Patents by Inventor John Kenneth Senegal

John Kenneth Senegal 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: 8570159
    Abstract: Embodiments of the invention provide a method, system and computer program product for manifest integrity management via radio frequency identification (RFID). A manifest integrity management method can include scanning different RFID tags affixed to different objects for placement in a container. The method also can include determining both common data for all of the different RFID tags, and unique data for each of the different RFID tags. Finally, the method can include encoding an RFID tag for the container with an entry for the common data for the different RFID tags, and each unique data for each of the different RFID tags. In this way, a manifest can be created for the objects in the container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2013
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Vijay Kumar Bhadriraju, Thomas Tim Hanis, Frederick William Rowe, John Kenneth Senegal, Donnie Allen Smith, Jr.
  • Patent number: 7739147
    Abstract: A system, method, and program product that uses statistical sampling to determine whether a pallet has been received when the pallet-level RFID tag is not read. When a shipment is unloaded, the system keeps track of the item-level RFID tags that are received. A threshold is retrieved and compared with the number of item-level RFID tags that were received. If the threshold is 50%, then the pallet would be assumed to be received and marked accordingly in the manifest if 50% of the items in the pallet were received. Threshold levels can be customized based upon the vendor shipping the goods, the type of goods being shipped, or both. In addition, the vendor quality rating and the type of good rating can be combined to form a single threshold that incorporates the vendor's quality along with the material (interference) quality of the goods on the particular pallet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2010
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: James Peter Branigan, Christian Lee Hunt, John Kenneth Senegal, Gregory Covert Smith
  • Publication number: 20070282716
    Abstract: A system, method, and program product that uses statistical sampling to determine whether a pallet has been received when the pallet-level RFID tag is not read. When a shipment is unloaded, the system keeps track of the item-level RFID tags that are received. A threshold is retrieved and compared with the number of item-level RFID tags that were received. If the threshold is 50%, then the pallet would be assumed to be received and marked accordingly in the manifest if 50% of the items in the pallet were received. Threshold levels can be customized based upon the vendor shipping the goods, the type of goods being shipped, or both. In addition, the vendor quality rating and the type of good rating can be combined to form a single threshold that incorporates the vendor's quality along with the material (interference) quality of the goods on the particular pallet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2006
    Publication date: December 6, 2007
    Inventors: James Peter Branigan, Christian Lee Hunt, John Kenneth Senegal, Gregory Covert Smith
  • Patent number: 7083085
    Abstract: For added security against fraud, a financial services card such as a credit card is paired with a separate tag such as an RFID tag. A system for minimizing fraud includes a card reader for reading a card ID, a tag reader for reading a tag ID, and a controller for comparing the card ID with the tag ID, and approving or rejecting a card transaction based on the comparison. A method for minimizing fraud includes reading a card ID from the financial services card, reading a tag ID from the tag, comparing the tag ID with the card ID, and approving or rejecting a transaction based on the comparison. The card reader may send a security stamp to the tag, which may combine and encrypt a partial tag ID and the security stamp to provide the tag ID.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2006
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Fonda J. Daniels, Timothy Earl Figgins, David Bruce Kumhyr, John Kenneth Senegal