Staff Planning In A Project Environment Patents (Class 705/7.17)
  • Patent number: 11954629
    Abstract: Activation policies for workflows are described. Some implementations support receiving a definition of a workflow, including data defining an input set for the workflow and data defining activities and a flow of the activities for the workflow. The data includes an activation policy for at least a particular activity of the activities. An estimated operational outcome for the workflow and/or each of the activities is determined and displayed. Then data identifying edits to the activation policy are received, and an updated version of the estimated operational outcome for the workflow and/or each of the activities is determined and displayed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Salesforce, Inc.
    Inventors: Peh Keong Teh, Gautam Dharamshi, Jon R. Helms
  • Patent number: 11928636
    Abstract: Systems and methods for identifying, categorizing, reporting, and/or remedying knowledge risks of a workforce. The systems and methods can operate automatically and in real-time. Risks can be identified on a per-skill basis using a plurality of risk factors. Graphical user interfaces can be generated to present knowledge risks across an entire enterprise or portion thereof in easily digestible formats. Upskilling recommendations can be generated based on categorization of knowledge risks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: WELLS FARGO BANK, N.A.
    Inventors: Paul Inkala, Ashif Lalani, Kevin McNeff, Tara Richards
  • Patent number: 11886844
    Abstract: Techniques are described for enabling users of an information technology (IT) and security operations application to create highly reusable custom functions for playbooks. The creation and execution of playbooks using an IT and security operations application generally enables users to automate operations related to an IT environment responsive to the identification of various types of incidents or other triggering conditions. Users can create playbooks to automate operations such as, for example, modifying firewall settings, quarantining devices, restarting servers, etc., to improve users' ability to efficiently respond to various types of incidents operational issues that arise from time to time in IT environments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: Splunk Inc.
    Inventors: Matthew Hanson, Sydney Flak, Colin Fagan, Jeffery Roberts, Govinda Salinas, Philip Royer
  • Patent number: 11880968
    Abstract: A distributed computing system for product defect analysis is disclosed. The distributed computing system for product defect analysis includes a computing cluster for processing product manufacturing messages, a computing cluster for identifying product defect, a product image database, and a client device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Zhaoyue Li, Dong Chai, Yaoping Wang, Meijuan Zhang, Hong Wang
  • Patent number: 11861737
    Abstract: A server computer system receives a dataset of candidate hybrid seeds for planting on one or more target fields, which comprises data regarding one or more hybrid seeds, probability of success values associated with each of the one or more hybrid seeds that describe a probability of a successful yield, and historical agricultural data associated with each of the one or more hybrid seeds further receives one or more properties for one or more target fields, and selects a subset of the one or more hybrid seeds based on the probabilities of success values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: CLIMATE LLC
    Inventors: Jason Kendrick Bull, Timothy Reich, Yao Xie, Xiao Yang, Tonya S. Ehlmann
  • Patent number: 11842034
    Abstract: The invention relates to a dynamic interactive roadmap portal. An embodiment of the present invention is directed to a comprehensive one-stop interactive portal that provides events at a glance by dynamic views (e.g., line of business, region, month, etc.). The innovative system provides rich content including event status, event owners as well as data relating to services, products, engineering and/or other technical information. Real time updates may include certification workflows by and between product/service owners and end user advocates. For example, a user may apply an action to an event such as, share, add to calendar (reminder), follow or subscribe to it to be alerted of any changes. The innovative portal connects interested parties to supplementary documents and other information through easy-to-use linkages.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A.
    Inventor: Donna C. Keefe
  • Patent number: 11836222
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for optimizing a recommendation system, a device and a computer storage medium are described, which relates to the technical field of deep learning and intelligent search in artificial intelligence. A specific implementation solution is: taking the recommendation system as an agent, a user as an environment, each recommended content of the recommendation system as an action of the agent, and a long-term behavioral revenue of the user as a reward of the environment; and optimizing to-be-optimized parameters in the recommendation system by reinforcement learning to maximize the reward of the environment. The present disclosure can effectively optimize long-term behavioral revenues of users.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: BEIJING BAIDU NETCOM SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Lihang Liu, Xiaomin Fang, Fan Wang, Jingzhou He
  • Patent number: 11836655
    Abstract: A device, system and method for mapping and filtering project data, such as construction project criteria, which may have the steps of selecting a map view option from of list of application features; launching a map view in response to selecting the map view; selecting at least one database filter; applying the at least one selected database filter to a system database to generate a list of selected filtered records; and generating a map showing the geographic locations of the selected filtered records. The at least one filter may be selected from at least one of the group of personnel, equipment, project sites and/or offices. The at least one filter can be a personnel filter, filtered by at least one of trade, skill level and/or active status.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: CHRISTMAN CONSTRUCTORS, INC.
    Inventor: Douglas J Peters
  • Patent number: 11822771
    Abstract: Techniques for detecting one or more focus areas of a user and structuring activities and content around the focus area(s) are disclosed. The activities of a user, the people associated with the activities, and/or the content associated with the activities are automatically inferred or detected based on the channels of collaboration associated with the focus area(s). Example channels of collaboration include, but are not limited to, electronic mail, instant messages, documents, and in-person and online meetings. Some or all of the activities, people, and/or content are grouped into one or more focus areas, where a focus area relates to an endeavor in which the user focuses on over a period of time. Some or all of the focus areas are presented to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Torbjørn Helvik, Andreas Eide, Kjetil Krogvig Bergstrand, Lene Christin Rydningen
  • Patent number: 11823133
    Abstract: Presented herein are systems and methods for tracking and verifying software capabilities. A method may include obtaining, by a computer from a reporting database, a set of project requirements associated with a software under development, the set of project requirements replicated from a project database to the reporting database, obtaining, from the reporting database, a set of testing results generated by a test program applied to code of the software under development, the set of testing results replicated from a testing database to the reporting database, extracting, from the reporting database, each project requirement associated with the software under development and each testing result generated for the code of the software under development, the computer extracting each project requirement and each testing result according to a set of mapping pre-configurations, and generating an email message combining the project requirement and the testing result to transmit to a set of recipients.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: CITIBANK, N.A.
    Inventors: Shweta Bammi, Balaji Kobula Madhavan, Robin J. Kurian
  • Patent number: 11782987
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention are directed to managing process analytics across process components. In some embodiments, an indication of a state of a process instance associated with a process is determined by querying a process engine. In accordance with the indication of the state of the process instance, an augmented process model is used to search machine data for data corresponding with at least one component of the process. The data corresponding with the at least one component of the process is associated with a process instance identifier that uniquely identifies the process instance. Thereafter, the data along with the process instance identifier is provided to the process engine to update the state of the process instance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: Splunk Inc.
    Inventors: Alexander Lynn Raitz, Ashwin Mohan Iyer, Pohsin Wang, Ian Matthew Link
  • Patent number: 11762634
    Abstract: Provided are methods and systems for enabling seamless integration between multiple products as a common layer by using a common visual modeler. An example system may include an application server and a common visual modeler. The common visual modeler may include a visual modeling environment for building an application by an end user. The visual modeling environment may include a modeler for creating the application, wherein the modeler comprises at least one component from at least one enterprise software product, the at least one component comprising at least one UI-based modeling tool for creating at least one artifact and a configuration module for managing settings of the at least one component. The common visual modeler may also include a server runtime environment for executing the application, the server runtime environment comprising at least one runtime engine for the at least one artifact created by the modeler.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: ASG Technologies Group, Inc.
    Inventors: Vignesh Swaminathan, Sathish Kumar Thangaraj, Venkatesh Maringanti, Krishnachandiran Ravichandiran, Narayanaswamy Viswanathan
  • Patent number: 11763392
    Abstract: Techniques for gamifying risk management services include associating a financial status of a user with a defensible position display element in a gameplay scenario, receiving risk management data regarding at least one risk management service secured by the user, associating the risk management service with at least one defensive display element in the gameplay scenario, and providing the defensible position display element and each defensive display element to a display to cause the display to visualize the defensible position display element protected by each defensive display element in the gameplay scenario.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: United Services Automobile Association (“USAA”)
    Inventors: Shane C. Osborne, Jaime Fernandez, Jr.
  • Patent number: 11726636
    Abstract: Embodiments include methods and systems for generating a user interface on a mobile device. The method includes instantiating a client application on the mobile device and causing display of a first graphical user interface within the client application. A set of registered users is identified, the set of users having a hierarchical relationship to a first user account associated with the first user. The graphical user interface displays a set of avatar icons, which corresponds to the set of registered users. In response to a selection of a particular avatar icon of the set of avatar icons, the system accesses particular issue state data associated with a particular user account of the particular avatar icon and causing display of a second graphical user interface comprising a first overlay card that includes the particular avatar and at least a portion of the particular issue state data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignees: ATLASSIAN PTY LTD., ATLASSIAN US, INC.
    Inventors: David Wilson, Yann Bodson, Robert Chatfield
  • Patent number: 11704624
    Abstract: The disclosed principles provide for a unique and inventive iterative and interactive project management process implemented for organizations, typically large ones, to manage an overall project being originally implemented or newly created by the organization. Processes in accordance with the disclosed principles are interactive in that they employ the end-user employees of the organization by having those employees both input and update, on periodic cycles, information or data of the same type their positions in the organization allow them to be familiar with, and furthermore employ team-management level review and processing of such information/data, along with one or more supervisors of the overall project, which is/are not required to be part of the organization, to implement and supervise the disclosed process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Inventor: William R. McFarland
  • Patent number: 11676223
    Abstract: Described herein are various techniques for managing media related to a construction project, which may relate to one or more buildings to be built and/or renovated as part of the construction project. In accordance with techniques described herein, the media may be managed according to information regarding the construction project that is stored by one or more other systems separate from a media management system. The other systems may be construction information management systems that each store information regarding a construction project, including information relating to planning and/or execution of the construction project. For example, the media management system may generate tags based on the information regarding the construction project, may be trained to recognize features in the media that relate to the tags, and add the appropriate tags to the media based on the recognized features.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: Oracle America Inc.
    Inventors: Joshua Kanner, Andrew J. Hiser, Sean D. True
  • Patent number: 11671307
    Abstract: Systems, apparatuses, methods, and computer program products are disclosed for managing open issues. An example method includes obtaining a dashboard access request for a portion of open issues managed by the issue management system, the issue management system storing variables associated with each open issue of the open issues; obtaining a dashboard data package based on scores for the portion of open issues, the scores indicating a severity level of the open issues of the portion of open issues and being based on the variables that are stored in the issue management system; and performing an action set using the dashboard data package to manage the portion of open issues.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.
    Inventors: Brian Karp, Damon Antoine Porter, Sarah Krenz, Jody Vandever, Ryan Calef
  • Patent number: 11641404
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer program products. A virtual canvas is presented in an active area of an online meeting facility that renders participant-specific online virtual canvas interactions raised by a respective plurality of users' devices. Users can see and hear each other's interactions during an virtual canvas session. Annotations include drawings, content object edits, voice annotations, etc. that correspond to a displayed portion of a content object of a content management system (CMS). Based on the interactions and/or inferences made based on those interactions, the virtual canvas system generates commands to be executed by the content management system. Characteristics of interactions between users can be enriched by drawing information from the content management system and using such information in combination with the interactions themselves.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2023
    Assignee: Box, Inc.
    Inventors: Rafal Szczepański, Raymond Huie
  • Patent number: 11615424
    Abstract: Methods and systems are disclosed for dynamically conducting messaging campaigns, responsive to customer events. A set of parameters for a messaging campaign includes an initial schedule for providing a set of messages from a set of data objects. Responsive to a customer event associated with a first customer, an adjusted schedule is generated for providing the set of messages to the first customer. The adjusted schedule differs from the initial schedule in a timing for providing at least a first message, where the first message is scheduled to be provided at an adjusted timing proportionate to a time period between the customer event and a first milestone event. The first message is generated from a first data object and transmitted to the first customer, in accordance with the adjusted schedule.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: SHOPIFY INC.
    Inventors: Diana Rebeca Birsan, Philibert Dugas, Carmen Spitz
  • Patent number: 11609926
    Abstract: The embodiments described herein relate to a method and system for social awareness which may be based on social networks for knowledge exchange. More specifically, the embodiments may refer to specific social networks with social elements in the user interface based on knowledge exchange, social theory of group memberships within an enterprise or organization context. In addition, the disclosed group memberships may be predicated upon many different types of relationships. Furthermore, the social network (through a program interface) may provide to users the required specific project resources (project team members), which may be need to develop a better project performance according to the experience and knowledge of the new members. The required project team members may match with the attributes and criteria established during the project planning.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignee: MASSACHUSETTS MUTUAL LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY
    Inventors: Gopika Kannan, Jennifer Fabrizi, Robert Polkowski
  • Patent number: 11593739
    Abstract: Regardless of the production method applied, it is possible for a user to estimate a factor that causes trouble in one of the resources belonging to a resource type. A supporting system refers to management information indicating a production past record of the production system, and displays an overlay chart in which a diagram chart is relatively superimposed on a Gantt chart. The Gantt chart is a chart for a first resource type and has a resource axis and a time axis. The diagram chart is for a second resource type. In the overlay chart, a polygonal line connecting a plurality of points corresponding to a second resource, belonging to the second resource type, is on the Gantt chart, and each point is plotted at a position corresponding to an execution time of a step and a first resource, belonging to the first resource type, related to the step.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: Kenichirou Kawakami, Shigeyasu Kubo, Kazuhiro Matsuya, Yusuke Yajima
  • Patent number: 11507908
    Abstract: A system for value prediction for dynamic performance optimization includes a project value predictor that receives a Key Performance Indicator (KPI) and an initiative relating to an active project having a closure date. The KPI is associated with a KPI period including multiple intervals. The project value predictor operates to identify a relevant cluster of KPIs for the KPI based on historical data, forecast a future value of the KPI based on attributes/features of the KPI relative to the closure date, predict a possibility of failure of the KPI using a trained data model to pre-classify the KPI, categorize the KPI based on the future value or the pre-classification, where the KPI is categorized as failure based on the future value being less than a target KPI value after the KPI period and added to list for retraining the model based on the categorization. The system also leads to the identification and subsequent validation of Initiatives that impact the KPIs with quantification of the level of impact.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: ACCENTURE GLOBAL SOLUTIONS LIMITED
    Inventors: Sandeep Singh, Ankur Chaudhary, Ravi Alok Sinha, Anil Vohra, Deepa Yendigeri, Kartik Ganesh Nagrajan
  • Patent number: 11507739
    Abstract: A system and a method are provided for collaborative data entry and integration. An operation performed by the system and the method include causing a collaborative interface for input to a spreadsheet to be provided via a user interface, receiving a data entry to the spreadsheet via the collaborative interface, validating the received data entry based on one or more validity rules associated with the spreadsheet, capturing a snapshot of the spreadsheet including the validated data entry, and causing at least the validated data entry of the spreadsheet to be integrated into datasets for one or more applications, at least based on the captured snapshot of the spreadsheet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: Palantir Technologies Inc.
    Inventors: Timothy Yousaf, Jeffrey Martin, Jasmine Peterson, Julie Tibshirani, Kevin Ng, Rhys Brett-Bowen, Yichen Xing
  • Patent number: 11494799
    Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure support a server that supports a method for action tracking and deeds between multiple parties using a blockchain. The method may include providing a marketplace for projects, receiving a selection of a project, deploying a smart contract, determining a funding amount is transmitted to the smart contract, and activating a monitoring service. The monitoring service may monitor a data feed of an external system to determine whether a triggering action is performed. The data feed may include data corresponding to actions performed on the external system by a plurality of user identifiers in association with the sponsor. The method may further include causing a funding release action to be executed by the smart contract in accordance with the triggering action being performed, such that at least a portion of the funding amount to the sponsor, a provider for the project, or both.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Inventor: William C. Rehm
  • Patent number: 11488108
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are methods, systems, and processes to optimize peer to peer collaborative support in enterprise computing environments. A search request including a query directed to an organizational chart is received from a user computing device. The organizational chart includes knowledge profiles and peer to peer references associated with peer computing devices. A peer list including one or more peer computing devices is generated using a best-first search methodology and sent to the user computing device. One or more knowledge profiles and one or more peer references associated with one or more peer computing devices are updated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Sathish Kumar Bikumala, Neha Wadhwani
  • Patent number: 11481427
    Abstract: Systems and methods for providing a scalable graphical user interface. In an embodiment, the user interface comprises a main display area that includes a timeline across a first axis and a set of content (e.g., media and/or applications) categories along a second axis that is orthogonal to the first axis, such that each content category is associated with a row or column across the timeline. As each content is created or consumed, the timeline is populated with a selectable representation of the content in the row or column associated with the content category corresponding to the content at a point on the timeline representing a time at which the content was created or consumed, such that the content is accessible to a user via the representation of the content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: STREAM IT, INC.
    Inventor: Lance M. King
  • Patent number: 11463446
    Abstract: The present technology can provide a mechanism for providing a team member transfer interface to an administrator user for transferring team member user accounts from one team to another and also a mechanism for transferring the team member user accounts, such as by switching an assignment of one or more user accounts from a first team to another in a single atomic action. The transferring of the team member user accounts may also depend on passing a set of validation checks that check for inconsistencies that could cause an error in the transfer, and also updating access and privileges associated with being members of certain teams.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: Dropbox, Inc.
    Inventors: Mark Gilbert, Lucia Zhang, Chloe Fan, Niklas Nordlof
  • Patent number: 11455190
    Abstract: An apparatus includes a processor to: within a performance container, execute a performance routine to derive an order of performance of tasks of a job flow based on dependencies, begin performing the tasks, and store, within a job queue, a job performance status indication including task performance statuses; identify a set of sub flows within the job flow based on branches in the job flow; correlate each of the task performance statuses to a corresponding sub flow performance status; reduce the job performance status indication size by, for each sub flow in which all tasks have been completed, replace the corresponding task performance statuses with the corresponding sub flow performance status of completed, and for each sub flow with no task performed, replace the corresponding task performance statuses with the corresponding sub flow performance status of not executed; and transmit the job performance status indication to the requesting device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignee: SAS INSTITUTE INC.
    Inventors: Henry Gabriel Victor Bequet, Ronald Earl Stogner, Eric Jian Yang, Qing Gong
  • Patent number: 11455602
    Abstract: Disclosed are systems and methods for performing efficient job applicant screening In particular, a network-based system is established for gathering applicant information from an applicant remotely. Analysis of the received information is performed and evaluated pursuant to a first level of screening that can be done without excessive use of resources. Upon passing the first level screening, background checks and/or interviews, which require substantial resources, are further conducted. Applicants who pass the first level of screening are scheduled for interviews, including the optional initiation of personal interviews via video chat.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignee: LIFEWORX, INC.
    Inventor: Bal Agrawal
  • Patent number: 11440490
    Abstract: Systems and methods for controlling autonomous vehicles are provided. In one example embodiment, a computing system can obtain data indicative of a service assignment associated with an autonomous vehicle. The service assignment is indicative of a destination location. The computing system can determine a checklist associated with the destination location. The computing system can provide, for display via a display device, data indicative of a user interface. The user interface can present the checklist associated with the destination location. The computing system can obtain data indicative of user input associated with the checklist. The computing system can determine that the checklist has been completed based at least in part on the user input associated with the checklist. The computing system can, in response to determining that the checklist has been completed, cause the autonomous vehicle to initiate a motion control to travel to the destination location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: UATC, LLC
    Inventors: Min Kyu Park, Christopher Matthew D'Eramo
  • Patent number: 11436621
    Abstract: A non-transitory computer-readable medium includes instructions that when executed by a processor cause the processor to perform a method for selecting available assignments, the method including: receiving an indication of an external assignment, wherein the external assignment is associated with one or more locations external to a plurality of retail stores; based on the indication of the external assignment, selecting a retail store among the plurality of retail stores; based on the selected retail store, selecting at least one available assignment in the selected retail store; and offering the selected at least one available assignment in the selected retail store to a user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: Trax Technology Solutions Pte Ltd.
    Inventors: Youval Bronicki, James Simon Slavet
  • Patent number: 11423346
    Abstract: A system and method of generating a plurality of actionable insights is disclosed herein. A computing system retrieves data corresponding to a work procedure. Each work procedure includes a plurality of steps. The computing system generates a predictive model for each actionable insight using a plurality of machine learning models by generating an input training based on the retrieved work procedure data and learning, by the plurality machine learning models, a metric corresponding to each actionable insight based on each respective input training set. The input data set for each actionable insight includes actionable insight specific information. The computing system receives a request to generate a plurality of actionable insights for a current work procedure. The computing system generates, via the predictive models, a plurality of metrics for a plurality of actionable insights based on data corresponding to the current work procedure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: Augmentir, Inc.
    Inventors: Russell Fadel, Philip J. Huber, John Canosa, Lawrence Fan, Mustafa Onur Kabul
  • Patent number: 11402217
    Abstract: A system for use in a facility area including reservable spaces and common spaces and comprising a database storing space information, space map data and space scheduling information and including a user interface display screen mounted in a common space, a user location sensor and a processor linked to the databases and programmed to receive sensor signals and determine when a user is located within the sensing zone, the processor further programmed to generate and present a graphical facility area map representation of the facility area on the display screen and, upon detecting a user within the sensing zone, automatically identifying a destination space within the zone that the user likely intends to travel to and presenting an indication of the space on the graphical map indicating the location of the destination space within the facility.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: Steelcase Inc.
    Inventors: Robert Scheper, Darrin Sculley
  • Patent number: 11392866
    Abstract: Devices, systems and processes are described, for managing technician logistics. A process may include executing computer instruction for determining an estimated time of completion (ETC) for an assigned technician for a current task at a current service site. The ETC is determined based upon an average statistical time for task completion (ASTTC) for the current task. An ETC is based upon a stress differential (S) and a task complexity coefficient (TCC). The stress differential (S) is a difference between an expected stress level (SE) for the current task and a present stress level (SP) for the assigned technician. The SP is based upon data provided by a technician monitor, such as a biometric monitor. The stress differential (S) is weighted by a technician specific weighting factor (Tn), which is based on a technician rating. The TCC is based upon a task categorization (TC) specified by a regulatory body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: DISH Ukraine L.L.C.
    Inventor: Oleksii Suranov
  • Patent number: 11373125
    Abstract: An energy-saving dynamic production scheduling operation method for a parallel heat treatment process which handle processes in parallel is provided. The energy-saving dynamic production scheduling operation method includes: acquiring, by a production scheduling operation system, dynamic state information of a process of each processor; scheduling, by the production scheduling operation system, the process of each processor based on the dynamic state information; and deriving, by the production scheduling operation system, an estimated cost based on a result of generating a schedule regarding the process of each processor. Accordingly, an input sequence of heat treatment target products and a combination schedule can be optimized by reflecting dynamic state information (a product inputted to a corresponding heat treatment furnace, estimated heat treatment start and end times, cooling and heating states, etc.) of a plurality of heat treatment furnace which handle processes in parallel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: KOREA ELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Yong Kuk Park, Min Goo Lee
  • Patent number: 11360792
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a method and a system for automatic selection of process automation Robotic Process Automation (RPA) tool and BOT. The method comprising receiving input data associated with a process to be executed, selecting an RPA tool from a plurality of RPA tools for process execution based on the input data and historical process data, wherein the selection is performed by calculating information gain for each parameter of the input data and computing probability for each type of RPA tool based on the information gain and the historical process data, identifying one or more BOTs from a plurality of BOTs based on the selected RPA tool, historical BOT data and the input data for the process execution, and executing the identified one or more BOTs on one or more devices based on selection of the one or more devices from available plurality of devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: Wipro Limited
    Inventors: Gopinath Chenguttuvan, Swamynathan Ramalingam
  • Patent number: 11341021
    Abstract: Systems and methods directed to generating a predicted quality metric are provided. Telemetry data may be received from a from a first group of devices executing first software. A quality metric for the first software may be generated based on the first telemetry data. Telemetry data from a second group of devices may be received, where the second group of devices is different from the first group of devices. Covariates impacting the quality metric based on features included in the first telemetry data and the second telemetry data may be identified, and a coarsened exact matching process may be performed utilizing the identified covariates to generate a predicted quality metric for the first software based on the second group of devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Connie Qin Yang, Matthew Scott Rosoff, Nithin Adapa, Logan Ringer, Steve Ku Lim, Xiaoyu Chai
  • Patent number: 11288613
    Abstract: Methods and systems for evaluating entities involved in a construction project. One system includes a server that has access to a plurality of events associated with a construction project, including completion events and accounting events. The server communicates with a computing device over a network connection and includes a processing unit. The processing unit is configured to receive a triggering event selected by a first entity and automatically identify when the plurality of events includes the selected triggering event. When the selected triggering event is included in the plurality of events, the processing unit is configured to automatically prompt a user to complete an evaluation for a second entity, receive the completed evaluation from the user, and make an aggregation of the completed evaluation available to the first entity, the second entity, and a third entity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: TEXTURA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jason Barnes, Mateen Khadir, Franco Turrinelli
  • Patent number: 11270352
    Abstract: The embodiments disclose a method, including gathering marketing data using a digital launch platform with artificial intelligence for automatically analyzing marketing data gathered and automatically creating a marketing program for launching a new product, using application programming interface systems on the digital launch platform for interfacing across multiple social media platforms for reaching consumers regardless of their user digital device type and operating system, using at least one digital launch platform user interface for consumer/end user ordering and purchasing the new product, and delivering the new product order to the end user customer using secure delivery methods and devices electronically coupled to the digital launch platform including launch platform delivery lockers with delivery package label barcode scanning activated pass code key pads, drone captured video of home and office deliveries or mobile dispensary customer GPS location deliveries or mobile dispensary customer GPS locat
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Inventors: Ronald Williams, Edmond DeFrank, Carl Michael Arnsby, Jr., Russell Todd Johnson
  • Patent number: 11227225
    Abstract: A method for generating a project saturation model for one or more projects is provided. Historical project data is analyzed to define a plurality of project change factors for one or more proposed projects. A plurality of scoring values associated with the plurality of project change factors is received for each of the one or more proposed projects. One or more saturation model components are generated based on the historical project data and based on the received plurality of scoring values for each of the proposed projects. A saturation model is generated by combining the saturation model components for each of the proposed projects. The saturation model identifies risks associated with a corresponding project.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2022
    Assignee: United Services Automobile Association (“USAA”)
    Inventors: Joseph R. Tegtmeyer, Russell E. Williams
  • Patent number: 11216567
    Abstract: Systems, methods and computer-readable media having computer-executable instructions embodied thereon, for automated configuration, implementation and/or maintenance of a healthcare information system are provided. The systems, methods and computer-readable media of embodiments described herein utilize a number of information sources prior to initiation of configuration, implementation and/or maintenance to tailor or flex the process in a manner that is facility- and/or personnel-specific, thus alleviating solicitation of unnecessary information. Such information sources may include, by way of example only, one or more of facility- and/or personnel-specific content, facility and personnel profiles, site profiles, help and knowledge assistance information, and pre-configured content options.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: CERNER INNOVATION, INC.
    Inventors: Jennifer L. Besch, Theresa M. Wavada, Megan Barbre, Sara J. Charlson
  • Patent number: 11188060
    Abstract: Various embodiments of the present technology provide an integrated platform that provides optimization tools that can be used across multiple lifecycle phases of an industrial automation system. In accordance with various embodiments, the integrated platform can take specified designs in a presale phase and easily open up that information in a corresponding tool to address needs in the post-sale phase to allow for all device commissioning, programming, and configuration without any importing, exporting, or recreation of presale files. Various embodiments use a common, cross-platform data file that links activity within each lifecycle phase. As such, any layouts or designs can be easily opened up within the platform by users with differing roles. Moreover, if in the post-sale phase, a control engineer decides that a specific aspect of control system was left out, the control engineer can summon the capability of the presale phase to expand the system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: Rockwell Automation Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Barry M. Jereb, Peter Baron, Brian Dipert, Jessica M. Truong, Jessica L. Korpela, Amit R. Sathe, Eric Rehl, Tracy L. Swartzendruber, Kyle K. Reissner
  • Patent number: 11153228
    Abstract: An example controller device that manages a plurality of network devices includes one or more processors implemented in circuitry and configured to: determine that configuration of one or more network devices of the plurality of network devices is to be updated; determine dependencies between types of resources provided by the network devices; construct a directed acyclic graph (DAG) representing the dependencies, the DAG having nodes representing the corresponding types of resources of the network devices of the plurality of network devices; sort the nodes of the DAG according to a grouped topological sort into a plurality of hierarchical levels according to the dependencies; and submit queries for two or more resources of the network devices at a common level of the plurality of hierarchical levels in parallel to determine resources of the determined types of resources of the two or more resources to configure the two or more network devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: JUNIPER NETWORKS, INC.
    Inventors: Vijaya Kumar Hosamani, Vinaya Kumar Kathireddy, Adithya Shasa Sai Seerapu
  • Patent number: 11120376
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is an improved software application that enables users to create and manage a customized WBS that can be applied to a specific project. For instance, in one aspect, the disclosed process may involve three primary phases: (1) a first phase that involves defining an organization-level WBS comprising a first set of customized, multi-dimensional WBS codes that serve as a starting point for the WBS codes to use for projects being handled by the organization, (2) a second phase that involves defining a project-level WBS comprising a second set of customized, multi-dimensional WBS codes to use for a particular project being handled by the organization, and (3) a third phase that involves using the defined project-level WBS to manage certain aspects of the particular project, such as budgeting for the particular project.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignee: Procore Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Connor McCormick, Adam Wells, Magnus Palm, Mike Le, James Solum, Danielle Sandoval, Brian Field
  • Patent number: 11093875
    Abstract: A project analysis and recommendation system having a user interface configured to receive user input regarding a project and various project parameters; one or more sets of computer instructions, a user skill database, and a candidate skill database; and a processor configured to implement the one or more sets of computer instructions from the non-transitory computer readable medium. The processor configured to perform the following tasks: analyze the user skill database; determine a match between the plurality of necessary competencies and one or more user profiles; analyze the candidate skill database; determine a match between the plurality of necessary competencies and one or more potential candidate profiles; and generate a user recommendation relating to an internal assignment of the project, user training, an external assignment of the project, or an external candidate hire.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Assignee: 4D Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: James Hancock, Jared Germano, David Micciche, Matthew Murphy, Daniel Dolan
  • Patent number: 11088985
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a post corresponding to a civic issue on a civic-issues platform of an online social network associated with a first municipality from a client system of a first user of the online social network, where the first user is connected to the first municipality within the online social network, determining a classification of the post based on a comparison of the post with one or more classification-keywords stored in a public-agency database, assigning the post to a first agency of the first municipality based on the determined classification of the post and a location associated with the civic issue, receiving a request to update the post on the civic-issues platform, the request describing a current status of the civic issue, and updating the post on the civic-issues platform to indicate the current status of the civic issue.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventor: Amod Ashok Dange
  • Patent number: 11086640
    Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure involve receiving references to application data of applications hosted by the servers. The application data includes information defining an interface of the application (e.g., a set of interface elements), and data types associated with the application. As a part of the process for generating a composite graphical user interface (GUI), the composite interface system receives references to application data of one or more applications at various memory locations (e.g., at both local and third-party servers). In this way, the composite interface system accesses the application data of any referenced application in order to retrieve application data to configure a composite GUI which includes interface elements of each of the referenced application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignee: Palantir Technologies Inc.
    Inventors: Mark Elliot, Brian Schimpf, Timothy Slatcher, Ashwin Ramaswamy
  • Patent number: 11023530
    Abstract: Systems and methods for prioritizing interview questions, including predicting answers to questions in a candidate question set using a neural network model, and generating a ranking for each of the questions in the candidate question set by determining answer confidence, completeness, and ambiguity for each of the answers, and incorporating user preferences using a personalized preference matrix. A top ranked question is automatically selected and presented to the user, and the personalized preference matrix is iteratively adjusted for subsequent ranking of questions based on an answer to the top ranked question by the user to reduce computational resources expended.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Li Jun Mei, Jie Ma, Ya Bin Dang, Jinho Hwang, Chen Lin, John Rofrano, Anup Kalia, Maja Vukovic
  • Patent number: 10997535
    Abstract: A system, method, and computer program product are provided for predicting delays in delivering a project to a customer. In operation, a system identifies one or more go-live milestones associated with a software project. The system receives information from a plurality of project management systems that are managing a governance process of the software project. The system determines whether there are any potential delays and associated magnitudes in accomplishing the one or more go-live milestones based on the information by utilizing a machine learning algorithm that implements a first analytic layer that analyzes static variables and a second analytic layer that analyzes dynamic variables. The system correlates and combines results from the first analytic layer and the second analytic layer upon every upload of new information. The system outputs information associated with any determined potential delays in accomplishing the one or more go-live milestones.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Assignee: AMDOCS DEVELOPMENT LIMITED
    Inventors: Yuval Balak, Suha Bshara, Qays Abou Housien, Shalom Weiss
  • Patent number: 10992174
    Abstract: A monitoring control system including: at least one transmission monitoring control subsystem that performs monitoring control of a power transmission system; at least one distribution monitoring control subsystem that performs monitoring control of a power distribution system; a calculation server that stores outage plan names related to outages of the power transmission system and outages of the power distribution system; and a network that connects the transmission monitoring control subsystem, the distribution monitoring control subsystem, and the calculation server. The monitoring control system performs monitoring control of the power transmission system and the power distribution system based on the outage plan name.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2021
    Assignees: Toshiba Energy Systems & Solutions Corporation, Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings, Incorporated
    Inventors: Hiroaki Fujiura, Masami Onishi, Hirofumi Fujii, Hiroaki Sato, Koichi Takeuchi, Junya Yamamoto, Takashi Eguchi, Tomohiro Kubo, Masanori Endo, Kenji Kitami, Takaaki Hosaka, Jun Inoue