Patents by Inventor John Burger

John Burger 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: 11434441
    Abstract: Disclosed is a blended gasoline composition having an AKI of 87. The formulation of the blended gasoline composition leads to a reduction in carbon dioxide emission. The blended gasoline composition contains a reduced concentration of olefins and non-amine aromatics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Inventor: John Burger
  • Publication number: 20210261873
    Abstract: Disclosed is a blended gasoline composition having an AKI of 87. The formulation of the blended gasoline composition leads to a reduction in carbon dioxide emission. The blended gasoline composition contains a reduced concentration of olefins and non-amine aromatics.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 7, 2021
    Publication date: August 26, 2021
    Inventor: John Burger
  • Patent number: 9704166
    Abstract: Example methods and systems for providing custom error pages for retail applications are disclosed. In general, the disclosed example systems provide error pages which are presented after a user attempts to access an inactive, unavailable, or nonexistent website address. In one aspect of the present disclosure, the system provides an error page which is customized, for example, based upon the website address that the user was attempting to access; based upon the user's history; based upon the system's most popular products and/or categories; and/or based upon some combination of those criteria.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2017
    Assignee: SEARS BRANDS, L.L.C.
    Inventors: Michelle Bohannon, Daran Redenbaugh, Jim Williams, Bob Whiting, Laura Lee, John Burger, Kevin Meyer
  • Patent number: 9471944
    Abstract: Disclosed are systems and methods for predicting demographics about authors of social media. A dataset relates features from social media messages to known demographic information about authors of the social media messages. The social media messages and known demographics may be retrieved from different social media services. Adjustable weights are associated with alternative demographic values for the features. The dataset is used to predict unknown demographics of users based on the adjustable weights associated with the alternative demographic values for extracted features from social media messages. A confidence level may be output for a predicted demographic that corresponds to a difference between a sum of weights associated with the predicted value and another demographic value. The predicted demographic value may be output when the confidence level exceeds a threshold. The weights may be updated when the confidence level is below the threshold even when the prediction is correct.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2016
    Assignee: THE MITRE CORPORATION
    Inventors: John Burger, John Henderson, George Kim, Jeffrey Zarrella
  • Publication number: 20150120755
    Abstract: Disclosed are systems and methods for predicting demographics about authors of social media. A dataset relates features from social media messages to known demographic information about authors of the social media messages. The social media messages and known demographics may be retrieved from different social media services. Adjustable weights are associated with alternative demographic values for the features. The dataset is used to predict unknown demographics of users based on the adjustable weights associated with the alternative demographic values for extracted features from social media messages. A confidence level may be output for a predicted demographic that corresponds to a difference between a sum of weights associated with the predicted value and another demographic value. The predicted demographic value may be output when the confidence level exceeds a threshold. The weights may be updated when the confidence level is below the threshold even when the prediction is correct.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2013
    Publication date: April 30, 2015
    Applicant: THE MITRE CORPORATION
    Inventors: John BURGER, John HENDERSON, George KIM, Jeffrey ZARRELLA
  • Publication number: 20130332272
    Abstract: Example methods and systems for providing custom error pages for retail applications are disclosed. In general, the disclosed example systems provide error pages which are presented after a user attempts to access an inactive, unavailable, or nonexistent website address. In one aspect of the present disclosure, the system provides an error page which is customized, for example, based upon the website address that the user was attempting to access; based upon the user's history; based upon the system's most popular products and/or categories; and/or based upon some combination of those criteria.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2012
    Publication date: December 12, 2013
    Applicant: SEARS BRANDS, LLC
    Inventors: Michelle Bohannon, Daran Redenbaugh, Jim Williams, Bob Whiting, Laura Lee, John Burger, Kevin Meyer
  • Publication number: 20060239053
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a memory system in which sought after keywords will identify their own location by setting a flag bit. The important thing is, keywords may be unstructured, hidden in a sea of words; finding one is equivalent to finding a needle in a haystack. To do so, keywords are given a flag bit that is initialized to zero, but conditionally flips true after running a brief algorithm. Subsequently, flag bits can be analyzed to provide the exact addresses of interesting data in a mass storage, separate from the memory in which text keywords are stored. A method of implementation, but not the only method, is to arrange cells in an integrated circuit to form a ‘word’ of memory, Each word may be structured to hold sought after keywords; it may also have optional ‘state’ data. A global bus enables the specification of any binary function on the keywords by selecting source bits in each word.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 22, 2005
    Publication date: October 26, 2006
    Inventor: John Burger