Patents Examined by Jeffrey Gaffin
  • Method and apparatus using accelerometer data to serve better ads
    Patent number: 9224100
    Abstract: A mobile device, including an accelerometer and a processing unit receiving signals from the accelerometer and determining motion information of the mobile device based on the received signals is disclosed. A content selector selects a media format for content based on the physical state of the mobile device as indicated by the signals from the accelerometer. A display device displays the content in the selected media format. When the motion is a predetermined type of motion, the received content is withheld from being displayed by the display device. A machine learning apparatus is provided as the content selector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2015
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Surojit Chatterjee, Alex Gawley, Chrix Erik Finne
  • Method of evaluating value for referenced information and apparatus thereof
    Patent number: 9224093
    Abstract: A method of evaluating a value of reference information and an apparatus for evaluating a value of reference information are disclosed. According to an embodiment of the present invention, the method includes calculating similarity values of reference relationships between the subject document and each of neighbor documents, respectively, and summing the calculated similarity values to calculate a first sum, multiplying each of the similarity values of reference relationships between the subject document and each of the neighbor documents by a corresponding value of reference information of the first reference document for each of the neighbor documents, and summing the multiplied values to calculate a second sum, and evaluating a value of reference information using a ratio of the first and second sums.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2015
    Assignee: Korea Institute of Science & Technology Information
    Inventors: Young Ho Moon, Kang Hoe Kim, Seon Ho Kim, Woon Dong Yeo, Jae Woo Kang
  • Determining an anomalous state of a system at a future point in time
    Patent number: 9218570
    Abstract: A prediction technique to predict an anomalous state of a processing environment at a future point in time. One or more values of one or more metrics of the processing system are obtained. For the one or more metrics, one or more predicted values are determined for one or more points in time in the future. Based the predicted values, one or more change values for one or more points in time are determined, and based on the one or more change values, a determination is made as to whether an anomalous state exists within the processing system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2015
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventor: Alain E. Biem
  • Providing transposable access to a synapse array using a recursive array layout
    Patent number: 9218564
    Abstract: Embodiments of the invention relate to providing transposable access to a synapse array using a recursive array layout. One embodiment comprises maintaining synaptic weights for multiple synapses connecting multiple axons and multiple neurons, wherein the synaptic weights are maintained based on a recursive array layout. The recursive array layout facilitates transposable access to the synaptic weights. A neuronal spike event between an axon and a neuron is communicated via a corresponding connecting synapse by accessing the synaptic weight of the corresponding connecting synapse in the recursive array layout.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2015
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: John V. Arthur, John E. Barth, Jr., Paul A. Merolla, Dharmendra S. Modha
  • System and method for brand monitoring and trend analysis based on deep-content-classification
    Patent number: 9218606
    Abstract: A system and method for monitoring a brand sentiment through a plurality of different web sources are provided. The method comprises receiving a request to monitor a brand; searching the plurality of web sources for multimedia content elements related to the brand; generating at least one signature for each multimedia content element determined to be related to the brand, wherein each of the at least one generated signatures represents a concept; and correlating the concepts respective of the generated signatures to determine a context of the multimedia content elements determined to be related to the brand, wherein the context is the brand sentiment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2015
    Assignee: Cortica, Ltd.
    Inventors: Igal Raichelgauz, Karina Odinaev, Yehoshua Y. Zeevi
  • User interface for machine learning
    Patent number: 9218574
    Abstract: Apparatuses, systems, methods, and computer program products are disclosed for machine learning results. An input module may receive user input identifying a value for a machine learning parameter. A display module may display one or more machine learning results for the identified machine learning parameter in response to the input module receiving the user input. An update module may dynamically update the displayed one or more machine learning results in response to the input module receiving additional user input identifying an additional value for the machine learning parameter. A pre-compute module may predetermine permutations of the machine learning results prior to the input module receiving the user input.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2015
    Assignee: PurePredictive, Inc.
    Inventors: Kelly D. Phillipps, Richard W. Wellman
  • Systems and methods for control reliability operations
    Patent number: 9218233
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a system includes a data collection system configured to collect a data from a control system. The system further includes a configuration management system configured to manage a hardware configuration and a software configuration for the control system based on the data. The system additionally includes a rule engine configured to use the data as input and to output a health assessment by using a rule database, and a report generator configured to provide a health assessment for the control system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2015
    Inventors: Paul Venditti, Ramesh Pai Brahmavar, Ayush Srivastava, Michael Scott Skalyo, Kevin Thomas McCarthy
  • Disambiguating data using contextual and historical information
    Patent number: 9218568
    Abstract: Techniques for disambiguating data using contextual and historical information include determining that data is potentially associated with two or more classifications of a plurality of classifications; obtaining contextual information associated with the data; obtaining historical information associated with a user of the computing system; and determining that the data is more likely associated with one classification of the two or more classifications than other classifications of the two or more classifications based on the contextual information and the historical information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2015
    Assignee: Business Objects Software Ltd.
    Inventors: JohnPaul Burbank, Jennifer Sam, Michael Tsumura, George Sun, Yuru Wang
  • Method and apparatus for tailoring the output of an intelligent automated assistant to a user
    Patent number: 9213558
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for tailoring the output of an intelligent automated assistant. One embodiment of a method for conducting an interaction with a human user includes collecting data about the user using a multimodal set of sensors positioned in a vicinity of the user, making a set of inferences about the user in accordance with the data, and tailoring an output to be delivered to the user in accordance with the set of inferences.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2015
    Assignee: SRI INTERNATIONAL
    Inventors: Gokhan Tur, Horacio E. Franco, Elizabeth Shriberg, Gregory K. Myers, William S. Mark, Norman D. Winarsky, Andreas Stolcke, Bart Peintner, Michael J. Wolverton, Luciana Ferrer, Martin Graciarena, Harry Bratt, Neil Yorke-Smith
  • Apparatus and method for selecting lasting feeling of machine
    Patent number: 9211645
    Abstract: An optimal behavior combination of a robot in consideration of the robot's previous feeling is generated. In other words, the robot may express its feelings by combinations of its behavioral express elements which reflect its previous feelings. In particular, it has a continuity determination unit for determining whether a behavior to be expressed should be same as or different from a currently expressed behavior.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2015
    Assignee: Korea Institute of Industrial Technology
    Inventors: Ho Seok Ahn, Dong Wook Lee, Woong Hee Shon
  • Electronic brain model with neuron tables
    Patent number: 9213936
    Abstract: A method of emulating the human brain with its thought and rationalization processes is presented here, as well as a method of storing human-like thought. The invention provides for inclusion of psychological profiles, experience and societal position in an electronic emulation of the human brain. This permits a realistic human-like response by that emulation to the people and the interactive environment around it.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2015
    Assignee: Neuric, LLC
    Inventor: Thomas A. Visel
  • Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and program
    Patent number: 9208441
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is an information processing apparatus including an evaluation information extraction section configured to extract evaluation information including an object targeted to be evaluated and an evaluation of the object targeted to be evaluated from a linguistic expression given as information expressed linguistically by a user of interest; an identification section configured to identify whether the evaluation information is of a first type regarding content or of a second type regarding another user; and an evaluation prediction section configured to predict the evaluation by the user of interest regarding the content, based on the evaluation information of the first type given by the user of interest and on the evaluation information given by the other user in the evaluation information of the second type given by the user of interest.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2015
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kei Tateno
  • Method and apparatus for strategic synaptic failure and learning in spiking neural networks
    Patent number: 9208431
    Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure support a technique for strategic synaptic failure and learning in spiking neural networks. A synaptic weight for a synaptic connection between a pre-synaptic neuron and a post-synaptic neuron can be first determined (e.g., according to a learning rule). Then, one or more failures of the synaptic connection can be determined based on a set of characteristics of the synaptic connection. The one or more failures can be omitted from computation of a neuronal behavior of the post-synaptic neuron.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2015
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Jason Frank Hunzinger, Thomas Zheng
  • Personalized information pushing method and device
    Patent number: 9208437
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present application relate to a personalized information pushing method, a personalized information pushing device, and a computer program product for pushing personalized information. A personalized information pushing method is provided. The method includes retrieving network behavior data related to access operations performed by user terminals, determining a numerical value of a degree of correlation between a user terminal and a plurality of information providing terminals having a correlation within a set time window based on the network behavior data, retrieving information providing terminals corresponding to a first user terminal to form a first data set based on the numerical values, retrieving information of the information providing terminals from the first data set to generate a first information, and pushing the first information to the first user terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2015
    Assignee: Alibaba Group Holding Limited
    Inventors: Zhixiong Yang, Zhonghua Deng, Ningjun Su
  • Duplication in decision trees
    Patent number: 9208438
    Abstract: A packet classification system, apparatus, and corresponding apparatus are provided for enabling packet classification. A processor of a security appliance coupled to a network uses a classifier table having a plurality of rules, the plurality of rules having at least one field, to build a decision tree structure for packet classification. Duplication in the decision tree may be identified, producing a wider, shallower decision tree that may result in shorter search times with reduced memory requirements for storing the decision tree. A number of operations needed to identify duplication in the decision tree may be reduced, thereby increasing speed and efficiency of a compiler building the decision tree.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2015
    Assignee: Cavium, Inc.
    Inventors: Rajan Goyal, Kenneth A. Bullis, Satyanarayana Lakshmipathi Billa
  • Providing intelligent inquiries in question answer systems
    Patent number: 9208693
    Abstract: A method, a system and a computer program product for selecting a further inquiry for a user to clarify a request for information from the user. One or more candidate answers to the request for information from the user are determined, and a score value is generated for each of one or more characteristics of each candidate answer, where at least one characteristic is associated with an inquiry for the user to clarify the request for information. A characteristic associated with an inquiry is determined that includes score values providing the greatest potential adjustment for the candidate answers in response to a clarification of the request for information, and the inquiry is selected that is associated with the determined characteristic for presentation to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2015
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Vijay Dheap, Nicholas E. Poore, Lee M. Surprenant, Michael D. Whitley
  • Method of analyzing a scenario represented as elements of a tensor space, and scored using tensor operators
    Patent number: 9208440
    Abstract: A mathematical model to represent multiple role events of a threat scenario, and a methodology to score the events given the data or evidence contained in a knowledge base is provided. The multiple role event can include any action encompassed by an independent clause having multiple syntactical roles (subject, object, location, etc. . . . ) and containing multiple entities (person A, person B, object C, place D, etc. . . . ). Multiple role events are represented as elements of a tensor space, and are scored using tensor operators built from the semantic graph associated with the knowledge base.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2015
    Assignee: Battelle Memorial Institute
    Inventors: Michele Morara, Mark D. Davis, Steve W. Rust
  • Neural network learning and collaboration apparatus and methods
    Patent number: 9208432
    Abstract: Apparatus and methods for learning and training in neural network-based devices. In one implementation, the devices each comprise multiple spiking neurons, configured to process sensory input. In one approach, alternate heterosynaptic plasticity mechanisms are used to enhance learning and field diversity within the devices. The selection of alternate plasticity rules is based on recent post-synaptic activity of neighboring neurons. Apparatus and methods for simplifying training of the devices are also disclosed, including a computer-based application. A data representation of the neural network may be imaged and transferred to another computational environment, effectively copying the brain. Techniques and architectures for achieve this training, storing, and distributing these data representations are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2015
    Assignee: Brain Corporation
    Inventors: Marius Buibas, Eugene M. Izhikevich, Botond Szatmary, Vadim Polonichko
  • Automated remediation with an appliance
    Patent number: 9210044
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes receiving information associated with the operation of one or more network devices, indexing the information for analysis, analyzing the information to determine a pattern in the information, generating one or more labels for at least a portion of the information based at least in part on the pattern, and making the information and labels available to a remediation system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2015
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Martin Kacin, David Douglas Kloba
  • Method and system for multi-IED event zone identification in an electrical grid
    Patent number: 9202168
    Abstract: A method of identifying at least one event zone subject to an event in a substation environment of an electrical grid. Thereby, data from multiple intelligent electronic devices can be synthesized in real-time whereby an operator can be presented with a single conclusion describing the event attributes thereby helping the operator to determine the mitigation actions as needed. The method includes receiving first event related data from the intelligent electronic devices, and based on the first event related data, determining whether the at least one monitoring zone subject to the event is a primary monitoring zone of at least one of the intelligent electronic devices or a non-primary monitoring zone for all of the intelligent electronic devices using ensemble decision making and probabilistic methods. It is also presented a system for carrying out the method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2015
    Assignee: ABB Research Ltd.
    Inventors: Kari Saarinen, Mirrasoul Mousavi