Patents Assigned to Metrics, Inc.
  • Patent number: 10530877
    Abstract: A method and system for measuring and analyzing in vehicle media consumption and user interaction with a vehicle through an in vehicle entertainment system located in the vehicle. The in vehicle entertainment system receives media content. The method and system monitors both the media content and user interaction with the vehicle with content and interaction measurement software stored in the storage of the head unit of the vehicle as a module on the in vehicle entertainment system. The content measurement software directly records data relative to the media content being played or user interaction, in real time, as a data set and transmits the data set relative to the media content being played and user interaction to at least one immutable distributed ledger. The data set includes at least the local time of the start of the media content or the user interaction and is hashed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2020
    Assignee: Drive Time Metrics, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert J. Maccini, Roderick MacKenzie, Joseph V. Gallagher, Rafael Saavedra, Peter Williams
  • Patent number: 10523772
    Abstract: The invention provides a novel and unique system and method for cross channel in-vehicle media consumption measurement and analysis. Real-time measurement and analysis of all applicable forms of media that a driver or passenger may consume inside of an automobile can be achieved. This includes stored media such as DVDs, streaming media, internet video (including OTT programming), broadcast television utilizing ATSC 3.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2019
    Assignee: Drive Time Metrics, Inc.
    Inventors: Roderick MacKenzie, Robert J. Maccini, Joseph V. Gallagher
  • Patent number: 10523351
    Abstract: The invention provides a novel and unique system and method for cross channel in-vehicle identification of media, source, and advertisement consumption measurement and analysis. Real-time measurement and analysis of all applicable forms of media that a driver or passenger may consume inside of an automobile can be achieved. This includes real time measurement and analysis of advertisement effectiveness for a large number of users across a specified region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2019
    Assignee: Drive Time Metrics, Inc.
    Inventors: Roderick MacKenzie, Robert J. Maccini, Joseph V. Gallagher
  • Patent number: 10510521
    Abstract: This invention relates to graphical user-interactive analysis of data, including in particular, mass spectrographic data analysis, as well as methods and software for generating and using such. One aspect provides user-customizable reports, including methods and apparatuses for generating customizable pivot tables and graphs specific to mass spectrographic data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2019
    Assignee: Protein Metrics Inc.
    Inventors: Yong Joo Kil, Eric Carlson
  • Publication number: 20190332612
    Abstract: A method includes acquiring application data for applications. The application data specifies an application category and includes application words that describe the application. The method includes determining, for each application word, a global fraction value that indicates the fraction of applications with the application word, a category fraction value that indicates the fraction of applications in the category with the application word, and a ratio value that indicates the ratio of the category fraction value to the global fraction value. The method includes classifying application words as categorical words when the ratio value is greater than a ratio threshold. The method includes identifying similar applications and setting categorical words as categorical search keywords for applications when the categorical words are in greater than a threshold number of similar applications.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2019
    Publication date: October 31, 2019
    Applicant: Branch Metrics, Inc.
    Inventors: Eric J. Glover, Jyotsna Jayaraman
  • Publication number: 20190317941
    Abstract: A user device includes a processing unit that executes a search application. Executing the search application causes the processing unit to receive a user search query, send the user search query to a plurality of target applications, and receive a set of search results from each of the target applications. Each search result includes application state access data configured to access an application state of the target application associated with the search result. Executing the search application causes the processing unit to rank the search results, display the ranked search results, and detect user selection of one of the displayed search results. Additionally, executing the search application causes the processing unit to send the application state access data associated with the selected search result to the target application associated with the selected search result and display the application state accessed using the application state access data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 16, 2019
    Publication date: October 17, 2019
    Applicant: Branch Metrics, Inc.
    Inventors: Sojan Ponthanplavil Razallian, Eric J. Glover, Alexander Austin, Kan Yu
  • Patent number: 10441469
    Abstract: An apparatus and a method of making a corded earplug, including a flexible cord material having a particular cross-section. An earplug having a nose portion for insertion into the ear and a handle portion extending from the nose portion and lying outside of the ear when the nose portion is inserted into the ear. The handle portion including at least two openings physically displaced from each other. At least one of the openings extends within the handle portion and with at least one of the openings having a cross-section different than the cross-section of the cord material. An end portion of the flexible cord material is inserted into the at least one opening extending within the handle portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: MOLDEX-METRIC, INC.
    Inventors: Mark Magidson, Crest Turdjian, Fred Ryan
  • Publication number: 20190312941
    Abstract: A method and system for measuring and analyzing in vehicle media consumption and user interaction with a vehicle through an in vehicle entertainment system located in the vehicle. The in vehicle entertainment system receives media content. The method and system monitors both the media content and user interaction with the vehicle with content and interaction measurement software stored in the storage of the head unit of the vehicle as a module on the in vehicle entertainment system. The content measurement software directly records data relative to the media content being played or user interaction, in real time, as a data set and transmits the data set relative to the media content being played and user interaction to at least one immutable distributed ledger. The data set includes at least the local time of the start of the media content or the user interaction and is hashed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 23, 2019
    Publication date: October 10, 2019
    Applicant: Drive Time Metrics, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert J. Maccini, Roderick MacKenzie, Joseph V. Gallagher, Rafael Saavedra, Peter Williams
  • Publication number: 20190266197
    Abstract: When different client devices request the same document, most of content of the response from the server (i.e. the response document from a web server) will be the same. Embodiments allow the client devices to use fingerprints, i.e. hashes, sent by a capture system to pinpoint only the changing portions of the document instead of sending the entire document. In various embodiments, the client compares client-generated fingerprints for the document with capture system-generated fingerprints for most likely appearing portions of text of the document or related documents to fully represent and sends to the capture system the client document in a compact and efficient way.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 13, 2019
    Publication date: August 29, 2019
    Applicant: Quantum Metric, Inc.
    Inventors: Mario Luciano Ciabarra, JR., Yiduo Wang
  • Publication number: 20190260818
    Abstract: Techniques are described herein for identifying issues related to digital interactions. For example, a detection system may be provided to analyze suspect sessions to determine if one or more stages associated with the suspect sessions are underperforming compared to corresponding stages associated with similar sessions. The detection system may provide a user interface that allows a user to select one or more attributes that may be associated with one or more sessions. Selection of the one or more attributes may identify multiple sessions (referred to as suspect sessions herein). The one or more suspect sessions may be analyzed to determine whether one or more stages associated with the one or more suspect sessions are underperforming compared to corresponding stages associated with one or more other sessions determined to be similar to the one or more suspect sessions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2019
    Publication date: August 22, 2019
    Applicant: Quantum Metric, Inc.
    Inventor: Mario Luciano Ciabarra, JR.
  • Publication number: 20190253503
    Abstract: A method includes receiving a user ID for a user device and entity identification data that indicates an entity. The method includes identifying first and second action links using the entity identification data. The first and second action links are configured to cause the user device to access first and second application states associated with the entity. The first and second action links are associated with first and second action IDs that indicate functionality of the first and second application states. The method includes determining first and second usage values using the user ID. The first and second usage values indicate a number of times the user device accessed application states associated with the first and second action IDs. The method includes scoring the action links based on the first and second usage values, selecting one of the action links based on the scores, and transmitting the selected action link.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2019
    Publication date: August 15, 2019
    Applicant: Branch Metrics, Inc.
    Inventors: Alexander Austin, Eric J. Glover, Vishwa Ranjan, Augustus Hong, Zeesha Currimbhoy, John Saleigh
  • Patent number: 10354421
    Abstract: Methods and apparatuses for the analysis of mass spectroscopic (MS) data as well as ultraviolet (UV) absorption data. In particular, described herein are tools and methods to assist in generating annotated peptide maps from a raw MS data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2019
    Assignee: Protein Metrics Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher Becker, Marshall Bern, Nicholas Bern, Yong Joo Kil, Richard Seipert, Michael Taejong Kim
  • Patent number: 10319573
    Abstract: Methods and apparatuses for the identification and/or characterization of properties of a sample using mass spectrometry. The method involves using a measured spectrum of data from a sample taken with a mass spectrometer, deconvoluting the measured spectrum of data by applying parsimony weighting to minimize the number of charge states based on one or more of: the number of intense peaks in the mass spectrum; the number of harmonic relationships (e.g., masses in small integer ratios); and the number of off-by-one relationships (e.g., m/z bins with high probability for two adjacent charges). Thus, the underlying m/z spectrum may be inferred from the family of plausible deconvoluted spectra determined by applying parsimony and the inferred m/z spectrum may be used to identify and/or characterize the sample.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2019
    Assignee: Protein Metrics Inc.
    Inventor: Marshall Bern
  • Publication number: 20190158614
    Abstract: The invention provides a novel and unique system and method for cross channel in-vehicle media consumption measurement and analysis. Real-time measurement and analysis of all applicable forms of media that a driver or passenger may consume inside of an automobile can be achieved. This includes stored media such as DVDs, streaming media, internet video (including OTT programming), broadcast television utilizing ATSC 3.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2019
    Publication date: May 23, 2019
    Applicant: Drive Time Metrics, Inc.
    Inventors: Roderick MacKenzie, Robert J. Maccini, Joseph V. Gallagher
  • Patent number: 10290227
    Abstract: In a system for monitoring and assessing subject response to programmed physical training, a client application provides an intake form, into which subject information, such as contact information, demographics and history may be entered. At least part of the subject information may be stored in a central repository for aggregation with other subject data, for analysis and reporting. Parameterized descriptions of exercises produce a binary string for each exercise, the resulting in a binary map of an entire exercise system, such as the PILATES system. Using a digital session planner, a practitioner selects from filtered lists of exercises to generate a customized exercise sequence for a subject. After the training session, the binary strings for the session are aggregated and a summary of the session displayed for user and/or practitioner. Session data may be uploaded to the repository for aggregation with data from other subjects/session for analysis and reporting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2019
    Assignee: PILATES METRICS, INC.
    Inventor: Joseph R. Quinn
  • Publication number: 20190074920
    Abstract: The invention provides a novel and unique system and method for cross channel in-vehicle identification of media, source, and advertisement consumption measurement and analysis. Real-time measurement and analysis of all applicable forms of media that a driver or passenger may consume inside of an automobile can be achieved. This includes real time measurement and analysis of advertisement effectiveness for a large number of users across a specified region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 5, 2018
    Publication date: March 7, 2019
    Applicant: Drive Time Metrics, Inc.
    Inventors: Roderick MacKenzie, Robert J. Maccini, Joseph V. Gallagher
  • Patent number: 10199206
    Abstract: This invention relates to graphical user-interactive displays for use in MS-based analysis of protein impurities, as well as methods and software for generating and using such. One aspect provides a user-interactive display comprising an extracted mass chromatogram (XIC), an MS1 spectrum and an MS2 spectrum, all simultaneously representing a user-selected peptide. Another aspect provides a user interactive display simultaneously presenting paired spectra (XIC, MS1 and/or MS2) for a variant peptide and its corresponding wildtype counterpart.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2019
    Assignee: Protein Metrics Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher Becker, Marshall Bern, Yong Joo Kil, Michael Taejong Kim, Boyan Zhang
  • Patent number: 10182324
    Abstract: A client device transmits to a server a request associated with a contextual deep link, the contextual deep link associated with link data indicating a configuration of an application. The client device receives a response according to the contextual information of the client device. The client device initiates the application and transmits a request by the application for link data. The application on the client device generates a unique fingerprint of the client device based on a plurality of characteristics of the client device and transmits the unique fingerprint to the server. The client device receives the link data associated with the contextual deep link and configures the application according to the configuration indicated in the link data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2019
    Assignee: BRANCH METRICS, INC.
    Inventors: Michael Charles Molinet, Maria Madalina Seghete, Alexander John Austin, Dmitri Gaskin
  • Patent number: 10165070
    Abstract: The invention provides a novel and unique system and method for cross channel in-vehicle identification of media, source and, consumption measurement and analysis. Real-time measurement and analysis of all applicable forms of media that a driver or passenger may consume inside of an automobile can be achieved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2018
    Assignee: Drive Time Metrics, Inc.
    Inventors: Roderick MacKenzie, Michelle Avary, Robert J. Maccini, Joseph V. Gallagher
  • Publication number: 20180357215
    Abstract: A method includes receiving a request from a user device accessing a webpage, the request including a webpage uniform resource locator (URL) and a user device identifier. The method includes retrieving a list of events associated with the user device based on the device identifier. The method further includes retrieving sets of rules. Each set of rules indicates events and URLs that satisfy the set of rules. Each set of rules is associated with a template that includes link rendering data for rendering a link on the user device. The method includes identifying a set of rules that is satisfied by the received URL and events, transmitting link rendering data associated with the identified set of rules to the user device, and transmitting link routing data to the user device. The link routing data is configured to route the user device to an application state corresponding to the webpage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 8, 2018
    Publication date: December 13, 2018
    Applicant: Branch Metrics, Inc.
    Inventors: Alexander Austin, William Lindemann, Cheng-chao Yang, Eric J. Glover, Dmitri Gaskin, Kan Yu, Sofus Macskassy