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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.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 29, 2015
Filed:
Feb. 29, 2012
Applicants:
Daniel G. Koulomzin, Jamaica Plain, MA (US);
Christopher R. Wren, Arlington, MA (US);
Inventors:
Daniel G. Koulomzin, Jamaica Plain, MA (US);
Christopher R. Wren, Arlington, MA (US);
Assignee:
Google Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G08B 21/00 (2006.01); H04W 4/00 (2009.01); G06Q 10/00 (2012.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 4/00 (2013.01); G06Q 10/00 (2013.01);
Abstract
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for detecting ambient audio, generating audio data based on the ambient audio, generating a first audio fingerprint based on the audio data, providing the first audio fingerprint to a fingerprint comparison engine, the fingerprint comparison engine providing a comparison between the first audio fingerprint and a second audio fingerprint, and receiving a proximity signal based on the comparison.