Patents Examined by Crystol Stewart
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Patent number: 10984366Abstract: The present invention relates to a method and system for quality compliance, system and operator verification, and process management for point of care biological sample testing systems used in hospitals and other medical delivery environments. Specifically, the present invention may be directed to a computing device configured to generate a plurality of attributes configured to assess a competency level of an operator to operate at least one sample testing instrument, obtain operator derived data pertaining to the operator's ability to operate the at least one sample testing instrument, and determine a competency level of the operator for the at least one sample testing instrument based the plurality of attributes and the operator derived data.Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 2017Date of Patent: April 20, 2021Assignee: Abbott Point of Care Inc.Inventors: Paul Glavina, Jody Ann Tirinato, Pierre Emeric, Dan Molloy, Maureen Weber, Christopher Fetters
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Patent number: 10740706Abstract: Provided is a process including: receiving a tank-nearly-full message indicating that a tank at an oil or gas related facility is or will be ready for a truck to unload and transport fluid accumulating in the tank; in response to the tank-nearly-full message, creating a tank-run record; sending a description of the tank-run to a mobile device of a driver of an oilfield truck; receiving, from the mobile device of the driver of the oilfield truck, a tank-run claimed message indicating that the driver will drive to the oil or gas related facility and transport at least some of the fluid accumulating in the tank; and after the tank-run claimed message, performing steps including: confirming that the tank-run has not yet been claimed; after the confirmation, designating the tank-run as claimed by the driver; and sending confirmation to the mobile device of the driver.Type: GrantFiled: March 10, 2017Date of Patent: August 11, 2020Assignee: SITEPRO, INC.Inventors: Aaron Phillips, David Bateman, Britt Wuensche, Jordan Kutscherousky, Linlin Zhao
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Patent number: 10706436Abstract: A crowd pricing system and method having tier-based ratings includes a pricing table hosted on a memory. The pricing table has a plurality of pricing tiers, wherein the pricing table is correlated to at least one downloadable media item. A download popularity value is calculated based on a quantity of downloads of the at least one downloadable media item within an evaluation period, wherein a position of the at least one downloadable media item is movable between the plurality of pricing tiers based on the download popularity value, wherein position movement of the at least one downloadable media item is regulated by at least one control factor. A ratings designation is paired with each of the plurality of pricing tiers, the ratings designation having a cumulative user ratings score calculated by the processor, wherein the cumulative user ratings score provides an indication of cumulative user rating of the at least one downloadable media item.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 2017Date of Patent: July 7, 2020Inventor: Colin Laird Higbie
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Patent number: 10671947Abstract: One embodiment of the invention disclosed herein provides techniques for distributing tasks to skilled workers participating in a managed crowd-sourcing workforce. A crowd worker routing system receives a request for a task assignment from a first worker participating in the crowd-sourcing workforce. The crowd worker routing system retrieves one or more scores associated with the first worker, wherein each score is related to the performance of the first worker with respect to completing a prior set of task assignments. The crowd worker routing system determines that a first task assignment included in a first set of task assignments is related to a first score included in the one or more scores. The crowd worker routing system determines whether to route the first task assignment to the first worker for completion based on the first score and one or more routing rules.Type: GrantFiled: March 7, 2014Date of Patent: June 2, 2020Assignee: NETFLIX, INC.Inventors: Venu Gopal Nayar, David Chen, Aroon Ramadoss, Ryan Schroeder, Vinod Vishwanathan
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Patent number: 10657478Abstract: Embodiments of the invention are directed to a system, method, or computer program product for creating a control dashboard for user interactions. The application may be utilized by a user in connection with a third party exchange system, small business, or individually. As such, the invention may extract data from multiple user and competitor locations. The invention coordinates the data and generates components for the dashboard that includes resource flows, outside entity user information, and aggregation integration in a customizable, real-time modified dashboard. Thus providing monitoring and alerts for inventorying, resources, and invoicing. Furthermore, the system may identify underpenetrated customer populations, perform trend analysis to identify potential customers, and the like. Finally, the system integrates an artificial intelligence engine for real-time data digestion and future predictions for resource flows.Type: GrantFiled: August 30, 2018Date of Patent: May 19, 2020Assignee: BANK OF AMERICA CORPORATIONInventors: Willard Andrew Barr, Lisa Matarese Braun, Brian William Caldwell, Kevin Patrick Condon, Kelly Elizabeth Firment, Ryan Michael Furey, Caroline Hayes Godwin, Matthew Murphy, Robert Altemus Pascal, George William Taylor, Renee Elaine Weiler
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Patent number: 10593003Abstract: The present disclosure describes systems, methods, and apparatuses for identifying a person of interest. An exemplary method may comprise storing external data received from a variety external sources into a parameterized table, creating a first set of category views on the parameterized table, creating a second set of category views based at least in part on data to be derived from a traveler's personal information to be received, receiving the traveler's personal information generated by an input device and determining whether the traveler is a person of interest by evaluating the personal information against one or more pre-defined profiles using the first and second sets of category views. Each of the one or more pre-defined profiles may comprise one or more rules and a threshold value for determining a likelihood for the traveler to be matched in each of the one or more pre-defined profiles.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2013Date of Patent: March 17, 2020Assignee: SECURIPORT LLCInventors: Marcelo Martin Motta Moreno, Hsiang-yi Yu, Mohandas Venkobdas, Seth Stuart Hirsch, Antonio Enrique Segura
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Patent number: 10563914Abstract: A method includes receiving input corresponding to a proposed configuration of a liquefaction facility and identifying a plurality of components utilized to produce LNG and/or LIN at the facility. The method includes determining an alternative configuration that is different from the proposed configuration. Determining the alternative configuration may include identifying resources accessible to a proposed location for the liquefaction facility and whether at least one of the resources accessible to the proposed location corresponds to a resource generated by a component identified by the proposed configuration, and determining whether to omit at least one component of the plurality of components identified by the proposed configuration. The method includes omitting the at least one component from the alternative configuration, and generating a report based on the proposed configuration and the alternative configuration.Type: GrantFiled: August 5, 2016Date of Patent: February 18, 2020Assignee: L'Air Liquide Societe Anonyme Pour L'Etude Et L'Exploitation Des Procedes Georges ClaudeInventors: Alain Guillard, Michael A. Turney
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Patent number: 10552852Abstract: Some embodiments provide a service monitor that operates on a number of different mobile devices to track and monitor services that an application is using. An application may depend on a number of services, such as network services to access various cloud services. The service monitor operates in conjunction with the application to gather data relating to the services and send the gathered data to an API server. The gathering of the data can occur in many mobile devices that are of different types, that are from various different vendors, and/or that operate on different mobile operating systems.Type: GrantFiled: March 12, 2014Date of Patent: February 4, 2020Assignee: VMWARE, INC.Inventors: David Shirley, Robert Kwok, Sean Hermany, Andrew Yousef, Andrew Levy
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Patent number: 10102236Abstract: A computer implemented method for data mining and providing business intelligence data including generating by an analytics server one or more dimensions from source data imported from a computer readable medium, wherein the one or more dimensions define categories into which portions of the normalized data can be grouped; generating by the analytics server one or more measures from the source data linked to the one or more dimensions; storing by the analytics server the one or more dimensions and the one or more measures in a plurality of tables arranged in one of a snowflake and a star schema; determining by the analytics server relationship information between one or more measures and one or more dimensions in each of the plurality of tables; storing by the analytics server the relationship information on the computer readable medium; calculating by the analytics server a total cost of at least one product based on the relationship information; and, querying by a computer system in communication with the aType: GrantFiled: November 14, 2012Date of Patent: October 16, 2018Assignee: pVelocity Inc.Inventors: Vivien Yeung, Kang Lu, Michael Lee, Bill Parousis, Keling Zhang
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Patent number: 10026049Abstract: A cloud-based risk assessment service collects industrial data from multiple relevant and connected sources for storage and analysis on a cloud platform. The service analyzes gathered data from internal and external sources and customers across different industries to identify operational trends as a function of industry type, application type, equipment in use, device configurations, and other such variables. Based on the analysis, the risk assessment service identifies risk factors inherent in a customer's particular industrial enterprise. The cloud-based system generates a risk profile for the customer that identifies the determined risks and recommends risk aversion strategies based on the customer's specific profile, compared to industry standards, product information, internal business expectations, external regulatory bodies, and/or past performance.Type: GrantFiled: November 22, 2013Date of Patent: July 17, 2018Assignee: Rockwell Automation Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Juan L. Asenjo, John Strohmenger, Stephen Thomas Nawalaniec, Bradford Henry Hegrat, Joseph A. Harkulich, Jessica Lin Korpela, Jenifer Rydberg Wright, Rainer Hessmer, John Dyck, Edward Alan Hill, Salvatore T. Conti
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Patent number: 9928471Abstract: A method and system for automatically assigning employees to work plurality of cash registers when the employees report for work is described. The system and method automatically compares the employee's qualifications to the current operational status of a plurality of cash registers and any parameters that may govern the operation of the cash registers such as age requirements for the sale of alcohol. The system automatically assigns an employee to a cash register and transmits real time operational status of those cash registers to a supervisor via a wireless device.Type: GrantFiled: January 24, 2013Date of Patent: March 27, 2018Assignee: Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.Inventors: Allen Ashley, Anthony Helms, Kevin Hayes, Johan Christophe Baer, Derric D'Souza, Josh Osmon
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Patent number: 9792572Abstract: The present invention relates to a method and system for quality compliance, system and operator verification, and process management for point of care biological sample testing systems used in hospitals and other medical delivery environments. Specifically, the present invention may be directed to a computing device configured to generate a plurality of attributes configured to assess a competency level of an operator to operate at least one sample testing instrument, obtain operator derived data pertaining to the operator's ability to operate the at least one sample testing instrument, and determine a competency level of the operator for the at least one sample testing instrument based the plurality of attributes and the operator derived data.Type: GrantFiled: March 12, 2014Date of Patent: October 17, 2017Assignee: Abbott Point of Care Inc.Inventors: Paul Glavina, Jody Ann Tirinato, Pierre Emeric, Dan Molloy, Maureen Weber, Christopher Fetters
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Patent number: 9785890Abstract: Data for a plurality of entities that can be offered a plurality of products can be obtained. The data can include categorical data and numeric data. Based on business constraints, some of all of the data can be selected. The selected data can be converted to another set of numeric data, wherein the categorical values are converted to numeric values. Dimensions of the converted data can be reduced to generate another set of data. Based on this another set of data, clusters of entities can be formed. The products can be grouped by assigning a unique product identifier of each product to a corresponding cluster. This grouping of products can be used by a predictive model to predict a likelihood of an entity to purchase a particular product in a future time period. Related methods, apparatus, systems, techniques and articles are also described.Type: GrantFiled: August 10, 2012Date of Patent: October 10, 2017Assignee: FAIR ISAAC CORPORATIONInventors: Amit Sowani, Eeshan Malhotra, Shafi Ur Rahman
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Patent number: 9704205Abstract: Event planning using social networking enables an efficient implementation of planning an event, as well as minimizing network traffic and optimizing other technological aspects of life. Additional information acquired by sensors and other technology is able to improve the quality of the event planning. Social network information as well as the additional information is able to be used to select aspects of the event such as time, location, and/or many other aspects of the event.Type: GrantFiled: April 18, 2016Date of Patent: July 11, 2017Inventors: Christine E. Akutagawa, Lucas J. Myslinski
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Patent number: 9626729Abstract: Provided is a process including: receiving a tank-nearly-full message indicating that a tank at an oil or gas related facility is or will be ready for a truck to unload and transport fluid accumulating in the tank; in response to the tank-nearly-full message, creating a tank-run record; sending a description of the tank-run to a mobile device of a driver of an oilfield truck; receiving, from the mobile device of the driver of the oilfield truck, a tank-run claimed message indicating that the driver will drive to the oil or gas related facility and transport at least some of the fluid accumulating in the tank; and after the tank-run claimed message, performing steps including: confirming that the tank-run has not yet been claimed; after the confirmation, designating the tank-run as claimed by the driver; and sending confirmation to the mobile device of the driver.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 2015Date of Patent: April 18, 2017Assignee: AmpliSine Labs, LLCInventors: Aaron Phillips, David Bateman, Britt Wuensche, Jordan Kutscherousky, Linlin Zhao