Acquired Portfolios

This lot is generally related to user authentication. Techniques are disclosed to authenticate a user on bank accounts or secured websites without a need of entering the password at multiple applications. The system discloses a technique to generate a reusable identifier such as QR code etc. that is only valid for a finite and predetermined period of time (minutes or hours or days). The identifier has a copy of the reusable identifier and user verification information for authentication. The identifiers are very safe and do not require complex and time-consuming encryption/decryption process to protect sensitive data, since it does not have user or transaction-specific information. Also disclosed are techniques to provide a first identifier to a verification server, provide a resource identifier with a second identifier to the user device, receive authorization information from the user device and allow the user to access requested service or application. The technology may be implemented in online services, banking services, secured web login, security services, facility entry systems, etc.

This lot is generally related to a technique to calibrate transmission rate in wireless communication. Disclosed is a technique to adapt transmission rate between a customer premises equipment (CPE) and a base transceiver station (BTS) by sending multiple probe packets based on a static module and coding schemes (MCS) probe table associated with a current MCS. The system determines percentage of probe packets successfully received by a receiver for each of the set of probe MCSs associated with the current MCS, based on a link adaptation statistic packet received from the receiver. The system identifies an MCS from the set of probe MCSs for subsequent transmissions based on the determined percentage. The technology may be implemented in wireless communication, WiMAX, etc.

This lot is generally related to a technique of compression of high quality video data using tone mapping. Techniques are disclosed to compress a video data stream by compressing high dynamic range video frames by using a bilateral filter which extracts a base frame with luminance information. The system compares the base data frames with the original frames to provide a detail frame with chroma information and selects a tone-mapping operation. The tone mapping is applied to the base frame to generate a compressed low dynamic range base frame. The technology may be implemented in video data compression, video compression software, mobile apps, etc.

This lot is generally related to software testing. Techniques are disclosed to automatically generate test scripts to reduce testing effort, manual intervention and maintain consistency. The technique acquires multiple test steps from a database, identifies testing actions to be performed and generates the test script based on the actions. The techniques further identify an expected test result associated with each step and generate a validation script. The technology may be implemented in software testing services, software development, testing databases, etc.

This lot is generally related to computer networks. Techniques are disclosed to analyze port performance to improve multi-protocol switching in a storage area network (SAN). The technique monitors operating parameters of ports, compares the parameters with a predefined criterion and identifies eligible ports for which parameters do not deviate much. The technique further compares port traffic data with a threshold, determines rank for the eligible ports and processes I/O operations based on the port ranks. The technology may be implemented in storage area networks, computer networks, servers, network devices, network switches, routers, modems, gateways, etc.

This lot is generally related to security of communication networks. Disclosed is a technique to monitor incoming traffic patterns to determine abnormality or deviation in the traffic and protect communication networks from intrusion. Disclosed is an intrusion detection system consisting of a network activity observer for monitoring network traffic, data packets and create data profiles of the monitored traffic elements. Also disclosed is a misuse detector for determining a first numerical indication of a probability, between 0 and 1 of the profiled traffic which indicates malicious activity. The system has an anomaly detector for determining a second numerical indication of a probability between 0 and 1 of the profiled traffic and a classifier which operates on the first and second numerical indications and generates a joint classification decision which indicates normal traffic or malicious or anomalous traffic. The technology may be implemented in network security systems, intrusion detection systems, network data management systems, etc.

This lot is generally related to location-based services. Techniques are disclosed to dynamically trigger devices within a closed space, so that only necessary devices are allowed to be operating. The technique accesses closed space and multiple sensor information, determines device location and creates a 3D grid coordinate system of the closed space. The technique further compartmentalizes the closed space, determines device position in the compartments, accesses a user profile and triggers the device accordingly. The technology may be implemented in location-based services, navigation devices, safe vehicle driving systems, automobiles, portable devices, etc.

This lot is generally related to a security system for protection of a user identity. Disclosed is a technique to protect the identity of a person such as a social security number and birthdate to protect the person from losses or fraud. Disclosed is a technique to authenticate a person’s identity to a business entity using a third party trusted entity having a secure repository for storing the identity information. The person registers with the trusted entity and accesses their account using a user name and password. Also disclosed are techniques to grant a unique code to the person so that the person can authenticate the identity to the business and deliver the unique code to the transaction entity. The technology may be implemented in user authentication systems, personal information security systems, theft protection systems, etc.

This lot is generally related to a multiplayer online game. Disclosed is a multiplayer gaming environment which allows a user to capture and control multiple game characters for playing various games, such as fighting, crafting, etc. Techniques are disclosed to provide a gaming environment consisting of a memory associated with profiles of characters and have information about characters. The system provides the position of a subject player character in the game and determines a proximity point of a user location with the subject player character. Further disclosed are techniques to capture and manipulate the subject player character if the proximity is less than the user radius. The system allows the user to release the game character after a certain time period and to grab another character or the same character again. The technology may be implemented in online games, multiplayer gaming systems, etc.

This lot is generally related to data analysis. Disclosed are techniques to verify the accuracy of information by automatically analyzing broadcasted information, compare with source information and present real time status. Also disclosed are techniques to monitor broadcasted information with multiple devices before checking accuracy. Further disclosed are different fact-checking techniques using IoT, reverse processing, separation method, random method, etc. The technology may be implemented in software, mobile APPs, web services, social networks, facts/accuracy-checking services, etc.

This lot is generally related to communications in a call center. Disclosed is a technique to record a customer call and retrieve the call using a search query to provide quality services. Disclosed is a technique to log a call by receiving a call log associated with a user. The call log includes call time, date, and an identification of a caller. The system receives a context of the call from the user, stores in a call record and associates the call record with the user. The system performs a search based on a query requested by the user and displays the result of the search query. The technology may be implemented in call centers, call management systems, mobile apps, etc.

This lot is generally related to an intelligent system for load balancing in an IT infrastructure. Disclosed is a technique to provide a software-based hyper-converged infrastructure to provide all the necessary components for an IT infrastructure within a single appliance. Techniques are disclosed to extend storage capacity in a hyper-converged infrastructure by installing an Ethernet-based host bus adapter to a first host node having a computing component for allocating resources to guest machines. The system connects an external storage device to the first host node to a first port and connects a second end of the cable to the Ethernet cable to a first port of an Ethernet-based host bus adapter. The first host node and the external storage device communicate using the Advanced Technology Attachment (ATA) protocol over Ethernet (AoE) data packets so that the communication protocol, storage drives within the external storage device appear as direct-attached storage. The technology may be implemented in virtualized networking systems, data centers, IT management systems, etc.

This portfolio is majorly related to delivery of targeted advertisements on a mobile device. Various techniques are disclosed to deliver online sponsored advertisements based on the user profile and bid amount from the sponsor. A set of patents disclose techniques to forward a mobile subscribers’ characteristic such as geographic region, transaction history to a sponsored content provider to deliver relevant content. The system transmits time details to the sponsor to match the content based on the relevancy parameters score of the subscribers’ characteristic and deliver the content through a link using an API. Also disclosed are techniques to update search results based on location of searchers’ device past search history, receive a bid amount along with an associated rendering capability from content providers. Second set of patents discloses techniques to deliver sponsored content by weighing of interaction information of the subscriber such as transaction events, purchase history, user history, geographic location, expertise, income bracket, home address etc. Few patents disclose a technique to associate a survey question with interactive sponsored content based on the subscribers’ response to the questions, analyse the user responses and select sponsored content for delivery on the user mobile device. Few more patents disclose techniques to receive the user selection of products, identify merchants who sell such products and send an ordered list of merchants to the user. Further disclosed are various techniques for delivery of targeted sponsored content based on user profile and history of events, matching one user with multiple devices based on routes travelled by these devices, etc. The technology may be implemented in ecommerce, online content distribution system, online shopping system, search engines, location based services, managing user profiles, navigation devices, mobile APPs, etc.

This portfolio is generally related to communication networks. Disclosed are techniques to identify a VoIP proxy server with the lowest load to serve requesting devices, communicate audio data between devices where one device is behind a network address translation (NAT) firewall and provide uninterrupted VoIP communication between private network users. The system discloses a technique for load balancing in a VoIP system by sending a request to each proxy server, receive responses at a load balancing server and send identity of the server having lowest load to requesting user device. Also disclosed are techniques to communicate audio between devices which are behind a NAT firewall, by establishing a reliable call between a private network user and an Internet user, establish an outbound audio data channel between the network and the user, send an outbound data packet and utilize the packet to identify a reverse channel for inbound packets. Further, disclosed are techniques to establish and maintain Internet telephony calls between users even if a user is on a private network behind a NAT firewall. The technology may be implemented in VoIP services, Internet telephony services, communication networks, IP communication services, etc.

This patent is generally related to an illuminated charging port receptacle. Disclosed is a device having a light source which illuminates when inserted into a charging port. Disclosed device has a housing, a light, a connecting tip for charging portable devices, a cord, and a power source connector. When the device is connected to a power source the light illuminates the charging port and automatically shuts off when the connector is fully inserted into the port. The technology may be implemented in power cord, electronic device charger, etc

This lot is generally related to wireless communication. Disclosed are improved networks for supporting large numbers of low user message rate devices having a network concentrator to authenticate user devices, a client registry to register user devices, and a low user message rate concentration point to send a broadcast control message to the devices. The technology may be implemented in wireless networks, base stations, network switches, routers, modems, etc.

This lot is generally related to a radio transceiver for down-converting radio frequency signals to provide gain control, a good noise and low power consumption. Disclosed is a signal down-converter consisting of a pair of passive double sideband mixers for receiving quadrature RF signals. The system mixes the quadrature RF signals with local oscillator driving signals to provide mixed differential signals. The system feeding the mixed differential signals are fed to a differential difference feedback amplifier having high frequency and provides a down-converted output signal. The technology may be implemented in mobile phones, set-top boxes, etc.

This lot is generally related to wireless transmitters. Disclosed is an improved OFDM transmitter which has low latency, multi-rate support, reduced turnaround time and uses less complex components. The transmitter uses a MAC interface to synchronize MAC-transmitted data to a system clock and a parallel scrambler to scramble synchronized data. The transmitter also uses a parallel convolutional encoder to convolutionally encode data received from the parallel scrambler. The technology may be implemented in OFDM transmitters, transceivers, wireless devices, portable devices, wireless network equipment, base stations, etc.

This lot is generally related to OFDM networks. Disclosed are techniques to perform least square (LS) equalization on an OFDM signal which makes full use of channel state information (CSI), improves performance and requires minimal and simple calculations. The technique receives a modulated signal, demodulates by using fast Fourier transform (FFT) and processes FFT demodulated signal. The technique further processes channel estimator output signal to produce a CSI signal and decodes the CSI aided LS equalized signal. The technology may be implemented in OFDM networks, ultra-wideband devices, wireless networks, mobile communication networks, cellular networks, network switches, modems, routers, base stations, etc.

This lot is generally related to bookmarks. Disclosed is a technique to better access, search, share and rate a database of intelligent bookmarks. The technique displays an Internet document, receives a user selection of content, retrieves document address, extracts identifier of selected content and receives user supplemented video information. This technique further associates and stores the addresses and the identifiers to access the document and document content. The technology may be implemented in web services, bookmark services, web browsers, bookmark databases, etc.

This lot is generally related to online content selling. Techniques are disclosed to provide an online platform to publish news, blogs or other content along with readers’ thoughts and generate revenue from readers in terms of subscription of paid comments. Disclosed is an online system to receive content such as a news story or blog entry, etc., from various content providers and allow readers to share comments by paying a fee to the providers. Also disclosed are techniques to provide various templates by using pre-selected color, font or an a la carte selection of various colors, borders, fonts, and the like so that the reader can choose their own attributes of distinctiveness for comments. Further disclosed are techniques to place readers’ comments section or a distinctive appearance and/or position on a web page and auction prominent comment locations on a webpage for a certain time period. The technology may be implemented in online news content providers’ websites, blog websites, websites for stories, social networks, political analysis systems, etc.

This lot is generally related to a wearable electrocardiogram (ECG) system. Disclosed is a wearable ECG device for frequently and constantly monitoring the heart condition of a user. The wearable ECG device has multiple electrodes, a multiplexer with an input terminal, two output terminals and a control terminal. Also disclosed is a detection module connected with one output end of the multiplexer, and a digital detection module is connected with the other end of the multiplexer. The processor is connected with the multiplexer and the digital detection module. The system has a motion-sensing module connected with the processor for sensing the acceleration of the wearable ECG system and outputs an electrical signal based on the acceleration. The wearable ECG has a digital signal processing circuit consisting of three filters. The second and third filters are connected with the first filter and a waveform buffer is connected with the first, second and third filters. The technology may be implemented in wearable ECG systems, wearable heart monitors, etc.

This lot is generally related to video games. Techniques are disclosed to utilize physical location information in video games to provide better gaming experience to players. Techniques are disclosed to receive position of a game player and obtain images of the location. Also disclosed are techniques to map the images into a virtual game environment by displaying images along with virtual objects. Further disclosed are techniques to store location data of players when the game is not played for later analysis. The technology may be implemented in video games, virtual games, location-based services, VR applications, etc.

This lot is generally related to video processing. Techniques are disclosed to model a background of a video which accounts for dynamic background change according to a pattern. The technique generates a combined color covariance matrix of a video image and input image, estimates a probability density, and updates a background model. Few techniques generate a feature point space, develop an uncertainty model and perform a variable bandwidth mean shift on the feature space points. The technology may be implemented in video processing services, surveillance applications, object detection and monitoring, computer vision applications, video segmentation, etc.

This lot is generally related to image processing. Techniques are disclosed for modelling of dynamic scenes and detecting changes to efficiently identify foreground and background in moving pictures and videos. The technique inputs a current image and previously stored images, represents the current image in a subspace, learns a dynamical model, and adapts the subspace based on the scene changes. The techniques further adapt dynamical model parameters in accordance with the scene changes, determine difference between prediction and current image and outputs an indication of a new object. Few techniques compute optical flow for an image, perform an invariant transformation and estimate probability for a current input to belong to the background. The technology may be implemented in video modeling services, video processing applications, object detection, object tracking, object classification, event analysis, industrial automation, security and surveillance, real time video analysis, etc.

This lot is generally related to video processing. Techniques are disclosed for automatic scale selection for feature space analysis and partitioning for applications such as video segmentation. The technique receives a video, determines a color bandwidth and a local spatial bandwidth for each pixel and clusters the video using a variable bandwidth mean shift by applying the bandwidths. Few techniques also determine data modes using the process. Few more techniques select multiple analysis scales, partition the data into modes, determine most stable mean/covariance pair and select the covariance as a variable bandwidth. The technology may be implemented in video background modelling, object or human tracking, video segmentation, real time image and video processing, computer vision, animation, etc.

This lot is generally related to image processing. Disclosed is a technique to provide tunable kernels for improved mean shift tracking of objects in consecutive image frames for improving tracking performance. The technique encodes image data of consecutive frames using multiple kernels, determines a spatial configuration expression and optimizes bandwidth of kernels. The technology may be implemented in video processing applications, image processing applications, machine vision applications, animations, tracking humans or objects in a video, etc.

This lot is generally related to automobile safety. Disclosed is a technique for real time obstacle detection from a moving vehicle to avoid accidents and enable autonomous driving. The technique calibrates a camera, receives multiple images and camera ego motion information, selects multiple real- world points and applies motion estimation on the real-world points and images. The technique further determines a true motion flow of the real-world points and when any real-world point is an obstacle. The technology may be implemented in automobile safety devices, autonomous driving, vehicle safety equipment, image processing software, vehicle cameras, etc.

This lot is generally related to a voice-enabled user authentication system. Disclosed is a voice user interface to authenticate a user and allows access to various data services on a mobile device. The system uses a device speaker to receive a first voice through the voice user interface, calculating a confidence score by comparing the first voice with a voice model associated with the authorized user. The system identifies the specific request from the user and allows access if the confidence score exceeds the minimum confidence score. The technology may be implemented in user authentication systems, voice recognition software, in-car systems, fighter aircrafts, etc.

This lot is generally related to semiconductor devices. Disclosed are techniques for manufacturing castellated gate MOSFET devices which are vertically oriented and used for high performance analog and mixed-signal applications. Disclosed is a castellated-gate MOSFET tetrode device consisting of a semiconductor substrate region having an upper and lower portion with a top surface and a bottom surface. The substrate has a source and a drain region with primary and secondary channel-forming regions that are disposed to form an integrated cascode structure. Also disclosed are multiple thin semiconductor channel elements formed by etching spaced gate slots having a first predetermined depth into the substrate. Further disclosed are second gate structures provided by interposing castellated second gate elements between secondary channel elements and a second gate member interconnects at the upper vertical ends to cover the secondary channel elements which are separated by second dielectric layers from the second gate structure to form an integrated cascode device structure to provide high speed integrated vertical I/O device. Few patents disclose fabrication of castellated-gate MOSFET device for analog and mixed-signal applications having reduced sensitivity to substrate noise and crosstalk generated by the digital logic functions. The technology may be implemented in memory chips, microprocessors, power MOSFET, digital circuits, etc.

This lot is generally related to semiconductor devices. Disclosed is an IC-based module having Setup, Capture, Process and Scan (SCPS) module which is flexible, configurable and expandable up to a granular addressability. The SCPS module uses an interpreter sub module and a register bank with multiple registers to respond to an I3C supplemented with the SCPS sequences on reception of an instruction preceded by any I3C addresses. Also disclosed are techniques to respond to I2C addresses by SCPS module. The technology may be implemented in ICs, semiconductor devices, programmable logic devices, field programmable gate arrays, semiconductor substrates, etc.

This lot is generally related to computer networks. Techniques are disclosed for efficient multi-protocol translation in storage area networks (SANs). The technique associates two ports with two network protocols, assigns virtual addresses to the ports, and establishes mapping tables. The technique further provides virtual addresses to the network device, identifies the connected destination port, and sends data through that port. The technology may be implemented in computer networks, storage area networks, servers, network devices, network switches, modems, routers, gateways, etc.

This lot is generally related to memory management in multiple devices in a distributed network environment. Disclosed is a technique to perform memory management in a network device consisting of a processor to determine memory space requirements for execution of an application and create a memory pool based on the memory requirements. The system aggregates physical memories of multiple devices and executes the application in the memory pool using semaphores and a mutex application programming interface (API). The technology may be implemented in network management, cloud computing systems, memory management systems, etc.

This lot is generally related to control access of a network resource. Techniques are disclosed to control usage of network resources in a common access point. Disclosed is a technique to control access of a common shared access point based on a controllable amount of connection performance such as bandwidth, latency or packet loss. The system controls the bandwidth, latency or packet loss for each user who is spending more time on the access point by providing less bandwidth or connection performance. The system automatically provides high bandwidth to new users and discourages users from spending long periods of time occupying the physical space, such as cafes. Further disclosed are techniques to measure performance parameters to encourage certain types of activity such as video streaming, voice over IP, etc. The system also allows users to enjoy high bandwidth who are purchasing stuff from the cafe or involved in other activity such as viewing an advertisement, completing a survey or participating in some other activity. The technology may be implemented in cafes at the airports, access points at restaurants, mobile applications, etc.

This lot is generally related to network management. Disclosed is a technique to automate network traffic management using visual analytics to reduce cost and time. The technique pre-processes network log data, analyzes network nodes and traffic flow using visualization technology and presents analyzed data to a network operator. The technology may be implemented in network switches, network management software/devices, communication networks, etc.

This lot is generally related to pairing of a portable device to share wireless connectivity and a secondary gesture input mechanism for touchscreen devices. Techniques are disclosed to connect various portable devices, such as cellular telephones, fitness tracking devices, smart watches, emergency response devices, to share a common network connectivity and provide a secondary touch-enabled gesture input located near edges of a touchscreen. Disclosed is a gesture input mechanism which is located near an edge of a touchscreen and allows a user to interact with a touchscreen device with minimal or no blocking of the display portion of the device. The input device may be useful on smaller touchscreen devices, such as wrist watches or other devices, where a user’s finger may block much of the viewable surface. Also disclosed are techniques to pair a set of portable devices to share common connectivity by evaluating connectivity strength, battery power, and other factors for routing connections between devices to external networks. Further disclosed is that an incoming phone call may be answered by any of the connected devices, even though the connection may have been originally received by a different device. The technology may be implemented in mobile phones, fitness tracking devices, smart watches, emergency response devices, etc.

This lot is generally related to distribution of media content. Disclosed is a technique to record and distribute notable live events to users across a network. The system receives multiple time stamped media data such as audio, video of live events from various user devices into a server. The server read captured media and triggered data having time stamps indicating real time trigger event to generate media segments corresponding to a trigger datum from the media capture devices. The server has a display unit for displaying multiple media segments consisting of time datum corresponding to the media segment from each of the multiple cross-registered devices without disclosing a reference of received trigger from a particular cross-registered device. Also disclosed are techniques of cross-registration of devices by enrolling devices in a group created on a communication network. Further disclosed are techniques to transfer the stored media data from a temporary memory to a permanent storage as a media segment when the trigger datum is received. The technology may be implemented in media streaming services, mobile phones, media distribution systems, social networks, etc.

This lot is generally related to multimedia. Techniques are disclosed to render multimedia content on user devices without losing media continuity and which can blend content from multiple sources. The technique receives multimedia content from a server and transforms the media chunks based on a user preference by modifying the sequence of chunks and adjusting content time duration. The techniques further render the transformed content on the user devices. The technology may be implemented in multimedia services, streaming media, media broadcasts, online media, digital TV, satellite TV, VoD, multimedia networks, etc.

This lot is generally related to multimedia services. Disclosed is a technique to ensure commercial breaks are provided to the media viewer even when the viewer fast forwards media content and improve revenues for media providers from advertisers. The technique provides media stream with multiple sets of which are consecutive and contain identical content frames related to commercial breaks. These frames occur prior to fast forwarding of stream so that the viewer has to watch commercial breaks. The technology may be implemented in multimedia networks, streaming services, VoD, online media, satellite TVs, Internet media, etc.

This lot is generally related to smart assistants. Disclosed is an automated assistant for a user by receiving a user request for assistance to determine semantics and a domain of the user request, determine a task and a parameter related to the user request by parsing the user request having meaning or interpretation, location and personal information of the user such as telephone, user activity, access an application program interface (API) to retrieve matched data for the domain, and generate personalized recommendations for activities, products, services. Also disclosed are techniques to send a possible response to the user by interacting with the semantic web services and extracting options or suggestions from the semantic web services. The technology may be implemented in virtual assistants, smart speakers, smart phones, mobile apps, etc.

This lot is generally related to a metadata management tool. Disclosed are techniques to collect, analyze and manage massive amounts of data from multiple metadata repositories in an enterprise environment. Techniques are disclosed to obtain metadata from various information sources in real time and receive a user request related to source metadata objects residing in multiple source metadata repositories. The system responds to the user request in real time by identifying a data management application, which corresponds to the source metadata object and retrieves the source metadata objects using an application program interface (API). Also disclosed are various user interfaces, which assist users in creating customized, extended metadata such as tables, reports, etc. The technology may be implemented in data management systems, data repositories, CRM applications, database management systems, modeling tools, etc.

This lot is generally related to human machine interactions. Techniques are disclosed to provide interactions between a user and an embodied conversational agent (ECA), with true emotional feedback and dynamic dialogue. The technique receives conversation data, computes a user behavior score based on behavioral parameters of the conversation data, and determines user’s emotional state. The technique further identifies ECA’s response state corresponding to user’s emotional state and transitions ECA behavior. The technology may be implemented in human machine interactions, chat bots, automated customer service applications, etc.

This lot is generally related to a long range (LoRa) network. Disclosed is a technique for reliable communication in a LoRa communication and minimize packet loss in a communication system. Also disclosed is a network coding system consisting of a network server connected with an end node for receiving a packet and a stationary gateway installed between the network server and the end node for delivery of packets transmitted by the end node. Further disclosed is a temporary gateway which is installed between the stationary gateway and the end node for delivery of packets to the end node and the stationary gateway to minimize a lost packet and reduce power wastage. The technology may be implemented in low power wide area networks, LoRa communication systems, etc.

This lot is generally related to delivery of content based on a user’s mobile device location. Disclosed is a technique to help small business owners to deliver marketing and advertising information on a user device based on the presence location of the user device. Disclosed system delivers content to a mobile device having a network device with an uplink port, a downlink port, a memory, and a processor. The device establishes a connection with the downlink port and establishes first connection between the mobile device and a webserver through the downlink port. Also disclosed are techniques to determine a media access control (MAC) address of the mobile device, receive user history information associated with the MAC address, and provide targeted information to the mobile device. Further disclosed are techniques to update user history using the MAC address. The technology may be implemented in location-based services systems, content delivery systems, online shopping, etc.

This lot is generally related to a technique to generate personalized views of live video feeds of an event. Disclosed is a live video streaming technique to provide information about individual players, teams and better views of important incidents of an event and various options from a user perspective. Disclosed is a technique to generate personalized views of live video feeds of an event by determining personalized inputs associated with each user. The system receives a live video feed of an event from each of the imaging units and generates a map of an area where the event is going on. Also disclosed are techniques for receiving real-time location of a participant in the event from a tracking unit, correlate the real-time location of the participant with the mapped area and select a video feed along with the live video feed. Further disclosed are techniques to generate personalized views of the live video feeds and transmit the video feed to respective users through a web server. The technology may be implemented in live video capturing systems, broadcasting systems, live streaming systems, etc.

This lot is generally related to instant messaging or text-based messaging. Disclosed are techniques to provide SMS messages at no extra cost using a mobile phone and cloud services in global communication networks. Techniques are disclosed to send and receive text-based messages consisting of a mobile device connected to a wireless network and a server via the network. The server is configured to send an outgoing text message to the mobile device through a communication network, and the mobile device is configured to receive and send a response to the received text message. Also disclosed is a cloud- based network service to provide a server-based file or tasks to various network-connected devices. The technology may be implemented in an instant messaging service, mobile devices, mobile apps, cloud computing, etc.

This patent is generally related to augmented reality (AR). Disclosed is a technique to project synthetic information or supplementary information into the real environment to enhance the real world experience. Disclosed system projects synthetic information into a real environment by generating a camera image of the real environment and assigning the image to a 3D model through image processing or pattern recognition. Also disclosed are techniques to calculate a position of the information and a correction of the projection position is implemented through a feedback between the camera image and the projection unit. The technology may be implemented in medical field, tourism, Industrial manufacturing, etc.

This portfolio is generally related to augmented reality (AR) application. Various techniques are disclosed to provide an accurate and seamless AR experience to users by using fiducial markers having encoded data. Techniques are disclosed to accurately register real world or physical world object coordinates to the relative coordinates of an AR system by encoding data into high-contrast markers or QR codes labeled as Digitally Encoded Markers (DEMs). The system allows mobile device or a viewing device to extract the metadata of the DEM. Also disclosed are techniques to superimpose digital data onto the real world by registering the geographic world coordinates on the DEM to produce an AR experience to the user in real time. The technology may be implemented in AR applications, mobile apps, etc.

This lot is generally related to a technique of audio compression in a material exchange format (MXF) file to maintain audio quality. Disclosed is a technique to select an optimal audio codec by creating multiple processed audio clips by compressing and decompressing an original audio clip with different audio codec algorithms. The system creates a matched filter using the original audio clip to determine a power spectrum of each of the processed audio to identify a selected audio codec algorithm for compression. The technology may be implemented in audio processing software, audio and video packaging systems, media players, etc.

This portfolio is generally related to techniques of monitoring heart condition of a patient. Various techniques are disclosed to monitor electrophysiological signals, electrical signal changes based on vector analysis, ECG systems having ASICs, biological tissue functions and other techniques to determine heart conditions. Disclosed is a technique to analyze patients electrical signals received from a patient signal data waveform and generate a set of vectors to point of interest. The system extracts multiple vector parameters and determine vector ratios on the vector parameters to monitor changes in the patient signal data waveform. A set of patents disclose a technique to automatically detect and measure ST deviation of a heart wave ECG signal with noise and determine baseline variation of the signal. Few patents in the portfolio disclose an electrocardiography (ECG) system which produces output signal by monitoring a voltage differential on the leads and has a drive circuit for cancelling a common mode noise among the electrodes. The ECG system has a lead fault detection unit with current source, a control module which measures parameters at each electrode and determine an amount of current leakage. Few patents in the lot disclose techniques for biological tissue function analysis based on saturation of haemoglobin with oxygen (SPO2) signal data which is synchronized with respiration signal data. Further disclosed is a system for heart ablation by automatically determining ablation pulse characteristics to determine the thickness of tissue and determined area of abnormality. The technology may be implemented in ECG systems, ECG signal analysis system, heart monitoring systems, etc.

This patent is generally related to an application to detect a face in an image and automatically edit to make it more attractive. Disclosed is a technique to automatically modify the image based on country, culture and other pertinent user information using machine learning techniques. Disclosed is an application to select a face in an image, construct a face structure mask based on model face masks and modify the face image. Also disclosed are techniques to display modified image to a user display and receive the user feedback for further modification. Further disclosed are techniques to upload modified face image to various social networking portals. The technology may be implemented in picture editing software, mobile applications, media editing software, etc.

This portfolio is generally related to secured cloud services. Techniques are disclosed to provide collaborative environment for secured and confidential data sharing such as a document file, spreadsheet, picture file, chat session, instant message, video recording, audio-video recording, etc. Disclosed is a secured cloud data management system which allows a subscriber user to share information with a guest user. The subscriber user controls the information and does not allow the guest users to alter or share the information to third party or other devices. The system provides linking and controlling of all the elements of the work and maintains document viewing access history for future reference. Also disclosed are techniques to set the default life cycle policy for accessibility of the document and the document can be deleted by subscriber user any time. The technology may be implemented in cloud services, web applications, online document management systems, etc.

This portfolio is generally related to internet protocol (IP) based storage networks. Various techniques are disclosed for high performance network storage processors to accelerate the network data traffic and reduces the TCP/IP protocol stack overhead from the host processor and enables high line rate security processing including firewall, encryption, decryption, intrusion detection, etc. Disclosed is a technique to enable retrieval of data in a memory subsytem using a hardware-implemented processor consisting of a flash memory in a target system with a host processor which is connected to a TCP/IP network. The system has TCP/IP protocol with a transport layer and a network layer for receiving a request to register a region of flash memory from an application running on the target system. The system makes the region of the flash memory available to multiple peers and receives data packets by the hardware-implemented processor at the target system. Also disclosed are techniques to receive a remote direct memory access request in the data packets with a location of a region of the flash memory to store data or retrieve the data from the memory subsystem without the host processor controlling memory access during the storing or retrieving. Few patents in the portfolio disclose a hardware processor which drastically reduces the TCP/IP protocol stack processing overhead from the host CPU and enables security processing features like firewall at various protocol layers such as link, network and transport layers to substantially improve the host CPU performance for intended applications. Few more patents disclose programmable IP processor architecture which allows customer specific applications such as network management, storage firewall or other security capabilities, bandwidth management, quality of service, virtualization, performance monitoring, zoning, LUN masking to be deployed seamlessly. The technology may be implemented in storage area network, IP Storage Networking solutions, shared-disk file systems, etc.

These inventions are generally related to messages or emails. Techniques are disclosed to process incoming messages by generating a processing criteria, selecting a group of processing criteria available to recipient, associate contact data with sender and utilize contact records to allocate the group of processing criteria to the recipient. The recipient further selects sub group of processing criteria to be applied on incoming messages to allow recipients to smartly process or filter incoming messages, emails, calls, etc. The technology may be implemented in email clients, web browsers, call processing applications, chat applications, servers, etc.

This patent is generally related to a natural user interface (NUI) application which do not require any programming and a player for playing the applications. Disclosed is a natural user interface development platform for developing a graphic NUI application to be used by an end-user. The NUI development platform consists of a design manager for indicating and linking at design time of the graphic NUI application. The system has a graphic object and a NUI object which is to be captured by a NUI device so that during playing of the graphic NUI application the graphic object is intended to track the movements of the NUI object. Also disclosed is an interactive manager for managing movement of the object during design time interactive actions between the NUI object and the graphic object. The NUI manager for the NUI device is supported by a computing platform executing the NUI application which is developed graphically and employs the NUI device when executed and displays the object as captured. The technology may be implemented in organic user interface, NUI player, touch screens, three dimensional cameras, smartphone, laptop, smart TV, etc.

This lot is generally related to wireless communication systems. Disclosed is a unscheduled peer power save mode (PSM) to save battery life of wireless nodes by communicating with the peer node over a direct link. The system forms an indication frame at an access point (AP) for a client node, when in no service period has occurred for a period of time which is equal to an indication window. The system sends the formed indication frame from the AP node to the client node, receives the peer traffic indication from the access point and determines that the AP has traffic to send to the client node based on the indication frame. Also disclosed are techniques to adjust the duration of the indication window such as the duration of the indication window is increased if the arrival time of frames at the client node exceeds the indication window, and the duration is decreased if the arrival time of frames is less than the indication window. The technology may be implemented in mobile devices, portable electronic devices, laptop computers, cameras, etc.

This lot is generally related to mobile microcell. Techniques are disclosed for an uplink resource allocation in a cognitive small cell network to increase network capacity. The system allocates an uplink resource by a cell manager, collects access requests from users and forms a user-specific preference relationship. Also disclosed are techniques to calculate channel specific transmission power to achieve maximum data transmission rate during uplink transmission. The technology may be implemented in small cell networks, cellular networks, femtocells, base stations, etc.

This lot is generally related to a video overlay system. Disclosed is a technique to add overlay images or tags on a video to enhance video in a collaborative environment. Techniques are disclosed to display video and an overlay or tag using an application running through a browser. The user sends a request to a server to send a first uniform resource locator (URL) related to a location of the video and a second URL related to a location of the overlay or tag and a playlist data. The play list data includes sequence information for playing each segment of the video, timing information indicating when to display the overlay during playing of the video, and location information indicating a coordinate within the video for displaying the overlay. The user merges the video and the overlay into an integrated media sequence which is played onto the user device based on the playlist and displays the tag. Also disclosed are techniques to automatically link the user with the content having the overlay or tag to display on the browser. The technology may be implemented in video streaming, video editing software, etc.

This lot is generally related to a technique of video compression for transmission in low and variable bandwidth networks. Disclosed is a technique of vision guided compression (VGC) or salience based compression (SBC) for video compression to reduce network bandwidth requirements and preserving important details in the original video content in salient regions. Disclosed is a technique of guided pre-filtering of video content by receiving bandwidth information using a feedback path for a network and modifies various parameters of a pre-filter connected to a video encoder based on the received bandwidth information. The video encoder encodes video data at a bit rate which is equivalent to activity in a region of the video content and applies the pre-filter to the video content. Also disclosed are techniques to generate modified parameters of the video content. The system provides pre-filtering based on saliency compression by recognizing salient regions and non-salient regions in the original video content. Further disclosed are techniques to automatically encode the salient regions of pre-filtered video content at a higher bit-rate than non-salient regions to provide uninterrupted video streaming. A patent in the lot discloses a technique of video compression based on region-of-interest to capture a higher quality video image within the region-of-interest in comparison to the non-region-of-interest. The technology may be implemented in video streaming systems, video compression software, etc.

This lot is generally related to media clip creation and distribution. Techniques are disclosed to create video clips to capture important events from a long video recording and distribute the clips through messaging or social media platform. Disclosed are techniques to capture a video using a smart phone or a content capture device and tag an activity during the event, such as goal activity indicator, a corner kick activity indicator, in a soccer game to create a media clip for distribution. Also disclosed are techniques to index the media clip or annotate with tagging information such as metadata, tags, keys, or other information so that the clip may be easily discoverable by others online. The technology may be implemented in mobile apps, smart phones, media distribution systems, etc.

This lot is generally related to user preference based web searching. Disclosed are techniques to determine user preferences and match products, such as videos, photos, books, garments, restaurants, moving companies, dentists, plumbers, which are not explicitly shared by anyone. Techniques are disclosed to determine user preferences by extracting information from a database by web-crawling robots without cooperation or specific participation by a user. The system assists the user in selection of items on the Internet consisting of a processor, a web robot for crawling multiple websites to determine published userIDs and associated published preferences for items on the web. The system has a database for storing the userIDs and associated preferences, a software for performing an analysis and a suggestion function. The system assumes that the user has used the same userID on multiple websites and associates the preferences stored for the particular userID. Also disclosed are techniques to create a weighting profile for the user to determine the user preferences of items by combining the suggested items on multiple websites. The technology may be implemented in web browsers, search engines, eCommerce websites, etc.

This lot is generally related to data storage management. Disclosed is a technique to correlate data from various sources so that a business process may access and integrate data seamlessly. The system correlates and accesses data from multiple external data sources by querying two sets of data stored in external computers, generating a computer program code to access and mapping data into a memory of the central computer. Also disclosed are techniques to store references by specifying links to each data set and automatically correlating data from the data sets using a correlation rule. Further disclosed are techniques to query statements in the computer to facilitate the user to automatically execute the query. The technology may be implemented in databases, enterprises, web services, cloud databases, etc.

his lot is generally related to a smart drive-thru or a point-of-sale transaction system. Disclosed is a smart marketplace which is automatically able to take the customer’s order, record the order, confirm the order, prepare the order, process the payment, and deliver the correct ordered items to the customer. Disclosed is a technique to receive a programmable code for execution on a customer smart device, enter into the customer smart device an identification of the customer, receive a desired delivery destination from the customer smart device, and display a preferred restaurant based on a restaurant criterion on the customer smart device. The restaurant criterion is based on preferred restaurants, a first predetermined distance from the customer to restaurants located within the first predetermined distance, and a second predetermined distance from the desired delivery destination to restaurants located within the second predetermined distance. The system receives the order and generates an order comprising of food items into a customer interface on the customer smart device and transmits the order to the selected preferred restaurant. Further disclosed are techniques to transmit payment information based on the food items and delivery fee and displaying a unique identifier associated with the order for food items. The system transmits a customer identification associated with the order for food items to at least one of: the selected preferred restaurant and a delivery driver. The technology may be implemented in fast food restaurants, fast food retailers, automatic fast food ordering systems, etc.

This lot is generally related to image processing. Disclosed is a technique to add annotations in an image by determining a geographic location such as a mountain, scenery, alpine landscape, building, or painting in a museum and displays the image together with superposed information concerning the scene on a user device. Also disclosed are techniques to determine similarities between visual features of an image and a reference image, and determine the best annotation position in the image based on a visual feature with respect to the reference image. The technology may be implemented in mobile APPs, video player software, camera software, etc.

This lot is generally related to advertisements in media. Techniques are disclosed to tag user selected media content such as goods or services for purchase, tips, sign ups, registrations or subscriptions, polls, tickets, when media is played or displayed on the media player. The system identifies user selectable items in a media content based on viewing location, time and date of viewing, and displays a thumbnail image of the selected elements associated with the media content. Also disclosed are techniques to display the content of the video based on a particular recipient demographic location, or may be designed for female recipients of a particular age. Further disclosed are techniques to allow the purchase of relevant product or service to users. The technology may be implemented in streaming services, multimedia networks, digital TV services, online media services, VoD, etc.

This lot is generally related to a technique of correlating conversations in a messaging system. Techniques are disclosed to follow multiple conversations even when multiple conversations are intertwined and include questions, prompts, and answers that chronologically cross each other. Disclosed is a technique for correlating conversations in a messaging environment by providing a discussion interface at a first interface device which displays a first message and a second message. The system provides a message entry location for inputting new messages and receives a first indication indicating that the first message is part of an active conversation and changes a visual element of the message entry location. The system matches a first visual cue indication which is shared by a message with the active conversation. Also disclosed are techniques to receive a first new message at the message entry location and display the first new message within the discussion interface at the first interface device. The displayed message has a visual cue shared by all messages of the active conversation and can be color coded. The technology may be implemented in chat messengers, social networks, instant messaging, etc.

This lot is generally related to photogrammetry marker system for determining a 3D pose of a target. Disclosed is a technique to determine an accurate 3D pose of the target having blurring effect because of a lack of sharp focus, noise and has nonlinear intensity scaling without utilizing high-quality lenses and high-resolution sensors. Disclosed is a technique to detect a shape using a figure with a contouring loop system and extract one iso-contour polygon from a set of pixels in an image by superimposing a triangular lattice over the set of pixels of the image. The triangles of the triangular lattice have vertices on pixel centers, pixel corners, and starting from an original triangle. The system extracts the iso-contour polygon by selecting an intensity chroma value within the set of pixels between three corners of a triangle and finds a directed line segment which represents the crossing of the intensity value within the triangle. Also disclosed are techniques to determine an exit point of the directed line segment and a nearest triangle to create a first matrix of points on the iso-contour polygon, until arriving at the original triangle. The technology may be implemented in photogrammetry, augmented reality, mobile apps, drone landing systems, high-speed photography, remote sensing, etc.

This lot is generally related to reproduction of 3D images. Disclosed is a technique to reproduce 3D images using a depth-priority integral imaging display technique to enhance the resolutions in both horizontal and vertical directions. Disclosed is a depth-priority integral imaging display technique which uses a nonuniform dynamic mask array by transmitting elemental images through a lens array and a mask panel for display of 3D images. The mask panel has a blocking region through which each elemental image cannot pass and a transmission region through which the elemental image can pass. The system has an interchanging position of the blocking region and the transmission region both corresponding to each basic lens and designed as one block. The block of the mask panel has a rectangular shaped blocking region with a long edge and a short edge, and a rectangular shaped transmission region with a long edge and a short edge. The rectangular shaped blocking region and the rectangular shaped transmission region have substantially the same area. The long edges of the rectangular shaped blocking region and the rectangular shaped transmission region are arranged along a horizontal direction in a first block and along a vertical direction in a second block adjacent to the first block to change a division boundary of a mask pattern and uses a two-times time multiplexing. The technology may be implemented in 3D image reproduction systems, 3D TV sets, stereoscopic video games, etc.

This lot is generally related to data sharing in wireless mobile networks.  Disclosed are techniques to share data,  such as text, audio, or video data, in a wireless mobile network without involving a stationary device.  Techniques are disclosed to create a network of devices by receiving an identification information of a second mobile device to a first mobile device and an information which provides approximate physical distance between the first mobile device and the second mobile device.  Also disclosed are techniques to determine whether the first and the second mobile device can communicate with each other by comparing the identification of the second device to a list of identifications stored on the first mobile device and indicate direct connection availability if the identification matches.  The technology may be implemented in wireless networks, WLAN, cellular networks, etc.

This lot is generally related to mobile APPs.  Techniques are disclosed to change modes of a portable device when the device is near to other persons to improve personal communication.  The technique receives information of the presence of a person near a portable device, determines if the person is within a range, identifies a mode-changing triggering event and changes the mode of the portable device.  The reception of presence of the user can be done through the portable device camera or microphone.  Once the person goes far from the portable device, the mode is switched back.  The technology may be implemented in mobile APPs, OS, smart phones, tablets, wearable devices, gaming devices, portable devices, etc.

This lot is generally related to targeted searching.  Techniques are disclosed to store users’ attributes, such as age, gender, profession, residence area, income level, etc., in a server and provide search results to each user based on his/her attribute values.  The technology may be implemented for website searching, advertisements, etc.

This lot is generally related to web services.  Disclosed are techniques to modify websites presented to users to increase the number of visitors, frequency of site visits and generate advertisement revenue.  The technique receives initial user preferences, displays a first presentation of a website, receives subsequent preferences based on the presentation, and modifies the website to include dynamic content based on the user preferences.  The technology may be useful for presentations of websites, website-creating services, Internet services, ISPs, social network providers, advertisers, etc.

This lot is generally related to Internet-based gifting.  Techniques are disclosed to provide gifting recommendations in a small group by mentoring user’s on-line activities.  Disclosed is a technique to generate a user profile by monitoring the user online activities.  The system allows members to track a wish list and to buy list of a user and distribute among a member group.  The members are allowed to create a Wish List by entering gifts into a webpage, which can be viewed by other members for purchase of the gift, and the member is not informed about the gift purchased by the other member.  Also disclosed is a budget tool to allow each group member to setup a personal budget for purchasing of gifts.  The technology may be implemented in social network websites, group activities, in an enterprise system, gifting applications, etc.

This lot is generally related to IP telephony.  Disclosed is a technique to automatically configure mobile terminal application-related control protocol settings to avoid errors in manual entries.  Disclosed parameter setting system consists of a user terminal capable of running application sessions, a gateway node, and a settings server.  The system recognizes a predefined application-related action in the user terminal, transmits a request from the user terminal to the gateway node to initialize a retrieval of application-related control protocol settings such as a session initiation protocol (SIP).  Also disclosed are techniques to receive the request message at the gateway node and retrieve identification information on the user terminal from a mobile network, which includes a mobile subscriber international integrated services digital network number MSISDN.  The system transmits the request message and the identification information to the setting server and defines application-related control protocol settings for the user terminal in the settings server and transmits the control protocol settings via the gateway node to the user terminal.  The technology may be implemented in telecommunication services, Internet Protocol (IP) networks, voice communication systems, etc.

This lot is generally related to VoIP.   Techniques are disclosed to make VoIP calls using a PBX or central office routes to a gateway, gateway receives routing information from command center (CC), CC forwards incoming call information to another gateway and establishes a connection using VoIP address.  The technology may be implemented by internet service providers, internet telephony, VoIP equipment, etc.

This lot is generally related to 3D touch display devices.  Disclosed are multitouch 3D textured displays to determine the shape, geometry or texture of an object using pressure sensor and a depth from the display. Disclosed are devices which use a multi-touch display having a clear layer for display of information based on touch force or pressure, indentation.  The display has multiple tactile areas controlled and displayed with associated images based on tactile area vibration patterns.   Also disclosed are devices using multi-touch displays with a texturizing polymer layer having elevated, indented, or texturized portions of a display to recognize any gestures on the polymer layer.   The technology may be implemented in touch screens used in electronic devices such as mobile phones, tablets, laptops, PDAs, etc.

This lot is generally related to a voice-based services system using voice recognition.  Techniques are disclosed to provide system-initiative scenario in which a user follows a predetermined scenario or a mutual-initiative scenario to get desired responses to provide services and satisfy various desires of the user.  Disclosed is a voice service system having a database for storing information and is connected with multiple terminals by a communication network.  The system has a call connection unit for transmitting and receiving a signal on a voice service to or from each of the terminals, a voice processing unit for interpreting a voice instruction received from the terminal and converting an internally-created voice service document into a voice message.  The system has a recognition management unit for extracting a grammar, which is expected to be spoken by a user, from the database and converting an internally created voice service document into a voice message.  The document management unit creates the voice service document including the extracted grammar as a voice anchor and a control unit for controlling information related to the voice anchor matching with the voice instruction.  The technology may be implemented in call centers, customer service systems, online ordering systems, etc.

This lot is generally related to software testing.  A technique is disclosed to improve testing of software installations to provide flexibility tailored to different user groups and application scenarios.  The technique records operating scenarios, analyzes into a sequence of operating steps, categorizes the steps into classes, accesses multiple dependency rules, and dynamically generates executable test scenarios.  The rules are changed in an advanced process to modify test scenarios.  The technology may be implemented for software testing, test strategies, test procedures, etc.

This lot is generally related to software updates.  A technique is disclosed for efficient software updates using adaptively selectable functions.  The technique identifies an application data element when a user selects a function, extracts and stores application data, makes it available to target device, and installs at the target device to provide selected function.  The technology may be implemented for software updates, APP updates, operating system software, online software update services, etc.

This lot is generally related to video messaging in social networks.  Techniques are disclosed to allow real time stories of a user or groups, to provide in-the-moment communication to other persons or groups.  The disclosed application enables an originating user to initiate a real time story-based communication, facilitates the user to form a group who can participate and uploads an initial media-based story.  Also disclosed are techniques to enable other users within the group to upload other media stories, organize the uploaded stories into a timeline series of stories, and allow access of the timeline stories to all users for viewing.  The technology may be implemented in social networks, online chats, etc.

This lot is related to social networks.  Techniques are disclosed to easily build and manage social network profiles by automatically selecting a user on a social network using first user’s intelligent service and exchange profiles of both users using an intelligent service.  The system determines whether common interest exists between the users and includes users as their network connection.  Further disclosed are techniques to match profiles when both users are in proximity to each other.  The technology may be implemented in social networks, online community services, instant messaging services, dating services, etc.

This lot is generally related to navigation services.  A technique is disclosed to help users whenever navigation directions are terminated, such as in situations where there are narrow lanes or there is no further motorable route to a destination.  The technique generates a route planning result for the destination, performs the route navigation process, and determines when the navigation process is terminated.  Also disclosed are techniques to display a position schematic diagram including the destination and the current position.  The technology may be implemented in navigation devices, smart phones, on board entertainment devices, maps services, navigation services, mobile APPs, etc.

This lot is generally related to navigation devices.  Disclosed is a technique to display navigation information based on travel direction to give more details, such as upcoming map and points of interest, to a user.  The system determines a travel direction of a navigation device (ND) based on current position, generates a route to a destination, and displays two parameters of the map.  The system dynamically adjusts the second display parameter based on the first parameter and fetches a corresponding displayed section of the navigation map.  The technology may be implemented in map services, navigation services, mobile APPs, navigation devices, smart phones, etc.

This lot is generally related to navigation systems.  Disclosed is a navigation system to wirelessly acquire activity information to display on the navigation device.  Techniques are disclosed to receive a position signal using a GPS receiving unit and display activities with an icon on the display of the portable device.  Also disclosed are techniques to provide the latitude and longitude coordinates and generate a reminder message related to the activity when the portable device is within a predetermined distance from the activity.  The technology may be implemented in mobile apps, maps, navigation devices, etc.

This lot is generally related to geolocation and positioning.  Disclosed are techniques to automatically switch the display mode of the mobile device between daytime and nighttime display modes by determining the time of day and enabling the electronic device to operate in a first display mode when the time of day corresponds to nighttime and in second display mode if the time corresponds to daytime.  Also disclosed are techniques to display map data on the display panel in a light shade against a dark background when the display panel is operated in the nighttime display mode, and in a dark shade against a light background when the display panel is operated in the daytime display mode.  The technology may be implemented in smart phones, PDAs, etc.

This lot is generally related to memory.  Disclosed are memory devices used in multiple processor computers/devices which can simultaneously process multiple access requests without compromising on access speed and system performance and various techniques to control memory to reduce wait time and maximize bandwidth utilization.  The memory devices for multiple processor computers/devices use a command-and-control signal port, an address port, a data port with multiple simultaneous data channels, a mode register and multiple memory banks divided into sub banks.  Also disclosed are techniques to control memory, which read multiple memory access requests from a buffer, determine whether a first bank buffer is not full and transfer next access request to the buffer.  If the buffer is full, then check whether the second bank buffer is not full and transfer the request to the second buffer.  These techniques also store buffer information which has each request to transfer commands of the bank controller to the memory.  The technology may be implemented in memory devices, memory controllers, read/write circuits, memory circuits, computers, smart phones, laptops, PDAs, tablets and other processor-based devices.

This lot is generally related to perform transcoding operations in servers.  Disclosed is a technique to perform transcoding operation in servers having low-level processors to achieve appropriate performance to clients. Techniques are disclosed to perform transcoding at the server consisting of a first server for receiving a request from a client device for a video film, segment the video file based on a play time of a portion of the video file and a performance rate of a second server.  Also disclosed are techniques to transmit the segmented video file for transcoding to the high performance second server along with the segmented video file of a greater size and transmit a small size file to other servers having lower performance.  The first server receives a transcoded video file for transmission to the client terminal.  The technology may be implemented in client-server environments, server farms, etc.

This lot is generally related to multimedia devices.  Techniques are disclosed for generating viewpoint images of a scene by acquiring background images of the scene, generating a dense background, acquiring real-time images of the scene and warping first image with second image based on dense background.   Also disclosed are techniques for determining difference in values of a threshold above a corresponded value to pixels associated with a movable object and generating a real-time image based on the new correspondence data.  The technology may be implemented in image processing software, mobile APPs, cameras, mobile phones, etc.

This lot is generally related to an augmented reality application for interpretation of constrained objects. Techniques are disclosed to enhance a user’s view of the real world with additional information generated by a computing device.  Disclosed is a technique for interpreting a constrained object in an augmented reality application by receiving measurement data associated with the constrained object from a sensor with a processor and processes the data to generate a weighted measurement data.  Also disclosed are techniques to apply a filter to the model and to the weighted measurement data to produce position information regarding the constrained object. The technology may be implemented in augmented reality applications, robotics, etc.

This lot is generally related to identification of objects.  Systems are disclosed to automatically and non-unobtrusively detect people, objects, using multiple radio identification devices attached to the objects to identify and track.  The system has a wireless module to receive and transmit data regarding objects or people and multiple display devices to identify the user in proximity to respective display device.  The technology may be implemented in user or object identification systems, tracking or monitoring systems and useful in airports, theme parks, amusement parks, cruise ships, tourist locations, hospitals, buildings, shopping malls, sports venues, parking facilities, hotels, resorts, clubs, elevators, museums, libraries, etc.

This lot is generally related to a digital media management system.  Disclosed is a remote application to provide media personalization for users using an electronic device.  Disclosed is a media personalization technique to provide personalized video viewing suggestions consisting of an electronic device to receive a request for activation of a user profile and assign an active operation status for user devices and passive status for the rest of the user devices based on policy information.  Also disclosed are techniques to apply the profile associated with the user device having an active status for the media personalization.  Further disclosed are techniques to monitor media consumption pattern of each user to differentiate between the consumption patterns of different users and perform analytics at user profile level.  The technology may be implemented in mobile phones, personal computers, laptops, set top boxes (STBs), digital video recorders (DVRs), media gateway boxes, etc.

This lot is generally related to an intelligent multimedia streaming system.  Disclosed are techniques to automatically capture an event of interest to create a customized digital stream.  Disclosed system has multiple cameras for capturing video images of an event from various angles, multiple modules consisting of a rectification module for combining the video images to form a wide-angle view and a motion analysis module configured for tracking salient blobs which are not part of a background of the wide-angle view.  Also disclosed is an activity analysis module for extracting temporal and spatial patterns from the wide-angle view and a shape and appearance module for selecting objects in the wide-angle view.  The shape and appearance module selects objects based on descriptors that are scale and rotational invariant and a region of interest selector for selecting a viewpoint from the wide-angle view based on output from the motion analysis module for display.  The system has an audio recording device for capturing audio from the event and synchronizes the video images and audio to form a multimedia stream.  The technology may be implemented in mobile devices, TV cameras, event-capturing systems, etc.

This lot is generally related to location-based services (LBS).  Techniques are disclosed to provide media content or ads to users based on location by receiving a list of hotspots in user’s location, identify the hotspots which are close to the user while moving, and provide notifications on the user device about available content.  The technology may be implemented in LBS, advertising services, maps, navigation software, mobile APPs, etc.

This lot is generally related to mobile applications.  Disclosed is a technique to capture paper data, book, or other objects using sensors such as cameras, and retrieve relevant information of the object such as the author, author profile, version, history, timestamps, location tracking information, position tracking, social networking related information. The mobile device uses a camera and a depth sensor configured to capture biometric facial data for security verification of the user. The system enhances reading and productivity by tracking a part, section, paragraph, sentence, word, or page of paper documents or a book using a tracking engine. The tracking is captured by highlighting through various gestures of the user such as hand motions, finger motions, or body motions on the section, paragraph, sentence, or page of paper documents or books. The technology may be implemented in eBook, digital documents, etc.

This lot is generally related to an augmented reality application.  Disclosed is a technique to generate an augmented image data.  Disclosed is a technique to set up an image to be processed by an augmented reality device by generating an image from light reflected from a real object and the image data representing the real object.  The system stores the image data in memory, identifies an augmented reality skin stored in the memory and analyzes the augmented reality skin to identify the reference point of the feature of the real object within the image data.  The system creates metadata related to the image data consisting of the features of the augmented reality skin.  Further, the system stores the metadata related to the image data and the presence of the feature in the image data in the memory and updates the metadata after execution of the augmented reality skin.  The technology may be implemented in augmented reality applications, image processing systems, etc.

This lot is generally related to an augmented reality application.  Disclosed are techniques to generate an augmented image data by selecting an AR skin to an image of a user which can be viewed by other users.  The system generates an augmented reality image data by receiving an image on a first device to apply an augmented reality skin on the first image data by analyzing profile data of the user.  The user device receives the first image using the user device camera and modifies pixels in the image data based on the augmented reality skin to obtain the augmented image data.  Also disclosed are techniques to transmit the augmented image data to the receiving device.  The technology may be implemented in augmented reality applications, wearable devices, Google Glass, AR devices, mobile phones, etc.

This lot is generally related to targeted advertising or marketing.  Techniques are disclosed to provide customized marketing information associated to multimedia broadcasting by receiving multimedia broadcast data from a user device, determine the user information such as location, sex, age, information from an external service (social network service, banking service, social network service, etc.), history of received multimedia broadcast data, and transmit the information to a service provider.   The system synchronizes the customized marketing information based on received multimedia data and transmits the customized targeted marketing information on to the user device.  The technology may be implemented in TV broadcasters, multimedia services, network service providers, etc.

This portfolio is generally related to wireless networks. Disclosed are techniques to improve implementation of wireless nodes using home network routing protocol. The technique submits a request to register wireless nodes, identify neighbor nodes, flood network with link state advertisements, construct switching rules and process received packets. Few techniques determine a network topology, calculate wireless link weights and send to first tier nodes. Also disclosed techniques to provide second tier and third tier nodes where nodes of each tier exchange packets with nodes of other tiers. The technology may be implemented in wireless networks, cellular mobile networks, network routers, switches, modems, base stations, wireless equipment, etc.

This lot is generally related to secured cloud services across various user devices. Techniques are disclosed to provide efficient and user friendly authenticated and authorized services such as video and audio streaming services, IPTV in real time on multiple user devices such as mobile phone, laptop computers, TV, etc. without additional log-in or authentication procedures. The system detects a service delivery module in a communication system using a communication device and perform an authentication and authorization session between the service delivery module and the communication device. Also disclosed are techniques to connect a service information module in the communication system to access services, provide a request from the user device to the service information module and initiate service delivery session using the user authentication and authorization information. Further disclosed are techniques to deliver services to the presentation device based on the service request. The technology may be implemented in on-line service providers, cloud services, internet service providers, etc.

This lot is generally related to a floating video.  Disclosed is a technique to remove background from a video so that a floating video can be overlaid on a new background such as current weather on a weather map.  The system generates a floating video by removing background pixels of the primary video by placing the image in front of a static single colored background and recording the video with the selected background masked out of the video.  The device consists of an imaging device, a processor and a storage medium.  The technology may be implemented in websites, web pages, social networking pages, emails, etc.

This lot is majorly related to security and targeted advertisements.  Various techniques are disclosed to provide the best matching advertisements to users, data security in an enterprise and secured entity authentication.  Few patents disclose techniques to provide the best matching content, such as animated images, movies, or audio clips, by accessing content rule repositories, evaluating the viewer’s characteristics, the situational characteristics in which the content is viewed and the viewer’s personal history.  Also disclosed are techniques to display the content based on a prioritized list by evaluating the individual content items against various business rules.  Few techniques disclose data security and resource access in an enterprise by obtaining a dynamically loadable security policy, invoking a data connector, which contains rule attributes to evaluate policy and return authorization decision.  Further, disclosed are techniques to authenticate entities to representational state transfer (REST) web services by exchanging attributes.  The technology may be implemented in ERP applications, security systems, multimedia services, advertisement services, CRM applications, authentication services, etc.

This lot is generally related to secure transactions.  Techniques are disclosed to verify a user to provide alternate payment services or provide secure ways to complete payment transactions at multiple vendors.  The disclosed system automatically obtains subscriber telephone number identification data, a reference data and billing telephone number data for validation of users.  Also disclosed are techniques to access another database to determine whether the user is billable and compare reference data to verify user identity.  Few techniques facilitate user identity verification by associating a phone bill by receiving a billing telephone number, user provided private data, determine user’s street address and multiple identification records to compare with private data.  Further, disclosed are techniques to securely verify user at telecom service provider to complete payment transactions at third party vendors.  The technology may be implemented in telecom networks, communication networks, ecommerce applications, financial services, etc.

This lot is generally related to wireless security.  Techniques are disclosed to provide a new protocol to build a secured, authentic or confidential logical channel between the cryptographic computing on the user mobile and an additional terminal.  The secure logical channel is based on a secret, which is exclusively shared between the smart card in the mobile and the terminal and establishes safe protocol of the shared secret.  Also disclosed are techniques to generate the secret or a hash value on the terminal to be displayed on the terminal and entered by the user on the input.  The technology may be implemented in smart mobile devices, PDAs, etc.

This lot is generally related to targeted content.  Disclosed are techniques to quickly provide real time targeted content and messages, by generating a group profile based on profiles of few group users, identify and transmit a coarse message for the group.  Also disclosed are techniques to generate another group profile based on profiles of a few more group users, refine and transmit the same message.  The technology may be implemented in media streaming services, custom advertisements or coupons or offers, eCommerce services, digital TV services,  VoD, online media, custom news and weather alerts, social networks, etc.

This lot is generally related to display point of interests on a map.  Techniques are disclosed to display points of interest (POI) on a map, which are relevant to a user for travel purpose by storing POI with category labels into a memory of a navigation device.  The system allows the user to enter a destination location in the device, associate a travel category with the trip to the destination and display POIs whose labels are included in travel category.  The technology may be implemented in navigation services, map services, travel services, mobile APPs, navigation devices, etc.

This lot is generally related to personal assistants. Techniques are disclosed for context building of personal assistants to improve utility, convenience and power by detecting a network API call or a response, obtain parsed personal assistant data, convert the data and store converted data in a context database. The techniques further adjust relative weights of relationships among converted data, receive automated user input, determine strong weighted relationships between the user input and database data and configure an automated personal assistant user interaction operation. The technology may be implemented in virtual assistant applications, personal assistant software and mobile APPs, etc.

This lot is generally related to medical data monitoring. Disclosed is a technique to quickly and efficiently monitor huge amounts of medical data without increasing network resources by receiving a filter program to obtain filtered data from multiple sensors, estimate a resource requirement for execution of a program, and decide if program is installable based on estimated resource requirement. The technique further installs the program and applies the program to the data that needs to be monitored. The technology may be implemented in medical monitoring applications, treatment or diagnosis applications, etc.

This lot is generally related to Voice Virtual Private Networks (Voice VPN). Disclosed are techniques for setting up, accessing and terminating services of a Voice VPN consisting of a Voice VPN Gateway which provides an interface between a corporate User and Corporate Voice and Communication Service Servers for providing voice and communication services to the corporate user. The Voice VPN system provides remote corporate users with full or partial access to the corporate voice and communication services such as making and accepting telephone calls and accessing corporate telephone directories for smooth working of the user. Also disclosed are techniques to facilitate calls and other services between remote corporate voice service users inside the realm of the corporate voice network, other Voice VPN users. Further disclosed are techniques for users to connect to the corporate network via other networks such as PSTN. The technology may be implemented in Voice Virtual Private Networks, VoIP, Corporate Voice and Communication Services, etc.

This lot is generally related to media recommendations. Techniques are disclosed to improve provision of media recommendations, by obtaining play lists from multiple users which are either recently played or currently playing, determine recommendation scores for media items of play lists and recommend the media item based on scores. Few techniques also update and remove recommendations for few media items based on the play patterns on multiple user devices. The technology may be implemented in streaming media, online media services, VoD, digital TV services, satellite TV services, etc.

This lot is generally related to a display of advertisements on mobile devices. Disclosed is a technique to deliver advertisements, electronic coupons, etc., on a user mobile device by using an application program interface (API), which is associated with an application program running on the mobile device. The API enables the application program to retrieve, store, and display various types of promotional content such as advertisements, games, video content, audio content, and informational content, such as alerts, notifications, without the user request. The API within a client device may dynamically select advertisements for insertion within user-requested content without requiring intervention from a remote ad server. The API may make a request to a remote server to perform content selection using a selection algorithm to choose from the set of content which has already distributed to the client to provide additional opportunities for generating and enhancing revenue to content providers. The technology may be implemented in web browser, web servers used in mobile devices, PDAs, etc.

This lot is generally related to object identification and classification. Techniques are disclosed to differentiate objects detected by object identification system using an artificial intelligence or computer vision algorithms by building a histogram of pixel intensity values in an image’s region of interest, locate maxima and minima in histogram and generate a binary image. The techniques further assign a contour score to each pixel intensity value, segment region of interest using two contour scores and classify the object. Few techniques perform edge analysis on detected object regions or analyze depth images to classify the object. Also disclosed are techniques to detect small objects located at far distances from a camera having a limited field of view using planar or nearly planar surfaces, vehicle collision avoidance systems that use only a vision based stereo configuration to reduce overall cost and improve performance in vehicle detection and tracking. The technology may be implemented in object identification systems, object tracking or monitoring systems, collision detection systems, autonomous vehicle software, artificial intelligence-based object detectors, etc.

This lot is generally related to object identification and classification. Techniques are disclosed to differentiate objects detected by object identification system using an artificial intelligence or computer vision algorithms by building a histogram of pixel intensity values in an image’s region of interest, locate maxima and minima in histogram and generate a binary image. The techniques further assign a contour score to each pixel intensity value, segment region of interest using two contour scores and classify the object. Few techniques perform edge analysis on detected object regions or analyze depth images to classify the object. Also disclosed are techniques to detect small objects located at far distances from a camera having a limited field of view using planar or nearly planar surfaces, vehicle collision avoidance systems that use only a vision based stereo configuration to reduce overall cost and improve performance in vehicle detection and tracking. The technology may be implemented in object identification systems, object tracking or monitoring systems, collision detection systems, autonomous vehicle software, artificial intelligence-based object detectors, etc.

This lot is generally related to language translation. Disclosed are cross linguistic communication systems with accurate and real time machine translation by capturing speech and tactile inputs, provides a UI to correct inputs and meanings, translates input into a different language and retranslates into source language so that user can judge translation quality. These systems further access a database of meaning cues and displays cues on user device to facilitate word sense selection. Also disclosed are techniques to map word senses across lexical resources based on semantic distance between possible matches to target translated term. The technology may be implemented in translation devices, translation software, mobile APPs, etc.

This lot is generally related to data transmission. Disclosed are digital data systems with improved security in data transmission, using a server for storing multiple data items and has a module to send data to user devices. The user device of the system consists of a data requesting module, a data storage, a module to validate data and request for updated copies from the server and a user interface. The technology may be implemented in communication networks, computer networks, client server infrastructure, wireless networks, etc.

This lot is generally related to user support systems. Disclosed is a user support system interface with integrated FAQ, helpdesk features for handling and FAQ maintenance. The system stores multiple questions and corresponding answers in a database, receives a user support request, displays a list of questions retrieved from the database and displays a selection of one of the displayed questions. The system generates a response to the user request based on an answer stored in the database; displays the response on the screen. The technology may be implemented in online FAQ systems, helpdesk systems, help databases, etc.

This lot is generally related to vehicles. Disclosed is a system to stabilize voltage load of a vehicle battery so that battery voltage is stable when the vehicle engine is switched ON. The system is using a voltage boost module, a microcontroller connected to the voltage boost module, the vehicle computer and a bypass module in parallel to the voltage boost module. The voltage boost module supplies a boosted voltage when voltage drop is detected and the bypass module supplies normal voltage till the voltage is stable. The technology may be implemented in vehicles, automobile batteries, vehicle battery, etc.

This lot is generally related to power supply circuits. Disclosed is a power supply circuit which eliminates audio noise, has better stability and durable components which are not easily damaged consisting of two switches connected to two loads, two power conversion circuits each connected with a load and switch to convert input voltage into required driving voltage. The circuit also uses a phase delay module to generate two delay signals to control terminals of the switches. The technology may be implemented as power supply for electronic devices, LED lights, appliances, industrial machines, computers, servers, etc.

This lot is generally related to monitoring of power initialization of a computer system. Disclosed is a remote monitor module for monitoring multiple power initialization events/states of a computer consisting of a baseboard management controller to connect with a remote device, a monitor logic in connection with the controller, a power up sequence controller and multiple basic voltage domains of the computer board. The computer further uses additional communication paths between extra hardware circuits and controller to access initialization status/events without the chassis. The technology may be implemented in remote power monitors for computers, servers, cluster computers, etc.

This lot is generally related to power saving in portable devices (PD). Techniques are disclosed to reduce electricity consumption in a portable device by using a wireless communication module, control software for detecting data transmission through the module and accordingly control waste of the power supply. The technology may be implemented in wireless communication enabled devices such as smart phones, laptops, tablet computers, PDAs, WiFi cards, PCMCIA cards, wearable devices, smart appliances, etc.

This lot is generally related to location determination of a navigation device. Techniques are disclosed to precisely locate a navigation device using known positions of road signs to augment GPS coordinate data by obtaining recent GPS coordinate data and a real time image of surroundings, captured by the navigation device. The system analyzes captured images to recognize the road sign and uses a known position of the road sign to augment recent coordinate data. The technology may be implemented in navigation devices, navigation services, map services, mobile APPs, etc.

This lot is generally related to location-based services. Techniques are disclosed to send notifications regarding restricted points of interest, promotions or areas to personal navigation devices (PNDs) such as mobile phones, PDAs by determining current position based on positioning signals received from a GPS satellite. The disclosed technique generates alerts on the user device by determining route of the PND, determines various locations such as a bakery, a bar, a jewelry store, a fast food restaurant along with the name, street address and filters data based on predetermined rules. The points-of-interest are categorized based on their type of business, and rules are applied on various categories such as the user is on a diet, in which case the user may wish to avoid fast food restaurants and bakeries. If PND is near the bakery or a fast food restaurant, the system generates an alert on the PND and reminds the user. The technology may be implemented as mobile apps, mobile operating systems, etc.

This lot is generally related to communication systems. Disclosed is a Multi-Input Multi-Output (MIMO) communication system to divide available frequency band in to multiple frequency channels to allow multiple-access by multiple users to achieve maximum performance. The communication system has a transmitter and a receiver consisting of multiple antennas for monitoring various parameters of the communication system by configuring the transmitter and receiver to communicate with each other operating in the same frequency channel. The system has a capability to operate in a frequency-bundle mode or hybrid mode to achieve maximum throughput, range, and reliability. Further disclosed is a control module for monitoring a set of information elements and metrics and switch the operations between the MIMO mode and the frequency-bundle or hybrid modes. The technology may be implemented in wireless communication systems, cellular data service such as GSM, CDMA, low-power wide-area networks, etc.

This lot is generally related to multimedia collaboration. Disclosed is a technique to provide collaboration among remote users to view real time video streams or motion imagery by storing a stream or imagery data in a server, send to a user device and generate annotation data based on input from the device. Also disclosed are techniques to send stream or imagery with annotations to other user devices and automatically adept annotation based on changes in dynamic features of stream or imagery at all devices and the server. The technology may be implemented in collaboration applications, cloud applications, streaming services, animation applications, video processing services, etc.

This lot is generally related to navigation devices. Disclosed is a navigation system which is capable of downloading and synchronizing addresses of points of interest or other contact information, calendar data, map data, and other data or information from cell phones, PDAs or website portals. The device provides navigation to a destination by transmitting position information to a navigation server by receiving a list of contacts along with physical address of each contact from a mobile phone. Also disclosed are techniques to receive selection of a contact, map with a physical address at the navigation device and determine navigation directions from current location to the physical address of contact without communicating with the mobile phone. The technology may be implemented in navigation devices, maps software, navigation services, etc.

This lot is generally related to efficient collaborative work over a network. Techniques are disclosed for synchronous n-way collaboration for a scalable delivery of A/V content which intercepts multiple application level events at a first device, allows transmission of native document file and application level events over a network to other collaborators. Also disclosed are techniques to display a local copy of native documents to other devices, receive application level events, and replicate events and mirror user actions and display changes in local document. The technology may be implemented in collaborative applications, cloud applications, web services, etc.

This lot is generally related to real time traffic reporting systems. Disclosed is a technique to provide real time traffic information to drivers having a driver locator module to automatically determine the location of the driver, travel direction and an automated traffic notification module to transmit traffic notification messages having details of traffic congestion, accidents in the route. Also disclosed are techniques to incorporate notifications on a navigation map. Further disclosed are techniques to provide a most efficient route based on traffic information to registered users. The technology may be implemented in traffic alert systems, navigation applications, map services, mobile APPs, etc.

This lot is generally related to video processing. Techniques are disclosed to create time-lapse (TL) videos in real-time to reduce storage space for postproduction complexity. The system receives user settings with TL video-related parameters along with a real-time video and store received feed in a buffer. Few frames are selected based on settings to change the frequency of video input and generate a TL video. Also disclosed are techniques to drop frames in the buffer based on TL video requirement. The technology may be implemented in cameras, mobile phones, DSLRs, time lapse video creation software, mobile APPs, etc.

This lot is generally related to databases. Techniques are disclosed to decompose a document and update database by defining a document mapping command, retrieve document items, resolve a follow command, identify table rows, modify table columns and update the database. The technology may be implemented in document processing software, databases, DBMS, file processing software, etc.

This lot in general is related to search. Disclosed are smart search techniques for retrieval of relevant information from a data processing system by comparing search string and document content and extracts information from documents or synonyms of the extracts based on search terms using a semantic network. The users can navigate relevant information and avoid duplicates or repeated items. Further disclosed are techniques to define user specific constraints for refined information retrieval, record new information and use various operators. The technology may be implemented in online data search, database search, etc.

This lot is generally related to a distance measuring device. Disclosed is a range finder device to measure linear distance between two points consisting of a laser distance measuring component, a sensing component for tracking changes in position and orientation of the device. The distance is measured by pointing the laser at an endpoint, move the device to a vantage location to measure second endpoint. Also disclosed are position and orientation sensors to calculate orientation and position of the device. The technology may be implemented in accelerometers, gyroscopes, etc.

This lot is generally related to wireless networks. Techniques are disclosed to facilitate exchange of cell-specific information by direct packet switched communication between radio access network nodes, which are controlling the relevant cells. The system stores address information of the cell into a radio access node for controlling the use of the radio resources. The technique allows automatic management of the address information in the cell since the number of cells in mobile communication systems is typically big. Further disclosed are techniques for exchange of subsequent information between the controlling nodes without congesting the core network elements and interfaces. The technology may be implemented in wireless networks, mobile networks, etc.

This lot is generally related to image processing. Techniques are disclosed to provide a hierarchical shadow detection algorithm by performing pixel level classification by modeling the image as a reliable lattice (RL) and maximize the RL using an Expectation Maximization (EM) algorithm to determine whether a candidate region is a shadow region. Also disclosed is a Markov Random Field (MRF) model based pixel classification for effective and robust shadow detection under different illumination and brightness conditions. The technology may be implemented in image processing for feature detection, feature extraction, etc.

This lot is generally related to image processing. Disclosed is a device for real time motion detection in an image by using a sub-sampling module to sub-sample current and previous images, perform census transform on each sub-sample to obtain a census vector, calculate and compare correlation values between the current image and the previous images based on the census vector and detect a region having the highest correlation to detect motion information. The technology may be implemented in robot vision, intelligent cameras, or industrial fields.

This lot is generally related to multimedia imagery. Techniques are disclosed to virtually navigate in a 3D environment by defining virtual paths, capture real time environment images, receive a navigation request, generate multiple synthetic images and transmit synthetic images along virtual path to closely match navigation request. Also disclosed are techniques to facilitate users to navigate through the event for real-time viewing. The technology may be implemented in 3D environment navigation systems, etc.

This lot is generally related to multimedia streaming. Techniques are disclosed to adaptively stream media content by determining similar high-quality packets present in data buffer and download packets before they are played on user devices. The downloading of packets is based on network bandwidth and number of packets in the buffer. The technology may be implemented in smart phones, portable media players, digital media players, streaming devices, smart TVs, tablets, laptops, etc.

This lot is generally related to financial transactions. Disclosed are techniques to settle financial transactions by providing account identifier and contact information to merchants so that merchants interact with a settlement house (SH). The settlement house communicates with the customer and financial services provider for settlement of accounts. Also disclosed are techniques to approve the electronic transaction by the financial institution and forward the approval to the settlement house. The technology may be implemented in PoS devices, eCommerce applications, etc.

This lot is generally related to digital file management systems. Disclosed are techniques to provide an online digital marketplace for buying and selling of digital files such as media by allowing a content owner to post files with download price, content details and reseller commission. Consumers can access files by searching the content online. Also disclosed are techniques to distribute files in peer-to-peer networks by dividing a file into multiple chunks so that in case of download error entire file need not be resent. The technology may be implemented in eCommerce websites for online media streaming, communication networks, peer-to-peer networks, etc.

This lot is generally related to media playback devices. Disclosed are playback devices using remote DMA (RDMA) network interface, RDMA enabled playback circuit, RDMA enabled buffer circuit, playback buffer circuit and playback buffer. The technology may be implemented in media streaming devices, set top boxes, smart TVs, smart phones, media player devices, etc.

This lot is generally related to communication using portable devices. Techniques are disclosed to provide simultaneous communication on portable devices by establishing a communication session, invoke another communication application concurrently with the session and automatically retrieve communication address related to recipient. The technology may be implemented in mobile phones, tablets, PDAs, portable multimedia devices, wearable devices, etc.

This lot is generally related to advertisements. Techniques are disclosed to manage ads by determining number of devices capable of joining virtual environment, invite more device users to participate in collaborative virtual environment, synchronize ads with collaborative environment and execute ads as users interact with media streams. The technology may be implemented by service providers of multimedia data, streaming media, satellite TV, online media, etc.

This lot is generally related to data storage. Techniques are disclosed to selectively store data in mass storage by estimating predicted compression ratio, calculate compression benefit and compare with preset threshold of stored data. Also disclosed are techniques to predict compression ratio by referring to a look-up table constructed by mapping each Shannon entropy value to a predicted compression ratio value. The technology may be implemented in data storage, flash memory, storage software, memory management software etc.

This lot is generally related to wireless networks. Technique is disclosed to smoothly handover active mobile sessions when moving to different topological locations using heterogeneous networks. Also disclosed are techniques to transfer data using client IP application, client-service module, server IP application and server-service module. Further disclosed are techniques to maintain quality of service (QoS) parameters to provide the best possible service at all times. The technology may be implemented in wireless networks like WLAN, wireless telecom infrastructure, etc.

This lot is generally related to computer security. Disclosed are techniques for controlling access to secure or sensitive remote systems based on user’s personal computer security. Users are asked to complete multiple test modules related to antivirus, firewall, software security updates or patches and grading is assigned to the computer. The technology may be implemented as security applications such as online banking, emails, data storage, multimedia sharing, content streaming, etc.

This lot is generally related to user behavior tracking. Techniques are disclosed to store user baseline data such as physical activity, receive user daily activity data, compute loading factor and performance measurement data for rewarding users. The users are rewarded various financial benefits in various forms such as reduced health insurance premiums and products or services earned as a result of achieving certain improvement or maintenance goals. The technology may be implemented for tracking user activities in industries such as healthcare providers, health insurance providers, etc.

This lot is generally related to navigation. Various navigation techniques are disclosed to form multiple loops along the path and search for connected loops from starting point to a destination. Also disclosed are techniques for controlling user interface (UI) of a vehicle navigation system by accessing an external system, selecting customized options such as images, icons, controls, menus, colors, symbols, and auto completion functions using an Internet. Further disclosed is a wireless client server navigation system for searching desired locations by dividing map into multiple tiles. The technology may be implemented for vehicle navigation, product tracking, traffic management, etc.

This lot is generally related to file management in cloud computing environments. Techniques are disclosed to create a target file with limited changeable fields by using a template file stored in a cloud environment. The target file consists of data and security fields, which allows user to make changes based on permission parameters. Also disclosed is user interface for data entry, setting encryption and tracking of files in the cloud environment. The technology may be implemented in cloud applications such as Electronic Health Records, Electronic Medical Record management, etc.