Patents by Inventor Brian Bender

Brian Bender 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: 20240111816
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed towards systems and methods for finding documents that are similar to a reference text. The inventive systems and methods examine a set of collected documents to determine the facts present in those documents by, for example, extracting triplets and expanding them. A user's input reference text is similarly examined to extract and expand triplets therein and the facts identified with respect to the reference text are used as a basis to find documents having similar facts. The present disclosure is also related to systems and methods for mining facts from documents relating to a primary source such as a piece of legislation and using the mined facts to improve the results of subsequent searches.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 27, 2017
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Applicant: Thomson Reuters Enterprise Centre GmbH
    Inventors: Mina Farid, Brian Zubert, Lisa Bender, Hella-Franziska Hoffmann
  • Patent number: 11934465
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed towards systems and methods for finding documents that are similar to a reference text. The inventive systems and methods examine a set of collected documents to determine the facts present in those documents by, for example, extracting triplets and expanding them. A user's input reference text is similarly examined to extract and expand triplets therein and the facts identified with respect to the reference text are used as a basis to find documents having similar facts. The present disclosure is also related to systems and methods for mining facts from documents relating to a primary source such as a piece of legislation and using the mined facts to improve the results of subsequent searches.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: THOMSON REUTERS ENTERPRISE CENTRE GMBH
    Inventors: Mina Farid, Brian Zubert, Lisa Bender, Hella-Franziska Hoffmann
  • Publication number: 20240078271
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed towards systems and methods for finding documents that are similar to a reference text. The inventive systems and methods examine a set of collected documents to determine the facts present in those documents by, for example, extracting triplets and expanding them. A user's input reference text is similarly examined to extract and expand triplets therein and the facts identified with respect to the reference text are used as a basis to find documents having similar facts. The present disclosure is also related to systems and methods for mining facts from documents relating to a primary source such as a piece of legislation and using the mined facts to improve the results of subsequent searches.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2023
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Inventors: Mina Farid, Brian Zubert, Lisa Bender, Hella-Franziska Hoffmann
  • Patent number: 11796117
    Abstract: A tube shielding system prevents pests such as rodents and insects from damaging tubes or pipes, particularly those made of plastics or other soft materials. The tubes are wrapped with a protective barrier that has a pest control layer. The pest control layer a deterrent that could be physical or chemical. Examples of deterrents are steel mesh, sand, peppermint and capsaicin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Inventor: Brian Bender
  • Publication number: 20210312888
    Abstract: Generally discussed herein are techniques, software, apparatuses, and systems configured for presenting information to a user through multiple primary user interfaces. In one or more embodiments, a method can include providing first data to a first primary user interface that causes the first primary user interface to provide a first view of an application state of a software application, providing second data to a second primary user interface that causes the second primary user interface to provide a second view of the application state, changing the application state to a new application state, and in response to changing the application state, providing data to the first and second view modules so as to cause the first primary user interface to provide a first view of the new application state and the second primary user interface to provide a second view of the new application state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2021
    Publication date: October 7, 2021
    Inventors: Jeffrey PIKE, Shawn ZABEL, Dennis DOUBLEDAY, Brian BENDER, Mark David MURAWSKI
  • Patent number: 11081087
    Abstract: Generally discussed herein are techniques, software, apparatuses, and systems configured for presenting information to a user through multiple primary user interfaces. In one or more embodiments, a method can include providing first data to a first primary user interface that causes the first primary user interface to provide a first view of an application state of a software application, providing second data to a second primary user interface that causes the second primary user interface to provide a second view of the application state, changing the application state to a new application state, and in response to changing the application state, providing data to the first and second view modules so as to cause the first primary user interface to provide a first view of the new application state and the second primary user interface to provide a second view of the new application state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: HAND HELD PRODUCTS, INC.
    Inventors: Jeffrey Pike, Shawn Zabel, Dennis Doubleday, Brian Bender, Mark David Murawski
  • Patent number: 11010139
    Abstract: Generally discussed herein are techniques, software, apparatuses, and systems configured for application development for an application using multiple primary user interfaces. In one or more embodiments, a method can include receiving data indicating a plurality of workflow activities to be used in an application, each of the workflow activities including data corresponding to a configuration of a view model module and a list of views to be associated with the configuration, receiving data indicating a plurality of primary user interface views to associate with each of the workflow activities, receiving data indicating a connection between two of the workflow activities of the plurality of workflow activities, and producing an application model based on the received data indicating the plurality of workflow activities, the data indicates the connection between two of the workflow activities and the data indicating the plurality of primary user interface views.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: HAND HELD PRODUCTS, INC.
    Inventors: Shawn Zabel, Jeffrey Pike, Brian Bender, Dennis Doubleday, Mark D. Murawski
  • Patent number: 10984374
    Abstract: A method of characterizing inventory items to a planogram includes receiving images of view of a scene with inventory items and corresponding indicia using an imaging device; receiving utterances (such as spoken description of inventory items) from a user using a voice recognition system; identifying inventory items in the scene and a corresponding identification code based at least in part on the images and at least in part on the utterances; identifying a plurality of attributes corresponding to the inventory items; and characterizing the inventory items to a planogram based on the respective identification code and plurality of attributes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignee: Vocollect, Inc.
    Inventors: Jeffrey Pike, Lori Pike, Mark Mellott, Vanessa Cassandra Sanchez, George Joshue Karabin, Brian Bender, Justin Volz
  • Patent number: 10969054
    Abstract: A tube shielding system prevents pests such as rodents and insects from damaging tubes or pipes, particularly those made of plastics or other soft materials. The tubes are wrapped with a protective barrier that has a pest control layer. The pest control layer a deterrent that could be physical or chemical. Examples of deterrents are steel mesh, sand, peppermint and capsaicin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Inventor: Brian Bender
  • Patent number: 10896403
    Abstract: A mobile device can receive information from a computer; at least partially in response to the receiving of the information from the computer, the mobile device can communicate with a worker regarding a product type; the mobile device can receive information from the worker via voice, wherein the information received from the worker can identify a date or other product information associated with a product of the product type; and the mobile device can provide the product information to the computer. The mobile device can provide a second voice prompt to the worker, wherein the second voice prompt can request a quantity of products of the product type that are marked with the product information; then the mobile device can receive a quantity from the worker via voice; and the mobile device can report to the computer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2021
    Assignee: Vocollect, Inc.
    Inventors: Vanessa Cassandra Sanchez, John Pecorari, George Joshue Karabin, Justin Volz, Brian Bender, Mark Mellott
  • Patent number: 10402038
    Abstract: Generally discussed herein are techniques, software, apparatuses, and systems configured for managing a navigation stack of an application including multiple primary user interfaces (UIs). In one or more embodiments, a method can include providing data to multiple primary UIs that causes each of the multiple primary UIs to present a view of a plurality of views of an application state of the software application, receiving data indicating the application state of the application has changed, and pushing a workflow activity of the application onto a navigation stack, wherein each workflow activity includes data corresponding to a configuration of a view model module and a list of views associated with the configuration, the view model module provides the data that causes the plurality of views to be presented on the multiple primary UIs in response to the configuration being loaded on in the view model module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2019
    Assignee: Hand Held Products, Inc.
    Inventors: Jeffrey Pike, Shawn Zabel, Brian Bender, Dennis Doubleday, Mark David Murawski
  • Patent number: 10262660
    Abstract: A method includes detecting an event published to a workflow activity by a voice based dialog view, wherein the event indicates a state of asset retrieval, navigating to a built-in asset retrieval work activity, retrieving an asset, and dismissing the workflow activity to revert to a workflow activity associated with the voice based dialog view.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2019
    Assignee: HAND HELD PRODUCTS, INC.
    Inventors: Shawn Zabel, Jeffrey Pike, Brian Bender, Dennis Doubleday, Mark Murawski
  • Publication number: 20180373503
    Abstract: Generally discussed herein are techniques, software, apparatuses, and systems configured for application development for an application using multiple primary user interfaces. In one or more embodiments, a method can include receiving data indicating a plurality of workflow activities to be used in an application, each of the workflow activities including data corresponding to a configuration of a view model module and a list of views to be associated with the configuration, receiving data indicating a plurality of primary user interface views to associate with each of the workflow activities, receiving data indicating a connection between two of the workflow activities of the plurality of workflow activities, and producing an application model based on the received data indicating the plurality of workflow activities, the data indicates the connection between two of the workflow activities and the data indicating the plurality of primary user interface views.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2018
    Publication date: December 27, 2018
    Inventors: Shawn ZABEL, Jeffrey PIKE, Brian BENDER, Dennis DOUBLEDAY, Mark D. MURAWSKI
  • Patent number: 10120657
    Abstract: A system has a domain expert component library stored on a computer readable storage device, the component library containing connectable components that create a mobile workflow based application; a domain expert user interface coupled to the domain expert component library to facilitate assembly of components in a workflow sequence; and a developer user interface coupled to: receive an intermediate representation of a workflow application based on the workflow sequence, and provide a software programming language environment to perform data manipulation changes to the intermediate representation to create the mobile workflow based application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2018
    Assignee: Hand Held Products, Inc.
    Inventors: Dennis Doubleday, Jeffrey Pike, Shawn Zabel, Brian Bender, Mark Murawski
  • Patent number: 10061565
    Abstract: Generally discussed herein are techniques, software, apparatuses, and systems configured for application development for an application using multiple primary user interfaces. In one or more embodiments, a method can include receiving data indicating a plurality of workflow activities to be used in an application, each of the workflow activities including data corresponding to a configuration of a view model module and a list of views to be associated with the configuration, receiving data indicating a plurality of primary user interface views to associate with each of the workflow activities, receiving data indicating a connection between two of the workflow activities of the plurality of workflow activities, and producing an application model based on the received data indicating the plurality of workflow activities, the data indicates the connection between two of the workflow activities and the data indicating the plurality of primary user interface views.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2018
    Assignee: Hand Held Products, Inc.
    Inventors: Shawn Zabel, Jeffrey Pike, Brian Bender, Dennis Doubleday, Mark D. Murawski
  • Patent number: 10055759
    Abstract: The present disclosure includes a system, method, and article of manufacture for spend based targeting. In various embodiments, the system may transmit, to a third party system, a spend data file associating a first party cookie ID with spend data, as well as a first party cookie ID and/or a third party cookie ID to a web client. The web client may transmit the first party cookie ID and/or the third party cookie ID to the third party system, and the third party system may generate a look alike model for targeting advertisements to the web client based on the spend data file and clickstream data associated with the web client. In various embodiments, the third party system may match the third party cookie ID with the first party cookie ID in the spend data file, which may associate a customer with a segment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2018
    Assignee: AMERICAN EXPRESS TRAVEL RELATED SERVICES COMPANY, INC.
    Inventors: David Bonalle, Brian Bender, Mehmet E. Dedeoglu, Rajendra Rane, Tamara Odinec, Patrick Lowery
  • Publication number: 20180232688
    Abstract: A method of characterizing inventory items to a planogram includes receiving images of view of a scene with inventory items and corresponding indicia using an imaging device; receiving utterances (such as spoken description of inventory items) from a user using a voice recognition system; identifying inventory items in the scene and a corresponding identification code based at least in part on the images and at least in part on the utterances; identifying a plurality of attributes corresponding to the inventory items; and characterizing the inventory items to a planogram based on the respective identification code and plurality of attributes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 3, 2018
    Publication date: August 16, 2018
    Inventors: Jeffrey Pike, Lori Pike, Mark Mellott, Vanessa Cassandra Sanchez, George Joshue Karabin, Brian Bender, Justin Volz
  • Publication number: 20180018623
    Abstract: A mobile device can receive information from a computer; at least partially in response to the receiving of the information from the computer, the mobile device can communicate with a worker regarding a product type; the mobile device can receive information from the worker via voice, wherein the information received from the worker can identify a date or other product information associated with a product of the product type; and the mobile device can provide the product information to the computer. The mobile device can provide a second voice prompt to the worker, wherein the second voice prompt can request a quantity of products of the product type that are marked with the product information; then the mobile device can receive a quantity from the worker via voice; and the mobile device can report to the computer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2016
    Publication date: January 18, 2018
    Inventors: Vanessa Cassandra Sanchez, John Pecorari, George Joshue Karabin, Justin Volz, Brian Bender, Mark Mellott
  • Patent number: 9470305
    Abstract: Variable speed control systems and methods for walk-behind working machines, such as lawnmowers and similar powered machines, can include a control lever with a lever arm that is selectively pivotable with respect to a machine handle between a first angular position at which a grip portion of the control lever is spaced apart from the handle by a first angle and a second angular position at which the control lever is proximate to the handle to control the working machine to be in one of a range of operating states corresponding to the angular position of the control lever. A control lever adjustment system is configured to selectively adjust the first angle to adjust a total possible angular travel of the control lever between the first angular position and the second angular position. In this way, an operator can set a range of operating states of the working machine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2016
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Scott Kaskawitz, Vincent Andrew Prinzo, Brian Bender
  • Publication number: 20160202958
    Abstract: Generally discussed herein are techniques, software, apparatuses, and systems configured for application development for an application using multiple primary user interfaces. In one or more embodiments, a method can include receiving data indicating a plurality of workflow activities to be used in an application, each of the workflow activities including data corresponding to a configuration of a view model module and a list of views to be associated with the configuration, receiving data indicating a plurality of primary user interface views to associate with each of the workflow activities, receiving data indicating a connection between two of the workflow activities of the plurality of workflow activities, and producing an application model based on the received data indicating the plurality of workflow activities, the data indicates the connection between two of the workflow activities and the data indicating the plurality of primary user interface views.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 5, 2016
    Publication date: July 14, 2016
    Inventors: Shawn Zabel, Jeffrey Pike, Brian Bender, Dennis Doubleday, Mark D. Murawski