Patents by Inventor Frances Kim

Frances Kim 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: 11455846
    Abstract: Consensus vehicular collision properties determination is provided by a method that receives mobile device sensor data from mobile device(s) of vehicle occupant(s). The vehicle is a vehicle of multiple vehicles involved in a collision, and the sensor data indicates movement and position information pertaining to the collision. The method shares the packaged sensor data to a decentralized ledger that stores this as part of a collection of sensor data from across multiple mobile devices of different vehicle occupants in the vehicles involved in the collision. Extraction and correlation of data from the ledger is used to determine consensus properties of the collision. The method determines, based on the consensus properties of the collision, which of the different vehicle occupants were driving the multiple vehicles involved in the collision and behavior of those occupants driving the multiple vehicles at the time of, and following, the collision.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Joel R. Huffman, Frances Kim, Clay Crenshaw, Sambit Pattnaik, Stefan Van Der Stockt, Randall J. Gregory, II
  • Publication number: 20200219336
    Abstract: Consensus vehicular collision properties determination is provided by a method that receives mobile device sensor data from mobile device(s) of vehicle occupant(s). The vehicle is a vehicle of multiple vehicles involved in a collision, and the sensor data indicates movement and position information pertaining to the collision. The method shares the packaged sensor data to a decentralized ledger that stores this as part of a collection of sensor data from across multiple mobile devices of different vehicle occupants in the vehicles involved in the collision. Extraction and correlation of data from the ledger is used to determine consensus properties of the collision. The method determines, based on the consensus properties of the collision, which of the different vehicle occupants were driving the multiple vehicles involved in the collision and behavior of those occupants driving the multiple vehicles at the time of, and following, the collision.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 3, 2019
    Publication date: July 9, 2020
    Inventors: Joel R. HUFFMAN, Frances KIM, Clay CRENSHAW, Sambit PATTNAIK, Stefan VAN DER STOCKT, Randall J. GREGORY, II
  • Publication number: 20160209986
    Abstract: The subject matter described herein relates to display of notifications in an electronic device having a display. In one embodiment, there is disclosed a method that comprises activating an interactive element in response to a contact operation of a user on the interactive element, said interactive element corresponding to an application in the electronic device. The method also comprises causing a notification associated with the application to be displayed in an area on the display, responsive to a movement operation of the user on the display, wherein the area is smaller than a full area of the display.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 10, 2015
    Publication date: July 21, 2016
    Inventor: Frances Kim