Patents by Inventor Heidi Lagares-Greenblatt

Heidi Lagares-Greenblatt 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: 11344075
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are described for predicting a neurological injury to a participant in an activity. The activity can be, for example, an athletic activity that involves repeated, high-impact collisions between participants. Sensor data reflecting interactions between participants in the activity is received from various wearable and non-wearable sensors. The sensor data is evaluated in conjunction with a baseline neurological risk profile of a participant to determine a likelihood that the participant has suffered a potential neurological injury. If this likelihood meets a threshold risk level, an onsite request/response test is initiated to glean more information relating to the participant's condition. Response data associated with the onsite test is cognitively evaluated to determine an updated likelihood of neurological injury to the participant and a follow-up action is determined based on the updated likelihood of neurological injury.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Michael L. Greenblatt, Heidi Lagares-Greenblatt
  • Patent number: 11327646
    Abstract: A method for modifying visual aspects of a keyboard in response to a user typing on the keyboard. The method includes one or more computer processors receiving a first character input to an input device. The method further includes determining a plurality of words that begin with the first received character. The method further includes ranking the determined plurality of words. The method further includes selecting a word from among the ranked plurality of words based on a first set of criteria. The method further includes determining a sequence of one or more characters after the received first character that correspond to the selected word. The method further includes modifying one or more respective characteristics of input elements of the input device that correspond to the sequence of characters of the selected word.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Richard V. Tran, Heidi Lagares-Greenblatt, Kevin David Hite
  • Patent number: 11250468
    Abstract: Methods, systems and computer program products for prompting web-based user interaction are provided. Aspects include determining a plurality of items of interest based on data associated with a user. Aspects also include associating an emotion with each item of the plurality of items of interest. Aspects also include associating an emotion with each digital media clip of a plurality of digital media clips. Responsive to detecting an internet browsing action performed by the user, aspects include displaying a selected digital media clip of the plurality of digital media clips and a selected item of interest of the plurality of items of interest. The selected digital media clip and the selected item of interest are associated with a same emotion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Deepti M. Naphade, Heidi Lagares-Greenblatt, Yuk L. Chan
  • Patent number: 11227263
    Abstract: Aspects of the invention include retrieving, by a processor, a list of participants invited to a meeting, the list of participants including a first participant and a second participant. It is determined, by the processor, whether the first participant has previously interacted with the second participant. Output is provided, by the processor to a user interface of a user device. The output includes information about the second participant based at least in part on determining that the first participant has not previously interacted with the second participant. The output includes information about an interaction between the first participant and the second participant based at least in part on determining that the first participant has previously interacted with the second participant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2022
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Heidi Lagares-Greenblatt, Jenny S. Li, Xinlin Wang
  • Patent number: 11152085
    Abstract: Embodiments include a system for providing access to secured data; the system includes a processor configured to perform a method. The method includes receiving physiological data from one or more sensors on a wearable device; obtaining environmental data from the one or more sensors; storing the physiological data and the environmental data from the one or more sensors onto a secured storage device; receiving, by a transceiver, a request to access the physiological data; accessing, by a processor, a security profile for the physiological data, wherein the security profile defines a normal range for the physiological data and defines environmental data compliance; and providing access to the physiological data based upon a determination that the physiological data is outside the normal range for the physiological data and based upon a determination that the environmental data is in compliance with the security profile.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jessica P. Doherty, Heidi Lagares-Greenblatt, Justin A. McCoy
  • Patent number: 11106758
    Abstract: Methods, systems and computer program products for providing a customized display of social media content are provided. Aspects include receiving a plurality of social media posts that have been published for display by a social media service. Aspects also include receiving a profile associated with a user of the social media service including social media post filtering preferences. The social media post filtering preferences are created based at least in part upon an analysis of social media posts that were previously disliked by the user. Aspects further include identifying a set of acceptable social media posts and a set of unacceptable social media posts. Aspects also include causing the set of acceptable social media posts to be displayed in a news feed window of the social media service in association with an account of the user of the social media service.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuk L. Chan, Michael L. Greenblatt, Heidi Lagares-Greenblatt, Deepti M. Naphade
  • Patent number: 11093953
    Abstract: Aspects include identifying a customer that received a product as part of an early product program. A document that describes the early product program is accessed. Variables of the early product program are extracted based at least in part on content of the document. Customer profile rules are created based at least in part on the extracted variables. The customer profile rules are applied to a customer profile of the customer. The applying includes identifying issues in the customer profile of the customer that relate to the early product program. The customer profile of the customer is updated based at least in part on the applying. The updating includes flagging the identified issues as being related to the early product program.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventor: Heidi Lagares-Greenblatt
  • Patent number: 11057435
    Abstract: A method is provided for identifying a strength of an input picture password formed by performing a sequence of gestures relative to a picture. The method includes storing, in a memory device, a crowdsource history of picture passwords each of which include a picture and a sequence of gestures on the picture. The method further includes generating, by a processor-based demography-based pattern usage assessment generator, a demography-based pattern usage assessment by analyzing the crowd source history. The method also includes providing, by a user-perceptible indication device, an indication of the strength of the input picture password in accordance with the demography-based pattern usage assessment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Yuk L. Chan, Heidi Lagares-Greenblatt, Deepti Naphade
  • Patent number: 11038774
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method includes training a cognitive engine to recognize a set of tags in customer data, where the set of tags are associated with one or more early-access programs of one or more products. A first set of customer data associated with a first instance of a first early-access program is submitted to the trained cognitive engine, where the first instance is associated with a customer and a first product. A plurality of data packets associated with the tags are received from the trained cognitive engine, responsive to the first set of customer data. The first instance of the first early-access program is reconciled based at least in part on the plurality of data packets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2021
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Heidi Lagares-Greenblatt, Deirdre H. Duthil
  • Patent number: 11032698
    Abstract: An aspect includes detecting a user gesture at a sender device, the user gesture indicating a direction relative to the sender device. One or more candidate receiver devices in the indicated direction and in a line-of-sight of the sender device are located. The data to be transferred by the sender device and an action to be performed on the data are identified. It is determined whether any of the one or more candidate receiver devices are configured to accept the data and to perform the action. The data is transferred to a selected one of the one or more candidate receiver devices based on determining that the selected candidate receiver device is configured to accept the data and to perform the action.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Elianne A. Bravo, Heidi Lagares-Greenblatt
  • Patent number: 11030441
    Abstract: Methods, systems and computer program products for identifying customer groupings in a smart store are provided. Aspects include detecting a plurality of customers in the smart store and retrieving stored associations for at least one of the plurality of customers from a customer database based on data captured for each of the plurality of customers. Aspects also include tracking a movement of each of the plurality of customers through the smart store and updating the stored associations in the customer database between two or more of the plurality of customers that are determined to be shopping together based on their movement through the smart store. Aspects further include charging a single customer of the plurality of customers for items removed from the smart store by another customer based on the stored associations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuk L. Chan, Heidi Lagares-Greenblatt, Deepti M. Naphade
  • Patent number: 11017430
    Abstract: Provided are embodiments including a method, system, and computer program product for identifying how to deliver advertisements to a user based on the user sentiment and learned behavior. The embodiments provide for collecting information on the sentiment of a user, monitoring user interactions based at least in part on the collected emotional information on the sentiment of the user, and determining a pattern of user interactions with one or more applications of a user device based on the sentiment information. The embodiments also provide for determining a pattern of user responses to an advertisement based on the sentiment information, and generating a profile based at least in part on the pattern of user interactions and the pattern of user responses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuk L. Chan, Heidi Lagares-Greenblatt, Jenny S. Li, Deepti M. Naphade, Xinlin Wang
  • Patent number: 10955996
    Abstract: Aspects of the invention include providing cognitive contact assistance with dynamically generated contact lists for messages. Providing cognitive contact assistance includes performing by a processor, prior to a message created by a user being sent to a user interface of an intended recipient of the message: identifying content of the message; dynamically generating a contact list based at least in part on the content; and augmenting the message with the contact list. The augmented message is sent to the user interface of the intended recipient of the message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2021
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Heidi Lagares-Greenblatt, Jenny S. Li, Xinlin Wang
  • Patent number: 10938881
    Abstract: A method, system, and computer program product for providing a dynamic estimation on engagements and patterns of content includes: receiving a data packet from an input field of a form on a computing device; analyzing historical data associated with a user to identify patterns between the first string of characters and the historical data; determining one or more related strings of characters from the historical data based on the identified patterns; determining a historic engagement level for each of the one or more related strings of characters; determining a predicted engagement level for the string of characters based on the historic engagement level; and transmitting at least the predicted engagement level to the computing device to cause the computing device to display the predicted engagement level in a selectable field associated with the input field.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Heidi Lagares-Greenblatt, Justin McCoy, Jessica Doherty
  • Publication number: 20210021898
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method for determining media content rating and overall viewership value based on an eye gazing content. The method tracks eye gazing data of one or more users for one or more media contents. The method further analyzes the tracked eye gazing data of each of the one or more users for the one or more media contents and displays a user-inserted rating of the one or more media contents together with the analyzed eye gazing data of each of the one or more users.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 16, 2019
    Publication date: January 21, 2021
    Inventors: Heidi Lagares-Greenblatt, Michael Lawrence Greenblatt
  • Patent number: 10839373
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method for an electronic funds transfer, the method including obtaining a virtual payment account having access to a plurality of electronic payment mediums capable of being utilized in an electronic funds transfer. Obtaining, using an electronic payment management system, information related to the electronic fund and determining by the electronic payment management system based on the information related to the electronic fund a selected electronic payment medium from the plurality of electronic payment mediums for being the source of electronic funds for the electronic funds transfer. Based on the selection, recommending the selected electronic payment medium to a user for presentation to an electronic terminal for engaging in the electronic funds transfer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Sergio E. Ascencio Rios, Natalie N. Brooks Powell, Yuk L. Chan, Apurv R. Johar, Heidi Lagares-Greenblatt
  • Patent number: 10831998
    Abstract: A communication device, computer program product and method of monitoring text at a communication device. The communication device includes an input device and a processor. The input device receives a text input from a user of the communication device. The processor operates a cognitive engine that determines a sentiment of the text, and displays a visual indicator based on the determined sentiment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2020
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jessica Doherty, Heidi Lagares-Greenblatt, Justin McCoy
  • Patent number: 10810580
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method for an electronic funds transfer, the method including obtaining, using a processor system of a device, a virtual payment account associated with a merchant. The virtual payment account also being associated with a consumer account wherein an electronic payment medium issuer is a third party providing commercial funding on behalf of a consumer. Marketing information relating to the merchant associated with the virtual payment account is obtained. An electronic funds transfer is conducted utilizing an electronic payment medium signature associated with the electronic payment medium provided by the virtual payment account interfacing with an electronic terminal associated with the merchant. The virtual payment account and consumer account with information relating to the electronic funds transfer are updated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Sergio E. Ascencio Rios, Natalie N. Brooks Powell, Yuk L. Chan, Apurv R. Johar, Heidi Lagares-Greenblatt
  • Publication number: 20200279289
    Abstract: Methods, systems and computer program products for prompting web-based user interaction are provided. Aspects include determining a plurality of items of interest based on data associated with a user. Aspects also include associating an emotion with each item of the plurality of items of interest. Aspects also include associating an emotion with each digital media clip of a plurality of digital media clips. Responsive to detecting an internet browsing action performed by the user, aspects include displaying a selected digital media clip of the plurality of digital media clips and a selected item of interest of the plurality of items of interest. The selected digital media clip and the selected item of interest are associated with a same emotion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2019
    Publication date: September 3, 2020
    Inventors: DEEPTI M. NAPHADE, HEIDI LAGARES-GREENBLATT, YUK L. CHAN
  • Patent number: 10755363
    Abstract: A method for augmenting a review. The method includes accessing a review database and a particular review of an object. Providing a reviewer profile including a plurality of reviewer attributes and analyzing the reviewer attributes to determine a rationale for the review.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2020
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuk L. Chan, Heidi Lagares-Greenblatt, Jenny S. Li, Deepti M. Naphade, Xinlin Wang