Patents by Inventor David Luper

David Luper 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: 9646318
    Abstract: Georeferenced transaction data is harvested (“crowd-sourced”) from client devices and sent to a network-based map service. The map service performs cluster analysis on location data points in the harvested data, resulting in one or more clusters representing local densities of transaction occurrences. Data vectors including supplemental data are obtained from one or more vendors. Location data points included in the data vectors are compared to center coordinates of the one or more clusters and the closest matching cluster/vector pair provides a mapping to POI data in a POI database. The mapped POI data is updated with the supplemental data. In some implementations, transaction timestamps in the harvested data are used to estimate the business hours of a business POI.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2017
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Christine B. McGavran, François M. Jouaux, David Luper, Christophe Hivert, Rama Krishna Chitta
  • Publication number: 20150345969
    Abstract: Georeferenced transaction data is harvested (“crowd-sourced”) from client devices and sent to a network-based map service. The map service performs cluster analysis on location data points in the harvested data, resulting in one or more clusters representing local densities of transaction occurrences. Data vectors including supplemental data are obtained from one or more vendors. Location data points included in the data vectors are compared to center coordinates of the one or more clusters and the closest matching cluster/vector pair provides a mapping to POI data in a POI database. The mapped POI data is updated with the supplemental data. In some implementations, transaction timestamps in the harvested data are used to estimate the business hours of a business POI.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2014
    Publication date: December 3, 2015
    Inventors: Christine B. McGavran, François M. Jouaux, David Luper, Christophe Hivert, Rama Krishna Chitta
  • Publication number: 20150012324
    Abstract: Systems and methods for providing project management tools and instructions are disclosed. The systems and methods generally include: determining a status of a preexisting project or set of projects by determining a preexisting quality level for each of a plurality project management parameters for the preexisting project or set of projects; establishing a functionally effective quality level for each of the plurality of project management parameters based on one or more project management parameter-specific metrics; creating, with a computer processor, an implementation plan including instructions for implementing a plurality of the project management parameters at the functionally effective quality level; and providing training materials based on the implementation plan.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 3, 2013
    Publication date: January 8, 2015
    Inventors: Angel Lance, David Luper, Nicholas Haigh
  • Publication number: 20130173327
    Abstract: Systems and methods for providing project management tools and instructions are disclosed. The systems and methods generally include: (a) performing an initial assessment to determine a pre-existing project management status for a plurality of project management parameters; (b) establishing a substantially equivalent quality level for the project management parameters based on the initial assessment; (c) creating an implementation plan including instructions for implementing a plurality of the project management parameters at the substantially equivalent quality level; and (d) providing training materials based on the implementation plan.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2011
    Publication date: July 4, 2013
    Inventors: Angel Lance, David Luper, Nicholas Haigh