Patents by Inventor Alan Stern

Alan Stern has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 11963009
    Abstract: Arrangements for dynamic enterprise center access control are provided. In some examples, a user device may be detected and current location and/or user data associated with the detected device may be requested. Upon receiving the location data, a current geographic location of the user device may be determined and an enterprise center at or near the geographic location may be identified. Received user data may be analyzed to identify a user and retrieve access preferences associated with the user. Based on the access preferences, a command to lock or unlock a door (e.g., permit or disable access) to an area within the enterprise center, the enterprise center in general, or the like, may be generated and transmitted to a computing device for execution. Accordingly, the system may activate desired locking configurations based on user preferences. Upon detecting that the user is no longer at the enterprise center, a command to return to default settings may be generated, transmitted and executed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Bank of America Corporation
    Inventors: David Alan Stern, Lauren Elizabeth Schuler, Christopher Broome
  • Publication number: 20230284026
    Abstract: Arrangements for dynamic enterprise center access control are provided. In some examples, a user device may be detected and current location and/or user data associated with the detected device may be requested. Upon receiving the location data, a current geographic location of the user device may be determined and an enterprise center at or near the geographic location may be identified. Received user data may be analyzed to identify a user and retrieve access preferences associated with the user. Based on the access preferences, a command to lock or unlock a door (e.g., permit or disable access) to an area within the enterprise center, the enterprise center in general, or the like, may be generated and transmitted to a computing device for execution. Accordingly, the system may activate desired locking configurations based on user preferences. Upon detecting that the user is no longer at the enterprise center, a command to return to default settings may be generated, transmitted and executed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 11, 2023
    Publication date: September 7, 2023
    Inventors: David Alan Stern, Lauren Elizabeth Schuler, Christopher Broome
  • Patent number: 11689929
    Abstract: Arrangements for dynamic enterprise center access control are provided. In some examples, a user device may be detected and current location and/or user data associated with the detected device may be requested. Upon receiving the location data, a current geographic location of the user device may be determined and an enterprise center at or near the geographic location may be identified. Received user data may be analyzed to identify a user and retrieve access preferences associated with the user. Based on the access preferences, a command to lock or unlock a door (e.g., permit or disable access) to an area within the enterprise center, the enterprise center in general, or the like, may be generated and transmitted to a computing device for execution. Accordingly, the system may activate desired locking configurations based on user preferences. Upon detecting that the user is no longer at the enterprise center, a command to return to default settings may be generated, transmitted and executed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: Bank of America Corporation
    Inventors: David Alan Stern, Lauren Elizabeth Schuler, Christopher Broome
  • Patent number: 11682040
    Abstract: A campaign profile specifies products and/or content items associated with a campaign. A target group selection engine applies an affinity attribute model to user information of a user. The affinity attribute model is used to determine the user's affinity towards (a) product attributes of the products associated with the campaign and/or (b) content attributes of the content items associated with the campaign. The affinity attribute model may be generated using machine learning. A user interface accepts target user tuning parameters that specify weights to be applied to the affinity attributes determined by the affinity attribute model. Based at least on applying the weights to the affinity attributes, an inclusion score and/or exclusion score for the user is determined. The user is included in a target group, for engaging with the campaign, based on the inclusion score and/or exclusion score.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: Oracle International Corporation
    Inventors: Venkata Chandrashekar Duvvuri, Jeffrey Alan Stern
  • Patent number: 11682039
    Abstract: A campaign profile specifies products and/or content items associated with a campaign. A target group selection engine applies an affinity attribute model to user information of a user. The affinity attribute model is used to determine the user's affinity towards (a) product attributes of the products associated with the campaign and/or (b) content attributes of the content items associated with the campaign. The affinity attribute model may be generated using machine learning. A user interface accepts target user tuning parameters that specify weights to be applied to the affinity attributes determined by the affinity attribute model. Based at least on applying the weights to the affinity attributes, an inclusion score and/or exclusion score for the user is determined. The user is included in a target group, for engaging with the campaign, based on the inclusion score and/or exclusion score.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: Oracle International Corporation
    Inventors: Venkata Chandrashekar Duvvuri, Jeffrey Alan Stern
  • Publication number: 20220417751
    Abstract: Arrangements for dynamic enterprise center access control are provided. In some examples, a user device may be detected and current location and/or user data associated with the detected device may be requested. Upon receiving the location data, a current geographic location of the user device may be determined and an enterprise center at or near the geographic location may be identified. Received user data may be analyzed to identify a user and retrieve access preferences associated with the user. Based on the access preferences, a command to lock or unlock a door (e.g., permit or disable access) to an area within the enterprise center, the enterprise center in general, or the like, may be generated and transmitted to a computing device for execution. Accordingly, the system may activate desired locking configurations based on user preferences. Upon detecting that the user is no longer at the enterprise center, a command to return to default settings may be generated, transmitted and executed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2022
    Publication date: December 29, 2022
    Inventors: David Alan Stern, Lauren Elizabeth Schuler, Christopher Broome
  • Publication number: 20220343365
    Abstract: A campaign profile specifies products and/or content items associated with a campaign. A target group selection engine applies an affinity attribute model to user information of a user. The affinity attribute model is used to determine the user's affinity towards (a) product attributes of the products associated with the campaign and/or (b) content attributes of the content items associated with the campaign. The affinity attribute model may be generated using machine learning. A user interface accepts target user tuning parameters that specify weights to be applied to the affinity attributes determined by the affinity attribute model. Based at least on applying the weights to the affinity attributes, an inclusion score and/or exclusion score for the user is determined. The user is included in a target group, for engaging with the campaign, based on the inclusion score and/or exclusion score.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2022
    Publication date: October 27, 2022
    Applicant: Oracle International Corporation
    Inventors: Venkata Chandrashekar Duvvuri, Jeffrey Alan Stern
  • Patent number: 11477650
    Abstract: Arrangements for dynamic enterprise center access control are provided. In some examples, a user device may be detected and current location and/or user data associated with the detected device may be requested. Upon receiving the location data, a current geographic location of the user device may be determined and an enterprise center at or near the geographic location may be identified. Received user data may be analyzed to identify a user and retrieve access preferences associated with the user. Based on the access preferences, a command to lock or unlock a door (e.g., permit or disable access) to an area within the enterprise center, the enterprise center in general, or the like, may be generated and transmitted to a computing device for execution. Accordingly, the system may activate desired locking configurations based on user preferences. Upon detecting that the user is no longer at the enterprise center, a command to return to default settings may be generated, transmitted and executed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: Bank of America Corporation
    Inventors: David Alan Stern, Lauren Elizabeth Schuler, Christopher Broome
  • Publication number: 20220327575
    Abstract: A campaign profile specifies products and/or content items associated with a campaign. A target group selection engine applies an affinity attribute model to user information of a user. The affinity attribute model is used to determine the user's affinity towards (a) product attributes of the products associated with the campaign and/or (b) content attributes of the content items associated with the campaign. The affinity attribute model may be generated using machine learning. A user interface accepts target user tuning parameters that specify weights to be applied to the affinity attributes determined by the affinity attribute model. Based at least on applying the weights to the affinity attributes, an inclusion score and/or exclusion score for the user is determined. The user is included in a target group, for engaging with the campaign, based on the inclusion score and/or exclusion score.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2022
    Publication date: October 13, 2022
    Applicant: Oracle International Corporation
    Inventors: Venkata Chandrashekar Duvvuri, Jeffrey Alan Stern
  • Patent number: 11430006
    Abstract: A campaign profile specifies products and/or content items associated with a campaign. A target group selection engine applies an affinity attribute model to user information of a user. The affinity attribute model is used to determine the user's affinity towards (a) product attributes of the products associated with the campaign and/or (b) content attributes of the content items associated with the campaign. The affinity attribute model may be generated using machine learning. A user interface accepts target user tuning parameters that specify weights to be applied to the affinity attributes determined by the affinity attribute model. Based at least on applying the weights to the affinity attributes, an inclusion score and/or exclusion score for the user is determined. The user is included in a target group, for engaging with the campaign, based on the inclusion score and/or exclusion score.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: Oracle International Corporation
    Inventors: Venkata Chandrashekar Duvvuri, Jeffrey Alan Stern
  • Publication number: 20210125221
    Abstract: A campaign profile specifies products and/or content items associated with a campaign. A target group selection engine applies an affinity attribute model to user information of a user. The affinity attribute model is used to determine the user's affinity towards (a) product attributes of the products associated with the campaign and/or (b) content attributes of the content items associated with the campaign. The affinity attribute model may be generated using machine learning. A user interface accepts target user tuning parameters that specify weights to be applied to the affinity attributes determined by the affinity attribute model. Based at least on applying the weights to the affinity attributes, an inclusion score and/or exclusion score for the user is determined. The user is included in a target group, for engaging with the campaign, based on the inclusion score and/or exclusion score.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2019
    Publication date: April 29, 2021
    Applicant: Oracle International Corporation
    Inventors: Venkata Chandrashekar Duvvuri, Jeffrey Alan Stern
  • Publication number: 20210067969
    Abstract: Arrangements for dynamic enterprise center access control are provided. In some examples, a user device may be detected and current location and/or user data associated with the detected device may be requested. Upon receiving the location data, a current geographic location of the user device may be determined and an enterprise center at or near the geographic location may be identified. Received user data may be analyzed to identify a user and retrieve access preferences associated with the user. Based on the access preferences, a command to lock or unlock a door (e.g., permit or disable access) to an area within the enterprise center, the enterprise center in general, or the like, may be generated and transmitted to a computing device for execution. Accordingly, the system may activate desired locking configurations based on user preferences. Upon detecting that the user is no longer at the enterprise center, a command to return to default settings may be generated, transmitted and executed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 26, 2019
    Publication date: March 4, 2021
    Inventors: David Alan Stern, Lauren Elizabeth Schuler, Christopher Broome
  • Patent number: 10043187
    Abstract: A system and method for investigating an issue may include defining a set of phrase categories; associating each of a set of recorded interactions with at least one phrase category; receiving a selection of a first time interval and a second time interval; selecting a reference phrase category; calculating, for at least some of the phrase categories in the set of phrase categories a correlation differential based on a trend of the phrase category and a trend of the reference phrase category and, if a correlation differential of a category is larger than a threshold then including the category in the reference category.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2018
    Assignee: NICE LTD.
    Inventors: Jeffrey Alan Stern, Nimrod Cohen
  • Publication number: 20170372323
    Abstract: A system and method for investigating an issue may include defining a set of phrase categories; associating each of a set of recorded interactions with at least one phrase category; receiving a selection of a first time interval and a second time interval; selecting a reference phrase category; calculating, for at least some of the phrase categories in the set of phrase categories a correlation differential based on a trend of the phrase category and a trend of the reference phrase category and, if a correlation differential of a category is larger than a threshold then including the category in the reference category.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2016
    Publication date: December 28, 2017
    Inventors: Jeffrey Alan STERN, Nimrod Cohen
  • Patent number: 9173702
    Abstract: An ablation apparatus places electrodes at the perimeter of a cavity. In an embodiment, the alternating electric field is used to expose the cavity to enough energy to ablate the cavity. In an embodiment, two modes are used to expose different regions of the cavity to different amounts of power for so that the thermal effect is more uniform. In an embodiment, the electrodes have a relatively large surface area so as to avoid charring the cavity, but are shaped so as to fit within a body orifice. For example, the diameter of the sheathed housing the electrodes during penetration may be only 5.5 mm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2015
    Assignee: Cardea Medsystems (Tianjin) Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Roger Alan Stern, Jia Hua Xiao, Jerome Jackson, Grant Michael Glaze
  • Patent number: 8288317
    Abstract: An agrochemical composition includes a homogeneous single-phase liquid crystal in thermodynamic equilibrium. The agrochemical composition can be a surfactant composition or a pesticide composition. The surfactant composition is a blend of surfactants, whereas a pesticide composition has an active ingredient and one or more surfactant adjuvants. A pesticide composition, or a surfactant composition in combination with an active ingredient, may be used to control pests.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2012
    Assignee: Huntsman Petrochemical LLC
    Inventors: Curtis M. Elsik, Joe C. Arzola, Howard M. Stridde, Alan Stern
  • Publication number: 20110112524
    Abstract: An ablation apparatus places electrodes at the perimeter of a cavity. In an embodiment, the alternating electric field is used to expose the cavity to enough energy to ablate the cavity. In an embodiment, two modes are used to expose different regions of the cavity to different amounts of power for so that the thermal effect is more uniform. In an embodiment, the electrodes have a relatively large surface area so as to avoid charring the cavity, but are shaped so as to fit within a body orifice. For example, the diameter of the sheathed housing the electrodes during penetration may be only 5.5 mm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2010
    Publication date: May 12, 2011
    Inventors: Roger Alan Stern, Jia Hua Xiao, Jerome Jackson, Grant Michael Glaze
  • Publication number: 20100105559
    Abstract: An agrochemical composition includes a homogeneous single-phase liquid crystal in thermodynamic equilibrium. The agrochemical composition can be a surfactant composition or a pesticide composition. The surfactant composition is a blend of surfactants, whereas a pesticide composition has an active ingredient and one or more surfactant adjuvants. A pesticide composition, or a surfactant composition in combination with an active ingredient, may be used to control pests.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 9, 2007
    Publication date: April 29, 2010
    Applicant: Huntsman Petrochemical Corporation
    Inventors: Curtis M. Elsik, Joe C. Arzola, Howard M. Stridde, Alan Stern
  • Publication number: 20070244216
    Abstract: This invention concerns novel dispersants that are the reaction products of succinic anhydride-containing resins with certain amines. These water soluble dispersants have been found to be unique and highly effective dispersants for water insoluble agricultural suspension concentrate formulations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2007
    Publication date: October 18, 2007
    Inventor: Alan Stern
  • Publication number: 20070196413
    Abstract: Provided herein are granular carriers which are impregnated with an agriculturally active ingredient and a surfactant. The compositions of the invention provide increased efficacy over granules of the prior art.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2004
    Publication date: August 23, 2007
    Applicant: Huntsman Petrochemical Corporation
    Inventors: Alan Stern, Christopher Whewell