Method and apparatus for notifying missed events

R Lindemann, M Huber, AW Keller - US Patent 9,961,639, 2018 - Google Patents
A method of operating a device for indicating an event notification to a user comprises
indicating a new event through accordingly controlling visual, audible and/or tactile …

Detection of guest position

JM Padgett, MG Jungen, LT Heard… - US Patent App. 13 …, 2014 - Google Patents
The present disclosure relates to a system configured to man age a dining experience for
guests at a food service establish ment. In some implementations, the system may comprise …

Adaptive sensor sampling for power efficient context aware inferences

LH Grokop, S Sadasivam - US Patent 9,268,399, 2016 - Google Patents
BACKGROUND Electronic devices can be equipped with a variety of sen sors and inputs to
monitor and discover information about a device's environment. For example, a device may …

Configuring system operation using image data

A Geramifard, S Ananthakrishnan - US Patent 9,412,361, 2016 - Google Patents
(57) ABSTRACT A system that configures a device's operation based on the device's
environment. The system may receive scene data describing a scene in which the device …

Rules engine as a platform for mobile applications

A Swaminathan, LD Kuhn, L Ding… - US Patent App. 13 …, 2014 - Google Patents
Disclosed are systems and methods to optimize a rules engine as a platform within a
computing system. The computing system may identify a context of interest, such as …

System and method for thermal management of a wearable computing device based on proximity to a user

S Vivek, D Le, J Anderson, P Wang… - US Patent 11,042,174, 2021 - Google Patents
Because the touch temperature of a wearable computing device (“WCD”) may be an
insignificant factor for user experience when the WCD is not being worn by a user …

Portable resource management systems and methods

D Su, Y Ma - US Patent 9,743,246, 2017 - Google Patents
This disclosure relates to systems and methods for managing resources of a mobile device
based on a state of the device. In certain embodiments, systems and methods disclosed …

Dining experience management

JM Padgett, BD Butler, MG Jungen, BJ Spivey… - US Patent …, 2017 - Google Patents
The present disclosure relates to a system configured to manage a dining experience for
guests at a food service establishment. In some implementations, the system may comprise …

Skill discovery for computerized personal assistant

V Vangala, S Valecha, S Shastri, N Pande… - US Patent …, 2020 - Google Patents
A computerized personal assistant communicatively couples to a computer database
including a plurality of available skills for the computerized personal assistant. The …

System and method for monitoring and suppressing fire

MR Rao, S Borah, SK Ramanna… - US Patent …, 2022 - Google Patents
(57) ABSTRACT A fire detection and suppression system includes a system controller for
determining an initial location of the fire based on fire location information from fire detectors …