Patents Examined by Paulinho E Smith
  • Patent number: 9923898
    Abstract: A computer system comprises a processor and a memory coupled to the at least one processor. The processor is configured to collect context information for a presentation from a set of monitoring devices stationed in a presentation environment where the presentation is performed; determine, based on the context information for the presentation, a subject matter group for the presentation; and generate a set of access rules for a set of network devices in the presentation environment based on the context information for the presentation. The processor is further configured to identify, based on the subject matter group, a first set of resources relevant to the subject matter group; and restrict access of the set of network devices to resources not included in the first set of resources during performance of the presentation based on the set of access rules.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2018
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Adam T. Clark, John S. Mysak, Aspen L. Payton, John E. Petri, Michael D. Pfeifer
  • Patent number: 9892365
    Abstract: In some aspects, a quantum computing system includes a multi-dimensional array of qubit devices. Coupler devices reside at intervals between neighboring pairs of the qubit devices in the multi-dimensional array. Each coupler device is configured to produce an electromagnetic interaction between one of the neighboring pairs of qubit devices. In some cases, each qubit device has a respective qubit operating frequency that is independent of an offset electromagnetic field experienced by the qubit device, and the coupling strength of the electromagnetic interaction provided by each coupler device varies with an offset electromagnetic field experienced by the coupler device. In some cases, readout devices are each operably coupled to a single, respective qubit device to produce qubit readout signals that indicate the quantum state of the qubit device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2018
    Assignee: Rigetti & Co., Inc.
    Inventors: Chad Tyler Rigetti, Dane Christoffer Thompson
  • Patent number: 9888006
    Abstract: A method comprises collecting context information for a presentation using a set of monitoring devices stationed in the presentation environment where the presentation is performed; determining, based on the context information for the presentation, a subject matter group for the presentation; and generating a set of access rules for a set of network devices based on the context information for the presentation. The method further comprises identifying, based on the subject matter group, a first set of resources relevant to the subject matter group; and restricting access to resources not included in the first set of resources during performance of the presentation based on the set of access rules.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2018
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Adam T. Clark, John S. Mysak, Aspen L. Payton, John E. Petri, Michael D. Pfeifer
  • Patent number: 9886666
    Abstract: Provided is an information processing device to preferentially present information which each user does not have detailed knowledge, among inference results inferred from context. The information processing device includes: an inference unit that obtains inference results by applying inference rules to context information; an inference result index value calculation unit that calculates, on the basis of a knowledge level of a reading user about each inference rule used in an inference process, index values that show depth of knowledge of the reading user about the inference results comprehensively; an inference result presentation unit that presents the inference results on the basis of the index values; and an knowledge level update unit that updates the knowledge level of the reading user about each inference rule used in the inference process on the basis of evaluation information acquired.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2018
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yousuke Motohashi, Hidekazu Sakagami, Shinichiro Kamei, Daisuke Ohshima
  • Patent number: 9881251
    Abstract: A neural system comprises multiple neurons interconnected via synapse devices. Each neuron integrates input signals arriving on its dendrite, generates a spike in response to the integrated input signals exceeding a threshold, and sends the spike to the interconnected neurons via its axon. The system further includes multiple noruens, each noruen is interconnected via the interconnect network with those neurons that the noruen's corresponding neuron sends its axon to. Each noruen integrates input spikes from connected spiking neurons and generates a spike in response to the integrated input spikes exceeding a threshold. There can be one noruen for every corresponding neuron. For a first neuron connected via its axon via a synapse to dendrite of a second neuron, a noruen corresponding to the second neuron is connected via its axon through the same synapse to dendrite of the noruen corresponding to the first neuron.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventor: Dharmendra S. Modha
  • Patent number: 9870533
    Abstract: A wearable apparatus may include a sensor configured to identify a characteristic of the wearable apparatus. The wearable apparatus may also include an activity tracker configured to identify an activity of a tracked individual. The wearable apparatus may further include a memory. The wearable apparatus may include a processor operatively coupled to the memory. The processor may be configured to receive portable autonomous decision logic via a network and execute the portable autonomous decision logic. When executing the autonomous decision logic, the processor is configured to receive the characteristic via the sensor, receive the activity via the activity tracker; determine a state of the tracked individual based on at least one of the characteristic or the activity; and generate an output based on the state of the tracked individual.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2018
    Assignee: STRIIV, INC.
    Inventor: Mark A. Ross
  • Patent number: 9870530
    Abstract: A device includes a match element that includes a first data input configured to receive a first result, wherein the first result is of an analysis performed on at least a portion of a data stream by an element of a state machine. The match element also includes a second data input configured to receive a second result, wherein the second result is of an analysis performed on at least a portion of the data stream by another element of the state machine. The match element further includes an output configured to selectively provide the first result or the second result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2018
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: David R. Brown, Harold B Noyes
  • Patent number: 9858529
    Abstract: Techniques for use in connection with performing optimization using a plurality of objective functions associated with a respective plurality of tasks. The techniques include using at least one computer hardware processor to perform: identifying, based at least in part on a joint probabilistic model of the plurality of objective functions, a first point at which to evaluate an objective function in the plurality of objective functions; selecting, based at least in part on the joint probabilistic model, a first objective function in the plurality of objective functions to evaluate at the identified first point; evaluating the first objective function at the identified first point; and updating the joint probabilistic model based on results of the evaluation to obtain an updated joint probabilistic model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2018
    Assignees: President and Fellows of Harvard College, The Governing Council of the Univ. of Toronto
    Inventors: Ryan P. Adams, Roland Jasper Snoek, Kevin Swersky
  • Patent number: 9852377
    Abstract: One or more embodiments of a content system provide machine-learned storage location recommendations for storing content items. Specifically, an online content management system can train a machine-learning model to identify a storage pattern from previously stored content items in a plurality of storage locations corresponding to a user account of a user. Training the machine-learning model includes training a plurality of classifiers for the plurality of storage locations. The online content management system uses the classifiers to determine whether a content item is similar to the content items in any of the storage locations, and based on the output of the classifiers, provides graphical elements indicating recommended storage locations within a graphical user interface. The user can select a graphical element to move the content item to the corresponding storage location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2017
    Assignee: DROPBOX, INC.
    Inventor: Neeraj Kumar
  • Patent number: 9852378
    Abstract: Provided is an information processing apparatus that tests independence between multiple variables, the information processing apparatus including: a discretization section that discretizes at least one numerical variable on the basis of at least one categorical variable, when the categorical variable and the numerical variable are included in at least two dependent variables in a graphical model and a set of conditional variables serving as conditions of independence between the two variables; and a test execution section that executes a test for conditional independence between the two variables by using the categorical variable and a discrete variable which is obtained by discretizing the numerical variable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2017
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takashi Isozaki
  • Patent number: 9846842
    Abstract: A method and system for predicting a next navigation event are described. Aspects of the disclosure minimize the delay between a navigation event and a network response by predicting the next navigation event. The system and method may then prerender content associated with the next navigation event. For example, the method and system may predict a likely next uniform resource locator during web browsing to preemptively request content from the network before the user selects the corresponding link on a web page. The methods describe a variety of manners of predicting the next navigation event, including examining individual and aggregate historical data, text entry prediction, and cursor input monitoring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2017
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Arvind Jain, Dominic Hamon
  • Patent number: 9846845
    Abstract: The disclosure provides an approach for recognizing and analyzing activities. In one embodiment, a learning application trains parameters of a hierarchical model which represents human (or object) activity at multiple levels of detail. Higher levels of detail may consider more context, and vice versa. Further, learning may be optimized for a user-preferred type of inference by adjusting a learning criterion. An inference application may use the trained model to answer queries about variable(s) at any level of detail. In one embodiment, the inference application may determine scores for each possible value of the query variable by finding the best hierarchical event representation that maximizes a scoring function while fixing the value of the query variable to its possible values. Here, the inference application may approximately determine the best hierarchical event representation by iteratively optimizing one level-of-detail variable at a time while fixing other level-of-detail variables, until convergence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2017
    Assignee: Disney Enterprises, Inc.
    Inventors: Leonid Sigal, Tian Lan
  • Patent number: 9846840
    Abstract: Semantic class localization techniques and systems are described. In one or more implementation, a technique is employed to back communicate relevancies of aggregations back through layers of a neural network. Through use of these relevancies, activation relevancy maps are created that describe relevancy of portions of the image to the classification of the image as corresponding to a semantic class. In this way, the semantic class is localized to portions of the image. This may be performed through communication of positive and not negative relevancies, use of contrastive attention maps to different between semantic classes and even within a same semantic class through use of a self-contrastive technique.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2017
    Assignee: ADOBE SYSTEMS INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Zhe Lin, Xiaohui Shen, Jonathan W. Brandt, Jianming Zhang
  • Patent number: 9824315
    Abstract: A system for planning and executing a response to an incident includes a planning and execution data source and a processing system. The processing system is in operable communication with the planning and execution database. The processing system is configured to generate pre-planned responses to be executed by associated response assets, store data representative of the pre-planned responses in the planning and execution database, selectively retrieve a pre-planned response from the planning and execution database, communicate with the response assets associated with the retrieved pre-planned response, provide real-time tracking of the retrieved pre-planned response being executed by the associated response assets, and selectively generate recommendations for modifying the retrieved pre-planned response.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2017
    Assignee: HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INC.
    Inventors: Emray Goossen, Derick Lucas Gerlock, Katherine Goossen
  • Patent number: 9821169
    Abstract: Disclosed here in are a system and method for providing a magnetic resonance treatment to a subject. In one described embodiment, a system for providing a magnetic resonance treatment to a subject is provided, the system including components that provide the system with an ability to treat pain and relieve symptoms of the subject. In another embodiment, a method of providing a magnetic resonance treatment to a subject is provided, wherein the system includes components that provide the system with an ability to treat pain, relieve symptoms, provide relaxation, and improve the overall comfort and well-being of the subject.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2017
    Assignee: Applied Magnetics, LLC
    Inventors: Jerry Jacobson, Allen Braswell
  • Patent number: 9824181
    Abstract: The present invention relates to methods for evaluating and/or predicting the outcome of a clinical condition, such as cancer, metastasis, AIDS, autism, Alzheimer's, and/or Parkinson's disorder. The methods can also be used to monitor and track changes in a patient's DNA and/or RNA during and following a clinical treatment regime. The methods may also be used to evaluate protein and/or metabolite levels that correlate with such clinical conditions. The methods are also of use to ascertain the probability outcome for a patient's particular prognosis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2017
    Assignee: THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA
    Inventors: John Zachary Sanborn, David Haussler
  • Patent number: 9798979
    Abstract: This patent specification relates to apparatus, systems, methods, and related computer program products for providing home security objectives, such as calculating a security score for a home. More particularly, this patent specification relates to a plurality of devices, including intelligent, multi-sensing, network-connected devices, that communicate with each other and/or with a central server or a cloud-computing system to provide any of a variety of useful home security objectives, such as calculating a security score for a home.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2017
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Anthony M. Fadell, Matthew L. Rogers, Yoky Matsuoka, David Sloo, Maxime Veron, Shigefumi Honjo
  • Patent number: 9788917
    Abstract: A method for treating an orthodontic condition can include receiving patient data, such as through a website, accessing a database having information derived from patient treatments, generating a model of an orthodontic condition defining one or more anatomic features of a set of teeth, identifying a diagnosis of an orthodontic condition and identifying a treatment regimen for the diagnosis. A method can include tagging an anatomic feature with an electronic identifier and automatically generating a tooth setup. A system can include a server and a database, which can include information relating to patient treatments, and a website for receiving patient data. A system can include an electronic model representing anatomic features of a patient's teeth and an application adapted to identify a diagnosis and a treatment regimen for an orthodontic condition, which can include executing artificial intelligence and/or other algorithms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2017
    Assignee: ClearCorrect Holdings, Inc.
    Inventor: James Mah
  • Patent number: 9792550
    Abstract: Methods and system for providing information selected from a large set of digital content to at least one user. One such method comprises receiving user context information associated with the at least one user and identifying or generating, using at least one processor executing stored program instructions, a first concept in a semantic network, the first concept representing at least a portion of the user context information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2017
    Assignee: PRIMAL FUSION INC.
    Inventors: Peter Joseph Sweeney, Ihab Francis Ilyas, Jean-Paul Dupuis, Nadiya Yampolska
  • Patent number: 9792552
    Abstract: At least one aspect of the invention is directed to a power monitoring system including a generator coupled to a fuel tank, a plurality of monitors, and a processor configured to monitor one or more loads drawing power from the generator; monitor one or more parameters that affect the amount of power drawn by the one or more loads; monitor a fuel consumption rate of the generator; generate one or more load profiles for each of the one or more loads; receive a set of the one or more loads for which a predicted time is to be generated; receive values for the one or more parameters; generate a predicted load profile for the set of the one or more loads and the values of the one or more parameters; receive information indicating an amount of remaining fuel; and calculate a predicted available run time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2017
    Assignee: SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC USA, INC.
    Inventors: Markus F. Hirschbold, John C. Van Gorp