Patents by Inventor James Billingham

James Billingham 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: 8908923
    Abstract: A parse module calibrates an interior space by parsing objects and words out of an image of the scene and comparing each parsed object with a plurality of stored objects. The parse module further selects a parsed object that is differentiated from the stored objects as the first object and stores the first object with a location description. A search module can detect the same objects from the scene and use them to determine the location of the scene.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 9, 2014
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: James Billingham, Helen Bowyer, Kevin Brown, Edward Jellard, Graham White
  • Patent number: 8891816
    Abstract: A parse module calibrates an interior space by parsing objects and words out of an image of the scene and comparing each parsed object with a plurality of stored objects. The parse module further selects a parsed object that is differentiated from the stored objects as the first object and stores the first object with a location description. A search module can detect the same objects from the scene and use them to determine the location of the scene.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2014
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: James Billingham, Helen Bowyer, Kevin Brown, Edward Jellard, Graham White
  • Publication number: 20130243326
    Abstract: A parse module calibrates an interior space by parsing objects and words out of an image of the scene and comparing each parsed object with a plurality of stored objects. The parse module further selects a parsed object that is differentiated from the stored objects as the first object and stores the first object with a location description. A search module can detect the same objects from the scene and use them to determine the location of the scene.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 3, 2013
    Publication date: September 19, 2013
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: James Billingham, Helen Bowyer, Kevin Brown, Edward Jellard, Graham White
  • Publication number: 20120288202
    Abstract: A parse module calibrates an interior space by parsing objects and words out of an image of the scene and comparing each parsed object with a plurality of stored objects. The parse module further selects a parsed object that is differentiated from the stored objects as the first object and stores the first object with a location description. A search module can detect the same objects from the scene and use them to determine the location of the scene.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 13, 2011
    Publication date: November 15, 2012
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: James Billingham, Helen Bowyer, Kevin Brown, Edward Jellard, Graham White
  • Publication number: 20120173308
    Abstract: In an embodiment of the invention, a method for optimizing package delivery using social networks is provided. The method includes receiving an order to purchase a product by a purchaser in an e-commerce computing application executing in memory of a host server from over a computer communications network, retrieving a list of social networking contacts for the purchaser, determining whether or not a contact amongst the social networking contacts has ordered a product from the e-commerce computing application, and rendering a prompt in the e-commerce computing application to the purchaser to consolidate shipment of the product ordered by the purchaser with a product ordered by the contact in response to determining that the contact has also ordered a product from the e-commerce computing application not yet shipped to the contact.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2010
    Publication date: July 5, 2012
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Kevin C. Brown, James Billingham, David C. Conway-Jones, Robert S. Smart, Graham White