Patents Assigned to Metrics, Inc.
  • Publication number: 20200134671
    Abstract: A method for reporting in vehicle media consumption and user interaction with a vehicle. The method including receiving raw data of media and vehicle usage of a vehicle by a platform device, the platform device including storage, operation controls, a microprocessor, a memory component, I/O inputs and outputs and an operating system installed and running thereon; processing the raw data to remove at least one obfuscation function to anonymize at least a portion of a personally identifiable information; and producing a report with the processed raw data relating to the user interaction vehicle and the media content.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2019
    Publication date: April 30, 2020
    Applicant: Drive Time Metrics, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert J. Maccini, Roderick MacKenzie, Joseph V. Gallagher, Rafael Saavedra, Peter Williams, Robert M Favre
  • Publication number: 20200121507
    Abstract: A foam earplug for reception at least partially within the ear canal and including a body portion formed of resilient foam plastic material having a multiple open cell structure and having a size and shape for at least partial reception within the ear canal. A transdermal material having a particular beneficial action, and with an outer layer of the foam earplug infused with the transdermal material so that the benefits of the transdermal material is in transdermal contact with the ear canal. One example is a humectant material and, specifically, a moisturizer/lubricating material, for providing an increase to the lubrication and moisturizing in the ear canal. A second example is where the beneficial action is provided by systemic distribution such as a sleep aid, i.e., Melatonin, so that, when the earplugs are worn during sleep, the earplugs will provide a sleep aid to the wearer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2018
    Publication date: April 23, 2020
    Applicant: MOLDEX-METRIC, INC.
    Inventors: MARK MAGIDSON, James Hornstein, Fred Ryan
  • Patent number: 10616736
    Abstract: A contextual deep linking server receives a request associated with a valid contextual deep link from a client device, the contextual deep link associated with link data indicating a particular configuration of an application. The server also receives, after determining that the client device has stored a previously generated fingerprint, stored contextual information for the client device identified by a locally stored fingerprint that matches the previously generated fingerprint. The server then generates, after determining that the client device does not have the previously generated fingerprint, a unique fingerprint of the client device based on a plurality of characteristics of the client device and determining contextual information of the request based on a characteristic of the client device. The server also transmits a response to the client device that is selected based on the contextual information of the client device such that the response is operable on the client device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2020
    Assignee: Branch Metrics, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Charles Molinet, Maria Madalina Seghete, Alexander John Austin, Dmitri Gaskin
  • Patent number: 10592587
    Abstract: Techniques are disclosed for capturing, storing, and regenerating a view of content in applications (e.g., native applications) on devices (e.g., a mobile device). In at least one embodiment, a capture management system is disclosed that produce compact data storage of views of content in an application on a device and the efficient search thereof of views of content provided in the application. The views of content can be translated into a transportable data layer, such as HTML, and captured using delta encoding to identify changes and modifications in content accessed in any application at a device. A capture management system can accurately and efficiently capture events displayed for an application at a device and send the events to a server-side system, which can combine the events to reassemble the events. For example, user interface and user interaction events on an application at a mobile device can be reassembled for the purpose of playback and analysis of interactions with the application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: Quantum Metric, Inc.
    Inventors: Mario Luciano Ciabarra, Jr., Joseph Eric Pastuer
  • Publication number: 20200081930
    Abstract: A method includes storing entity records that include entity information that describes an entity and an application link that accesses an application state associated with the entity. The method includes receiving event data from user devices that indicates a number of times each of the application states was accessed by the user devices. The method includes determining a popularity score for each entity record based on the received event data, wherein the popularity score indicates the number of times the application state for the entity record was accessed relative to the number of times other application states were accessed. The method includes identifying a set of preliminary result entity records based on a search request, generating result scores for each of the preliminary result entity records based on the popularity scores, and generating search results that include application links from the preliminary result entity records.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 5, 2019
    Publication date: March 12, 2020
    Applicant: Branch Metrics, Inc.
    Inventors: Zeesha Currimbhoy, Alexander Austin, Eric J. Glover, Jyotsna Jayaraman, Jonas Frederick Bauer, Kan Yu, Charles Currin Gilliam, Rishi Khaitan
  • Patent number: 10546736
    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 interactive and dynamic selection of one or more masses and concurrent display of peaks (points) corresponding to that predicted mass value across other displays (MS1, deconvolved mass spectrum, etc.).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2020
    Assignee: Protein Metrics Inc.
    Inventors: Marshall Bern, Yong Joo Kil
  • 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: 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: 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: 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