Patents Examined by Michael R Koester
  • Patent number: 11341583
    Abstract: An automated memory assistance function of a personal social network may be an application of a user for use on a mobile telecommunications device. The personal social network comprises the smart device and an administrative panel called Not So Forgetful (NSF). The automated memory assistance function is personal to its user and may run on the smart device for receiving personal user information and a cloud server connected to the smart devices for searching and receiving memory assistance data. A smart device may also be a smart home, a smart television, a smart watch, smart glasses and the like. Algorithms include a memory assistance algorithm responsive to light and heavy reminders input via a microphone, camera, (including voice and image recognition, a GPS system, a time of day/date calendar and a gyroscope/accelerometer (for example, to determine if a user has fallen).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: Not So Forgetful, LLC
    Inventor: Jesse Michael Schneider
  • Patent number: 11327473
    Abstract: A scalable industrial asset management system dynamically negotiates allocation of mobile industrial assets to industrial operation sites. The asset management system tracks and models the capabilities and availabilities of a pool of mobile industrial assets (e.g., truck-mounted assets or other such assets). Based on a defined demand of a scheduled industrial operation requiring mobile industrial assets (e.g., a fracking operation, a mining operation, etc.) the system selects a subset of the mobile industrial assets that are both available during the scheduled operation and are collectively capable of satisfying the demands of the industrial operation. Moreover, based on the asset models for the subset of mobile industrial assets, the system configures an on-premise cloud agent device to collect telemetry data from the mobile assets during the operation and to migrate the collected data to a cloud-based collection and analytics system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: ROCKWELL AUTOMATION TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Bijan Sayyarrodsari, Francisco P. Maturana
  • Patent number: 11328265
    Abstract: A system, method, and computer program product are provided to allow a user to define a list of user-defined important senders; receive an e-mail; identify information associated with the sender of the e-mail, in response to the receipt of the e-mail; perform a comparison, utilizing one or more processors, involving the information associated with the sender of the e-mail, and the list of user-defined important senders, to determine whether the information associated with the sender of the e-mail is on the list of user-defined important senders; and organize the e-mail in a single user-defined important sender(s) folder, based on the comparison.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: Givoly Inventions, LLC
    Inventor: Tal Givoly
  • Patent number: 11295401
    Abstract: A method, system, and computer program product for predicting a hotel room arrival for a guest at a hotel. The method comprises a hotel computer system receiving calendar information for the guest from a mobile device for the guest of the hotel while the guest is in the hotel. The method predicts the hotel room arrival for the guest at the hotel using the calendar information. The method performs an action in the hotel based on the hotel room arrival predicted for the guest.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Gregory J. Boss, James E. Bostick, John M. Ganci, Jr., Martin G. Keen
  • Patent number: 11276041
    Abstract: Scheduling one or more users via potential calendars is presented. In preparing a potential schedule request, one or more potential time slots in which the to-be scheduled event may be held are identified. The potential schedule is sent to the scheduled users and the potential time slots for the potential schedule event are added to the users' calendars. In response to clarifying information, one or more potential time slots of the potential schedule request may be removed from consideration for the potential schedule event. A selection is made regarding a potential time slot for the potential schedule event and the potential schedule event is promoted to the explicit calendars of the scheduled users to be held at the selected potential time slot. In promoting the potential schedule event to the explicit calendars, the potential event is removed from the potential calendars, including any remaining potential time slots.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: Vivek Garg, Christopher Jay Hoorn, Robert David Berg, Erica L. Klein
  • Patent number: 11222273
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present specification provide a service recommendation method, apparatus, and device. During operation, the system obtains, based on historic information associated with a target user, a user feature and a service-usage feature of the target user for a service; determines a service recommendation scheme by inputting the user feature, the service-usage features, and a service feature of the service into a machine-learning model for recommending services; and recommends a service to the target user based on the determined service recommendation scheme.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: Advanced New Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Lindong Liu
  • Patent number: 11170451
    Abstract: An automated gift recommendation system of a personal social network may be subscribed to by a user who may invite friends and family to participate. The personal social network comprises a smart device and an administrative panel called Not So Forgetful (NSF). NSF is a gift system that is personal to the user and may run on the smart device for receiving personal user information and a cloud server connected to the smart devices for searching and receiving gift data. The smart device may be a mobile communications device, a smart home, a smart television, a smart watch, smart glasses and the like. Algorithms include a trending algorithm utilizing the NSF social network and externally received data to periodically develop, for example, a top ten most popular gift recommendation list for, for example, a sixteen-year-old female (exemplary demographics data). The automated periodic gift recommendation system may record gift purchases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignee: Not So Forgetful, LLC
    Inventor: Jesse Michael Schneider
  • Patent number: 11164157
    Abstract: A method can include receiving a request to determine a site and a timeslot for an event that requires attendance by a first and second user. Sensor data can be retrieved in response to the request. The sensor data can indicate a current occupancy of multiple sites and a current location of the first and second user. When the first and second user are available for an immediate timeslot, a first site for the event can be identified based on the sensor data. An upcoming timeslot for the event and a second site can be identified based on scheduling data. The scheduling data can indicate a future occupancy of the sites, a future location of the first and second user, and a future availability of the first and second user. An event notification indicating the site and timeslot for the event can be sent to the first and second user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: SAP SE
    Inventor: Karol Kalisz
  • Patent number: 11157879
    Abstract: Systems and methods for scheduling a meeting or event in a manner that is more efficient than conventional systems or dedicated applications, and can be configured to take into account sources of information available on a common platform or available within a common account (such as calendars, locations, preferences, etc.).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignee: NETSUITE INC.
    Inventor: Celestine Star Grady Smith
  • Patent number: 11157923
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus, and processor-readable storage media for dynamically determining procurement user types are provided herein. An example computer-implemented method includes extracting data, from multiple data sources associated with multiple procurement users, pertaining to interactions between the multiple procurement users and one or more procurement destinations; dynamically updating, based on an application of one or more machine learning algorithms to the extracted data, one or more existing procurement user types; dynamically creating, based on the application of the one or more machine learning algorithms to the extracted data, one or more new procurement user types; and outputting, via at least one user portal, the one or more updated procurement user types and the one or more new procurement user types.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Paul Sturrs, Liam Donnelly
  • Patent number: 11144980
    Abstract: Various embodiments relate generally to data science and data analysis, computer software and systems, and control systems to provide a platform to facilitate implementation of an interface, and, more specifically, to a computing and data storage platform that implements specialized logic to facilitate predictive consumption of a sample of an item in accordance with an automatically adaptive schedule, for example, via an interface. In some examples, a method may include identifying data representing a replica of an item for transmission to a location associated with an electronic account, identifying a characteristic associated with a user or an item, predicting a date of consumption of the replica, and generating a subset of data included in an electronic message to initiate executable instructions to generate feedback regarding the replica relative to the date of consumption, among other things.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: OrderGroove, Inc.
    Inventors: Paul Fredrich, Michael Bifolco, Eugene Vasilchenko, Greg E. Alvo, Ofir Shalom, Federico Alvarez, Bradley Williams Groff, Eugene Kozhukalo
  • Patent number: 11062243
    Abstract: Embodiments of the invention are directed to systems, methods, and computer program products for providing an enhanced resource sharing management platform configured for intelligent, proactive and responsive integration of resource activity functionality with a resource sharing management application provided on a user device. The system is further configured to perform one or more user activities, in an integrated manner, within a single interface of the user device, without requiring the user to operate disparate applications. Furthermore, the system is configured to receive user input through multiple communication channels such as a textual communication channel and an audio communication channel. The system is further configured to switch between the various communication channels seamlessly, and in real-time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: BANK OF AMERICA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Gary Keith Romaine, Christine Denise Howe
  • Patent number: 11001473
    Abstract: A self-contained data acquisition system for a passenger conveyance system, includes a sensor module for sensing data associated with an entry and exit of each of a multiple of passengers, a location sensor module for sensing a position of the passenger conveyance upon entry and exit of each of the multiple of respective passengers and a processing module operable to use the sensed data from the sensor module and the location sensor module to record passenger data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: Otis Elevator Company
    Inventors: Bradley Armand Scoville, Eric C. Peterson
  • Patent number: 10803423
    Abstract: A vehicle sensing system includes a vehicle sensing device configured to detect entry of a vehicle into a given area, and in response, to send to the vehicle an instruction message. At least one beacon device is disposed somewhere between a location of entry of the vehicle into the given area and an available parking space. A parking server communicates with the vehicle based on the instruction message, and sends parking instructions to the vehicle, the parking instructions instructing the vehicle to autonomously drive toward the available parking space, and informing the vehicle of expected interactions with the beacon device as it autonomously drives toward the available parking space. The beacon device performs the expected interactions with the vehicle if the vehicle is driving on a proper path toward the available parking space, with the proper path including the vehicle autonomously driving within wireless communication range of the beacon device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2020
    Assignee: The Parking Genius, Inc.
    Inventor: George Frederick Baker, Sr.
  • Patent number: 10733681
    Abstract: A method, system, and computer program product for managing hotel operations. The method comprises using a hotel computer system to track the locations of a guest in a hotel over time through a mobile device for the guest. The hotel computer system identifies a pattern of movement in the hotel using the locations tracked over time. The hotel computer system preforms an action in the hotel enabling managing the hotel operations for the hotel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2020
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Gregory J. Boss, James E. Bostick, John M. Ganci, Jr., Martin G. Keen