Patents by Inventor Tom Waterton

Tom Waterton 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: 10764433
    Abstract: A user equipment and method for call filtering is provided. On receipt of an incoming call, the incoming call's telephone number or other caller identifier is determined and then used as a search query in a search engine search. Using natural language processing or text string comparison, text from the search hits is processed by comparing with the stored permitted caller description(s). If a match is found, then a call alert is generated, whereas if not, then the call is blocked.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Henry J. Collinson, Julie E. Stalley, Tom Waterton
  • Publication number: 20200066004
    Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure relate to improved text focus for head mounted displays (HMDs). Sensor data is received from an eye-tracker of an HMD equipped by a user. A determination whether the user is reading is made. In response to determining that the user is reading, a text area on a display of the HMD is determined. The display of the HMD is then filtered based on the determined text area, where a non-text area of the display is filtered and the text area is not filtered.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2018
    Publication date: February 27, 2020
    Inventors: Joshua E. Vines, Amy Madelaine Reeve, Liam White, Tom Waterton
  • Publication number: 20190260874
    Abstract: A user equipment and method for call filtering is provided. On receipt of an incoming call, the incoming call's telephone number or other caller identifier is determined and then used as a search query in a search engine search. Using natural language processing or text string comparison, text from the search hits is processed by comparing with the stored permitted caller description(s). If a match is found, then a call alert is generated, whereas if not, then the call is blocked.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2019
    Publication date: August 22, 2019
    Inventors: Henry J. Collinson, Julie E. Stalley, Tom Waterton
  • Patent number: 10320978
    Abstract: A user equipment and method for call filtering is provided. On receipt of an incoming call, the incoming call's telephone number or other caller identifier is determined and then used as a search query in a search engine search. Using natural language processing or text string comparison, text from the search hits is processed by comparing with the stored permitted caller description(s). If a match is found, then a call alert is generated, whereas if not, then the call is blocked.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2019
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Henry J. Collinson, Julie E. Stalley, Tom Waterton
  • Publication number: 20180288223
    Abstract: A user equipment and method for call filtering is provided. On receipt of an incoming call, the incoming call's telephone number or other caller identifier is determined and then used as a search query in a search engine search. Using natural language processing or text string comparison, text from the search hits is processed by comparing with the stored permitted caller description(s). If a match is found, then a call alert is generated, whereas if not, then the call is blocked.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 9, 2018
    Publication date: October 4, 2018
    Inventors: Henry J. Collinson, Julie E. Stalley, Tom Waterton
  • Patent number: 10009462
    Abstract: A user equipment and method for call filtering is provided. On receipt of an incoming call, the incoming call's telephone number or other caller identifier is determined and then used as a search query in a search engine search. Using natural language processing or text string comparison, text from the search hits is processed by comparing with the stored permitted caller description(s). If a match is found, then a call alert is generated, whereas if not, then the call is blocked.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2018
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Henry J. Collinson, Julie E. Stalley, Tom Waterton
  • Patent number: 9740765
    Abstract: A method for topic discovery through structural knowledge in an associative document tree building system includes inserting a set of documents into nodes of a document tree, extracting a tag set of tags from the set of documents and inserting each tag into a different node of a tag tree. The method also includes conducting a search engine query using the tags of the extracted tag set to produce a new set of documents and inserting the new set of documents into nodes of the document tree. The method yet further includes extracting a new tag set of tags from the new set of documents and inserting each tag of the new tag set into a different node of the tag tree. Finally, the method includes displaying at least a portion of each of the document tree and tag tree in a user interface displayed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2017
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Dirk Marski, Richard Martinus, Tom Waterton, James Withers
  • Publication number: 20140101121
    Abstract: A method for topic discovery through structural knowledge in an associative document tree building system includes inserting a set of documents into nodes of a document tree, extracting a tag set of tags from the set of documents and inserting each tag into a different node of a tag tree. The method also includes conducting a search engine query using the tags of the extracted tag set to produce a new set of documents and inserting the new set of documents into nodes of the document tree. The method yet further includes extracting a new tag set of tags from the new set of documents and inserting each tag of the new tag set into a different node of the tag tree. Finally, the method includes displaying at least a portion of each of the document tree and tag tree in a user interface displayed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 8, 2012
    Publication date: April 10, 2014
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Dirk Marski, Richard Martinus, Tom Waterton, James Withers