Patents by Inventor Geoffrey Alan James Vona

Geoffrey Alan James Vona 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: 11556839
    Abstract: Computer systems and associated methods are disclosed to implement a decision model auditing system that allows clients of a machine learning decision system to audit the decision-making process the decision system. In embodiments, the decision system is instrumented with reporting code to collect internal decision data of the decision system and send the data to a decision auditing service. In embodiments, the auditing service provides the client with an obfuscated token, which may be used to anonymize the client requests to the decision system. As client requests are handled by the decision system, the reporting code generates audit messages to the auditing service. The auditing service stores the audit information, which may later be provided to the client or used generate an audit report. In embodiments, the audit report may indicate whether the decision system contains any undesired bias.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Geoffrey Alan James Vona
  • Patent number: 9215142
    Abstract: Embodiments of systems and methods are described for performing community analysis of computing performance. These systems and methods can collect and analyze community performance data from a plurality of physical or virtual infrastructure installations. The systems and methods can leverage this community performance data to identify and recommend areas where individual physical or virtual infrastructures can improve performance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2015
    Assignee: Dell Software Inc.
    Inventors: Scott Matthew Herold, Geoffrey Alan James Vona, Michael Hugh Condy