Patents by Inventor Bruce Pollock

Bruce Pollock 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: 11282153
    Abstract: Medical services are offered by various facilities near a patient's residence. The number of facility optimization procedures continues to grow and the patients and facilities can now apply new logic processes and patient incentives, etc., to maximize efficiency and budgetary concerns. One example method of operation provides receiving a request to schedule a medical care visit at a medical facility from a user device associated with a user account, scheduling the first appointment for a first appointment time on an appointment list and identifying an open appointment time in the appointment list for the same day. The method may also include transmitting a notification to the user device associated with a user account that is eligible for an appointment rescheduling event, and receiving a response message confirming a schedule change responsive to the notification being transmitted the user device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: INTRADO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Douglas R. Albro, Kenneth A. Darby, Robert J. Dudzinski, Michael J. Masching, Pamela Ann Mortenson, Bruce Pollock, Hendryanto Rilantono
  • Patent number: 11232480
    Abstract: The illustrative embodiments described herein provide systems and methods for managing advertisements for advertisers. In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a set of advertising preferences from an advertiser. The set of advertising preferences includes advertiser-definable criteria controlling when to initiate an advertisement associated with the advertiser. The method also includes monitoring a set of events associated with event data to determine whether to initiate the advertisement during an event. The set of events are viewable on an interfacing device associated with a user. The method also includes initiating the advertisement during the event in response to the event data for the event meeting the criteria defined by the advertiser.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: Intrado Corporation
    Inventors: Bruce Pollock, Erika Nelson Kessenger
  • Patent number: 11114190
    Abstract: Medical services are offered by various facilities near a patient's residence. The number of facility options continues to grow and the patients can now identify rankings and offer their own input regarding satisfaction of certain facilities. One example method of operation provides identifying a number of feedback messages associated with a particular medical facility, parsing the feedback messages to identify negative feedback associated with the feedback messages, notifying the medical facility of the negative feedback, and transmitting suggestions to increase productivity and reduce subsequent negative feedback messages for subsequent patient visits to the medical facility.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: West Corporation
    Inventors: Douglas R. Albro, Kenneth A. Darby, Robert J. Dudzinski, Michael J. Masching, Pamela Ann Mortenson, Bruce Pollock, Hendryanto Rilantono
  • Patent number: 10652192
    Abstract: In a system, method and computer readable medium for managing message delivery, message delivery jobs are dynamically prioritized into a plurality of priority queues based on a delivery timeframe for each job. A delivery manager controls delivery of the message delivery jobs through a number of delivery channels and ports. A priority manager reviews jobs pending in the queues. If the priority manager determines that a message delivery job will not be completed within its delivery timeframe, the priority manager assigns a higher priority to the message delivery job.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: West Corporation
    Inventors: Gary Douglas Pulford, Bruce Pollock, Ian James Juliano, James P. Breen
  • Patent number: 10582047
    Abstract: A call center system is configured to record call data into call records. A transfer center within the call center transfers the call records to a database. A query engine, controlled from an interactive user interface, executes queries on the call data records in the database, allowing real-time analysis of the call data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2020
    Assignee: West Corporation
    Inventors: Michael J. Moore, Anne Marie Giles, Denise Ann Mallory, Erika Nelson Kessenger, Bruce Pollock, Claire Denise Matt
  • Patent number: 10575144
    Abstract: A method and apparatus of modifying user content data on a mobile station are disclosed. One example method of displaying customized content data on a mobile station may include receiving the content data at the mobile station, and modifying the content data based on predefined viewing preferences of the user. The modified content may then be displayed on a display interface of the mobile station allowing the user to view the content based on their specified preferences.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: West Corporation
    Inventors: Erika Nelson Kessenger, Bruce Pollock
  • Publication number: 20200011885
    Abstract: Provided herein are methods for determining the level of muscarinic acetylcholine receptor subtype-(M1 receptor) anticholinergic activity in a blood serum sample, the method comprising the steps of removing protein from the blood serum sample by treatment with perchloric acid (PCA) to produce a PCA-treated serum sample; incubating the PCA-treated serum sample with a membrane preparation from cultured cells expressing the M1 receptor and an M1 receptor ligand; detecting an amount of binding of the M1 receptor ligand to the M1 receptor and comparing the amount of binding to a standard to determine the level of M1 receptor anticholinergic activity in the blood serum sample. Also provided are kits for performing the method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2018
    Publication date: January 9, 2020
    Inventors: Jose NOBREGA, Bruce POLLOCK, Roger RAYMOND
  • Patent number: 10410260
    Abstract: A cloud access cost estimate application may receive a request message for access to at least one cloud application from a client computing device and identify one or more application cost variables corresponding to the cloud application identified. The application may then calculate a cost estimate to use the at least one cloud application, and transmit the cost estimate to the client computing device for approval prior to providing access to the at least one cloud application. A user interface may provide purchase options to demonstrate various options based on cost variables so a user device may identify the cost option best suited for the application usage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2019
    Assignee: West Corporation
    Inventor: Bruce Pollock
  • Patent number: 10367941
    Abstract: Communication between callers and call center agents may be optimized. A request message may be transmitted to an application services module to connect with an agent associated with the selection. A contact number of a proxy server may be received from the application service module. The contact number may be utilized to connect with the agent via the proxy server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2019
    Assignee: West Corporation
    Inventors: James K. Boutcher, Bruce Pollock
  • Patent number: 10262384
    Abstract: Medical services are offered by various facilities near a patient's residence. The number of facility options continues to grow and the patients can now identify rankings and offer their own input regarding satisfaction of certain facilities. One example method of operation provides identifying a number of feedback messages associated with a particular medical facility, parsing the feedback messages to identify negative feedback associated with the feedback messages, notifying the medical facility of the negative feedback, and transmitting suggestions to increase productivity and reduce subsequent negative feedback messages for subsequent patient visits to the medical facility.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2019
    Assignee: West Corporation
    Inventors: Douglas R. Albro, Kenneth A. Darby, Robert J. Dudzinski, Michael J. Masching, Pamela Ann Mortenson, Bruce Pollock, Hendryanto Rilantono
  • Patent number: 10250545
    Abstract: In a system, method and computer readable medium for managing message delivery, message delivery jobs are dynamically prioritized into a plurality of priority queues based on a delivery timeframe for each job. A delivery manager controls delivery of the message delivery jobs through a number of delivery channels and ports. A priority manager reviews jobs pending in the queues. If the priority manager determines that a message delivery job will not be completed within its delivery timeframe, the priority manager assigns a higher priority to the message delivery job.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2019
    Assignee: West Corporation
    Inventors: Gary Douglas Pulford, Bruce Pollock, Ian James Juliano, James P. Breen
  • Patent number: 10244108
    Abstract: A call center system is configured to record call data into call records. A transfer center within the call center transfers the call records to a database. A query engine, controlled from an interactive user interface, executes queries on the call data records in the database, allowing real-time analysis of the call data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2019
    Assignee: West Corporation
    Inventors: Michael J. Moore, Anne Marie Giles, Denise Ann Mallory, Erika Nelson Kessenger, Bruce Pollock, Claire Denise Matt
  • Patent number: 10123094
    Abstract: The illustrative embodiments described herein provide systems and methods for movie identification based on a location. In the embodiment, a method includes locating a mobile communication device associated with a user to form location data, accessing a location database to determine a geographic location of the mobile communication device based on the location data, and identifying a set of movies related to the geographic location by accessing a movie database. Each of the set of movies in the movie database is associated with one or more respective geographic locations. The method also includes presenting a set of movie results corresponding to the set of movies on a graphical user interface of the mobile communication device. In another embodiment, the method may also validate an object photographed by a camera of the mobile communication device, and use the recognized object to identify the set of movies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2018
    Assignee: West Corporation
    Inventors: Erika Nelson Kessenger, Bruce Pollock
  • Patent number: 10091359
    Abstract: Communication between callers and call center agents may be optimized. A request message may be transmitted to an application services module to connect with an agent associated with the selection. A contact number of a proxy server may be received from the application service module. The contact number may be utilized to connect with the agent via the proxy server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2018
    Assignee: West Corporation
    Inventors: James K. Boutcher, Bruce Pollock
  • Patent number: 10074059
    Abstract: Medical services are offered by various facilities near a patient's residence. The number of facility optimization procedures continues to grow and the patients and facilities can now apply new logic processes and patient profiling, etc., to maximize efficiency and budgetary concerns. One example method of operation provides receiving a request to schedule a medical care visit at a medical facility and identifying a user account associated with the request and the user's medical history. The method may also include identifying the user account as having a delinquent compliance score, and scheduling the medical care visit in a delinquent appointment time slot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2018
    Assignee: West Corporation
    Inventors: Douglas R. Albro, Kenneth A. Darby, Robert J. Dudzinski, Michael J. Masching, Pamela Ann Mortenson, Bruce Pollock, Hendryanto Rilantono
  • Patent number: 9955010
    Abstract: A method, a system, and computer readable medium comprising instructions for real time adjustment for better caller experience are provided. The method comprises obtaining caller experience of a call flow, notifying a service provider of the caller experience, receiving at least one corrective action from the service provider, and implementing the at least one corrective action for better caller experience.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2018
    Assignee: West Corporation
    Inventors: James Elwood Milroy, Bruce Pollock
  • Patent number: 9866516
    Abstract: A method and apparatus of processing communications with end users are disclosed. One example method may include detecting a message or post on a website over the Internet that matches a monitoring company's keywords or rules and processing the message by parsing the message and performing a natural language interpretation of the message and processing the parsed message to determine the user's topic of interest. In response, the method may further provide generating a response to the message based on the user's requested objective and sending the response to the user acknowledging the user's topic of interest. Live agents may be notified to check the status of a message and continually override automated message responses to ensure the integrity of the responses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2018
    Assignee: Open Invention Network, LLC
    Inventors: Aaron Scott Fisher, Bruce Pollock, Silke Witt-ehsani
  • Patent number: 9820014
    Abstract: The illustrative embodiments described herein provide systems and methods for movie identification based on a location. In the embodiment, a method includes locating a mobile communication device associated with a user to form location data, accessing a location database to determine a geographic location of the mobile communication device based on the location data, and identifying a set of movies related to the geographic location by accessing a movie database. Each of the set of movies in the movie database is associated with one or more respective geographic locations. The method also includes presenting a set of movie results corresponding to the set of movies on a graphical user interface of the mobile communication device. In another embodiment, the method may also validate an object photographed by a camera of the mobile communication device, and use the recognized object to identify the set of movies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: West Corporation
    Inventors: Erika Nelson Kessenger, Bruce Pollock
  • Patent number: 9686413
    Abstract: Examples of associating user information from social network sites with a conference call application may include a series of operations. One example operation may provide receiving a command to share at least one social networking application with a scheduled conference call and accessing an application programming interface (API) of the social networking application, and sharing user profile information with a graphical user interface (GUI) application of the scheduled conference call corresponding to the command to share the social networking application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2017
    Assignee: West Corporation
    Inventors: Michael J. Moore, Bruce Pollock
  • Patent number: 9635154
    Abstract: A method, a system, and computer readable medium comprising instructions for monitoring caller experience are provided. The method comprises obtaining caller experience of at least one step in a call flow, selecting a plurality of steps from the at least one step to form a group, presenting caller experience of the plurality of steps in first level of the call flow, and presenting the group as a step in a second level of the call flow.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2017
    Assignee: WEST CORPORATION
    Inventors: James Elwood Milro, Bruce Pollock