Patents by Inventor Helmut Wais

Helmut Wais 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).

  • Methods to create a user profile and to specify a suggestion for a next selection of a user
    Patent number: 7970762
    Abstract: A user profile and/or the suggestions computed based thereon are obtained taking a special set of user features into account. The user features are defined to represent a typical general behaviour of an individual user in respect to the application where the user profile is used. In other words, for each application where a user profile is used a special set of user features are defined which are able to represent a typical general behaviour of an individual user. Based on these user features the weights in the list of word-weight pairs or weighted keywords which represents the user profile are computed or influenced during the creation of the user profile, and/or a mufti-user profile is split during the creation of an individual user profile from a mufti-user profile, and/or during specification of a suggestion a user history which is used to create the user profile, and/or the user profile, and/or the suggestion results are filtered.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2011
    Assignee: Sony Deutschland GmbH
    Inventors: Silke Goronzy, Ralf Kompe, Christian Hying, Zica Valsan, Robert Mencl, Helmut Wais, Thomas Kemp, Sunna Torge, Martin Emele
  • METHODS TO CREATE A USER PROFILE AND TO SPECIFY A SUGGESTION FOR A NEXT SELECTION OF A USER
    Publication number: 20090282034
    Abstract: A user profile and/or the suggestions computed based thereon are obtained taking a special set of user features into account. The user features are defined to represent a typical general behaviour of an individual user in respect to the application where the user profile is used. In other words, for each application where a user profile is used a special set of user features are defined which are able to represent a typical general behaviour of an individual user. Based on these user features the weights in the list of word-weight pairs or weighted keywords which represents the user profile are computed or influenced during the creation of the user profile, and/or a mufti-user profile is split during the creation of an individual user profile from a mufti-user profile, and/or during specification of a suggestion a user history which is used to create the user profile, and/or the user profile, and/or the suggestion results are filtered.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 22, 2009
    Publication date: November 12, 2009
    Applicant: Sony Deutschland GMBH
    Inventors: Silke GORONZY, Ralf Kompe, Christian Hying, Zica Valsan, Robert Mencl, Helmut Wais, Thomas Kemp, Sunna Torge, Martin Emele
  • Methods to create a user profile and to specify a suggestion for a next selection of a user
    Patent number: 7593921
    Abstract: A user profile and/or the suggestions computed based thereon are obtained taking a special set of user features into account. The user features are defined to represent a typical general behaviour of an individual user in respect to the application where the user profile is used. In other words, for each application where a user profile is used a special set of user features are defined which are able to represent a typical general behaviour of an individual user. Based on these user features the weights in the list of word-weight pairs or weighted keywords which represents the user profile are computed or influenced during the creation of the user profile, and/or a multi-user profile is split during the creation of an individual user profile from a multi-user profile, and/or during specification of a suggestion a user history which is used to create the user profile, and/or the user profile, and/or the suggestion results are filtered.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2003
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2009
    Assignee: Sony Deutschland GmbH
    Inventors: Silke Goronzy, Ralf Kompe, Christian Hying, Zica Valsan, Robert Mencl, Helmut Wais, Thomas Kemp, Sunna Torge, Martin Emele
  • Methods to create a user profile and to specify a suggestion for a next selection of a user
    Publication number: 20060156326
    Abstract: A user profile and/or the suggestions computed based thereon are obtained taking a special set of user features into account. The user features are defined to represent a typical general behaviour of an individual user in respect to the application where the user profile is used. In other words, for each application where a user profile is used a special set of user features are defined which are able to represent a typical general behaviour of an individual user. Based on these user features the weights in the list of word-weight pairs or weighted keywords which represents the user profile are computed or influenced during the creation of the user profile, and/or a multi-user profile is split during the creation of an individual user profile from a multi-user profile, and/or during specification of a suggestion a user history which is used to create the user profile, and/or the user profile, and/or the suggestion results are filtered.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2003
    Publication date: July 13, 2006
    Inventors: Silke Goronzy, Ralf Kompe, Christian Hying, Zica Valsan, Robert Mencl, Helmut Wais, Thomas Kemp, Sunna Torge, Martin Emele