.g., by a user operating a user interface, automatically, e.g., by scraping calendar and/or email data to ascertain and/or predict various aspects of upcoming appointments such as start times, duration, date, location, and so forth, or a combination of the two. Spatial triggers may be actuated based on a determination that a user is, or will be, at a particular location. Temporal triggers may be actuated at particular …
Event Based Sharing Of A Device, Pavel Podivilov, Yegeniy Gutnik, Yuri Dolgov, Roman Yurievich Shuvaev, Anton Sergeevich Mukhin, Robert Lopez Toscano, Christian Andrew Warren
Event Based Sharing Of A Device, Pavel Podivilov, Yegeniy Gutnik, Yuri Dolgov, Roman Yurievich Shuvaev, Anton Sergeevich Mukhin, Robert Lopez Toscano, Christian Andrew Warren
Defensive Publications Series
A host of an event may grant guests time-based access to electronic devices during the event. The host of the event may create the event at a social planning website. The host may have previously configured an access server and electronic device to grant access to the electronic device to guests during the event based on the event being created at the social planning website.
Secure Traffic Metering With A Router, Swaminathan Krishnamurthy, Nick Arini
Secure Traffic Metering With A Router, Swaminathan Krishnamurthy, Nick Arini
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Current gateway-based metering is not capable of capturing secured traffic because the gateway sits in the middle of the server-client transaction. A current solution uses client-side metering for secured traffic and gateway-based metering for unsecured traffic. This current solution is becoming less practical with the ever-increasing use of encryption for Internet delivered traffic. To overcome the above-noted problems, and other problems, with metering Internet traffic, disclosed herein are systems and methods that enable such secured traffic to be metered at a router or gateway.
Dog Barking Training With Voice Recognition Technology, Stephen David Johnson
Dog Barking Training With Voice Recognition Technology, Stephen David Johnson
Defensive Publications Series
This disclosure relates to a dog bark response system that is capable of recognizing the bark of a specific dog and respond with a pre-recorded command in the voice of the dog’s owner. In certain embodiments, the owner would be notified of the barking event, as well as: identification of the dog, location of the dog, approximate loudness of the bark, barking start and end time and/or duration, or any combination thereof. Embodiments include the ability for the owner to directly respond with voice commands.
Command Verification, Roman Shuvaev, Anton Muhin, Andrew Warren, Gene Gutnik, Pavel Podivilov, Robert Toscano, Yuri Dolgov
Command Verification, Roman Shuvaev, Anton Muhin, Andrew Warren, Gene Gutnik, Pavel Podivilov, Robert Toscano, Yuri Dolgov
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A command verification system verifies validity of a command before execution of the command at a connected device. The system receives the command to be executed at the connected device. The connected device can be any electronic device that is communicatively coupled to the client device that can receive commands from the client device, e.g., a scanner, printer, media streaming device, or storage device. The connected device may also simultaneously receive the command or the system may forward the command to the connected device. The system then receives a verification request from the connected device to verify the validity of …
Linking Email Data With Other Applications, Sofia Andrianakou, Sarah Xie
Linking Email Data With Other Applications, Sofia Andrianakou, Sarah Xie
Defensive Publications Series
An email management system uses data from emails to launch an application and link the data to the application. In one example, the system may use data such as time, date, title, and attendees from an email. It then launches a calendar application, creates a calendar event, and auto-populates the calendar event with the selected data.
User Account Authentication During User Issue Resolution, Alejo Grigera
User Account Authentication During User Issue Resolution, Alejo Grigera
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An authentication system generates a one time password (OTP) that is delivered to a user to authenticate a service representative’s request to access the user’s account. The system receives a request from the service representative to access the user’s account. The system generates the OTP and a summary of user’s account details requested for access by the service representative. Further, the system transmits the OTP and summary to the user. The system further authenticates the customer service’s request to access the user’s account based on the OTP and provides access of the requested account details to the service representative.
Electronic Sanitary Health Product, Kevin Kissell
Electronic Sanitary Health Product, Kevin Kissell
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A sanitary health product information system provides information describing a condition of a sanitary health product to a caretaker. The system detects the condition of the sanitary health product, e.g., wetness level or moisture level. On detecting the condition, the system transmits information describing the condition of the sanitary health product to a user or a caretaker. Further, the system presents the information, on a device associated with the caretaker, based on the which the caretaker can take an action, e.g., changing the sanitary health product if the wetness level is high.
Message Adaptation To Improve Communications, Jonathan Gonzalez
Message Adaptation To Improve Communications, Jonathan Gonzalez
Defensive Publications Series
A message adaptation system is used for improving communications and human interactions. The message adaptation system adapts a message in such a way that the message generated by a first user is completely understood by the receiver of the message. The message can be an email message, a text message, a chat message etc. The system receives the message generated by the first user. The system processes the message to identify an objective description from the message and the associated subjective characteristics. The objective description of the message can be defined as the content of the message. On the other …
Games In Chat Window, Daniel Clarke, Zoe Downing
Games In Chat Window, Daniel Clarke, Zoe Downing
Defensive Publications Series
A gaming system provides a game in a chat window. The system receives a request from a user to play a game in the chat window. The user may request for playing the game with one or more other participants of a chat. On receiving the request, the system provides the game in the chat window.
Interest Based Calendar, Matteo Corea, Lorenzo Blanco
Interest Based Calendar, Matteo Corea, Lorenzo Blanco
Defensive Publications Series
An auto-populated calendar can be created according to interests of a user using the interest based calendar system. The system receives a selection of one or more interest categories and filter criteria for those interest categories for the generation of the interest based calendar from the user. The interest categories can be any area of interest such as food, sports, travel, shopping, etc. The filter criteria can be a time range or a geographic location etc. The system identifies events from different organizers that satisfy the selected categories and the respective filter criteria as set up by the user. The …
Usb Power Management, Alec Berg, Vincent Palatin, Todd Broch
Usb Power Management, Alec Berg, Vincent Palatin, Todd Broch
Defensive Publications Series
A power management system identifies a power source and a power recipient between a first device and a second device based on their respective states. The system identifies that the first device and the second device are connected using a universal serial bus (USB) type-C connectors. The system further determines a respective state for the first device and the second device, e.g., tilt or orientation of the devices. Based on the respective states, the system identifies the power source and the power recipient between the first device and the second device, e.g., using pre-stored information from a database. Further, the …