Patents by Inventor Bart Thomee

Bart Thomee 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: 11423126
    Abstract: Disclosed are systems and methods for improving interactions with and between computers in content providing, generating, securing and/or hosting systems supported by or configured with personal computing devices, servers and/or platforms. The systems interact to identify and retrieve data within or across platforms, which can be used to improve the security and quality of data used in processing interactions between or among processors in such systems. The disclosed systems and methods provide added security features and functionality to media files through computerized, automated encoding and decoding of portions of media file content such that identified portions of the content are obfuscated upon display and communication to other users. The disclosed systems and methods provide a novel, computerized security feature(s) that protects data of media files from unintended exposure to third parties.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Bart Thomee, Lyndon Kennedy, Ioannis Kalantidis
  • Publication number: 20200012764
    Abstract: Disclosed are systems and methods for improving interactions with and between computers in content providing, generating, securing and/or hosting systems supported by or configured with personal computing devices, servers and/or platforms. The systems interact to identify and retrieve data within or across platforms, which can be used to improve the security and quality of data used in processing interactions between or among processors in such systems. The disclosed systems and methods provide added security features and functionality to media files through computerized, automated encoding and decoding of portions of media file content such that identified portions of the content are obfuscated upon display and communication to other users. The disclosed systems and methods provide a novel, computerized security feature(s) that protects data of media files from unintended exposure to third parties.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2019
    Publication date: January 9, 2020
    Inventors: Bart THOMEE, Lyndon KENNEDY, Ioannis KALANTIDIS
  • Patent number: 10467387
    Abstract: Disclosed are systems and methods for improving interactions with and between computers in content providing, generating, securing and/or hosting systems supported by or configured with personal computing devices, servers and/or platforms. The systems interact to identify and retrieve data within or across platforms, which can be used to improve the security and quality of data used in processing interactions between or among processors in such systems. The disclosed systems and methods provide added security features and functionality to media files through computerized, automated encoding and decoding of portions of media file content such that identified portions of the content are obfuscated upon display and communication to other users. The disclosed systems and methods provide a novel, computerized security feature(s) that protects data of media files from unintended exposure to third parties.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Assignee: OATH INC.
    Inventors: Bart Thomee, Lyndon Kennedy, Ioannis Kalantidis
  • Patent number: 10037327
    Abstract: Geo-referenced and oriented media items may be used to determine a location of one or more points of interest depicted by the media items. A difference between an actual capture location and orientation and a reported location and orientation may be modeled according to one or more distributions, which distribution(s) may be used to assign one or more weights to each location in the world where such weight(s) may be considered to be a likelihood that a point of interest might have been seen by a capturing device. A density map may be acquired by superimposing the derived likelihoods, and a maximum, e.g., local maximum, may be determined to represent a location of a point of interest.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2018
    Assignee: EXCALIBUR IP, LLC
    Inventor: Bart Thomee
  • Patent number: 9881075
    Abstract: Geo-referenced and oriented media items may be used to determine a location of one or more points of interest depicted by the media items. A difference between an actual capture location and orientation and a reported location and orientation may be modeled according to one or more distributions, which distribution(s) may be used to assign one or more weights to each location in the world where such weight(s) may be considered to be a likelihood that a point of interest might have been seen by a capturing device. A density map may be acquired by superimposing the derived likelihoods, and a maximum, e.g., local maximum, may be determined to represent a location of a point of interest.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: EXCALIBUR IP, LLC
    Inventors: Bart Thomee, David Ayman Shamma
  • Publication number: 20170372046
    Abstract: Disclosed are systems and methods for improving interactions with and between computers in content providing, generating, securing and/or hosting systems supported by or configured with personal computing devices, servers and/or platforms. The systems interact to identify and retrieve data within or across platforms, which can be used to improve the security and quality of data used in processing interactions between or among processors in such systems. The disclosed systems and methods provide added security features and functionality to media files through computerized, automated encoding and decoding of portions of media file content such that identified portions of the content are obfuscated upon display and communication to other users. The disclosed systems and methods provide a novel, computerized security feature(s) that protects data of media files from unintended exposure to third parties.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2016
    Publication date: December 28, 2017
    Inventors: Bart Thomee, Lyndon Kennedy, Ioannis Kalantidis
  • Patent number: 9589322
    Abstract: Briefly, the disclosure describes embodiments of methods or apparatuses for processing, such as smoothing, a set of labeled measurements at a variety of scale levels. In one or more non-limiting embodiments purely for illustrative purposes, relatively fine details of labeled measurements may be displayed utilizing a relatively low-scale map, such as a map showing individual towns and/or villages. For display utilizing a relatively higher scale map, such as a map showing larger geopolitical areas, for example, relatively fine details may be omitted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2017
    Assignee: Yahoo! Inc.
    Inventors: Adam Rae, Bart Thomee
  • Publication number: 20160321269
    Abstract: Geo-referenced and oriented media items may be used to determine a location of one or more points of interest depicted by the media items. A difference between an actual capture location and orientation and a reported location and orientation may be modeled according to one or more distributions, which distribution(s) may be used to assign one or more weights to each location in the world where such weight(s) may be considered to be a likelihood that a point of interest might have been seen by a capturing device. A density map may be acquired by superimposing the derived likelihoods, and a maximum, e.g., local maximum, may be determined to represent a location of a point of interest.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 8, 2016
    Publication date: November 3, 2016
    Inventor: Bart THOMEE
  • Patent number: 9390104
    Abstract: Geo-referenced and oriented media items may be used to determine a location of one or more points of interest depicted by the media items. A difference between an actual capture location and orientation and a reported location and orientation may be modeled according to one or more distributions, which distribution(s) may be used to assign one or more weights to each location in the world where such weight(s) may be considered to be a likelihood that a point of interest might have been seen by a capturing device. A density map may be acquired by superimposing the derived likelihoods, and a maximum, e.g., local maximum, may be determined to represent a location of a point of interest.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2016
    Assignee: Excalibur IP, LLC
    Inventor: Bart Thomee
  • Publication number: 20160086310
    Abstract: Briefly, the disclosure describes embodiments of methods or apparatuses for processing, such as smoothing, a set of labeled measurements at a variety of scale levels. In one or more non-limiting embodiments purely for illustrative purposes, relatively fine details of labeled measurements may be displayed utilizing a relatively low-scale map, such as a map showing individual towns and/or villages. For display utilizing a relatively higher scale map, such as a map showing larger geopolitical areas, for example, relatively fine details may be omitted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2015
    Publication date: March 24, 2016
    Inventors: Adam Rae, Bart Thomee
  • Patent number: 9269125
    Abstract: Briefly, the disclosure describes embodiments of methods or apparatuses for visualizing regions characterized by a set of labeled measurements at a variety of scale levels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2016
    Assignee: Yahoo! Inc.
    Inventors: Bart Thomee, Adam Rae
  • Patent number: 9235890
    Abstract: Briefly, the disclosure describes embodiments of methods or apparatuses for processing, such as smoothing, a set of labeled measurements at a variety of scale levels. In one or more non-limiting embodiments purely for illustrative purposes, relatively fine details of labeled measurements may be displayed utilizing a relatively low-scale map, such as a map showing individual towns and/or villages. For display utilizing a relatively higher scale map, such as a map showing larger geopolitical areas, for example, relatively fine details may be omitted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2016
    Assignee: Yahoo! Inc.
    Inventors: Adam Rae, Bart Thomee
  • Patent number: 9058666
    Abstract: Briefly, embodiments of methods and/or apparatuses for processing, at a variety of scale levels, labeled measurements in sub-regions to form a region characterized by a set of labeled measurements is described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2015
    Assignee: Yahoo! Inc.
    Inventors: Bart Thomee, Adam Rae
  • Publication number: 20150039631
    Abstract: Geo-referenced and oriented media items may be used to determine a location of one or more points of interest depicted by the media items. A difference between an actual capture location and orientation and a reported location and orientation may be modeled according to one or more distributions, which distribution(s) may be used to assign one or more weights to each location in the world where such weight(s) may be considered to be a likelihood that a point of interest might have been seen by a capturing device. A density map may be acquired by superimposing the derived likelihoods, and a maximum, e.g., local maximum, may be determined to represent a location of a point of interest.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2014
    Publication date: February 5, 2015
    Inventors: Bart Thomee, David Ayman Shamma
  • Publication number: 20150039630
    Abstract: Geo-referenced and oriented media items may be used to determine a location of one or more points of interest depicted by the media items. A difference between an actual capture location and orientation and a reported location and orientation may be modeled according to one or more distributions, which distribution(s) may be used to assign one or more weights to each location in the world where such weight(s) may be considered to be a likelihood that a point of interest might have been seen by a capturing device. A density map may be acquired by superimposing the derived likelihoods, and a maximum, e.g., local maximum, may be determined to represent a location of a point of interest.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2013
    Publication date: February 5, 2015
    Applicant: Yahoo! Inc.
    Inventor: Bart Thomee
  • Publication number: 20140270525
    Abstract: Briefly, embodiments of methods and/or apparatuses for processing, at a variety of scale levels, labeled measurements in sub-regions to form a region characterized by a set of labeled measurements is described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Publication date: September 18, 2014
    Inventors: Bart Thomee, Adam Rae
  • Publication number: 20140270522
    Abstract: Briefly, the disclosure describes embodiments of methods or apparatuses for processing, such as smoothing, a set of labeled measurements at a variety of scale levels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Publication date: September 18, 2014
    Applicant: YAHOO! INC.
    Inventors: Adam Rae, Bart Thomee
  • Publication number: 20140267433
    Abstract: Briefly, the disclosure describes embodiments of methods or apparatuses for visualizing regions characterized by a set of labeled measurements at a variety of scale levels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Publication date: September 18, 2014
    Applicant: Yahoo! Inc.
    Inventors: Bart Thomee, Adam Rae