Patents by Inventor Frederick S. M. Herz
Frederick S. M. Herz 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).
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Publication number: 20230130409Abstract: A method of using natural language processing (NLP) techniques to extract information from online news feeds and then using the information so extracted to predict changes in stock prices or volatilities. These predictions can be used to make profitable trading strategies. Company names can be recognized and simple templates describing company actions can be automatically filled using parsing or pattern matching on words in or near the sentence containing the company name. These templates can be clustered into groups which are statistically correlated with changes in the stock prices. The system is composed of two parts: message understanding component that automatically fills in simple templates and a statistical correlation component that tests the correlation of these patterns to increases or decreases in the stock price.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 6, 2022Publication date: April 27, 2023Inventors: Frederick S.M. Herz, Lyle H. Ungar, Jason M. Eisner, Walter Paul Labys
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Patent number: 11171974Abstract: An architecture is provided for a widely distributed security system (SDI-SCAM) that protects computers at individual client locations, but which constantly pools and analyzes information gathered from machines across a network in order to quickly detect patterns consistent with intrusion or attack, singular or coordinated. When a novel method of attack has been detected, the system distributes warnings and potential countermeasures to each individual machine on the network. Such a warning may potentially include a probability distribution of the likelihood of an intrusion or attack as well as the relative probabilistic likelihood that such potential intrusion possesses certain characteristics or typologies or even strategic objectives in order to best recommend and/or distribute to each machine the most befitting countermeasure(s) given all presently known particular data and associated predicted probabilistic information regarding the prospective intrusion or attack.Type: GrantFiled: November 21, 2016Date of Patent: November 9, 2021Assignee: Inventship LLCInventors: Yael Gertner, Frederick S. M. Herz, Walter Paul Labys
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Patent number: 11045716Abstract: A board game facilitates learning about other cultures by asking the game players to answer questions about different aspects of foreign cultures during the course of game play. The game board is a map of international routes of pilgrims, traders, missionaries, merchants, and inter and transcontinental oceanic voyages and journeys, as well as the route of modern trade travel of natural resources. The game board is navigated during the course of play by answering questions about the countries along the route. An electronic device is used as a game accessory to enhance game play by running one or more software applications that provide supplemental sources of information that are flexible, convenient, on-demand and in a highly appealing format for the players.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2014Date of Patent: June 29, 2021Assignee: Inventship LLCInventors: Tracy Herz, Frederick S. M. Herz
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Publication number: 20200311815Abstract: A method of using natural language processing (NLP) techniques to extract information from online news feeds and then using the information so extracted to predict changes in stock prices or volatilities. These predictions can be used to make profitable trading strategies. Company names can be recognized and simple templates describing company actions can be automatically filled using parsing or pattern matching on words in or near the sentence containing the company name. These templates can be clustered into groups which are statistically correlated with changes in the stock prices. The system is composed of two parts: message understanding component that automatically fills in simple templates and a statistical correlation component that tests the correlation of these patterns to increases or decreases in the stock price.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 11, 2019Publication date: October 1, 2020Inventors: Frederick S.M. Herz, Lyle H. Ungar, Jason M. Eisner, Walter Paul Labys
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Patent number: 10475100Abstract: An online marketing system assists vendors to sell their products to system users by providing a database of unbiased and untainted rated reviews of diverse set of products. The queries by the users are searched by a proprietary search engine and ranked based on the reviews and the reputations of the respective reviewers for accuracy.Type: GrantFiled: July 11, 2012Date of Patent: November 12, 2019Assignee: Fred Herz Patents, LLCInventors: Frederick S. M. Herz, Bhupinder Madan, Adena Harvey
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Patent number: 9832610Abstract: When individual persons or vehicles move through a transportation network, they are likely to be both actively and passively creating information that reflects their location and current behavior. In this patent, we propose a system that makes complete use of this information. First, through a broad web of sensors, our system collects and stores the full range of information generated by travelers. Next, through the use of previously-stored data and active computational analysis, our system deduces the identity of individual travelers. Finally; using advanced data-mining technology, our system selects useful information and transmits it back to the individual, as well as to third-party users; in short, it forms the backbone for a variety of useful location-related end-user applications.Type: GrantFiled: August 19, 2016Date of Patent: November 28, 2017Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Frederick S. M. Herz, Pierre Lemaire, Jean H. Lemaire, Walter Paul Labys
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Publication number: 20170323322Abstract: A fortune cookie includes a cookie and printed messages that promote the theme of the restaurant providing the fortune cookie and that provide promotional material that enhances customer loyalty (and enhanced business for the restaurant) through promotional advertising, giveaways, and the like. For example, a fortune cookie with a Southern country theme is formed from cornbread, shortbread, red velvet, pecan pie, or other American Southern or country-style flavor and includes messages on one side with a home-spun country theme and promotional materials on the other side. The promotional materials may include free items such as candy from a country store for the children and giveaways or discounts correlated with the point of sale on purchases from the country store or for future food purchases from the restaurant. The promotions also may be directed to cross-promotions with other retail and online establishments.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 4, 2017Publication date: November 9, 2017Inventors: Tracy Herz, Frederick S.M. Herz
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Publication number: 20170187520Abstract: A secure data interchange will allow pharmaceutical and biotechnological interests to securely share and profit from biochemical and biophysical data. The purpose of the interchange is to maintain the proprietary value of such data by guarding its exposure to other users while allowing some of its scientific value to be passed along. Specifically, users submit data in conjunction with, and conditional upon, various rules and conditions of use. The system itself, as a trusted third party, is supported by a diverse set of human and machine experts. When productive correlations and complementarities in different users' interests or data are detected, the information is passed back to the users in accordance with the desired level of transparency. Automated means are provided for data matching and selective determination of which particular data to release and to whom in view of the data's conditions of use ascribed. Efficient market exchange mechanisms are explored.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 22, 2003Publication date: June 29, 2017Inventors: Frederick S.M. Herz, Bhupinder Madan
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Publication number: 20170078317Abstract: An architecture is provided for a widely distributed security system (SDI-SCAM) that protects computers at individual client locations, but which constantly pools and analyzes information gathered from machines across a network in order to quickly detect patterns consistent with intrusion or attack, singular or coordinated. When a novel method of attack has been detected, the system distributes warnings and potential countermeasures to each individual machine on the network. Such a warning may potentially include a probability distribution of the likelihood of an intrusion or attack as well as the relative probabilistic likelihood that such potential intrusion possesses certain characteristics or typologies or even strategic objectives in order to best recommend and/or distribute to each machine the most befitting countermeasure(s) given all presently known particular data and associated predicted probabilistic information regarding the prospective intrusion or attack.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 21, 2016Publication date: March 16, 2017Inventors: Yael Gertner, Frederick S.M. Herz, Walter Paul Labys
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Publication number: 20170048672Abstract: When individual persons or vehicles move through a transportation network, they are likely to be both actively and passively creating information that reflects their location and current behavior. In this patent, we propose a system that makes complete use of this information. First, through a broad web of sensors, our system collects and stores the full range of information generated by travelers. Next, through the use of previously-stored data and active computational analysis, our system deduces the identity of individual travelers. Finally; using advanced data-mining technology, our system selects useful information and transmits it back to the individual, as well as to third-party users; in short, it forms the backbone for a variety of useful location-related end-user applications.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 19, 2016Publication date: February 16, 2017Inventors: Frederick S. M. Herz, Pierre Lemaire, Jean H. Lemaire, Walter Paul Labys
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Patent number: 9503470Abstract: An architecture is provided for a widely distributed security system (SDI-SCAM) that protects computers at individual client locations, but which constantly pools and analyzes information gathered from machines across a network in order to quickly detect patterns consistent with intrusion or attack, singular or coordinated. When a novel method of attack has been detected, the system distributes warnings and potential countermeasures to each individual machine on the network. Such a warning may potentially include a probability distribution of the likelihood of an intrusion or attack as well as the relative probabilistic likelihood that such potential intrusion possesses certain characteristics or typologies or even strategic objectives in order to best recommend and/or distribute to each machine the most befitting countermeasure(s) given all presently known particular data and associated predicted probabilistic information regarding the prospective intrusion or attack.Type: GrantFiled: October 1, 2013Date of Patent: November 22, 2016Assignee: Fred Herz Patents, LLCInventors: Yael Gertner, Frederick S. M. Herz, Walter Paul Labys
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Patent number: 9451019Abstract: When individual persons or vehicles move through a transportation network, they are likely to be both actively and passively creating information that reflects their location and current behavior. In this patent, we propose a system that makes complete use of this information. First, through a broad web of sensors, our system collects and stores the full range of information generated by travelers. Next, through the use of previously-stored data and active computational analysis, our system deduces the identity of individual travelers. Finally; using advanced data-mining technology, our system selects useful information and transmits it back to the individual, as well as to third-party users; in short, it forms the backbone for a variety of useful location-related end-user applications.Type: GrantFiled: June 19, 2014Date of Patent: September 20, 2016Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Frederick S. M. Herz, Pierre Lemaire, Jean H. Lemaire, Walter Paul Labys
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Patent number: 9438614Abstract: A distributed multi-agent system and method is implemented and employed across at least one intranet for purposes of real time collection, monitoring, aggregation, analysis and modeling of system and network operations, communications, internal and external accesses, code execution functions, network and network resource conditions as well as other assessable criteria within the implemented environment. Analytical models are constructed and dynamically updated from the data sources so as to be able to rapidly identify and characterize conditions within the environment (such as behaviors, events, and functions) that are typically characteristic with that of a normal state and those that are of an abnormal or potentially suspicious state. The model is further able to implement statistical flagging functions, provide analytical interfaces to system administrators and estimate likely conditions that characterize the state of the system and the potential threat.Type: GrantFiled: July 15, 2013Date of Patent: September 6, 2016Assignee: Fred Herz Patents, LLCInventor: Frederick S. M. Herz
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Patent number: 9433553Abstract: In order to inhibit thrombotic processes locally rather than systemically, higher levels of antithrombotic drugs in the deep veins of the legs than in the systemic circulation are obtained using devices and methods that provide venous cannulation in the dorsum of the foot of a patient while applying pressure to the foot proximal to the venous cannulation, potentially as far up the leg as the knee, in an amount sufficient to compress the superficial veins and divert the venous drainage in the deep venous system into the venous plexus.Type: GrantFiled: January 20, 2015Date of Patent: September 6, 2016Assignee: Fred Herz Patents, LLCInventors: Frederick S. M. Herz, Frederick A. Reichle
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Publication number: 20150290531Abstract: A board game facilitates learning about other cultures by asking the game players to answer questions about different aspects of foreign cultures during the course of game play. The game board is a map of international routes of pilgrims, traders, missionaries, merchants, and inter and transcontinental oceanic voyages and journeys, as well as the route of modern trade travel of natural resources. The game board is navigated during the course of play by answering questions about the countries along the route. An electronic device is used as a game accessory to enhance game play by running one or more software applications that provide supplemental sources of information that are flexible, convenient, on-demand and in a highly appealing format for the players.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 14, 2014Publication date: October 15, 2015Inventors: Tracy HERZ, Frederick S.M. HERZ
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Patent number: 9124384Abstract: The high data transmission capacity of fiber optic networks has been exploited through wavelength division multiplexing (WDM). By using multiple independent wavelengths, or lambdas, the fiber can carry a multiplicity of content, each in its own lambda. As the number of lambdas increases (it is currently ca. 100 and is projected to climb to 100,000 or more) it becomes increasingly challenging to allocate lambdas to traffic. The present invention automates the allocation process by detecting similar interests amongst groups of users, and creating a shared lambda for use by the users.Type: GrantFiled: July 23, 2002Date of Patent: September 1, 2015Assignee: Fred Herz Patents, LLCInventors: Frederick S. M. Herz, Jonathan M Smith
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Publication number: 20150196451Abstract: In order to inhibit thrombotic processes locally rather than systemically, higher levels of antithrombotic drugs in the deep veins of the legs than in the systemic circulation are obtained using devices and methods that provide venous cannulation in the dorsum of the foot of a patient while applying pressure to the foot proximal to the venous cannulation, potentially as far up the leg as the knee, in an amount sufficient to compress the superficial veins and divert the venous drainage in the deep venous system into the venous plexus.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 20, 2015Publication date: July 16, 2015Inventors: Frederick S.M. Herz, Frederick A. Reichle
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Patent number: 8924237Abstract: A database system stores information about potential patients that allows medical professionals to gauge the legal risk presented by the potential patients, giving the medical professionals the opportunity to avoid medical involvement with those individuals most prone to engaging in unwarranted legal actions. The database may also be used by insurance companies, legal services and other professional service providers to screen for potentially litigious customers. Information in the database is processed to provide a risk assessment score for each patient that is used for screening purposes.Type: GrantFiled: March 26, 2007Date of Patent: December 30, 2014Assignee: Fred Herz Patents, LLCInventors: Frederick S. M. Herz, Walter Paul Labys
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Patent number: 8925095Abstract: A widely distributed security system (SDI-SCAM) that protects computers at individual client locations, but which constantly pools and analyzes information gathered from machines across a network in order to quickly detect patterns consistent with intrusion or attack, singular or coordinated. When a novel method of attack has been detected, the system distributes warnings and potential countermeasures to each individual machine on the network. Such a warning may potentially consist of a probability distribution of the likelihood of an intrusion or attack as well as the relative probabilistic likelihood that such potential intrusion possesses certain characteristics or typologies or even strategic objectives in order to best recommend and/or distribute to each machine the most befitting countermeasure(s) given all presently known particular data and associated predicted probabilistic information regarding the prospective intrusion or attack.Type: GrantFiled: December 3, 2012Date of Patent: December 30, 2014Assignee: Fred Herz Patents, LLCInventors: Frederick S. M. Herz, Walter Paul Labys
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Publication number: 20140324453Abstract: A database system stores information about potential patients that allows medical professionals to gauge the legal risk presented by the potential patients, giving the medical professionals the opportunity to avoid medical involvement with those individuals most prone to engaging in unwarranted legal actions. The database may also be used by insurance companies, legal services and other professional service providers to screen for potentially litigious customers. Information in the database is processed to provide a risk assessment score for each patient that is used for screening purposes.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 10, 2014Publication date: October 30, 2014Inventors: Frederick S.M. Herz, Walter Paul Labys