Patents Examined by Chesiree A Walton
  • Patent number: 11250529
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention disclose a computer-implemented methodology for automatically indicating in a computer-aided dispatch system for a plurality of assignable participants, such as emergency vehicles, to be dispatched to one of a plurality of facilities, whether a facility is in a diverting status or a receiving status. A centralized database receives a change in status for a vehicle for use in determining the status of a facility. In response to receiving the change in status for the vehicle, the status information about the vehicle including a current status and a prior status is transmitted to one or more client programs. A client program receives the current status and the prior status of the vehicle and uses the current status and prior status of the vehicle along with a criteria set to determine if any of the plurality of facilities' status should be changed from receiving to diverting or from diverting to receiving.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: Intergraph Corporation
    Inventors: Heather Ruth Kyemba, Joshua Bret Cooley
  • Patent number: 11227296
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing system including an accumulating unit that accumulates an emotion history in which a level of a specific emotion calculated on a basis of a behavior history of a user, a date and time and a position at which the specific emotion occurs, and an associated keyword are associated. The information processing system further includes a control unit that predicts a level of the specific emotion in a specific place at a specific date and time from a relation between at least any one of the specific date and time, the specific place, and a keyword associated with the date and time or the place and the emotion history accumulated in the accumulating unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2022
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hideyuki Ono
  • Patent number: 11199832
    Abstract: A solution is proposed for managing one or more industrial products. A method, computer system, and computer program product for creating a reference model providing a formal representation of reference policies according to reference artifacts and creating corresponding activity models providing a formal representation of activities (to be performed on the industrial products) according to corresponding activity artifacts; alignment indicators indicative of an alignment of the activities with the reference policies are calculated according to a comparison between the corresponding activity models and the reference model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2021
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Fabio Cerri, Alice Guidotti, Bernardo Pastorelli, Leonardo Rosati
  • Patent number: 11080724
    Abstract: A geofence computing device, in communication with a user device and a payment processor, includes a memory and a processor in communication with the memory. The geofence computing device processor is configured to receive, from the user device, geofence data including a first user defined geofence zone having a first geographic area within a first geographic boundary, store the geofence data within the memory, receive, from the payment processor, from authorization request message transaction data representing a payment transaction initiated with a merchant by a cardholder associated with the payment processor, determine a geographic location of the merchant and a residence of the cardholder, compare the merchant geographic location and the cardholder residence geographic location to the first user defined geofence zone, and alert the user of the payment transaction based on the comparison. The transaction data includes at least one of a merchant location and a merchant identifier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: MASTERCARD INTERNATIONAL INCORPORATED
    Inventors: James J. Arnott, Sai Sudha Venkata Chaganti, Rick Unnerstall, John Young
  • Patent number: 11074596
    Abstract: Systems and methods for identifying topic coverage for a distribution platform that provides access to online content items. A set of topics that characterize subject matter of the online content items available via a system distribution platform may be obtained and individual ones of the content items may be associated with individual ones of the topics. Internal demand and/or external demand associated with the individual ones of the topics may be determined. Disparities between the internal demand and/or the external demand may be determined for individual ones of the content items. A graphical representation of the disparities determined may be generated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2021
    Assignee: Udemy, Inc.
    Inventor: Seijin Jung
  • Patent number: 11049119
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for dispensing a product or sample in response to the detection of a selected facial expression such as a smile. A computerized device having a camera and utilizing facial recognition and facial expression determining software is connected to a mechanical dispensing unit to dispense one product sample to a customer during a predetermined period of time such as one day.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2021
    Assignee: Wild Blue Technologies. Inc.
    Inventors: Steven E. McLean, Skyler S. Lauren, Michael J. Hill, Justin D. Kovac
  • Patent number: 11030674
    Abstract: Methods, computer program products, and systems are presented. The methods include, for instance: collecting data corresponding to factors that affect a resalable return rate of the item. By predicting the resalable return rate based on the factors and respective contribution of the factors, number of total units of the item is adjusted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Mukesh M. Nair, Peter E. Stubbs
  • Patent number: 10949788
    Abstract: Embodiments herein provide a method and system that determines an underlying social network from user interaction graphs based on mobile service usage and derive social influence scores for various contexts based on user interaction parameters. The present disclosure pertains to a method of determining social influence score for a user of a social network, said method comprising creating, using a social network analyzer, a social graph based on usage data generated by a plurality of users, said usage data being obtained from a mobile communication network, wherein vertices of the created social graph represent the plurality of users along with edge weights that are based on weighted linear or non-linear combinations of key performance indicators (KPIs) representing actions made by each user; and deriving, by the social network analyzer, influencer score for each user in the social graph based on user interactions from online social networks and mobile interaction patterns.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Assignee: FLYTXT BV
    Inventors: Jobin Wilson, Prateek Kapadia
  • Patent number: 10810532
    Abstract: Example implementations are directed to a method of receiving information associated with an activity, analyze the information to identify a first pattern and a second pattern, generate a customized transition model for returning to the first pattern. In response to a detected trigger indicating a transition to the first pattern, the method assesses context factors to apply the customized transition to dynamically manage access to digital resources during the transition to the first pattern. In response to a determination that a transition to the first pattern satisfies a threshold, the method restores access to the digital resources.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Daniel Avrahami, Matthew Lee, Jennifer Marlow
  • Patent number: 10672086
    Abstract: A method for interactive test-schedule adjustment is provided. The steps include: displaying a table including the importance and period of each test item; displaying a first optimum schedule obtained from an optimal solution based on values entered by a user into the table, the schedule including a use schedule of each test facilities used for each of the multiple test items; displaying a second optimum schedule obtained from an optimal solution recalculated by mathematical programming after a use schedule of a test item the importance of which is changed on the first optimum schedule is changed; and displaying a third optimum schedule based on neighborhood solutions obtained by a search method using a history of optimal solutions if no agreement between the users is obtained on the second schedule.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2020
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Masayuki Murata, Hiroaki Nakamura, Junya Shimizu