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20090007396 | Holder assembly for currency, credit cards and like objects - A holder assembly for paper currency, credit cards and other type of currency including an elongated band comprising a plurality of movably interconnected segments extending along a length thereof. A connecting assembly interconnects the plurality of segments and is structured to facilitate expansion or contraction of the band as well as to normally bias the band, as well as the plurality of segments, into a contracted orientation. In at least one embodiment a coupling assembly is connected to the band and is disposed and structured to vary the length of the band such that the longitudinal dimension thereof is adjustable whether the band is in the expanded or contracted orientation. In addition, a plurality of grip members facilitates retaining of the currency held by the holder assembly. | 01-08-2009 |
20100139049 | Holder assembly for currency, credit cards and like objects - A holder assembly for paper currency, credit cards and other type of currency including an elongated band comprising a plurality of movably interconnected segments extending along a length thereof. A connecting assembly, which may be formed of a shape memory alloy of the type demonstrating pseudo-elastic properties, interconnects the plurality of segments and is structured to facilitate expansion or contraction of the band as well as to normally bias the band, as well as the plurality of segments, into a contracted orientation. In at least one embodiment a coupling assembly is connected to the band and is disposed and structured to vary the length of the band such that the longitudinal dimension thereof is adjustable whether the band is in the expanded or contracted orientation. In addition, a container may be connected to the band and structured to removably contain one or more card type objects. | 06-10-2010 |
20130023392 | PORTABLE AND ADJUSTABLE EXERCISE SUPPORT SYSTEM - A portable and adjustable hand support exercise device is disclosed. The device can include two platform support structure groups. Each group can have a bottom platform, a top platform, and an optional middle platform. The platforms can include interlocking members. An exercise support system having two platform support structure groups and a bridge member is also disclosed. | 01-24-2013 |
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20140047487 | AD-HOC MEDIA PRESENTATION BASED UPON DYNAMIC DISCOVERY OF MEDIA OUTPUT DEVICES THAT ARE PROXIMATE TO ONE OR MORE USERS - In an embodiment, a device controller initiates a dynamic discovery procedure to detect media output devices that are currently in proximity to a user. The device controller determines a first subset of the detected media output devices configured to present a first media type (e.g., video, audio, etc.) to the user and a second subset of the detected media output devices configured to present a second media type (e.g., audio, video, etc.) to the user. The device controller directs first and second portions of media to the first and second subsets conjunctive presentation. In another embodiment, the first and/or second subsets can include two or more devices, such that the same media type can be presented by multiple devices (e.g., to achieve a surround sound effect, a split-screen or cloned video effect, etc.). | 02-13-2014 |
20140244001 | CONTROLLING MANY DIFFERENT DEVICES FROM A SMART CONTROLLER - The disclosure is directed to controlling of Internet of Things (IoT) devices based on detecting a device and obtaining control information and associated rules for controlling the device. The control functions available to a smart controller can vary based on the condition of the various rules and/or the interaction of the various devices detected. | 08-28-2014 |
20140244710 | CONTEXT AWARE ACTIONS AMONG HETEROGENEOUS INTERNET OF THINGS (IOT) DEVICES - An aspect enables context aware actions among heterogeneous Internet of Things (IoT) devices. An IoT device receives data representing a context of each of a first set of IoT devices, receives data representing a current state of each of a second set of IoT devices, and determines an action to perform at a target IoT based on the received data. An aspect verifies an implied relationship between a first user and a second user by detecting an interaction between a first user device belonging to the first user and a second user device belonging to the second user, storing information related to the interaction in a first interaction table associated with the first user device, assigning a relationship identifier to the second user based, at least in part, on the information related to the interaction, and determining whether or not the assigned relationship identifier is correct. | 08-28-2014 |
20140244834 | METHODS TO DISCOVER, CONFIGURE, AND LEVERAGE RELATIONSHIPS IN INTERNET OF THINGS (IOT) NETWORKS - 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). | 08-28-2014 |
20150113621 | PEER BASED AUTHENTICATION - The disclosure is related to confirming an identity of a first user of a first user device. An aspect includes receiving a request to confirm the identity of the first user, determining whether or not there is a relationship between the first user or the first user device and a second user of a second user device or the second user device based on a first list of user interactions associated with the first user device and a second list of user interactions associated with the second user device, and confirming the identity of the first user based on determining that there is a relationship between the first user or the first user device and the second user or the second user device. | 04-23-2015 |
20150133125 | NORMALIZING LOCATION IDENTIFIERS FOR PROCESSING IN MACHINE LEARNING ALGORITHMS - The disclosure is related to calculating a relative distance between a first node and a second node in a wireless network. An aspect of the disclosure includes detecting a plurality of transitions of a user device from the first node to the second node, determining a relationship between the first node and the second node based on the plurality of transitions, and calculating the relative distance between the first node and the second node based on the determined relationship. | 05-14-2015 |
20150134481 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS TO FACILITATE JOINT PURCHASES AND TRACK JOINT PURCHASE OWNERSHIP DISTRIBUTIONS - The disclosure relates to facilitating and tracking joint purchases among multiple parties. More particularly, multiple parties may use a joint purchasing service to jointly purchase one or more items according to a consecutive, concurrent, or other ownership distribution that the parties agreed upon, and the joint purchasing service may implement one or more controls to track and maintain the ownership distribution. For example, locations associated with jointly purchased items may be tracked such that joint purchasers may be notified when possession should be transferred (e.g., when the current owner's turn expires, when one owner exceeds a usage proportion allocated thereto, etc.). Furthermore, ownership over certain jointly purchased items may be automatically managed (e.g., an electronic item may be transferred from one joint owner to another when the current owner's turn expires, joint owners may be required to be in proximity to use the item, etc.). | 05-14-2015 |
20150185713 | PREEMPTIVELY TRIGGERING A DEVICE ACTION IN AN INTERNET OF THINGS (IoT) ENVIRONMENT BASED ON A MOTION-BASED PREDICTION OF A USER INITIATING THE DEVICE ACTION - In an embodiment, an apparatus receives report(s) of raw motion data detected in IoT environment, and also receives report(s) indicating user-initiated event(s) detected by a set of IoT devices within the IoT environment. The apparatus scans the raw motion data within a threshold period of time preceding particular detected user-initiated events to identify motion sequence(s) within the IoT environment that occurred during the threshold period of time. Certain motion sequence(s) are correlated with user-initiated event(s) based on a confidence level that the user-initiated event(s) will follow the motion sequence(s). Upon detection of the motion sequence(s) at some later point in time, the correlated event(s) is preemptively triggered without user interaction. | 07-02-2015 |
20150199330 | METHODS AND APPARATUSES FOR QUANTIFYING THE HOLISTIC VALUE OF AN EXISTING NETWORK OF DEVICES BY MEASURING THE COMPLEXITY OF A GENERATED GRAMMAR - 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. | 07-16-2015 |