Patents by Inventor Oliver Downs
Oliver Downs 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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Patent number: 10672264Abstract: In one embodiment, an incident report including a path segment identifier and an incident identifier is received at a computing device. The incident identifier is sent to a traffic prediction model. The traffic prediction model returns a traffic distribution value. The traffic distribution value identifies a portion of a traffic prediction distribution derived from historical data. The computing device accesses a lookup table according to traffic distribution value and the path segment identifier to receive a speed prediction.Type: GrantFiled: February 20, 2017Date of Patent: June 2, 2020Assignee: HERE Global B.V.Inventors: Oliver Downs, Toby Tennent, Praveen Arcot
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Publication number: 20170344632Abstract: Techniques are disclosed that automatically identify and order the most differentiated clusters from a given collection of clusters within a dataset. A measure of dissimilarity is computed for each cluster from a defined reference cluster, and the clusters are ordered according to the chosen dissimilarity. At least N clusters are selected as the most differentiated clusters relative to the defined reference. Within each cluster, the top-M most distinguishing cluster attributes can be automatically identified by an analogous process that computes the dissimilarity of each cluster attribute to its corresponding attribute in the reference cluster, and orders the attributes by dissimilarity. This then allows for automatic surfacing of what it is about a cluster that differentiates its members relative to the population as a whole, and to provide insight on what action or treatment might be made to address that specific segment of the underlying population.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 14, 2017Publication date: November 30, 2017Inventors: Luca Cazzanti, Courosh Mehanian, Julie Penzotti, Oliver Downs, Doug Scott
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Publication number: 20170162041Abstract: In one embodiment, an incident report including a path segment identifier and an incident identifier is received at a computing device. The incident identifier is sent to a traffic prediction model. The traffic prediction model returns a traffic distribution value. The traffic distribution value identifies a portion of a traffic prediction distribution derived from historical data. The computing device accesses a lookup table according to traffic distribution value and the path segment identifier to receive a speed prediction.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 20, 2017Publication date: June 8, 2017Inventors: Oliver Downs, Toby Tennent, Praveen Arcot
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Patent number: 9659087Abstract: Techniques are disclosed that automatically identify and order the most differentiated clusters from a given collection of clusters within a dataset. A measure of dissimilarity is computed for each cluster from a defined reference cluster, and the clusters are ordered according to the chosen dissimilarity. At least N clusters are selected as the most differentiated clusters relative to the defined reference. Within each cluster, the top-M most distinguishing cluster attributes can be automatically identified by an analogous process that computes the dissimilarity of each cluster attribute to its corresponding attribute in the reference cluster, and orders the attributes by dissimilarity. This then allows for automatic surfacing of what it is about a cluster that differentiates its members relative to the population as a whole, and to provide insight on what action or treatment might be made to address that specific segment of the underlying population.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2013Date of Patent: May 23, 2017Assignee: Amplero, Inc.Inventors: Luca Cazzanti, Courosh Mehanian, Julie Penzotti, Oliver Downs, Doug Scott
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Patent number: 9613529Abstract: In one embodiment, an incident report including a path segment identifier and an incident identifier is received at a computing device. The incident identifier is sent to a traffic prediction model. The traffic prediction model returns a traffic distribution value. The traffic distribution value identifies a portion of a traffic prediction distribution derived from historical data. The computing device accesses a lookup table according to traffic distribution value and the path segment identifier to receive a speed prediction.Type: GrantFiled: February 3, 2014Date of Patent: April 4, 2017Assignee: HERE Global B.V.Inventors: Oliver Downs, Toby Tennent, Praveen Arcot
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Publication number: 20150221218Abstract: In one embodiment, an incident report including a path segment identifier and an incident identifier is received at a computing device. The incident identifier is sent to a traffic prediction model. The traffic prediction model returns a traffic distribution value. The traffic distribution value identifies a portion of a traffic prediction distribution derived from historical data. The computing device accesses a lookup table according to traffic distribution value and the path segment identifier to receive a speed prediction.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 3, 2014Publication date: August 6, 2015Applicant: HERE Global B.V.Inventors: Oliver Downs, Toby Tennent, Praveen Arcot
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Publication number: 20150127455Abstract: Techniques disclosed herein employ entity-activity data expressed in a discrete distribution (histogram) form having one or many dimensions to dynamically classify the entity's usage and/or behavior patterns, where groupings or segmentations of different entities that exhibit similar usage patterns are identified using various approaches, including dimensionality reduction, and/or clustering procedures. A consensus or ensemble clustering may be generated that represents a clustering of clusters, based on subclusterings themselves, and/or any combination of subclusters with entity-activity data to selectively execute a market offering campaign. In one embodiment, the resulting ensemble clusterings enable selective directing of targeted offerings to a telecommunication provider's customers.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 6, 2014Publication date: May 7, 2015Applicant: GLOBYS, INC.Inventors: Julie Penzotti, Courosh Mehanian, Oliver Downs, Luca Cazzanti
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Publication number: 20150127454Abstract: Techniques disclosed herein employ entity-activity data expressed in a discrete distribution (histogram) form having one or many dimensions to dynamically classify the entity's usage and/or behavior patterns, where groupings or segmentations of different entities that exhibit similar usage patterns are identified using various approaches, including dimensionality reduction, and/or clustering procedures. A consensus or ensemble clustering may be generated that represents a clustering of clusters, based on subclusterings themselves, and/or any combination of subclusters with entity-activity data to selectively execute a market offering campaign. In one embodiment, the resulting ensemble clusterings enable selective directing of targeted offerings to a telecommunication provider's customers.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 5, 2014Publication date: May 7, 2015Inventors: Julie Penzotti, Courosh Mehanian, Oliver Downs, Luca Cazzanti
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Publication number: 20140143249Abstract: Techniques are disclosed that automatically identify and order the most differentiated clusters from a given collection of clusters within a dataset. A measure of dissimilarity is computed for each cluster from a defined reference cluster, and the clusters are ordered according to the chosen dissimilarity. At least N clusters are selected as the most differentiated clusters relative to the defined reference. Within each cluster, the top-M most distinguishing cluster attributes can be automatically identified by an analogous process that computes the dissimilarity of each cluster attribute to its corresponding attribute in the reference cluster, and orders the attributes by dissimilarity. This then allows for automatic surfacing of what it is about a cluster that differentiates its members relative to the population as a whole, and to provide insight on what action or treatment might be made to address that specific segment of the underlying population.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 14, 2013Publication date: May 22, 2014Applicant: GLOBYS, INC.Inventors: Luca Cazzanti, Courosh Mehanian, Julie Penzotti, Oliver Downs, Doug Scott
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Publication number: 20140074614Abstract: Techniques are disclosed that leverage time series techniques to express entity-activity data in a longitudinal temporal form, which may then be employed to dynamically classify the entity's behavior. In some embodiments, groupings or segmentations of different entities that exhibit similar profiles of longitudinal temporal form are identified using various techniques, including frequency-domain analysis, and/or unsupervised model-based clustering. The clustering of entities enables directing of offerings to, for example, a telecommunication's customer based on characteristics of the cluster.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 14, 2013Publication date: March 13, 2014Applicant: GLOBYS, INC.Inventors: Courosh Mehanian, Luca Cazzanti, Julie Penzotti, Jackson Feng, Oliver Downs
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Publication number: 20080071466Abstract: Techniques are described for automatically analyzing historical information about road traffic flow in order to generate representative information regarding current or future road traffic flow, and for using such generated representative traffic flow information. Representative traffic flow information may be generated for a variety of types of useful measures of traffic flow, such as for average speed at each of multiple road locations during each of multiple time periods. Generated representative traffic flow information may be used in various ways to assist in travel and for other purposes, such as to determine likely travel times and plan optimal routes. The historical traffic data used to generate the representative traffic flow information may include data readings from physical sensors that are near or embedded in the roads, and/or data samples from vehicles and other mobile data sources traveling on the roads.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 7, 2007Publication date: March 20, 2008Applicant: INRIX, INC.Inventors: Oliver Downs, Jesse Hersch, Craig Chapman
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Publication number: 20080071465Abstract: Techniques are described for assessing road traffic conditions in various ways based on obtained traffic-related data, such as data samples from vehicles and other mobile data sources traveling on the roads and/or from one or more other sources (such as physical sensors near to or embedded in the roads). The road traffic conditions assessment based on obtained data samples may include various filtering and/or conditioning of the data samples, and various inferences and probabilistic determinations of traffic-related characteristics of interest from the data samples. In some situations, the inferences include repeatedly determining current traffic flow characteristics and/or predicted future traffic flow characteristics for road segments of interest during time periods of interest, such as to determine average traffic speed, traffic volume and/or occupancy, and include weighting various data samples in various ways (e.g., based on a latency of the data samples and/or a source of the data samples).Type: ApplicationFiled: May 22, 2007Publication date: March 20, 2008Inventors: Craig Chapman, Kush Parikh, Oliver Downs, Robert Cahn, Jesse Hersch
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Publication number: 20070208501Abstract: Techniques are described for assessing road traffic conditions in various ways based on obtained traffic-related data, such as data samples from vehicles and other mobile data sources traveling on the roads, as well as in some situations data from one or more other sources (such as physical sensors near to or embedded in the roads). The assessment of road traffic conditions based on obtained data samples may include various filtering and/or conditioning of the data samples, and various inferences and probabilistic determinations of traffic-related characteristics from the data samples. In some situations, the inferences based on the data samples includes repeatedly determining average speeds for road segments of interest during periods of time in such a manner as to weight various data samples for those road segments in various ways (e.g., based on a latency of the data samples and/or a source of the data samples).Type: ApplicationFiled: May 11, 2006Publication date: September 6, 2007Applicant: Inrix, Inc.Inventors: Oliver Downs, Craig Chapman, Robert Cahn, Jesse Hersch
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Publication number: 20070208492Abstract: Techniques are described for generating predictions of future traffic conditions at multiple future times, such as by using probabilistic techniques to assess various input data while repeatedly producing future time series predictions for each of numerous road segments (e.g., in a real-time manner based on changing current conditions for a network of roads in a given geographic area). In some situations, one or more predictive Bayesian models and corresponding decision trees are automatically created for use in generating the future traffic condition predictions for each geographic area of interest, such as based on observed historical traffic conditions for those geographic areas. Predicted future traffic condition information may then be used in a variety of ways to assist in travel and for other purposes, such as to plan optimal routes through a network of roads based on predictions about traffic conditions for the roads at multiple future times.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 3, 2006Publication date: September 6, 2007Applicant: Inrix, Inc.Inventors: Oliver Downs, Craig Chapman, Alec Barker
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Publication number: 20070208498Abstract: Techniques are described for displaying or otherwise providing information to users regarding various types of road traffic condition information in various ways. The information may be provided, for example, as part of a user interface (or “UI”), which may in some situations further include one or more types of user-selectable controls to allow a user to manipulate in various ways what road traffic condition information is displayed and/or how the information is displayed. A variety of types of road traffic condition information may be presented to users in various manners, including by presenting information on graphically displayed maps for geographic areas to indicate various information about road conditions in the geographic area. In addition, provided controls may allow users to select particular times, select particular routes, indicate to perform animation of various types of changing traffic conditions over a sequence of multiple successive times, etc.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 3, 2006Publication date: September 6, 2007Applicant: Inrix, Inc.Inventors: Alec Barker, Todd Asher, Mitchel Burns, Oliver Downs, Craig Chapman, Robert Cahn
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Publication number: 20070208494Abstract: Techniques are described for assessing road traffic conditions in various ways based on obtained traffic-related data, such as data samples from vehicles and other mobile data sources traveling on the roads, as well as in some situations data from one or more other sources (such as physical sensors near to or embedded in the roads). The assessment of road traffic conditions based on obtained data samples may include various filtering and/or conditioning of the data samples, and various inferences and probabilistic determinations of traffic-related characteristics from the data samples. In some situations, the inferences based on the data samples includes repeatedly determining traffic flow characteristics for road segments of interest during periods of time, such as to determine traffic volume and/or average occupancy of the road.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 22, 2006Publication date: September 6, 2007Applicant: Inrix, Inc.Inventors: Craig Chapman, Oliver Downs
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Publication number: 20070208496Abstract: Techniques are described for assessing road traffic conditions in various ways based on obtained traffic-related data, such as data samples from vehicles and other mobile data sources traveling on the roads, as well as in some situations data from one or more other sources (such as physical sensors near to or embedded in the roads). The assessment of road traffic conditions based on obtained data samples may include various filtering and/or conditioning of the data samples, and various inferences and probabilistic determinations of traffic-related characteristics of interest from the data samples. In some situations, at least some of the mobile data sources are configured to frequently acquire and store data samples, and to occasionally make multiple such data samples available together for use in the road traffic condition assessment (e.g., by acquiring a data sample every minute and by transmitting a group of stored data samples every 15 minutes).Type: ApplicationFiled: June 22, 2006Publication date: September 6, 2007Inventors: Oliver Downs, Craig Chapman
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Publication number: 20070208493Abstract: Techniques are described for assessing road traffic conditions in various ways based on obtained traffic-related data, such as data samples from vehicles and other mobile data sources traveling on the roads, as well as in some situations data from one or more other sources (such as physical sensors near to or embedded in the roads). The assessment of road traffic conditions based on obtained data samples may include various filtering and/or conditioning of the data samples, and various inferences and probabilistic determinations of traffic-related characteristics of interest from the data samples. In some situations, the filtering of the data samples includes identifying data samples that are inaccurate or otherwise unrepresentative of actual traffic condition characteristics of interest, such as by identifying data samples that are statistical outliers with respect to other data samples.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 11, 2006Publication date: September 6, 2007Applicant: Inrix, Inc.Inventors: Oliver Downs, Craig Chapman, Robert Cahn, Jesse Hersch
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Publication number: 20070208495Abstract: Techniques are described for assessing road traffic conditions in various ways based on obtained traffic-related data, such as data samples from vehicles and other mobile data sources traveling on the roads, as well as in some situations data from one or more other sources (such as physical sensors near to or embedded in the roads). The assessment of road traffic conditions based on obtained data samples may include various filtering and/or conditioning of the data samples, and various inferences and probabilistic determinations of traffic-related characteristics from the data samples. In some situations, the filtering of the data samples includes identifying data samples that are inaccurate or otherwise unrepresentative of actual traffic condition characteristics, such as data samples that are not of interest based at least in part on roads with which the data samples are associated and/or that otherwise reflect vehicle locations or activities that are not of interest.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 31, 2006Publication date: September 6, 2007Inventors: Craig Chapman, Oliver Downs, Alec Barker, Mitchel Burns, Scott Love