Qualcomm Incorporated

Qualcomm Connected Experiences, Inc.

Roxio, Inc.

Qualcomm Iskoot, Inc.

Kwok, Chu & Shindler LLC

Intellectual Ventures I LLC

Nms Communications Corporation

Mgi Software Corporation

Olivr Corporation Ltd.

Iskoot, Inc.

Isaac David Guedalia

Jacob Guedalia

Sarah Glickfield

Ravinder Paul Chandhok

Jacob Leon Guedalia

Jonathan Hashkes

Adam Schwartz

Mark Williams Jacobstein

Sarah Harris

Mohammed Ataur Rahman Shuman

Binita Gupta

Amit Goel

Sandeep Sharma

Ashutosh Aggarwal

Clifton Eugene Scott

Hugh O'Donoghue

Peter Charles Whale

Riva Pomerantz

Sarah Harris Glickfield

Ronnie Sha'ag

Marc Berger

Gaurav Sethi

Wayne Lewis Fenton

The disclosure generally relates to various methods to discover, configure, and leverage relationships in Internet of Things (IoT) networks. More particularly, the methods disclosed herein may support automated processes to create configurable sub-divisions and access controls in an IoT network based on usage associated with objects that are registered in the IoT network and interactions among the registered objects. Furthermore, in one embodiment, relationships between IoT devices that belong to different users may be implicitly discovered and/or ranked based on meetings (e.g., interactions) between the IoT devices, and relationships between the different users may likewise be implicitly discovered and/or ranked. Moreover, locations and interactions associated with IoT devices may be tracked over time to further discover user-specific and potentially asymmetric relationships among the IoT devices and/or the users associated therewith (e.g., where one user considers another user a close friend and the other user considers the first user an acquaintance).

Methods to discover, configure, and leverage relationships in internet of things (IoT) networks

Methods and apparatuses are disclosed for synchronizing data inputs generated at a plurality of frequencies by a plurality of data sources. A device receives a first set of data points from a first data source of the plurality of data sources generated at a first frequency of the plurality of frequencies, receives a second set of data points from a second data source of the plurality of data sources generated at a second frequency of the plurality of frequencies, selects a time window corresponding to a period of time during which at least a subset of the first set of data points and at least a subset of the second set of data points were generated, and generates a vector representing a first reduced form of the subset of the first set of data points and a second reduced form of the subset of the second set of data points.

Method and apparatus for synchronizing data inputs generated at a plurality of frequencies by a plurality of data sources

The disclosure relates to various distance metrics that may quantify semantic and syntactic relationships between devices. More particularly, a first grammar associated with a first device and a second grammar associated with a second device may each comprise a symbol sequence that re-expresses one or more sequenced data items and one or more rules that represent a repeated pattern in the symbol sequence. Accordingly, one or more distance metrics that quantify a similarity between the first grammar and the second grammar may be calculated according to a comparison between the rules in the first grammar and the rules in the second grammar such that a relationship between the first device and the second device can be determined according to the one or more distance metrics.

Measuring semantic and syntactic similarity between grammars according to distance metrics for clustered data

Systems and methods are disclosed for determining a context-dependent virtual distance based on stigmergic interference. The method may include obtaining environmental status information relating to an environment in proximity to a client device, calculating, based on the obtained environmental status information, the context-dependent virtual distance between the client device and a user of the client device, and controlling a user signaling pattern of the client device based on the calculated context-dependent virtual distance.

Determining a context-dependent virtual distance using measurements of stigmergic interference

Methods and systems are disclosed for incrementally sharing increasing amounts of information between two or more user devices. An aspect detects a second user device that is proximate a first user device, receives first log data from the second user device, determines whether the first user device and the second user device interacted with each other during a first period of time based on the first log data, assigns a first trust level to the second user device based on the first log data, wherein the second log data is more private than the first log data, determines whether the first user device and the second user device interacted with each other during a second period of time based on the received second log data, and assigns a second trust level to the second user device based on the second log data.

Method and apparatus for incrementally sharing greater amounts of information between user devices

The disclosure generally relates to enabling communication among one or more Internet of Things (IoT) device groups. In particular, various heterogeneous IoT devices that may need to interact with one another in different ways may be organized into IoT device groups to support efficient interaction among the IoT devices. For example, pre-defined IoT device groups may be formed organize certain IoT devices that perform similar activities and certain IoT devices may be dynamically allocated to ad-hoc IoT device groups for certain contexts (e.g., the ad-hoc IoT device groups may include IoT devices that can implement a desired function and therefore be dynamically formed to implement the desired function). Furthermore, the IoT groups may communicate hierarchically, wherein messages may be exchanged among IoT group owners or ranking members to support efficient communication between different IoT groups.

Establishing groups of internet of things (IOT) devices and enabling communication among the groups of IOT devices

The disclosure is related to providing interconnectivity between a plurality of user devices. A wireless interconnectivity device connects to a first user device of the plurality of user devices over a first local wireless network, connects to a second user device of the plurality of user devices over a second local wireless network, receives a request from the first user device to transfer data from the first user device to the second user device, determines whether or not a third user device has granted permission to transfer the data from the first user device to the second user device, and transfers the data from the first user device to the second user device based on the third user device having granted permission to transfer the data from the first user device to the second user device.

User interactive application enabled gateway

An aspect of the disclosure is directed to transmitting a reduced stream of encoded video frames. An original stream of encoded video frames is analyzed, a plurality of frames are removed without re-encoding encoded video frames to generate the reduced stream of encoded video frames, and the reduced stream and metadata describing the plurality of removed frames are transmitted. An aspect of the disclosure is directed to creating a new version of an original stream of encoded video frames from a reduced stream of encoded video frames. The reduced stream of encoded video frames is received, the plurality of removed frames is identified based on metadata related to the reduced stream, a plurality of replacement frames are generated, and the plurality of replacement frames are added to the reduced stream of encoded video frames to recreate the new version of the original stream of encoded video frames.

Method for decreasing the bit rate needed to transmit videos over a network by dropping video frames

Method and apparatuses for constructing a grammar to describe interactions among a plurality of devices in a network are disclosed. An aspect receives, by a network interface of a device, device capabilities of each of the plurality of devices, generates, by a reduced device list generator of the device, a reduced device list representing groupings of the plurality of devices based on the device capabilities, models, by an interaction sequence modeler of the device, one or more sequences of interactions among the plurality of devices using the reduced device list, constructs, by a grammar construction module of the device, the grammar based on the modeled one or more sequences of interactions, and stores the grammar in a memory of the device.

Methods and apparatuses for quantifying the holistic value of an existing network of devices by measuring the complexity of a generated grammar

Methods and apparatus for providing voicemail services to callers of wireless devices may include providing customized outgoing messages to callers based upon the caller's identification. A subscriber to the voicemail service may select one or more contacts associated with the subscriber to receive a customized outgoing message while the remaining callers receive a general outgoing message. The methods and apparatus may further include distributing voicemail messages from a subscriber's voicemail accounts to one or more social networking sites. The subscriber to the voicemail services may share one or more received voicemail messages via one or more social networking accounts associated with the subscriber.

Methods and apparatus for providing messaging using voicemail

The present disclosure generally relates to systems and methods for establishing and maintaining communication between two or more communication devices coupled to communication networks. Some specific aspects relate to communication between a plurality of communication devices each of which is coupled to a respective network. Other aspects relate to establishing such communication by way of contact lists maintained and facilitated on systems coupled to the networks. Users of multiple communication networks, such as VoIP, PSTN and wireless, employ multiple communication devices to communicate with their contacts. For example, a VoIP enabled computer is necessary to access contacts on a VoIP network and a mobile or cellular telephone is used to access contacts on wireless and PSTN networks. A contact list, stored on one communication device, in some instances, cannot be accessed from another communication device. For example, a contact list stored in a VoIP enabled computer cannot be accessed from PSTN or wireless phone devices. Various embodiments described herein provide a convenient solution that can integrate contacts stored on different communication devices and make them accessible from a single device.

Caller-callee association of a plurality of networked devices

The disclosure relates to machine-learning behavioral analysis to detect device theft and unauthorized device usage. In particular, during a training phase, an electronic device may generate a local user profile that represents observed user-specific behaviors according to a centroid sequence, wherein the local user profile may be classified into a baseline profile model that represents aggregate behaviors associated with various users over time. Accordingly, during an authentication phase, the electronic device may generate a current user profile model comprising a centroid sequence re-expressing user-specific behaviors observed over an authentication interval, wherein the current user profile model may be compared to plural baseline profile models to identify the baseline profile model closest to the current user profile model. As such, an operator change may be detected where the baseline profile model closest to the current user profile model differs from the baseline profile model in which the electronic device has membership.

Machine-learning behavioral analysis to detect device theft and unauthorized device usage

Systems and methods are presented for enabling improved communication between one or more communication devices such as mobile wireless devices. The present disclosure provides updatable dynamic, or active, phone book capabilities that provide a user with both contact information as well as dynamic network (web) content that can be updated by communication between a mobile device and a server. The disclosure further provides methods and systems for presence-based message delivery based on a criteria such as presence or identity of a caller or caller's device.

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Isaac David Guedalia