Patents by Inventor Thomas Jefferson Sandridge

Thomas Jefferson Sandridge 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: 11954438
    Abstract: Disclosed embodiments provide techniques to identify the in-context meanings of natural language in order to decipher the evolution or creation of new vocabulary words and create a more holistic user experience. Thus, disclosed embodiments improve the technical field of digital content comprehension. In embodiments, machine learning is used to identify sentiment of text, perform entity detection to determine topics of text, and/or perform image analysis on images used in digital content. Words, symbols, and images that are determined to be potentially unfamiliar to a user are augmented with a supplemental definition indication. Invoking the supplemental definition indication enables rendering of additional definition information for the user. This serves to accelerate understanding of digital content such as webpages and social media posts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Thomas Jefferson Sandridge, Dasson Tan, Emma Alexandra Vert, Matthew Digman, Jessica L. Zhao
  • Patent number: 11922672
    Abstract: One or more computer processors establish a geofence surrounding a display having a plurality of pixels capable of change based on one or more display capabilities. The one or more computer processors monitor for a change in at least one pixel of the plurality of pixels. The one or more computer processors identify a photosensitive user within the established geofence. The one or more computer processors responsive to the at least one pixel change associated with the display, calculate a photosensitivity score utilizing a model trained for one or more photosensitive conditions associated with the photosensitive user. The one or more computer processors adjust the display to show a change on the at least one pixel based on the calculated photosensitivity score.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Clement Decrop, Thomas Jefferson Sandridge, Jeremy R. Fox, Zachary A. Silverstein
  • Publication number: 20230413025
    Abstract: A method for device and role-based authentication includes generating a near-body electrical-field via a communication transmitter associated with a user, where a plurality of IoT devices is further associated with the user attempting authentication for access to a location. The method further includes receiving the near-body electrical-field via a communication receiver on an authentication device for identifying the user attempting the authentication. In response to identifying the user based on the near-body electrical-field, the method further includes analyzing a plurality of activities associated with a role for the user and analyzing plurality of resources associated with the user, wherein the plurality resources include at least the plurality of IoT devices associated with the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2022
    Publication date: December 21, 2023
    Inventors: Thomas Jefferson Sandridge, Michael Boone, Tushar Agrawal, Jeremy R. Fox, Sarbajit K. Rakshit
  • Publication number: 20230394713
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method for displaying an augmented reality (AR) object is disclosed. The computer-implemented method includes identifying a physical object of interest in a user's AR field of view (FOV), determining an amount of time required for the physical object of interest to be displayed within the user's AR FOV, based on the user's relative position and movement with respect to the physical object of interest, determining the physical object of interest is no longer in the user's physical FOV prior to an expiration of the determined amount of time required for the physical object to be displayed within the user's AR FOV, and displaying a digital object corresponding to the physical object of interest in the users AR FOV until the determined amount of time required for the physical object to be displayed within the user's AR FOV has expired.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 3, 2022
    Publication date: December 7, 2023
    Inventors: Tushar Agrawal, Sarbajit K. Rakshit, Raghuveer Prasad Nagar, Thomas Jefferson Sandridge
  • Patent number: 11816275
    Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure relate to in-air control regions. Communication between an electronic pen and a device can be established. Two or more in-air control regions above the device can be defined, each in-air control region specifying a set of functions that can be performed by the electronic pen. A determination can be made that the electronic pen is within a first in-air control region of the two or more in-air control regions, the first in-air control region specifying a first set of functions that can be performed by the electronic pen. In response to input received from the electronic pen within the first in-air control region, at least one function of the first set of functions can be executed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Tushar Agrawal, Thomas Jefferson Sandridge, Martin G. Keen, Sarbajit K. Rakshit
  • Publication number: 20230360043
    Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure relate to gesture-based one-time password (OTP) authentication for transactions. Initiation of a transaction can be detected. Contextual information associated with the transaction can be received. In response to detecting the initiation of the transaction and based on the contextual information associated with the transaction, a one-time password (OTP) comprising one or more gestures to be performed by a user can be generated. A command can be transmitted to display the one or more gestures to be performed on an extended reality (XR) device worn by the user. In response to validating user performance of the one or more gestures displayed via the XR device, the transaction can be authorized.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 3, 2022
    Publication date: November 9, 2023
    Inventors: Tushar Agrawal, Martin G. Keen, Thomas Jefferson Sandridge, Sarbajit K. Rakshit
  • Patent number: 11763706
    Abstract: In an approach for dynamically adjusting parallel reality (PR) displays, a processor configures a viewing event. A processor receives data from data collecting devices located throughout a location of the viewing event. A processor classifies a crowd of the viewing event into at least two partitions using a learning-based neural network that ingests the data. A processor selects content to be displayed to each of the at least two partitions. A processor enables a PR display to simultaneously display the content to each of the at least two partitions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Jacob Thomas Covell, Nicholas Bokun, Thomas Jefferson Sandridge, Caroline Gaeta
  • Publication number: 20230260404
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method to provide collaboration between a group of vehicles. The method includes linking two or more vehicles into a group, wherein each vehicle is partially automated, includes a plurality of sensors, and are performing a common task. The method further includes generating, for each vehicle, a 360 degree view of the vehicle with data from the plurality of sensors. The method includes aggregating the 360 degree view for each vehicle into a group view, that includes all the grouped vehicles. The method includes displaying the group view on an augmented reality (AR) device a, where the group view includes a relative location for each vehicle in the group. The method includes applying a set of rules to the group of vehicles, wherein the rules provide instructions to each vehicle how to operate within the group, where the set of rules is configured to complete the task.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2022
    Publication date: August 17, 2023
    Inventors: Thomas Jefferson Sandridge, Jeremy R. Fox, Tushar Agrawal, Sarbajit K. Rakshit
  • Publication number: 20230221992
    Abstract: An embodiment includes tokenizing a code segment generated by an integrated development environment responsive to user input, the tokenizing resulting in a tokenized code segment. The embodiment generates a search query by analyzing the tokenized code segment using a trained neural network. The embodiment executes a querying process that searches a knowledge base using the search query for a hardware requirement associated with the code segment, and detects a search result that conveys the hardware requirement as including a specialized hardware resource. The embodiment generates a time allotment associated with execution of the code segment using a second trained neural network that predicts the time allotment based on the tokenized code segment. The embodiment issues an instruction associated with the code segment to a hardware scheduler causing the hardware scheduler to allocate the specialized hardware resource for an amount of time corresponding to the time allotment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 7, 2022
    Publication date: July 13, 2023
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Clement Decrop, Abhishek Malvankar, John M. Ganci, JR., Thomas Jefferson Sandridge
  • Publication number: 20230173879
    Abstract: Proactive temperature maintenance in a temperature controlled unit of a delivery vehicle can be based on a computer data analysis of multiple temperature factors. A computer can receive route environmental data from a multiplicity of sources regarding temperatures outside a vehicle, including a temperature at a current location and temperatures at another location along a route of the vehicle. Route environmental data can be analyzed to determine when to initiate a proactive cooling action for maintaining a cooling requirement within a refrigerated space within the vehicle, and the cooling requirements can include a threshold temperature in the refrigerated space. A proactive cooling action can be initiated based on the analysis before the threshold temperature is reached by assessing temperature variations in the route environmental data for determining a temperature effect on the vehicle at one or more locations along the route.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2021
    Publication date: June 8, 2023
    Inventors: Thomas Jefferson Sandridge, Tushar Agrawal, Jeremy R. Fox, Sarbajit K. Rakshit, Michael Boone
  • Publication number: 20230177430
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a method, computer system, and computer program product for RFI streamlining is provided. The embodiment may include identifying one or more similarities between a current RFI and historical RFIs within a knowledge corpus. The embodiment may also include predicting one or more remedies to the current RFI based on the one or more identified similarities. The embodiment may further include prioritizing the current RFI among one or more open RFIs based on the one or more predicted remedies.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2021
    Publication date: June 8, 2023
    Inventors: Clement Decrop, Thomas Jefferson Sandridge, Zachary A. Silverstein, Jeremy R. Fox
  • Publication number: 20230168661
    Abstract: A processor may receive a request associated with a 3D object. The processor may access a management database. The management database may include information associated with a transportation environment. The 3D object may be placed in the transportation environment. The processor may determine, from the information, whether there is enough space in the transportation environment to transport the 3D object. The processor may automatically generate, based on the determining, the 3D object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2021
    Publication date: June 1, 2023
    Inventors: Tushar Agrawal, Martin G. Keen, Sarbajit K. Rakshit, Thomas Jefferson Sandridge
  • Patent number: 11664998
    Abstract: Described are techniques for preserving data security for sensitive information. The techniques including identifying sensitive information in first audio data from a first client device. The techniques further comprise generating second audio data including hashed sensitive information, where the hashed sensitive information comprises an audio clip that replaces the sensitive information and that is based on the sensitive information. The techniques further comprise transmitting the second data including the hashed sensitive information to a second client device. The techniques further comprise receiving third audio data including the hashed sensitive information from the second client device. The techniques further comprise generating fourth audio data by replacing the hashed sensitive information with the sensitive information and transmitting the fourth audio data including the sensitive information to the first client device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Jon Walheim, Girish Ratnam, Thomas Jefferson Sandridge, Nicholas Bokun, Jacob Thomas Covell
  • Patent number: 11665513
    Abstract: A method of power control for mobile devices, comprising providing a power management application in a first mobile device of a plurality of mobile devices, and wirelessly sharing power among the plurality of mobile devices according to at least one of the user-selectable power sharing templates. The power management application may include a plurality of user-selectable power sharing templates that define how the plurality of mobile devices will share power between themselves. The power management application may recommend one of the plurality of power sharing templates for activities by a user of the first mobile device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Tushar Agrawal, Sarbajit K. Rakshit, Thomas Jefferson Sandridge
  • Patent number: 11656832
    Abstract: Computer implemented methods involving mechanical configuration of a mechanically configurable display device, with the methods variously involving, more specifically: (i) providing instructions for an optimal mechanical configuration; (ii) determining what content objects (for example, text portions, graphic images) can be displayed on a given mechanical configuration; and/or (iii) determining which computer programs (for example, apps) are compatible with the various possible configurations of the display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Tushar Agrawal, Thomas Jefferson Sandridge, Sarbajit K. Rakshit, Raghuveer Prasad Nagar
  • Patent number: 11653071
    Abstract: A first user input is detected from a client device. The first user input is directed at a video content that includes a set of one or more topics, the first user input is from a viewer of the video content. A set of one or more frames in the video content is analyzed based on the first user input. A first topic in the video content is identified based on the set of frames and based on the viewer. The video content, related to the first topic of the set of topics, is altered based on the set of frames and based on the viewer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Jacob Thomas Covell, Thomas Jefferson Sandridge, Alan Chung, Jeremy R. Fox, Sarbajit K. Rakshit
  • Publication number: 20230091912
    Abstract: A first user input is detected from a client device. The first user input is directed at a video content that includes a set of one or more topics, the first user input is from a viewer of the video content. A set of one or more frames in the video content is analyzed based on the first user input. A first topic in the video content is identified based on the set of frames and based on the viewer. The video content, related to the first topic of the set of topics, is altered based on the set of frames and based on the viewer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2021
    Publication date: March 23, 2023
    Inventors: Jacob Thomas Covell, Thomas Jefferson Sandridge, Alan Chung, Jeremy R. Fox, Sarbajit K. Rakshit
  • Publication number: 20230093331
    Abstract: In an approach for a shopper-based commerce driven presentation of required-but-missing product related information, a processor detects a user viewing a physical product via a mixed reality device. A processor identifies a preferred environment for the physical product from a personal shopper profile of the user. A processor generates via the mixed reality device a depiction of the preferred environment. A processor determines whether the physical product can be overlaid in the preferred environment. A processor enables the user to purchase a product based on the determination.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2021
    Publication date: March 23, 2023
    Inventors: Jacob Ryan Jepperson, Thomas Jefferson Sandridge, Jeremy R. Fox, Raghuveer Prasad Nagar, Reji Jose, Jagadesh Ramaswamy Hulugundi
  • Publication number: 20230058138
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide computer-implemented methods, computer program products and computer systems. Embodiments of the present invention can monitor user activity for one or more user interactions performed while connected to a Virtual Private Network. Embodiments of the present invention can then identify potential risks associated with a user and respective user interactions. Embodiments of the present invention can then, in response to determining a respective user interaction of the one or more interactions is suspicious, generate a real time risk score for the respective user interaction. Embodiments of the present invention can then, in response to the generate real time risk score exceeding a threshold level of risk for the respective user interaction, initiate a secondary authentication protocol.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 19, 2021
    Publication date: February 23, 2023
    Inventors: Jacob Thomas Covell, Thomas Jefferson Sandridge, Alvin Zhang, Robert Huntington Grant
  • Publication number: 20230018103
    Abstract: A method of power control for mobile devices, comprising providing a power management application in a first mobile device of a plurality of mobile devices, and wirelessly sharing power among the plurality of mobile devices according to at least one of the user-selectable power sharing templates. The power management application may include a plurality of user-selectable power sharing templates that define how the plurality of mobile devices will share power between themselves. The power management application may recommend one of the plurality of power sharing templates for activities by a user of the first mobile device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2021
    Publication date: January 19, 2023
    Inventors: Tushar Agrawal, Sarbajit K. Rakshit, Thomas Jefferson Sandridge