Patents by Inventor Peter H. Burton

Peter H. Burton 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: 9939955
    Abstract: A system may comprise a registration device configured to register patterns for users; a recording device configured to record a received pattern, as an electronic pattern, wherein the recording device recognizes the received pattern as one of the registered patterns; a receiving device configured to observe human movement patterns with a camera, transform the observed human movement patterns to an electronic signal, and receive the recognized registered pattern from the recording device by a first wireless transmission; a forwarding device configured to transmit the electronic signal, and the received recognized registered pattern to an alert service by a second wireless transmission; and an alert service, configured to receive the electronic signal and the received recognized registered pattern from the forwarding device and configured to transmit the electronic signal and the received recognized registered pattern to a second electronic device by a third wireless transmission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2018
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Peter C. Bahrs, Peter H. Burton, Donna K. Byron, Sangeeta Gautam, Manvendra Gupta, Anne Kline
  • Patent number: 9924223
    Abstract: A computer receives one or more media content source locations. The computer determines two or more media content items associated with the one or more received media content source locations. The computer negotiates digital rights associated with the two or more media content items. The computer pre-fetches the two or more media content items from the one or more media content source locations. The computer determines at least one digital characteristic of a first media content item of the two or more media content items does not match at least one digital characteristic of a second media content item of the two or more media content items. The computer resamples the first media content item of the two or more media content items. The computer publishes a composition of the two or more media content items to appear as one linked asset with uniform digital characteristics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2018
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Peter H. Burton, Manvendra Gupta
  • Publication number: 20180011594
    Abstract: A system may comprise a registration device configured to register patterns for users; a recording device configured to record a received pattern, as an electronic pattern, wherein the recording device recognizes the received pattern as one of the registered patterns; a receiving device configured to observe human movement patterns with a camera, transform the observed human movement patterns to an electronic signal, and receive the recognized registered pattern from the recording device by a first wireless transmission; a forwarding device configured to transmit the electronic signal, and the received recognized registered pattern to an alert service by a second wireless transmission; and an alert service, configured to receive the electronic signal and the received recognized registered pattern from the forwarding device and configured to transmit the electronic signal and the received recognized registered pattern to a second electronic device by a third wireless transmission.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2017
    Publication date: January 11, 2018
    Inventors: PETER C. BAHRS, PETER H. BURTON, DONNA K. BYRON, SANGEETA GAUTAM, MANVENDRA GUPTA, ANNE KLINE
  • Patent number: 9811203
    Abstract: A system may comprise a registration device configured to register patterns for users; a recording device configured to record a received pattern, as an electronic pattern, wherein the recording device recognizes the received pattern as one of the registered patterns; a receiving device configured to observe human movement patterns with a camera, transform the observed human movement patterns to an electronic signal, and receive the recognized registered pattern from the recording device by a first wireless transmission; a forwarding device configured to transmit the electronic signal, and the received recognized registered pattern to an alert service by a second wireless transmission; and an alert service, configured to receive the electronic signal and the received recognized registered pattern from the forwarding device and configured to transmit the electronic signal and the received recognized registered pattern to a second electronic device by a third wireless transmission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Peter C. Bahrs, Peter H. Burton, Donna K. Byron, Sangeeta Gautam, Manvendra Gupta, Anne Kline
  • Patent number: 9800477
    Abstract: A service cost model for services offered in a cloud-computing environment is generated by discovering cost-related attributes in a service catalog of provisioned virtual machines and applications provisioned thereon. The set of cost-related attributes includes at least one of the following: outage frequency, time to repair, cost of repair information, and time claimed by each resource type to fix past outages. The generated service cost model is tracked and adjusted against actuals periodically to reflect the true cost of offered services. Further by federating with other cloud service providers, the costs of a same service are compared between the different providers, and accordingly a recommendation for a provider based on the costs is proposed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2017
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Peter H. Burton, Manvendra Gupta, Helena Litani
  • Publication number: 20170293390
    Abstract: A system may comprise a registration device configured to register patterns for users; a recording device configured to record a received pattern, as an electronic pattern, wherein the recording device recognizes the received pattern as one of the registered patterns; a receiving device configured to observe human movement patterns with a camera, transform the observed human movement patterns to an electronic signal, and receive the recognized registered pattern from the recording device by a first wireless transmission; a forwarding device configured to transmit the electronic signal, and the received recognized registered pattern to an alert service by a second wireless transmission; and an alert service, configured to receive the electronic signal and the received recognized registered pattern from the forwarding device and configured to transmit the electronic signal and the received recognized registered pattern to a second electronic device by a third wireless transmission.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 11, 2017
    Publication date: October 12, 2017
    Inventors: PETER C. BAHRS, PETER H. BURTON, DONNA K. BYRON, SANGEETA GAUTAM, MANVENDRA GUPTA, ANNE KLINE
  • Publication number: 20170262535
    Abstract: A method and system for generating summary details is provided. The method includes retrieving event data of associated with a user. Attributes are extracted from the event data and the event data is segmented into logical groups of related activities performed by the user. Key information and associated attributes of each logical group are identified and in response the user is evaluated. The logical groups of related activities are ranked and presented to the user. In response, an engagement summary associated with the user and the logical groups is generated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 26, 2017
    Publication date: September 14, 2017
    Inventors: Peter H. Burton, Donna K. Byron, Manvendra Gupta
  • Patent number: 9728190
    Abstract: Aspects of the present invention disclose a method, computer program product, a service, and a system for generating a summary of audio on one or more computing devices. The method includes one or more processors retrieving an audio recording. The method further includes one or more processors identifying supplemental information associated with the audio recording, wherein the supplemental information includes information associated with content in the audio recording and information associated with one or more speakers of the audio recording. The method further includes one or more processors converting the audio recording to a transcript of the audio recording. The method further includes one or more processors generating a summary of the transcript of the audio recording based at least in part on the identified supplemental information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2017
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Peter H. Burton, Donna K. Byron, Manvendra Gupta
  • Publication number: 20170212933
    Abstract: A method and system for automatically determining a processing path is provided. The method includes generating an input criteria associated with performing a hardware apparatus implemented process. Metadata describing the input criteria is generated and stored. Weighting factors associated with the metadata are generated and a specialized hardware apparatus executing the hardware apparatus implemented process is enabled. Measurement characteristics associated with conditions resulting from the specialized hardware apparatus executing the hardware apparatus implemented process are retrieved from a plurality of hardware sensors. A resource database catalog for hardware based data processing resources is queried and an optimization process for determining an optimized processing path for processing the metadata with respect to the resource database hardware based data and the measurement characteristics is executed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2016
    Publication date: July 27, 2017
    Inventors: Peter H. Burton, Donna K. Byron, Manvendra Gupta
  • Patent number: 9714840
    Abstract: A method for determining a route of travel for a mobile device from a start point to at least one destination point based on a user ranking of wireless internet quality of service metrics using a server connected to the mobile device through a network. The server receives the start point, at least one destination point, and the ranking of wireless internet quality of service metrics from the mobile device. The server determines registered wireless access points along a plurality of routes between the starting point and the at least one destination point accessible to the mobile device. The server ranks each of the plurality of routes based on the wireless internet quality of service metrics of the wireless access points along the route and the user ranking of the wireless internet quality of service metrics; and sends at least one of the routes to the mobile device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2017
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Peter H. Burton, Donna K. Byron, Manvendra Gupta
  • Patent number: 9703862
    Abstract: A method and system for generating summary details is provided. The method includes retrieving event data of associated with a user. Attributes are extracted from the event data and the event data is segmented into logical groups of related activities performed by the user. Key information and associated attributes of each logical group are identified and in response the user is evaluated. The logical groups of related activities are ranked and presented to the user. In response, an engagement summary associated with the user and the logical groups is generated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2017
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Peter H. Burton, Donna K. Byron, Manvendra Gupta
  • Patent number: 9684822
    Abstract: A system may comprise a registration device configured to register patterns for users; a recording device configured to record a received pattern, as an electronic pattern, wherein the recording device recognizes the received pattern as one of the registered patterns; a receiving device configured to observe human movement patterns with a camera, transform the observed human movement patterns to an electronic signal, and receive the recognized registered pattern from the recording device by a first wireless transmission; a forwarding device configured to transmit the electronic signal, and the received recognized registered pattern to an alert service by a second wireless transmission; and an alert service, configured to receive the electronic signal and the received recognized registered pattern from the forwarding device and configured to transmit the electronic signal and the received recognized registered pattern to a second electronic device by a third wireless transmission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2017
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Peter C. Bahrs, Peter H. Burton, Donna K. Byron, Sangeeta Gautam, Manvendra Gupta, Anne Kline
  • Patent number: 9667507
    Abstract: According to embodiments of the present invention, one or more computer processors determine a source for a performance indicator of a target service element is known. The one or more computer processors select, at run time, a source for the performance indicator that has a least amount of information gaps. The one or more computer processors determine information associated with the performance indicator from the source. The one or more computer processors determine whether the determined information associated with the performance indicator is more current than a quality indicator periodicity value that is associated with the target service element. In response to determining that the determined information associated with the performance indicator is more current than a quality indicator periodicity value that is associated with the target service element, the one or more computer processors selecting the performance indicator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2017
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Peter H. Burton, Manvendra Gupta, Helena Litani, Diaa EIDin M.Y.A. Nasr
  • Publication number: 20170032417
    Abstract: A method, computer program product and system of detecting and generating online behavior from a clickstream. The method includes learning a user's present stage of online behavior wherein there are a plurality of stages of online behavior from exploring at least one product or service to purchasing at least one product or service; responsive to learning the user's present stage of online behavior, predicting a user's future stage of online purchasing behavior; and providing a targeted online action to the user in conjunction with predicting the user's future stage of online purchasing behavior to influence the user to a next stage of online behavior. Also disclosed is a computer program product.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2015
    Publication date: February 2, 2017
    Inventors: Hagop Amendjian, Peter H. Burton, Donna K. Byron, Manvendra Gupta
  • Publication number: 20170030733
    Abstract: A method for determining a route of travel for a mobile device from a start point to at least one destination point based on a user ranking of wireless internet quality of service metrics using a server connected to the mobile device through a network. The server receives the start point, at least one destination point, and the ranking of wireless internet quality of service metrics from the mobile device. The server determines registered wireless access points along a plurality of routes between the starting point and the at least one destination point accessible to the mobile device. The server ranks each of the plurality of routes based on the wireless internet quality of service metrics of the wireless access points along the route and the user ranking of the wireless internet quality of service metrics; and sends at least one of the routes to the mobile device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2015
    Publication date: February 2, 2017
    Inventors: Peter H. Burton, Donna K. Byron, Manvendra Gupta
  • Patent number: 9552429
    Abstract: A system, method and program product that provides product evaluations. A system is disclosed that includes: a system for identifying a set of products based on an inputted query; a system for collecting structured and unstructured data associated with the set of products; a system for generating a composite feature list from the structured and unstructured data; a system for generating a matrix for each identified product, wherein the matrix provides a set of features and any known limitations and benefits determined from the structured and unstructured data for each of the features; and a rating system that analyzes a usage context in view of the known limitations and benefits to evaluate each product at a feature level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2017
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Peter H. Burton, Donna K. Byron, Manvendra Gupta
  • Publication number: 20160323637
    Abstract: A computer receives one or more media content source locations. The computer determines two or more media content items associated with the one or more received media content source locations. The computer negotiates digital rights associated with the two or more media content items. The computer pre-fetches the two or more media content items from the one or more media content source locations. The computer determines at least one digital characteristic of a first media content item of the two or more media content items does not match at least one digital characteristic of a second media content item of the two or more media content items. The computer resamples the first media content item of the two or more media content items. The computer publishes a composition of the two or more media content items to appear as one linked asset with uniform digital characteristics.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 14, 2016
    Publication date: November 3, 2016
    Inventors: Peter H. Burton, Manvendra Gupta
  • Patent number: 9426523
    Abstract: A computer receives one or more media content source locations. The computer determines two or more media content items associated with the one or more received media content source locations. The computer negotiates digital rights associated with the two or more media content items. The computer pre-fetches the two or more media content items from the one or more media content source locations. The computer determines at least one digital characteristic of a first media content item of the two or more media content items does not match at least one digital characteristic of a second media content item of the two or more media content items. The computer resamples the first media content item of the two or more media content items. The computer publishes a composition of the two or more media content items to appear as one linked asset with uniform digital characteristics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2016
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Peter H. Burton, Manvendra Gupta
  • Patent number: 9426034
    Abstract: A tool for a computing service using a computing usage policy. The tool receives by one or more computer processors, a configured usage policy. The tool validates, by one or more computer processors, the configured usage policy. The tool determines, by one or more computer processors, one or more rules governing the configured usage policy. The tool executes, by one or more computer processors, the one or more rules governing the configured usage policy. The tool manages, by one or more computer processors, one or more cloud service resources according to the configured usage policy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2016
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Peter H. Burton, Manvendra Gupta, Helena Litani
  • Patent number: 9361642
    Abstract: A system, method and program product that provides product evaluations. A system is disclosed that includes: a system for identifying a set of products based on an inputted query; a system for collecting structured and unstructured data associated with the set of products; a system for generating a composite feature list from the structured and unstructured data; a system for generating a matrix for each identified product, wherein the matrix provides a set of features and any known limitations and benefits determined from the structured and unstructured data for each of the features; and a rating system that analyzes a usage context in view of the known limitations and benefits to evaluate each product at a feature level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2016
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Peter H. Burton, Donna K. Byron, Manvendra Gupta