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).
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Publication number: 20240111816Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: November 27, 2017Publication date: April 4, 2024Applicant: Thomson Reuters Enterprise Centre GmbHInventors: Mina Farid, Brian Zubert, Lisa Bender, Hella-Franziska Hoffmann
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Patent number: 11934465Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: November 27, 2017Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: THOMSON REUTERS ENTERPRISE CENTRE GMBHInventors: Mina Farid, Brian Zubert, Lisa Bender, Hella-Franziska Hoffmann
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Publication number: 20240078271Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: November 6, 2023Publication date: March 7, 2024Inventors: Mina Farid, Brian Zubert, Lisa Bender, Hella-Franziska Hoffmann
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Patent number: 11796117Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: April 6, 2021Date of Patent: October 24, 2023Inventor: Brian Bender
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Publication number: 20210312888Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: June 22, 2021Publication date: October 7, 2021Inventors: Jeffrey PIKE, Shawn ZABEL, Dennis DOUBLEDAY, Brian BENDER, Mark David MURAWSKI
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Patent number: 11081087Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: January 7, 2016Date of Patent: August 3, 2021Assignee: HAND HELD PRODUCTS, INC.Inventors: Jeffrey Pike, Shawn Zabel, Dennis Doubleday, Brian Bender, Mark David Murawski
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Patent number: 11010139Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: August 9, 2018Date of Patent: May 18, 2021Assignee: HAND HELD PRODUCTS, INC.Inventors: Shawn Zabel, Jeffrey Pike, Brian Bender, Dennis Doubleday, Mark D. Murawski
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Patent number: 10984374Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: January 3, 2018Date of Patent: April 20, 2021Assignee: Vocollect, Inc.Inventors: Jeffrey Pike, Lori Pike, Mark Mellott, Vanessa Cassandra Sanchez, George Joshue Karabin, Brian Bender, Justin Volz
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Patent number: 10969054Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 21, 2019Date of Patent: April 6, 2021Inventor: Brian Bender
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Patent number: 10896403Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: July 18, 2016Date of Patent: January 19, 2021Assignee: Vocollect, Inc.Inventors: Vanessa Cassandra Sanchez, John Pecorari, George Joshue Karabin, Justin Volz, Brian Bender, Mark Mellott
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Patent number: 10402038Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: January 7, 2016Date of Patent: September 3, 2019Assignee: Hand Held Products, Inc.Inventors: Jeffrey Pike, Shawn Zabel, Brian Bender, Dennis Doubleday, Mark David Murawski
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Patent number: 10262660Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: January 5, 2016Date of Patent: April 16, 2019Assignee: HAND HELD PRODUCTS, INC.Inventors: Shawn Zabel, Jeffrey Pike, Brian Bender, Dennis Doubleday, Mark Murawski
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Publication number: 20180373503Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: August 9, 2018Publication date: December 27, 2018Inventors: Shawn ZABEL, Jeffrey PIKE, Brian BENDER, Dennis DOUBLEDAY, Mark D. MURAWSKI
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Patent number: 10120657Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: January 6, 2016Date of Patent: November 6, 2018Assignee: Hand Held Products, Inc.Inventors: Dennis Doubleday, Jeffrey Pike, Shawn Zabel, Brian Bender, Mark Murawski
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Patent number: 10061565Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: January 5, 2016Date of Patent: August 28, 2018Assignee: Hand Held Products, Inc.Inventors: Shawn Zabel, Jeffrey Pike, Brian Bender, Dennis Doubleday, Mark D. Murawski
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Patent number: 10055759Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: October 30, 2015Date of Patent: August 21, 2018Assignee: AMERICAN EXPRESS TRAVEL RELATED SERVICES COMPANY, INC.Inventors: David Bonalle, Brian Bender, Mehmet E. Dedeoglu, Rajendra Rane, Tamara Odinec, Patrick Lowery
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Publication number: 20180232688Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: January 3, 2018Publication date: August 16, 2018Inventors: Jeffrey Pike, Lori Pike, Mark Mellott, Vanessa Cassandra Sanchez, George Joshue Karabin, Brian Bender, Justin Volz
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Publication number: 20180018623Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: July 18, 2016Publication date: January 18, 2018Inventors: Vanessa Cassandra Sanchez, John Pecorari, George Joshue Karabin, Justin Volz, Brian Bender, Mark Mellott
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Patent number: 9470305Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: January 24, 2014Date of Patent: October 18, 2016Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Scott Kaskawitz, Vincent Andrew Prinzo, Brian Bender
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Publication number: 20160202958Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: January 5, 2016Publication date: July 14, 2016Inventors: Shawn Zabel, Jeffrey Pike, Brian Bender, Dennis Doubleday, Mark D. Murawski