Patents by Inventor Alan Stiffler

Alan Stiffler 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).

  • Publication number: 20230305844
    Abstract: Various techniques for accelerating dynamic programming algorithms are provided. For example, a fused addition and comparison instruction, a three-operand comparison instruction, and a two-operand comparison instruction are used to accelerate a Needleman-Wunsch algorithm that determines an optimized global alignment of subsequences over two entire sequences. In another example, the fused addition and comparison instruction is used in an innermost loop of a Floyd-Warshall algorithm to reduce the number of instructions required to determine shortest paths between pairs of vertices in a graph. In another example, a two-way single instruction multiple data (SIMD) floating point variant of the three-operand comparison instruction is used to reduce the number of instructions required to determine the median of an array of floating point values.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2022
    Publication date: September 28, 2023
    Inventors: Maciej Piotr TYRLIK, Ajay Sudarshan TIRUMALA, Shirish GADRE, Frank Joseph EATON, Daniel Alan STIFFLER
  • Publication number: 20230128054
    Abstract: A method including: receiving a user report dataset indicating fraudulent activity corresponding to a phone number; responsive to receiving the user report dataset, identifying a record in a database corresponding to the phone number; and tagging the record to identify the phone number as being associated with fraudulent activity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2022
    Publication date: April 27, 2023
    Inventors: Sriram Sharma, Michael Kimmel, Suk Yee Wong, William Carter, Manisha Bhat, Pamela J. Carter, Sanjeev Chauhan, Ryan Karnas, Alan Stiffler, Dewang Lakhani
  • Patent number: 11563860
    Abstract: A method for identifying a fraudulent phone number is provided. The method includes receiving a user report dataset indicating fraudulent activity corresponding to a phone number, and responsive to receiving the user report dataset, identifying a record in a database corresponding to the phone number. The method further includes tagging the record to identify the phone number as being associated with fraudulent activity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignee: Somos, Inc.
    Inventors: Sriram Sharma, Michael Kimmel, Suk Yee Wong, William Carter, Manisha Bhat, Pamela J. Carter, Sanjeev Chauhan, Ryan Karnas, Alan Stiffler, Dewang Lakhani
  • Publication number: 20220239648
    Abstract: An apparatus for an Internet of Things device registry display includes a user input processing circuit structured to interpret one or more user input command values, an Internet of Things Universal Identification (IoT UID) identification circuit structured to determine one or more IoT UIDs, based at least in part on the one or more user input command values, a device lookup circuit structured to: generate a query that includes the one or more IoT UIDs, and retrieve device property data corresponding to the one or more IoT UIDs, a query provisioning circuit structured to transmit the query to an IoT device registrar server, a device property processing circuit structured to interpret the device property data generated by the IoT device registrar server in response to the query, and a display circuit structured to display the device property data with the corresponding one or more IoT UIDs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2022
    Publication date: July 28, 2022
    Inventors: Sridhar Ramachandran, Eduardo Correia da Silva Brazao, Steven Norman Brumer, Ian Michael Klein, Li Kong, Marc Rudloff Plante, Kimberly Tashner Shyu, Robert Janusz Sliwa, Jeffrey Scott Smith, Christopher Anton Wendt, Haofang Yu, Sriram Sharma, Michael Kimmel, Suk Yee Wong, William Carter, Manisha Bhat, Pamela J. Carter, Sanjeev Chauhan, Ryan Karnas, Alan Stiffler, Dewang Lakhani
  • Publication number: 20210037142
    Abstract: A method for identifying a fraudulent phone number is provided. The method includes receiving a user report dataset indicating fraudulent activity corresponding to a phone number, and responsive to receiving the user report dataset, identifying a record in a database corresponding to the phone number. The method further includes tagging the record to identify the phone number as being associated with fraudulent activity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2020
    Publication date: February 4, 2021
    Inventors: Sriram Sharma, Michael Kimmel, Suk Yee Wong, William Carter, Manisha Bhat, Pamela J. Carter, Sanjeev Chauhan, Ryan Karnas, Alan Stiffler, Dewang Lakhani
  • Patent number: 10778852
    Abstract: A Toll-Free Management Platform (TFMP) includes methods and systems for number administration, customer administration, call management services, texting services and text registry, and a smart services registry. The TFMP may allow users to receive through a web-based interface, an activate request from a user, wherein the request includes at least a customer record template reference and an indication of when to active a toll-free telecommunications number associated with the request. The request may include at least one IP address datum associated with the toll-free telecommunications number. A user interface may allow activating a toll-free number, and users may access the TFMP to create and access existing templates of toll-free call routing templates, and utilize a routing tree engine to create customized call routing trees for the toll-free numbers of interest to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2020
    Assignee: Somos, Inc.
    Inventors: Sriram Sharma, William Carter, Manisha Bhat, Pamela J. Carter, Sanjeev Chauhan, Ryan Karnas, Michael Kimmel, Suk Yee Wong, Alan Stiffler, Dewang Lakhani
  • Publication number: 20200128134
    Abstract: A Toll-Free Management Platform (TFMP) includes methods and systems for number administration, customer administration, call management services, texting services and text registry, and a smart services registry. The TFMP may allow users to receive through a web-based interface, an activate request from a user, wherein the request includes at least a customer record template reference and an indication of when to active a toll-free telecommunications number associated with the request. The request may include at least one IP address datum associated with the toll-free telecommunications number. A user interface may allow activating a toll-free number, and users may access the TFMP to create and access existing templates of toll-free call routing templates, and utilize a routing tree engine to create customized call routing trees for the toll-free numbers of interest to the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2019
    Publication date: April 23, 2020
    Inventors: Sriram Sharma, William Carter, Manisha Bhat, Pamela J. Carter, Sanjeev Chauhan, Ryan Karnas, Michael Kimmel, Suk Yee Wong, Alan Stiffler, Dewang Lakhani
  • Patent number: 10382631
    Abstract: A Toll-Free Management Platform (TFMP) includes methods and systems for number administration, customer administration, call management services, texting services and text registry, and a smart services registry. The TFMP may allow users to receive through a web-based interface, an activate request from a user, wherein the request includes at least a customer record template reference and an indication of when to active a toll-free telecommunications number associated with the request. The request may include at least one IP address datum associated with the toll-free telecommunications number. A user interface may allow activating a toll-free number, and users may access the TFMP to create and access existing templates of toll-free call routing templates, and utilize a routing tree engine to create customized call routing trees for the toll-free numbers of interest to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Assignee: Somos, Inc.
    Inventors: Sriram Sharma, William Carter, Manisha Bhat, Pamela J. Carter, Sanjeev Chauhan, Ryan Karnas, Michael Kimmel, Suk Yee Wong, Alan Stiffler, Dewang Lakhani
  • Publication number: 20190089844
    Abstract: A Toll-Free Management Platform (TFMP) includes methods and systems for number administration, customer administration, call management services, texting services and text registry, and a smart services registry. The TFMP may allow users to receive through a web-based interface, an activate request from a user, wherein the request includes at least a customer record template reference and an indication of when to active a toll-free telecommunications number associated with the request. The request may include at least one IP address datum associated with the toll-free telecommunications number. A user interface may allow activating a toll-free number, and users may access the TFMP to create and access existing templates of toll-free call routing templates, and utilize a routing tree engine to create customized call routing trees for the toll-free numbers of interest to the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2018
    Publication date: March 21, 2019
    Inventors: Sriram Sharma, William Carter, Manisha Bhat, Pamela J. Carter, Sanjeev Chauhan, Ryan Karnas, Michael Kimmel, Suk Yee Wong, Alan Stiffler, Dewang Lakhani
  • Patent number: 9992352
    Abstract: A Toll-Free Management Platform (TFMP) includes methods and systems for number administration, customer administration, call management services, texting services and text registry, and a smart services registry. The TFMP may allow users to receive through a web-based interface, an activate request from a user, wherein the request includes at least a customer record template reference and an indication of when to active a toll-free telecommunications number associated with the request. The request may include at least one IP address datum associated with the toll-free telecommunications number. A user interface may allow activating a toll-free number, and users may access the TFMP to create and access existing templates of toll-free call routing templates, and utilize a routing tree engine to create customized call routing trees for the toll-free numbers of interest to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2018
    Assignee: Somos, Inc.
    Inventors: Sriram Sharma, William Carter, Manisha Bhat, Pamela J. Carter, Sanjeev Chauhan, Ryan Karnas, Michael Kimmel, Suk Yee Wong, Alan Stiffler, Dewang Lakhani
  • Publication number: 20170180567
    Abstract: A Toll-Free Management Platform (TFMP) includes methods and systems for number administration, customer administration, call management services, texting services and text registry, and a smart services registry. The TFMP may allow users to receive through a web-based interface, an activate request from a user, wherein the request includes at least a customer record template reference and an indication of when to active a toll-free telecommunications number associated with the request. The request may include at least one IP address datum associated with the toll-free telecommunications number. A user interface may allow activating a toll-free number, and users may access the TFMP to create and access existing templates of toll-free call routing templates, and utilize a routing tree engine to create customized call routing trees for the toll-free numbers of interest to the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2017
    Publication date: June 22, 2017
    Inventors: Sriram Sharma, William Carter, Manisha Bhat, Pamela J. Carter, Sanjeev Chauhan, Ryan Karnas, Michael Kimmel, Suk Yee Wong, Alan Stiffler, Dewang Lakhani