Patents by Inventor Caroline A. O'Connor

Caroline A. O'Connor 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: 11619918
    Abstract: Embodiments are disclosed for a method. The method includes generating statistical models of circadian rhythms based on circadian rhythm data generated by mobile computing devices of occupants of a building having a building automation system. The method also includes identifying room occupants of a room disposed within the building. Additionally, the method includes determining ambient settings for an ambient system operated by the building automation system based on a subset of the statistical models, wherein the subset corresponds to the identified room occupants. The method further includes determining a trade-off ambient setting based on the ambient settings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Marco Luca Sbodio, Caroline A. O'Connor, Omar O'Sullivan, Seshu Tirupathi
  • Publication number: 20220100157
    Abstract: Embodiments are disclosed for a method. The method includes generating statistical models of circadian rhythms based on circadian rhythm data generated by mobile computing devices of occupants of a building having a building automation system. The method also includes identifying room occupants of a room disposed within the building. Additionally, the method includes determining ambient settings for an ambient system operated by the building automation system based on a subset of the statistical models, wherein the subset corresponds to the identified room occupants. The method further includes determining a trade-off ambient setting based on the ambient settings.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2020
    Publication date: March 31, 2022
    Inventors: Marco Luca Sbodio, Caroline A. O'Connor, Omar O'Sullivan, Seshu Tirupathi
  • Patent number: 11195119
    Abstract: A capability to identify and visualize relationships and commonalities amongst record entities is provided. A plurality of entities are extracted from one or more records. Each extracted entity is associated with a respective feature vector within a vector space of a feature matrix. The feature vectors are distributed within the feature matrix based on semantic relationships amongst the entities of a corpus. Multidimensional coordinates within a dimensionally-reduced vector space of the feature matrix are generated for each extracted entity. One or more cells of a cellular presentation of the feature matrix are identified such that each identified cell represents one or more respective extracted entities. Each cell represents (i) a respective range of multidimensional coordinates within the dimensionally-reduced vector space of the feature matrix and (ii) one or more feature vectors of the plurality of feature vectors within the feature matrix.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Joao H. Bettencourt da Silva, Mark B. Hughes, Spyros Kotoulas, Caroline A. O'Connor
  • Publication number: 20190213167
    Abstract: A capability to identify and visualize relationships and commonalities amongst record entities is provided. A plurality of entities are extracted from one or more records. Each extracted entity is associated with a respective feature vector within a vector space of a feature matrix. The feature vectors are distributed within the feature matrix based on semantic relationships amongst the entities of a corpus. Multidimensional coordinates within a dimensionally-reduced vector space of the feature matrix are generated for each extracted entity. One or more cells of a cellular presentation of the feature matrix are identified such that each identified cell represents one or more respective extracted entities. Each cell represents (i) a respective range of multidimensional coordinates within the dimensionally-reduced vector space of the feature matrix and (ii) one or more feature vectors of the plurality of feature vectors within the feature matrix.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 5, 2018
    Publication date: July 11, 2019
    Inventors: Joao H. Bettencourt da Silva, Mark B. Hughes, Spyros Kotoulas, Caroline A. O'Connor