Patents by Inventor Eric Woods

Eric Woods 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: 10564001
    Abstract: A method of operation of a navigation system comprising: determining a node including a node attribute for a maneuver along a path; determining a node presentation based on the node attribute including a node proximity meeting or exceeding a node relevance threshold; generating a route bar including the node based on the node presentation, the node proximity, or a combination thereof; determining a safe location with a control unit for displaying the route bar based on a current surrounding for presenting on a device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2020
    Assignee: Telenav, Inc.
    Inventors: Eric Wood, Kok Wei Koh, Herman Ho-Man So
  • Publication number: 20200053092
    Abstract: Various aspects and embodiments of dwelling automation administration are described. Among other aspects or features of the embodiments, a dwelling automation system in a computing device authenticates a user. A management interface in the dwelling automation system generates a user interface for administering a plurality of automation devices at different dwellings based on access and control rights of the user. The user interface can grant the user access to at least one automation device associated with a hub associated with at least one dwelling.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2019
    Publication date: February 13, 2020
    Inventors: Michael Andrew Rovito, Michael Taylor McGann, Isaac Gregory Martin, Eric Wood, David James Beenfield
  • Patent number: 10546004
    Abstract: A search engine is enhanced to employ user preferences to customize answer output by, receiving a first plurality of candidate answers and weights to a first search query for a first user from a first stage of a non-semantic search engine routing and processing path; augmenting the weights for the plurality of candidate answers according to a set of preference coefficients according to a first set of preferences for the first user; selecting one or more of the first plurality of candidate answers according to the augmented weights; and producing an output including the selected one or more candidate answers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2020
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Corville O. Allen, Scott Robert Carrier, Scott N. Gerard, Sterling Richardson Smith, David Blake Styles, Eric Woods
  • Patent number: 10484389
    Abstract: Various aspects and embodiments of dwelling automation administration are described. Among other aspects or features of the embodiments, a dwelling automation system in a computing device authenticates a user. A management interface in the dwelling automation system generates a user interface for administering a plurality of automation devices at different dwellings based on access and control rights of the user. The user interface can grant the user access to at least one automation device associated with a hub associated with at least one dwelling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2019
    Assignee: DWELO, INC.
    Inventors: Michael Andrew Rovito, Michael Taylor McGann, Isaac Gregory Martin, Eric Wood, David James Beenfield
  • Patent number: 10473474
    Abstract: In various embodiments the present disclosure provides a system and a method for estimating energy usage in a vehicle. The system includes hardware that perform certain operations that include receiving data associated with a route to be taken by the vehicle. The operations include determining, based on the data associated with the route and a state of the vehicle, an estimate corresponding to the energy that would be used by the vehicle when traversing a segment of the route.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2019
    Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations LLC
    Inventors: Sal S. V. Rajagopalan, Eric Wood, Jeff Gonder
  • Publication number: 20190317996
    Abstract: Automatic semantic analysis for characterizing and correlating literary elements within a digital work of literature is accomplished by employing natural language processing and deep semantic analysis of text to create annotations for the literary elements found in a segment or in the entirety of the literature, a weight to each literary element and its associated annotations, wherein the weight indicates an importance or relevance of a literary element to at least the segment of the work of literature; correlating and matching the literary elements to each other to establish one or more interrelationships; and producing an overall weight for the correlated matches.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2019
    Publication date: October 17, 2019
    Inventors: Corville Orain Allen, Scott Robert Carrier, Eric Woods
  • Patent number: 10430508
    Abstract: A method, system and computer-usable medium are disclosed for analyzing and deducing criteria-related content for evaluation in a system capable of answering questions. A criteria text is processed to identify criteria. The criteria text is then analyzed to identify a set of criteria-related content associated with the criteria, which in turn is processed to determine its relationship to the criteria. Once the relationship has been determined, the set of criteria-related content is annotated accordingly. The set of criteria-related content is then used in accordance with its annotation when processing the criteria for evaluation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2019
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Corville O. Allen, Ovies C. Brabson, Kathryn M. Whaley, Saeid Sakhitab, Eric Woods
  • Patent number: 10423717
    Abstract: A method, system and computer-usable medium are disclosed for analyzing and deducing criteria-related content for evaluation in a system capable of answering questions. A criteria text is processed to identify criteria. The criteria text is then analyzed to identify a set of criteria-related content associated with the criteria, which in turn is processed to determine its relationship to the criteria. Once the relationship has been determined, the set of criteria-related content is annotated accordingly. The set of criteria-related content is then used in accordance with its annotation when processing the criteria for evaluation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2019
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Corville O. Allen, Ovies C. Brabson, Kathryn M. Lamont, Saeid Sakhitab, Eric Woods
  • Patent number: 10380262
    Abstract: Automatic semantic analysis for characterizing and correlating literary elements within a digital work of literature is accomplished by employing natural language processing and deep semantic analysis of text to create annotations for the literary elements found in a segment or in the entirety of the literature, a weight to each literary element and its associated annotations, wherein the weight indicates an importance or relevance of a literary element to at least the segment of the work of literature; correlating and matching the literary elements to each other to establish one or more interrelationships; and producing an overall weight for the correlated matches.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Corville Orain Allen, Scott Robert Carrier, Eric Woods
  • Publication number: 20190238762
    Abstract: A thermal imaging system is provided. The system can include one or more thermal imaging devices, and a turn event controller in operative communication with the one or more thermal imaging devices. The turn event controller can be configured to obtain one or more vehicle parameters associated with an aerial vehicle and obtain one or more thermal images associated with the aerial vehicle during at least one phase of a turn of the aerial vehicle at an airport. The turn event controller can also be configured to process the one or more thermal images based on the one or more vehicle parameters to detect anomalies associated with the turn of the aerial vehicle, and generate, in response to detecting one or more anomalies, one or more signals indicative of the one or more anomalies.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2018
    Publication date: August 1, 2019
    Inventors: John C. Coppock, Douglass Eric Wood
  • Patent number: 10262381
    Abstract: There are provided a system, a method and a computer program product for creating the social group whose participants are involved in an online conversation. The system aggregates data associated with the online conversation and a group profile, of the social group. The system determines, based on the online conversation data and the group profile, a context of the online conversation and a goal of the social group. The system receives, based on the determined context and the goal, a first bidding from each provider, the first bidding associated with the determined context and the goal, the each provider providing one or more of: goods, services or discounts associated with the context and the goal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2019
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Corville O. Allen, Jeffrey D. Haggar, Eileen J. Min, Michael M. Skeen, Eric Woods
  • Publication number: 20190109811
    Abstract: Reducing a negative social interaction includes receiving a response to a post from a user, the response includes content to be posted on an activity stream of a social network, analyzing the content of the response to determine a negative response risk to the post, analyzing a profile of the user to determine a tendency of the user to respond negatively in responses, and executing, based on the negative response risk and the tendency, an action for the response to reduce negative responses directed towards the post.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2018
    Publication date: April 11, 2019
    Inventors: Liam Harpur, Philip Mullins, Eric Woods
  • Publication number: 20190102344
    Abstract: A search engine is enhanced to employ user preferences to customize answer output by, receiving a first plurality of candidate answers and weights to a first search query for a first user from a first stage of a non-semantic search engine routing and processing path; augmenting the weights for the plurality of candidate answers according to a set of preference coefficients according to a first set of preferences for the first user; selecting one or more of the first plurality of candidate answers according to the augmented weights; and producing an output including the selected one or more candidate answers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2018
    Publication date: April 4, 2019
    Inventors: Corville O. Allen, Scott Robert Carrier, Scott N. Gerard, Sterling Richardson Smith, David Blake Styles, Eric Woods
  • Publication number: 20190075104
    Abstract: Apparatus and methods are provided for enabling a plurality of applications running on a user device or in communication therewith to share data. In one exemplary embodiment, a single user device is configured to run a plurality of heath-monitoring applications which collect data from a respective plurality of health-monitoring devices and/or via user entry. According to the present disclosure, once the applications are linked, the user accesses, views, and analyzes the plurality of health-related data from the plurality of applications at a single application. Moreover, once the applications are linked, the user may sign-in to one application and be automatically signed into the other applications. In this manner, the user's activity and updated information entered, sensed, or otherwise collected into or by one application may be accessible at the other applications for analysis and display therein as well.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2018
    Publication date: March 7, 2019
    Inventors: Jim Hanifen, Louise Killeen-Ewing, Eric Wood, Thomas Ryon Day, Karlo Berket
  • Publication number: 20190065472
    Abstract: Deep semantic analysis is performed on an electronic literary work in order to detect plot elements and optional other storyline elements such as characters within the work. Multiple levels of abstract are generated into a model representing the literary work, wherein each element in each abstraction level may be independently rated for preference by a user. Through comparison of multiple abstraction models and one or more user rating preferences, one or more alternative literary works may be automatically recommended to the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2018
    Publication date: February 28, 2019
    Inventors: Corville Orain Allen, Scott Robert Carrier, Eric Woods
  • Publication number: 20190042626
    Abstract: A recommendation engine for works of literature uses patterns of flow and element similarities for scoring a first user-rated work of literature against one or more recommendation candidate works of literature. Cluster models are created using meta-data modeling the works of literature, the meta-data having literary element categories and instances within each category. Each instance is described by an index value (position in the literature) and significance value (e.g. weight or significance). Cluster finding process(es) invoked for each instance in each category find Similarity Concept clusters and Consistency Trend clusters, which are recorded into the cluster models representing each work of literature. The cluster model can be printed or displayed so that a user can visually understand the ebb and flow of each literary element in the literature, and may be digitally compared to other cluster models of other works of literature for potential recommendation to a user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2018
    Publication date: February 7, 2019
    Inventors: Corville O. Allen, Scott R. Carrier, Eric Woods
  • Patent number: 10187346
    Abstract: Reducing a negative social interaction includes receiving a response to a post from a user, the response includes content to be posted on an activity stream of a social network, analyzing the content of the response to determine a negative response risk to the post, analyzing a profile of the user to determine a tendency of the user to respond negatively in responses, and executing, based on the negative response risk and the tendency, an action for the response to reduce negative responses directed towards the post.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2019
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Liam Harpur, Philip Mullins, Eric Woods
  • Publication number: 20190005097
    Abstract: A recommendation engine for works of literature uses patterns of flow and element similarities for scoring a first user-rated work of literature against one or more recommendation candidate works of literature. Cluster models are created using meta-data modeling the works of literature, the meta-data having literary element categories and instances within each category. Each instance is described by an index value (position in the literature) and significance value (e.g. weight or significance). Cluster finding process(es) invoked for each instance in each category find Similarity Concept clusters and Consistency Trend clusters, which are recorded into the cluster models representing each work of literature. The cluster model can be printed or displayed so that a user can visually understand the ebb and flow of each literary element in the literature, and may be digitally compared to other cluster models of other works of literature for potential recommendation to a user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2018
    Publication date: January 3, 2019
    Inventors: Corville O. Allen, Scott R. Carrier, Eric Woods
  • Patent number: 10169450
    Abstract: A semantic search engine is enhanced to employ user preferences to customize answer output by, for a first user, extracting user preferences and sentiment levels associated with a first question; receiving candidate answer results of a semantic search of the first question; weighting the candidate answer results according to the sentiment levels for each of the user preferences; and producing the selected candidate answers to the first user. Optionally, user preferences and sentiment levels may be accumulated over different questions for the same user, or over different users for similar questions. And, supplemental information may be retrieved relative to a user preference in order to further tune the weighting per the preferences and sentiment levels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2019
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Corville O. Allen, Scott Robert Carrier, Scott N. Gerard, Sterling Richardson Smith, David Blake Styles, Eric Woods
  • Patent number: 10158632
    Abstract: Apparatus and methods are provided for enabling a plurality of applications running on a user device or in communication therewith to share data. In one exemplary embodiment, a single user device is configured to run a plurality of heath-monitoring applications which collect data from a respective plurality of health-monitoring devices and/or via user entry. According to the present disclosure, once the applications are linked, the user accesses, views, and analyzes the plurality of health-related data from the plurality of applications at a single application. Moreover, once the applications are linked, the user may sign-in to one application and be automatically signed into the other applications. In this manner, the user's activity and updated information entered, sensed, or otherwise collected into or by one application may be accessible at the other applications for analysis and display therein as well.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2018
    Assignee: Under Armour, Inc.
    Inventors: Jim Hanifen, Louise Killeen-Ewing, Eric Wood, Thomas Ryon Day, Karlo Berket