Patents by Inventor Eli M. Dow

Eli M. Dow 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).

  • Publication number: 20190079970
    Abstract: Embodiments described herein are directed to computer-implemented methods, systems, and computer program products for calculating a metric using natural language processing tokens. A non-limiting example of the computer-implemented method includes parsing, by a processing device, user content using a natural language processing technique to extract tokens. The method further includes filtering, by the processing device, the tokens relating to a natural language processing criterion. The method further includes calculating, by the processing device, a metric based at least in part on the filtered tokens. The method further includes determining, by the processing device, whether to take an action by applying the metric to a set of rules. The method further includes taking the action responsive to determining to take the action.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2017
    Publication date: March 14, 2019
    Inventors: Nicholas Danyluk, Eli M. Dow, Kavita Sehgal, Diane Stamboni, Sneha Varghese, John Werner, Sarah Wu
  • Patent number: 10229658
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention relate to directing orientation on a screen by determining an orientation of a user's fingerprint. A user's finger position may be determined when the user's finger is a predetermined distance from or in contact with a touch-sensitive device. The user's finger position may be compared with a finger position database. The finger position database may include known finger positions associated with a screen orientation. A match analysis may be performed to determine which known finger position most closely resembles the user's finger position. A screen orientation associated with the known finger position most closely matching the user's finger position may be selected. Once the screen orientation is selected, an image may be displayed on a screen corresponding with the selected screen orientation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2019
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Eli M. Dow, Thomas D. Fitzsimmons, Tynan J. Garrett, Emily M. Metruck
  • Patent number: 10229657
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention relate to directing orientation on a screen by determining an orientation of a user's fingerprint. A user's finger position may be determined when the user's finger is a predetermined distance from or in contact with a touch-sensitive device. The user's finger position may be compared with a finger position database. The finger position database may include known finger positions associated with a screen orientation. A match analysis may be performed to determine which known finger position most closely resembles the user's finger position. A screen orientation associated with the known finger position most closely matching the user's finger position may be selected. Once the screen orientation is selected, an image may be displayed on a screen corresponding with the selected screen orientation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2019
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Eli M. Dow, Thomas D. Fitzsimmons, Tynan J. Garrett, Emily M. Metruck
  • Patent number: 10228795
    Abstract: An embodiment of a computer implemented method of performing a processing action includes detecting an input from a user via an input device of a processing device, the input including a touch by at least one finger of a plurality of fingers of the user, estimating a gesture performed by the at least one finger based on the touch, measuring at least part of a fingerprint of the at least one finger, and identifying the at least one finger used to apply the input by the user based on stored fingerprint data that differentiates between individual fingers of the user. The method also includes identifying an action to be performed based on the estimated gesture and based on the identified at least one finger, and performing the action by the processing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2019
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Eli M. Dow, Thomas D. Fitzsimmons, Tynan J. Garrett, Emily M. Metruck
  • Patent number: 10228794
    Abstract: An embodiment of a computer implemented method of performing a processing action includes detecting an input from a user via an input device of a processing device, the input including a touch by at least one finger of a plurality of fingers of the user, estimating a gesture performed by the at least one finger based on the touch, measuring at least part of a fingerprint of the at least one finger, and identifying the at least one finger used to apply the input by the user based on stored fingerprint data that differentiates between individual fingers of the user. The method also includes identifying an action to be performed based on the estimated gesture and based on the identified at least one finger, and performing the action by the processing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2019
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Eli M. Dow, Thomas D. Fitzsimmons, Tynan J. Garrett, Emily M. Metruck
  • Publication number: 20190070460
    Abstract: A real-time performance management may be used for cycling. A first computing device retrieves profile data related to a cyclist. The first computing device receives sensor readings from one or more sensors. A first sensor of the one or more sensors detects cyclist tilt. Profile data and the sensor readings from the one or more sensors determine cyclist status. A notification based on the determined cyclist status communicates to a user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2017
    Publication date: March 7, 2019
    Inventors: John Werner, Eli M. Dow, Kavita Sehgal, Sneha Varghese, Diane Stamboni, Nicholas Danyluk, Sarah Wu
  • Publication number: 20190070461
    Abstract: A real-time performance management may be used for cycling. A first computing device retrieves profile data related to a cyclist. The first computing device receives sensor readings from one or more sensors. A first sensor of the one or more sensors detects cyclist tilt. Profile data and the sensor readings from the one or more sensors determine cyclist status. A notification based on the determined cyclist status communicates to a user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2017
    Publication date: March 7, 2019
    Inventors: John Werner, Eli M. Dow, Kavita Sehgal, Sneha Varghese, Diane Stamboni, Nicholas Danyluk, Sarah Wu
  • Patent number: 10223061
    Abstract: An aspect includes a computer implemented method for display redistribution between a personal display and an external display. The method includes initiating, by a primary device, a wireless connection between a primary device and a secondary device. The primary device includes a primary display and the secondary device includes a secondary display. A confirmation is received at the primary device from the secondary device in response to the initiating. Based on receiving the confirmation, the wireless connection between the primary device and the secondary device is executed. The executing includes utilizing, by the primary device, the secondary display in place of the primary display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2019
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Eli M. Dow, Thomas D. Fitzsimmons, Tynan J. Garrett, Emily M. Metruck, Charles J. Stocker, IV
  • Publication number: 20190064536
    Abstract: A system and method to dynamically control a configuration of parallax barriers includes performing skeletal tracking, using a skeletal tracking system, to determine a position of each viewer of content displayed by an image source. One of the parallax barriers among the parallax barriers is determined as being most closely associated with a viewing angle of each viewer, and the one of the parallax barriers is adjusted as needed to display the content as a three-dimensional image to one or more of the viewers with the viewing angle that is the most closely associated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2017
    Publication date: February 28, 2019
    Inventors: Eli M. Dow, Thomas D. Fitzsimmons, Charles J. Stocker, IV, Jessie Yu
  • Publication number: 20190057266
    Abstract: An approach for extracting strokes in a free space environment is described. Boundaries are displayed in a free space environment describing at least one two-dimensional surface area. One or more language movements are extracted from the free space environment by a paired ring device and transmitted as images for processing. Haptic feedback is provided to the paired ring device in response to detecting at least one language movement occurring outside of at least one two-dimensional surface area. At least one extracted language movement is input into a character training model.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 22, 2018
    Publication date: February 21, 2019
    Inventors: Eli M. Dow, Thomas D. Fitzsimmons, Tynan J. Garrett, Emily M. Metruck
  • Patent number: 10209772
    Abstract: Described herein are methods, systems, and computer program products for providing supplementary information with an initial visualization. To provide supplementary information, a display device can provide the initial visualization, a gaze tracker can capture gaze direction data from a user viewing the initial visualization, and a processor of a computing device can process the gaze direction data to determine a point of interest. The display device can then provide the supplementary information with the initial visualization based on the point of interest.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2019
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Eli M. Dow, Thomas D. Fitzsimmons, Maurice M. Materise, Jessie Yu
  • Publication number: 20190012710
    Abstract: A processor-implemented method for analyzing sentiment data corresponding to users experiencing an entertainment to generate a sentiment rating is provided. The processor-implemented method includes collecting physical data procured by wearable devices corresponding to the users during the entertainment. The processor-implemented method includes analyzing the physical data to determine sentiment data and generating the sentiment rating for the entertainment based on the sentiment data. The sentiment rating quantifies a collective real-time emotional response for the users that experience the entertainment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2017
    Publication date: January 10, 2019
    Inventors: ELI M. DOW, YUNLI TANG
  • Publication number: 20190012709
    Abstract: A processor-implemented method for analyzing sentiment data corresponding to users experiencing an entertainment to generate a sentiment rating is provided. The processor-implemented method includes collecting physical data procured by wearable devices corresponding to the users during the entertainment. The processor-implemented method includes analyzing the physical data to determine sentiment data and generating the sentiment rating for the entertainment based on the sentiment data. The sentiment rating quantifies a collective real-time emotional response for the users that experience the entertainment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 5, 2017
    Publication date: January 10, 2019
    Inventors: ELI M. DOW, YUNLI TANG
  • Patent number: 10168449
    Abstract: An aspect receiving a new weather forecast. A temporally coherent analog modeling process is performed to identify a historical weather forecast that matches the new weather forecast. The new weather forecast is updated based on historical weather observations at points in time in the historical weather forecast. The updating includes: shifting a point in time in the historical weather forecast based on a factor determined by a previously executed dynamic time warping (DTW) of the historical weather forecast and the historical weather observations; and modifying the new weather forecast based on the historical weather observations at the shifted point in time. The updated new weather forecast is output.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2019
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Eli M. Dow, Campbell D. Watson, Jessie Yu
  • Patent number: 10169670
    Abstract: An approach for stroke extraction in free space utilizing a paired ring device is provided. The approach receives one or more images transmitted from the paired ring device, wherein the one or more images are transcribed sequentially from data related to one or more movements recorded by the paired ring device, and wherein the one or more images include one or more of a plurality of vector points, a plurality of coordinates, and a plurality of dots interconnected by a plurality of lines. The approach inputs the one or more images into a character training model. The approach maps the one or more images into one or more characters. The approach transcribes the one or more characters into a digital document.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2019
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Eli M. Dow, Thomas D. Fitzsimmons, Tynan J. Garrett, Emily M. Metruck
  • Patent number: 10169384
    Abstract: An aspect of providing augmented reality model comparison and deviation detection includes receiving a three-dimensional (3D) model of an object that is associated with a domain, determining a set of characteristics of the object from the 3D model, and searching a domain-specific database for data matching the set of characteristics. The domain-specific database corresponds to the domain associated with the object. An aspect also includes determining an identification of the object from data in the domain-specific database that matches the set of characteristics. For each characteristic in the set of characteristics, and aspect further includes comparing each value of the characteristic to a corresponding value in the matching data of the domain-specific database, and calculating any variation between the corresponding value of the characteristic and the value of the matching data. Another aspect includes creating a searchable index of the matching data and corresponding variations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2019
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Eli M. Dow, Erin M. Farr, Michael E. Gildein, II, Moses J. Vaughan
  • Patent number: 10166123
    Abstract: A method, computer program product and computer system for mode selection of a prosthesis is provided. A processor of a wearable device receives a first input from a user. A processor of a wearable device determines the first input indicates a change to a mode of operation of the prosthesis. A processor of a wearable device sends a first command to the prosthesis to change the mode of operation of the prosthesis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2019
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Eli M. Dow, Thomas D. Fitzsimmons, Joseph D. Harvey, Douglas E. Rohde
  • Publication number: 20180365736
    Abstract: Examples of techniques for displaying an advertisement for a product of interest are disclosed. In one example implementation according to aspects of the present disclosure, a computer-implemented method includes identifying, by a processing device, a product of interest. The method further includes retrieving, by the processing device, information about the product of interest. The method further includes retrieving, by the processing device, an advertisement associated with the product of interest based at least in part on the information about the product of interest. The method further includes displaying, by the processing device, the advertisement associated with the product of interest.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2017
    Publication date: December 20, 2018
    Inventors: Eli M. Dow, Maurice M. Materise, Jessie Yu
  • Publication number: 20180365735
    Abstract: Examples of techniques for displaying an advertisement for a product of interest are disclosed. In one example implementation according to aspects of the present disclosure, a computer-implemented method includes identifying, by a processing device, a product of interest. The method further includes retrieving, by the processing device, information about the product of interest. The method further includes retrieving, by the processing device, an advertisement associated with the product of interest based at least in part on the information about the product of interest. The method further includes displaying, by the processing device, the advertisement associated with the product of interest.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2017
    Publication date: December 20, 2018
    Inventors: Eli M. Dow, Maurice M. Materise, Jessie Yu
  • Publication number: 20180349948
    Abstract: An embodiment of a method of evaluating an effectiveness of a sign includes detecting whether a user is within a selected range of a location of a sign, and based on the user being within the selected range, acquiring a visible image of the user. The method also includes estimating, by a gaze monitoring device, a direction of a gaze of the user, and determining whether the estimated direction of the gaze is toward the location. The method further includes, based on determining that the gaze is toward the location, performing, by a processing device, estimating an amount of time during which the estimated direction of the gaze is toward the location, and based on the amount of time being greater than or equal to a threshold amount, determining that the user has at least a threshold level of interest in the sign.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2017
    Publication date: December 6, 2018
    Inventors: Eli M. Dow, Thomas D. Fitzsimmons, Jessie Yu