Patents by Inventor STEVEN N. BURCHFIELD

STEVEN N. BURCHFIELD 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: 11055364
    Abstract: Machine logic (for example, software) for estimating how much time it will take to find a parking space for a vehicle at a destination. The machine logic rules request historical data to initially train a machine learning algorithm for estimating how much time it will take to find a parking space, and then estimates how long it will take to find a parking space when provided with a set of parking factors for an intended destination and route.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Gregg M. Arquero, Steven N. Burchfield
  • Patent number: 10889297
    Abstract: Embodiments include methods, systems and computer program products for determining a safe driving speed for a vehicle. Aspects include obtaining a location and a direction of travel of the vehicle, obtaining one or more operating conditions of the vehicle, and obtaining historical accident data that corresponds to the location of the vehicle under operating conditions that are similar to the one or more conditions of the vehicle. Aspects also include analyzing, by a processor, the historical accident data to identify the safe driving speed for the vehicle, wherein the safe driving speed is determined to be a maximum speed that is associated with maximum acceptable risk of an accident and causing an indication of the safe driving speed to be displayed to an operator of the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2021
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Gregg M. Arquero, Steven N. Burchfield
  • Patent number: 10754643
    Abstract: Embodiments of the invention are directed to methods and systems for detecting incompatibilities in a computer system. The method includes logging incoming requests to a target component; receiving changes to the target component; analyzing the changed target component; performing a simulation to determine the compatibility of the target component with respect to one or more other components, and upon the finding of an incompatibility causing a notification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2020
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Gregg M. Arquero, Steven N. Burchfield, Syed F. Hossain, Joshua Schaeffer
  • Patent number: 10733220
    Abstract: Embodiments of the invention include method, systems and computer program products for using a target similarity calculation to identify relevant content in a corpus of documents or records. The computer-implemented method includes creating, by a processor, a term frequency (TF) list for one or more documents of a corpus. The processor calculates an inverse document frequency (IDF) for each listed term. The processor calculates a TF-IDF for each listed term. The processor determines a similarity ranking for one or more documents of the corpus using a target similarity calculation using the TF-IDF for each listed term.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2020
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Steven N. Burchfield, Steven P. Lafalce, Maurice M. Materise, James A. Oconnor
  • Publication number: 20190179630
    Abstract: Embodiments of the invention are directed to methods and systems for detecting incompatibilities in a computer system. The method includes logging incoming requests to a target component; receiving changes to the target component; analyzing the changed target component; performing a simulation to determine the compatibility of the target component with respect to one or more other components, and upon the finding of an incompatibility causing a notification.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2017
    Publication date: June 13, 2019
    Inventors: Gregg M. Arquero, Steven N. Burchfield, Syed F. Hossain, Joshua Schaeffer
  • Publication number: 20190163826
    Abstract: Machine logic (for example, software) for estimating how much time it will take to find a parking space for a vehicle at a destination. The machine logic rules request historical data to initially train a machine learning algorithm for estimating how much time it will take to find a parking space, and then estimates how long it will take to find a parking space when provided with a set of parking factors for an intended destination and route.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2017
    Publication date: May 30, 2019
    Inventors: Gregg M. Arquero, Steven N. Burchfield
  • Publication number: 20190130024
    Abstract: Embodiments of the invention include method, systems and computer program products for using a target similarity calculation to identify relevant content in a corpus of documents or records. The computer-implemented method includes creating, by a processor, a term frequency (TF) list for one or more documents of a corpus. The processor calculates an inverse document frequency (IDF) for each listed term. The processor calculates a TF-IDF for each listed term. The processor determines a similarity ranking for one or more documents of the corpus using a target similarity calculation using the TF-IDF for each listed term.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2017
    Publication date: May 2, 2019
    Inventors: Steven N. Burchfield, Steven P. Lafalce, Maurice M. Materise, James A. Oconnor
  • Publication number: 20190111923
    Abstract: Embodiments include methods, systems and computer program products for determining a safe driving speed for a vehicle. Aspects include obtaining a location and a direction of travel of the vehicle, obtaining one or more operating conditions of the vehicle, and obtaining historical accident data that corresponds to the location of the vehicle under operating conditions that are similar to the one or more conditions of the vehicle. Aspects also include analyzing, by a processor, the historical accident data to identify the safe driving speed for the vehicle, wherein the safe driving speed is determined to be a maximum speed that is associated with maximum acceptable risk of an accident and causing an indication of the safe driving speed to be displayed to an operator of the vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 13, 2017
    Publication date: April 18, 2019
    Inventors: GREGG M. ARQUERO, STEVEN N. BURCHFIELD