Patents by Inventor Christian Ewen

Christian Ewen 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).

  • Patent number: 11354607
    Abstract: An iterative process for cognitive assessment of generated work products relies on a variety of assessors providing different granularities such as coarse, medium and fine, in combination with user guidance. A cognitive system generates candidates based on soft constraints such as user preferences. The candidates are analyzed using first assessors to compute preliminary scores which are ranked and presented to a user. Based on user selection/adjustment, the system generates a final work product which is analyzed using second assessors, and presents the final work product and final scores to the user. There may be multiple iterations of the user adjustment and refined presentation of final work products. The invention may be consummated by receiving confirmation of the final work product from the user, and taking some action such as electronically completing a purchase of a product or electronically reserving a third-party service.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Donna K. Byron, Carmine DiMascio, Christian Ewen, Florian Pinel
  • Patent number: 11276221
    Abstract: Creating an animated pictogram includes: generating a set of images depicting a weather forecast for a first location at different times according to a set of depiction rules and combining the set of images in chronological order according to a set of transition rules.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Christian Ewen, Florian Pinel, Donna K. Byron, Carmine M. DiMascio
  • Patent number: 11188199
    Abstract: A website navigation system has an analysis system which receives a request for an Internet web page from a client device. The analysis system receives web page data associated with the web page from the Internet and performs a data analysis process to organize the web page data for use in a virtual conversation with the user in order to present the web page in an audible format. The analysis system identifies separate elements of the web page from the web page data and extracts information from the separate elements based on the web page data. The analysis system groups the separate elements into categories based on the extracted information and sorts the groups of separate elements based on usage statistics. The analysis system then generates a prompt for being output to the user by the client device as audible output based on the sorted groups of separate elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Florian Pinel, Donna K. Byron, Christian Ewen, Carmine Dimascio, Benjamin L. Johnson
  • Publication number: 20200034758
    Abstract: An iterative process for cognitive assessment of generated work products relies on a variety of assessors providing different granularities such as coarse, medium and fine, in combination with user guidance. A cognitive system generates candidates based on soft constraints such as user preferences. The candidates are analyzed using first assessors to compute preliminary scores which are ranked and presented to a user. Based on user selection/adjustment, the system generates a final work product which is analyzed using second assessors, and presents the final work product and final scores to the user. There may be multiple iterations of the user adjustment and refined presentation of final work products. The invention may be consummated by receiving confirmation of the final work product from the user, and taking some action such as electronically completing a purchase of a product or electronically reserving a third-party service.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2018
    Publication date: January 30, 2020
    Inventors: Donna K. Byron, Carmine DiMascio, Christian Ewen, Florian Pinel
  • Publication number: 20190317648
    Abstract: A website navigation system has an analysis system which receives a request for an Internet web page from a client device. The analysis system receives web page data associated with the web page from the Internet and performs a data analysis process to organize the web page data for use in a virtual conversation with the user in order to present the web page in an audible format. The analysis system identifies separate elements of the web page from the web page data and extracts information from the separate elements based on the web page data. The analysis system groups the separate elements into categories based on the extracted information and sorts the groups of separate elements based on usage statistics. The analysis system then generates a prompt for being output to the user by the client device as audible output based on the sorted groups of separate elements.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 16, 2018
    Publication date: October 17, 2019
    Inventors: Florian Pinel, Donna K. Byron, Christian Ewen, Carmine Dimascio, Benjamin L. Johnson
  • Publication number: 20190243922
    Abstract: A method, system and computer-usable medium for performing a meal kit personalization operation, comprising: receiving recipe purchase history information for a plurality of customers; associating the recipe purchase history information with a plurality of input recipes; identifying a plurality of input recipes for use for a particular time period; identifying elements of the input recipes that limit appeal of each of the plurality of input recipes for the particular time period, the elements being identified using purchase predictor information relating to the elements; generating alternative recipes based upon the input recipes; and selecting a predefined number of these input recipes and alternative recipes for presentation to a particular user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 7, 2018
    Publication date: August 8, 2019
    Inventors: Florian Pinel, Donna K. Byron, Benjamin L. Johnson, Christian Ewen
  • Patent number: D660087
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2012
    Inventors: Christian Ewen, Natalia Stasenko