Patents by Inventor Barton Wayne Emanuel
Barton Wayne Emanuel 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).
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Patent number: 12326926Abstract: Described are techniques for handwriting authentication. The techniques include defining handwriting characteristics for a user based on a set of handwriting authentication criteria. The techniques further include receiving, from a graphical user interface (GUI) of a user device associated with the user, a handwritten phrase. The techniques further include determining that the handwritten phrase satisfies a comparison threshold to the handwriting characteristics and authenticating the user device.Type: GrantFiled: August 17, 2022Date of Patent: June 10, 2025Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Su Liu, Barton Wayne Emanuel, Hamid Majdabadi, Yang Liang
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Patent number: 12080089Abstract: A computer-implemented method, a computer system and a computer program product enhance machine translation of a document. The method includes capturing an image of the document. The document includes a plurality of characters that are arranged in a character layout. The method also includes classifying the image by a document type based on the character layout. The method further includes determining a strategy for an intelligent character recognition (ICR) algorithm with the image based on the character layout of the image. Lastly, the method includes generating a translated document by applying the intelligent character recognition (ICR) algorithm to the plurality of characters in the image using the strategy. The translated document includes a plurality of translated characters that are arranged in the character layout.Type: GrantFiled: December 8, 2021Date of Patent: September 3, 2024Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Barton Wayne Emanuel, Nadiya Kochura, Su Liu, Tetsuya Shimada
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Publication number: 20240061915Abstract: Described are techniques for handwriting authentication. The techniques include defining handwriting characteristics for a user based on a set of handwriting authentication criteria. The techniques further include receiving, from a graphical user interface (GUI) of a user device associated with the user, a handwritten phrase. The techniques further include determining that the handwritten phrase satisfies a comparison threshold to the handwriting characteristics and authenticating the user device.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 17, 2022Publication date: February 22, 2024Inventors: Su Liu, Barton Wayne Emanuel, Hamid Majdabadi, YANG LIANG
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Patent number: 11783207Abstract: A system includes a memory having instructions therein and at least one processor in communication with the memory. The at least one processor is configured to execute the instructions to acquire phytomorphological field data via a sensor component of a mobile robot, generate, based on the phytomorphological field data and via a machine learning agent, a predicted likelihood of whether a hypothetical action by the mobile robot against a found plant would be directed against a true Toxicodendron plant, conduct a non-phytomorphological assessment of the found plant via the mobile robot and based on the predicted likelihood being below a first threshold and above a second threshold, and, via the mobile robot and based on the non-phytomorphological assessment, attack the found plant, mark a site of the found plant, and/or document a context of the site.Type: GrantFiled: February 18, 2020Date of Patent: October 10, 2023Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Barton Wayne Emanuel, Nadiya Kochura, Tiberiu Suto, Vinod A. Valecha
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Publication number: 20230177858Abstract: A computer-implemented method, a computer system and a computer program product enhance machine translation of a document. The method includes capturing an image of the document. The document includes a plurality of characters that are arranged in a character layout. The method also includes classifying the image by a document type based on the character layout. The method further includes determining a strategy for an intelligent character recognition (ICR) algorithm with the image based on the character layout of the image. Lastly, the method includes generating a translated document by applying the intelligent character recognition (ICR) algorithm to the plurality of characters in the image using the strategy. The translated document includes a plurality of translated characters that are arranged in the character layout.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 8, 2021Publication date: June 8, 2023Inventors: Barton Wayne Emanuel, Nadiya Kochura, Su Liu, Tetsuya SHIMADA
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Patent number: 11477042Abstract: A management layer for electronic or virtual meeting tools is configured to automatically manage a virtual meeting environment established between computing devices using time based controls, data collection, and feedback mechanisms.Type: GrantFiled: February 19, 2021Date of Patent: October 18, 2022Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Zachary A. Silverstein, Barton Wayne Emanuel, Su Liu, Jeremy R. Fox
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Publication number: 20220271965Abstract: A management layer for electronic or virtual meeting tools is configured to automatically manage a virtual meeting environment established between computing devices using time based controls, data collection, and feedback mechanisms.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 19, 2021Publication date: August 25, 2022Inventors: Zachary A. Silverstein, Barton Wayne Emanuel, Su Liu, Jeremy R. Fox
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Publication number: 20210256398Abstract: A system includes a memory having instructions therein and at least one processor in communication with the memory. The at least one processor is configured to execute the instructions to acquire phytomorphological field data via a sensor component of a mobile robot, generate, based on the phytomorphological field data and via a machine learning agent, a predicted likelihood of whether a hypothetical action by the mobile robot against a found plant would be directed against a true Toxicodendron plant, conduct a non-phytomorphological assessment of the found plant via the mobile robot and based on the predicted likelihood being below a first threshold and above a second threshold, and, via the mobile robot and based on the non-phytomorphological assessment, attack the found plant, mark a site of the found plant, and/or document a context of the site.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 18, 2020Publication date: August 19, 2021Inventors: Barton Wayne Emanuel, Nadiya Kochura, Tiberiu Suto, Vinod A. Valecha
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Patent number: 8352386Abstract: Systems, methods and articles of manufacture are disclosed for identifying a training document for a content classifier. One or more thresholds may be defined for designating a document as a training document for a content classifier. A plurality of documents may be evaluated to compute a score for each respective document. The score may represent suitability of a document for training the content classifier with respect to a category. The score may be computed based on content of the plurality of documents, metadata of the plurality of documents, link structure of the plurality of documents, user feedback (e.g., user supplied document tags) received for the plurality of documents, and document metrics received for the plurality of documents. Based on the computed scores, a training document may be selected. The content classifier may be trained using the selected training document.Type: GrantFiled: July 2, 2009Date of Patent: January 8, 2013Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Srinivas Varma Chitiveli, Barton Wayne Emanuel, Alexander Wolcott Holt, Michael E. Moran
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Patent number: 8150843Abstract: Systems, methods and articles of manufacture are disclosed for generating search results based on user feedback. A request may be received to generate search results retrieved using a search string. The request may include user feedback for one or more selected documents of the search results. Improved search results may be generated based on the search results and the feedback for one or more selected documents of the search results. The improved search results may be output to a graphical display device.Type: GrantFiled: July 2, 2009Date of Patent: April 3, 2012Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Srinivas Varma Chitiveli, Barton Wayne Emanuel, Alexander Wolcott Holt, Michael E. Moran