Patents by Inventor Christopher J. Hardee
Christopher J. Hardee 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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Publication number: 20200118678Abstract: Mechanisms are provided for implementing a personalized training recommendation system. A request is received from a user to generate a personalized training regimen for a specified athletic event and event information is identified comprising characteristics of one or more geographical segments of the specified athletic event. Based on the event information, one or more portions of a geographical region are identified that approximate one or more characteristics of the one or more geographical segments within a predetermined tolerance. A training course is generated at least by combining a selected set of the portions of the geographical region based on an evaluation of a level of matching, for each portion, of characteristics of the portion to the one or more physical characteristics associated with the one or more geographical segments of the specified athletic event, which is then presented to the user as the personalized training regimen for the user.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 13, 2019Publication date: April 16, 2020Inventors: Christopher J. Hardee, Steven R. Joroff, Kathy A. McGroddy-Goetz, Pamela A. Nesbitt, Scott E. Schneider
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Patent number: 10623414Abstract: Embodiments include method, systems and computer program products for validating a user logon credential. The method includes providing a verification artifact. The method also includes determining an existence of a user post of the verification artifact on the third party system. The method further includes validating the user logon credential based on the user post of the verification artifact on the third party system.Type: GrantFiled: April 26, 2017Date of Patent: April 14, 2020Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Christopher J. Hardee, Steven R. Joroff, Pamela A. Nesbitt, Scott E. Schneider
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Patent number: 10607608Abstract: Embodiments of the invention include a context sensitive adaptive digital assistant for personalized interaction. Embodiments of the invention also include a spoken genome for characterization and analysis of human voice. Aspects of the invention include selecting a starter vocabulary, receiving voice communications from a user, and modifying the starter vocabulary to generate a personalized lexicon. Aspects of the invention also include analyzing and categorizing human voice according to a plurality of characteristics, and creating a spoken genome database.Type: GrantFiled: September 18, 2018Date of Patent: March 31, 2020Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Christopher J. Hardee, Steve Joroff, Pamela A. Nesbitt, Scott E. Schneider
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Patent number: 10594862Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a method, system and computer program product for context sensitive contact substitution for mobile communications. In an embodiment of the invention, a method for context sensitive contact substitution for mobile communications includes selecting a contact disposed within a list of contacts in memory of a mobile computing device for use in establishing a telephone call with the selected contact through the mobile computing device. The method also includes determining a context of the telephone call and identifying in the list of contacts an alternate contact to the selected contact based upon the determined context. In this regard, the context may be a location of the mobile computing device, or a time of day of establishing the telephone call, to name two examples. Finally, the method includes establishing the telephone call through the mobile computing device with the alternate contact instead of the selected contact.Type: GrantFiled: February 26, 2019Date of Patent: March 17, 2020Assignee: Lenovo Enterprise Solutions (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.Inventors: Gary D. Cudak, Christopher J. Hardee, Sarbajit K. Rakshit, Adam Roberts
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Patent number: 10595086Abstract: A method, system, and or computer program product selects and displays keyframes for multiple video files on a graphical user interface (GUI). A first set of keyframes for a first video file and a second set of keyframes for a second video file are received and compared to one another. In response to determining that a keyframe from the first set of keyframes and a keyframe from the second set of keyframes are a duplicate keyframe, a new keyframe for the second video file is selected and displayed on the GUI to represent the second video file.Type: GrantFiled: June 10, 2015Date of Patent: March 17, 2020Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Gary D. Cudak, Lydia M. Do, Christopher J. Hardee, Adam Roberts
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Patent number: 10587556Abstract: Technical solutions are described for a seller to bypass a spam filter. An example method includes sending, by a message preempting apparatus, for receipt by a server corresponding to the seller, a transaction identifier in response to a transaction between a user and the seller. The method also includes sending, by the message preempting apparatus, for receipt by a messaging server, the transaction identifier, where the messaging server, in response, bypasses a spam filter for a message that is associated with the transaction identifier.Type: GrantFiled: August 14, 2018Date of Patent: March 10, 2020Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Christopher J. Hardee, Steve Joroff, Pamela A. Nesbitt, Scott E. Schneider
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Patent number: 10580115Abstract: Methods and systems may provide for detecting a manual addition of first content to an interactive display and defining a content boundary around the first content. Additionally, a first automatic rescaling of the first content within the content boundary may be conducted in response to one or more of a manual modification of the first content or a trigger related to a characteristic of the first content. In one example, a manual reposition request is detected with respect to the first content, the first content is moved to a new position on the interactive display based on the reposition request, and a second automatic rescaling of the first content is conducted based on a state of second content that is adjacent to the new position.Type: GrantFiled: March 10, 2015Date of Patent: March 3, 2020Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Gary D. Cudak, Lydia M. Do, Christopher J. Hardee, Adam Roberts
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Patent number: 10579899Abstract: Techniques detecting usage of copyrighted video content using object recognition are provided. In one example, a computer-implemented method comprises determining, by a system operatively coupled to a processor, digest information for a video, wherein the digest information comprises objects appearing in the video and respective times at which the objects appear in the video. The method further comprises comparing, by the system, the digest information with reference digest information for reference videos, wherein the reference digest information identifies reference objects appearing in the reference videos and respective reference times at which the reference objects appear in the reference videos. The method further comprises determining, by the system, whether the video comprises content included in one or more of the reference videos based on a degree of similarity between the digest information and reference digest information associated with one or more of the reference videos.Type: GrantFiled: April 4, 2018Date of Patent: March 3, 2020Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Christopher J. Hardee, Steven Robert Joroff, Pamela Ann Nesbitt, Scott Edward Schneider
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Publication number: 20200067997Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure relate to managing a collaborated environment. A set of editing rules are configured for a shared document. A first edit is received at a first time at a first location of the shared document. A second edit is received at a second time at the first location of the shared document which attempts to overwrite a portion of the first edit. A determination is made whether at least one editing rule of the set of editing rules is violated. In response to determining that at least one editing rule of the set of editing rules is violated, an alert action can be issued to a user associated with the second edit.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 22, 2018Publication date: February 27, 2020Inventors: Christopher J. Hardee, Steven Joroff, Pamela A. Nesbitt, Scott E. Schneider
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Patent number: 10551209Abstract: Embodiments for providing navigation routes by one or more processors are described. An indication of a destination is received. A selection of a route initiating event is received. The route initiating event is detected. After the route initiating event is detected, a navigation route from a current location of a user to the destination is determined. An indication of the determined navigation route is generated.Type: GrantFiled: January 3, 2017Date of Patent: February 4, 2020Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Christopher J. Hardee, Steven R. Joroff, Pamela A. Nesbitt, Scott E. Schneider
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Patent number: 10543758Abstract: Embodiments for reducing unwanted motion experienced by an occupant of a vehicle by a processor. In response to an anticipated movement of the vehicle, a motion of a seating surface of the vehicle is caused to at least partially compensate for the anticipated movement of the vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: July 14, 2016Date of Patent: January 28, 2020Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Christopher J. Hardee, Maharaj Mukherjee
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Patent number: 10540483Abstract: Mechanisms are provided for implementing a personalized training recommendation system. A request is received from a user to generate a personalized training regimen for a specified athletic event and event information is identified comprising characteristics of one or more geographical segments of the specified athletic event. Based on the event information, one or more portions of a geographical region are identified that approximate one or more characteristics of the one or more geographical segments within a predetermined tolerance. A training course is generated at least by combining a selected set of the portions of the geographical region based on an evaluation of a level of matching, for each portion, of characteristics of the portion to the one or more physical characteristics associated with the one or more geographical segments of the specified athletic event, which is then presented to the user as the personalized training regimen for the user.Type: GrantFiled: April 25, 2017Date of Patent: January 21, 2020Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Christopher J. Hardee, Steven R. Joroff, Kathy A. McGroddy-Goetz, Pamela A. Nesbitt, Scott E. Schneider
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Patent number: 10538239Abstract: A method includes determining, by an electronic control unit, at least one characteristic of cargo that is transported by an autonomous vehicle or a semi-autonomous vehicle. The method also includes determining a driving adaptation based at least on the at least one characteristic. The driving adaptation is selected from the group including a routing adaptation, a driving style adaptation, and an internal control adaptation. The method also includes configuring the vehicle to transport the cargo based at least on the determined driving adaptation.Type: GrantFiled: July 27, 2017Date of Patent: January 21, 2020Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Christopher J. Hardee, Maharaj Mukherjee
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Patent number: 10505979Abstract: Embodiments are directed to a computer-implemented method of identifying an imposter web page. The method includes extracting, using a processor system, visited web page data from a visited web page. The method further includes determining, using the processor system, that the visited web page is an imposter web page, based at least in part on determining, using the processor system, that website location data of the visited web page does not match website location data of at least one legitimate web page, as well as determining that text data associated with image data of the visited web page matches text data associated with image data of the at least one legitimate web page.Type: GrantFiled: May 13, 2016Date of Patent: December 10, 2019Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Christopher J. Hardee, Steven R. Joroff, Pamela A. Nesbitt, Scott E. Schneider
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Publication number: 20190361953Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a method, system and computer program product for frequent content retrieval in a content browser. In an embodiment of the invention, a method for frequent content retrieval in a content browser is provided. The method includes retrieving requested content from a content server from over a computer communications network and comparing the retrieved requested content to a cached version of the requested content. The retrieved requested content thereafter can be annotated to visually emphasize a frequently accessed portion of the retrieved requested content in response to a threshold difference between the retrieved requested content and the cached version. Finally, the annotated retrieved requested content can be returned to a content browser for display therein.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 6, 2019Publication date: November 28, 2019Inventors: Gary D. Cudak, Christopher J. Hardee, Randall C. Humes, Ruthie D. Lyle, Adam Roberts
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Patent number: 10466696Abstract: Embodiments for managing drones by a processor are described. A drone is detected traveling toward a regulated space. During the detecting of the drone, the drone is being controlled by a first control system. The control of the drone by the control system is interrupted such that the drone does not travel into the regulated space while being controlled by the first control system. The drone is controlled with a second control system such that the drone travels into the regulated space.Type: GrantFiled: October 27, 2016Date of Patent: November 5, 2019Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Christopher J. Hardee, Steven R. Joroff, Pamela A. Nesbitt, Scott E. Schneider
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Patent number: 10469429Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for performing context-based delayed notification of messages are disclosed. Context-based delayed notification of messages can include delaying notification of incoming messages received or generated by a user device to a user of the device until a determination is made that the messages satisfy message delivery criteria. Contextual data such as location data, time data, device usage data, or the like can be used to determine whether the message delivery criteria are satisfied. Messages received by a user device from one or more senders can be categorized into one or more message categories based on message categorization criteria. Individual messages or groups of messages within a message category can be evaluated against the message delivery criteria using the contextual data to determine whether notification of the messages to a user should be delayed or allowed to proceed.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2017Date of Patent: November 5, 2019Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Christopher J. Hardee, Karan Goenka, Lorie A. Goins, James P. Ward
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Publication number: 20190324547Abstract: A method, system, and computer program product for generating a visual and tactile representation of a plurality of flexed pages associated with a set of data and presented on a graphical display. The graphical display may sense a plurality of flexural states and model respective tactile gradients according to the plurality of flexural states. For a flexural state meeting a set of criteria, the tactile gradient may be applied to the graphical display by distributing a selective volume contained with the graphical display.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 3, 2019Publication date: October 24, 2019Inventors: Christopher J. Hardee, Sarbajit K. Rakshit
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Patent number: 10449449Abstract: A computer identifies a group of players that are participating in a gaming session that is hosted by the computer. The computer identifies the location of an avatar of a first player included in the group of players. The computer identifies the location of a second avatar of a second player included in the group of players and determining the proximity between the first avatar and the second avatar. The computer determines if the proximity exceeds a threshold. Responsive to the determination that the proximity does not exceed the threshold, the computer sends data for the gaming session to the first player and the first player passes that data to the second player.Type: GrantFiled: June 18, 2013Date of Patent: October 22, 2019Assignee: Lenovo Enterprise Solutions (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.Inventors: Gary D. Cudak, Christopher J. Hardee, Randall C. Humes, Adam Roberts
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Patent number: 10417408Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer program products are disclosed for authenticating access to a user device using tactile-based feedback provided to a user of the device. A user device may include a display layer and a tactile layer. The user device may be configured to selectively activate portions of the tactile layer to cause opposing regions of a surface of the display layer to become raised relative to other regions of the display surface. A user may be required to specify a sequence of directional movements corresponding to a correct passcode pattern by traversing a path along the raised regions. The particular arrangement of raised regions may change each time access to the user device is requested by activating different portions of the tactile layer, thereby giving the appearance to a third party that a different passcode pattern is being entered each time, and thus, minimizing likelihood of unauthorized passcode detection.Type: GrantFiled: March 10, 2017Date of Patent: September 17, 2019Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Christopher J. Hardee, Steven R. Joroff, Pamela A. Nesbitt, Scott E. Schneider