Patents by Inventor Dan Hendrick

Dan Hendrick 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: 10021169
    Abstract: A system logs application usage data on a mobile device, processes the data on an analysis system and outputs a current and predicted score to, e.g. third parties. The system logs application-related usage data, which is collected via, e.g. a keyboard application running in the background on the mobile device. The system then evaluates the logged usage data and the events corresponding to a particular application. The events can be analyzed to score the user engagement level with the application, e.g., more events recorded for a given application per day, the more engaged a user is with that application. The engagement level can further be predicated based on historical usage log data from which a score decay model can be generated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2018
    Assignee: NUANCE COMMUNICATIONS, INC.
    Inventors: Dan Hendrick, Eric Jun Fu
  • Patent number: 9671343
    Abstract: The present disclosure describes a method of detecting a drug marker in urine a urine sample using a toilet. The drug markers are fluorophores each of which emits a unique fluorescence spectra. Accordingly, the method does not detect the drug but rather, the drug marker. A user who has consumed the drug with its unique drug marker then urinates into the toilet and a urine sample is captured. The toilet includes a mechanism for fluid handling which diverts urine into a fluorescence spectrometer. The fluorescence spectrometer screens the urine for drug markers based on their unique fluorescent spectra. The toilet may include a controller which quantifies the drug marker. The fluorescent spectrometer may detect multiple drug markers in a single urine sample. This method may be used to confirm drug compliance, test for illicit drugs, identify amounts of drugs consumed, and other uses described herein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2017
    Inventors: David R. Hall, Conrad Rosenbrock, Ben Swenson, Dan Hendricks, Terrece Pearman
  • Publication number: 20150088955
    Abstract: A system logs application usage data on a mobile device, processes the data on an analysis system and outputs a current and predicted score to, e.g. third parties. The system logs application-related usage data, which is collected via, e.g. a keyboard application running in the background on the mobile device. The system then evaluates the logged usage data and the events corresponding to a particular application. The events can be analyzed to score the user engagement level with the application, e.g., more events recorded for a given application per day, the more engaged a user is with that application. The engagement level can further be predicated based on historical usage log data from which a score decay model can be generated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2013
    Publication date: March 26, 2015
    Applicant: NUANCE COMMUNICATIONS, INC.
    Inventors: Dan Hendrick, Eric Jun Fu