Patents by Inventor Alex Smith

Alex Smith has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20140006922
    Abstract: In some example, a computerized method includes receiving a first electronic document and a second electronic document. The computerized method includes performing a comparison operation between the first electronic document and the second electronic document. The computerized method also includes mapping a first markup of the first electronic document that includes at least one annotation that identifies changes to the first electronic document relative to the second electronic document based on the comparison operation. The computerized method includes mapping a second markup of the second electronic document that includes at least one annotation that identifies changes to the second electronic document relative to the first electronic document based on the comparison operation, wherein the changes identified in the first markup are symmetrical relative to the changes identified in the second markup.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 11, 2008
    Publication date: January 2, 2014
    Inventors: Alex Smith, Shawn A Gaither
  • Publication number: 20120053909
    Abstract: A continuous emissions model system is described that employs an emissions model that can determine emissions values from a plant for use in place of sensed emission data in the event of failure or lack of communication from a sensor. The emissions model itself receives inputs that may be based upon sensed data. Each emissions model input may be substituted with a modeled input. The modeled inputs, as well as the emissions model outputs maybe biased to render them more accurate. If any one of the emissions model inputs fails (e.g., becomes unavailable or is clearly erroneous), the corresponding modeled input may be utilized so long as the modeled input passes an acceptability test.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2010
    Publication date: March 1, 2012
    Applicant: Rockwell Automation Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: William Butler Forbes, Michael Eugene Sugars, Walter Edgar Hayes, IV, Eugene Boe, Scott Lawrence Jost, Richard Andrew Hovan, Keith Alex Smith
  • Publication number: 20120016817
    Abstract: To predict a life change event for a user of the social networking system, such as a change in marital status, relationship status, employment status, etc., the disclosed system generates a training set of data comprising historical data of other users who have gone through a life change event. The system uses the training set data to generate a prediction algorithm using machine learning models. Furthermore, the system inputs the user data to the prediction algorithm to retrieve a prediction of whether the user will undergo one or more life change events. The system updates the user's profile to indicate the life change event and provides advertisements to the user responsive to the prediction of one or more life change events.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2010
    Publication date: January 19, 2012
    Inventors: S. Alex Smith, David Braginsky
  • Publication number: 20110246574
    Abstract: A social networking system facilitates a user's creation of a group of other users from among the user's connections in the user's social network. The created groups may be used, for example, to publish information to certain user-defined groups or to define privacy settings or other access rights to the user's content according to such user-defined groups. When a user adds connections to a group, the social networking system determines suggested connections that have not been added to the group, based on a similarity of the suggested connections with one or more of the connections who have been added to the group. These suggested connections are then presented to the user to facilitate the creation of the group. Both positive and negative feedback may be used to generate a useful set of suggestions, which may be updated as the user further defines the group.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2010
    Publication date: October 6, 2011
    Inventors: Thomas Lento, S. Alex Smith, David Braginsky
  • Publication number: 20090171411
    Abstract: Methods and systems of treating acute heart failure by applying a therapy signal at least one sympathetic cardiopulmonary fiber surrounding the pulmonary trunk that affects heart contractility more than heart rate. Methods and systems also include adjusting the signal to effectuate treatment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 4, 2008
    Publication date: July 2, 2009
    Applicant: THE CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION
    Inventors: Sandra Machado, Marc Penn, Ali R. Rezai, Alex Smith