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).

  • Publication number: 20240061915
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: August 17, 2022
    Publication date: February 22, 2024
    Inventors: Su Liu, Barton Wayne Emanuel, Hamid Majdabadi, YANG LIANG
  • Patent number: 11783207
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Barton Wayne Emanuel, Nadiya Kochura, Tiberiu Suto, Vinod A. Valecha
  • Publication number: 20230177858
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2021
    Publication date: June 8, 2023
    Inventors: Barton Wayne Emanuel, Nadiya Kochura, Su Liu, Tetsuya SHIMADA
  • Patent number: 11477042
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Zachary A. Silverstein, Barton Wayne Emanuel, Su Liu, Jeremy R. Fox
  • Publication number: 20220271965
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2021
    Publication date: August 25, 2022
    Inventors: Zachary A. Silverstein, Barton Wayne Emanuel, Su Liu, Jeremy R. Fox
  • Publication number: 20210256398
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: February 18, 2020
    Publication date: August 19, 2021
    Inventors: Barton Wayne Emanuel, Nadiya Kochura, Tiberiu Suto, Vinod A. Valecha
  • Patent number: 8352386
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2013
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Srinivas Varma Chitiveli, Barton Wayne Emanuel, Alexander Wolcott Holt, Michael E. Moran
  • Patent number: 8150843
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2012
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Srinivas Varma Chitiveli, Barton Wayne Emanuel, Alexander Wolcott Holt, Michael E. Moran