Acquired Portfolios

This lot is generally related to the risk identification of personal information from a service provider that provides service software as a service. Techniques are disclosed to identify the risk of leakage of personal information from a third party or a service provider side to satisfy general data protection regulation (GDPR). The system receives personal information by receiving a specification related to data usage among services and applications of a third party from a device of the third party. The system stores the received specification in the data storage of the service/platform provider side and receives user consent information from the user side using the service. Also disclosed are techniques to inspect and monitor data storage and processes in the user environment or platform environment of the user side using the service and application. The technology may be implemented in mobile apps, web applications, user authentication systems, etc.

This lot is generally related to the control of a mobile device based on a context and environmental paraments such as location-based information using various sensors. Disclosed is a mobile device consisting of multiple sensors such as accelerometers, temperature sensors, location sensors, heart rate sensors or photometers and changes context based on context recognition algorithm. The mobile device collects usage data to control and perform an action given by a user. The system determines a vector to classify various feature values to an alternative context class. Also disclosed are techniques to check availability of data transfer connections between a service device and transmit the vector of feature values to a server. The system receives a classification result from the server and determines a change of context. The technology may be implemented in mobile devices, mobile apps, smart watches, PDAs, 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 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.

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 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 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 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.

The portfolio is generally related to mobile software. A set of patents disclose techniques that check if a device user is following a provided navigational route and if not then device provide the user with an alternate route. Another set of patents disclose techniques to control a communication device by analyzing images in device’s proximity to determine if the user device is in a position to perceive a received message.

The patent is generally related to mobile apps. Data present in a mobile device is classified based on its field (e.g., ring tones, contact list etc.) and stored at a server for back-up. The data can be retrieved from the server as sequentially numbered signals by either requesting the server, or upon expiration of a predetermined time. The technology may be implemented as a mobile app or a web service.