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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Patent No.:

US 10419936 B1

PDFFull Text
Date of Patent:
Sep. 17, 2019

Filed:

Mar. 13, 2018

Methods and systems for causing mobile communications devices to emit sounds with encoded information

Applicant:

Lookout, Inc., San Francisco, CA (US);

Inventors:

Kevin Patrick Mahaffey, San Francisco, CA (US);

John G. Hering, San Francisco, CA (US);

James David Burgess, Alameda, CA (US);

Vance Grkov, Seattle, WA (US);

David Luke Richardson, San Francisco, CA (US);

Ayan Mandal, Oakland, CA (US);

Cherry Mangat, San Francisco, CA (US);

Brian James Buck, Livermore, CA (US);

William Robinson, Brentwood, CA (US);

Assignee:

LOOKOUT, INC., San Francisco, CA (US);

Attorney:

Dergosits & Noah LLP

Primary Examiner:

San Htun

Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04M 3/16 (2006.01); H04W 12/08 (2009.01); H04M 15/00 (2006.01); H04L 29/06 (2006.01); H04W 4/021 (2018.01); H04W 4/02 (2018.01); H04W 12/12 (2009.01); G06F 21/31 (2013.01); G06F 21/88 (2013.01); H04W 4/90 (2018.01); H04W 8/24 (2009.01); H04W 48/02 (2009.01); H04W 12/00 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 12/08 (2013.01); G06F 21/316 (2013.01); G06F 21/88 (2013.01); H04L 63/14 (2013.01); H04M 15/58 (2013.01); H04M 15/7652 (2013.01); H04W 4/021 (2013.01); H04W 4/025 (2013.01); H04W 12/12 (2013.01); H04L 63/0861 (2013.01); H04W 4/02 (2013.01); H04W 4/027 (2013.01); H04W 4/90 (2018.02); H04W 8/245 (2013.01); H04W 12/00508 (2019.01); H04W 48/02 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method is provided for comparing a usage of a mobile communications device to a stored pattern of usage. When a measure associated with a difference between the usage and the stored usage pattern exceeds a threshold, the mobile communications device is caused to emit a sound encoded with information that may be decoded by another electronic device.

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