Acquired Portfolios

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.

The lot discloses a secure data management. Disclosed are user interfaces for multiple devices in an enterprise for employees/users to access third party software, in-built enterprise software or social networking applications. A secure dashboard is disclosed to manage user’s account and distribute benefits amongst an enterprise and members of the enterprise. The technology may be implemented in enterprise accounting software, customer relationship, and supply chain management.

This lot is generally related to wireless LANs. Disclosed are techniques to allow wireless devices to use a global service set identifier (GSSID) enabled access point (AP) to transfer a 32 octet identification service set identifier (SSID) to a remotely located switch controller in the same WLAN. The conveyed SSID discloses information such as fully qualified domain name (FQDN), network access identifier (NAI) and uniform resource identifier (URI) to the switch controller. This technology can be implemented in wireless network access points, smart phones, tablets, laptops, etc.

This lot is generally related to software. Architecture and software applications for designing an artificial neural network are disclosed, such as: by using a parallelization system to match with hardware resources, selecting degree of parallelism based on available resources, generating hardware configuration based on the degree of parallelism, etc. The technologies may be implemented as artificial neural networks.

This patent is generally related to advertising. Disclosed is a technique to gather consumer data to categorize consumers in various categories related to shopping behaviors and habits and optimize their products, displays, advertising and promotions to improve product sales. The system has a RF receiver installed in the store for receiving communications from the personal mobile wireless devices. The RF receiver generates consumer position data during movement in the store and associates the consumer position data with respective identities of the consumers and initiate consumer-specific advertisements based upon the consumer position data and respective identities of the consumers. Also disclosed are techniques to send a SMS to consumer device related to consumer specific advertisements. The technology may be implemented in advertisement services, shopping malls, retail stores, brick and mortar stores, e-commerce services, etc

The inventions are generally related to security systems and software. Disclosed are techniques to launch an application program on a server and displayed on a mobile device, store session state information on the mobile device so that traffic between the client and the server is reduced. US9699262 discloses a graphical integrated view of various APPs installed on a server in a multi-platform cloud environment. The user device is connected with the sever using a connection broker, display list of remote applications, launch APP on the server running with different OS and display launch an APP on the sever. The technology may be implemented as mobile APPs and in mobile phones, tablets, PDAs, laptops, thin clients, POS devices, servers, etc.

This lot is generally related to customer relationship management (CRM) in retail stores. Techniques are disclosed to enhance customer experience in a Brick and Mortar store by automatically detecting customer’s portable devices within store, retrieve customer profile along with past events, instantiate a customer session, track customer events within store, and storing current session information and events. Also disclosed are techniques to evaluate performance of a sales person based on interaction and feedback from the customer. Further disclosed are techniques to store information about customer interactions with store website and identify custom marketing messages or deals for each customer. The technology may be implemented in CRM software, shopping malls, brick and mortar stores, retail stores, business establishments, shops, etc.

The invention relates in general to email security. Techniques are disclosed to protect emails from sending accidentally to unknown recipients by generating an alert before sending the message. Users can create a list of trigger words such as confidential, sensitive, etc. in a database and when email message contains these words a pop-up message is displayed for user verification. The technology may be implemented in electronic mail, e-mail, etc.

This invention is generally related to remote file access. Techniques are disclosed to allow users to access files or applications residing on remote servers by activating file hyperlinks and opening file in a server application using a user interface to allow users to provide input to the application. Also disclosed are techniques to operate a thin client of terminal emulation type on user computer and restrict user’s access or manipulation of files based on permissions such as modification, saving, and viewing permissions etc. Few techniques disclose remote management of 3rd party applications by launching application program, passing UI and user commands between application and user computer, transmit commands from server to application program and control application. The technology may be implemented in data centers, cloud server, etc.

This patent is generally related to text processing. Techniques are disclosed to detect words with grammar and spelling errors having improper positioning of a whitespace character or an extra whitespace character and shift a letter adjacent to the word to fix errors. Also disclosed are techniques to convert two words into one word to resolve the spelling error. The technology may be implemented in text editing software, text processing software, etc.

This patent is generally related to Internet services. Disclosed are techniques to provide data handling information of a publish/subscribe service to users to handle published data, by receiving a subscription request to a data tuple, provide subscription to the user, automatically provide another subscription to the data handling tuple having information about how the data tuple is to be handled and generate notifications regarding both subscriptions. The technology may be implemented in RSS feeds, weather updates, news updates, email notifications, messengers, social networks, etc.

This patent is generally related to computer security. Disclosed are techniques to provide system-wide computer application security by embedding a code in the software application, loading a platform coordinator program, receive a request for a secured resource from a user, passes the secured resource name, a user identifier, an authentication provider name to the platform coordinator for authentication of the user from system security provider and assign a surrogate identifier based on the user role for accessing the resources. The technology may be implemented in enterprise security software, network security applications, etc.

This lot is generally related to data storage. Techniques are disclosed to efficiently decode parity encoded data, by receiving set of parity-encoded information, process multiple parallel processing threads and generate indication if parity consistency is followed. Also disclosed are techniques to recover multiple data columns in a data matrix, by calculating missing chain parity, perform some operations, calculations and store recovered value in data matrix. The technology may be implemented in RAID storage, computer storage, servers, memory applications, etc.

This invention is generally related to location services. Disclosed are techniques to perform automatic social network check-ins, when a user device comes in proximity of a venue-operated device located at the venue for which check-in needs to be done. This reduces user to manually perform check-in by taking mobile into hand and clicking few buttons. The technology may be implemented in social networks, web check-in services and other web services.

This patent is generally related to program security. Disclosed are techniques to ensure maximum security in verifying safety properties of byte code programs translated from Java code. These techniques map byte code functions and interpreter state space into finite states, enter type information to check byte code acceptability, determine properties of acceptable byte code, enter into model checker, interpret each individual condition, verify whether conditions are fulfilled and release byte code for further processing. The technology may be implemented in program testing software, interpreters, java virtual machines, etc.

This lot is generally related to image sharing. Techniques are disclosed to easily share images and control presentations by receiving multiple presentations at a user device, store at another device, publish presentation information on a network, receive a command to initiate a presentation from a device, request to control presentation from another device. The technology may be implemented in conferencing services, collaboration services, image storage service, social networks, image sharing services, etc.

This lot is generally related to databases. Techniques are disclosed to create a database system, which can be accessed without data loading having efficient query processing performance so that parsing, and tokenizing costs is minimized within a row-store database engine via selective and adaptive parsing actions. Also disclosed are techniques for raw file indexing structure to adaptively maintain positional information to speed-up future accesses on raw files. The systems can be built on traditional row-store systems, column-store systems, or hybrid database engines and uses any data format such as Comma-separated value (CSV) files. The technology may be implemented in Database Management System (DBMS), etc.

This lot is generally related to data stream consolidation. Techniques are disclosed for an application logic to update packets entering a local packet stream having a unique packet timestamp for calculating an overwrite point, supply undo records to the application before effecting merge operation on the packet stream. The technology may be implemented in software applications development, business logic applications, etc.

This portfolio is generally related to smart vehicles. Techniques are disclosed to generate a 3D model by receiving information from neighboring vehicles to compensate for blind spots in a driver’s field of view, receive traffic information, weather information; adjusting characteristics of the 3D models based on the received traffic, weather information and blind spot information. Also disclosed are techniques for aggregating the 3D models to generate a comprehensive 3D model and combine the comprehensive 3D model with detailed map information to determine the driving path for the vehicle and track objects, estimate the speed of vehicle and protect from collusion. The technology may be implemented in smart vehicles, vehicle safety device, vehicle on board systems, etc.

This portfolio is generally related to generating multimedia profile based on media consumption or user-provided ratings.

This lot is generally related to content availability. Techniques are disclosed to identify content by receiving request for content related to presented content and metadata associated with the content, identify related content based on metadata and provide indication about the content. The technology may be implemented by advertisers and providers of multimedia content, online video, digital TV, streaming media, etc.

This lot is generally related to data protection from concurrent modification. Techniques are disclosed to prevent data structures from modification in a multi-thread environment. The ownership data is placed in a memory-safe execution environment; provided with a cacheable owner thread, an interface for write access check and deny requests if the requested thread is not an ownership thread. Also disclosed is a system to provide a data stream consolidation to deliver consistent data to all nodes. The technology may be implemented in distributed computing environments used for software development.

This portfolio is generally related to device notifications. Disclosed are techniques to store device identifications and functionality information, receive activity and user presence data about devices, receive incoming communication and apply rules to determine which notification needs to be sent and send formatted notification to selected devices. Also disclosed are techniques to allow or block incoming communications based on user set rules. The technology may be implemented in mobile phones, tablets, laptops, PDAs, gaming devices, multimedia players, etc.

This lot is generally related to content selection. Disclosed are content selection techniques to detect event occurrences associated with the content selection path and traverse path in response to identify media content selections. The technology may be implemented by multimedia service providers, education, entertainment, etc.

This lot is generally related to media streaming. Techniques are disclosed to access streaming media point by encrypting real time streamed content, multicast content, aggregate unicast responses from user devices and provide unicast information back to streaming source. The technology may be implemented in services such as streaming media, online media, digital TV, video on demand, etc.

This lot is generally related to virtual reality. Techniques are disclosed to receive a profile of a selected user from a social network environment on a user device to determine view of the selected user, capture an image to identify first user in the image, overlay other image on the first user of a virtual character and display a transparent display layer in the augmented image. The technology may be implemented in mobile devices, cellular phones, personal digital assistants, smartphones, tablet personal computers (PCs), laptop computers, televisions, monitors, touchscreens, digital picture frame, etc.

This portfolio is generally related to data availability. Disclosed are techniques to predict the probability of the mobile device accessing specific types of user data based on the operating mode of the mobile device, determine data subsets that are more likely to be accessed and send subsets to devices. The technology may be implemented in mobile devices, PDAs, tablets, laptops and useful for communication networks.

This portfolio is generally related to smart vehicles. Techniques are disclosed to control a vehicle by tracking a neighboring vehicle to determine the state of the vehicle using sensors, generate a 3D model of the vehicle, neighboring vehicle and deriving an environment for the vehicle, predict a lane changing behavior of the neighboring vehicle based on current state of the vehicle and the current state of the environment of the vehicle, determine whether the neighboring vehicle is performing the predicted behavior, notify a driver using vehicle-to-vehicle communication and control the vehicle. The technology may be implemented in smart vehicles, autonomous car, etc.

This portfolio is generally related to media services. Disclosed are techniques to give scores to media items by defining multiple criteria, analyze media items with respect to criteria, determine media items satisfying criteria, assign user custom weights to criteria and score media item. The technology may be implemented by service providers of multimedia content, satellite TV, streaming media, online video, digital content, etc.

The inventions are generally related to search engine. Disclosed are search techniques to maintain different text search terms along with proper semantic definitions for providing intent and the contextual search results to user query. The users can select pre-stored keywords from a database for a quick search. The technology may be implemented in smart search engines.

This patent is generally related to password management. Techniques are disclosed to manage user login credentials by automatically log in users in to various websites using a user interface application. The user can login to desired website from any device through the user interface by executing a logic of user interaction with website, and send an instance of website with user logged in. The system allows user to login to multiple websites without installing a plug in on the device. The technology may be implemented in web browsers, password management services, cloud services, etc. for password management.

This patent is generally related to search. Techniques are disclosed for textual search based on “interactive search refinement based on features similarity” (ISRFS) having a graphical user interface (GUI) to allow the user to easily control the affinity quality and the search process. The tool retrieves the textual items having high affinity to the user’s searched item from a repository of textual data, refine the search results based on semantic similarity, automatically extracted features, and a graded semantic scale such as semantic affinity metric (SAM). The technology may be implemented in search algorithms, search engines, etc.

This lot is generally related to electronic commerce. Disclosed are techniques to generate virtual clothing experience for users. The users images are displayed with garments without physically trying the garments. This technology can be implemented for virtual image for readymade garment stores and/or avatar generation.

This lot is generally related to wireless data communication. Techniques are disclosed to transmit multiple narrowband signals sequentially in time and at different center frequencies to improve time-of-arrival (ToA) accuracy and time/frequency offset wideband (TF-WB) allows data packets to be transmitted at fixed center frequencies to facilitate high-resolution ToA measurements using pre-existing wireless protocols. The technology may be implemented in Wireless LAN, Bluetooth, GSM/GPRS/EDGE, CDMA, etc.

This invention is generally related to smart homes. Techniques are disclosed to control opening or closing of doors such as garages, buildings, homes using a cloud based load balancer connected to a server to transmit data to a personal Wi-Fi and/or wired network at the user’s home. Also disclosed a Sonar unit connected with the door to determine position of the garage door in relation to the ground. Further disclosed a garage door command device is located at separate location to receive open/close commands to operate the door accordingly. The technology may be implemented in smart homes, garage doors, moveable barrier, smart offices, SoHo environments, etc.

This patent is generally related to searching. Techniques are disclosed to improve search results by establishing query term usage subject areas (TUSAs), identifying documents, messages, expositions, or communications related to each TUSA. Also disclosed are techniques to suggest additional query terms relevant to the context of a TUSA for fast retrieval of information. The technology may be implemented in search algorithms, database search, document search software, etc.

This lot is generally related to route recommendations. Techniques are disclosed to store routes taken by various users along with safety characteristics, retrieve route recommendations for user query and provide route that best matches with user parameters or specifications. The technology may be implemented in navigation devices, mobile devices, vehicle on board devices, etc.

This lot is generally related to software application. Techniques are disclosed to integrate various computer resources such as applications and databases, share resources between connected data applications and data sources regardless of any technology. The system provides an enterprise application integration (EAI) includes an abstraction layer, multiple sack content providers (SCPs) in communication with the abstraction layer, a Profile Manager is in communication with the abstraction layer for receiving a request of a target application and allow integration. The technology may be implemented in enterprise software, e-commerce, extranet, etc.

This invention is generally related to media delivery. Disclosed are techniques to customize content provided to user devices by automatically modifying device capability based on device profiles, provide modified profiles to destination server and receive customized response for content requests. The technology may be implemented by service providers of digital TV, online video, streaming media, VoD, multimedia data, etc.

This invention is generally related to media playback. Techniques are disclosed to collect user activities while viewing a media item to create collaborative content tracks (CCT) that will be provided to future viewers of same item. CCTs can be surfing web, online chat with friends or checking email using nearby devices etc. The technology may be implemented by streaming media, VoD, digital TV, online video, multimedia data service providers, etc.

This lot is generally related to networks. Techniques are disclosed to distribute content to network devices by setting a device as gateway device, display content list at gateway, select a media item, destination device and receive media item on nodes from server. The technology may be implemented in communication networks, multimedia networks, etc.

This portfolio is generally related to image processing. Techniques are disclosed to enhance images by analyzing content items of an image data, perform content specific enhancement and perform different enhancement operations on remaining image data. Also disclosed are techniques to form panoramic images from image sequences obtained from optical flow between different images, compute flow statistics, respective stitching costs, identify few portions for stitching and neighboring portions. Further disclosed are techniques for video tone stabilization, extracting blur kernels from blurred images. The technology may be implemented in image processing software, APPs, cameras, mobile phones, etc.

This portfolio is generally related to e-mails. Techniques are disclosed to enhance e-mail display for received e-mail by parsing to generate preview, authenticate using digital signature and display preview. Also disclosed techniques to display promotions along with e-mail previews. Further, disclosed techniques to provide different previews for different e-mails, using preview triggers so that user can modify e-mail previews. The technology may be implemented in e-mail clients, web interfaces for e-mail, online advertising, etc.

This patent is generally related to social networks. Disclosed are techniques to create social networks during playback of media content by defining multiple time slices of media, determine multiple users concurrently receiving same time slice media and establish social network. The technology may be implemented by streaming media, online media, TV content, multimedia data, video on demand, service providers, etc.

This portfolio is generally related to network gateways. Disclosed are gateways to interconnect high speed WAN to a low speed WLAN using adaptable cross layer offload engine and rule check engine. The offload engine stores data coming from WAN in a non-secure data cache, rule engine performs stateless or stateful inspection of data and data is moved to a secure data cache of WLAN. The technology may be implemented in network equipment such as gateways, base stations, routers, switches, bridges, etc.

This portfolio is generally related to media device controlling. Disclosed is a mobile device to control media played at different media devices, having a wireless interface, a media database and a controller. Mobile device communicates with media devices when in same network, obtain information about stored content and store in a media database. The technology may be implemented in smart phones, tablets, laptops, PDAs, portable multimedia devices, wearable smart devices, etc.

This portfolio is generally related to media playback. Techniques are disclosed for playing location specific presentation of media content by identifying location of playback device and use stored version of content that matches with location. Different versions of same content are stored based on location specific advertisements. The technology may be implemented for providing location specific advertisements with media playback.

These inventions are generally related to media streams. Disclosed are streaming techniques by playing a media stream, identify look ahead segments of stream and pre-fetch those segments so that user can anytime skip ahead without any interruption or inconvenience. The technology may be implemented in set top boxes, streaming devices, smart phones, smart TVs, multimedia devices, etc.

This lot is generally related to location-based applications. Disclosed are techniques to create a list of applications in the current or anticipated location of the mobile device using a distributed application service or widget having a graphical user interface (GUI). Also disclosed are techniques to form a crowd of users and provide access to corresponding crowd data. Further disclosed are techniques for crowd creation, provide access to crowd data for crowds for a large geographic area, racking crowds of users in a mobile environment, etc. The technology may be implemented in location based services, secured social networking applications, online data sharing, etc.

This lot is generally related to multimedia devices. Techniques are disclosed to present messages on device display based on type of video frames by receiving message with priority level, determine whether a video frame type has relation to priority level and present message on the display. The technology may be implemented in multimedia devices, portable devices, gaming devices, etc.

This lot is generally related to portable devices. Techniques are disclosed to filter content provided to portable devices by determining device’s current context and present content if behavior of a contextual tag associated with content accessible to the mobile device is satisfied. The technology may be implemented in smart phones, tablets, PDAs, portable multimedia devices, gaming devices, wearable smart devices, etc.

This lot is generally related to content storage. Techniques are disclosed to redirect client side storage requests to remote storage by receiving HTTP message for client side storage operation, translate operations into remote storage instructions and modify HTTP message to include remote storage instructions. The technology may be implemented in online data storage services, cloud data storage, etc.

This lot is generally related to data streaming. Disclosed are systems for publishing streaming data using a server with messaging service, publisher and subscriber interface, data storage, user device manager and a stream manager. Also disclosed system for extracting data from electronic documents using a navigation module, extraction module, navigation playback module and extraction playback module. The technology may be implemented in streaming services, data extraction software, etc.

This patent is generally related to device position determination. Disclosed are systems to locate an object by reducing interference using correlation paths to detect and correlate satellite position signals. Also disclosed are techniques to remove output of one path from input of second path to cancel out ghost signal. The technology may be implemented in navigation devices, portable devices, ships, aircrafts, missiles, etc. for navigation and position detection.

This invention is generally related to personalized information system related to user activities. Disclosed are systems to provide user activity information using an information server by inferring association relationship between the contents based on maximum content playing time and actual content playing time at the user device. Also disclosed are techniques to identify related information to requested content according to association relationship. The technology may be implemented by content providers, advertisers, offers, coupons, Ads, multimedia data, etc.

This portfolio is generally related to search technology. Various techniques are disclosed to display preview of relevant search results with the results having related content such as searched keywords for convenience of users. Also disclosed are techniques to search documents containing matching search query, linked to primary document and showing preview of matching results along with links. Further, disclosed techniques to allow users to perform sub search in already fetched search results etc. The technology may be implemented in online search engine, database search software, document search software, search tool in OS, etc.

This portfolio is generally related to voice mails. Various techniques are disclosed to process voice mail by converting voice mails into text and send converted text to users through SMS or email. Also disclosed are techniques for user to listen to the voice mail or convert the voice mail into a text message. The technology may be implemented by telecom service providers in voice mail systems, speech conversion systems, etc.

The invention is generally related to mobile networking. Disclosed are mobile networking techniques for providing maximize wireless resources to mobile users, based on behavioral pattern such as direction of travel, time of day, or bandwidth demand in a geographical location. Also disclosed techniques to seamlessly transfer the wireless device from one connection source to another by selecting the most cost efficient communication protocol and reduce cost. The techniques may be implemented in wireless mobile networks like ad-hoc wireless networking, vehicle communication/networking; geography based networking; location based services and wireless telecom networking, etc.

This invention is generally related to targeted marketing. Technique is disclosed to send emails to customers by identifying specific audiences by a digital data provider and offer rewards to referring entity. Also disclosed techniques to protect a consumer’s confidentiality and privacy. The technology may be implemented in online marketing, advertising, product/service marketing, rewards system, referral system, etc.

The patent is generally related to voicemail. Disclosed are techniques that generate voice mail data at the instrument and store it in the form of emails along with the telephone number of the caller and other required information. The technology can be implemented in telephone instruments for generating and storing voice mails.

The technology is generally related to search engines. Disclosed is a search engine for searching, sifting, and filtering data or documents typed in XML based on a user’s query. Further, other search engines may be used to search the data that is then filtered and ranked based on the user’s query. The technology may be implemented as search engines.

This portfolio is generally related to vehicles location determination. Various techniques are disclosed for locating vehicles using a portable device coupled to the vehicle. The device retrieves location of the vehicle at regular intervals and stores specific location such as parking space or latest location when connected to the vehicle. User or vehicle owner uses this device to easily locate or track vehicle based on this stored location. The technology may be implemented in mobile phones, PDAs, tablets, portable navigation devices, vehicle key fobs or other small portable devices and as mobile APPs, navigation software etc.

This portfolio is majorly related to marketing or advertisements. Various techniques are disclosed to integrate marketing information such as products or objects in a TV program or movie so that only marketing related information is displayed in real time or in a delayed manner and commercial breaks are blocked. Also disclosed techniques for efficient searching using a test data and match the data with large repository data using sample index files. The technology may be implemented in video distribution networks, satellite TV distribution, multimedia networks, on demand video, online video, TV content, set top boxes, mobile APPs, multimedia viewing software, databases, database search software, etc.

This lot is generally related to secure data transfer. Techniques are disclosed to transfer secured electronic data by inserting an encrypted set of instructions with the data. The set of instructions are executed at the receiver end to view the message. Also disclosed executing various operations such as deleting content, informing unintended user identity to security providers, deleting files or removing message from actual receivers’ account, if an unauthorized person tries to access the data. Further disclosed deleting electronic communication if not accessed within a pre-determined time. The technology may be implemented in emails, online transactions, coupons, secure electronic communications, secure e-document transfer, chats, etc.

The inventions are generally related to operating systems. Various techniques are disclosed to create distinct user accounts on a single user platform. Also disclosed assigning a unique user identifier (UID) to each user and an application. Few techniques disclose assigning a range of UIDs to user for accessing various installed applications. Further disclosed Virtual File system Switch (VFS) table for enabling the single user platform for accommodating multiple users. The technology may be implemented in operating systems.

This portfolio is generally related to multimedia data. Various techniques are disclosed to render electronic content to a user device by checking total number of authorized user devices. Users are allowed to register fixed number of devices for accessing the data. Also disclosed peer-to-peer networks by maintaining a list of content hosts with rankings so that any requesting device can select specific hosts to get required data. Few techniques disclose indexing of multimedia data for retrieving the data quickly using search engines. Further, disclosed techniques for selecting Internet media channels, dynamic content license renewal and sensitive content distribution. The technology may be implemented in multimedia playback devices, mobile phones, tablets etc. and services such as streaming media, VoD, TV content, multimedia data, online movies, satellite TV content etc. and in content distribution networks, peer to peer networks etc.

This lot is generally related to continuous transdermal monitoring (CTM) of body parts. Techniques are disclosed to minimize effect of body motion by transdermal monitoring by taking measurements when body part has not accelerated above a fixed threshold. The CTM system has a display, programmable alarms, processor, sensors and hub device for measurement of various readings. Also disclosed techniques for using pulse oximetry sensor and shift sensor for continuous transdermal monitoring. The technology may be implemented for transdermal measurement for different purposes such as to measure heart rate, arterial oxygen levels, alcohol or drug quantity in blood, etc.

This portfolio is generally related to multimedia content. Disclosed are techniques for marketing digital media content by providing a digital service platform to content suppliers for depositing content, combining with metadata and distribute content to users by applying supplier specific business rules to media streams. Also disclosed techniques to create an interactive video by storing encoded video on a remote storage, create a link program to access ancillary content with a URL of the website and associate link program with video so that video stream may be paused when user want to access ancillary content. Further, disclosed techniques for managing digital media based on aggregate user profile information. The technology may be implemented for interactive content creation, media streaming, web TV, multimedia network service providers, on demand video providers, advertisers, satellite TV providers, etc.

This lot is generally related to mobile advertising. Techniques are disclosed for fast and cost effective mobile marketing and advertising campaigns using various modules for displaying multiple campaigns, setting budget, targets and marketing objectives, executing campaigns on multiple mobile devices, tracking/receiving user responses, providing incentives to participants and creating reports. Also disclosed techniques for using interactive displays to receive first hand user inputs/responses. The technology may be implemented for mobile advertising, mobile marketing, m-commerce, mobile transactions, or mobile application, etc.

These patents are generally related to imaging systems. First set of patents disclose techniques to provide human behaviour recognition systems by studying human body gestures. Second set of patents disclose techniques to provide human gesture recognition systems to control self-service machines. Third set of patents disclose techniques to provide real-time computer vision systems to track moving objects in a scene where the systems use novel algorithms to locate the objects without using any search procedures. Further, techniques are disclosed to provide low-cost non-imaging eye tracker system for computer control, optical body tracker, tracking and gesture recognition system particularly suited to vehicular control applications. This technology can be implemented in home automation, home security appliances, map control (weather, military etc), sports, games, etc.

The portfolio is generally related to traffic updates. First set of (~18) patents discloses techniques to predict road speed, determine departure time and communicate travellers based on source location, changing traffic conditions, destination location, time at which to arrive at destination and optimum route. Also disclosed techniques to determine fastest routes to users based on route segments, traffic speed in the segments, updates from other users travelling in those segments. Second set of (~14) patents discloses techniques to provide visual traffic reports by collecting information such as obstacles/incidents/congestion by portraying real world traffic routes using different colors and thoroughfare images/identifiers. Further, disclosed techniques for interacting with traffic information through touch inputs, gesture inputs etc. The technology may be implemented in map based mobile applications, map software, map based websites etc.

The patent discloses secure data sharing using multiple keys such as public encryption/decryption, private encryption/decryption, secret, authentication bits. The data and different keys are encrypted and shared with multiple users. The technology may be implemented in E-mail, a Short Message Service (SMS) or telephonic communication.

This patent is generally related to search and information retrieval. Techniques are disclosed to convert multiple documents and web pages into document language models and convert user query input into query language model. Also disclosed kernel function to map each of the document language model and the query language model into a vector space to determine a relative relevance of each document for enhancing the retrieval performances. The technology may be implemented in search algorithms.

Patent offering is generally related to media encoding. Techniques are disclosed to create multiple synchronized encoded representations of an input media signal having different set of parameters for smooth transmission. Also disclosed are techniques for switching between multiple encoded representations during media streaming without any delay or discontinuity. The technique may be implemented in online media distribution, digital data sharing etc.

The technologies relate to network management. Disclosed are network management techniques for optimizing delivery of content data (e.g., audio, map directions etc.) from a server to user devices by storing files having data (optional and non-optional content) according to performance characteristics (bandwidth) of the devices. Based on a highest performance characteristic of each user device, data that matches with the highest characteristic is automatically selected and is transmitted to the device. The technologies may be implemented as network management techniques, etc.

This patent is generally related to service authentication. Disclosed technique provides authentication technique for multiple services where every service has a distinct verification code. The techniques further disclose universal authentication in an intelligent network (IN) for different IN services. This technology can be implemented in web services and website authentications.

This patent makes efficient use of compound semiconductor material by growing islands/pillars (and plateaus) of material rather than entire wafers, and further can integrate several different compound semiconductors on the same wafer platform using existing wafer fabrication processes.

The IP3 Mapping & Navigation portfolio relates to multiple aspects of mapping and navigation technology used in electronic devices such as smart phones and laptops.

The IP3 Video Streaming portfolio contains 5 patent families related to delivering and recommending content for user consumption.

The IP3 Networking and Access Management patent portfolio contains 12 patent families related to mobile device networking and authenticating users onto services. Specifically, the patents are related to mobile devices like smartphones, smartwatches, and internet-enabled glasses such as AR/VR headsets.

The patents in this portfolio discuss data security techniques that maintain different user permissions for different data group as well as restricting local storage of data.

The IP3 Automotive portfolio relates to multiple aspects of vehicle technology including driver safety systems, autonomous vehicles, and smartphone-based remote start.

The IP3 Advertising & E-Commerce portfolio relates to various aspects of ad targeting, listing services, dynamic pricing, location-based mobile payments, and more.

This portfolio is generally related to targeted content. First set of patents discloses targeted advertisements to users based on random prompts/commands or clickstream pattern and selection on watching characteristics. Second set of patents discloses techniques to customizing targeted content list for users’ by past viewing history and other related information. The technology may be implemented in cable network, digital subscriber line, set-top box, internet protocol networks for providing targeted advertisements and content.

The portfolio is generally related to search. Techniques are disclosed to run a search query, store retrieved information in the database and display relevant results when the user composes similar query. Based on relevancy and similarity results are ranked and presented to the user to save time on searching. The technology may be implemented in online search portals, database search programs, document search Software, etc.

This patents lot is generally related wearable device for tracking of light exposure. Device is having a monitor to measure light received from various sources and compare with predetermined light exposure to gain psychological, circadian rhythm, depression, bipolar disorder or similar health conditions. The technology can be implemented in wearable devices for light therapy.

Disclosed are various wireless communication techniques such as: performing asymmetric communication of signals by using orthogonal spreading codes, dynamically allocating resources by transmitting data packets based on monitored uplink status flag (USF), re-transmitting data packets by modulating data over multiple modulation schemes (e.g., M-QAM, M-PSK etc.) etc. The inventions may be implemented as wireless communication techniques for transmitters, receivers etc.